#originally aol zelda was the brunette but I decided to make her the redhead for... reasons

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I’ve been sitting on this idea for months lol, I figured since in my original Zelda story the most recent turn of the cycle would be the events of the NES Zelda games I should straighten out the lore I want for that... which turned into semi-redesigning the two Princess Zeldas of those games, since the official art tends to use the same design for both of them... and THEN figuring out how I could incorporate some other, lesser-known designs from the early days!

#princess zelda #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #the hyrule fantasy #adventure of link #nes zelda #redesign #despite the fact that I always perceived OG zelda as a brunette most of the official art has her as a redhead actually..? #between the wildly different official art and all the old manga adaptations she's had every hair colour possible though tbh #originally aol zelda was the brunette but I decided to make her the redhead for... reasons #i originally did a looooot of redesigns that strayed wildly from the source material in an effort to modernize the design more #but eventually decided that she was no longer recognizable as zelda so I toned it way back #it was also very hard to try and design them to be similar but separate #in the end I settle on these designs because the aol manual art had that game's zelda in a one-colour dress with low ribbons #while the most commonly accept HF zelda design had a two-colour dress and higher ribbons #hf stands for hyrule fantasy btw lol it was the OG zelda's subtitle in japan #so im using it #if know the designs i referenced for the outfits of the first pic: nice lol