Cortez Age Meme

Holy crap, I loved drawing this. Especially old Cortez <33 Also, this may sound horrible, but I always have fun drawing his eye scar '8D ANYWAYS, here's more walls of text for who's interested:

5 years: Yet another happy puphood lived up to this day. Cortez is nothing but a happy little Canis Sennormus living in a Spanish province of the island he lives in with his parents and several siblings, some adopted. Thus, his mother language is Spanish, and currently, is the only language he’s able to speak. He loves teasing his brothers and sisters whenever he can, and is nothing but a little troublemaker. His pranks usually earn him a serious scolding by the adults, but whenever he’s being scolded, he isn’t quite “there”, but rather thinking about the next prank he’ll play on who and ignoring all the yelling from the grown ups. Even that young, already has a pretty sharp tongue to brag about and is very creative. Rarely cries, even when hurt, which is rather weird for someone his age.
Nothing changes too much from what he’s going to be in later years, except that his hair is shorter and lighter.

13 years old: Cortez’s father was pretty much a ladies man, even while still in a relationship with the pup’s mother. In the young one’s eyes, that couldn’t even be considered a flaw near all the perfections of his role model, his ‘padre’. As he grew up, he begun spending a lot of time with his dad. His father usually took a very young Cortez to the dates he had with several females to help captivating them with the ‘cute little guy’, which usually worked. Cortez was always willing to go on these secret ‘meetings’ with his father, under the promise to not tell anyone about what was happening. And since he had a good tongue for lying even as a child, it wasn’t hard to hide the fact from his family. He didn’t exactly know what his father went to do with all those females, but from watching them interacting, he ended up learning a few flirting techniques, which turned him into a flirty guy later on. This went on for years.
However, one day the 13-years old Sennormus slipped up with his words and his mother ended up finding out what had been happening. She imediatelly went to Cortez’s father, and they started a heated arguing, which evolved into a physical fight. Being the massive, experienced female Cortez’s mother was, she ended up being victorious in the battle, and took all of her children with her, leaving a solitary and defeated ex-mate behind. She then told her young son about his father’s true intentions, which shattered his little heart into millions of pieces. He had almost followed dad’s steps in that direction, but gladly, it didn’t happen. And despite staying a flirty guy for the rest of his life, he swore to himself on that fateful day that whenever he comitted to someone, it would be forever until the end of her life or of his own; ‘until death do us part’.

28 years: After his mother died of an unknown illness when he was 25 years old, all the siblings scattered. Some continued traveling together, but Cortez decided he would rather travel alone, despite loving his remaining family –except for his father, which despite not seeing since he was 13, still holds a grudge against for using him to attract females and for cheating on his mother-. He wanted to be more than an unknown Sennormus wandering the land for the rest of his days; and that was when ideas of forming a pack started. He found a little territory to live in and started building his own empire there. The area around the land he had chosen was brimming with Canis Lupus –average wolves- that were searching for a home, so recruiting his first packmembers wasn’t that hard. Before he knew, he was an young alpha in charge of several canines in his own secluded territory that he had to protect. He took a female Canis Lupus named Monique as his mate, which could speak fluent Spanish despite having French as her mother language, and ruled alongside her for a long time.

34 years: What he didn’t expect was an assault of humans on his territory. And they weren’t few, either. They brought torches, forks, and other kinds of weapons that knocked each of his warriors out cold in a matter of seconds. He tried fighting the bipedals and managed to knock a few of them out, but in the fight, the humans pinned him down and made a severe burn on the side of his face with the torches. The merciless attack not only deformed all the area around his left eye, but also blinded it permanently and left a huge, bloody wound on it. Then the humans set the land on fire and escaped, taking some wolves and a fainted alpha with them. Monique wasn’t able to escape and perished in the flames, like several other wolves who didn’t have time to escape.
Cortez only woke up at the end of the next afternoon, stuck to a wooden pole in a human village by a strong rope, and around his muzzle, a rope tightly held his jaws together to prevent him from chewing the rope on his neck off. His long, dark hair was tied up tightly by a round, navy-colored bead, and his depth perception was forever damaged due to his one-sided blindness. The humans were talking in a language he recognized as English, but he could barely understand them. He tried to think of a way out of that place and back to his beloved reign. No good ideas came up, and nighttime was quick to arrive. While all the humans were asleep, the Spanish guy was still thinking, when a blue and black figure appeared in the middle of the night. Actually, it was a Canis Annorus that called himself Kazetsu. Communication between them was difficult since Kazetsu only knew basic Spanish, but it wasn’t impossible in actuality. Kazetsu told him that the stupid humans from the village thought he was a Guardian of some sort that could save their homes from being blown off by the strong winds, and that Cortez and other wolves were going to be “sacrifices” to him. He then cut the ropes that tied the alpha to his prison. He thanked the blue canine and then left. The Spanish province, however, was extremely far away from where he was currently. All the same, he traveled for weeks until he got there, and found no one but a few of his old subordinates around the place. They told him that the pack had fallen without a leader, and that Monique had been found dead, victim to the flames. Crushed, he continued wandering around, not wanting to be in charge of anything else for the rest of his life. He felt irresponsible and like a huge failure to everyone that was important to him.
He wandered for several years around the land, learning enough of English to communicate and understand most things, and some stuff of other languages while he was at it. He met a Canis Annorus named Shiro, exhiled from his old village. Noticing the black and white Canis didn’t have a clue about how to proceed, Cortez joined him as a companion, to help ensure his survival in the ruthless Nature.
They were captured by the same humans again, he met Kazetsu again, but this time they were able to communicate better since he knew advanced English. His saviour from years ago and his half-sister Mana joined him and Shiro in their travels and they left the village. Cortez ended up splitting from the trio of siblings somewhere along the way, but that didn’t prevent them from meeting again at random times while they traveled.

70 years: He has aged well, except for a few health problems. His once good eye now only has 40% of its original vision and he doesn’t hear that well anymore, but to compensate, his sense of smell has gotten stronger. The bangs of hair that once curled up on his head have now fallen over his forehead. The navy bead’s grip loosened and it got lost somewhere along the way, freeing his long graying hair. His main pelt has gotten much darker while the black patches of fur have started graying.
He continues to be the same good-natured jokester as always, but no longer flirty, as he believes he’s no longer in the age for flirting. His eye scar hurts severely on cold nights, so he prefers being near warm places; as far away from fire as possible, though.

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