The Legend Of Zelda - Blog Posts

my take on the original zora's design with some elements of the modern design implemented as well

with alternate colors based on the alttp and albw design

bonus close-up of the tiniest little guy

was listening to 36 questions and when the song "for the record" played i got these two vibes from it, especially "Tonight's 36 reasons why you and I cannot be healthy for each other"

a friend requested a baby blupee, and i delivered.

friend and i decided fokka is sexist after looking at their art and no i will not give context

fokkeru is too, just with tits

minish oc :)

Satori, Lord of the Mountain.

i redesigned them a little with heavy inspiration from princess mononoke's lord of the forest because their weird toe-hooves bug the hell outta me, as well as giving them a second set of wreath ears and a beak to go along with their little blupee children :)

they're just really fun to draw

drawing this i learned how silly barn owl faces can be

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

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

Involves a character fantasy bleeding what is essentially gemstones and magic from their chest, so I'm hiding it just in case

Based off a conversation in the four swords sanctuary server about what if the colors bled force gems instead of blood? Plus my headcanon of Blue being frozen for long enough it settled inside of him and if he's injured enough or in a too cold place he'll start freezing from inside out :)

i'm actually quite proud of this drawing

headcanon them as siblings

in response to a wip of this i posted to my friends, one of them replied with this

so of course i made this

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 :)

funfact, there's a game where link has a tomahawk and kills dragons :)

A proper reference for Oni since I realized I didn't actually have one for him.

While making this I had to study the Skyloft style clothing and it's actually pretty interesting. Almost everyone is wearing this sort of poncho cloak thing with baggy clothes covered in intricate patterns that I tried to emulate. I also made sure to specify the locations of the markings on his body, obviously not as many as his demon form, but still plenty there.

So in Majora's Mask, I read somewhere that the reason Link screams when putting on masks is because he's experiencing the pain the character went through before their death, so I thought it would be interesting if he saw some of the things the Fierce Deity did when putting on the mask. But because in my au Oni isn't dead, just sealed away, they're able to talk in Link's head except the connection goes both way so Oni also saw some of the shit Link went through. Unfortunately the visions only show the bad things(neither know this) so Link only saw the horrible crimes and Oni only saw the bullying Link went through and figured they were the same, having also gone through bullying for being different than the others around him.

Realize at this point in his life, Oni has been sealed away for who knows how long with only his thoughts, so he is very much not a stable person, and is making Link very uncomfortable despite trying to relate to him by making himself look like his child self(they're in Link's head and he's a powerful demon, who's to say he can't shapeshift?).

Also Majora's Wrath is the one that slashed Link's eye with one of its whips, and in a panic he used the Fierce Deity mask, inadvertently letting Oni take control of his body.

wanted to draw oni with his normal hairstyle and not looking like he's feral, but still unsure what type of clothes to put him in so he's just wearing a night shirt that's way too big for him

hopefully i managed to make his hair look similar enough but still unique

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

Shared a thing I'm writing with my friends and it sparked some what if thoughts of "What if there was some being that actively hunted the Links? And was very capable of killing them?" and I suggested the Fierce Deity. This resulted in me having to explain what that is and realizing that there's not actually much lore for it, excluding the manga, so now for me the idea has spiraled into this.

Basically, now what if even after the war with the gods, demons still remained in hiding, waiting for their King to return from his seal. But now that Demise has been killed, they've become susceptible to normal weapons and not just to holy power and the Master Sword. Even then, their rage drives them out of hiding to kill the ones responsible, which in their eyes, is literally any living thing they come across.

Enter Oni, the self proclaimed Demon Prince; no other demon's been strong enough to dispute this. He emerges from the volcano and has been on a destructive path towards the Hylia Statue, where Demise had been sealed and where a small settlement has been trying to grow. Link and Zelda hear rumors of Oni approaching and go to confront him, the only ones strong enough to fight him.

A brief excerpt of what it might be like, plus a vagueish description of Oni:

'There had been rumors of a pale white monster covered in strange patterns with long hair like a mane, along with massive horns and fangs. But standing there, with its back turned to them, the Demon was much more humanoid than Link was expecting. A familiar shape. Its voice was grating as it turned to face them, "You are the ones who slayed our King? Left us vulnerable to your pathetic mortal weapons?" its blood red eyes narrowed, in stark contrast to the rest of its body.'

