I Am Delighted By This Game.

There's been about 4 or 5 puppet Zeldas, so the boys need to catch up.

woah, crow piece

more arlecchino ✒️ there’s something so soothing about doing ink washes

I have always head-cannoned that the kokiri were an isolated appearance.

They they've only ever been koroks, except for that one time they became a village that raised a hero.

That the Great Deku Tree, surrounded by korok forest children, decided to take in the orphaned infant hylian before him. That he asked the forest spirits to appear as hylian-like children to make Link feel more comfortable and less lonely as he grew up.

(Mido must have missed the memo).

Sketches

Anutka

i feel like the most interesting aspect of rhoam (to me at least) that not enough people talk about is the dissonance of post botw link and zelda's memories of him? like, zelda remembers a king who maybe loved her, but even so was a terrible father, who put duty before sentimentality, who constantly pressured her, restricted her, and was just an all-around asshat and a prick. link remembers a fun, mischievous old man, who was the first person he met after his hundred year nap, who was the person who taught him how to navigate the world, to use an axe, to hunt, to cook.

i just feel like link would have trouble linking the old man to the king, and zelda the king to the old man. i feel like link doesn't like cooking the spicy meat and seafood fry around zelda. i feel like zelda feels ever-so-slightly bitter whenever link uses the paraglider, or wears the warm doublet. i feel like zelda sometimes wonders what her life would've been like, if only her father was the old man, instead of the king.

"Eternal night" this, "endless darkness" that, "no light all the time would be so bad" blah blah blah. The big bang's chokehold of a victors' narrative really made yall forget the natural state of the universe.

Read thru a lot of the tags and would like to propose: the bloodline of hylia is the godhood bloodline, and if you're the political power of a land, you want that bloodline tied to yours to control it. Could explain why zelda retains the title of Princess even when she shouldn't. Like hyrules monarchy is just trying to keep literal god within the family. It could be less of a divine mandate and more of a divine leash.

also sorry i'm thinking about the hylian monarchy and the whole 'descended from a goddess' thing. do y'all remember the divine right of kings? can you imagine living in a world where not only is that the ONLY form of government for tens of thousands of years, but any ruler's reign is provably correct and irrevocable? what do u do if the present queen is a bit shit. u are stuck with that lady. she's god

Finally beat the game but not before it made me cry ugly happy tears. I love it.