Xibalban Guate

Trying something different (beginning a drawing by its light rather than by its shadow)
- This is a redesign of an original character I created when I was 11 (what means, 11 years ago), and who is part of the BYDURAK Series.
He's the Xibalban form of Guate, the series' protagonist in some story arcs.

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A 23 years old archaeologist and shaman who used amulets containing spirits to create energy weapons and rides (sounds like a green lantern’s ring, right?), besides talking and being aided from the spirits of other animals like a Moa (an extinct mega bird from the Pacific islands). Since he found the “Guate suit” (a bird looking costume designed after the attire of the Cuauhtli warriors - Cuauhtli is the nahuatl for “Eagle”. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Mexica people, a.k.a Aztec Civilization and more than a million people in Mexico nowadays), once used by his ancestors, his powers grew and he decided to make justice and save the world.

In his journey, Guate discovers that his father, Ocelotl (nahuatl for "Jaguar") and his grandfather Vellag before him were affected by a curse related to Xibalba (the underworld, according to the Popol Vuh and the K'iché Maya tradition, from Guatemala) that has led his ancestors to become minions of an evil overlord, Topa, some time in their lives. He, too, would be affected by it if his grandfather hadn't got rid of it through his own Vuh (from K'iché book, in this series it had some powers). As a descendant of xibalbans, Guate hasn't become only a powerful shaman but also a necromancer. And despite his heroic journey would have him delaying the world's destruction, he would be regarded as a criminal by several authorities because of his protection of native and indigenous peoples against the increasing greed of several enterprises more or less related to Topa's ally, the inter-galactic SPECTRO Organization.