#but the sword connects them

[luna-lovegreat]

Legend and Sky defending the Master Sword

They literally just. Are the two that always defend it

Whether it's broken (rip wild)

Time's being grumpy about it

Or they're theorizing

They always go out of their way to protect it, even from implications about it being weak/negatively viewed

Which makes sense considering Sky made it, and Legend still carries a version of it with him

:)

#sky appreciation week for me I've got some posts lined up #giving some love to my boy #edit: #also wait did we agree on duo name for sky and legend? I saw a post but idk if it caught on for them as the rose duo #in case people like it #Lu rose duo #they aren't as close as some of the others as far as one on one interactions #but the sword connects them #linked universe #lu #linkeduniverse #loz #lu sky #lu legend

[jopzer]

merlin writers made an absolute litany of insane crazy /neg decisions over the course of the television program but. making merlin's first love the lady of the lake at the start of the show and then making him give the love of his life to her at the end. fucken based. absolutely red pilled.

#merlin #merlin bbc #bbc merlin #merthur #freya merlin #merlin/freya #arthur pendragon #like i fundamentally disagree with like half the changes they made to some of the legends in this show #but holy SHIT. this one. absolute fucking chad move. #giving the lady of the lake this connection to the audience and this connection to merlin #and in turn this connection to arthur! #and the audience is at least passingly familiar with the last of the lake and her habit of handing out swords #but to tie her so fundamentally to merlin #and to know this ache of her follows him and he can never be free of her #and he can never be free of arthur #he carrie's them with him even when the lake has dried and he's visiting a grass field every day #he could only meet them at the muddy bank and even that is eventually taken from him #jiminy h christmas.

[wildflowercryptid]

florian's always struggled to make friends so he didn't really have any back in galar... uh, actually — it might be more accurate is that he USED to have one...

headcanon explanation + bonus under the cut!

like mentioned above, florian has always struggled a lot with making friends. while he's a kindhearted and friendly kid, he can come across as kinda intense to others, ( especially when discussing his interests, ) and that's led to him often being alienated amongst his peers. though he's grown used to being by himself and has learned to not care if others dislike him, he still hopes that he can find at least a few people to connect with outside of his family. it's a hope that's always been present, ever since he was growing up in wyndon.

of course, he wasn't the only loner amongst his childhood peers. around 7 years old, he found a friend in bede fee, who attended the same primary school as him. bede themself wasn't exactly the friendliest kid out there and often had spats with people who made fun of them for their family's low-income status, but florian managed to get them to warm up to him. the two got along pretty well and found comfort in having a friend that seemed to understand them, both being lonely kids who were often picked on by others. after a while, they became pretty much inseparable as they frequently played, read, and laughed together. to florian, it didn't matter that people picked on him just as long as he had bede there to be his friend. bede shared a similar sentiment... at least, at first he did.

admittedly, florian has a habit of resting on his laurels when it comes to things he doesn't have an interest in improving. ( it doesn't matter if he isn't as good of a battler as his sister, all he needs is to be strong enough to keep himself safe during field research. it doesn't matter if he's ostracized amongst his peers and looked down upon, he's alright as long as he has someone to call a friend. etc, etc. ) bede, however, couldn't keep themself from caring about their place in the pecking order. they were sick of others looking down on them, sick of others thinking they were better than them. they just couldn't understand how florian could stand people treating him poorly without getting angry. over time, frustration and resentment towards his attitude festered inside them. these feelings were only exacerbated by their struggles at home and being sent to the orphanage. while they would still call each other friends, their bond had definitely become strained.

everything came to a head when they were both 11 years old, when rose visited bede's orphanage and his acknowledgement caused a major shift in their personality. after all, someone that important seeing their potential surely meant that they better than their peers, right? they soon became much more pompous and rude in nature. florian still stayed close by despite bede's worsening attitude towards him, but it wasn't before long until all of their pent-up feelings came flooding out. their friendship ended with massive fight, with bede telling florian that they were sick of being weighed down by an " annoying pest " like him. while they expected for him to take their cruel remarks in stride like he always did with everyone else, bede couldn't help but feel a little guilty when florian ran off in tears. the two stopped talking after that fight and ever since then, there's always a worry in the back of florian's mind that his friends will eventually get sick of him like bede did. ( thankfully, the friends he's made since then have helped make him feel a lot more secure in their relationships. )

apologies for the long-winded explanation, here's the bonus i promised to make up for how sad this hc got :

the goofy ass side effect of coming up with this headcanon is realizing that they accidentally shaped each others' taste in guys rip

