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[acetier]

queen sonia my beloved <333

#the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #tloz #totk #ace draws #queen sonia #rauru #well...rauru's arm #i could listen to sonia speak for hours #HOURS

[acetier]

PLEASE never shut up about torin, there is at least one person here who is always waiting for more about torin, which is me <33 love that sad little guy <33

this sad little guy appreciates you, anon!

#and i also appreciate you :^D #i'm about to go out so pls accept this humble doodle lol #also thanks for bearing with me while it takes 50 years for me to draw one (1) thing haha #i have more art in the works for torin #he will be put through more Experiences #someone should save this poor man from me lmao #ask #replies #anon #torin #ace draws

[acetier]

another elden ring art dump feat. torin & friends

#*gently bumps* #reminder for those of you who follow me for zelda and don't want to see me yelling about my oc: pls block the 'torin' tag lmao #i'll be answering a couple more asks about him soon #and then i have more elden ring art planned in the future #he's my sad blorbo man and i can't shut up about him forever

[acetier]

another elden ring art dump feat. torin & friends

#elden ring #elden ring oc #tarnished #confessor #torin #ace draws #d hunter of the dead #rya #zorayas #melina #friends who are not varre #yes torin and darian are very friendly :) #for now :) #he's having a great time and everything is fine i promise ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #entertaining myself until the dlc drops in june #just some stuff that has accumulated over the past month #i am very very bad at posting art when tags are trending lmao #can't wait to bring this sad man into the dlc #he will never know peace :) #*millicent voice* the brainrot writhes now worse than ever

[acetier]

link study dump feat. my fav armor set from totk!

#tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of zelda #tloz #link #ember armor #ace draws #gave him eyeliner bc i can #srry for disappearing yet again lmao #the holiday season was brutal #edited bc i forgot one (1) detail #remember to sleep lmao

[acetier]

"feel free to ask literally anything about torin!" Oh Boy I don't want to spam ur inbox with TOO MUCH bc he and varre live in my head rent free so for now I will ask the most pressing thing on my mind....... torin overthrows mohg as per your first post about them, right? How do you think varre reacted to that???? I can never imagine killing mohg would go over too smoothly with him, so I'm curious if/how torin was able to win him over!!

"I'll ensure you regret this, my lambkin..."

((aftermath under the cut))

it didn't go over smoothly at all, aka torin is once again reminded that his actions have consequences and those consequences are rarely (if ever) good :'^D varre's still fanatically loyal to mohg and views any attack against his master as an attack against himself, so torin killing mohg would be an unforgivable betrayal.

i ended up killing varre at the end of his questline in my first playthrough haha. i think for them to have a (sort of?) happy ending as they are now, torin would need to be content with serving the dynasty alongside varre and abandoning the rest of his quest (which he isn't willing to do as part of what drove him to varre in the first place is his desire for revenge and he can't give that up so easily).

on the other hand if you want to imagine a scenario where varre ends up surviving, he and torin would need to go their separate ways for a while. when they meet back up it'd be after torin resolves his quest for vengeance and comes to terms with his losses and also probably after he's burned the erdtree (and melina). by then they've both been through the wringer and are so Tired of it all that it's easier to fall back into comforting old habits with each other. it'd still take them a while to fully reconcile tho :'^)

#elden ring #torin #varre #white mask varre #tarnished #varre x tarnished #ace draws #once again thank u for providing me with delicious food anon #sorry this took a while lol #i plan to tackle torin's relationships with other characters like d and fia next #might also take a little while so bear with me lol #varre is that gru meme at this point: #ensnare sad wreck of a tarnished by using his desire for affection as a reward for completing every task i assign him to #he successfully completes all of my trials and also falls for me so i immediately make him a knight of the mohgwyn dynasty #he becomes utterly devoted to me and kills my master #ask #replies #tw blood

[acetier]

what was torins first impression of varre?

he wasn’t very endearing lmao

#torin #varre #white mask varre #elden ring #tarnished #oc #varre x tarnished #ace draws #'die in a ditch' (derogatory) to 'die in a ditch' (affectionate) #based off the network test dialogue lol #torin's so distracted by Everything Else that he quickly forgets about their first encounter #until they run into each other in liurnia #varre gives torin his whole bloody finger spiel and then they don't see each other again for a while #until torin shows up one night looking like a wreck and demanding that varre give him more bloody fingers #something about needing them to hunt down ‘her’ to avenge someone called ‘d’ #thank u for feeding me anon :^) #i'm still working on that other ask about them lol #ask #replies

[acetier]

will you be drawing any more of torin and varre? no rush at all, but i am lowkey obsessed with them now 👀

ask and you shall receive, anon :^)

#torin #varre #white mask varre #elden ring #varre x tarnished #tarnished #oc #ace draws #ask #replies #sorry it took so long to respond OTL #pls accept this humble offering :'^) #also pls click for higher koala-tea #torin and his pathetic skrunkly little war surgeon murder wife #varre and his sad wet puppy man tarnished he probably found in a swamp somewhere #also feel free to ask me literally anything abt torin! #might take me some time to answer tho since i will be answering with more art of him lol #i have created So Much Lore™ for him #if u give me the chance i will never shut up abt him haha #i finished elden ring finally so i'm working on more art of other characters too!

