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candy8448 · 5 months

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It is done!

I've finally completed many month (maybe even over a year) mission of listening to all the zelda OSTs in release order (now it did take ages cuz i would spend forever between each ost and the longer ones would take so long to get through)

I compiled all my favorite tracks into one massive playlist, as well as covers that i like!

Now i am going to go over each ost and say my thoughts on them! Ill also be mentioning one or two tracks from each game that were really notable for me

(I didn't listen to Twilight princess or Spirit tracks because i dont want spoilers for when i play them)

The legend of Zelda:

The ost for this game is 9 mins long, drastic difference to totk with many MANY hours of music

Obviously a classic, the overworld theme. I really like the "game over" theme, its nice but the ringing of the NES boops hurts my ears so much

Adventure of Link:

I really like the final dungeon theme and the battle theme, so good to just jam to

A Link to the past:

Not much to say here, it set a bunch of classics, dark world theme is super good though and the great fairy fountain theme will always be welcome whenever i hear it, either as the great fairy or as the title screen (tbh i prefer it more as the title screen theme) and the title screen theme! When that bursts out i wanna scream, It fills me with so much nostalgia for this series as a whole

Link's awakening:

Now this one is difficult, because this game is my favorite game out of the games i haven't played just plot wise, but for some reason listening to the music was just super tiring for no reason. Now i was listening to the gameboy version but i tried the swith version and it was also tiring and tedious to listen to?? Im going to go through the switch version ost at some point in time.

You can never go wrong with tal tal hights though, and the ballad of the windfish is just 😭

Ocarina of time:

Im afraid to say anything on it because of the fans of it XD i did play a tiny bit of the game but got to Zora's domain as a child and stopped

Obviously it has a great soundtrack, it has a ton more classics like gerudo valley and such. I like Sheik's theme. The fire temple i am aware is controversial and i think that's the reason it makes me so unnerved when i listen to either version of it

My absolute favorite though is Song of storms (or windmill hut). The first time i heard it, it just stuck with me and i am taken in by it, it luls me, its like magic, im enraptured by it. I don't know what it is about this 20 second theme but i can listen to this on repeat for hours, its one of the first things i learned on piano, when i played the game i just stood in the windmil hut for ages. Such a good track...

Majora's mask:

SUCH an earie ost! I have been wanting to play this game forever. The vibes the ost is just perfect for this game. Clock town is obviously good and its cool how it gets more and more frantic as time goes on, you really feel like time is running out. Overall i think the whole soundtrack does amazingly at embodying this idea.

Oracle of Ages and Seasons:

The two tracks are very similar rhat i can't eeally do these two games separately. For some reason i have a bias towards seasons despite not playing either or really knowing the story??

I love that seasons has song of storms (for some reason), skull pirate's escape is good (oos), ambi's place (ooa) noice, Nayru's song is so nice, and i adore the "Zelda awakens" theme that's in both of them

I love how the tracks for these went back to the boopy style, it makes the themes just has a certain feel that i cannot put words to that feels so right. I have the feeling that when i play these games im going to have a great time with them

Wind waker:

Tbh, not for me, the style of the music is just not the kind of thing i like. Doesnt mean it doesnt have really good tracks though!! Cannot go wrong with dragon roost and i do like a track that i cannot remember the name of (but tbh that is just mostly because i really like the beat) and the Great Sea sailing theme does sound so freeing, you can feel the wind in your hair with that track. Its just that the rest of the music style is just not something i dig so much, its just a personal opinion.

Four swords:

I forgot about this game, and could not recall the ost at all. Had to open sime tracks again to listen to and tbh all i can say is... meh? The ost isn't too great... gotta give it credit for it's version of the overworld theme thoug, possibly one of the better different renditions?

Minish cap:

A cute little game, dont remember much of the soundtrack but i have quite a few saved from it so it must count for something, and i really like the "story" theme whenever i hear it and Mt. Crenel is okay

Phantom hourglass:

Again, it has a similar style to wind waker and i didn't really like it. Linebeck's theme though, what a wonderful character! ("Return of the Ocean King" is also decent)

Spirit tracks:

I did not listen to this soundtrack but the ost is just *chefs kiss* from the ones ive heard. The tracks "the sacred duet" and "battle with king Malladus" are the tracks that made me desperately want to play this game and i am still longing to play it because of these two tracks. I love how throughout the Malladus battle theme there is the constant chugging of the train on the track. I have no doupt that the rest of the ost will be this amazing. (The title theme is perfect, you really feel like you are on a racing train) ive since listened to "in the fields" and ooooooh i love ittttt i so cannot wait to play this game!

Skyward sword:

Man you KNOW i can ramble about this forever. My favorite Zelda game! I cannot put into words how much this game's ost makes me feel all of the emotions in the world, i can only list a few tracks that make me feel so much oooough

Ballad of the goddess (obviously), Romance in the air makes me all fluttery and happy, skyloft theme always feels like home, any version of fi's theme puts me in tears, Groose's theme he is such a silly guy, the loftwing flying theme is so nostalgic, Ghirahim's theme is so menacing, all the Lanayru tracks have such a certain zen feel, silent realm theme's have such a frantic echoey empty perfect feel to them which fit so well, and the guardians awaken theme will make me have a heart attack, and the song of the hero has so many feelings ive talked about before, so much that this track alone made me make a painting for the scene.

This game just stepped into another feel of zelda music with the orchestra, and it captures the grandios of this big, timeline setting adventure so amazingly. I cannot get enough of this game. Arguably one of the best Zelda OSTs in my opinion.

A Link between worlds:

Such a good ost in this game. Dunno what i can say apart for it is one of the better ost's in the series for some tracks alone. Ravio's theme, Hilda's theme, Yuga's theme, Lorule overworld, all the milkbar tracks (the fact that there is also ballad of the godess in there makes me so happy as well), so much of the game's ost is so good!

Triforce heroes:

Such a surprisingly great ost for a game that sounds so much like a fever dream. The main theme?!?!? The woodlands?!?!?!?!? I cannot stop listening to these two such a bop, go listen to them!

Breath of the wild:

Botw has no music???? What the heck???

The tracks are so good! Even all the ambient piano flourishes! It fits the atmosphere so well, but you've probably heared people saying all this before so onto some of my favorite tracks

All the champion's themes fit each one so well, main theme cannot not be good, i lobe how Tarrey Town's theme builds up with each character's home town. The divine beast themes are really cool sounding. Parasailing minigame theme is so fun! Guardian theme will also give me a heart attack, the memory get jingle, i miss Kass and his music so much, Korok forest is so :D, HYRULE CASTLE IS SO GOOD OH MY i love the marching feel. Dark. Beast. Ganon. THIS THEME IS CRAZY BRO that piano!??!!?? All the everything going together?!??!!? This fight may be a victory lap and super easy but it sure as hell has some fire music!!!

Tears of the kingdom:

I finally finished this ost today. It reuses a lot from botw, and tbh it is a little dissapointing how none of the village themes changed even if it does feel safe and familiar, and the surface is largely the exact same even though it is where we spend so much of our time.

There are obviously amazing tracks original to this game though. The main theme was so amazing to hear in full after so long of waiting! So was the prologue theme ("poor Hyrule, for Link has found the body" remember that???) All the dungeon themes have me in awe alongside the sage themes. Each one just fills me with so much ough. The dungeons and their themes were definatly a massive step up from the previous game. I ranked all the sage themes before in another post and go deeper into each one. Link humming while cooking is so cute! The big "BWAAA" when diving into the depths feels so cool and creepy. One of my favorite details is that in the forgotten temple, next to the goddess statue you can hear a broken up version of Fi's theme which im so happy for the sksw ref! It also supports my favorite hc that the forgotten temple is the sealed grounds from sksw! (As well as the reward you get fron that quest but we aren't talking abiut that)

!!!!End spoilers next!!!!!

In the lead up to the final dive into ganondorf's army, the track reminds me of Skyrim and it really does not fit in Zelda. I feel like they shouldn't have used that track. Ganondorf's fight theme is so cool, how at first it is quiet to just hear you two dueling in an echoey room and them builds up. AND HOW CAN YOU FORGET THE FINAL FALL?!?!?!? Such a PERFECT END its amazing how is blends so smoothly to create the perfect scene, all your emotions building up to the end!!! Such a perfect ending to the game. All the music in the end sequence in the Hyrule castle chasm really does do an amazing job of dialing up and down the tension and emotions at the right moments and building up everything until the very end when the credits start rolling.

Overall the ost is great considering all the new tracks!

So that is all the games (other than tp and st)!

Now on to all of the non-cannon games! 🥲

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changeling-rin · 1 year

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Gerudo here, you've mentioned magic systems and magic branches, I'm curious as to how this all works?

It's entirely my own ideas and headcanons. To my knowledge, none of it is actually in the franchise aside from the Branches of Magic as a general thing

My theory goes: there are six Branches of Magic, these being Light, Shadow, Forest, Water, Fire, and Spirit. All magic in Hyrule falls into one of these six Branches, and can be further broken into subsets or specialties. For example, sealing and blessing both fall under the Light Magic Branch, but a sealing specialist will struggle to bestow a strong blessing simply because they haven't practiced it. They can still bless, because it's Light Magic, but they're not good at it the way they're good at sealing. This also works in the other direction, and there are of course Light Magic generalists.

There cannot, however, be a mage who dabbles in all six Branches. It's just not possible. The Branches have a sort of checks-and-balances system, and there will always be one that trumps another. This system goes thusly: Fire beats Forest, Forest beats Spirit, Spirit beats Light, Light beats Shadow, Shadow beats Water, Water beats Fire. You can also think of it in terms of an immunity, or at least a resistance, in that Shadow has a hard time affecting Light for example. Light resists, or is all but immune, to Shadow. So on and thus forth.

To get even more complicated, there are also varying levels of effectiveness within the system. Forest, for example, is rather good against Water - it will do increased damage and take decreased damage when in a battle setting. It's much less effective against Light; where Light has a significant advantage, Forest does much less damage, and takes a fair amount more.

It is possible to split one's focus between Branches, but it's tricky. Mages choosing to learn two Branches are usually considered to be either incredibly gifted, overachievers, or both. Learning three Branches, while technically possible, is basically unheard of. Anything beyond three is literally impossible, both from a physical and magical standpoint.

As a point of interest, Wind is one of the aforementioned Dual-Branch mages, because weather magic is a very complex sub-combination of the Fire and Water Branches. This is yet another reason why weather mages are so rare, on top of all the music and meteorology and aptitude complications. Of course this does mean that Wind is very firmly locked into his two Branches and will quite literally never be able to do anything else, magic-wise, but wow is he good at his specialization

Somewhat less interesting is that all people have a predisposition for a specific Branch, which is sometimes determined by hereditary genetic inheritance and sometimes determined by complete random whim. An example of the former would be any Princess Zelda, for whom Light Magic runs in the family. An example of the latter would be Mask and Ocarina having a natural gift for Spirit Magic despite being raised Kokiri (who as a whole tend to be more in line with the Forest Branch). One can choose to learn a different Branch than what you would be naturally inclined towards, but most people don't bother once they figure out their affinity. It's a lot more work, for one.

It should be noted that no single Branch is inherently good or evil. Magic just is. A Light Mage can absolutely use their sealing abilities for something like taking hostages, and a Shadow Mage could just as easily use their shadow-travel to provide transportation services to the general public. This unfortunately doesn't stop people from forming prejudices against one such Branch or another, but this is how people have always been and likely always will be. Fire can be used to provide warmth or to burn homes. Water can be used to grow food or to drown a victim. It all depends on how the mage is using it.

