I Don't Like Mazes

Was having a conversation about the different types of villains in Legend of Zelda, and my friend mentioned how Zelda herself could actually be a pretty decent villain in her own right. She holds the Triforce of Wisdom, so she-in theory-could outsmart Ganondorf and it's a shame this aspect hasn't been used before. So we came up with a few of basic idea for this au(some of these i came up with on my own):

Due to her part of the Triforce, Zelda would have the capacity to be very manipulative and could somehow convince the entire kingdom she's a good person while doing some pretty bad stuff.

They're in a war against the Gerudo because Ganondorf sees her evil and wants to liberate Hyrule from her reign, but Zelda spins this to her people as the Gerudo invading them for the throne.

Link would have some sort of history with her, and therefore completely trusts her, which lets her manipulate him into doing basically warcrimes while giving him 'explanations' that placate him when he starts voicing his confusion and concerns.

She keeps him on a metaphorical leash inside the castle and even when sending him out to fight or other things i dunno and on one of these missions against the enemy, he's about to kill an innocent Gerudo before a wounded warrior jumps in front of his sword, killing her. For some reason this is what snaps him out of Zelda's control and is just stupefied by the carnage around him, letting the 'enemy' knock him out and take him prisoner.

When he wakes up he interrogated by the man himself Ganondorf, holding a necklace in his hand that he took from Link, talking about its evil magics before actually asking questions.

The necklace was something Zelda had given Link when they became friends, but she had seen how good he was at fighting so put a spell on it to keep him under her control. Not direct mind control, but more like... fervent nudging him to be obedient to his friend that he trusts.

Eventually they team up and fight Zelda but yeah got nothing for in between that lol

I would love to make some sort of comic of this but i'll have to flesh it out much more, and this isn't even taking into account all my other projects 😰

if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

fierce deity origin au art of this post though i did change the eyes from red to cyan to differentiate from the face markings

demon oni's design since it's hard to see in the background

What if Vaati just fucking exploded instead?

always thought it was strange how the real bombchu looks nothing like the item so i made my own version :) a silly guy

"the answer's no"

since I have both adhd and anxiety i took both the creatures and combined them into one species.

I call it the “holy shit”

i love how the first boss is literally just a normal ass chuchu but you're so small compared to it

anyways more minish link because i love him very much

@enthusiasticscientist 's sona

original

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