Theoretical Ideas In El Patrón's The Coat Of Arms

The Coat of Arms created for El Patróns Empire, Opium, is based off of literal and metaphorical ideas. For example the entire reason for his empire was his anger that all seven of his siblings died. He believed he deserved the lives they did not get. Also Opium would be nothing without Poppies so to support my shield I used Poppy Flowers. Notice that there are seven flowers supporting the shield, each of the flowers represents a sibling he lost. The smallest flower represents the sister he had that throughout the story El Patrón said died of typhoid and was barely tall enough to see over the windowsill “no, not even on tiptoe”. The crest and crown of my shield are meant to resemble El Patrón himself. In english El Patrón means the boss, to
To take the scorpion metaphor deeper I think that El Patrón captures his prey much like a scorpion. He takes them in and like a scorpion he injects them with poison. In his case the poison is turning them into eejits and/or ruining their lives by never letting them go. El Patrón believed that he deserved his siblings lives so he takes others in return. The main element on my shield is a drop of poison coming from the scorpion tail. It represents El Patrón’s wrath that fuels his empire. The colors of my shield are black, Gray, red, and white. The dark red represents El Patrón’s rage, anger, leadership, longing, malice, and wrath. The black represents his power, death he caused, and pure evil. The used the gray to represent the poison and actually means isolation. The poison of El Patrón is often just separating the from the rest of the world. The gray is sitting on white which we all know stands for innocence and purity. The shield shows the buildup of innocent lives that El Patrón takes by “poisoning them”. The motto I used for El Patrón’s Empire is “Sus Vidas Son Mis Vidas”. In english this says “their lives are my lives”. Going back to the “stolen lives of his siblings” this represents their lives being