...I wonder if I ought to make a chart?

#Changeling Answers #DL Questions #Anonymous Replies #Gerudo Anon #Hyrulean Magic Branches #Forest #Water #Fire #Spirit #Shadow #Light #this got really long and really in-depth #in my defense I have an entire worldview about Hyrulean Magic

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hisuianhellion · 4 months

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//Top ten other Zelda characters you would like to see as fallers? Asking for a friend

((... oh dear christ this is gonna be a THING HUH??? Okay uh... hmm.

Let me be frank. I'm biased here. I like characters with a lotta pull in the plot. Side-characters... nnnyeh, not so much? So I hope this list includes someone you've been thinkin' about. Also this list is not in order. I would love any of the below... okay maybe Linebeck, Navi or Skull Kid are at the lowest priority but I just wrote these as they came to my mind I'm sorry--

Tulin. My boy. Tulin. My son. Tulin. I love this child with my whole heart and the BOY is my BOY and this BOY is the BOOOOOY. He would do so damn good in a Pokemon setting. My only gripe is that he'd kiiiinda prolly not be all that happy. Unless he ended up with Link/Lianka. He'd be chill then.

Revali. However. This has a giant asterisk attached: because there's ALREADY A REVALI BLOG. So I can and will suggest they smash into each other at mach 3 and make things start happening. If there wasn't? I would put him at 1. No joke. Him and Lianka being actual rivals would be fantastic, genuinely, it would fit so PERFECTLY. He's honestly my favorite of the four Champions... at least the Japanese characterization of him that isn't... kind of a dick, the localization team did him a bit dirty imo.....

Ganondorf. This man... this goddamn man. He just steals the show any game he's in, doesn't he? Ocarina of Time? A basic interpretation, but a THREATENING one. Wind Waker? THE HIGHLIGHT. OF. THE GAME. Twilight Princess? Shows up at the VERY END and proves he is every bit the force he's portrayed as (final boss being cheeseable notwithstanding). Tears of the Kingdom? My fuckin' guy. My. Fucking. GUY. HE KICK... SO MUCH ASS........... perfect villain blog character, GOD he'd be so good.

Ganondorf, but NOT EVIL. Or, perhaps, reformed in some way! I want you to blame Growing Up Gerudo for me becoming enamored with the idea of a Ganondorf that breaks the cycle of hatred Demise forced upon him. The internal AND external turmoil that could cause, the feeling of loathing for himself and those that harmed him at odds. My man in Wind Waker wasn't as clear-cut as you think. He WAS evil, despite the "coveting that wind" excuse he gave. But what if he was being SINCERE--

Navi. She deserves a chance. She does! Don't you tell me she doesn't! She is not annoying, she was their very first attempt at a companion that could help! My girl got done dirty by the fanbase and if she ended up capable of being a Trainer or Eebydeebied and needed some help? I'd be all for that. Girl's a floating encyclopedia anyhow, she'd be perfect for Pokedex research.

Skull Kid. POST-MAJORA'S MASK. Let them have their character development. They are allowed a happy ending as a treat, okay? Besides! We already have a "Shady Mask Anon", so like... c'mon. It fits better than you think.

Linebeck. The sniveling, cowardly "real man of the seas" himself. My guy is absolutely deserving of a good, great, FANTASTIC delve into potentially no longer being a sniveling, cowardly, actual real man of the seas. Prolly in Hoenn, considering things!

Urbosa. If I had to pick a non-Rito champion, her. OR... OOOOOORRRRRR... for much the same reason?

Riju. Both of these girls deserve all the time in the limelight, and I adore both of them as characters. Strong, commanding women with literal lightning powers? H'oh. They can kick SO much ass.

Tetra. My favorite Zelda. The game did her dirty by shafting her into a role of just being a damsel in distress the moment she learned who she was. She deserves to be a fuckin' Pirate Queen. She deserves every damn chance to be a swashbuckling, secretly caring, absolute badass of a hero as much as anyone else.))

#Anonymous #outofroses

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lunchcase · 5 months

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Pumpkin Soup with Ground Bacon

Location: International restaurant, Melia Jardines Del Rey

Somehow, with no bacon bits in sight, the orange stuffless soup has bacon flavour in it, mixed with a creamy pumpkin flavour. Texture wise it isn’t that creamy - more clear than cream, but it’s like you can taste the creamy thickness instead?

The cream cheese soup I forgot to take a photo of that I had two nights ago was similarly interesting, in that it was cheese soup that felt creamy and clear at the same time. This place has some wild textures. Vicosity.

This is the last of my drinks posts in Cuba, and it seems off to end on formless pumpkin and bacon soup, clash of two titans and specialty of nowhere, but all things end not bittersweet but savoury, I guess? So lets be sentimental with this faintly unappetizing photo of pumpkin soup.

This is what I've learned. When a Victorian-era doctor prescribes seaside habitation for feminine lassitude, that is incredibly valid (don't @ me). The sea and sun is unfortunately a privilege, which is criminal because it's rejuvenating. For me, at least. Past Casey scoffed at the idea of just sitting on a beach doing nothing. Certainly it must be boring after some time, she thought. Past Casey is naïve and a fool. A naive fool. A moron, if you will. Post-beach bask Casey knows better and understands the healing power of Doing Nothing, Basking Under the Sun, Sea Breeze and Ocean Waves Flowing through a body like wind through an ocarina making music. Appealing to all senses. I am calm.

Looking out into the ocean at night as indiscernible dark waves crash into each other and lap the shore, the picture of paradise abruptly and jarringly now an entrance to the underworld, I understood a second thing: the reverence and sheer fear the mass of water elicits from any kind of sailor. Even on the shore, the waves illuminated by the uninhibited moon, I felt a panic grab me. What's the word? Sublime terror? A leviathan, vast, drowning, deep set bone chill awe? To be lost in the complete darkness of a continental watery grave; I too would pray to all the gods and speak of the ocean as a lover I hope will be kind.

An observation: it's quite clear who is a tourist and who is not when we were at the city of Moron, the nearest city to the resort. Mostly, the general tourist is white, and they receive nary a glance from the locals except by the most entrepreneurial among them. The white gaze, in this case, treats everything as part of the vacation experience. For my friend and I, who are not white and therefore not the standard tourist but an emerging other breed who travel with less geographic reservations inherent in previous generations of our kind, we are a sight as exotic as they are to us. Their gaze followed us as we roamed, curious and unfamiliar as they were to us. A mutual touristing moment. People came up to us. Two separate unrelated individuals at two distinct times of day asked us where we were staying, that they worked at that resort, today was their day off, and their daughter was born just yesterday - "congratulations to all the new born daughters," - so have you got anything to give her? Money, preferably, but she'd also probably like chocolate. Can newborns eat chocolate, I asked, and they shrugged and said why not? I didn't have chocolate or anything really on my person, because I didn't come from the circles where such travelling tidbits were exchanged, so I didn't prepare anything, sorry. I heard an old-but-not-quite-elderly white couple mention how they brought their family to the resorts here every year, though, and now that their kids flown the nest they come themselves, so maybe try them, with the know-how. Good luck, with you and your daughter and again you and your daughter. We walked a little faster.

#pumpkin soup with bacon #pumpkin soup #pumpkin #bacon #cuba #vegetables #soup #drinks #cuba 2022 #9.11.2022 #8:13pm #share bear #vegetable #2022 #text

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anxious-art-block · 2 years

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LU Headcanons Part 3: I Thought of These While Watching Baymax

SCOTTISH LEGEND

“Aye.” “Wur youse vaccinated wi’ a gramophone needle?!” “A wee devil more like.” “Yer aff yer heid, Wild.” “It’s pure dead brilliant!” “She was a bonnie lass…” “Speak O’ the Devil.” “Aye right!” “Moan fur a wee drink, Cap’n?”

My grandfather is Scottish so these are things I’ve ACTUALLY heard him say

Also, her Hylian is based on Gàidhlig to further prove this

Vegetarian Sky

When the Chain is on Tetra’s ship for the first time, Wind gathers the crew into singing The Wellerman

When Four is arguing with someone he stands on the nearest stump, table, or chair to reach their height or taller. He needs to assert dominance.

While they all have their “Titles” since they’re all named Link, how ‘bout some nicknames?

Twilight: Cub/Rancher/Twi Time: Dad/Old Man/Sir Wild: Pup/Gremlin/Champion/Princess Wind: Sailor/Young One/Ghostie Four: Smithy/Munchkin/Artificer Warriors: Captain/Princey/Pretty Boy/Wars Legend: Vetertan/A Sheòid [by Ravio]/Honeybee [by Ravio] Hyrule: Traveler/Roolie/Buttercup Sky: Angel/Darling [by Sun]/Hero

Twi’s Hylian is based on Chinese [I like the idea of him singing Yours Forever from Over the Moon about Midna ;-;]

Legend just… doesn’t mention that he’s the prince of his Hyrule. Like it literally just slips his mind until they’re there and he talks to Fable and it just slips out, and he’s like “oh did I not mention that?”

Obviously, due to the number of musical instruments, challenges, and quests in the Zelda universe, people have given their HCs about the boys’ musical talents, so here’s my 2 cents:

Fuck the idea that having the hero's spirit also means being tone-deaf, what about the Chain being able to sing and the ZELDAS CAN’T

TAKE THAT HYLIA

Hyrule doesn’t sing a lot, it would draw too much attention in his Hyrule so he chooses not to, but he has a very haunting air to his voice [I use Ashley Serena as a reference to how he would sound] and sounds lovely when he does

And because of his travels, he’s a very good dancer! Like, REALLY good. He learned all sorts of stuff from the places he’s been, and simply enjoys doing it which only made the skill grow

TWILIGHT SOUNDS LIKE JEON JUNGKOOK

It was first discovered that he could sing so well when he was about 13 when he was on the ranch just singing aloud to the goats and Ilia heard him and told e v e r y o n e

Legend has a smooth and deep voice, can sing in like 6 different languages, and can play like every instrument invented

Srsly u could probably give it a brand new one and would probably pick it up within like a minute

Warriors: This piano costs more than your house

I will continue to draw Twi in JKs outfits, so feel free to drop me ones u wanna see him in [like send an ask or smth]

Anyway

Time and Malon will make little duets often, with him on his ocarina and her singing, or them both singing just cause they love each other *sobs*

Ok enough music stuff on to the shit y’all care about

Wild and Flora were goofing off and trying on each other’s royal dress and guard uniform then looked in the mirror and both just kinda went “Oh.”

This is me saying they’re both trans [icons]

I really like the nicknames thing for the Chain & Co. so my idea is that Wild calls themselves that even after the journey, and that their Zelda ditches the name ‘Zelda’ and changes it to Florian

“So, what’s your Princess Zelda like?” “Oh, I don’t have a Princess Zelda.” “???” “No, I have a Prince Florian.”

