After several days I finally finished him. Dislyte is very dear to me and so its the culture of my country, however I know I will NEVER see costarrican mythology representation so I MADE IT MYSELF
Jeikol is based on the main deity of Costa Rica, the creator god Sibö. Sibö is who made Earth as we know it, who made humans and who taugh humanity everything they needed to survive but before the creation of humanity Sibö liberated the earth from the Ba(demons). Even to this day Sibö still protects us from the Ba and from evil in general. Sibö creates and maintains order.
Visually he was hard to make bc he's only described as "handsome young man" and the only visual examples of him look like this:
But I ended up basing him a lot on Sibö statues, native costarrican clothing and bribri hunters(bribri is an indigenous group of Costa Rica), the gold and jade that appear a lot on precolombine art, I also used Pablo Presbere as inspo given that he was a real indigenous chief that fighted agaisnt the spaniards and a real national hero and his story reminds me of Sibö. I was actually gonna name Jeikol after him but I wanted to give him a name that originated in Costa Rica
I also wanted to show Sibö's imposing presence so I leaned more towards his warrior side, but as for his esper Jeikol I want him to teach others just like how Sibö does gor humanity.
Tsàita̱mi̱, whose name means "all waters" and "sea woman" is the Mermaid protector of the seas of Natlan, in charge of the protection of marine beings and navigators.
It is well known throughout Natlan that if you want her blessing you must leave her an offering at the mouth of the river to the sea before leaving and respect the boundaries of his home. If your offering is to her liking and your attitude has been respectful, you will obtain one of her protective pearls, carry said pearl and you will have no harm during your trip.
However, all those who have done harm to the sea and its habitants will not be received in a good way; she herself will be in charge of sinking their ships and bringing misfortune with her song.
Her home is located in the Río de Aguas Celestes at the foot of the great Tenori volcano, however she can frequently be found in the Tortuga River where she protects the few remaining manatees, this being the most protected animal in the area by Tsàita̱mi̱ Herself. . .
Her song can be heard on clear nights on the seashore and in the rivers, if you pay attention you can find her.
This drawing was created for a collaboration with other artists, where each one created their own character. I fell in love with its design. I plan to draw more of her.
Her design is inspired by national areas, legends and symbols of my country, Costa Rica, mainly from the manatee and the guaria morada.
Her name name, Tsàita̱mi̱, comes from the Bribrí language which means "sea woman"
Here I also leave a small edit with the rest of the characters
I'm Lethargic Moth a.k.a Mosu, an artist and vtuber. I like to do digital art, including pixel art but sometimes I enjoy doing watercolors too. I'll post mostly videogames, seinen, nature and vtubing content.
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Los diseños de Cuba y Ecuador le pertenecen a Hidekaz Himaruya, el resto son mis OCs. / Cuba and Ecuador' designs belong to Hidekaz Himaruya, the others are my OCs.
Posdata: Si eres de LATAM y tu país no aparece, no te preocupes, próximamente saldrá! (Eso si Himaruya no se me adelanta...) / P.S. If you're from LATAM and your country doesn't appear in the picture, don't worry, they'll debut soon! (That is, if Himaruya doesn't do it first...)
This is my contribution to the APH fandom, my interpretation of my oc latina girls, which doesn't yet have a canon appearance. There is more in the future.
on Tiktok about a year ago i made a post of "costarican magical girls but only using national animals" today i think i will revamp the series cause honestly this is just Fun.
Yiguirros(idk how to accent on my pc,deal with it) are the national birds. Their singing is meant to signify the coming of rain, which is what made them coffee plantantions best friends. Their song is super sweet and it can be heard in the early mornings. Sadly because of "pest control" Zanate(kind of a crow thingy?) was introduced into our ecosystem. And this sweet birds numbers have decreased a lot :c.
Tune in next week for the manatee and the story of the greatest boxer of Costa Rica.
I love animal ocs... anyways meet my two non-human boxer ocs that hate ecachother!
alsooo a sneak peek at “The Beast Bracket” that a few peeps on discord were working on...
Zuri’s from Africa, who was smuggled into America via an Exotic Bird Smuggling ring, she gracefully and elegantly beat the smugglers up, and in her journey to find a passion, she came across Adarna. She then introduced Zuri to the WVBA and the rest is history < 3
The sneaky snake boi’s Dorado! He was found escaping from a lab in Costa Rica, and was seen shaking, and frail. He was experimented on quite a bit, and to let out all his frustration and feelings, he became a boxer and is now rivals with Zuri , who hates his guts. Dorado can turn his scales into spikes, kind of like a cactus yk
Y'all know anny it's from costa rica and also in my country it's september so..I wanted to draw Anny wearing the typical dress of her country of origin next to her flag ^^
Fun fact: the flag of Costa Rica is inspired by that of France
Finish exam early today so I had time to draw in my class this little guy he's around human waste height and his names Coby people who's been subscribed to me for a long time or seen my art for a while might recognize this creature and used to go by another name but I found a name hard to pronounce and hard to spell so I decided to change his name to coby I like to imagined he inspired the myth of the chupacabra which is about a blood sucking dog-like creature but his actually a kivouachian infested with mange so that's why he has no fur and covered in scratch marks he lives on the diet of animal blood sometimes he sneaks and breaks into hospitals and still the blood and then sucks it in the long grass as well as sucking the blood of farm animals dry Costa Rica where he lives