#commander gomez

[pyroteknyk]

can someone please contact whoever made The Mysterious Cities of Gold and just…. politely ask them to give me the rights to Gomez and Gaspard. they’re all i want. i promise i’ll treat them well. i’ll even give them developed backstories because their creators are negligent 🙄

[condor-solaris]

[pyroteknyk]

WE NEED TO TALK.

about Gomez’s FUCKASS DESIGN.

SIT UR ASS DOWN IM GONNA TALK ABOUT WHY THIS BOTHERS ME

ok so i wonder if someone lost a bet when designing this bitch because what the fuck is up with his facial hair ?!!!(!(!(!(!,!,!,!!!??????

yes it’s a goatee. indeed it is. but why is it anchor shaped??? i know 16th century conquistadors had some……… interesting choices regarding facial hair (which is why i’m not hating on his confetti sideburns) but can someone please explain the thought process behind this anchor design because it messes with me. maybe instead of it being so thin, he could’ve had a fluffier one? slightly thicker? idk just so it looks more natural?

his eyebrows. guys what the fuck LOOK AT THIS SHIT

WHY ARE HIS EYEBROWS CONNECTED TO HIS SIDEBURNS??? maybe he’s just canonically fucking horrible at shaving but like WHYYYY WHYYYYYYYYY??????????

his hair isn’t a concern to me because, again, 16th century Spain wasn’t exactly known for its sense of style, but maybe I’d make it grow longer/slightly scruffier as the episodes passed.

that’s it lmfao i have nothing else to say. i’m just like….. y’all made mendoza so delicious why not do the same with the antagonist? 😩

this is usually how i draw him post-canon 💔 do u guys see the vision or not

[pyroteknyk]

MCoG fandom I need your help:

HOW. OLD. IS. THIS. BITCH?!

I’m asking this because the whiplash between S1 Gomez and S4 Gomez is absolutely insane. I’ve watched all seasons religiously and when I got to that one Kilwa arc in S4 I nearly lost my shit when this fuckass idiot appeared on my screen. At first I was like ??????? why is he so old?? did he age 60 years within 3 seasons???

And then I also noticed S1’s design has …. y’know, no sign of his age apart from his grey hair. But that’s it. No wrinkles, no other qualities to him that would lead us to believe he’s an aging man (he never complains about his back or joints, his voice sounds relatively ambiguous when it comes to age…). My best guess is that he’d be in his 50s, maybe he aged veeeeery well, but then what can explain his sudden horrendous aging in S4? cause that shit scared me ok😭😭😭 he looks like he escaped the retirement home

i’m sure there’s at least SOMEONE out here who knows his real age and i’d love it if you guys could tell me. if not, let’s speculate together. that’s always fun.

[pyroteknyk]

today i wanted to introduce one of my favourite OCs to all of you MCoG fans because it’s the last day before artfight and it’s her first time participating in the fight:

Marianne Lafleur.

(before i start, i urge everyone who also has mcog OCs to reblog this and write about their characters too 😋😋 we should assemble an army. ok enjoy my ramblings)

born in France from a portuguese father and a french mother, Marianne moved to the south of Portugal with her family at a young age. Her mother, a baker with a failing business, tried her best to work and help Marianne’s father, a fisherman, to earn enough profit to sustain the family.

when Marianne was about 6, her parents had a son named Lucien.

Marianne grew up watching and sometimes helping her father fish near the coast. she knew how to speak both French and Portuguese by now. at 18, her father taught her how to sail, tie knots, man the sails of their small fishing sailboat, and Marianne was inspired.

at 19, she decided to leave her home and join a life a of piracy after being swayed by the riches she could possibly steal — her cause was to steal in order to sustain her family, since they did not have much. with the little money she had, she bought her own sailboat and left. Lucien joined the army at 13 (around the same time Marianne left) also looking to help his parents out.