I also demand - platonic or romantic - that we keep the absolute CHAOS that those two have

LITERALLY TRIED TO MAKE WILD EAT A FROG IN CANON WHERE IS THAT ENERGY Y’ALL

W H E R E I S I T

Gives Wild his old royal dress and Wild cries

Twilight has really sharp K9s [c’mon there had to be SOME side effects to being a wolf for a while]

And is secretly a cat person

Four loves Wild’s Hyrule ‘cause of the surplus of minerals and mining

Time calls the Chain “His boys”

Sky will take random sticks or logs he finds and carve small designs into them when he’s bored, as well as idly strumming his lyre

You're welcome

#linked universe #lu #linked universe headcanons #lu wild #lu warriors #lu time #lu twilight #lu legend #lu hyrule #lu sky #lu wind #lu four #lu incorrect quotes

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bloobluebloo · 8 months

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Well I feel like ToTK basically further confirms that we have never gotten, nor are we going to get another Ganon like we did in Ocarina of Time. That was the perfect and definitive Ganon on so many levels and everything else somehow fails to surpass him.

It's funny because a lot of people are under the impression that OoT Ganondorf is an Evil McEvil type which, on the surface he is. However, what I love about OoT is that it leaves so much history and clues throughout the game that you can pretty much deduce why Hyrule could have produced such an insane man. It just goes to show that environmental clues can do a great job at building up a character. You learn that his mothers were these ancient witches who were practitioners of dark magic! You learn that he was a king of a tribe of women and almost treated like a god! Now you have an idea of why he is so powerful and so entitled! Then you learn that there was a civil war! That the other tribes of Hyrule were afforded gifts by the Royal Family! That the Hylians are regarded as favored by the gods and the Gerudo are viewed as suspicous and evil! You learn about the evil of the Shadow Temple, and that there were people researching the control of time that killed themselves so they would not be forced to share their information with Ganondorf! No wonder he hates this world! Of course, I think every Ganondorf has his story to tell in the game he appears in. I have talked a lot about FSA Ganondorf, about Wind Waker Ganondorf and TP Ganondorf. And, to be fair, TotK Ganondorf has his own strong points too though I feel they weren't fleshed out as much. I also find it incredibly interesting that many, many people default to explaining TotK Ganondorf as being the rebirth of the curse of Demise, even though the game doesn't say as much. This just tells me one thing; if you have to default to the villain of a different game to explain the motivations of the villain in the current game, then I do believe that there is a problem.

#ganonthots

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tv-gh0st · 9 months

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Damnit i made a new au

guess what time it is

time for

✨My own Links meet au!✨

and the zeldas meet up to!

ive got an idea for story but jts a little bit to much like Lu for my liking so i am currently editing it and will be posted hopefully soon!!

zeldas will also get designs to ima be focusing on this whole au to actually cas aprently my hiatus is over ill be working on other aus from time to time but theres alot to do for this and i am bery exited!! ill be making a master post once i post some more stuff im really exited!!

bellow the cut is my current designs for Links(no full body drawings yet cas there are 14 links ad 15 zeldas i need to draw and i am not dealinf with that shit today)

Before the split

Sky

skyward sword Link

20 years old

first chosen hero

forged the master sword

dating Sun(his zelda)

always looks like hes gonna fall asleep

very expressive

Minish

Minish cap

17 years old

can be small like minish

the smith kf the group

Social anxiety

lets the minish do his hair!

Fallen hero Timeline

Four

four swords

Four swords adventure

18 years old

the colors sre very separated

others only think hes a little crazy talking to himself

Oracal

Ages

Seasons

Links awakening

"Collector"

17 years old

keeps a flower in memory of Marin

learned how to braid his hair from her to and keeps it like that

has alot of shit

Worlds

A link to the past

a link between worlds

triforce heros

princy

technicly a prince cas of fabel(Zelda and his sister)

bunn boi

his colors blended much easier

Hyrule

the legends of zelda

links adventures

travler

16 years old

also alot of items

gets lost easily especially with the weird geographical part of the merge

very curious

Child timeline

Twilight

twilight princess

Farmer/Wolfie

19 yo

has a wolf tail and wont explain why or how he got it

can control when he comes wolfie usually but sometimes when they move around he just is wolfie and cant become hylian

big brother energy

Babys litterly any one whos younger then him even if its just by a year(Wild and Time do count cas of there weird ages)

Warriors

Hyrule Warriors

captin

23 years old

did cry over his scarf once

big brother energy aswell but in a funner "you were supposed to watch over the,! But no one was put to watch over me!" Kinda vibe

knew wind and mask before but they didnt know him its weirddddddd

mentioned minda and marin and others lost thrre shit

Age

Age of calamity

champion

17 years old

gravitates twords Warriors

Might have acidently been the start of a new split in the timeline no one actually knows where age sits exept hes on the child timeline

Wild

Breath of the wild

Tears of the kingdom

Archerer

Wonderer

keeps the arm and the sages idc how totk ends

physically hes like 20 ish chronologically hes 121 mentally hes like 17 years old

can cook wonderfully

eats randome shit for fun

is a lik shit

is very loyal but definitely took alot to get that loyal

is extremely weirded out bt Age

Adult timeline

Wind

Wind waker

Phantome Hourglass

Sailor

14 years old

has tetras bandanna

thinks the green heros tunic is dorky as fuck snd hates the hat

has tried to shoot every link out of a cannon that hes had the opportunity to with wavering success

is gonna fo bat shit crazy/ good way

Spirit

Spirit tracks

Conductor

15 years old

very done with ur shit at all times

i dont think he knows what color is(wears alot of fucking grey)

Likes wind tolerates the others

is gonna go bat shit crazy/ bad way

And ofcourse Time and Mask

Time

Ocarina of time

18 years old

mentally 9-10 years old

doesnt actually know how to read

from adult timeline

friends with Malon

socially akward mess

Mask

Ocarina of Time

Majoras Mask

11 years old

tired of everyones shit

in denial of all this timeline merging stuff

Thats all the Links!

Master post here!(coming soon) Zeldas prt 1 here! Zeldas prt 2(Coming soon)

#loz #my art #my artwrok #my au #loz au #loz art #legend of zelda fanart #legend of zelda au #please repost #digital art

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star-ocean-peahen · 2 years

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check out the rest of my AU, Legacy of a Millennia, with the #legacy of a millennia tag!

Time to talk about Stella. Remember last time I explained very poorly that before Shei died he split the goddess-blood essence into six pieces, five of which scattered across Hyrule and the remaining one he gave to Stella?

Yeah that's because Stella is going to become the Princess Zelda figure for the rest of the game. The quests of the second half of the story (after Shei dies) deal with hunting down the split pieces of the goddess-blood essence and recombining them with Stella as their bearer in order to defeat Ganon.

(Side note: the reason Shei had to manually give it to her is because the goddess-blood essence has always been passed down by blood, but Shei is the last living descendant of the goddess, so it would have nowhere to go unless he did the impossible and designated a new host/bearer. Also he believed in her and knew she could do it and all that jazz because he was the main catalyst for her arc of learning how to be a person and break free from Ganon's intentions and this is supposed to be his last act toward that end which will be fulfilled in a huge way that i will show in a moment.)

The goddess-blood essence contains the imprints of its past holders, and the more powerful/remembered/consequential the bearer was, the more predominant their imprint will be. Basically I'm saying that the five different pieces of the goddess-blood essence are cameos by past famous Zeldas.

We have the Essence of the Sky (Skyward Sword Zelda), the Essence of Time (Ocarina of Time Zelda), the Essence of Dusk (Twilight Princess Zelda), the Essence of the Sea (Wind Waker Zelda aka Tetra), and the Essence of Hyrule (A Link To The Past/A Link Between Worlds Zelda).

As Link and Stella collect the pieces, the goddess-blood essence grows more complete within Stella and she begins to gain access to its powers. But they're not the same as Shei's, since each wielder will bear the legacy differently. (Side note: the goddess-blood essence could also be called...........the legend of Zelda) I don't have her powers worked out but I do want her to be wreathed in golden fire like Tetra in the Phantom Hourglass manga.

And then, when the last piece is acquired and the full legacy of Hylia's line is complete, Stella gets a living body.

Yeah the picrews kinda gave it away but ANYway this thing is really meaningful to me since it's like Shei gave her the chance at life that was ripped away from him AND the culmination of her learning that yes she DOES have agency yes her choices DO matter yes she CAN throw off Ganon's influence-

and also its just really cool 😅

Anyway here's her in the sims and I'll ramble about her physical appearance (note: her design has changed since this one)

The clothes she's wearing are merely an attempt at vibes not like the actual clothes she wears although i do want her to wear a blue oversized sweater at some point

So yeah she has cool brown skin (that one in the sims is just slightly warmer than I'd like it to be but otherwise it's just right)(and her cheek shape isn't perfect but the sims is weird okay even if its the best fucking tool out there for this), really dark brown eyes, and "bleached" curly hair.

About her hair: Ideally she would have dark roots or something because I really want to sell the idea that her hair isn't naturally blonde. The only reason I want it blonde in the first place is to balance the color palette and provide more contrast against the other members of the team (Impa has a predominately warm palette with red brown and gray being the most prominent colors, Shei has a predominately cool palette with black white and purple being the most prominent colors, Link has a predominately warm palette with dark green and different shades of brown as her most prominent colors, and Stella has a predominately cool palette with yellow grey and blue being her most prominent colors). She would look really good with dark brown hair (with more cold tones) too, and I'm toying with the idea of a timeskip epilogue kinda thing to see how the characters have changed and she would have dark brown hair in that. In-universe her hair is blonde because of all the gold goddess magic, but that does kinda sound like "she's extra magic so she has light hair in order to stand out and be ✨special✨ around all the other non-black characters".

...........Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't see any reason why the cool yellow can't be in any other part of her outfit and not on her head (I think that's because I designed her via picrew and picrew is usually just shoulders up). Yeah. You know what I think I'll change that. If you have any advice or perspective I'd like to hear it!

ANYWAY heavy stuff aside, for her clothes, I'm thinking deep blue tunic with some weight to it + grey leggings underneath and maybe a cream sash of some sort? Her jagged sword and shield from her stalfos equipment would be strapped on her back, and she'd DEFINITELY still be wearing her blue ribbon bow. I'm looking forward to figuring out her design more! (maybe i can give her some light gold earrings to bring the light yellow back to her head.........or some hair accessories.........LIGHT YELLOW RIBBONS AND ACCESSORIES WOVEN INTO A LOC/BRAID STYLE HOLD ON A MINUTE I HAVE TO GO PICREW-)

Thanks for reading! I really love my girl and so much still needs to be done for her!!

@trappedham just in case :)

#stella #Legacy of a Millennia #loam stella #<- i like that acronym but now i have to go back and tag everybody with that 😭

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bokettochild · 3 years

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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones

Angst! My Beloved!

Not a lot of whump here, but I put Wild through the wringer!!! Lots of BotW2 ideas and concepts here, but nothing really cannon.

Also, disclaimer: I think Flora is a wonderful person, a bit harsh and sometimes unkind, but I feel for her a lot. The prompt submitted to me however asked for her as an ass, so that's what's here, for angst reasons. THIS IS NOT HOW I PLAN ON WRITING HER NORMALLY!!!

When Wild left the Chain behind in the woods, it was with a soft smile and a hesitant wave of his right hand. It was with a gentle ‘See y’all later’ that made Warriors shake his head with a sigh while Twilight offered a wobbly grin.

He would join them again, he knew that. After all, Hylia wouldn’t have chosen him to go with them in the first place if he was only supposed to leave before they’d even really started to know what it was that they were meant to be doing.

He’d see them again, and he’d fall back into a routine with all of them, sparring with Warriors and teaching Hyrule to cook and shield surfing with Wind and learning to carve from Sky. He’d go back to sewing with Legend, to exploring with Hyrule, to learning the Ocarina with Time and teasing Twilight about his terrible singing. He could work with Four on the Sheikah Slate and experimenting with different plants he’d gathered. He would see them again, and he’d go back to being busy and smiling nearly every day.