[acetier]

new hyrule, old friend

((it's been a hot minute, pls have this humble lil totk drawing :'^D))

#tloz #totk #tears of the kingdom #link #zelda #light dragon #ace draws #srry for going awol lol #a lot of stressful things happened all around the same time #in other news i've been spending all of my spare time playing both totk and elden ring #i have not finished either of them yet tho lol

[acetier]

“Dead ahead. Don’t miss.”

((aka me realizing i’m still down bad for revalink at 3am : ^ ) when you call revali’s gale in the dark beast ganon fight so you can take the final shot together 👌 close up under cut!))

Edit: @ginneke​ wrote an amazing fic inspired by this piece here!

Keep reading

#evening rb! #also added a link to that fantastic fic that i have definitely not read a million times over and over again by now no siree #if you're into revalink go check out that fic and shower it in kudos and nice comments :^)

[acetier]

@acetier's beautiful, beautiful art plucked out my heart and dashed it to pieces. So here I am, trying to return the favour. Or at least to double down on it.

Also available on Ao3. (Link in notes.)

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Accelerando

--

Five moments in time between Link and Revali as they find common ground, despite everything.

(Slowly. Then all at once.)

--

"I gave you a clear shot -- how could you miss that?"

Link is spared the need to answer: at that moment, Revali's powers start to peter out. Hurriedly, before he loses the advantage of height, Link shoulders his bow and grabs for the paraglider instead, eyes fixed on the Silver Lynel far below. Its fierce glare is locked on him in turn. His mind races, trying to calculate when he has to surrender to gravity. Eight seconds -- five seconds. He sees it reach for its arrows.

So does Revali.

"Don't you dare," he warns, before flapping his ghostly wings once more. Gale carries him higher, higher, higher than it's ever carried him before. Five Lightning Arrows crackle through the air, but he's safely out of range.

"Don't miss this time," Revali says, sounding almost tired, and disappears.

Link draws his bow again, forgoing the bomb arrows Revali always favoured; instead, he nocks one of Robbie's Ancient Arrows.

Have to end this quickly.

His arrow strikes true, this time, and then he's left drifting in an eerie, open sky, alone.

It's six hours before the tug of Revali's power anchors in his chest again. Revali's Gale is now ready, he thinks, mimicking the cadence of the words that always accompany that sensation -- but Revali's words don't come.

--

The Koroks' puzzles range from amusing to aggravating.

On the least annoying end of the scale: chasing lights, finding acorns, following flowers (usually).

A bit more annoying, depending on circumstance: following flowers (sometimes), rock puzzles, metal blocks, clockflower rings.

Far more of a pain than they're worth: acorn balloons.

Link hates those acorn balloons with a passion. They jerk around erratically. They duck in and out of the trees so that he can't track them. They move at such random speeds. They disappear within ten seconds of him leaving the treestump pedestal that sends the signal to spawn them.

And so often, he's running low on arrows and doesn't have enough to spare on Korok games.

He's staring down yet another cluster of circling acorn balloons when a thought occurs to him: What if...

He crouches low on the pedestal. Revali, he thinks. It's not necessary to literally call for the Champions—otherwise Mipha would never reach him in time—but with Revali, in particular, it has quickly become a habit.

It takes seven seconds to reach the zenith of Revali's Gale. He's counted it before.

It would certainy take more than three seconds to pick off those balloons, for almost anyone else.

He reaches for his bow, a three-shot device of the forest's make, and feels time start to crawl: slower, slower, slower.

He nocks three arrows, catches two balloons but misses the third. Draws again, and catches his fall with the paraglider just in time; below, the final balloon bursts.

"Cheater," Revali says snidely as the column of his Gale subsides; he's gone before Link can retort.

Honestly. Just because Revali could have done it in a single shot...

--

Revali takes his front-row vantage point of Link's archery — oh, forgive him, of Link's pale imitation of aerial archery — very seriously. Link can almost see the mark of a teacher in him. He wonders what Revali would have been like as an instructor.

"Shoulders," he barks sometimes, when Link's back holds more tension than his bowstring.

"Keep your eyes dead ahead," he advises, other times, when Link is tempted to use precious seconds to scan the field for further enemies; "one thing at a time."

"Remember to aim for where your target will be, not where it is now," he warns whenever the slowing of time reaches its limits, and Link is left with seconds to spare before his strength runs out.

"Don't miss," he says, as Link prepares to take aim at the thing that struck down Urbosa—and this time his words have the sound of camaraderie, no scorn to be found in them at all.

"I know," Link replies, reaching for Revali's Great Eagle Bow. He nocks three arrows to the string and obliterates Thunderblight Ganon in a hail of explosions that would make even Revali proud.