(not said there but the horns are the colors of fierce deity's sword because oni rips them out of his head to create it. then when he's done shoves them back in :])

Somehow they defeat him(after he monologues of course), but after the burst of light fades where Oni died, was an unconscious kid. Basically a smaller, like 10 years old small, and more human looking version of Oni. Pale skin and pure white hair, the strange designs on him are still there but not as many as before, and metal-like nubs where the horns were. He's basically naked because Oni was wearing those like big weird samurai pants I don't know how to describe uh if you know Terra from Kingdom Hearts yeah those.

Anyways, Link and Zelda are VERY confused at a child resembling the demon they just killed appearing out of supposedly nowhere. But they're nice enough to go over and pick him up off the hard ground, wrapping him in the sailcloth Link carries with him all the time. The motion wakes the kid up though, and at the sight of the two he immediately imprints on them like a baby bird. Yeah they're now accidentally parents to this demon child yay. Luckily the kid has no memory of being a demon, only knowing his name is Oni.

There's more I could talk about but that would end up as me rambling just some random ideas.

honestly much prefer this changed timeline than the official one. makes a lot of sense and he explains through it pretty well.

Hmm, what if when the Skyloftians left the sky they vaguely still looked like Zonai. Like they had much longer ears, little markings that resembled a closed third eye, and slightly sharper teeth. But after a few generations they turn into Hylians while those that stayed up in the clouds turned into the Zonai we know.

screaming and crying and hitting the wall

Do the blins count? DO THE BLINS COUNT?? Are they sentient enough creatures to know sign language?!?!

aaaaaAAAAAAAA

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.

i might be a little obsessed oops

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 😰

random art

Got back from Planet Comicon with such a great haul of art! And a phone charm. 🤩 Let’s go over the art first.

These are all so sick. Most of them were “buy 2, get one free” so my wife and I went on a shopping spree. The Hollow Ichigo, Gear 5 Luffy, and inky Hollow Knight prints are from shanesauerart on Instagram. The other Hollow Knight prints on the right are from @itsmandymo here on Tumblr and other platforms (I have their business card in another photo). The Splatoon 3 Deep Cut print is from Andy Kluthe (again, business card in another photo). The Mario print at the top is from Amourable Art (business card photo). I actually have three other prints I got from them last year of Ichigo, Luffy and the Elric Brothers.

My wife also got some prints from them this time of Howl’s Moving Castle and Majora’s Mask.

All in all, some pretty cool stuff. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

These lovely Bleach, Chainsaw Man, and Samurai Jack prints are from Sketch Cartel who can be found on Instagram. I also got a print from them last year of Sukuna and Yuji from Jujutsu Kaisen.

They’re all so pretty. 🤩 Now, this next photo is all of the business card we acquired for some of the artists mentioned above.

Finally, the last thing I got was THIS!

A Magnemite phone charm! Isn’t it adorable? FYI, I’ve owned the Bleach phone case for about a month or two now. It’s not new but it is neat. Anyway, this little guy was being sold with other Pokémon merch not normally found outside of Japan. So that’s pretty neat.

All in all, I had a pretty great time at Planet Comicon and can’t wait to go again next year. I’ve been to it about five times and had a blast each time. This October, they’re gonna open a new sister con, Planet Anime. I am stoked for that. More cool art to add to my collection!!! And maybe some autographs from english dub voice actors. 🤩

I think the timeline is a great concept and it seemed to sorta work, up til BOTW. We sorta figured out BOTW's placement (after Hyrule Warriors ish was what I went with) but then TOTK mucked everything up so now we're figuring it out again. And, of course, the stories are at least compelling to me. A person who's written multiple fics (most unpublished) and made a whole links meet au like a weirdo

Zelda Tumblr, I need your help

[Image ID: A gif of Midna putting her shoulder on link, giving a smirk and Twilight Princess Link smiling back, master sword in hand. Talem from the game]

Alright here's the 411, folks. I need your help settling a score. I know Ive done a lot of meme polls in the past but I genuinely need a large sample size here.

Whether you're a long-time fan or played only one game in the franchise

I NEED YOUR OPINION

PLEASE REBLOG, AND SHARE SOME OF THE NARRATIVE MOMENTS THAT HAVE STUCK WITH YOU, NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR BIG!

OR IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE NARRATIVE, TELL ME WHY! PLEASE I NEED TO UNDERSTAND A WIDE VARIETY OF OPINIONS

I NEED TO HEAR EVERY OPINION YOU HAVE, SO GO NUTS!!!!

peace, at long last 🌿