#kotake

[good-advice-ganondorf]

#loz #tloz #ganondorf #the legend of zelda #good advice ganondorf #good advice #twinrova #koume #kotake

[walrus-tusk-615bc]

Some pre-Hyrule Ganondorfs. I wonder sometimes if he was good to his people.

#Totk #ganondorf #ganon #gerudo #kotake #koume #Sad we didn’t get more of kotake and koume :(

[kagoutiss]

so the new iteration of twinrova in totk who appear in the bg of some of the dragon tear memories. who look oddly young and also never show up again or become plot relevant at all. anyway i keep thinking what if they’re his daughters this time around :’-0

#tloz #totk #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom #ganondorf #koume #kotake #twinrova #have this extremely anatomically confusing hug :-) #spotted them in the bg immediately after going thru the molduga memory frame by frame a while back #screamed. have not stopped screaming #they have golden masks on in the game so idk what their faces actually look like unfortunately #and i didn’t draw their whole outfits #also gave them. more practical heeled shoes instead of like. stilettos. help #idk if they’re actually his daughters this time or still his mothers or what the situation is but #twinrova daughters feels like it would be a nice twist on their classic situation lol #shaking aonuma and fujibayashi yelling you Will give us Twinrova DLC. you WILL give us Twinrova Daughter DLC

[game-mush]

My Lullaby

Inspired by the song "My Lullaby" from The Lion King 2

#the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #fanart #kotake #koume

[barbwalken]

What if in TOTK they are siblings and ganon is a troll...

#the legend of zelda #totk #ganondorf #kotake #koume #ganon be like #evil pause #evil yes

[ellenent]

twinrova!

#linktober #linktober 2023 #day 18: boss #twinrova #ocarina of time #zelda #tloz #the legend of zelda #loz #oot #fanart #gaming #koume #kotake #gerudo #nintendo #artists on tumblr #my art

[ladyrijus]

Lately, I have been thinking about Kotake and Koume, and, out of interest, have read through a lot of interesting takes on their involvement in Ganondorf's upbringing during Ocarina of Time. However, I've noticed that some of these discussions tend to depict them as emotionally distant, exploitative, manipulative, and even borderline cruel.

Which, granted, isn't entirely out of line for their characters. What other personality traits could we expect out of witches who brainwashed their people into doing the bidding of their king, who were born nearly 400 years before the events of Ocarina of Time and therefore hold a vastly different worldview than the rest of their tribe?

But as always, I like to carry a bit of sensible skepticism when it comes to the narrative that is being pushed in the game. And I find it almost imperative to do so for Ocarina of Time, given that it is played through the eyes of Link, a child soldier who fails to question the orders that he believes he is meant to follow, and the kingdom of Hyrule, which had recently come out as the victor and dominant power after a "civil" war.

The question still remains, however. What, in Ocarina of Time, would "redeem" Twinrova? Where can we see evidence of their "goodness"?

In my opinion? Their powers.

Their powers, I argue, were not chosen randomly by the creators of Ocarina of Time. It was absolutely intentional to show their association with the Gerudo Tribe and more importantly, the Gerudo Valley/Desert. Just think about it, the climate there is scorching hot during the day, yet biting cold during the night.

Wouldn't you, with powers of ice, try to cool down your people after they return from a tiring yet successful hunt?

Wouldn't you, with powers of fire, try to warm your people up when there is not enough hides and furs to pass around?

And given that no one (aside from maybe Ganondorf) has these powers, it is safe to assume that the Gerudo regarded Twinrova as blessed beings; divine guardians sent by the Goddess of the Sands as a reward for their endurance in such harsh climates.

Again, this isn't to condone their actions that take place during the game. We see they are more than happy to kill in the name of their king, willing to coerce others into killing by ways of dark magic.

However, we should also acknowledge the fact that we're encouraged to see just that: two antagonistic witches who revel in brainwashing, killing, cheating death, and being unapologetically evil.

Boring. If we wanted absolutely evil, death seeking creatures, we can look to literally any other magical creature in Ocarina of Time.

Rather, it's important that Twinrova are humans (or humanoid, though either way their sentience still stands), as it forces players to 1) look at the bigger picture and question why the twins behave the way they do and 2) recognize that they have motives that go beyond simply helping a king assert control over an entire world.

Perhaps, Twinrova might have been prolonging their lives to look out for their people, as they had no one with magical affinity to mentor until Ganondorf had demonstrated his own prowess in the mystical arts.

Perhaps, over the centuries, they realized the chiefs and chieftesses before Ganondorf were not cutthroat enough like their Hylian counterparts to fend off territorial expansion/colonization.

Perhaps, after seeing their era of prosperity being snatched away from them, they grew hateful of the kingdom that lives in splendor, and wanted to see it burn and freeze the way they do.