For the time being however, he had to square his shoulders and harden his jaw as he stepped through the swirl of black that had repulsed all the others every time they tried to enter. He had to tame his mind and wild spirit and come to stand before the Princess of Hyrule in all of her stern glory and receive the scolding he was due for wandering off without permission.

He never had time to question what she meant by being gone for ‘two whole weeks’ before she was marching off towards the labs and explaining that there was a new task for them to complete.

Such a task was one that left in his mind no time for thoughts of his brothers save on the lonely nights in the sky when the islands above the clouds were silent save for the birds about him that reminded him of Sky, or when he ran across the forests and was reminded of the wolf that once ran at his side. And, alright, the tiny people in the grass and the fountains reminded him of Four and Hyrule. When the wind sang strong in his ears as he dove towards the earth from the highest places in the sky, he couldn’t help but envision a small hero whose laughter danced like the sea and who’s fingers mastered the currents of wind and sea both.

It was a lonely quest, just like his last before it, but somehow it was more painfully so, now that he knew what it was to have brothers at his side to catch a monster’s blade when he was too slow or to help him patch himself up afterwards. It was quiet when the Princess and he sat around the fires as night, she studying him as he sat still and stonelike as she worked.

The hand that had waved goodbye to his brothers now flickered green and ethereal in the night shades, iron bands clinging to the wisping appendage and acting as a bond to hold its form together. It was nothing like what he’d known or studied in the Sheikah technology, or even what he’d seen from the many worlds he’d traveled with the other, and it earned many a stare and twist of the lips from those he met and traded with during his journey.

The arm was only the first of many changes, it’s power seeping through his body and altering him before he even knew what was happening. He’d hated it at first, disliking how it changed him, made his eyes glow and his hair touch with the same ethereal shades, red bleeding through at the roots and earning him even more wary looks.

Ganon, in all his terrifying power, had been a surprising comfort during the quest, an aid to discovering his new abilities and training them to bend to his own will. The Princess had been wary of their relationship, but had accepted it when she saw what he learned to do, and every evening she would require a report of his newfound skills, as well as the occasional demonstration or examination.

It all came to an end both too soon and not soon enough.

Ganon was gone, as if he’d never been there at all, and the Princess was as cold as ever even after their second adventure at each other's sides. And now there was no use for the abilities that had fused to his soul like the arm had to his flesh. He’d asked Purah if there was something that could be done to restore his body to its normal Hylian state, without the glowing limb that earned his only stares and insults from the village people, but the Princess had overheard it and declared that such a thing should not even be attempted.

“You don’t understand, Link. Don’t be foolish! We have here a scientific marvel ready for our investigation and exploration and you want to get rid of it just because it looks odd?”

He’s shuffled his feet slowly, resisting the impulse to rub at his chest where the Hylian part of him ended and the eldritch horror began. “I can’t live like Hylian anymore.”

“Because you aren’t one!” Her Highness rolled her eyes. “Honestly, Sir Knight, after everything I certainly doubt that Hylian even applies to you anymore! Hylians do not possess the qualities that you now do, and they most certainly do not travel through stone or time or any other such thing at will. Think would you! You’re something else entirely, and I intend to find out what that is!”

Purah had frowned at that, eyes full of sorrow as they met his own with an apologetic sigh. But there was nothing the de-aged scientist could really say against the royal Sovreign of Hyrule, not as a Sheikah sworn to the service of the royal family. The woman/girl had offered him a sympathetic pat on the head later after climbing up to reach high enough to do so, as well as a few dumplings that Paya had sent on her grandmother’s behalf the day before. It was a welcome gesture, but amounted to so little on the grand scale of life. Not when so many others he had once called his friends had so blatantly rejected the mere sight of him.

Bolson and the other carpenters shied away from him with harsh whispers as they spat insults across the distance.

‘Half-blood’.

‘Gerudo Bastard’.

‘Freak’.

‘Demon’.

There were favorite insults spread from stable to stable and up and coming village to up and coming town and slowly all of Hyrule knew of the monster that had once been the hero. Gossip abounded, and he couldn’t even turn to shield his face with his hood without drawing attention to his arm.

It was only the koroks that welcomed him, themselves all too accustomed to the strange and ethereal. Them and the blupees.

Maybe it was the knowledge of how it felt to be shot at for his oddness that allowed him to ease into the graces of the flighty animals. And maybe it was his lonely heart crying for comfort, but when nestled in their midst, it almost reminded him of how it felt to be hugged by the salty veteran, on the rare occasional that the pink-haired hero had let down his guard.

The fairy’s tangled themselves in his hair and the blupees gathered at his feet, koroks dancing around him and flying to his side as if he was some sort of forest god, but the strange rise of his spirits in their presence shattered the instant a traveler caught sight of him.

Arrows and fire, once his favorite of weapons, were turned against him as words in every language of the New Hyrule had burst from the mouths of its people, and like his namesake, he ran before them, darting through the forest and fading in amidst the trees, hiding, incorporeal and translucent within the halls of the forest as those he’d once seen as allies pushed him away.

He’d begged the new Queen for aid, for relief or even just a word to the people that he wasn’t the evil they had come to think he was, but she only waved him aside with a purse of her lips. “You are not meant to be here without first asking.” The Child of Hylia declared, eyes as cold as the Shrine’s waters themself. “And why should I make a declaration on behalf of a man who refuses to even speak to me properly? You come groveling like a worm, yet for years it was I who you ignored. See how it feels, Sir Hero, to be the one left helpless at the hands of the country. Know what it is to be scorned by those who you thought would love you.”

He’d barely made it out of the window before the trainee guards of the newly repaired Hyrule Castle had caught him and Queen Zelda Diana Hyrule had stared after him with eyes colder than Hebra’s tallest peaks.

It was the Father Tree -the Deku Tree as the Queen had called it, but the koroks laughed at him for using the name, so he’d adjusted in kind- who suggested that he hide the changes, and he’d begun to wander Hyrule as much as possible to find the materials he would have needed.

The Queen still required his presence regularly so she could inspect him; her love of science no ways tainted as to stop her from ordering him to appear regularly, as there was now no need or safety in his acting as her guard. The Queen sought her people’s respect, and to employ such a being as himself, not Hylian and not quite mortal, would be to spark fear in the people. Indeed, when he skirted villages, he would wince at word of ‘the queen’s monster’ as gossip was traded. Those who didn’t see him themselves knew him as a beast of feral nature who lived amid the lost woods and destroyed any who came close.

“A specter that glows with the light of the shrines.” They would tell each other over campfires. “It has eyes like a ghost, empty and lost, with no care for humanity or Hylia’s chosen. They say it was once the Hero of this world, but he died ages ago.”

“I heard it’s the body, possessed by a being beyond this realm, a monster escaped from the edges of reality that tried to hide in our midst but corrupted it’s host so that it only scares away others, leaving it roam the earth in a shattered body. If you get too close to it though, it’ll take your instead.”

He’d stayed away from towns after that.

The blupees and koroks had been happy to help him to find what he needed to hide among the Hylians should he wish though, and two in particular guided him; the korok swinging little twigs like they were batons and humming swinging little shanties as it hopped along the path, the blupee snorting softly and nipping at his heels when he wandered too far, unnatural purple eyes staring up at him with something that was fondness and a reprimand all at once, and in their care he’d made his way across the land of Hyrule to find what would be needed to return to his once life.

The fairies and their Great cousins had been welcome help, and in time, he’d been able to walk amid the populace of Hyrule like any other, as long as he kept a long cloak about him and his hair pulled back to hide where the roots would begin showing again in gold and ethereal blue.

Once Hyrule had talked about needing to hide in his world, about the curse that followed him and made the Hylian people afraid. He’d thought it bizarre and ridiculous of the people at the time, but now he understood what it was to live it.

When the portal opened beneath his feet the day that the Queen had reprimanded him for concealing and potentially damaging the strange limb, startling the Skeikah scientists and Queen both, he’d nearly cried tears of relief.

He was going away, somewhere where he wasn’t a science project and where, unless they traveled to his world’s future, no one would know how much he had changed. His copy of the slate had enough hair dye to last him a few months, and he was certain he could make more over time, and as long as he continued wearing the tunics and gloves the fairies had helped him to adjust to hide the glow the others would probably never catch on. Or well, he could extend it anyway.

His brothers greeted him with open arms and teary eyes, and in a strange parallel to his adventure, he found himself thinking of blupees when Legend had curled against him, stiff and cold on the outside, but with fingers that clutched his tunic just a bit too tight to really be reluctant. And Four, Hyrule and Wind’s exuberant hugs and chatter brought to mind tiny forest people and koroks with twigs for batons.

It was good to be home.

It was good to cook for other people again, and they were glad to have him cook for them, even if his fondness for both Gerudo spiced dishes and fae like sweet things had increased exponentially during his newest adventure. It was good to fight at their sides, even if it was strange to once again have to take others into account before he could select a weapon. It was good to sit around a fire and talk with the others too, but that was perhaps the hardest one; it had been ages since he’d had a proper two-way conversation with anything other than a tree or a korok, and neither of those was good at either staying awake or staying focused for very long.

There were some harder things to adjust to though. Fire, for one. Unlike before when he’d have been happy to burn an enemy camp to the ground, now he was wary of using faming weapons or spreading heat further than necessary. The same went for hunting; he couldn’t bring himself to shoot an animal unless it attacked first or they needed the meat it would provide, and even then, he felt a bit bad for doing so. Is this what Twilight had felt like? Is this why the rancher never liked hunting? Because he too knew what it was like to be on the other end of the bow?

But the hardest thing by far to readjust to was his name.

‘Wild’ they had called him again, and after months of ‘the wild one’, ‘wild beast’, ‘monster’ and every other insult, slur or title that had been used on him, it made him flinch ever so slightly at the words. And unlike the other things where his brothers dismissed it as a change caused by his adventure or an increase of maturity, it was something that the others seemed to either not notice or to excuse as situational.

He had adapted though, learned to keep a smile on his face where blankness had once been required in his knightly duties, and the more he wore the mask the easier it was to put on again.

He’d reveled in traveling across time again, in dancing through battles and exploring the world without the Queen reprimanding him in her cold tones to stop wandering off. He’d pushed himself to learn more music in the last adventure, and even if his experience was more with what few instruments Ganon had had time to help him learn, he’d enjoyed sitting down with the others and borrowing one or another instrument to play a tune and sometimes he even got to sing.

He fell to comfortably into his role though, even with the changes, and he hadn’t even noticed when they’d come back to his world. To be fair, it was different in the daytime, and Hyrule had changed so much in the absence of her hero as he hid himself away from the eyes of civilization. Towns and roads had sprung up where there had only been fields before, and the Guardians that had littered the land had all been dug up and hauled to the castle to be either restored or destroyed by the Sheikah, depending on what Queen Zelda decided after she looked at them herself. The world was so different to him, so unlike that which he knew, that he’d failed to keep as alert as he ought to have been when he wandered about an open market with the others, laughing and chattering away with the other younger ones as Time and Legend herded them towards the needed stalls.

It was a traveler that was his downfall, a man who’d seen the Monster Hero and had been among the first to discover the disguise he wore.

No questions were asked when the word spread, and Wild hadn’t caught on to the whispers until a stone had struck his cheek and he was stumbling forwards on the path.

