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I had this perfect sequence of ideas that just sort of fit together in a linear fashion. Let me run you through my thought process:
I was thinking about Kaida and her family, a lot of my inspiration for them came from Real world Voodoo practices; Her father is inspired by Baron Samedi the Loa spirit of Death and her adoptive mother is inspired by the historical Voodoo Queen of New Orleans Marie Laveau.
Voodoo originated as the African religion of Vodun, actually several West African traditions overlapped and then mixed with Catholicism as People were forced to America and Caribbean through Slavery.
I didn't nessisarily find a Loa equivalent to Anansi in Voodoo but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. However Anansi originates from Ghana which is also in West Africa, and stories of the Trickster Spider God traveled the same way to America and the Caribbean becoming very popular. I can see how a tiny Underdog Spider using his cleverness to outwit and defeat vastly more powerful opponents would really appeal to people in such an underdog situation. Anansi is also intrinsically connected to a very important African tradition of Oral Folklore as the God of Storytelling. Being a Storyteller was an incredibly important role passed from generation to generation and that tradition was almost entirely lost because of it being disrupted by Colonialism and Slavery!
Anansi already is kinda canonically considered the OG Spider-man both historically and in Marvel Anansi (Earth 616) is the First Spider-man. Spiderman is also frequently a constant Underdog Hero who uses his skill, intelligence, and clever trickery in order to outwit and defeat vastly more powerful opponents. Also I feel like the idea of Anansi weaving stories from his webs connects thematically to the Spiderverse series concept of all Spider-people being interconnected by their stories
The pokemon Spidops uses it's webs to weave and sew with it's webs, and it's abdomen even looks like a bobbin of thread. Also in it's shiny form Spidops turns Red and Black looking very Spider-man like following the same color scheme as Miles Morales who's an African/Puerto Rican American which fits with the same geography as Anansi!
Anansi -> Spiderman -> Spidops -> Spiderman -> Anansi! It all comes full circle. Beautuful!
I was thinking about Kaida and her family, a lot of my inspiration for them came from Real world Voodoo practices; Her father is inspired by Baron Samedi the Loa spirit of Death and her adoptive mother is inspired by the historical Voodoo Queen of New Orleans Marie Laveau.
Voodoo originated as the African religion of Vodun, actually several West African traditions overlapped and then mixed with Catholicism as People were forced to America and Caribbean through Slavery.
I didn't nessisarily find a Loa equivalent to Anansi in Voodoo but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. However Anansi originates from Ghana which is also in West Africa, and stories of the Trickster Spider God traveled the same way to America and the Caribbean becoming very popular. I can see how a tiny Underdog Spider using his cleverness to outwit and defeat vastly more powerful opponents would really appeal to people in such an underdog situation. Anansi is also intrinsically connected to a very important African tradition of Oral Folklore as the God of Storytelling. Being a Storyteller was an incredibly important role passed from generation to generation and that tradition was almost entirely lost because of it being disrupted by Colonialism and Slavery!
Anansi already is kinda canonically considered the OG Spider-man both historically and in Marvel Anansi (Earth 616) is the First Spider-man. Spiderman is also frequently a constant Underdog Hero who uses his skill, intelligence, and clever trickery in order to outwit and defeat vastly more powerful opponents. Also I feel like the idea of Anansi weaving stories from his webs connects thematically to the Spiderverse series concept of all Spider-people being interconnected by their stories
The pokemon Spidops uses it's webs to weave and sew with it's webs, and it's abdomen even looks like a bobbin of thread. Also in it's shiny form Spidops turns Red and Black looking very Spider-man like following the same color scheme as Miles Morales who's an African/Puerto Rican American which fits with the same geography as Anansi!
Anansi -> Spiderman -> Spidops -> Spiderman -> Anansi! It all comes full circle. Beautuful!
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Pokemon
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