#loz says stuff

[probablyhuntersmom]

...kinda wanna come up with a model sheet design that shows him between ages 16 and 20 (was it 19 or 20? Idk. It wasn't confirmed). Once there's a model sheet to reference, then I don't need to do guesswork for the scenes I'd like to depict. I'm thinking..son what colours did you wear and what was your general demeanor like when you were 18

Because there's a massive difference in his expressions and demeanor here.

#loz says stuff #my personal guess: the crew could've planned grey outfits... dark reds..eventually lighter reds to remember Flapjack more fondly #then he starts to integrate the dark blue (replacing the original Wittebane brothers' coat that had a very similar shade) #all this unfolding as his grief is transformed bit by bit

[red-lion-of-voltron]

My blogs (updated 10th Sept 2023)

I'm most active on my blorbo-themed sideblog.

But I reply and send asks with this URL.

Blog list:

On here is cinematography and film/animation appreciation.

crimsonzoroark, for Pokemon/Digimon content, aesthetics and pretty photography.

probablyhuntersmom, which is Blorbo Headquarters and where it's really Halloween all year round. Mental health info is posted/reblogged there since the follower count on there is a much higher number.

#loz says stuff

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[ganondoodle]

i am still scarred from botw

#ganondoodles #art #zelda #tloz #loz #memes #totk #i knew before posting it on twitter that immediately after doing so there will be comments saying #-oh i love these- #-these are my favs- #-lol these are so easy- #and lo and behold its not been up for a minute and theres already one #this is not a post for you then leave me alone i hate my stuff being taken #master sword trials scars are deep and still too fresh #;O; #i havent done a single one of them yet

[puppyeared]

What did they do to you

#first image is botw and second image is totk #this did confirm my hunch that Link kind of.. matured? got more formal?? #I noticed his dialogue options in totk are shorter and more formal compared to the funny ones in botw :( #it’s a very subtle change. he is a little silly sometimes when he says stuff like saying ‘I am indeed’ when a kid asked if he was a voe #or a very enthusiastic ‘nope!’ when asked if he used a sand seal to get to Gerudo town #anyway don’t mind me I’m rummaging thru my notes and screen recordings because I’m chewing on this fucker like he’s a chew toy #It makes me wonder if this is him falling back into his persona from pre calamity #but he already went thru botw with amnesia and he doesn’t need to be as stiff anymore.. if anything he’s more relaxed abt it #tell me what u think #botw #totk spoilers #tears of the kindom spoilers #tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of Zelda #loz #yapping

[lilyblossom-art]

I love how you draw Link :)

Thank you! :>

Link is such a comfort character to me so I end up drawing him a lot haha

Now, I wasn't sure if you meant the Links in general or if you meant a specific one so um. I put a bunch of drawings of them here

This is also supposed to be kind of an art summary thingy except it's ten of my favorite drawings I made of Link throughout the year bc why not :> Zelda also managed to sneak in a few times but shhhh

Some of these are old because I wanted to yk include drawings from across the entire year but yeah

Anyway, happy new year!!

#I don't really think I'm doing this ask thingy correctly like #I kinda end up saying stuff at the end that's irrelevant to the ask #I also think I'm supposed to tag these as asks so #asks #the legend of zelda #loz #zelda #link #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #ocarina of time #a link between worlds #a link to the past #links awakening #hyrule warriors #zelda 1 #zelda 2 #the adventure of link #classic link #classic zelda #oh goodness #so many tags

[bbq-potato-chip]

Ok this is not so much a headcanon as a Thought, but.. Zelda pondering something while idly running her fingers through Link’s hair like he’s a cat (I just think of them having small moments of affection and connection and my heart melts)

ugh this this THIS!!! I LOVE THIS AAAAAA!!!! Like you have no idea!!! They’re just so…gentle you know?

anyway i was seized by a vision. !!!!

#My art #loz #zelink #botw zelink #totk zelink #botw #Anyway thank you so much for the ask I have never drawn anything this good so fast before 🙏 #Also I love getting to talk abt stuff even if. I am bad at saying anything coherent other then “AAAAAAGHGG!!!!” #When ever I think of them I always think of warm n cozy colors. Like. A warm cool colors if that makes sense. #Like they’re so comfortable with each other ya know? #Anyway thank u

[leciraofthewilderness]

So, despite some faults, I really enjoyed totk, and on its anniversary I want to say something about it. Other people have said similar things before but it’s really important to me and actually a big part of why the story of totk was meaningful to me, so I want to also say it:

Zelda needed to come back from draconification. The story needed that. It wasn’t lazy and just ignoring “consequences” because (imo) that was the *point*

The point is to feel like there are going to be terrible consequences and then say actually, no. You can come back from this, with the help of other people.