“Wild!” Twilight was at his side in a minute, Time right after him as Legend launched a barrage of insults at the guilty party who’d thrown the thing.

“’m fine.” He was careful to wipe the blood away with his cloak, holding the fabric to the wound to prevent bluish blood seeping down his face and exposing him to his brothers. He wanted to keep them as long as possible and proving himself to be a monster, not even Hylian, would surely have them turning their backs on him.

“Get away from him!” A woman scolded, grabbing ahold of two of the younger heroes while several other shoppers had like ways grabbed Legend and Sky. “Are you dears alright? He didn’t hurt you, did he?”

“Freaking what?” Legend shrieked. “Who’s the injured party here?”

“I’d avoid that thing, son.” A man huffed through a frankly walrus like mustache, eyes hard as they trailed to where Wild stood, cloak still pressed to his cheek as he attempted to wave off a fussing Twilight and Time. “It’s not natural. Sure, it looks like a normal Hylian, but that’s just an effective ruse.”

Another villager nodded. “It’s one of the Calamity’s puppets, a Gerudo-Bastard set on destroying the kingdom!”

“He’s the freaking hero!” Legend shrieked, barely being held back by a steely eyed Sky. “He saved all your freaking asses and all you can do is insult his flipping guts? Who’s the-”

“Enough.” There were few times that Sky’s voice reached levels worse than Twilight’s growls, but the stern command, regal and firm, froze all present as the man stiffened with a cold nod towards the villagers. “I see we are unwelcome here, and with that being the case it would be wise to spend our rupees elsewhere. Legend,” A tug to the boy’s shoulders. “Let’s join the others and be out of their hair. If they cannot be welcoming and kind to our brother than they will not receive our patronage.” And like a swan gathering it’s cygnets, Sky swept down the street, cape fluttering as he ushered the rest of them out of the town and back to the safety of the wilds. The village stared after them with wide eyes, as if they’d just been judged by a breathing god.

The stiffness in Sky’s shoulders faded as they neared the edge of the forest, and instantly the Chosen Hero been tutting over Wild, gently but firmly prying his hand away from his face with a kind smile that almost set Wild at ease. Almost.

“It’s fine, it’s just a scrape.”

“Still.” Sky crooned softly. “I’d rather we clean it up now and make sure it’s nothing worse than let it sit and get infected later.”

And though he’d tried to fight, his single Hylian hand was no match for the firm grip of the Skyloftian, and within minutes his face was exposed to the shocked faces and flickering eyes of his brothers.

“It’s blue...” Wind breathed as Hyrule darted forwards, hands already glowing softly only for them to stutter to a stop over Wild’s skin.

“It’s... Wild, why is your blood- why is-” The healer’s eyes had flickered golden for a moment, wide as they stared up at him. “What happened to you-”

“What the freak!” Legend had startled, blinking in surprise as he stared. “Your eyes are glowing!”

Shit! The healing properties of the arm had already taken affect and it was making everything act up all weird! He shot a glance down at his arm, one hand raising to tangle in the long hair he couldn’t even see at the moment, praying silently beneath his breath that nothing was showing through. It wasn’t, but that didn’t change how Hyrule had come to fixate on his right arm, or how the healer's fingers hovered over it sparking and eyes twinkling as he whispered softly under his breath.

“Wild.” Time had sighed. “I think this one is going to need an explanation.”

All the breath left his lung in instants.

He’d panicked to say the least and Time had eventually shooed the others away to make camp as the eldest hero had sat at his side, waiting silently for him to regulate his breathing. Touch was too much right now, and any attempts from the others to ease him down or help him level out his breathes had only made him panic more. But when at last his blue eyes blinked back to clarity it was to see Time sitting at his side, a gentle tune wafting from the Ocarina at his lips.

“I’m sorry.” He whispered, trying his hardest not to startle Time or otherwise make the situation worse. “I should have said something, I know. I just- missed being Wild and I wanted to come back and be normal and I didn’t want to-”

“It’s alright.” Time’s voice rumbled softly, a single blue eye turning to him with a pained look, even as the man offered him a hint of a smile. “None of us talk about our adventures either.”

“Yes, but you’re people.” He sighed, rubbing the fingers of his glove together. “You’re allowed to choose things.”

There was pain in Time’s voice when their leader answered. “And you’re not?”

“I’m not Hylia anymore.” He whispered. “I don’t count.”

“You count to us.”

“That’s because you don’t know.”

Time shifted, turning to face him fully as the ocarina was set firmly in the grass. “That’s because you’re family and we care. Wild, I don’t care if Demise himself named you the king of the dead, you’re still my kid and Nayru knows I’m not going to let you go without a fight. If that means fighting you, alright, but you’d best better believe that no amount of physical or mental changes will break the bonds we all have with you.”

Something, something damaged and crushed and stitched up and torn open again clenched inside of him, tears pricking at his eyes as he stared up at Time’s royal blue gaze. “W-what?”

“You could be granted godhood, made a monster, I don’t care. You’re ours and you’ll have to deal with that.” Time smiled, warm even with the pain in his eyes as he looked down at him. “So how about you start again, maybe with the facts rather than the insults. Or,” Time softened, brows furrowing lightly. “If you want, we can just sit here and you can choose to talk about this later. We do need to know, so we can help you and keep you safe, but you don’t have to tell us right now. You can take some time to figure out what you want to say if you need.”

And, well, shoot him, but Time’s arms had always been a safe place and there was one thing he’d wanted more than anything since he had come back. Wild threw himself into his grand-mentor's arms with a soft sob, clutching tightly to the other, ignoring the armor and its sharp points and awkward shapes as he tried to hold back all the emotions swirling in his chest.

Time’s arms folding around him broke the floodgates though, and when the man’s hand had stroked through his shortened hair, he’d had to bury his face in Tim’s neck to muffle his sobs.

“There, there,” Time hummed softly, rocking slowly as he held the broken wild hero. “Let it out, little one. I have you, I’ve got you and I’m not letting anyone hurt you.”

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scrawnytreedemon · 2 years

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Twilight Princess’ Weird, Inconsistent, and Conflicted Messaging.

This is something that’s been bothering me for months, but with some further reflection on its predecessor, Wind Waker, and a good, long chat with myself, I think I can begin to piece this more coherently.

...What is Twilight Princess about?

From what I’ve gathered, it’s about power, and who gets to wield it. There are cases when it is destructive and unjust(e.g, Zant, Ganondorf), and cases where it is permitted(Link, Zelda, Midna).

There are obvious examples where it takes the form of the succession crisis— Both Zelda and Midna are rightful heirs to their thrones, and yet have them unjustly stolen in the form of vying, power-hungry usurpers fueled by indignant rages. Yet also there are lesser, more pervasive examples, such as in the repeated reminders given to not let the people around you learn of your ability as a shapeshifter, and in keeping knowledge from them.

I feel the most blatant culmination of that latter point is in where we build off of Shad and his late father’s research, yet barr him from seeing the fruits of it. It is painfully clear that in that moment Shad feels shunned, and that his work is being taken out of his hands; like despite all the effort he and his father have placed, that they are not deemed worthy enough to see it culminated; fulfilled.

This is a pattern that repeats time, and time, and time again over the course of Twilight Princess. Despite the all the Resistence’s talk of, well, resisting, they are ultimately sidelined in favour of you, Link, the hero, and Midna, the rightful heir, doing all the work by yourselves.

There is also an attempt, though ultimately shallow, at setting aside differences, in the form of the Twili and their realm. It’s emphasised somewhat that the dark itself isn’t evil, but the issue therein lies the mixture of it with unfettered power— While such a possibility isn’t explored, I think we could surmise that the result would be much the same if it were the light perpetrating such defilement instead.

Midna, in contrast to Zant, learns to overcome her initial suspicions and resentment regarding the light-dwellers, even going so far as to form close bonds with Link and Zelda, and settles on mutual-cooperation.

It is jarring, then, that the game ends with an almost sudden suggestion, and then action from her, to permanently seperate these two realms. By no means does this come out of nowhere; the game forshadows this numerous times after bossfights and in searching for the shattered Mirror of Twilight. But what is, is puzzling on a thematic level. For a game that spent a fair amount of its time touting how ultimately they as a people had more in common than not, it ends on a note not of coexistence, but of seperation.

It all leads to a very sour taste in my mouth.

I don’t think it’s a secret that many of Twilight Princess’ important plotpoints were rushed— A prime example being Zant’s breakdown. For as, I think, genius of an idea that it is(that even these big, looming, nigh-insurmountable figures are, at the end of the day, fragile human beings like the rest of us), the execution was off-key, and awkward.

Twilight Princess... tries to be alot of things. A spiritual successor to Ocarina of Time, for one, but also a response to Wind Waker; and it’s in this latter point that I want to highlight something potentially very interesting?

Wind Waker itself ends on a note of parting. Old Hyrule is washed beneath the waves, and Daphnes falls with it. Wind Waker’s thesis is in letting go of the past, no matter how grand, and moving on. I think it’s crucial that the two primary adult figures, Daphnes and Ganondorf, are both ones with strong ties to this ancient land; Ganondorf as a destitute desert-nomad wanting to make home once again, and Daphnes its king.

The fact that Daphnes is ultimately the one to seal its fate is potent— For as much as we joke, and even genuinely express concerns about Daphnes being opaque, and even downright deceiving at times, I think, in the very least in his mind, this was undoubtly a selfless act. He loved this land, but unlike Ganondorf, he grew to know that it was better off laid to rest; that this new, bright-eyed generation would be better off unbound from the chains of the old world, free to make a new one.

I think this is where Twilight Princess was going with Midna’s departure; the issue is, of course, that the Twilight Realm is not an ancient, glorified, bygone world, but one new, and strange, and beautiful— And that there’s so much to learn, that we just... don’t. It feels like the world’s strangest letdown; like you were just getting to know this person, and they’ve told you, “Hey, maybe it’s better if we... weren’t... friends.”

I don’t think a parting, even for a time, would have necessarily been wrong. Midna needs to rebuild her kingdom— Who knows how much got tossed up in that coup; how much destruction was wrought —And Link and Zelda must do the same; I don’t think time away is necessarily wrong; but I think a permanent parting of the ways on an interdimensional level that feels almost impulsive is.

It feels like Nintendo just wanted to toss out the Twili so they had an excuse to not bring them up anymore in fear of repetition or having the idea grow old, instead of keeping it around and building on it, and figured they could get a tear-jerker out of it.

It feels shallow.

Comparisons with Twilight Princess are common; some notable ones being Ocarina of Time(as always), and Majora’s Mask.

Both of these games do something incredible that I don’t think is brought up enough, in this debate.

The common setup is pitting Twilight Princess and Majora’s Mask against each other on grounds of “darkness”. I... don’t think is effective, for a number of reasons. Notably that Twilight Princess’ view of the dark is as an, ironically enough, naturalistic force— It’s one that looks scary on the outside, warps things, but once you shine some light on it its true beauty shows —While Majora’s Mask deals with the psychological darkness of grief; these are not the same.

What I think is an apt point of comparison, though, and one it shares with Ocarina of Time, is Majora’s Mask’s handling of its non-player characters and how they contribute to the atmosphere of the world, and its ultimate salvation.

In contrast to Twilight Princess’ almost compulsive desire to keep everyone else away at arm’s length, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask(the latter especially) revel in their abilities to bring them into the fold.

In both of these games, it is crucial that you reach out to people for help: whether it be it Seven Sages, or the dead and their families. Even in more seemingly mundane matters, you are instructed to go out of your way to help the common townspeople in a way that furthers the story.

