#go play skyward sword

[strawberrycircuits]

chosen one not as in the one the prophecy foretold but as in lamb to the slaughter. as in the only person both brave and foolish enough to do it. chosen one as in sculpted, molded to be the perfect sacrifice to something expertly, divinely crafted to annihilate you wholly and surely. chosen one as in taken away. chosen one as in death sentence. chosen one as in goodbye

ALL TERFS DIE IMMEDIATELY. THIS POST WAS MADE BY A TRANNY. DO NOT TAG THIS AS "HARRY POTTER" I WILL BLOCK YOU.

#'hey roz is this abou'You Know Damn Well What This Post Is About #ok this post bload up. this was about link the legend of zelda btw #go play skyward sword

[verflares]

god must hate me.

#is this anything. i genuinely have no idea #anyway have you looked at skord zeldas concept designs. i really like em ^_^ this is a bit of a mishmash of em though #zelda #loz #skyward sword #ss zelda #sksw zelda #sksw #loz fanart #hylia #anyway yeah idkkkk i like how this looks i think. i tried to colourpick and make it look a lot like skords official art #very fun making your gradients look Not like an oilspill after some tweaking. would probably do it again #anyway im going to play ffxiv now yippeeeee (i vanish into a plume of motorcycle smoke to turn up face down on the concrete) #my art

[yasmeensh]

Longing

#loz #skyward sword #loz ss #first thing I did after getting the harp was go to the goddess statue and play it there #ZELDA!!! I MISS YOU!!!!

[cerame]

I have so many feelings about tears of the kingdom, y'all.

#totk #tears of the kingdom #link #loz #legend of zelda #totk spoilers #do i need the spoiler tag? eh better safe than sorry #my art #the next time i play the ending i'm going to cry #it just lines up with skyward sword so well

[wherearetherobots]

This was meant to be a shaded sketch with no textures or backgrounds but then I told myself, "No. You can do better than that". And so, I did. Pose by The Pose Archives

#my art #Look who's getting back into Zelda #This design for Sheik is based on concept art for Hyrule Warriors #I just bought Skyward Sword off of eBay and I'm going to play it for the first time in 10 years #Oh how I've missed this #loz #zelda #the legend of zelda #tloz #sheik #sheik fanart #hyrule warriors #zelda sheik #zelda fanart #the legend of zelda fanart #clip studio paint

[rawliverandgoronspice]

hey! do you have any thoughts on demise as a looser/more fluid/symbolic/metaphorical figure in the context of the story of the series- like thoughts on what he represents, and stuff like what his curse could mean thematically rather than the more essentialistic absolutistic "literal satan" interpretation that most of the (at least western) audience seems to take?

i know he may be somewhat contentious as a choice introduced by the writers especially considering from an outside perspective what he kind of did to the majority of fandom analysis and discourse, but i've been thinking about how it's quite possible the writers had a more paganistic approach to what it means to be a deity and how demise doesn't even really have a NAME so much as he is supposed to be some sort of manifestation/personification of the concept of demise, and maybe also of hatred, and also i don't know, like, what the point of that hatred is or why there has to be demise/what implications there could be of this worldbuilding

hope that was coherent enough to make sense of anything i just said but yeah i was just curious if you do!

Heyy sorry never replied, replying now!! Thanks for the ask!

Yeah it's exactly how I'm taking Demise, and I think what you mention connects more to what little I know and understand of shintoism.

In French, Demise has an absurdly long name and is basically called "The Avatar of the Void", which I think is... interesting? It makes me extremely curious as to how Demise is called in original japanese --because to me, "Void" is about the absence of things more than their destruction. It's about the absence, not the inevitability of things crumbling down that comes with Demise. I don't know which of these concepts are the closest to the original vision (if it's Void rather than Demise I think it recontextualizes everything we thought we know about this world and characters, but in my opinion it feels too incoherent with the rest of the world, so my guess is that it was a poorly thought-out translation --but I might be wrong!), but to me it's all in the title: Demise. The curse is that every golden era must end with a reckoning.

I think the curse is extremely compelling in that mythological sense, the way Demeter and Persephone's tale is about the joy and pain of passing seasons; it's the given cause for this world's fate as it is condemned to rise and die continuously; and that their eternal, bright future will always be opposed. To be honest, I'm not even sure it's a *bad* thing. Conflict is not only inevitable, it needs to rise to the surface instead of being suppressed to ensure things do not remain stagnant and shortcomings are being acknowledged and addressed --which is also partially why the suggestion of TotK's golden forever after really doesn't sit right with me, especially since nothing was learned and nothing truly changed in the course of its runtime.

