a precious but kind of a jerk prince.

He a proud boy

custom design for Koitalic over on Discord! ✨ especially proud of this one

the ultimate fit

do you have any thoughts on zelda not staying as a dragon? me personally I like it and am very cool with it mostly because I think zelda should get to be happy forever (and because I'm smart enough to know she changed back because of recall and not some ambiguous power of love lmao) but a lot of people seem to dislike that it made the draconification inconsequential?

i think there's like. some valid concerns surrounding inconsequentiality/"curing" the physical problems characters have as a way of giving them a "happy ending" but I think those concerns don't necessarily apply to totk in the way people seem to be applying them, especially irt zelda's draconification and link's arm.

most of the time when the criticism of this "magic cure" trope is applied to media, it's because the trope is used as a cure-all to erase a character's suffering or trauma and make them "normal" again, and often ignores the character development or themes of the story in favor of giving the character a happy ending. I don't think that applies to totk, though, because the "curing" link and zelda experience is both within the realm of possibility given the worldbuilding present in the game (recall could easily have done it, as you mentioned) AND thematically consistent with the rest of the game. One of if not the most important central themes of totk is the idea of failure and second chances. we see a hyrule that has been given a second chance after link's initial failure with the calamity brought it to the brink of destruction. we see characters who were deeply unhappy and entrenched in the shame of their precalamity mistakes like purah and zelda become active, beloved members of their communities. we see the people of lurelin village take back and rebuild their destroyed home. we watch this kingdom and its people make an unprecedented comeback after a century of struggle and ruin.

Similarly, totk's gameplay is LINK's second chance, his comeback from the initial mistake of losing zelda, of specifically being unable to reach her with his injured hand when they fell. The consequences of that--the master sword's corruption, the loss of his arm, and zelda's draconification, are all supposed to SEEM irreversible, because that's how LINK initially sees them. he believes that he doomed both himself and zelda all because of that SINGLE moment in which he wasn't enough, a viewpoint which is obviously left over from the pressure he experienced to perform to an impossible standard of perfection pre-calamity. The story of totk is about deconstructing that belief and proving it wrong. the mistake he made caused harm, but it's never too late to repair things. he can fix the regional phenomena ganondorf causes and rebuild those communities. he can revitalize the master sword. he can GET ZELDA BACK, with his own arm, uninjured and able to reach her this time. no matter how impossible those things may initially seem, no matter the perceived finality of his mistakes and their consequences, there is always hope. there is always a second chance. no one person's single mistake can doom an entire kingdom for eternity. the fate of hyrule was NEVER resting on link's shoulders alone. he was never their final hope. there was always going to be an after. the whole POINT of the draconification and the loss of link's arm is that they AREN'T final. they ARE inconsequential, because they were born of one mistake and ONE MISTAKE IS NOT THE END ALL.

To @AcThorne22 ~

Been on a updating-old-characters spree \o/ When a wealthy noble and a powerful gold dragon love each other very much... You get the very confident and vain Draconic Sorcerer, Lyric! (My take on a half dragonborn~)

caw 🦅

The Beast of Revelation

Taking a quick break from my boop madness to post some art of my gal Lemon! She's a highborn elf who ran away from home after her draconic sorcery manifested, and is being a bit of a chaos agent for the dragon her bloodline is aligned with. She and her pals took down a corrupt local lord and now she's a puppet-governor until their noble benefactor can find a useful replacement! :D

A fun modern outfit Tiefling Durge commission! 💖💖

Finally finished it! All up this only took 6 hours but the last hour took me like a week bc of procrastination XD

But I’ve pushed through and my friend is very happy with it so I’m sharing their favourite version <3

Hope y’all enjoy it as much as I did💥💥💥🐖

Companion.

My beautiful Tav - Ceridwen

She is naturally modded but I think she's positively lovely :)

We are finally in Act 3 and are Romancing Halsin. The long wait sucked but Gods was it worth it! :)

this is about my dragonborn wereboar