#mcog

[serialadoptersbracket]

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”

#mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mcog #mendoza #soundwave #transformers #macadam #maccadam #serial adopters bracket #round 2 #tumblr tournament #tumblr polls

[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E25

He flourished his cape, there's no going back

#the mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mcog #mysterious cities of gold #taiyou no ko esteban #1980s cartoons #mendoza #esteban #zia #tao #sancho

[fictional-library-tournament]

Prelims round 1, poll 8:

Propaganda

The Library, The Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni:

Sentient building! Is literally a place of learning, both through read knowledge and real life experiences; has various doors to different locations and worlds, as well as specific areas inside the library for physical learning. The Library can manipulate space-time within itself, and paintings can easily become doorways to pocket dimensions.

Badalom, The Mysterious Cities of Gold:

Badalom is the second City of Gold of the series. It has an archive of blueprints of different machines made by the ancient Kingdom of Mu/Hiva. It also has a factory that builds flying golden condors.

The Library of the Unwritten, Hell's Library series by AJ Hackwith:

None

The Palanaeum, The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson:

None

The Stormlight Archive, The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson:

Super cool archive! The information is stored in carved crystals that vibrate in specific patterns when infused with magic to reveal messages. It was meant to preserve information stored for thousands of years after books in the main archive has turned to dust. (The art is by @lamaery on Tumblr who gave permission for me to upload this as long as they get credit.)

Sazed's Copperminds, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson:

Copper bracers called copperminds that contain many, many forbidden books. They are accessible only to Sazed, a scholar specialising in religion and also a member of the Skaa rebellion.

‼️MAJOR SPOILERS‼️

At the end of the trilogy, the world is literally about the end, and Sazed becomes a god and uses the knowledge in his copperminds to fix/remake the world.

#fictional libraries #tumblr tournament #archives #books & libraries #fictional archives #libraries #tumblr polls #poll #the medoran chronicles #akarnae #realise #draekora #graevale #vardaesia #mcog #mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #stormlight archive #mistborn #cosmere #brandon sanderson

[crazydreamercycle]

Inktober Day 3 - Path

This is a stupidly niche crossover

#my art #traditional art #les mystérieuses cités d'or #the mysterious cities of gold #fanart #mcog #mcog fanart #mysterious cities of gold #worm #worm fanart #parahumans #tao #mcog tao #Contessa #parahumans contessa

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Elatsoe "Ellie" Bride is canonically Lipan Apache.

Tao is canonically Indigenous. He is part of the fictitious Hiva tribe who resided on the sunken continent of Mu near the Galapagos Islands. Thank you @yana125 for the image submission!

#indigenous character tournament #ict round 1 #tournament poll #elatsoe #elatsoe bride #the mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mcog #tao mcog

[indianaclems]

Sanctuary of Asklepios, Delphes, Greece

(the explanations will arrive)

It's my 1st aquarel

#the mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #the mysterious cities of gold fanart #les mystérieuses cités d'or fanart #mco fanart #mco #mco esteban #mco zia #mco tao #esteban zia #mcog #mcog fanart

[frozzrossross]

Oh fuck it, we ball!!

...henlo mcog hivemind @az-is-back @returnofahsoka @yana125

I dunno if y'all actually know me, but I'm one of the mcog server goblins along with Stebs (@perlement but it's not letting me tag them, rude) and have been since s2, but not been that active on Tumblr because I am s t u p i d.

Anyway, I've been cooking up an absolutely insane au since s2 aired that got properly sorted out around s3's airing, and started to make a megadoc about it but lost it :(( but then! I fell back into Mcog Autism (mcogtism, if you will) because I told my new friend @puckywucky that one of our teachers looks like a Twink Mendoza and I'VE FINALLY FINISHED IT (kinda) IT ONLY TOOK HALF A DECADE

It is an Insane au that I've kinda become more obsessed over than actual canon mcog, featuring aliens, radiation poisoning, and at least 602 thousand Geneva Convention violations. Stebs has finally convinced me to release it into the wild and if y'all like it, then let me know! It is,,, a Lot and also So Fucking Stupid. I am John Insane Cringe, your honor!