#hi pls enjoy my extremely niche headcanon #gotta love early childhood friendships that irreversibly fuck up your ability to connect w/ others #( totally not talking from experience nope nah ) #i like to imagine them meeting again in their 20s and acting like catty exes ( despite never dating or having rom feelings for each other ) #okay i'm feeling exhausted i need to sleep #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sword and shield #pkmn scarvio #pkmn swsh #pokemon bede #rival bede #pokemon florian #trainer florian #hc : (pkmn) mjverse #chara : florian russel cavallari #chara : bede fee #chara : victor pottinger #chara : ortega regino #🎨 : mj draws #🕰️ : scheduled post

[ganondoodle]

so, its pretty rough and by far not complete but this is a rough layout for the map of destiny (my zelda fancomic), i mainly took it after skyward sword but added parts of botw into it (like lanayru street, the twin mountains that were one mountain until ch3, the gerudo highlands, akkala ref; among more general map overlap)

this ones with some super rough chapter markers and some descriptions, the circle doesnt mean the chapter doesnt go to multiple places but the main happening of it is there, its again, pretty rough and lacks the correct order yet too, ill prob add that with time as i write out the scripts for the next chapters, so far i got the order until chapter 6 (chapter 4 is mostly at hylias temple and since there are alot of chapters happening there its not marked seperately)

chapter 1: demon (complete)

chapter 2: a dance of ice and fire (script done)

chapter 3: moving mountains (name not final)

chapter 4: starry night

chapter 5: a wound for a wound (placeholder name)

chapter 6: curiosity (possibly placeholder name, forgot to mark it on the map even tho i know where it goes)

most other chapters i know where and whats happening but i cant remember the exact order, i gotta make a structured chapter chart soon so i dont have to think over everything every single time i need the order

this is probably not very interesting but, even tho it is just a rough layout more for myself than anything else, i thought id share anyway, i know my handwriting when i write fast and tired is hard to read but uh .. feel free to send me an ask about it if theres anything youd like to know (do mention if you are ok with spoilers for the story)

#ganondoodles #zelda #art #tloz #skyward sword #wip #making maps is hard #in general i pulled the map of skysw apart since its not evne really connected on its own map #and put some botw refs into places that arent too far from where they are in botw but also so they make more sense for skysw #also lanayru is not a desert yet tho that process has started due to hylia building what she is supposed to #... in my hc the mining of time stones takes the life out of the land since those stones are made from concentrated spirits- #-that slowly give out their energy and its all a delicate balance #which is destroyed by hylia+ mining them en masse to create the portals #that hc is also based on my hc that luminous stones eventually turn into timeshift stones bc spirits of the dead and all #anyway #yes there are actual cities and towns in skysw #its before the game anyway but like #the handful of people in the sky are not enough for me lol #and gerudo already existed too #maybe bado(groose) is like a half gerudo and thats why hes got red hair

[comixandco]

ik that taako’s voice in the first episode was because justin was still figuring out his character but i like to imagine that before joining bob taako put on fake accents to avoid being recognised, since he was wanted for the whole poisoning incident, but also for the bit

and then kravitz changes accents mid-fight in crystal kingdom and then drops them during their date at the chug ‘n’ squeeze and taako’s like oh 😳 same hat 😳

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taakitz #taz taako #i’m relistening to the entire balance arc and idk i just think it’s fun to take little abandoned details from the early runs and make them #into headcanon’s. like the whole taako and lup went to a religious boarding school headcanon bc of justin’s one-off comment about olmec #taako can’t even remember his god’s name but he is very religious you guys. they definitely got expelled from the school. #merle gave up on pan between the beach and bob bc his most religious experiences and connections w pan were wiped from his memory. but #exploring and something about his new boss sparks a nostalgia for his og god and he tries to re-build his faith. #magnus’ knife is lowkey prophetic but nobody notices (while riffing on it they mention a +8 weapon that deals an incredible amount of damag #e aka the sword of doom; and they say how in the final arc a dragon will appear from nowhere and has been there the whole time and it loves #you aka lup) #merle doesn’t trust gundren because he has so few memories of his cousin/his family there isn’t anything to gauge his intentions from #sildar hallwinter is barry’s go-to undercover name #y’know. stuff like that #i like re-contexting old information to fit with the new

