#mcog

[lidensword]

Obstinés et nombreux.

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[knighthans]

Hate the colonialists

Except when it’s Juan Carlos Mendoza

[autumnspumpkinsandtea]

Back to my old hiperfixation

[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S03E12

Cape on, ready to go

[crazydreamercycle]

[condor-solaris]

[queats]

Important info I think you (nonexistent mcog fandom) are unaware of and need to know about right now: that in the Japanese version. Mendoza actually talks to Esteban's dad

Woah woah woah

So many things here

That's why Mendoza brought Esteban to Spain and didn't leave him in like the Philippines or some random country. It was because Athanaos asked him to

No but now my theory that "Athanaos thinks Mendoza adopted Esteban" makes so much more sense now

• Athanaos asks Mendoza specifically to bring Esteban back home with him

• that's the last time he saw Esteban

• 10 years later he sees Esteban again, accompanied by the man who saved him

• obviously he's gonna think that Esteban and Mendoza have been together all this time

Athanaos: Thank you so much for looking after my son

Mendoza: Of course it was no trouble

Athanaos: You’ve become a dad to him basically

Mendoza: Well maybe-

Athanaos: raising him for ten years, that’s so much work, I’m so thankful

Mendoza: wait no I didn’t do that-

Athanaos: ah! You’re so humble!

[elfecassepied]

Hello welcome back on "me mixing two thing I like and trying to make something of it". On today episode the Inazuma Eleven and The Mysterious Cities of Gold crossover.

Featuring:

Mamoru as Esteban, nicknamed Son of the Sun

Shuya as Zia, reader of Gold quippus

Ryugo as Mendoza, navigator, sailor and adventurer with a taste for gold

Heigoro and Sakichi as Sancho and Pedro, sidekicks of Ryugo a bit off the loop sometimes

Commander Kageyama as Commander Pizarro, no morals and no mercy, greedy to the bones searching for the Cities of Gold

Captain Suguru as Captain Perez, no the sharpest knife of the kitchen but captain of the Esperanza and loyal to Commander Kageyama

Yuuto as Tao, last descendant of the Mu Empire a very technological advanced civilization, lived alone in a desert island before meeting Shuya and Mamoru

Haruna as Pitchu, pet parrot of Yuuto and his closet comrade during his years of solitude

Not my most clever idea but meh 🤷‍♀️, nostalgia's power.

[az-is-back]

sometimes you see a project to adapt the mysterious cities of gold, and it never takes off (i think partly because no producer truly believes this could work and partly because the original is too iconic), but honestly? if the movie industry cared more about historical action / adventure plots, there would totally be a way to make a good old swashbuckler / quest for gold / sailor-turned-pirate movie that progressively reveals its status as a Mendoza-centric prequel.

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Round 2, Match 55: Mendoza vs. Soundwave

Submitted kids:

Mendoza: Esteban, Zia and Tao

Soundwave: Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Ravage, Ratbat, Garboil, Enemy, Wingthing, Beastbox, Squalktalk, Glit, Howlback, Slugfest, Overkill, Sundor, and Autoscout but there's bound to be more I'm forgetting.

Propaganda under the cut!

Mendoza:

1. “Mendoza did not exactly *begin* as father material, what with him being a character with a very grey morality at first and both a help to the children and someone they couldn't trust fully, but his entire arc in the first season is him becoming a better person. None of the kids are biologically his but he just went and unofficially adopted all three of them. Their story is inextricably bound up with the show's story.

He first met Esteban when Esteban was a baby and was handed to him in the middle of a storm at sea (then Esteban's father seemingly died in said storm), but because Mendoza was young and interested in gold he let a local (?) church raise the child. He then met Esteban again twelve years later, on the same day he would be kidnapping Zia (for money, because Zia knows how to read quipus that the Spanish hope will tell the way to the Inca's gold) (the show takes place in the early 16th century). So he begins by kidnapping a child and manipulating another to hide in a ship and cross an ocean. They all meet Tao later, and this one is wary of him too at first, but he ends up winning their trust while bettering himself.

He's the only parental figure these kids have: Esteban's father was lost at sea after his mother was killed, Zia spends most of the first season looking for her father only for him to get killed an episode or two after their reunion, and Tao lost both his parents years ago. In the beginning of the show he's completely using them to find a legendary city of gold, and even admits it, but as the story goes he's caring more and more for them and puts himself in mortal danger just to help them, when just running away would have been much more beneficial to him. In later seasons this pattern keeps up and he's not even a grey character anymore, he's just their dad who's scheming and plotting sometimes. With the cities of gold having been revealed to be monetarily worthless he wouldn't have any reason to still accompany them, but he loves them so he stays with them. He's much more of a dad than Esteban's birth father (who miraculously reappears but keeps getting pushed out of the way by the plot), he's teaching them stuff and protecting them and cheering them on and worrying about them and helping them every step of the way. He makes dad jokes. When random people ask if Zia is his daughter he says yes, and he would say the same for Tao (and for Esteban too but he's hung up about Esteban's "real" father being alive and a nice guy).”

2. “He took Esteban on his journey because he needed his medallion, Zia because his commander requested it, and Tao because he was useful. But then he fought so much at their side that he pretty much betrayed the Spanish army and everything else to protect those kids. They didn't like him much at first, but eventually grew to love him in return, especially in later seasons.”

3. “Sly Spaniard looking for some gold in the New World accidentally adopts the three children he more or less uses to find the Mysterious Cities of Gold, but he also cares about them and accidentally starts caring about them so much that by the end of the first season he realises how much he would miss them if they weren't there.”

Soundwave:

1. “This is a dude who stores smaller dudes in his boob and he usually launches them out at high speeds to commit crimes. Fandom loves to headcanon them as a dad and his horde of kids and pets.”

2. “Forgot buzzsaw (yellow bird) lol

Bro really do be adopting”

3. “#he literally is a single mother of like 18 and they all live inside of his chest #and the only time he gets close to showing emotion is when something happens to one of them”

[lidensword]

Ever since I was a child, I've loved these 2 episodes in which the Amazon warriors appear. I particularly like Paola.

[indianaclems]

Sanctuary of Asklepios, Delphes, Greece

(the explanations will arrive)

It's my 1st aquarel

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #21

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

*Full Title is "Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life!"

[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S03E08

Heading down into an active volcano? Try a fast slide! It's only hugely dangerous!

[crazydreamercycle]

Pretty happy with the cape