Snakeman Ally: Doctor Aurora (Patreon)

Alright guys! Time to introduce our very first supporting cast member to Snakeman (and by extension Hades and Persephone), the renowned mythologist Doctor Aurora!

ORIGIN

Doctor Agatha Aurora was considered the world's leading Mythologist, historian and archeologist. Despite her expertise, many in Aurora’s field had long considered her eccentric for her beliefs that the gods of myth had been real, solidifying in her hypothesis that there were not many different pantheons through-out history, but perhaps one single pantheon that had existed since the dawn of time who would take many different identities. A theory that actually proved to be true when the gods of old returned following Hades and Persephone’s first full public appearance, Aurora herself quickly becoming the on-call expert for many cities who required her knowledge in understanding and defending themselves against the gods of old, soon finding herself as a strong ally for Hades and Persephone as they brokered peace between mortals and mythology.

As knowledgeable as Aurora was about the world’s mythologies, her primary expertise was that of mesoamerican mythology, she herself born and raised on Aztec and Mayan mythology in her home country of Columbia. And it was in the jungles of her home region where she found herself needed the most when another ancient myth proved to be true- Quetzalquotl's desperado of the jungle, the Snakeman. Ironically finding herself one of the first modern people to encounter and be rescued by the jungle hero during a research trip to the jungles, Aurora soon found that her expertise was needed more than ever as the secrets of the Latin American jungles soon became unearthed. It was for this reason Snakeman soon found his first recurring ally of modern man in Doctor Aurora, who often acted as the voice of reason to the desperado in the modern world.

So as I mentioned in the bio, Doctor Aurora is kinda unique in that she is a shared supporting ally to many of NRG's mythological-based superheroes, primarily Snakeman but also to Hades and Persephone (and may probably will also be extended to any new future mythological inspired heroes NRG creates in the future). This was always the intent with her character from the beginning when I first came up with her for Snakeman, and then rounded her out once I built up the magic system of mythology in the NRGVerse in order to tie everything together better. She's kinda like Doctor Eric Selvic or Darcy Lewis from the MCU, both of whom started out mainly as Thor allies but eventually became greater MCU allies to the Avengers and Shield.

But yeah, while Doctor Aurora's theories are connected to Hades and Persephone, her main focus and interests is always going to be the mythologies of Latin American culture first and foremost. So she's mainly going to be a Snakeman ally. In fact, since she acts as the voice of reason to the mythological warrior in modern man, I kinda see her surviving as something as a mother figure to Snakeman.

I want to give a huge shout out to NRG Fans and designers WHIllustrations and Danilo for their design work in bringing Doctor Aurora to life. WHIllustrations is a huge Snakeman man fan and drew the base design for Aurora's character (as well as helped me flesh her out some) for which Danilo was able to build the final design on. IF you have a minute, go and follow their profiles and support them as you would NRG!

Hope you guys like this new Snakeman ally! Let us know with a comment below!

Snakeman: Desperado of the Jungle © NRG Comics

Design by WHIllustrations

Art by Danilo Cassonato