To me at least, that was the theme of the whole story.

If botw was about how the world goes on past loss and grief and starts to heal (how flowers grow in the ruins and the world can be beautiful again, be worth saving, even if it has changed)…then totk was about a more personal kind of healing.

The weight of the world should not be on your shoulders alone…you, alone, should not have to fix everything…you should not have to sacrifice yourself, but when you do, someone will be there to save you from it.

This turned into a really long ramble so:

You (Link) gained so much and now it’s gone. It feels like you’re back to where you started and yet you know you have to do it all again…you were weak and you failed and you’re weaker now…but

You go down to the surface. Monsters swarm across it once again. Other people are fighting them too though. You help, but it’s not just you…

You go to the Rito, the Gorons, the Zora, the Gerudo…just like with the divine beasts, there are friends who help you save each region. But this time, part of them comes along with you when you leave. It’s nice, you realize, the first time one of them protects you from a monster you weren’t prepared for. You’re still weaker than you were before, but someone has your back…

When you go up to the sky you see a strange new dragon there. There’s something about them that feels familiar. You try not to think about it.

You go down to the depths too. It’s terrifying at first. You hate it. You only want to get what you came for and get out of the dark….but slowly, the light grows. You get stronger. The dark feels like a challenge you can face (and someone has your back).

There are spirits down there. You don’t know when they’re from, but some part of you wonders…are these all the people you let die in the Calamity? (You help them find rest from their wandering. The weight on your shoulders feels a little less heavy).

There’s so much gloom. The first few times the sky turns red and hands chase you (a reminder of what you’ve lost, how you failed) you just run. Eventually though, you have to fight. It feels like the (second) worst day of your life again. But you manage to get free of the grasping gloom and stand and fight, as wild and desperate as it is. Beneath the manifestation of your worst fears, there’s another thing to fight, but this time it has a face (a voice in the back of your head says…you know this isn’t all on you and your failure…it’s really Ganon’s fault right?). You get through it.

At every turn in your travels, it seems like something reminds you of Zelda. Her passion, her curiosity, her kindness. You miss her.

At first, the tears you find reassure you. She may be in the past, but she’s safe. She’ll come back somehow…but then you hear the word draconification for the first time. You want to believe she wouldn’t do it but you know her and the fear sits cold inside you. (Zelda is a lot of things. She’s been allowed to be more of them, since she was freed from her hundred year battle, without her father holding her back. But deep down inside her, there’s a vein of self-sacrifice that still runs strong. It’s what saved the world before, after all).

She did it. She really did it. She’s gone from you (from Hyrule) forever, and it’s all your fault. If only you hadn’t failed so utterly in the battle (you can hardly even call it that) under the castle. If only you’d caught her. If only you hadn’t let the sword break. You should have protected her you should have been better it’s all your fault and now she has to live with the consequences, forever. Everything really is on you, you should have been better.

(Zelda POV: you couldn’t call upon Hylia’s power in time, you were too content to let it wither and fade away from you, ready to be free of it. You shouldn’t have. He got hurt, the sword got hurt, it’s your fault…Sonia and Rauru help you channel it again, Sonia helps you learn how to turn back time…but you don’t save her. She dies because you couldn’t save her. Rauru dies not long after. There is no one left to guide you, once again. You could spend years trying to figure it out on your own. But you did that last time. It didn’t work. Self-sacrifice, stepping in front of someone you love, that worked. (You do what you can, to call upon the sages, to help Link in the future, first). And then you swallow the stone. You’ve come a long way, in the past five years, allowing yourself to exist. But in the end, self-sacrifice worked last time. It’ll work this time too.)

You (Link) go down beneath the castle. You were supposed to bring the sages but you didn’t. It’s nice, for someone to have your back. But no one else should get hurt to fix your mistakes.

They follow you anyway. They fight with you, against the hordes, against the greatest enemies you defeated together, along the way. They’ll have your back, even if you don’t think you deserve it.

You fight Ganondorf, and then the demon king, in the hardest battle of your life. You think it’s over and then the demon king decides it’s better to lose himself completely than let you win. You’re exhausted and afraid of yet another battle, but up there in the sky, when you’re falling, the Light Dragon catches you (you wonder why she changed her path to catch you, you wonder if there’s still something of Zelda left in there to save). With her help, you win.

And then you’re in some other realm. The spirits of Sonia and Rauru are there. You remember how the two of them and Zelda channeled such incredible power together. You think about Recall. Turning something back to the memory of what it was before, like Sonia said. You stand with them and you allow yourself to hope. Maybe the Light Dragon can remember the form she took so long ago, the person that she was.

And then you’re falling, and Zelda is falling, but this time you catch her. You catch her. She’s back home with you, finally, finally.

