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Thanks, guys! Always puts a smile on my face when people other than me like my stuff.

A quick group shot of another project (still Latino themed), I’ll probably post individual shots tomorrow.

AZTECH

Xol Xihuitl (through classic comic book mishaps and shenanigans) came to house a dimensional tesseract in his chest that made him one with an extra-dimensional armory of specialized tech suits. The armory responds to the psyche of the tesseract-wielder, and thus the armors adapted to his physiology and also shaped themselves after the Aztec deities of his childhood. Xol can summon each suit at will and fights for a better world under the guise of Aztech. Pictured:

Tonatiuh: Space exploration suit/graviton manipulator

Quetzalcoatl: Supersonic flight suit/favored suit

Coatlicue: Last resort worldbreaking destroyer suit/anti-matter cannon wielder

Huitzilopochtli: War-machine, too many weapons systems to count/harmonic energy wings

Tlaloc: Deep sea explorer/arc cannon/practically invincible

Tezcatlipoca: Stealth suit/invisibility/intangibility/ EMP generator

Working on some boots.

Do you smell that? It smells like a…
MEGA-POST!

Ok, maybe not as mega as in the past but still…

This is all about the international terrorist military organization, CHIMERA

Flag and insignia:

Motto: Vincere Mundus (“To conquer the world”)

CHIMERA is a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Ruled by the ruthless Manticore, it relies on the might of its legions of soldiers to execute its diabolical schemes while trying to destroy its main enemy: ORION.
Name: Manticore
Age: Unknown
Height: 7’0 (in suit), actual height unknown
Powers/Abilities: Weaponized High-Tech Exo-Suit (grants Flight, Superhuman Strength, Enhanced Speed; contains a Self-Contained Life-Support System), Technological Combat, Enhanced IQ, Master Tactician, is Multilingual
Equipment: Repulsor rays, forearm-mounted missile launcher, retractible spikes in fists of suit
Alignment: Villain

The ruthless Manticore is the leader of the sinister organization, CHIMERA. Using his vast intelligence and military skills to create an army without a nation, Manticore is a threat to all who call Earth home. Arch-nemesis of ORION founder, Warhawk, Manticore seeks to rid the world of all who would stand in his way.

A standard CHIMERA Soldier. If standard means enhanced in almost every way

But not as enhanced as a literal super-soldier. This is the first prototype of said super-soldiers, codenamed CALIBOS

Name: CALIBOS
Age: 287 days since creation
Height: 6’7
Powers/Abilities: Enhanced Strength, Stamina, Reflexes & Durability, Combat Proficiency, Weaponized Body
Equipment: Arm-mounted cannon (left arm)
Alignment: Villain

A product of experimentation, the CALIBOS unit is THE super-soldier of super-soldiers. Although he is just a taste of things to come, he has already proven himself a worthy addition to CHIMERA‘s ranks.

“What took you so long?”

“That last kid was HEAVY, Chief!”

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*fire

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I was gonna enter this in “Earth” but realized that my ‘face away’ ‘ordinary workaday’ heroes belong in something else much more. At some point I’ll finish ‘water’ and make it happen.

. . . and now, for a bit of history.

THE ACCIDENTAL HERBALIST by Herr D

Various unverified sources describe an unnamed conquistador that apparently didn’t slaughter Native Americans or necessarily do them any major harm at all. He also may have enabled several million modern lives to be saved and helped invent a dessert.
Ponce De Leon was looking for the Fountain Of Youth for his monarch. Out in the Everglades, the local Native Americans told his men, very helpfully, not to eat a certain plant. “Don’t eat that—you’ll die,” they told them. One of the men got lost. Well, he was a sailor and a soldier, not a forester or a hunter. He couldn’t find enough animals to eat that he could actually GET. He saw a lot of the poisonous plant and tried other ones. All of them seemed to make him horribly sick. He thought about his options.
He was alone and would probably die alone in the longest, most awful ways imaginable. Starvation takes about a month of racking abdominal pain, headaches, and other horrible symptoms. Or—he made himself a big hot meal of the poisonous root and ate it.
I’m sure anyone can imagine what he thought next. “I didn’t die? I DIDN’T DIE!”

No one had ever thought of cooking a poisonous plant before. No one had ever considered that cooking a poison might make it safe to eat.

So he did it again . . .

He staggered out of the jungle a couple of months later to find people again and tell his story. He was very sick but very alive. That was the invention of tapioca. Why was he so sick so much? Many of the thirty varieties of ipecac also grow in the Everglades. Understanding the way ipecac causes one to vomit up a poison before it kills has been very important to the treatment of poison victims.
So yes, one conquistador saved millions of lives and invented a dessert eaten by millions by going off to bungle through the jungle while barfing his guts out. A questionable honor, but an honor nonetheless.
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