Anju and Kafei are not a sidetrack from the main story, neither are Romani and Cremia, nor Ingo, Malon, and Talon; their stories build into the main story; enrich it.

@onesunofagun has an incredible breakdown on Ingo’s motivations, and how they serve to hammer home with Ocarina of Time’s ultimate overarching-themes regarding power and corruption(you can read it here! Highly recommend, honestly I’ve been mulling over it ever since); something that I feel Twilight Princess sorely misses.

Non-player characters in Twilight Princess are largely set-dressing, sidequest bait, plot-convenience or half-hearted attempts at emotional weight; in contrast to OoT and MM’s plethora of charming, well-written characters that you will hear fans gush on about for post after post and video after video, Twilight Princess’ are largely regarded with an estranged-apathy. They’re often gimmicky, underdeveloped, or both. There are things to like, but not to the extent to which the other two entries enable you to invest in.

The lack of an ability to involve its supporting characters, as well as its refusal to critique the status quo(in this case the Hyrulian Royal Family’s hegemony— Something Ocarina of Time has a whole dungeon dedicated to), leaves Twilight Princess’ handling of power hollow, and individualistic in a “history is steered by great men” sort of way.

For all this series’ talk about having courage, it’s painfully clear, especially here, that this courage only really counts when you’ve been chosen by the Gods; when you have been ordained to wield power, the power to kill, unfettered and unbound, save for duty, by those Gods.

Gods that have been shown, time and time, and time again to be callous, and detached.

Zelda’s mainline team has largely been consistent, with many games in the very least having been directed by the same people. I can’t imagine, considering all the care that went into those previous entries, that this discrepancy went unnoticed. Whether it was case of rushed development, wanting to be politically uncontroversial, or some mixture of both, I can’t say. I wasn’t there, and if it’s been mentioned, I’ve yet to know.

Twilight Princess is hero’s journey; one about restoring glory to its proper place; in setting things right; and in doing so alone; that ends in being alone.

What a sad, sad story.

#twilight princess #tloz #thoughts #scrawny speaks #scrawny rambles #i'm glad to finally put my finger on it #but damn #does it feel hollow #god there's prolly so much i've missed but i think i've gotten my main points out #and hopefully somewhat succinctly #feel free to add on as always

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shangsclaws · 3 years

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Musical Instruments

Pt. 2

Do the kombatants play any instruments? How do they react if their s/o does too?

Includes: Fujin, Kano, Shang Tsung, and Raiden

gifs are not mine!

((I miss being in band))

Fujin

He himself plays many if not all woodwind instruments for obvious reasons

The wind god most likely carries a piccolo or ocarina around for when he needs to occupy himself, sometimes he annoys the crap out of Raiden with it

And yes, he plays the recorder. He’s quite serious about it.

If you can play something outside of his expertise, he will request you teach it to him; it is time well spent with you, and he plans on learning a piece later on to woo you, duh

And I’m sorry to say, but he will always be 10x better no matter how long you’ve been playing your instrument. He is a god, after all.

That doesn’t mean he isn’t willing to teach you. Heck, he might even start his own mini music school. You will be his first student, if not the vice principal.

Bonus points if u know how to play any brass instruments — he will definitely take that up

But if you teach him the sax, do not ever let him listen to Careless Whisper please I beg you

He will never stop playing it if you tell him it sounds sexy

Johnny Cage will have a fucking field day

Kano

What are instruments if not pots, pans and bbq skewers

Aside from makeshift drum sets tho, he’s a percussion kinda guy, and actually quite good at it too

You know that part from In the Air Tonight? Yeah I don’t think I even have to say it...

If you play any instrument that he classifies as ‘rock band material’ (think electric guitar), he will call up Kabal and Erron against their will to jam out — the results are horrendous, but he makes your sides split

If not, he’ll find a way to get you playing along with them. He has a terribly expensive sound system that he rarely has an excuse to use anyways, I know it.

If you play any orchestral instrument, he’ll tease you for being uptight. It’s not that it’s a bad thing — he sees it as you having ‘sophisticated’ tastes.

If you know how, please teach him how to play the trombone. He will play it with his heart and soul. Also, he likes sliding.

Teaching him the trumpet is a bad idea tho. Terrible idea. If you play it, you better not tell him.

Shang Tsung

This man was crazy enough to learn the violin all. by. himself.

He will serenade you, I promise.

If you play it too, you’ll notice his techniques are really weird, but it works and you don’t really complain

Should you try to correct him, he’ll hear you, but trust me, he isn’t listening. He’ll keep playing the way he likes, and very well to boot.

Other than that, he doesn’t bother with much else. If he sees you know how to play something, he’ll gladly listen to you for hours, but he’ll simply admire, not try to learn.

Your music does make good company on long nights in the flesh pits tho. Or any night, really.

The only other instrument Shang Tsung will take keen interest on playing is the piano. He’s seen many Earthrealmers play before and has been jealous in the past that he doesn’t know how to do it himself — it seems rather simple until it’s not.

If you know how to play, he’ll be insistent on getting lessons from you. He’ll pay you. He’ll let you take some of his souls. Anything. He wants to play the piano.

Bonus points if you can accompany him while he plays the violin ((I’m thinking about this right now and lol it’s actually rlly cute))

Raiden

Absolutely fucking clueless, even if he is a god. But he does try.

Fujin teases him like crazy, believe me

Will be mesmerized if their beloved can play, you don’t even have to be good. He will listen to you for years.

But....he can sing. He can really sing (now that I think about it, Fujin totally can too!)

I honestly don’t know much about how voices work but I’m pretty sure the term for it is baritone. He’s a baritone. I believe that means he’s a deep singer but not the deepest. He could try going there, but he’d have to strain his voice.

He doesn’t like to sing when people are around though, he finds his singing as very personal and intimate. He only sings songs he’s learnt at the Sky Temple, all in a tongue you’ve never heard before.

When he hears the cello (i think?) is the closest thing to a human voice, he’ll make an earnest attempt at learning it. He’s much better off starting with the piano though. It also helps when he wants to warm up his voice.

And yes, he will sing along as you play your instrument. If you get him out of his comfort zone, he might even perform a bit with you. But that will take a lot of convincing.

Expect him to sing you to sleep on many occasions.

(( edit: honestly who cares, but I was listening to Raiden’s voice not long ago and you know what, he’s totally a bass singer. He could hit those notes lol ))

#mortal kombat #mk11 #mortal kombat x reader #shang tsung #raiden #fujin #kano

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elegiacmarquise · 2 years

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My analysis and thoughts about King Rhoam

Introduction

Greetings and welcome to this post!

This is a rant/kind of essay (?) that I was being writing in the past few weeks as a further reading to an opinion that I've wrote on the description of a drawing of mine in Amino, in which I stated that King Rhoam is my favorite character in BoTW and maybe all the Zelda series. Since it could be read on its own, I want to get a shot on here as I did some months ago on Reddit. I'm aware of the risks I'm taking by expressing a generally favorable opinion on his character on here, but I still hope to find some genuine debates!

Before I start this analysis, I want to make some important premises: I only played five games from the Zelda series, being in order Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild, A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening and Skyward Sword: despite I played some of the most important games of the series, I still lack knowledge about other games, most notably Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, so I may miss something from my analysis (mostly by comparing the operate of King Rhoam with that of other monarchs of Hyrule).

I'm sorry if some phrases may appear badly formulated or if I made some grammatical errors, but I'm not a native English speaker and I'm still learning it... Also, I won't cover Age of Calamity extensively in this text, since despite I've seen the cutscenes on Youtube, I didn't play the game yet, therefore I may also being missing something from that game.

Now, I'm ready, ready to be doxxed

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King Rhoam's perception among Zelda fans

I've noticed a lot, mostly here and on Instagram, that King Rhoam is quite an hated character, and to be fair I can understand why: despite Breath of the Wild has genuinely great characters and the idea of reviving the memories from the past is excellent in the contest of the game, each character aside from Zelda suffered from the pacing of the story and how it was structured; unfortunately the King is the one that was particularly disadvantaged from this choice: in BOTW, DLC included, before the Calamity he was only shown twice, one time doing his job as a King and another to be outright harsh to Zelda, so this didn't play in favour to give him justice or even screen time, for that matter. We only did have an insight of what he did really felt only by a diary which location was easily missable, so if someone for some reason or another, only recovered the memories, they may comprehensively dislike him. Let's start analyse Rhoam's character through different perspective as a father, as a king and as an overall fictional character, trying to give his authors and him credit where deserved and criticisms where needed.

This rant is not meant to change your mind, but just to give the King's character justice and to offer a different interpretation from everywhere else I could find on the internet. You're still free to have your disagreements, and your opinion is valid. ______________________________________________________________

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My analysis on Rhoam's character arc

We don't know much about the last king of Hyrule before the birth of Zelda, aside that he was a pragmatic man, or as Age of Calamity may imply, a skilled warrior. He loved (if not, considering we are still on the royal class of a medieval hierarchy, at least held in high regards) his wife, the Queen, and was enthusiast to become a father. It's unknown if he was either born in the Royal Family, but it's likely that he became a king after his marriage with Zelda's mother, who seemed to have inherited her powers from her ancestors, and as most monarchies claim, they have as their distant founder the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Hylia whose powers were passed down through blood. Despite so, it seems that while his wife was still alive, Rhoam had a certain amount of agency for the Reign's decisions, since he hold in consideration the tragic destiny the Fortune Teller foresaw for his Reign, which was based on a legend from way long before the game events even start. Although he was being skeptic, in a first moment, maybe along his wife, Rhoam ordered to excavate the mostly likely legendary relics and changed his mind as soon as the first results were found. However, if the Divine Beasts really existed, it also meant that the Fortune Teller's prediction was actually true and that Hyrule was next to its total annihilation, and therefore the time to prepare an huge reign like his was already too short.

But, despite everything, the King continued to show affection towards both his wife and Zelda, being initially actually really supportive of her own interest on research, and his life was going decently, with both of them on his side. Despite Zelda's role was prophetised to be essential for the Reign's people safety, it was already planned to introduce the child princess to her divine powers gradually by the help of her mother, who also remembered her what she was supposed to do. The Princess seemed to be already educated by both parents to be both strong and stoic, most like most aristocratic families of the past, “ability” that she internalized when her mother died all of a sudden. As many things on BoTW's story, it's unknown what were the causes of the death of the Queen, but from what Rhoam wrote on his diary (and Urbosa's as well), he was more openly grieving than his child Zelda, both in public and in private: I think that this precise teaching is one of the reasons why the King and the Princess' relationship started to crumble, because of all of this exact toxic mindset and the suppression of their own feelings.

According to his diary, Rhoam, while heavily grieving, was surprised to see Zelda not faltering, even despite her own mother's passing: despite the grave loss, he was still proud of her receptiveness of the family's teachings. Immediately after the passing of the Queen, what happened immediately next was unknown, but on a more speculative note, I interpret the king's will to continue to educate his child in the way he did to probably honour what his wife may have also been wanting during her lifetime as well. So, with his wife now dead, only a distant legend as a guide and an already emotionally distant daughter, Rhoam had to guide the entire reign alone and this was only the start of the King's own, personal tragedy. Under the his reign, alone, he tried to do everything he could to prepare Hyrule from the incoming annihilation: feared to losing the rest of his reign, the King continued to prepare and to motivate his own troups, the researches for the relics and, unfortunately had to prepare Zelda, his own daughter, to a role he didn't known much about, aside from few sparse anecdotes from his wife and legends.