I think the curse sucks when people think it means that Ganondorf is a generic evil demon man without motive of his own. It especially grinds my nerves since I somehow never hear this argument being made for *any* other villain in the franchise. I know they look alike the most (and TotK didn't help matters here), but I never *ever* saw people arguing that Vaati doesn't have motive, for example. Or Majora. Or Zant. Or even literal nothing characters like Bellum, who by all means looks more like a primal demonic evil acting on instinct than anyone else. Somehow, we get to assume they have internal motives that, while obviously wicked and self-serving, are their own! But somehow, Ganondorf, the actual main antagonist of his series with the most amount of games hinting at his backstory and internal moral code, gets flattened as an evil puppet with no internal life whatsoever. It's genuinely bizarre.

Anyway sorry sorry! Thanks again for the ask!

#asks #thoughts #demise #skyward sword #ganondorf #zant #vaati #majora #tloz #zelda fandom critical #totk critical #thanks for the ask!! #I don't get how you play wind waker and still go “yeah he's just an evil spawn of satan and that's all there is to him” #you don't have to like him or sympathize with him! but there's obviously something more than raw evil there #it's so weird to see what's basically a popular fan theory bulldozing past actual canon content #and making its way into the way nintendo itself is starting to perceive their own character #anywayyyy

[puppyeared]

Spirit tracks is fun teehee

#ITS FUN HAVING ZELDA AS A COMPANION OK… title character gets to be playable omg #god. they are everything to me idk why but spirit tracks zelink is my fav by far #It feels more earned I guess? The other zelda games I’ve played p much established zelink as like some unspoken thing #Like uhhh skyward sword gets brought up a lot bc childhood friends. And breath of the wild although I do like botw zelink #But like you get to see their relationship develop in spirit tracks like they go from oh cool we’re teammates to YOU ARE MY BFF #I also like Zelda piping up whenever something happens like. I remember I used to go swimming here do u wanna go swimming when I get #My body back. Also I like being nice to her we are besties your honor #2nd image is my fav expression in windwaker when his magic gauge increase HIS FACE IS EVERYTHING PLEASEEE #I also drew tetra wearing something like baro’t saya? Using her game model and pictures of dresses and the boxer codex #Everything I’m putting on here is experimental anyway cause I’m checking Wikipedia on my own culture 🫡 #BUT HELL IT WOULD BE COOL like tetra could have a more rugged baro’t cause like she’s a captain and she needs it when on open sea right #And I can imagine tracks zelda having more of a traje de mestiza dress because it’s more fancy right.. waving my hands #Sometimes Filipino zelda can be something so personal bro #My art #myart #doodles #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #loz #Spirit tracks #wind waker #took link #Zelink #zelda #Tetra

[queernobi]

There's always this thing among fans of longstanding video game franchises like the Legend of Zelda where people have to insist that the older title people didn't like was actually quite good, and it's been really funny to see people try to do this with Skyward Sword despite it aging like milk.

Any video you see trying to do a serious retrospective has to be like, "Yeah, the controls were bad, and the bosses were a bit repetitive, and most of the dungeons weren't that interesting, and the story was poorly paced, but it's really a good game!" like please. Please stop trying to force this.

#loz #skyward sword #legend of zelda #zelda #i actually don't even really dislike the game #i've barely played it because i kinda got bored with it right away #but i actually do respect what it was trying to go for #even though the OoT style of gameplay had gotten old like 5 years before its release #and the whole 'zelda timeline' shit the devs were forced to work with held it down quite a lot #it's just really funny how so many people defending the game end up just conceding that a lot of aspects of it were unforgivably bad #there's an alternate reality where skyward sword didn't have to abide by timeline bullshit or janky controls #where it could've just been a fun wii-era zelda game with an interesting and unique premise #i'd respect it if defenders actually took the stance 'i think the gameplay is great actually and everyone's wrong about this' #but i've only seen one or two videos taking that position #most others insist that all the glaring issues most people had with the game are actually just minor hindrances #and it's like nah man that's just the whole game

[prince-of-red-lions]