Marianne found it hard to join a crew, but she made her way around the mediterranean sea first and then to Morocco, looking for random groups of thieves to join. by the time she was 25, she had a somewhat solid reputation among criminals and other members of black markets/smuggling groups and so she was able to form her first very own crew. she operated mainly around Africa, the mediterranean, and sometimes the middle east through the Suez canal.

now, at 29, someone else was also starting out his ventures as something more than a soldier — an Admiral perhaps: Francisco Gomez (pls ignore how i gave him a first name…….. i had to. also, he’s a man of stature, he’d definitely have more names between his first name and his surname but i have not come around to think about those yet. maybe i’ll name him after my bf who is indeed spanish and has loooads of names lmfao)

he operated locally at first, until he was assigned naval duty to keep an eye out for smugglers along the Atlantic — or rather, what little of the Atlantic the Spanish knew. however, soon enough, rumours of a distant continent started spreading, and Gomez was determined to see it for himself.

at 30, he crossed paths with Marianne for the very first time. a skirmish off the coast of west africa, nothing crazy really — but enough for him to meet his lifelong enemy. Marianne did not manage to sink his ship, and vice versa, so she aborted the fight because she had never battled against the royal navy of Spain before.

after this small fight, Marianne also heard about this new continent. nothing much was publicly known about it yet, so she felt curious and decided to head there too.

Gomez was needed as an Admiral when the Spanish were first exploring and assembling ports in places such as in Puerto Rico, and securing other previous ports such as Isabela. as a busy man, he dealt with a lot of men and ships, and unfortunately, he started crossing paths with Marianne more often once she had arrived to the Caribbean. by now, she had a larger crew and a bounty on her head… and Gomez wanted to take advantage of this.

he was a young man, in his early 30s now. blonde hair to his shoulders and that same stupid goatee. Marianne found him intriguing.

he began searching for her in his spare time, looking to arrest her. but every time he engaged her in combat, she would either win or escape, and the adrenaline of the chase fuelled him more than the bounty, over time.

the first time he captured her was in Havana. he arrested her and held her in the brig of his ship, but after some long banter, she caught him lacking and escaped. Gomez, now slightly enthralled by her attitude, decided he would keep chasing her.

this was their life for a long time until 1532. Gomez chased her, she escaped, he captured her, he let her go, she evaded him, pissed him off, stole his things... they were both in their 50s now when the events of MCoG started — Marianne was 50 and he was 54. Gomez had returned to Barcelona because duty called him to, since he had to join Perez and Gaspard en route to the New World again but not before he kidnapped Zia. Marianne remained around the New World. this was more or less when Marianne found her now-adopted child Onu, but i will not get into that because otherwise this would get too long. maybe on another post!

when Gomez returned to the New World (and after the Esperanza sank), he met with his old rival again, except now Marianne had her eyes on El Dorado. but so did he. petty competition ensued — Gomez was no longer looking to arrest her and win her bounty, now all he wanted was the city.

Marianne helped the kids sometimes, other times she’d team up with Gomez, but it was very on-and-off… until the destruction of Tseila.

by then, Gomez had deserted the Spanish Armada along with Gaspard, and the two couldn’t possibly return to Pizarro now without facing execution. Marianne, coincidentally, also had just faced a mutiny on behalf of her crew — they had gotten tired of her complicated friendship with Commander Gomez, so they ditched her. Onu remained in the New World with the kids & Mendoza, and Gaspard wanted to go his own separate way since he was never fond of Marianne.

now it was just her and the ex-Commander. having left behind their lives at sea, they hopped on a ship back to Europe — to Portugal — to live in the same house Marianne grew up in.

by now, her parents had passed from illness. her brother Lucien had died too, so the house was completely hers. and now it was Gomez’s too. he had grown to like her over the course of time, so settling in with her wasn’t nearly as mortifying as it would’ve been otherwise. plus, to hide his feelings, he played it off as “merely survival” and that he “had no other choice but to stay hidden here”.

so yeah. the two lived in portugal till the end of their lives. S4 Gomez Kilwa slave arc never happened. there is no war in ba sing se

[pyroteknyk]

no heterosexual explanation for these

[pyroteknyk]

i just had a Thought ™️

so… Disney’s Treasure Planet. wonderful movie. beautiful! watched it for the first time today. space pirates … it’s a wonderful combo

okay but like… MCOG AU???? CROSSOVER??? SOMETHING LIKE THIS????

immediately i started thinking of good ol’ Commander Gomez and my beautiful beloved creation Marianne Lafleur as some wacky aliens on opposite sides of intergalactic law. i mean… pretty cool idea. i should make some alien designs for them soon whenever i have time 🤑🤑🤑

BUT MAAAAN….. if only we could have an MCOG AU for this beautiful movie.

… or maybe for Atlantis. that’s also another movie i’m in love with.