And maybe, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes, someone else can stand with you, and it’ll all turn out alright. (You can put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you can sacrifice yourself, but someone will be there to catch you, someone will be there to pull you back to yourself, when all is said and done).

#loz #tears of the kingdom #Link #Zelda #I will say also that I think part of the reason totk is special to me is very personal #like when it came out I was still struggling with the worst burnout of my life #I had had a few months of exhaustion between January and March and in May that exhaustion was still sticking to me #it was hard to get out of bed hard to do anything I felt so tired that I almost felt sick but I wasn’t sick #and the thing is Zelda games are my biggest special interest #and having a new one to play like genuinely I’m not joking it gave me bsck so much energy #I was doing really badly but when totk came out I played it for an entire weekend straight basically #and like my mom came to visit me and help me out with basic life stuff #and like sit with me while I played just like enjoying being together #and that was really nice #over that summer and the fall after I started getting to know someone I work with better #largely over conversations about totk at first #and they’ve become a good friend #(and become someone that I feel safe to be fully myself around) #and so I just have this really strong personal connection to totk #like I will not claim to be impartial about it #there are definitely criticisms that I can acknowledge #in particular I don’t like that they un-amputeed Link let Link be disabled #and also ganondorf’s characterization was shallow and one dimensional #and I’m sure there’s other things I could think of #but the overall narrative #including Zelda becoming the light dragon and then turning back in the end #I really like that #it felt like a narrative of healing to me #and playing it at the time that I did felt really healing to me too

[errorwarblesrr]

I feel like moments like these are important. It solidifies that after everything he has been through in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, he is still a child. In OOT, he really was a child trapped in an adults body.

He doesn't consider himself a grown-up and doesn't really understand what's going on in the Anju and Kafei sidequest. He isn't motivated by the stakes or to help two lovers reunite but rather to just help for the sake of it.

In Great Bay, there are, unfortunately, a bunch of weirdos. He looks at a Zora man weird, but I think rather than just finding him gross, he doesn't get it as seen in the Fish Wish sidequest. He finds them weird, but he doesn't have a full understanding of it. This showcases his innocence in the game.

Along with that, there's also a moment where Sakon the thief tries to take advantage of Link. He talks about Link's sword and how cool it is, gives advice, and compliments the sword again, asking to just see it. It's obviously suspicious to the player, but if Link says yes, Tatl immediately gets hostile and attacks Sakon to drive him away instead of letting Link hand over his sword. If Link says no but tries to talk to him again, Tatl will immediately become hostile at Sakon anyway. I feel like this can show how niave Link can be.

There's also when Link receives a Keaton mask. He doesn't really get the meaning behind it and doesn't think accepting it if it makes sense, but he does it anyway. This doesn't really further any points other than he really is just a niave kid going through the motions.

Point is Majora's Mask highlights how he is still a child at heart. He thinks and acts like one still after Ocrina of Time. He didn't just grow up when he was asleep for 7 years. After everything he's been through, he's still him: a child.

#the legend of zelda #loz #ocarina of time #majoras mask #ik oot is viewed as a game about growing up or how Link is now a adult in a child body but mm just show that no he is still a child at heart #if anything he is a bit more experienced and probably a bit traumatized because no kid should go through that #kafei also seems like the opposite of link being the one who is an adult trapped as a child #this one is more of a vibe than fact but sometimes tatl feels like an adult scolding a child for not knowing better #like theres a part in ikana canyon with the messed up roof and she says how link always misses stuff like that #or if links sword gets stolen by a bird she says “what are you doing?!?” you know as if anyone would want that to happen #idk it just reminds me of an adult scoling a child

[novantinuum]

i find it truly fascinating that so many people’s minds instantly go to “that bitch zelda forcibly took down link’s precious weapon hangers” instead of considering that... idk... MAYBE instead, link- a man who has been living under the constant pressure and inherent loneliness of being hailed the “destined savior of hyrule” ever since he woke up with no memory and was immediately given a life or death mission- actually is Tired and doesn’t want to live around the constant reminder of warfare and fighting once the battle is done.

i mean, he doesn’t keep the master sword with him either. he yeets that sucker to rest in korok forest. supposedly this was also to restore it to full power- i imagine this means that in-story the sword was damaged during the fight with calamity ganon- but he puts that sword back in that pedestal and it stays there for AT LEAST 4-6 years until he retrieves it before the events of totk

so yeah, in my mind he willingly chooses to take down his weapon racks. not just because zelda is living with him now and he wants her to have space to decorate as well, but also because they’re a grim reminder of the rough journeying days he’d rather let fade into memory. all these bows and swords he hoarded for those long months alone, on the road... he doesn’t need them anymore. hyrule is at peace, and for the first time in his known memory- so is he

and is that not enough?

