And Instead Of Never Using His Hood He Always Uses His Hood - Blog Posts

I've seen fan designs of malvago!Mateo before which are all very fun and very dark, so I wanted to share my vision of him (and Olivia) as well!

All malvagos in the show seemed to have some kind of animal motif and when I was thinking about what animal he would have I headcanoned that maybe a malvagos’ motif is determined by what animal their chanul is. Then I thought about Mateo with big sleeve claws and decided that was perfect. (Sloths are normally solitary and nocturnal, which fits Mateo as well). 

Those fake claws used to be made out of metal but with his clumsiness he realized it was too dangerous for himself and changed them to silver coloured cloth. 

Olivia has an axolotl motif because I think that axolotls are cool. I'm sure it would factor into her magic somehow as well, like if she was in a fight and got hurt she would be able to quickly heal and regenerate stamina.

[Image ID: A pencil crayon and ink fanart drawing of malvago!Mateo and malvago!Olivia from Elena of Avalor. Olivia is much shorter and standing on the left. She is wearing a gray hooded robe with pink polka dots and frills and yellow eyes on it, the whole outfit is reminiscent of an axolotl. She is holding her pink and gray drum wand in her hands and is looking off to the side of the frame with a slight smile. Mateo is standing on the right; he is wearing a white hooded robe with gold wavy stripes, silver claws on the ends of the sleeves, and a silver eye and nose pattern on the hood, which makes it resemble a sloth. He is holding his drum wand in his right hand and in his left he's holding a ball of magical fire which he is looking at intently. End ID]