The time was still passing, however, and there may wasn't much for the arrival of the calamity, and while Rhoam surely empathised with Zelda, even when she was still a child, he started to begin to partake her in the praying rituals, even despite when they both didn't know much about the process. While, they grieved alone on their own, Rhoam known that Zelda had to unlock her powers as soon as she could, so she could manipulate their powers even more effectively, so from a grieving father, he forced himself to wear in her presence the vests of the king and to treat her even more severity. Rhoam, during most of the following years, preferred approaching Zelda as a subject instead as a daughter because he preferred to sacrifice his and the princess' own happiness instead of seeing the death of everyone he sworn to protect and he felt quite dreaded in doing so, but the prayers were the only thing he known for certain could work. In the meanwhile, the King already prepared everything, finding the best warriors of the reign to pilot the newly discovered Divine Beasts, found the Hero chosen by the Sword that seals the Darkness while progressively noting Zelda was being involved in something not that relevant for her duty, and basing of their lack of effective communication, he thought that she didn't even try to awaken her powers.

While progressively distancing himself emotionally from the daughter, we can imply from the memories that despite Rhoam was harsh to Zelda, he still did care for her both as a princess and a daughter: despite her role was crucial in order to Hyrule's safety, he actually let her have her own autonomy, and he ordered the best knight of the reign, who was also a peer of hers to escort her. Whenever Urbosa visited Zelda, he let the Chief to accompany her to the Spring rituals, maybe to encourage Zelda to do her best, now that a trusted friend was close to her. Maybe Rhoam himself did the same, especially when the daughter was still a child, but his mannerisms would not have helped her to feel calmer. Despite he preferred the Princess to pray instead of research the relics, he did permit her to still have her own laboratory, even next to her bedroom. As we may have witness in the game itself, many were the perils of Hyrule's overworld, even in the past, from the monsters which presence was growing in the months between the memories and the rise of the Yiga clan, that wanted her dead. Despite these dangers, and unlike most of other historical/ fantasy medieval royalties' conventions, Zelda was still allowed to go out from the castle and to do mostly what she wanted, even in relative privacy, since she was escorted by only one knight. To think that in most other medieval-like contexts it would be outright unacceptable for a young girl to go out with a boy who was also her age, Rhoam was rather permissive. The king may not have been happy to know that she passed most of her time studying the Sheikah relics instead of praying, and still pressed Zelda to think about her duty, but he still let her to do what she wanted to do, for the most part.

In facts he actively prohibited her to partake in the researches only lately, four memories away from the start of her seventeenth birthday, age which it's explicitly said to be the age of majority, and also implied as the age of wisdom. Therefore Rhoam may have been even more strict because he expected his daughter to think more seriously about her role, since she was short away from being a legal adult, but here we have another detail that adds some insightful reasons he was that brash: during the memory Father and Daughter, in which he scolds Zelda, Rhoam also mentions her that she's the centre of gossips around the royal court, and it seems the diary confirms that. Unfortunately, we don't know for certain what kind of gossips were referring to Zelda, most likely about her shortcomings about her sacred powers or her lack of regards of her duty. It seems that Rhoam was somewhat susceptible of them, at least for what it concerns both his as a King and as authority figure in general (they may have seen him as too lenient towards her), and his daughter's image, since it seems from the memories that she was most of the time outside the castle doing her researches or to outright doing recreational activities.As we can read in the diary and get in that memory, Rhoam didn't have that high regard towards his court and wanted his daughter to prove them wrong. Unfortunately, as usual, his tones weren't adapt to convey what he meant and comprehensively turned the princess even more desperate than before. But even then, we can see then the King still left Zelda to roam (pun not intended) around the world, as we can see in the memory “to Mount Lanayru” and in the meanwhile become even more guilty intimately than he ever has been, to the point of wanting to let down the toxic mindset that he had to adopt for himself and to Zelda and to try to recover all the time he lost behaving as he always has been. If we think about this choice, if it have been applied it would be kind of refreshing, especially considering how medieval-like monarchies work, it may have certainly been on the mouths of the courtiers but it may have been a brave act nonetheless. [SPOILER: maybe it really happened in Age of Calamity]

But it was too late: came Calamity Ganon, which killed among the many, the King himself. It seems that during the century that passed between the loss of Hyrule and Link's awakening (pun not intended), he watched over on both his daughter and her knight. We don't know what exactly happened during that time, but I assume that Zelda noticed his presence, but here I'm entering in headcanon territory.

And when Link's awakened, Rhoam in the vests of the Old Man, put in practice what he must have thought and felt for a century, to not repeat his errors, and despite he was still guilty underneath his giovial appearance, he guided Link more playfully, maybe experiencing happiness from the first time in so long.In those vests, Rhoam was sensitive enough to guide the amnesiac hero gradually, to introduce him to both the dangers of the nature and his reintroduction to the world in a less traumatic manner. The tutorial of BoTW was memorable also thanks to his presence, because despite the hero was amnesiac, the King didn't took Link for stupid and he let him to experience the world as he wanted but this time he did gradually reminded him of his ultimate fate.That was his last deed to Zelda, after a life full of losses, regrets and suppressed feelings. It was an ultimate sorry that come out even after his death. Rhoam's life was tragic as it was his daughter's, if we look globally even sadder. King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule was a genuinely a good natured man behind his crown's duties, who unfortunately had to face a calamity and that many other factors didn't allow him to be as supportive as he could have wanted. His will to protect Hyrule and his selflessness revealed to be a double edged sword, and he was guilty about his position all this time. This won't condone completely his actions, though, and they DID have a negative influence on Zelda's development, but at the same time, he did the best as he could do in order to save the reign, so this classifies him as a well-written morally grey character, and I praise Nintendo for their own writing.

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From now on, I'll be more subjective regarding my reception of the King, but before I'll start to explain the reasons why I liked him so much, I want to tell you an anecdote: at first I loathed him as much I despised Zelda. In my first playthrougth of BoTW, I interpreted the King as the classic widowed father who was overprotective of his precious daughter while the Princess as the overused tomboy princess who hated her life in the castle to explore the world instead. Such a caricature that both characters didn't deserve.I wasn't also a huge fan of their character designs, founding the Rhoam's face and proportions too hard on the eye while Zelda's research outfit too much unfitting to the elegant Princess vibes I love in a Zelda design. (her royal and praying outfit are really good though) However, the more I've played and the more the characters grown on me: while I'm still on the fence with Zelda, who has her good amount of strengths on the writing (despite her main design is still not my cup of tea and there are some parts on her character development don't click with me), I found Rhoam... way more interesting.

Unlike the other main characters, the King didn't have any otherworldly or magic abilities, counting only on the powers from his own position to help as much as he could with the reign's protection and welfare, to the point to sacrifice his own happiness in order to succeed to extirpate the calamity. His own complexity made feel him more alive than most of the characters in the game, maybe even the series: like Zelda, we've seen Rhoam at his lowest point possible, and the most saddening thing about him is that he passed whole years like that, not even being able to tell anyone about his sufferings but an hidden diary. Despite there wasn't much screentime of him, his memories were heartfelt and his brief paragraphs expressed at their best the personal tragedy he encountered and how he suffered to treat his treasured Zelda as a subject instead as a daughter.Hovering between the uncured wounds of the past and the imminent coming of a complete catastrophe, Rhoam still wanted to change his own reign's fate, for the best. He was wrong in many ways, especially as a father, but his errors make feel him even as an human who didn't know what to do who had as a basis to all his work only a prophecy, nothing else. Adding the fact that he progressively learns from all his errors make me love the King even more. Whether being in life or in death, Rhoam's selflessness didn't allow him to leave the reign's affairs on pending and he applied what he learned and reflected during all these years.His own evolution feels really natural and it's satisfying to grasp every aspect of him as soon as you put together all the sparse pieces the game offers. So yes, despite Rhoam wasn't the best father he could have been to Zelda, this in my opinion doesn't qualify him as a bully, as I've read often in the internet, and he's a character as worthy of love as the rest of the main cast. If we can forgive the Princess for her own flaws, we can at least comprehend him, even if we don't condone his actions.

Now that this short “essay” makes me think about the King's character design, it's actually really fitting to his personality: his hardly decipherable facial expressions and his own stature make feel him imposing, and since during the game we identify more on Link and Zelda, his appearance makes him as someone who's hard to approach. I admit that I've learnt to love his fluffy beard and his awesome coat! So yeah, now I like the king even from a character design perspective. Also what about Rhoam's own name? I like that little pun on his actual role (because he both rhoamed both literally and psychologically in his life).

I've read a popular theory in which King Rhoam's strictness is the main cause on why Zelda didn't unlocked her powers, and if he let her to research the relics, the Calamity could have been avoided. I think it's a valid assumption, that could work in the game's contest. However, I'm also convinced that while the King is too strict, Zelda wasn't that right either, since we don't know what exactly what unlocked her powers. Was the Princess completely dedicated to her praying? Did she only go to the springs and had other things in her head than the prayers? Mipha implied in the memory “Return of Calamity Ganon” that at least thinking to heal/save the person she loved may unlock her powers, and this is what they seemed to have been working to Zelda as well. In this case, I think that both Rhoam, who demanded Zelda to pray mindlessly and the princess herself, who was focused on a mostly fruitless research were wrong. (consider that she didn't seem to discover much completely on her own, and even when she did it was still mostly with Purah and Robbie's help) ________________________________________________________________

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Conclusions

Tl;dr: Rhoam's a flawed character but still worthy of an analysis and credit.

Was Rhoam a good father? Despite the king was still caring underneath his severe appearance, he could have been less demanding to her. Was him a good king? The best Hyrule may have witnessed, after everything he did. Do both factors deem him as a bad person? For me, not at all, since he shown on multiple occasions to be a generally good natured man who was wounded by the past and stressed out for the future, but I think this perception could be changed by each person's personal values. I'm aware of the potential bigotry that can be found on him. It was hard to judge morally Rhoam, both since it's one of my favourite characters ever and because I despise to showe my own moral compass onto fictional characters, but it was still a fun experiment.

I hope you found his rant/essay at least decent. I tried to made you see the King's from a different prospective, but it wasn't my intention to change your mind. So, if you still don't like him, you're valid and I love how differently everyone reads BoTW's plot and makes it theirs.

The only thing I ask you, though, is to avoid to insult me or any other commenter. However, if you want to discuss peacefully, I'm more than glad to explain where I may have been lacking in this rant and to see your point of view.

That said, I wish you a nice day or night, and I hope to see you soon. Bye!

#breath of the wild #the legend of zelda #zelda #botw #nintendo #zelda theory #king rhoam #rant

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tortilla-of-courage · 3 years

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Describing it as being like home is actually pretty accurate yeah.

And YES! I am totally willing to talk about my modern AU.

I've been calling it the Adoption AU because Time ends up adopting all of the boys. It mostly started as, I saw an edit for a tweet someone did with Wars and Wild that involved Taco Bell (cannot remember the blog or post for the life of me though), and so I wrote a thing about Warriors sneaking out of his university dorm to pick up Wild, who snuck out the window despite his broken arm, and then got extorted by Legend in exchange for silence at 3am.

This was followed by a fic where Groose decided spray painting a public building was a good idea and got himself and Sky arrested, set earlier in the timeline.

