i want to be a real boy, said the puppet to the fairy. i am too loud and too wooden. i cannot understand the softness of their skin.
when i lie, my nose grows. when i am lied to, nothing happens to them at all. they smile. their eyes shine, wet with salt-water. my wrists are bound with string, my ankles are threaded with wire.
when i open my mouth, out comes a scream, as a felled tree, bleeding sap. i've shattered the windows and bent the door.
i've broken my father's heart.
have i not given all i had within me to give? did i not shave myself hollow to offer a handful of wood chips and sawdust to anyone who would smile at me? my walls are thin, by now, and my voice is a haunting within my own head. when the sun is strong enough, it shines right through me.
as though i was made of glass, like the fine porcelain dolls in their fine silk dresses and their fine leather shoes. those chubby-red cheeks, polished to the noblest of shines.
smooth as aged pebbles, they do not hurt the palms that hold them unless dropped.
i have taken sandpaper to the high points of me. the rough, first, no matter how it hurt to hold it. no matter the mess. my father taught me well. i will not splinter if you touch me.
i will not lie. i will dance the dance, i will drink the drink, i will breathe only when i am told. i will sink this pining body into the sea. for my father, i will rot.
only make me soft. give me lungs and a beating, bleeding heart.
make me right, said the puppet to the fairy, make me whole.
silly little heartwood, said the fairy to the puppet, you are real. how else would you cry? there is nothing wrong with you.
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135 Days since Tears of the Kingdom Released. I thought I had a brilliant idea and it did not turn out the way I expected. I was in the depths and I wanted to use a hot air balloon but didn't want to put the flame thrower in. So I said to myself surely I could put a stack of wood in the middle and then throw a flame fruit to make a perfect little camp fire. If it works on the ground, surely it would work the same for the hot air balloon and Impa's balloon had one so it had to be possible. NOPE!
The bundle of wood caught on fire but it did not transform into a perfectly neat camp fire. It just stayed on fire like this and every time Link took a step he'd also catch on fire. In the end, once the balloon got high enough, I put the wood back into my inventory as if it was never on fire in the first place, baffled.
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Zelda Theory - The True form of the Kokiri / Koroks
There's something about the Kokiri that doesn't add up.
There's the matter of the rules of the Kokiri and the Lost Woods. Although that might be simpler than it seems.
One rule is that Kokiri must not leave the Kokiri Forest, because they might die, or grow up. But we see them at Lonlon Ranch at the end of Zelda 64.
There can be a simple explanation:
It was the old Deku Tree that made the original rule, and the New Deku Tree does not demand that the Kokiri be permanently confined to the Forest.
But, I gotta ask, why wait until now to revoke that rule?
"Ocarina of Time" never mentions it, but there are some lapses in logic when it comes to Link and the Kokiri.
The Deku Sprout reveals to us that Link was actually delivered to the Deku Tree as a baby and raised as one of the Kokiri. But… wouldn't they all remember Link was a baby?
Like, wouldn't Saria, his closest friend, remark to him that he was a baby, when they met? Wouldn't his bullies (like Mido) tease him about being a baby?
Unless, they all forgot about it.
The Deku Tree is very old and powerful Spirit, he might have the power to alter memories. Especially the memories of the Kokiri, who are probably just extensions of his own spirit.
I'd could even speculate that the Koroks are actually the ORIGINAL forms, and they became the child-like Kokiri, in order to accommodate baby Link, and allow him to grow up around people that look like him.
And of course, the special rules that Kokiri cannot leave the Forest were set in place to protect Link. (at first)
It's likely the Deku Tree could sense the spirit of the Hero inside of Link, and he needed to be guarded until Destiny called on him to rise up.
Finally, by the time of Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild, the Deku tree no longer had a child to guard, so he had no qualms about letting the Koroks go beyond the forest. Regular people can't SEE the Koroks!
(Also, after many tests, we know Koroks are indestructable, lol)
Imagine that... Saria was a Korok the entire time. Link never saw her true face. It makes it all the sadder, doesn't it?
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Day 20: Mushroom
The Weeping Willow relaxing in the ground with her fungi friends.
Drawing of another adopt I got a while back!
This character is Weeping Willow and she’s an adopt I got from WHOKILLEDKAIEXE (nsfw 🔞) a while back. I wish I could’ve added more darker pencil detail in this but I’m happy with what I made in my time frame.
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