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The Pantheon of Seven Pack
3 years ago
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Hello everyone,
one of my old ideas for Seven Pack was the daimon:
https://www.deviantart.com/farel13/.....tten-139903074
They were tied with the idea of eventually fusing with their respective owners (the main cast) and becoming Gods. This of course never happened, because even in the final chapter, it felt like it'd be a big giant thing to introduce that would just distract from what should be the center of attention.
I was thinking of drawing the God-forms, so my readers could find out what I was thinking of, but I'm very busy at the moment, and the more I think about it, the less confident I feel about the idea, so I'll cover the topic in text form instead.
Keiran's green daimon: Vertumnus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertumnus )
The Greek God of seasons, change and growth. I actually had drawn him before, so this was sort of covered:
https://www.deviantart.com/farel13/.....cana-121857280
If I were to redo this, I'd probably give him a lengthy neck, with the excuse of it resembling a palm tree (yes, I confess, the idea came to me upon seeing an "Alolan Exeggutor" from Pokemon). Also, he's the only one without a true defined species, but I guess it could have been a plant.
Steve's red daimon: Sun Wukong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King )
A legendary figure from "Journey to the West", which I also drew before:
https://www.deviantart.com/farel13/.....Arc-1334717183
This was never shown, but my idea was that all God-forms would be larger/taller than the normal body size of the characters, and I found the idea funny to make this be smaller than Steve, despite Steve being the shortest member of the cast. Monkey, cause monkey.
Raphael's blue daimon: Rep-un-kamuy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep-un-kamuy )
The Ainu people God of the Seas. His carefree attitude was fitting to Raphael. I had thought of giving him a surfer-dude look. Felt like it'd fit Raphael's character, given what I had thought of for him. An eventual story arc of him showing gratitude for all that his friends have done for him, cause he's just been pushing everyone around. He's depicted as an orca, so making him an anthro orca is simple enough.
Joseph's yellow daimon: Horus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus )
Voren's purple daimon: Seth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(deity) )
That's right, the 2 characters who ended up living together, were planned to become rival deities from the same pantheon. I had the idea of having Horus look a bit like an American biker, while Horus would be a black leather wearing street punk. The idea being that Joseph would man up a bit, while Voren would be less worried about what others think of him. The animals associated with the deities are straight forward (although "Seth animal" is based on the idea that it's difficult to tell what animal he was meant to be).
Allistair's gray daimon: Shango (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shango )
The Yoruba God of Thunder. Likely the most obscure one of the bunch. I liked axes being his weapon of choice, and I felt like some association with dance and drums was also good for what I planned with him (becoming a drummer in a band). However having considered drawing these deities, I started by looking at him, and I realized how much I had forgotten:
- he tends to be depicted as an angry and vengeful deity, which doesn't suit Allistair's random chill personality
- the drums were considered a means of worshiping him, but it wasn't said that he played drums himself
- goats are not truly associated with him. They're just used as sacrificial animals, and using a goat for that purpose isn't exactly something unique to him
It felt like I really missed the mark with Shango, and it wasn't a good choice. Still, I could just change the deity, right? Oh shoot, I used so much of the goat visual for the daimon... Are there other thunder deities that are actually associated with goats? Actually yeah.... Thor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor )
His chariot was pulled by 2 goats: Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. It would make sense to go with this idea..... but it feels weird....
These images were meant to represent unused ideas, but in the case of Shango, the idea was way off, so I'd draw something original, but it wouldn't really fit the theme done by the rest. So because of how weird this would be, and how I'm busy at the time to begin with, I won't be drawing these deities (at least not now), but I felt like sharing these ideas on their own, as some readers might have been wondering about this.
Thanks for reading!
one of my old ideas for Seven Pack was the daimon:
https://www.deviantart.com/farel13/.....tten-139903074
They were tied with the idea of eventually fusing with their respective owners (the main cast) and becoming Gods. This of course never happened, because even in the final chapter, it felt like it'd be a big giant thing to introduce that would just distract from what should be the center of attention.
I was thinking of drawing the God-forms, so my readers could find out what I was thinking of, but I'm very busy at the moment, and the more I think about it, the less confident I feel about the idea, so I'll cover the topic in text form instead.
Keiran's green daimon: Vertumnus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertumnus )
The Greek God of seasons, change and growth. I actually had drawn him before, so this was sort of covered:
https://www.deviantart.com/farel13/.....cana-121857280
If I were to redo this, I'd probably give him a lengthy neck, with the excuse of it resembling a palm tree (yes, I confess, the idea came to me upon seeing an "Alolan Exeggutor" from Pokemon). Also, he's the only one without a true defined species, but I guess it could have been a plant.
Steve's red daimon: Sun Wukong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King )
A legendary figure from "Journey to the West", which I also drew before:
https://www.deviantart.com/farel13/.....Arc-1334717183
This was never shown, but my idea was that all God-forms would be larger/taller than the normal body size of the characters, and I found the idea funny to make this be smaller than Steve, despite Steve being the shortest member of the cast. Monkey, cause monkey.
Raphael's blue daimon: Rep-un-kamuy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep-un-kamuy )
The Ainu people God of the Seas. His carefree attitude was fitting to Raphael. I had thought of giving him a surfer-dude look. Felt like it'd fit Raphael's character, given what I had thought of for him. An eventual story arc of him showing gratitude for all that his friends have done for him, cause he's just been pushing everyone around. He's depicted as an orca, so making him an anthro orca is simple enough.
Joseph's yellow daimon: Horus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus )
Voren's purple daimon: Seth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(deity) )
That's right, the 2 characters who ended up living together, were planned to become rival deities from the same pantheon. I had the idea of having Horus look a bit like an American biker, while Horus would be a black leather wearing street punk. The idea being that Joseph would man up a bit, while Voren would be less worried about what others think of him. The animals associated with the deities are straight forward (although "Seth animal" is based on the idea that it's difficult to tell what animal he was meant to be).
Allistair's gray daimon: Shango (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shango )
The Yoruba God of Thunder. Likely the most obscure one of the bunch. I liked axes being his weapon of choice, and I felt like some association with dance and drums was also good for what I planned with him (becoming a drummer in a band). However having considered drawing these deities, I started by looking at him, and I realized how much I had forgotten:
- he tends to be depicted as an angry and vengeful deity, which doesn't suit Allistair's random chill personality
- the drums were considered a means of worshiping him, but it wasn't said that he played drums himself
- goats are not truly associated with him. They're just used as sacrificial animals, and using a goat for that purpose isn't exactly something unique to him
It felt like I really missed the mark with Shango, and it wasn't a good choice. Still, I could just change the deity, right? Oh shoot, I used so much of the goat visual for the daimon... Are there other thunder deities that are actually associated with goats? Actually yeah.... Thor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor )
His chariot was pulled by 2 goats: Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. It would make sense to go with this idea..... but it feels weird....
These images were meant to represent unused ideas, but in the case of Shango, the idea was way off, so I'd draw something original, but it wouldn't really fit the theme done by the rest. So because of how weird this would be, and how I'm busy at the time to begin with, I won't be drawing these deities (at least not now), but I felt like sharing these ideas on their own, as some readers might have been wondering about this.
Thanks for reading!