Perhaps, after seeing the complacency of the new generation, how some of their best warriors seek out lovers in that damned Castle Town, they realized this boy was their only hope of restoring their honor and dignity.

#i am the gerudo people's number one defender! move! #also i would like to point out that it's unlikely for ww ganondorf to etch their names to his dual swords if he held no affection for them #tloz #loz #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #gerudo #twinrova #kotake #koume #ganondorf #link #ocarina of time #oot

[rawliverandgoronspice]

To Make a King.

.

(aka: I'm obsessed with Ganondorf's four hundred years old witch-moms and their weird codependant relationship to their king of a son; their individual and collective ambitions, their responsibilities towards the gerudos and their cultural heritage in a world that cosmically hates them, what fucked up dark magic they practiced behind the Spirit Temple's walls, if they actually loved their son or if they loved what he was bound to become... and so I etched my drawing tablet to the bone about it ._.)

(also, for those inclined, I have also written a fanfiction that touches on this, at least in part, and you can read it here!)

(happy spooks everybody!!!)

#tloz #the legend of zelda #ganondorf #ganon #koume #kotake #twinrova #oot #ocarina of time #gerudo #gerudos #spirit temple #cw blood #cw child abuse #(???? does that count? I'll put the cw just in case) #my art #descant of greatness #unhallowed vespers #genuinely proud of that one #I really pushed myself #got pretty far out of my comfort zone style-wise! #watch me do architecture!!! and hands!!! #but see this is what I mean when I say that to me #while link is having his adventures and being a hero and coming on top of hardship #ganondorf is going through an incredibly intense antihero-to-villain dark fantasy pipeline #and I am indeed Obsessed #(also the gerudo writing says: “for the sand forgets and the sand remembers”)

[batrogers]

Kotake hummed happily and sipped her tea. “Are you one of our apprentices from... I believe you’re displaced in time or space somehow, aren’t you? Link opened his mouth and had to force himself to close it, swallowing hard. He cleared his throat and shook himself before he managed any words at all. How did she know ? How much did she know? It made him nauseous to even think of it ; nauseous, and on the edge of hysteria that she'd guess him her apprentice . What did his magic look like to her that she thought that? “I never would’ve dreamed...” he breathed; he'd rather die. “I knew of you and your sister, but that’s all. It’s an honour to meet you.”

In which Time gets help from the last people he expected when Legend gets kidnapped. (Or, the most stressful tea party he never would have imagined.)

Quote from my Linked Universe fic, Skin & Gold

#my art #Linked Universe #Ocarina of Time #Koume #Kotake #Twinrova #LU Time #LU Legend #my writing #Zelda fanart #Gerudo #Couch and tea pot based on Middle Eastern/Ottoman stuff #Attempting to make the witches look reasonable #and not like horrific caricatures #Time is having the worst time and I love it

[link-is-a-dork]

#Legend of Zelda Series #Majora's Mask #Kotake #Kotake 3ds #nintendo #nintendo 3ds #gif #2024 #liad post #mm3d

[illcamp]

Linktober day 11: Monster????

I know she probably doesn't count as a monster but I suck at drawing non human stuff I need more than a day to do that lol

#zelda #tloz #loz #linktober #linktober 2023 #fanart #zelda fanart #drawing #ocarina of time #oot #kotake #koume #kotake and koume #twinrova #legend of zelda

[good-advice-ganondorf]

Hey Ganondorf any advice on coming out as trans to my parents

#loz #the legend of zelda #tloz #ganondorf #good advice ganondorf #good advice #koume #kotake #twinrova

[ocarinas-princess]

Thinking about how Koume and Kotake were the last boss you had to fight... Ganon kept them off the front lines for as long as possible.

#i feel sick he loves his moms #ganondorf #ganon #oot ganondorf #koume #kotake #twinrova #oot #ocarina of time #tloz #the legend of zelda #ragan's posts

[kagoutiss]

oot ganon etc etc

#oot #ocarina of time #twinrova #koume #kotake #ganondorf #he does not leave my head hes just there ok. im resigned to this now

[game-mush]

Kotake and Koume. Lack of reference image…

#tears of the kingdom #koume #kotake #fanart #the legend of zelda

[growingupgerudo]

Fire and Ice - Pages 8-9(out of 11)

The granny shenanigans continue! Just a few more pages left! By the way, we’ll be at Matsuricon next weekend at the Artist Alley! Drop by table number 8! 

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Read Growing Up Gerudo on Webtoons!-Junior

#growing up gerudo #falume #umas #falume and umas #koume #kotake #Twinrova #link #Ganondorf #loz #legend of zelda #comic #webcomic