Satori, Lord Of The Mountain.

okay so i'm combining two posts for this one since they're the same premise, fanmade keyblades.

its name is Wayward Void, and it's made for a fanfic i wanna write, basically a "what if the fusion worked but not really and now it's a two minds controlling one body type of scenario?"

this ones name is Lone Dark, and it's also made for a fanfic of an au i have of baldr being sent to quadratum and becoming friends with strelitzia (and eventually sora), getting to start a new life free from the battles of light and darkness and heal

thanks kh for indirectly teaching me what a bird of paradise flower is because i saw a woman holding a pot full of them irl for the first time and was :O

big ass snails

Lost Light.

chirithy are probably very snuggleable

love it when half awake thoughts are actually pretty cool ideas

so in a lot of legend of zelda fanworks and aus i've found, the creator has link speaking in sign language which is pretty cool in my opinion

But that's got me thinking; what about the other denizens of Hyrule? Not all languages on earth use a universal sign language, so i imagine with such exaggerated diversity (completely different species) in Hyrule, they wouldn't either. Therefore I have come up with some vague-ish ideas of what the other peoples of Hyrule might use as a method of nonverbal communication. I'm using Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom as the base for this.

also note I'm not versed in sign language at all, so there will be mistakes.

I'll start simple, Gerudo.

The Gerudo people are most similar to Hylians in appearance, both are basically humans though they are treated as a different 'species' as far as I can tell. But it still makes sense to me that their sign would be most similar to Hylian sign, just some words might get a bit lost in translation.

Next up, Gorons.

Due to their bulkier appearance and larger hands, their sign might include their arms more prominently. Certain motions and swings might be dangerous for the other species, but other Gorons would be able to take an accidental hit. They do still use their hands and fingers, but less so than the more human-like species, and the motions would be more like a game of charades.

My favorite, Rito.

Due to their fingers also being feathers, Rito use their feet by tapping their claws, clenching toes, or stomping. For more complicated words they lower their wings so their feather-fingers are in view of the person already looking down and combine motions alongside their feet. Rito sign isn't very common however due to the difficulty of standing, signing, and focusing on what they're even trying to say without stumbling. It's even more difficult to understand while in the air. Only those with impeccable balance even bother unless necessary.

And finally, Zora.

If you look at the Zora's design, their gills are along/near the latissimus dorsi, an easy place to see both on land and in water. Due to this and how water can get extremely dark the further you dive, I imagine it would be pretty cool if the Zora could activate some sort of bioluminescence in their gills to flash in sequences similar to morse code. This would make it easy to see even underwater, and the ability to essentially shut the light off would keep them safe from underwater threats. This idea also comes from how I think it would be difficult to verbally communicate underwater and while swimming at fast speeds.

Like I said, I've limited this to botw/totk for simplicity's sake, but I know there's all sorts of different species in the other games, so it might be cool to explore their nonverbality one day.

the gang but not blurry

and because i posted this in my friends' server before i finished the comic, one of them got a hold of it to make this

thanks

devs who add "playable 8-bit characters" to their 3d games except they're actually voxel models clearly haven't played super mario rpg

the struggles

based on this

a silly idea i had based on those cool botw fics where link does die and is revived as something eldritch, except what if blupee