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Having drawn heimdall wanted to draw his nine maiden mothers, the billow maidens, daughters of Ran and Aegir.
My versions are Nonuplets, all identical except their hair and eye colours, (impossible in humans but among the magic wielding races your hair and eye colour is more often determined by the colour of the branch of magic you will develop an affinity for than it is a result of genetics. aka my excuse for almost none of Odin and frigg's kids share their hair or eye colour, cos I don't wanna draw everyone with the same hair and eye colour I would get bored so fast XD) being so many of them Aegir found it quite hard to connect with his daughters, this was made even harder when they turned 10 and learnt to shift their hair and eye colours to look like each other. They thought it funny to play tricks on their father so he would think he was getting to know one and connecting with them only to find out he's been having conversations with several daughters masquerading as one. This left Aegir very confused and sadly he never managed to really get to know any of his daughters properly- They in turn thought the fact he couldn't tell them apart proved he didn't really understand them (their mother Ran can always tell them apart even when they swap hair and eye colours) convincing them that all men are foolish and only pay attention to whats on the surface.
They all work with their mother in her mission to drown as many seafarers as possible, especially fishermen, as they see them as a threat to their beloved ocean.
It was to help them in this work that they created heimdall. (all are witches like their mother) The intended him to be a construct, a being of pure magic that mimics life but is incapable of independent thought or emotion, they all put their hair into the making spell and this was why it didn't work as planned. When one person makes a construct they must put some of their DNA in to bind it to them, but when multiple people put their DNA into a construct the combination of DNA makes it closer to a real living thing almost but not really like a child of the 2 or more people that made it. (this is more or less why humans which were made of magic are real living things not just mindless constructs, but we're a little more complex cos we were originally carved out of wood which is a living thing so further altered the spell) Essentially the billow maidens assumed cos they were identical twins, ie same DNA, they assumed it would work like one person making a construct except because they all put something in the construct would be bound to obey all of them. But the magic recognized them as separate people in spite of identical DNA so instead of a mindless soldier they got a little baby. Heimdall. They decided not to let this ruin their plans and basically raised him as if he were a mindless soldier making every effort to crush any hint of personality free will or individuality and teaching him these things were evil and a symptom of his wrongness that he must overcome. Hence his HUGE issues and firmly held belief he is not a real person.
They gave their construct real good eyesight to help them spot the fishermen but since however good your eyesight visibility ion the sea will always be limited they focused more on giving the construct incredible hearing so he could hear anyone that entered the ocean. For a long time they used Heimdall as a tool to help them kill and he hated it and eventually couldn't take it anymore and ran away, but he had no idea how to live his life without someone ordering him around so he went to Asgard to offer his services to Odin, a King he wanted to serve. Odin did his best to persuade him to learn to be a person but it didn't go massively well.

If anyone actually read all that please let me know in the comments so I can thank you
What I do is I make up a load of nonsense cos it sounds fun,. I then spend a real long time inventing a whole load of rules and backstory to try to make sense of the nonsense

Also had to do this digitally cos no way am drawing the same head 9 times XD

Description
Having drawn heimdall wanted to draw his nine maiden mothers, the billow maidens, daughters of Ran and Aegir.
My versions are Nonuplets, all identical except their hair and eye colours, (impossible in humans but among the magic wielding races your hair and eye colour is more often determined by the colour of the branch of magic you will develop an affinity for than it is a result of genetics. aka my excuse for almost none of Odin and frigg's kids share their hair or eye colour, cos I don't wanna draw everyone with the same hair and eye colour I would get bored so fast XD) being so many of them Aegir found it quite hard to connect with his daughters, this was made even harder when they turned 10 and learnt to shift their hair and eye colours to look like each other. They thought it funny to play tricks on their father so he would think he was getting to know one and connecting with them only to find out he's been having conversations with several daughters masquerading as one. This left Aegir very confused and sadly he never managed to really get to know any of his daughters properly- They in turn thought the fact he couldn't tell them apart proved he didn't really understand them (their mother Ran can always tell them apart even when they swap hair and eye colours) convincing them that all men are foolish and only pay attention to whats on the surface.
They all work with their mother in her mission to drown as many seafarers as possible, especially fishermen, as they see them as a threat to their beloved ocean.
It was to help them in this work that they created heimdall. (all are witches like their mother) The intended him to be a construct, a being of pure magic that mimics life but is incapable of independent thought or emotion, they all put their hair into the making spell and this was why it didn't work as planned. When one person makes a construct they must put some of their DNA in to bind it to them, but when multiple people put their DNA into a construct the combination of DNA makes it closer to a real living thing almost but not really like a child of the 2 or more people that made it. (this is more or less why humans which were made of magic are real living things not just mindless constructs, but we're a little more complex cos we were originally carved out of wood which is a living thing so further altered the spell) Essentially the billow maidens assumed cos they were identical twins, ie same DNA, they assumed it would work like one person making a construct except because they all put something in the construct would be bound to obey all of them. But the magic recognized them as separate people in spite of identical DNA so instead of a mindless soldier they got a little baby. Heimdall. They decided not to let this ruin their plans and basically raised him as if he were a mindless soldier making every effort to crush any hint of personality free will or individuality and teaching him these things were evil and a symptom of his wrongness that he must overcome. Hence his HUGE issues and firmly held belief he is not a real person.
They gave their construct real good eyesight to help them spot the fishermen but since however good your eyesight visibility ion the sea will always be limited they focused more on giving the construct incredible hearing so he could hear anyone that entered the ocean. For a long time they used Heimdall as a tool to help them kill and he hated it and eventually couldn't take it anymore and ran away, but he had no idea how to live his life without someone ordering him around so he went to Asgard to offer his services to Odin, a King he wanted to serve. Odin did his best to persuade him to learn to be a person but it didn't go massively well.

If anyone actually read all that please let me know in the comments so I can thank you
What I do is I make up a load of nonsense cos it sounds fun,. I then spend a real long time inventing a whole load of rules and backstory to try to make sense of the nonsense

Also had to do this digitally cos no way am drawing the same head 9 times XD