So then I made a timeline. Twilight is Time and Malon's biological son, and he found Wild on the side of the road one day (Wild's backstory involves a bad car wreck and an underground hospital, but no conspiracy bullshit. Yet). Wild has no memory, so they keep him. Wild brings home Legend, who was told his uncle died at school before a holiday. They then also keep Legend. Malon finds Four in her barn one morning for complicated reasons, and they keep him too. Twilight finds Warriors, who is in his class, hiding in an alley one day after he ran away from an abusive home and brings him home too. SS Impa (who I've nicknamed Shield because there are enough prominent Impas here that they should get nicknames too) is a social worker who's trying to find Sky a home and has run out of options, and turns to Time, who has a record of successfully housing 'unhousable' youths, and asks if he can take one more. He can. Wild finds Hyrule and brings him home because 'Rule needs a shower even more than Wild does. Hyrule stays. Wind's grandma ends up with Wind and his sister but can't financially take care of both and so Wind ends up with the boys and everyone is +1 Grandma.

Twilight has a fic detailing how he knows Midna and Dusk and I ended up shooting him (oops) but at least their social project gets handed in on time.

Then I started hashing out Time's backstory and suddenly this AU had plot. And organized crime. And a conspiracy. And secret societies.

The summarized version is that the gems from OoT are like, Idk what they do yet. Haven't gotten to a point where I need to figure that out yet. But they are Important and have to be carefully guarded. The Great Deku Tree (just called Deku because he's not a tree here) was Time's foster father before Ganondorf killed him. Also, Ganondorf is Deku's half brother. Because. However Time 'stole' the Emerald and he and Navi ran until OoT Impa (Sage) and Lullaby found them. So Time got adopted into Lullaby's family. Ruto inherited the Sapphire from her mother who also died from mysterious circumstances, and Darunia has the Ruby. Lullaby got the Ocarina from her late paternal grandmother.

Then Ganon finds them and tries to steal the Emerald from Time, so Lullaby goes looking for help and thus finds the sages. Saria is an anonymous hacker who uses the screen name 'Kokiri'. Time reveals he didn't steal the Emerald, he was Deku's heir, and then Navi goes missing. Time is home worried enough that he's physically sick, and Ganon decides to try and attack the home. Only Lullaby's family is Olde Money, and they live in a big, old manor, so Lullaby as Sheik decides to play 'Home Alone' with the secret passages in the walls and they piss off Ganon because when did that brat get a sheikah bodyguard??? Sage and Rottla (Lullaby's mother, who is fully sheikah as well) rush home from a thing and Kokiri is running a play by play watching the security cameras.

I pull in my headcanon that Time was killed in the Downfall Timeline by getting impaled on Ganon's tusk and Ganondorf stabs him with the tusk of a mounted boar head and then Sheik shows up to protect his brother, and then Mama gets home and is not happy to find this man in her home attacking her kids. Time is fine, but Navi stays missing. (She's alive tho.)

Also, Time's foster dad was the last leader of a secret society known as The Order of The Lost Woods, and Time learns this upon meeting Tatl, who gets him sucked into another event that would probably make a good action movie. I have thought too much about the Order and it's hierarchy, but what's important here is that Time ends up with a standing job offer and Tatl and he remain friends and we find out how I fit FD into this AU. It's not pretty. This is where Time loses his eye too.

The AoC came out and I added that Link in as Wild's twin brother and he shows up during the main plot.

Which starts with Twi getting kidnapped. (I'm not really meaner to him than the others, I swear, he's just the most logical choice to be Time's heir. Which he is. He doesn't know this though.)

So he's kidnapped by Ganondorf, who broke out of jail, Zant, who shot Twi in highschool, and Ghirahim, who has some history with Sky I haven't fleshed out yet and a very public rivalry with Warriors over twitter. About six weeks later Sage finds him in an abandoned warehouse (because of course) with a shackle on his left arm and a lot of new injuries. He ends up fine, but he tells Time later in the hospital what happened and he's both message and messenger and Time is this close to just committing murder. Tatl talks him down.

Somewhere here is the half finished fic where I introduce AoC Link as Luke/Knight, and this is as far as I've plotted thus far.

Other tidbits: Wild and Lullaby/Sheik are both genderfluid, Lullaby/Sheik married Ruto, Wild has a very popular YouTube channel, Twi does drag racing sometimes, Sky has a pet bird, Four has DID to explain how the Colours are here too, and Wolfie exists in the form of a random wolf-dog Wild found and brought home that Legend somehow convinced half the family was Twilight. Also, Warriors has somehow befriended an entire sorority and he doesn't know how this happened.

This... got long. As you can see I have a lot of thoughts about the Adoption AU. It's gotten a bit away from me, I'll admit. This went from 'Wild does stunts on his motorbike and keeps breaking bones but somehow not the bike' to 'Twilight got kidnapped and Time is the target of a mafia that Ganon runs and also maybe killed a man once' and I don't know how that happened. Also, this is the condensed version of the summary. My actual summary/outline is much, much longer than this. So if there's any detail you want more on, feel free to say so and I'll happily go into more detail (there are so many things I didn't even mention....)

And yes, Robbie having a bong is very important to my best friend, for some reason. He has one in a modern AU and he probably invented one in canon. I happen to agree that this makes sense for his character, if anyone would invent a bong in LoZ it's Robbie (this is such an anticlimactic end to this ask after the stuff about the modern AU...)

Also, sorry for the long ass ask. I genuinely don't know how to condense the Adoption Au down any further. There's a lot of important plot beats to cover, and I still skipped things.

-Attllhak

oh my GOD???? if you ever write and post this somewhere id love to read it, the level of "crazy" conspiracy/action movie elements implemented sound sosososo cool, from Ganondorf being Deku's half brother to trying to "send a message" via Twi and- just- all of this is SO good.i sat here and reread this ask like 3 times as if that would magically spawn more info about it ahaha

there's so much to unpack here but it's honestly so worth it i love every single detail!!! i can imagine the actual outline being way longer, nad honestly that just makes me the more excited/curious about all that might be missing from this ask - i cant believe it started with Wild and Wars going to Taco Bell of all things

also i can totally see Robbie making a bong, no matter the setting or AU. fits him a lot I'd say

and dont worry about long asks!! i adore opening up my askbox to see one ask take over the entire thing, it makes me really happy aha

#attllhak #im once again rendered speechless (in a good way) by your creative mind attllhak #tortilla asks #long post #linked universe #ask to tag #injury mention

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You know something, you've had a love of the Zelda series since you were a little girl, ever since Ocarina of Time came out, but I don't think I've ever asked you why you, specifically, love it so much. Like, what made this your lifelong obsession when it comes to gaming? I guess it just never occurred to me because when we were kids, it was just as much a part of my life as it was yours, so it's like one of those "it's all I've known" kind of things.

Rose you opened up a can of worms that even I wasn't ready for. You expected a few sentences? Nah you get an essay with more effort put into than anything I've ever done in school.

I don't even think I covered it all.

Your interests as a kid can heavily influence your interests as an adult. I grew up with Ocarina and Majora and just kept following the series.

I don't know I guess it is a "it's all I've known" thing for me as well but it's one of those VERY few game series I follow adamantly. Kingdom Hearts is another one I love for the characters and their personalities and connections, but that was part of my life into my mid teen years, not since I was 5 like LoZ (and Resident Evil).

I don't know. I just really enjoy playing them, the simple stories with a random gut punch of depth here and there, the characters, the familiar gameplay with a fun gimmick (let's stop pretending gimmicks are inherently bad).

Link may be a blank slate of a character but sometimes he shows his own personality, while subtle at times. Link is a hero you can't help but admire. He's diligent in some games, but a goofball in others. He's a loving brother and grandson, embarking on a personal journey to save his sister and he finds himself on a quest to save the world as well. Or he may be skilled yet gentle warrior with a soft spot for children and animals, a farm boy chosen by the gods, destined for greatness.

The Hero of Time, a young, lonely hero with many faces who can't save everyone no matter how hard he tries. Forgoing his own happiness, he carries the burden of the dead to bring happiness where he can and prevent the end of the world after already doing it once.

A lazy schoolboy with impeccable skill at swordplay and lofting flight, dealing with everything from school bullies to the embodiment of evil itself. His love for his best friend being his motivation.

A teenager who just wants to go home, shipwrecked on an island that only exists in the dreams of a god. His desire to leave supersedes the lives of people who weren't even real but the bonds he made with them were.

An amnesic who's either a trash gremlin who eats dirt and frogs, running through a thunderstorm buck naked, or a stoic knight, set on sealing the great evil away alongside the princess, as is his duty. His personality is truly your personal choice.

In several cases, Link's motivation is saving someone he loves, be it family or friends, but fate and circumstances have something more in mind for this young man with humble beginnings.

Zelda herself is so different each game as well. She may be a dainty princess who seeks help, using what power she can to call to you in the dead of night. A young woman hidden in plain sight, guiding you through your journey even if it isn't obvious to some. A respected child pirate who's got a heart of gold, and captain of a loyal crew at her beck and call. Your best childhood friend who just wants to go to the fair and maybe see a magic rodent.

Your best friend and classmate who will ALWAYS be your Zelda even if she's a god.

A wise ruler who knows surrender will save her people if only for a time until someone on the outside can help, but she is also incredibly adept in battle in her own right, shooting Ganondorf while STANDING ON THE BACK OF A GALLOPING HORSE.

A young woman, pressured by her desperate father into unlocking a power she can't, anxious to help in any way she can. Starting off as an overwhelmed brat and growing closer to her appointed knight, finally unlocking her god given powers when it's seemingly too late. Zelda may not be in the spotlight most times, but she's important.

Your various companions, like them or hate them, are another thing that I like when they're there. Navi, the fairy assigned to guide the Kokiri who doesn't belong, is the only constant on Link's journey in Hyrule, wordlessly parting ways when her job is done. A powerful old man cursed by his own apprentice, Ezlo learns humility throughout your journey and leaves you with a parting gift to remind you of your time together.

A deposed princess angry at the world, Midna is cursed into the form on a catty imp by the very man who stole her rightful place on the throne. When kindness is given to her on her deathbed, her motivation is less about her and more about the lives of her own and Hyrule's people.

An emotionless android by design, Fi is knowledgeable on everything in the world, in the sky and below. During your journey, her stoic disposition is broken only once, as she tells you her understanding of happiness before saying the two words you've heard countless times on your journey, and hides away into the newly forged Master Sword one final time.

The antagonists have I less to say about but they're there. Disconnected from reality, Zant is a greedy, false king among a people who have been conditioned to have no selfish desires, only able to usurp the throne by using a power he didn't earn. Ghirahim is an eccentric leader of monsters, a dedicated tool to the evil demon king who started it all. He is a force to be reckoned with who relishes in the suffering of others.

Vaati is an arrogant mage who seeks a magical force to grow more powerful. Skull Kid felt abandoned and forgotten by his friends, so he made new ones and stole an evil relic with more power than he could handle. He had no idea what he was in for, in the end he was not wearing the mask, the mask was wearing him.

Ganondorf's motives for power and control are kind of the same in his every appearance but in Wind Waker at least his motive is understandable. Instead of power for the sake of it, he wanted to help his people, but it seems he approached it in the wrong way and went astray. His greed doomed his people and he was blind to the destruction he caused. My enjoyment of Ganondorf is surface level, not much depth for the most part.

I probably put more into this than necessary but my feelings and interpretations are why I love this series. I love the characters, companions, the settings. The game may primarily focus on swordplay but with all the fun tools at your disposal, you can play how you want.

#ask #answer #missroseyred #2021

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