[venti-death-watch]

yknow. i wonder if yanqing is "divine" in some way. i don't think he's halorian (despite the divine/angel/bird/wings/song/music theming) or vidyadhara (unless it's in a bailu "not originally vidyadhara but became so through Shenanigans) because the vibes are Off, but that he's something more like whatever luocha's got going on. like, yanqing 100% has a weird lineage because if he wasn't there'd be no reason for us not to know-- his entire bio parent conflict would've been exactly the same even if we knew his lineage. by pointing it out specifically, you're saying something, yknow.

the disciple of sanctus medicus said "you've come at the right time, little one. we can use your blood... to irrigate the celestial traces." and i... kind of read that as saying he'd replenish the aeons/the divine (?) with his death/sacrifice. in what way, i don't know.

the "heavenly blade's afterimage" title is fascinating to me. considering his connection to the garden of recollection/fuli via what looks like six phased ice, and march's connection and the theory of idrila = march, i kind of wonder if yanqing is a part of an aeon or related to an aeon, and both of them ended up in the garden & eventually without any memories in part because of their connection to an aeon.

#w the sanctus medicus disciples: i've also considered that they were aiming to make the lan/yaoshi “war” worse thru yanqing's death #w the aeon garden of recollection = maybe they're like. pieces of time? the aeons before they became aeons but frozen in time #the argument *for* vidyadhara yanqing is that parts of qingzu's lies *are* true. just not the whole of them. #i could also see him being connected to shuhu somehow tbh. we still don't have a real design there #there's also the. souls thing. with his swords & w the abundance & w luocha & with souls carried by/in birds #whatever his lineage is it like... needs to be dangerous for him to be in some way. if not there's no reason not to say really #hsr #thoughts #yanqing #honkai star rail

[bigbrainbiology]

Sksw Zelda in a Zonai style! <3

Inspired by this post by @melonsap ^v^

#fanart #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #skyward sword #zelda #digital art #my art #melonsap inspired <3 #the ideas that Bee comes up with are awesome and I want to draw so many of them haha #this may have been the drawing that broke my apple pencil :') #Bc now it decides to Not charge when connected #and yes I've turned things off and on again #I think it was just its time #Worth it tho #she was fun to draw!

[ilynpilled]

“They have an ominous beauty … and they make this blade unique. There is no other sword like it in all the world, I should think.”

“There is one.” The armorer bent over the table and unfolded the bundle of oilcloth, to reveal a second longsword. Tyrion put down Joffrey’s sword and took up the other. If not twins, the two were at least close cousins. This one was thicker and heavier, a half-inch wider and three inches longer, but they shared the same fine clean lines and the same distinctive color, the ripples of blood and night.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #these parallels drive me crazy #the way combat is a form of protection from trauma #it is a language they share #its so intimate #and it will all connect with the twin swords #the way that it was always jaime dancing around them and on the offensive #and he is now stripped of that #and brienne was always on the defensive #and now she must do the opposite #and so must jaime #and this shift is also there in their sword fight #jaime x brienne

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Fgo can’t just drop some b plot about prince of slayer adding rama to the group (with shakespeare as the producer) and rebranding as the globe and then not do anything with it come on

#PLEASE THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME #‘they never say the globe was originally prince of slayer’ look siegfried and sasaki being put in TWO idol groups bc of dragons and swords #and them not being connected groups seems unlikely #I’m choosing to believe it’s the same one #my post

[blueskittlesart]

I know you're not fond of Twilight Princess, but what would you think if they brought back worldbuilding elements from it (the Twilight world and Midna, mainly) to a newer game? I'm not familiar enough with the series to know a whole lot, but that stuff at least seems really neat to me from my secondhand knowledge, but if Twilight Princess was as bad as you say... I would love to see them revisit it somehow with the BotW/TotK continuity.