I’m going to CRY I’ve been wandering around this STUPID SHIP for like HALF AN HOUR trying to figure out WHERE THE NEXT STUPID THING IS to advance in the dungeons because I COULDN’T FIND OUT how to get into a room only to PASS BY THIS STUPID FAN and LOOK IN TO SEE A FREAKING TARGET (i already shot it but it was a target)

ITS THAT GOLDEN THING. bruh. IM MAD AT MYSELF BCZ LITERALLY THE FIRST TIME I PASSED BY IT I THOUGHT “huh strangely placed fan. that’s weird. why would it be there? must be used for something” then BLATANTLY CHOSE not to INVESTIGATE. i could’ve saved 30 minutes of my life if I had just looked at it more closely the first time but that’s not how my brain works so uhhhh here I am 💀💀💀

#rambles from the ocean #skyward sword hd #skyward sword #IM IN HYSTERICS RN #IF U COULDNT TELL #IM GOING INSANE #THIS DUNGEON MUSIC IS PUTTING ME IN A COMA #well I finally have the boss key so yay #here I go folks #windy plays things #<— new gaming tag?

[unexpectedstormy]

I have some Thoughts on the update but I'm too low-brainpower today to make an analysis post (so it'll be a day or a few days before I can make it.)

#I also have some plans for some skyward sword analysis posts #gonna go play acnh and check back on the fandom explosion later

[minijenn]

Anyway I’m still drawin all those boys and I’m very normal about SS Link idk what you’re talking about I’m not crying you are

#HE LOVES HIS GF SO MUCH GAAAAAH #HE HAD TO GO THROUGH SO MUCH SHIT YET HES JUST BABY #JUST LET HIM HANG OUT WWITH ZELDA AND PLAY HIS SILLY LITTLE HARP ALL DAYY #FUCK #i beat skyward sword hd last week and ill have you know im still crying #jen draws #wip #legend of zelda #skyward sword #link

[goldensunset]

#GIIIIIIIIIIRL #gotta finish the postgame of black and white and then play the sequel #want to replay totk but also am feeling like going back to botw bc it’s been a while since i fully played it #also spring/summer nostalgia (when i first played both those games) #i never finished my most recent skyward sword playthrough #still haven’t gotten around to tales of vesperia #want to start a new file on violet… literally i have almost 400 hours just on my first one #i guess i’m having too much fun to calm it quits but also i wanna restart and reexperience it too #missing link will *probably* come out this year #i might be able to convince my sisters to pool our money and save up for a ps5 #bc they would enjoy it and i wanna play kingdom hearts for realsies #peach rambles

[magical-xirl-4]

does it personally hurt my feelings when people (rightfully) critique SS's controls and how nosey Fi is?

yes

because this game is etched into my soul and mind I don't know how to explain it

#its so weird for me cause like #i played it when i was 11 #felt INSTANTLY and INSANSELY connected to it like it was part of me #REALLY connected to link. the master sword. zelda. the sky. fi. felt like it was a game MADE for me #didnt get into LOZ after i played some of it as a kid. i think its bc it wasnt the same #but now. im actually going through the games #and im enjoying myself #but beforehand. did i still name myself after the main character of a franchise i've only played one game of? #yes of fucking course i did thats how much this ONE (1) game and character means to me #i actually never finished it when i was 11 #i always wanted to finish it but i never did until i finished highschool and was about to go to college #i was 17. the exact same age as our hero. it was *the* right time #i loved the game more than i ever did before. finally seeing it through and finishing link's (my) story/journey #now it feels just as special cause im finally branching out and getting to know this character (technically me in a self-reflective way) #even more through the other stories #ugh. anyway. big dumb rant about how much i respect this piece of media after seeing more criticism to it. #yeah i like to go off. i know people love it which is comforting but. i just wish it was more loved #skyward sword

[youssefguedira]

Yusuf is there when Nicolò enters the old temple, not a vision of him, no portal behind him that will take him somewhere Nicolò cannot follow yet again before he has the chance to reach him, just Yusuf. He's alone, his head tilted upwards and eyes closed, illuminated by the shafts of sunlight that fall through the cracked ceiling. The sight of him - here and safe and whole, finally, after everything Nicolo's fought through to reach him - takes his breath away.

"Nico," Yusuf says, and opens his eyes to look at him. He smiles, and he's still Nicolò’s Yusuf, even after everything that's happened.

Nicolò can't wait another second, then, sheaths his sword at his back and walks up the stone steps towards him. Yusuf's smile widens, and then he's stepping into Nicolò's already open arms, laughing. "I missed you."