It's not 100% polished (still missing the character sections) but the google doc for it is here! click on that link for 40k words of Pure Shit but occasionally such incredible lines like:

#mcog #mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mcog hivemind #I'M SO SORRY #IT'S VERY BAD AND CRINGE AND INSANE I KNOW #LIKE I SAID. YOU LEAVE ME UNSUPERVISED FOR A DECADE I BLAST ESTEBAN'S ARM OFF AND MAKE HIM A DEPRESSED ALIEN BOYE #pls do not attack me too much efjsigiesrg i remember in the original first Doc that I lost Bene lost their MIND for it but now IDK REALLY

[goodcartoondadshowdown]

Mendoza vs. Garmadon

#round one #good dad showdown #mendoza #mcog #mysterious cities of gold #master garmadon #ninjago

[condor-solaris]

I'm still unhappy, but hey, this is at least some kinda progress 😑

Esteban, Zia, Tao and Pichu, Mendoza in clothes of people's of the world ATLA

#les mystérieuses cités d'or #the mysterious cities of gold #mcog #lescitesdor #fanart #drawing #my art #esteban #zia #tao #pichu #mendoza

[gomezneedslove]

i’m on my knees for this man

local spanish sailor watches over his three adopted kids from his window

[made on iArtBook!]

#the mysterious cities of gold #mcog #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mendoza #im such a simp #fanart

[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E30

Yes, what is it?

#the mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mcog #mysterious cities of gold #taiyou no ko esteban #1980s cartoons #kokapetl

[fictional-library-tournament]

Prelims round 1, poll 20

Propaganda

Justice Strauss' library, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket:

Library that saved an orphan from an arranged marriage, owned by a kind and well-meaning judge.

Golden City of Tseila, Mysterious Cities of Gold:

The City of Gold (whose proper name is only revealed in season 4) holds a copy of "every text that has been written since the invention of writing". It's difficult to fact-check, but if it's true, then it ought to beat every other library in the world.

Also the City in general is pretty neat and iconic. It can fire sunbeams at flying ships. I say, if the Library of Alexandria could fire sunbeams, maybe it'd still be intact.

Tseila is the first City of Gold of the series. Its library holds a copy of every document since humans could write.

Men of Letters Bunker, Supernatural:

It may not be the most impressive library in this poll, it may not even be considered a library, I'm not really sure. But it is from Supernatural and this is the Supernatural website so it deserves the win anyway. Nepotism

Barnaby B. Busterfield III Memorial Public Library, Between the Lions:

The best library in all of children's media

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRmCXTdlE8

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #mcog #mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #fictional libraries #tumblr tournament #archives #books & libraries #fictional archives #libraries #tumblr polls #poll

[crazydreamercycle]

Pretty happy with the cape

#my art #traditional art #les mystérieuses cités d'or #the mysterious cities of gold #fanart #mcog #mcog fanart #mysterious cities of gold #mendoza #mcog mendoza

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Tao is canonically Indigenous. He is part of the fictitious Hiva tribe who resided on the sunken continent of Mu near the Galapagos Islands. Thank you @yana125 for the image submission!

Scar is canonically Indigenous. Ishvalan culture is based on Middle Eastern and Indian cultures. The creator, Arakawa Hiromi, stated the Ishvalans are also partial based off the Ainu.

#indigenous character tournament #tournament poll #ict round 2 #the mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #mcog #tao mcog #full metal alchemis brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fma #fmab #fmab scar #fma scar

[miaqc1]

Two Sun Medallions Esteban Zia in Pixel Art by @YunoGasai96 on Twitter. A drawing I ordered. 

#mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #the mysterious cities of gold #mcog #zia #esteban #sun medaillons #pixelart #pixel art #YunoGasai96 #pixel aesthetic #pixels

[frozzrossross]

hey mcog hivemind can i interest you in hell

we were doing character turnarounds in class today and I entered adhd zoomies mode and. yeah i started sketching this.

Yes of course i will be trying to finish this and no I cannot draw, especially not Tao. Stay tuned for when I finish this in like 15 years

#mcog #the mysterious cities of gold #les mystérieuses cités d'or #i can feel stebs having an aneurysm over this #also no it was NOT a Good Drawing Day today. don't look at the head it's so bad DO NOT LOOK AT TAO'S FACE #NO I CANNOT DRAW TAO. NO I CANNOT DRAW PEOPLE (ESPECIALLY POC) #I'VE CONSUMED 923957495 REFERENCES INTO MY BRAIN AND JUST. FORGOR THEM ALL IMMEDIATELY #simultaneously hate how angular Tao's face is but also I can't imagine it any other way #like. i want to give him a new face but... that's not the boy!!