#I don't play LoZ but I know people who do and know there are plenty who will find this fun!

[hollowsart]

Legend of zelda (if you like it) doc ock ! (Specifically like the guardians in breath of the wild)

"I've always found those wandering guardians to be quite fascinating, namely their legs. So! I took it upon myself to examine the remnants of the ones you've defeated and crafted something quite useful out some spare parts you've delivered! What do you think? A brand new personal mode of transportation! All the benefits of mobility, but with less stress on the body! Well.. among other nifty little things that they're modified to be capable of!"

-- Otto, Hylian engineer

#my art #phone art #doc ock #doctor octopus #otto octavius #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #I don't play LoZ but I know people who do and know there are plenty who will find this fun! #.....I'm never drawing this again sdfkjhsdkhsdfkdfs #his actuators normally are already pretty tricky dskjfkdsfhdf this was extra difficult LOL #I know pretty much nothing of the series so there's obviously misinformation here that I know people will correct me on skdjfhksjdf sorry!! #I just thought this was a cute description LOL

[bahbahhh]

Could you explain the reasons as to why you don't like the Zonia? From what we know about the setting, I would assume that it's because of the fact that their negligence, and naivety, lead to all of the destruction and deaths that plagued Hyrule for centuries, as well Zelda being forced to sacrifice herself in order to allow Link to end the problem.

Personally, I just didn't enjoy the goat-people gods from above storyline. I think a heavy contributor to this was the hype leading up to and the immensely creative fan theories that emerged that I felt better connected all the LoZ games. This just felt like more weird and confusing lore. Sonia was sweet and I enjoyed seeing a mother-figure for Zelda and I don't think Rauru was "EVIL" per se. I actually enjoyed his character flaw of arrogance/poor judgement when it comes to Ganondorf. And I also can sit with the fact he has great intentions in better Hyrule but likely caused a lot of strife and conflict because of that. There are plenty of decent people out there that have made bad calls in the name of a "good" purpose, if that makes sense.

Now for Link in this story, I think it's important to remember he gets glimpses of memory and ruins. I hc there are months-years spent playing out in botw where Link builds relationships with the people, sits with his returned memories, trying to make sense of them before he finally goes to the castle to accept and fulfill his duty. And then, here is another dead king, WHOOPS, now fix this, and also I gave you my arm (cue body horror/trauma), sorry about your girl but you'll seeeeeee, good luck, K BYEEEEEE.

And then some of Hyrule actually starts questioning Zelda, believing this person who spent the last 5-6 years rebuilding, and teaching and healing Hyrule after she spent 100 YEARS literally holding back the end of the world with her bare hands, would actually start causing problems, being cruel and distant, etc. Link is shoved right back into the hero/swordsman role without much consideration or acknowledgement by the people he has helped/cared for/ connected with, all shipping aside, that Zelda is an incredibly important person to him and how devastating it is to not know what happened. He's forced to crisscross Hyrule from one problem to the next, picking up the pieces of the past, and then figures out after all that, she sacrificed herself. And the Zonai let her do it (at least to him). To me, the descent into mistrust was an easy one for Link. Grief takes many forms and this is just one story and one perspective but this Link is personally done with dead kings and "gods".

#b!talks

[theliterarywolf]

Alright, let's compile some spoiler-related asks under a Read More. There's four here so, uh... Plenty of reading

Anonymous asked: Holy shit, Submission-anon here. I was actually considering mentioning how much Zora's domain bothered me in Totk this time around. Glad to see I'm not the only one, and I hope it's fine I add my thoughts on that to my submission about my observations on Yona's character, since I feel it REALLY plays into WHY the entirety of Zora's domain feels a lot less... fun, emotional and personal, like it did in Botw, or even Aoc. Anonymous asked: Zora's domain was my fave in botw 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 sounds like it'll be my least fucking fave this time around fuck Anonymous asked: Dorephan deciding Sidon is straight, so he can have a go at Link. I'm only saying one thing: 20 liters. Anonymous asked: The straights are at it again /J But seriously, not going to be "QUEERPHOBIC!HDHUYDB!" Bullshit argument for loz, but I will point out that when someone says "This chick kinda sucks I think link fits better with this other fem character!" You get shitton of support or at least no real backlash, even if she's "only a friend". But if you say "I don't like Yona." even non shipping related, so many people will throw a tantrum and claim it's because "you wanna make link gay, dudes can be friends"

Anon 1: Feel free, anon.

Anon 2: I mean, you'll probably still have fun. I will say that reassembling the Zora Armor was interesting, at least...

Anon 3: First of all, I can't get over 'deciding' because I want anyone who has played through the Zora's Domain portion of TotK to look me in the eyes and deny that it honestly felt like Dorephan was more excited to see Link than Sidon was.

Like, yeah, after the Water Temple when Sidon went down on one knee to present his vow to Link and all, but still...

...Also, you just had to add that cursed tidbit at the end there, huh?

Anon 4: I feel that we have been seeing a more vocal amount of headcanon brainrot with ToTK as of late. Because, yeah, even though me and another anon were joking about Yona being a beard, they were just that: jokes. Some people out there are legitimately trying to cry homophobia because of her introduction and it's just, like I said, Sidon is a Prince (well, now a King but whatever), he is Dorephan's ONLY HEIR because Mipha DIED, he has to get married in order to keep the bloodline going. This isn't hard to understand.

But, also, I want to take a moment to point out the obnoxious level of 'this character is X and if you don't agree you're a bigot' as well as 'why do the alphabet-soup people ALWAYS have to make characters gay or trans?!'

Because I know where the upsurge in all of this came from: that interview that Aonuma gave where he was talking about 'oh, we always develop games with Link being more nonconforming to gender'.

And, of course, that should be taken as Link is more of a slate for the player to project themselves onto, no matter what gender or sexual-orientation, to create a more immersive experience.

But then we ended up with people going 'So, Link is trans then? It's canon, suck it homophobes!' And then legitimate edgelords going 'Link can't be a tranny, stop projecting onto everything!' And then there's that back and forth while rational people in the middle are just trying to live and vibe with 'In my headcanon, Link is a GNC man and Sidon has two hands and I'm happy and not bothering anyone'

So there's what was mentioned above and that animosity leaches over to conversations about Yona (people on both sides thinking that the only reason she's disliked is shipping)

Anyway, I'm just going to stay in my corner, enjoy this game at my slow-to-medium pace... And brace myself for the 'jealous wife'/'fujoshi wife' fics that will inevitably fill up the SidLink tag on AO3 because people forget that polyamory is a thing.

#Spoilers #so many spoilers #tears of the kingdom