#loz #totk #link #zelda #my post stuff #anyways i'm tired of people using this detail as a way to say Mean Things about zelda #when i think it can Far More say fascinating things about link #i think people spend too much time projecting themselves into the situation (booo!! my weapons racks are gone) #instead of actually considering WHY- in game #and also externally as a gameplay decision #this change was made

[future-crab]

I can’t define what Pyrrha Dve has going on gender-wise but it feels like it’s equal and opposite to what Link Legendofzelda has going on send tweet

#like i know the joke it that link is transmasc and transfemme and a cis man and a cis woman all at the same time #and i feel like pyrrha is the exact opposite? #like if you asked if pyrrha was a trans woman i’d be like ‘no that’s not quite right’ #and same if you asked if she was a trans man #or if she was nonbinary #but if you asked if she was cis I would say ‘absolutely tf not’ #pyrrha dve #ntn #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #legend of zelda #link loz #loz link #botw #idk how to tag zelda stuff i’m not in that fandom

[probablyhuntersmom]

Best beach in the world!! 🌴

#and there's a market behind me which happens on Wednesdays and Fridays! #the sunset is alas behind me so I'm bringing them all incl. Hunter for sunrise #flapjack goes travelling #waffles goes travelling #ft. the power noodle #loz says stuff

[yeowche]

About Time’s trauma

(Yeah we’re doing this)

So, I like to think that the Hero of Time does not remember the time he spent in the spirit realm. He spent seven years in solitary confinement… the least the goddesses could do was remove that burden from his consciousness.

Except they didn’t, completely.

Because when he sleeps, he doesn’t dream - he returns to that place, that endless, white void. Perhaps it’s a blip in the system, an aspect that the goddesses forgot to take into account. Maybe it’s intentional. He wouldn’t know.

Every day, he wakes up with no recollection of any of it. But whoever’s with him (read: Malon), can see him thrashing and clearly not having a good time while he is asleep. She asks about it, of course – several times, to no avail. Because he genuinely can’t answer her questions.

But he talks in his sleep, and Malon is able to piece together the little bits of information she gets.

Anyway there’s that and then there’s tHe mOoN

#imagine the spirit realm being like Janet’s Void from The Good Place #if you were wondering what stuff he says in his sleep #(because you love angst like I do) #‘let me out’ #‘I don’t wanna be here anymore’ #‘please let me go’ #loz #zelda #the legend of zelda #ocarina of time #majoras mask #hero of time #loz headcanon #zelda headcanon #loz hc #loz oot #malink #oot link #oot malon

[mitchmotch]

sonia warm-up i did a while ago

#sonia totk #tears of the kingdom #the legend of zelda #totk #loz #totk fanart #queen sonia #totk spoilers #to play it safe... #its been a WHILE... hello.. HEHJKDHJK #ive been doing a good amount of warm ups and such that i meant to leave for a sketch dump but eh #wasnt feeling the idea anymore HEJKHDHSDJK #id like to post more wips and sketches and stuff #but idk #im gonna start preparing for artfight soon so that is fun! love artfight #i really. dont have much to say honestly HEJKDJKS #this was a warm up i did over a couple days btw i didn't just crank this out at once HEKJDSHJK its not perfect but its something !

[ganondoodle]

recent panel i liked for chapter 2s rough draft (page 22), one of the more chaotic sketches

(comic wip)

#ganondoodles #zelda #art #tloz #loz #demise #wip #context for this dialog is basically #demise challenging hylia on her constant threats of killing him to actually do it instead of just saying it bc it wont work as a threat #and he prompts her to stab him through the heart right this second if she can #and she says that demons dont have a heart to stab through #hence this dialog #idk if im being clever but i liked this part #although its been hard to keep working on stuff i have been doing rewriting and rough draft work #so ...little to post #this chapter has a one of my fav moments tho #wanted to post something before the strike starts #although im not sure if not posting stuff is part of it again

[dapperenby13]

Just read the first volume of the Four Swords manga and honestly, it was really good. I picked it up out of curiosity and after seeing some Zelda memes and thought it would just be something to do. But there’s honestly some creepy horror ish elements and it can be kinda funny. I can’t wait to pick up the other volume. I would’ve gotten both but they weren’t at the same library so…. I’ll have to wait a few days to get my hands on it, but I’m super excited!

#the characters are interesting and the plot is fun #shadow is actually pulling some spooky stuff #like with pretending to be link and then sending links dad to the shadow realm #gotta be honest #that was well done #also Zelda kinda rules in this #my girl is ruining shadow’s career #very good stuff #v says things #loz #four swords #loz four swords #four swords manga