"Missed you too," Nicolò says. He kisses Yusuf's temple, holds him close. "So much, Yusuf, you have no idea-"

Yusuf leans back, cupping Nicolò's face in one hand. "I know. It's okay. I'm here."

But Nicolò knows him well enough to know something's wrong. "What is it?"

"It's not over, yet." Yusuf steps out of Nicolò's arms and back a few steps, leaving him cold. "There's so much more you don't know yet, but we're running out of time. He will return, soon, and we're not ready."

"Tell me what I need to do," Nicolò says immediately. He can't bear the idea of Yusuf disappearing again, not now when he's finally here, when every other time Nicolò has tried to reach him he's been a second too late. "Anything, and I'll do it, whatever it is. Just tell me what you need."

Yusuf smiles again, sad. "It's not you, Nico. We need more time. And I can buy it, but-" He cuts himself off.

"Then I'll help you."

Yusuf shakes his head. "You don't understand. For this to work, I need to reform the seal, and I can only do that by" - there are tears in his eyes, now, and dread running down Nicolò's spine - "by sealing myself away along with it."

Nicolò realises just a moment too late what that means. "Yusuf-"

"If I seal myself here, in the past," Yusuf continues, "when you return to our time, it will be just strong enough to hold. You will have the time you need to finish this. And once all this is over, the seal can be broken in our time."

"I can't," Nicolò says. "There has to be another way. This can't be it."

"It's the only choice we have," Yusuf says. "I cannot - this was always my path, Nicolò."

She's manipulating you, Andromache had said, the goddess. She's using Yusuf to make you do what she wants, can't you see? If Nicolò hadn't understood then, he does now - neither of them ever had a choice in this. Yusuf was chosen because Nicolò would follow him anywhere, and Nicolò was chosen for the same reason.

Nicolò realises something else then. "If you seal yourself here, you'll be trapped for thousands of years."

"I'll be asleep," Yusuf says, soft. "It'll be like the blink of an eye. So when this is all over, you'll have to come wake me up." He smiles, then, even through his tears. "Just like old times, no?"

And before Nicolò can say anything else, the air around him begins to glow gold, condensing around Yusuf, who tilts his head back and closes his eyes, and Nicolò cannot move, frozen in place by something beyond his control. All he can do is watch as the light gathers around Yusuf, blindingly bright, until Nicolò cannot see him anymore. Whatever's holding him releases, and he runs towards Yusuf even though the light hurts his eyes, and just as he reaches out the light fades.

Before him is what looks like a crystal, tinged orange, clear enough that he can see Yusuf inside, his eyes closed. He looks like he's just sleeping, like this is one of the mornings Nicolò had had to wake him but had paused for a moment just to watch him.

Nicolò lifts his hand to the crystal. It's freezing cold when he touches it. Yet again, he's too late.

"I'll come back for you," he tells Yusuf, even though he knows Yusuf can't hear him. "I swear it. I'll finish this, and I'll come back for you." His voice is trembling, but he can't let himself break down now, not when there's still work to be done. The faster he finishes his task, the sooner he can wake Yusuf.

(Nile is the first to ask when he returns through the gate, waiting for him with Andy, Quynh and Sebastien nearby. "Where's Yusuf?" she asks, looking behind him - the plan had always been that Nicolò would bring Yusuf back with him, after all.

Nicolò can't bring himself to say it out loud.)

--------------------

It feels like an age before Nicolò returns to the temple, now in the present. It's over, finally - the five of them have sealed the demon king away for good. The others are outside.

The crystal is overgrown with vines, now, just like their old favourite meeting place on the island where all of this had started. Its surface is scratched and clouded with age, but Nicolò can still make out Yusuf inside it, looking exactly as he had when Nicolò left him in the past. He hates to think of the crystal here, alone, for so much time.

There's a glowing mark on the crystal's surface that hadn't been there before. Nicolò approaches it carefully and places his hand over the mark.

Almost immediately, glowing cracks begin to grow from where his hand touches the crystal, spreading across the whole thing until it's glowing as brightly as it had when it was formed, but he can't look away. When the light dies down, Yusuf hovers in the air for just a moment before whatever spell had held him there finally breaks, and he collapses, but Nicolò is there to catch him, sinking to his knees and cradling him close. He doesn't move for a moment, and Nicolò is terrified, because what if something had gone wrong-

Yusuf gasps awake, his eyes fluttering open. He looks around frantically before catching sight of Nicolò above him, who nearly sobs with relief, holding him impossibly closer.