--

"You know, I had to succeed at that trial without supernatural means at my disposal."

Link hides a grin in the fur ruff of his Snowquill: Revali's words have the ring of a familiar refrain, rendered less irritating with repetition.

"I do hope you appreciate that," Revali continues, needling. Link tries to imagine the expression he would be wearing, how he might gesture emphatically: swooping drama, theatrical in motion, every inch of his persona polished and practiced.

Every facet of doubt buffed away, hidden behind that carefully constructed confidence.

"How long did it take you?"

Revali makes a sound of affront and this reaction, this one Link can picture: his head tilting up, his feathers puffing out in displeasure.

"Four," he says shortly, and Link leans back to stare at the shape of Vah Medoh's head overhead, no longer trying to disguise his grin.

"Four hours?" he asks, keeping his tone light and just this side of innocent. "Four days?"

"Four attempts," Revali snaps, and Link should have known, really. Revali always was exactly as good as he claimed. If only he could have met Ganon's Blight when in optimal condition... Link doubts Windblight could have bested Champion Revali, if the battle hadn't been stacked in its favour.

The thought is bitter, and not something Link should dwell on. The last thing Revali would want is Link's sympathy. So he pushes it aside,

"You don't have to rub it in," says Link, but he's smiling as he says it. While Revali splutters in protest, Link smiles, and huffs out a laugh, and desperately tries not to linger on just how unfair it is that the Champions, that Revali, should have fallen when he was granted this second chance.

All he can do is make the most of it, and avenge them.

--

"Dead ahead."

Revali's voice is all around Link, carried in the column of his Gale. Link can't look at him, can't afford to take his eyes off the rampaging incarnation of Malice below, and Revali must know that.

He wouldn't speak at such a crucial moment, otherwise.

His next words come so close to Link's ear that, if Revali lived, his breath would surely be warm against the shell of it. Instead Link felt only the cold grip of Gale, the only touch Revali had ever bestowed on him.

"Don't miss," Revali tells him.

It sounds like affection.

It sounds like faith.

It sounds like goodbye.

"Got it," Link says—or tries to, but the winds snatch his voice away.

At least that means Revali probably heard him. Cold comfort. Comfort all the same.

He shoots. Dead ahead.

He doesn't miss.

#OMG #aaaAAAAA #/rolls around #this is so lovely i’m 🥹😭😭 #i’m so honored you wrote a whole fic inspired by my sad lil revalink piece aaaaaa #op you’ve killed me several times over #thank you aaaaa :’’’^D #fic #ginneke #reblogged #botw #revalink

[acetier]

“Dead ahead. Don’t miss.”

((aka me realizing i’m still down bad for revalink at 3am : ^ ) when you call revali’s gale in the dark beast ganon fight so you can take the final shot together 👌 close up under cut!))

Edit: @ginneke​ wrote an amazing fic inspired by this piece here!

#breath of the wild #botw #link #revali #revalink #ace draws #totk comes out next month and i can't stop thinking about tHEM #revali can't be hylia's chosen one but he can be her knight's 😌 #i WILL wax poetic abt these 2 idiots forever and you CAN'T stop me

[acetier]

just a small collection of various link studies

#botw #tloz #breath of the wild #age of calamity #link #ace draws #you are handed a link and you are handed a link and you are ha- #also revalink…sorta #hmm #so i think spending a few months drawing nothing but my elden ring oc maybe changed my style a bit

[acetier]

A warm afternoon and a familiar presence

#breath of the wild #the legend of zelda #botw #tloz #botw link #princess zelda #zelink #ace draws #trying out some new brushes! #location: somewhere in hyrule #*squints* #i think the way i draw him changed a lil bit #also preordered totk #once it releases that's where i'll be for the rest of the year lol #*slightly edited bc i forgot a little detail oops

[acetier]

#botw #gif #i spent like #2 hours #trying to find specific sparrows to take pictures of for the compendium #i’ve played this game 6 times and never completed the compendium once lmao #a pokédex? in my zelda? #it’s more likely than you think

[acetier]

#botw #this looks so crisp!

[acetier]

massive, self-indulgent elden ring art dump feat. varré and my tarnished, torin

he’s a lonely man of faith who finds himself slowly becoming disillusioned in said faith and succumbing to the Local Bad Influence (varré)

also wish you could bring your terrible little war surgeon with you when you become elden lord ,’:^)

#SELF-REBLOG TO ADD A HEADS UP: #i'll be doing more with elden ring and with this oc so just block the 'torin' tag if you don't want to see...shenanigans lol #fr this is the most fun i've had drawing anything in a long time #and i learned a lot from it #i'm...genuinely surprised there are this many people willing to entertain my bs #i thought there would only be like...5 lmAO #i'm trying to draw more for myself this year and if you want to hop on the train too that's awesome :'^D #so thank u :'> #torin is my sad lil blorbo and i adore him lol