This page gathers the stories and images of the legendary holy deer who have transcended their mortal status and have officially become either Sants or demi gods themselves, still serving under the Cosmic Deer but also having found their own following thanks to heroic actions and martyrdom.
Saint Baffino
The First Martyr
Baffino is the first deer Saint we came across, after stumbling into a video recorded by a security camera right outside someone's house. The footage shows a large peaceful sleeping mule deer buck taking an adorable little nap close to a parked car near the front door. A woman comes out of the front door and starts screaming when she sees the deer, causing him to wake up startled. The woman's dog runs towards the deer, who, confused and startled by the screaming, instinctively tries defending himself from the dog with a few bonks that clearly weren't meant for harm., but self defense against what looked like a sudden threat.
The woman reacts by screaming even louder, and proceeding to hit the deer multiple times with her purse. After just a few seconds the deer is seen calming down, but the woman keeps screaming. After a little longer, the deer goes away. Not only this asshole startled and then attacked a completely harmless deer, when the situation could have been resolved perfectly peacefully, but because Baffino defended himself it was decided he had to be tracked and put down. A few days later Baffino was found and killed.
This innocent's death was not appreciated by the Cosmic Deer, who recognized Baffino's sacrifice as proof of mankind's cruelty and stupidity. Baffino was given the title of Saint and came back to life in the dimension inhabited by the Cosmic Deer, where he watches over the good bleaters on Earth trying to protect them from the insane actions of evil humans.
Baffino the Heroic Donkey
The name Baffino was chosen at the moment of the deer's coronation to honor another beloved martyr blessed by the Cosmic Deer more than a hundred years prior.
Baffino was a donkey back in World War 1, who like many others was sent to the front by the Italian army to help carry supplies up the steep hills and mountains that covered the entire Italian front.
Donkeys were of vital importance for the Italian army, at a time where motorized vehicles were still in their infancy and fragile, unfit for driving in the rocky Italian front. The donkeys were cared for by specialized soldiers, picked among farmers and people who already had experience with these animals from their civilian life.
These soldiers spent their days with their hooved friends, bringing critical supplies close to the first line of trenches, where hundreds of men's lives depended on these animals.
This duty was incredibly dangerous, as supplies would constantly be targeted by enemy artillery to prevent food and ammo from reaching the front line, in a cruel tactic typical of war of attrition. The only known photo of Baffino reads: "The donkey Baffino, killed by enemy grenade at Ronchi in June 1917". Millions of animals gave their lives helping soldiers survive during the Great War, the Cosmic Deer made Baffino their patron saint to never forget their sacrifice, and his name was honored a hundred years later to name another innocent life lost at the hands of humans.
Bruiser and Knuckle Duster
Only bros, no hoes
Bruiser and Knuckle Duster are two mule deer bucks who have been spotted multiple times around Bend, Oregon. What makes these two special is their peculiar dynamic: Bruiser is a very large old muley with a huge rack, getting very close to stag territory. We think he might be around 5 years old. He's always seen laying on the grass and relaxing, usually by some shade, and always, ALWAYS next to Knuckle Duster.
Knuckle Duster is a very young buck whose antlers look like those of someone who just got out of the spike stage of development, which means he's around 2 years old. He's thin and his ears have carthilage damage causing them to be perennially lowered, making him look absolutely adorable, especially when seen next to his friend, highlighting just how large Bruiser is.
These two have always been seen together, never apart. They don't seem to hang out with other mule deer either, always finding quiet spots just for the two of them. They haven't been observed cruising for does, of which there's plenty in the area.
We like to think these two share a mentor/pupil kind of relationship, there's been cases where orphaned mule deer fawns are brought up by a completely unrelated buck, who helps the fawn survive and find a new home. It is possible these two bachelors share a relationship of this kind, having grown closer while in isolation from most of the local herds. Or they could be gay friends with benefits, which is our favorite theory.
Vincent
The Mighty King of Brownville
Vincent is a giant whitetail deer stag who lives in the Brownville deer pantry in Maine, yes, THAT pantry, the same one housing our beloved Mio. Despite living in the same herd, Mio and Vincent couldn't be more different: while Mio is a permanently angry average-looking buck Vincent is a gentle giant, he's never displaying aggressiveness to anyone, not even to little bubu deer who, not knowing how to behave properly around other deer of the herd yet, tend to invade other deer's personal spaces causing them to issue a gentle bonk to let them know not to do that, Vincent however will happily let the little babies eat right next to him, without a single care in the world, just enjoying the free food and the chill weather.
He's at least 6 years old as he was first sighted by pantry viewers in 2019, his wide rack is unmistakeable and looks similar every year. He is the largest known deer of the pantry, and given his calm demeanor we like to see him as the kind king of the pantry, nobody dares challenge him and he's as innocent and sweet as a whitetail can be. Even after losing his rack his huge size makes him very easy to spot among his friends, and luckily for us he shows up at the pantry almost every day, giving us a lot of beautiful footage of this majestic beast.
Thanks to all this he has earned himself a spot as one of the Cosmic Deer's saints, one of the few to reach this status while still alive. Much like with the ying and the yang, Vincent and Mio live together in armony as inter-connecting opposites to create a single whole where one cannot be without the other.
Smiley
The Imprisoned Elder
Few deer have suffered as much as Smiley did. Smiley was a 20 years old mule deer who was being held captive in a small confined area at the Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary in Red Lodge.
Little to nothing is known about him, except that he most likely spent the vast majority if not his entire life trapped in a cage with no other deer to socialize with, being used as a zoo animal.
There is only a single known video of Smiley, where someone who claims to be his "old friend" stands outside of his cage while talking for two minutes about the characeristics of mule deer, all while Smiley stares angrily at him from the other side, often displaying signs of aggressiveness by biting on the chain link fence with the very few teeth he has left, or rubbing his head against it.
At the time of this video Smiley was so old he couldn't grow antlers anymore, he looked thin and he could hardly chew on any food due to how few "teeth" ha had left. His behavior is not that of a happy deer seeing a trusted friend after a long time, it's the behavior of a deer who is trapped in captivity for an obscene amount of time with absolutely zero regard to his well being and happiness.
On top of all that, his name feels like a cruel joke at the hands of the reserve keepers, due to how he's always visibly upset and aggressive. Smiley is the only deer featured here who was not named by the Cosmic Deer or by us Temple members, and it shows.
We have no way of knowng what happened to Smiley before or after the video, but we can only hope that the Cosmic Deer rewarded him for his incredible reslience with the sweet relief of death, followed by a promotion to the rank of Saint in the colorful afterlife of the deer dimension, where Smiley can finally enjoy the company of many friends and enjoy food like when he was a youngling, far away from the evil claws of mankind.
We can feel reassured by knowing deer hell is not kind to the humans who treat animals the way they did with Smiley, and a lot of well lubed giant Bad Dragon toys already have their names written on them.