[pyroteknyk]

come one, come all🗣️‼️‼️

im gonna write Gomez and Gaspar’s (fanmade…. by me) backstories pre-canon because the writers refuse to. okay let’s go (this is a huge post beware)

so to start off let’s just get some info out of the way:

MCOG begins in the year 1532, in Barcelona

Gomez is around 50 at this time and Gaspar is somewhere in his 40s, by the looks of it.

For practical reasons, Gaspar’s name will not be spelled ‘Gaspard’ as it is in the show because that may imply he’s of French descent which is….. well, unlikely

i gave Gomez and Gaspar first names…… yeah. i’m obviously not saying they’re the only correct fanon first names, it’s just the names i use in the fics i write. you’re clearly free to make up any names you want for them lmfaoaooa

why did i give them first names? cause in the show they’re referred to as “commander/señor Gomez” and “captain Gaspar” and usually the names used after the title tend to be someone’s surname.

ok let’s go

Francisco Diego Luís Gómez (de Villanueva y Córdoba)

Don’t mind the huge-ass name, these were common back in the 16th century, especially for aristocrats such as him.

Francisco was born in August of 1482, Toledo.

Born to Alejandro Gómez and Isabella Gómez.

A kid with blue-grey eyes and blonde hair.

He had one older brother, Rafael, who died in battle (more on this later).

Has one younger sister named Sofia. Not much to her seeing as she was married off to another family of prestigious title.

So he’s the middle child. The second son who was meant to follow in his brother’s footsteps.

Now, about the war Rafael died in: The Siege of Málaga — which happened in 1487, as part of the Reconquista of Spain. He was about 18 when he died, meaning Gómez was 5.

He spent his childhood hearing about how bravely his brother fought. When he was 7, he was sent to another noble house, in Barcelona, as a pageboy to begin his training in horse riding, Latin, etc. When he was 10, his sister was born, and when he turned 12, he began to learn sword-fighting.

He was a fast learner and a serious kid, never really having a real childhood. With a sword half his height in length, he’d practice duelling with knights and with his masters — and he was good. Great, actually.

At 15 he was serving in real campaigns.

By 20, he had been forced into an arranged marriage with a girl from another noble household. Some woman named Doña Leonor. He married not out of love, but out of alliances and dowry…. and maybe his father’s approval, which he never really got anyway.

Was too busy with his military duty to ever have children with Leonor. Shortly after he turned 25, she passed away from consumption (TB).

Gómez had several campaigns along the next few years, carrying with him the weight of having no heirs to carry on the family name.

When he was turning 43, the first few expeditions to South America begin. He signs up and goes, after hearing the tales of gold. Maybe this way he could salvage his family’s name.

By now he was a respected commander in the field of war, in Spain. The Crown liked his title and his fame for being a good leader so they allowed him to join.

Gómez goes to the Inca country for the first time between 1526 and 1527 and is there for a short amount of time to capture Zia. He brings her back to Spain to be kept in Barcelona.

Pizarro hears about him and decides to contract him to follow along with the expeditions to Peru in 1531-1532. Gómez, however, must take Zia with him, which is why he doesn’t immediately go in 1531, and instead in 1532 when he has recaptured the girl.

The rest is history 😋

Alonso Hernando Gaspar (de Medina)

Gaspar does not come from noble upbringing like Gómez does, so he has less names.

Born in 1492, Extremadura.

Born to a family who owned some land, sure, but no valuable family name.

His parents are Diego Gaspar and Maria Gaspar.

Had loads of younger siblings (10 siblings in total), many of which died in early infancy. He is the eldest child. Only him and 3 others survived childhood.

His father was a soldier who wanted him to follow the same path as him.

Started sword training at the age of 7.

By 14, he was fighting in the Italian wars.

Spent some time there until he turned 17 and returned to Spain. Saw things he’d rather not talk about.

Never married because of his duty — and also cause he never really wanted to. However he probably has quite a few illegitimate children.

He was taught to be brash and violent. To him and many others, masculinity came from how loud and strong you were.

He spent a lot of time on land, unlike Gómez who was sailing off to the New World in his adulthood.

Was an incredible swordsman in battle.

By the time he was 30, he had risen up the ranks and become a Captain in the infantry.

When Gaspar turned 40, more or less, he was hired by Pizarro to go to the New World. Blinded by the promises of gold, he agreed to go.

The rest is also history 😛

ok that’s all for now bye