i have this. thing about twilight princess. we know this. but genuinely even looking at the lore from an objective standpoint i think trying to pull any of it into other games is a bad decision at best and actively detrimental to the new game in question at worst. there are two main reasons for this:

the first is that mainline, non-sequel zelda games have a general rule about standing alone. in order for the games to remain accessible to players of all ages and backgrounds, every original (non-sequel) zelda title has to be able to function as an introduction to the franchise, meaning any lore required to understand the story must be exposited WITHIN the story of that game. the few lore-points that HAVE been adapted from other games (sacred realm, oot ganondorf, talking sword) are generic enough that they can be explained briefly within the story without taking too much time away from the player's journey. while those of us who ARE versed in the lore might have a deeper understanding of the overarching implications of these elements, NOT understanding the history behind them isn't going to impede your understanding or enjoyment of the game. for example, this is likely the practical reason why fi was never named or appeared in botw beyond her generic sound effect and the glowing of the sword, because even players who don't KNOW fi are able to tell from context that the sword is magical and is speaking. not knowing who fi is doesn't impede your ability to understand how and why the sword is speaking, given the rest of the context of botw's story. the two elements of tp that you mentioned, the twilight realm and midna, are VERY difficult from a writer's standpoint to work into a game without requiring the player to understand the plot of twilight princess. neither element easily fits into a new cycle's story without requiring a ton of expositional explanation which will inevitably take players out of the story, and relying on convoluted lore that new players won't even be familiar with to drive your story just sets you up for failure.

the second reason is that, from a writer's standpoint, neither midna nor the twilight realm were well-written enough in TP to be compelling. lmao. If you're going to adapt world-altering lore like the twilight realm into consistent canon, you need to have a firm grasp on the implications of adapting it. even the writers of TP had no fucking clue what the twilight realm was or where it came from or how it tied into the existing world of hyrule at all. literally the first sentence on the zelda wiki for twilight realm history is "The Twilight Realm's full history is incomplete." adding something like a new dimension to your consistent canon is world-altering. when you do something like that, it HAS to be thought-out and for good reason, or you're just confusing your audience unnecessarily. IF the twilight realm was to be brought back, it would HAVE to be with explicit knowledge of of how it effects the narrative and theming of the story its being written into, something that wasn't even present in the game where it was introduced. the same goes for midna; if you bring her back, she needs a reason to be there. she needs narrative weight and thematic consistency with the entire rest of the game, things that were barely present in her original story. ripping these elements out of their own game and tossing them into another only makes them more likely to feel out-of-place and confusing to players. And to be completely honest, almost anything that writers wanted to accomplish with the twilight realm could be done just as easily utilizing the sacred realm, an element which is already in consistent canon and is much easier to write into a given story than something as mysterious and confusing as the twilight realm. with midna, almost anything that she would accomplish could be accomplished by a game-specific guide character, which is already staple of loz anyway. using a game-specific guide character would also remove any potential confusion for new players who lack the context of midna's past appearances. the only reason you might NEED midna as a character is if you ALSO have the twilight realm and specifically require a twili guide character to explain it, but. for all the reasons stated above. you shouldn't have the twilight realm. lol

#tp critical #like. i know we all love the overarching lore and are obsessed with consistent canon and game callbacks #but if the game can't stand on its own it cant stand period. consistent canon is less important than a legible standalone game #ive said this before but i NEED you guys to remember that up until skyward sword there WAS no consistent canon. #for almost 25 years the zelda devs were making standalone games tied together by a few consistent elements of gameplay #and then AFTER they made 25 years worth of games they sat down and connected them all. #thinking about how the game fits into the overarching lore isn't usually a priority for these devs. and i don't really think it SHOULD be #their priority is telling a good story and giving players a good gameplay experience. #where it fits into the overarching lore can be figured out after the fact the same way it was for every game pre sksw. #pulling WHOLE GAME-SPECIFIC CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS into a new game makes little to no sense. that's not really what the games are about #anyway. rant over

[glitterghost]

ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵉʳᶠᵉᶜᵗ ˢᵗᵃʳᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵃ ᵖᵉʳᶠᵉᶜᵗ ʷᵃʳ ᵖᵘᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵈᵒʷⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵒˢᵉˢ ᵖⁱᶜᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᵘᵖ ᵗʰᵉ ˢʷᵒʳᵈ // ᵉᵛᵉⁿᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᶜᵒʳᵉˢ ᵗʰᵉⁿ ⁱ ˡᵉᵗ ⁱᵗ ᵃˡˡ ᵍᵒ ᶠᵃˡˡ ᵃᵖᵃʳᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸ ˢᵗᵉᵖ ᶠᵒʳʷᵃʳᵈ ᵖᵘᵗ ᵃ ˡⁱᵗᵗˡᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ˢʷᵒʳᵈ ⁱⁿ ʸᵒᵘʳ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ʸᵉᵃʰ