"Nicolò?" Yusuf whispers, his voice hoarse. Nicolò nods, unable to speak just yet, blinking back his tears and brushing Yusuf's curls away from where they've fallen into his eyes.

Then Yusuf asks, "Did I oversleep?" and Nicolò has to laugh even though it comes out sounding more like a sob, kisses his forehead and smiles. "It's over, then?"

"It's over," Nicolò confirms, and then, "I love you."

Yusuf sits up and wraps his arms around Nicolò's neck, buries his face in Nicolò's shoulder and holds on tightly. "I love you too."

(When they return, Nile is the first to them, hugs Yusuf so tightly he laughs, and then it's Sebastien's turn, then Andromache and Quynh both.

They choose to stay on the surface, all six of them. And neither Yusuf or Nicolò are the same people anymore - sometimes Nicolò wakes screaming, sometimes Yusuf gets a distant look in his eyes and it takes a worryingly long time for him to come back to himself. Sometimes there are things Yusuf still can't tell Nicolò, and vice versa.

They make it work, though. They find a quiet place in the woods, far away from the temple and any danger, and they're safe, and happy, and together.

It's all Nicolò's ever wanted, really.)

#neon writes #posting this separately in an attempt to unbury it a little #the old guard #kaysanova #ANYWAY guess whos playing skyward sword. thats right folks this is ANOTHER different zelda au #ive condensed the entire thing into this because im not going to write much else for it #but. the plot: #nicolo and yusuf are childhood rivals-to-friends-to-lovers. at the time when Shit Goes Down they're coming up to the point where they have #to pass a specific test to become soldiers/knights/whatever. the wing ceremony if youre a zelda fan but theyre both participating. anyway #they both win (andromache and quynh are two years ahead of them nile and booker are the year below but they're all like. adults. not 17) #anyway they win and go on some kind of flight around the clouds because the kicker is that this takes place on a sky island and they get #around by riding giant birds i love ss. anyway while they're flying around (victory lap or something) yusuf mentions weird dreams he's been #having. then a giant tornado appears things happen yusuf falls below the cloud barrier separating the land from the sky nicolo is thrown #from his bird. wakes up explains this to andy who is like Well Shit. cue epic quest to find yusuf who has some destiny shit to do #gods and all that. its not important #but theyre trying to defeat an evil demon king before he comes back. merrick with horns can be the visual for that. nicolo spends half of #his time chasing after yusuf who always has to leave before they can talk. maybe quynh isnt with them on sky island and is the one guiding #yusuf instead i dont know anyway eventually nicolo has to do some hero stuff and all that. and this happens when theyre running out of time #as a kind of last resort. but then nicolo nile booker andy quynh defeat The Evil and rescue yusuf and its all good #the plot of this isnt very well thought out. i just thought about that scene with zelda and then about them and had to make this about it #enjoy #the reference to yusuf oversleeping is bc there's a bit in skyward sword abt link always sleeping in and then having to wake zelda and it #causes me 10 psychic damage so i had to adapt it here. that line is the whole reason this fic exists

[acerobbiereyes]

Now that i’ve beaten both BOTW and TOTK (twice), I believe it is finally time to give myself over fully to the LOZ franchise.

I’ll see y’all on the other side 🫡

#the legend of zelda #loz #twlight princess #skyward sword #wind waker #i think i’m going to play windwaker first #that was my first zelda game and i never got past the forbidden fortresss #in my defense! i was like maybe 5 or 6 #now i have the power of the internet at my fingertips #and cohernt thoughts in my brain #(sometimes)

[vividbaddogs]

praying to your reflection

thinking abt how ive always interpreted skyward sword’s lore to mean hylia is dead and only lives on through the royal bloodline

#sorry i rb'd some zelda art and immediately had to go draw smth so this is just a doodle but #hear me out ive literally thought this since i first played skyward sword. it makes sense #hylia gave her immortality to be able to use the triforce against demise. and since she reincarnated as the first zelda #and her powers are passed to her descendants. hylias gone! shes been gone for thousands of years! #so who talks to botw link thru the goddess statues? idk. its not hylia though #okay sorry abt zelda theories on main this has just been haunting me for over a decade #loz #legend of zelda #skyward sword #breath of the wild #botw #zelda #slowmodraws