So I'm Not Entirely Sure How To Articulate This Well But I Was Thinking About The Ending Of Kingdom Hearts

watching the nes godzilla creepypasta with friends and the screenshot with anguirus kicking destoroyah right in the face got me

FF7 as quotes from The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo [Part 1]

"look at this stupid creature i'm about to conduct the most inhumane tests on"

love how in so many fanworks i see of vio, he's not mentally ok and i just so happened to be reading a very good fanfic series when my friend out of no where said this and i felt it fit :)

for anyone who's following me for the fossil fighters art i've been posting under the everyday vivosaurs au tag i've made a dedicated blog for the au @everyday-vivosaurs-au

any fossil fighters content not under that tag or is oc related will still be posted here

what a beautiful smile

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.

smile!

vivosaurs revived in other regions of the world may appear different

based on this

pokemon and daddy issues are synonymous it seems

chatting with friend about barry pokemon and trying to explain his fines, and I realized there's an interesting amount of daddy issues in pokemon

like, giovanni essentially abandons silver, then later on assumedly kills himself

of all the mainline protagonists only one has a known dad (i don't know about side games), and even then norman is distant and seems to rather be a gym leader than a father

palmer lives on an entirely different area of sinnoh, as well as also seeming emotionally distant considering the reason for barry's fines (tbf i don't know a whole much about the battle zone)

and arven just has parent issues in general depending on the version you play