#mmm is my brain like YES CONNECT THEM #bad omens #bad omens cult #sleep token #you get a sword and you get a sword

[layla-carstairs]

wait you're so right about the mortal instruments and the series.... tmi:cup::tda:sword::twp:mirror???? and tbh the arthurian connections to the lake are already so tangible that i would hardly even consider that distribution of the mortal instruments as a theory

and the way both tmi and tda result in a corruption of their respective instruments.. dude i'm gonna be thinking about this for so long

I really need to write out all my thoughts on it because its definitely one of those things that just expands the more you you think about it like!! there's so much there!! (and yes that's the associations I'm thinking along the lines of)

for example how the cup used to be used as a way to torture & kill downworlders and how that kinda ties back to the circle and their methods. and how that's your history, those are your parents but the cup and your family isn't all bad either; the balancing of those two things. the cup can create and destroy. and identity plays such a big part of it too because the cup makes you into something, it's who you are, what you are. and people look at you and see your mother. they say you're a better man than your father. you were made into something (an experiment, a soldier, a vampire, an eldest curse) but is it you? how can you know? does it all just come down to blood? I can just keep rambling on like this lol you get the idea

#the corruption is a good point I didn't really make that connection as them being connected like that #the way the cup was used against downworlders the sword is useless to them and the mirror is a tool to them.... #lake lyn being known as the mirror of dreams was actually what started all this because I was wondering if it would come up in twp #especially given how there's two faerie/shadowhunter main characters #idk I just keep coming back to that #bella talks

[vampirebiter]

griffith about to send guts to go stealthily assassinate people for him with his big ass sword

#idk the context of the orignal picture. i assume a fromsoft game but i am bad at those and haven't played them #i just saw big sword and connected dots #ghost.txt #berserk

[ofgalaxiesandstars]

Don't mind me I'm just quietly screaming over the fact that Link never got to give the champions a proper goodbye when he saw them again because he couldn't properly remember them :')

#mun thoughts #he had like what #1 maybe 2 memories each of them? #mipha was his childhood friend and he couldnt remember that at all #he and daruk used to train and enjoy food and challenges together but he didnt remember #the most he remembered about revali is that the guy hated him because he was the knight with the master sword #and he didn't have much of a good memory of urbosa at all besides that she helped him learn more about zelda #he couldnt make amends with revali #or share one more laugh with daruk #or assure urbosa that zelda was okay and that he'd protect her #OR listen to and respond to miphas feelings about him #and then in totk the gifts they gave him were suddenly ripped away from him so now the only connection he has left to them are the weapons #i have so many feelings #link #loz #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #botw

[toastedclownery]

Fucking hell

#donkey stench #and there's more but i dont quite know how to about connecting them #credit to kie for that blurry ass sword. btw

[prince-liest]

Mr Prince, do you have playlists dedicated to your fics, or songs that remind you of specific fics you wrote?

Short answer: Not really!

Long answer: Sorry for such a boring answer, haha, but I generally can't really listen to music while I write, it's too distracting. I definitely find music to be very inspiring for writing and always have, but the AMVs that I end up playing in my brain for most songs tend to, like... be divorced enough from the actual intended meaning of the song that it doesn't really make sense to associate them. I think the one current/recent exception to this is Valentino by Olly Alexander and MNEK for the fic The Last Bus Stop in Hell, Now Boarding!

That said, I'm starting to collect some really fucking good radiostatic songs in general that I think suits the 666: Live On Air! dynamic, haha:

Irresistible by Temposhark

Radio by Robbie Williams

The Masochism Tango by Tom Lehrer

#ask #personal #Anonymous #most obvious example of bullshit association is The Sword of Damocles is Swinging which is even titled from The Whole Being Dead Thing #from Beetlejuice #which is like. you can see where I made the connections? but it's v much NOT what other people would consider thematic listening HAHA #I've had Irresistible on my Spotify for Y E A R S and I recently remembered it and was like 'holy shit it's perfect for them' #mr prince anon #my writing