BotW/TotK/AoC Zelda's relationship with divinity and religion is such a dynamic. She is literally the reincarnated human form of one of their goddesses, and blessed with the power of another. And she's sitting there, praying desperately to herself and wondering why no one is answering. Praying to the other three goddesses and wondering why all they do is look at her expectantly. Of course Hylia aids and answers Link, she has loved him since he was the First Hero. But in this lifetime instead of unlocking and mastering her powers with ease, she spends literally an entire decade screaming at herself "Why don't you love me?!?!" expecting an answer from the outside, and growing increasingly frustrated with herself for this fact, and then getting mad at her boyfriend because "Why do I love you more than I love me!?!?" (While he stands there with hearteyes, wondering how she doesn't realize she's the greatest being in their universe and literally worshiping the ground she walks on)
And then, even after she unlocks her power, their history is so mythologized that she doesn't realize that the goddess she's still mad at, who makes her feel like such a failure, is literally herself.
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Two more days, everyone... TWO MORE DAYS!! I can't wait to experience a whole new variety of gameplay and story. Especially the zelda not zelda / hylia not hylia woman, I wanna know her name sooooo bad.
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Has anyone ever questioned how/why all the Links are named, well, Link?
I mean it’s obviously not a common name. Does some kind of divine intervention from Hylia herself take place the moment his soul is reborn, and his parents are just overcome with the undeniable urge to name their new baby Link? Family and friends be like “but I thought you were going to do Joe for a boy or Jane for a girl?” And the parents just stare back at them with these creepily blank faces and reply “his name is Link” well um… alrighty then…
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You have to understand that The one I killed is ME
In my head Wind will always be a scary child
A redraw of this post I made a year ago, I always thought that the perspective looked a little strange so I converted it to digital so I could play with it a little more.
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Hylia: *lost her lover fighting Demise* *reincarnates her Hero and creates a mortal form for herself so they can live happily ever after together*
Demise: *Becomes Ganon/Ganondorf and curses all three of them to be reincarnated and fight in an endless cycle for all eternity*
HyliaZELDA: ...wait! No! What? This isn't how this was supposed to go!
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Linktober 2023 – Day 9. Deity
The White Goddesss Hylia, as seen in the Skyward Sword short manga. I added the wings as a reference to her statues and made her look a bit more like Skyward Zelda.
I'll have to do the Golden Goddesses someday (Farore my beloved). Kinda miss them and the Triforce too!
I might fall behind a bit for the next prompts as I won't have as much time to draw tomorrow. I'll try catching up later (I have next week off!!)
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