#oh ganondorf's there too

[skyloftian-nutcase]

I'm looking at the Zora May prompts and wanna write stuff, and now my brain's just giggling with ideas LOL like--

Imagine, after Age of Calamity, that Link and Mipha get together. That has its whole set of fun and drama - a Hylian/Zora marriage would mean a lot anyway, but particularly when it's the Zora princess and the Hero of Hyrule. Link and Mipha start to have a family, Zelda is settling into being queen, and they all have their own set of stressors and joys and the three are still besties and it would be just so funny to see y'all. Like... Link takes his oath as a knight seriously, so he still assists Hyrule often, and just this scenario in my head came and--

Zelda, sighing: I hardly slept last night. I was up late researching the latest Zonai discoveries and almost forgot I had a meeting with the Rito delegation this morning. I'm so tired.

Link, hair a mess, on his third cup of coffee after dealing with one of his kids having a meltdown while the other kept everyone up crying all night, dealing with Mipha also trying to do royal duties, having just teleported over here via Sheikah towers: .....That sounds rough.

#give me some domestic hilarity and stress and fluff dang it #Zelda has every right to be exhausted too but this image in my head was too funny not to share #I don't know how parents do it I'm barely alive most days LOL #if I had a husband and kids to worry about too I'd probably have a permanent IV for caffeine injections #all my lovelies who are parents: God bless you XD #age of calamity #oh and then totk happens and Link almost loses his ever loving mind LOL #imagine Link as a dad in totk HAHA #Link dealing with Ganondorf while his four-year-old destroys Dorf emotionally #Ganondorf: Behold a king's revival! #Link's kid: You're not even NEARLY as big as Grandpa and he's a REAL king and your hair's ugly #miphlink #poor Zelda had to become queen after the Calamity since she came of age #she and Link exchange letters on the regular when he isn't doing assignments for her and actually gets a few days to chill in the Domain #Mipha has to often visit to help Zelda with her anxieties #I think they'd be a fun dynamic ok

[ganondoodle]

this isnt as long as before but i just cannot stop thinking about this, why i dislike story and lore boils down to these main point

--the ending feels unsatisfying as hell even if i ignore everything i dont like about how the game treated zelda and ganondorf, the ending itself just feels, despite being presented as super epic an touching, incredibly empty to me and part of it is that it feels like an unearned return to status quo of course i didnt think zelda would stay a dragon and i actually wanted to help her, which is why i kept trying to hunt down impa since she said shes gonna search for a way for us to help zelda, bc i wanted to!! i was eager to help her!

i fully hoped and kinda expected that thered either be some kind of dragon dungeon (think, the water dragon from okami) tho that would be difficult since you can get items from her so i ended up thinking before going into the end thered be a mission with impa (or at least given to you from her) where she found answers in ancient scripts (that she told you she would look through) and that you need to find a special lil thing that will help zelda undragonfy, like some sort of ultra secret forbidden enigma stone able to reverse dragon transformations kinda deal (golden opportunity to make you go and talk to the yiga bc they might know or even own some ancient texts) that youd keep in your inventory until the very end and after you kill dragondorf (pretty mortal for becoming an immortal dragon huh) you take it out and use it, undragonfying zelda and ending in a similar epic falling and paralel to the beginning way

... and instead impa stays in the house and only has a few repeating dialog boxes and does nothing and you cant do anything bc in the end you just get randomly teleported (and stripped of your clothing AGAIN) into some weird ethereal plane somehow?? with the ghost of long ass dead sonia and apparently not as gone as i thought rauru (seriously i felt sad when he went poof at the end of the tutorial but i guess i shouldnt have) awkwardly blasting dragon zelda with some magic tm and its all reversed no problem (heck me for caring i guess) turns out helping her was killing an evil guy we never really knew and mineru just kinda says lol its bc time and light magic i guess lol as an explanation

like i really wanted to go and help zelda! i was motivated to do it and spent HOURS trying to find impa again but i wasnt allowed to do anything bc zelda gets saved by some deus ex machina bs in the end anyway, what a fool i was, of course killing the evil guy is the solution to everything >:( (and no i dont care if its meant as in uwu sonia and rauru wanted to help one last time uwu bc it doesnt change how unsatisfying it was to watch it all just kinda happen)

--point two is just how much totk feels like its trying to REPLACE botw instead of being a sequel, its not building on anything of it its ripping out the fundation and building its own thing in its place, like i was so excited to see what happened to the titans, and all the sheikah tech what they mabe had done in all that time now that theres a tech enthusiastic girl as the head of the monarchy, maybe even find out more about them and instead its just all ... gone with not explanation? theres isnt even a LAME explanation, its just gone?? you never find out what the ancient energy actually was, and why there were concentrations of it in the regions with the ancient furnace (well heck it didnt even have anything to do with ganondorf actualyl bc that would have been too interesting) bc that was so intrigueing?? like yeah where DID it come from and why is it there ?? and oh suddendly hey look theres an even MORE ancient and even MORE advanced civilization thats way COOLER and BETTER than the ancient sheikah now, they also built stuff everywhere and have been here ALL ALONG cant you see its everywhere!! and its the only thing everyone cares about all of the sudden, all evdidence of the ancient sheikah tech was scraped of the earth so there literally only being some guardian parts on top of the hateno lab feels like an oversight now bc everything lese was to thourohgly wiped of the map- for no reason even?? like im totalls fine with it being useless and not working anymore but .... why remove it like it was wiped from history?? and then they have the gall to mention the happenings of botw like, twice in the entire game but still just give you the most basic summary of it mentioned on a sidenote with again not even a hint what happened to all of it

wouldnt there have been the golden opportunity to use it to access the new parts and map points that changed?? like a shrine thats fallen into the underground, an access to caves and the underground in the broken and collapsed elevator tube of a sheikah srhine?? maybe even a broken interior of an old shrine, like the room you get put into with the puzzle and where the monk once were broken and half overgrown in the udnerground? some left over construction site where you can see oh thats how the ancient sheikah got all that tech underground, bc they all had access to it and built it there to then rise up when its needed? maybe even making use of the old sonau sites since they frequnetly built their srhines within those ruins?? that the ancient sheikah found em and put the ruins to use? to research it and built their own stuff from it? it wouldnt have to have any focus, literally just part of the enviroment even

really everything totk does is like -forget botw ever happend, look how much cooler and better i am, who cares about sheikah stuff sonau are the new cool guys that came out of nowhere but now apparently have been everywhere all along actually-

i LOVE botw and with it feeling much more like its attempting to replace botw instead of building its story and world further every reference to botw i found felt like a slap in the face instead, oh look where the shrine of life used to be isnt even a hint left of sheikah tech somehow, and also right under it is the lake of healing filled with sonau structure bc ACTUALLY they were here FIRST bc they are so cool omg you guys

dare i say it feel a little like they wanted to make an entirely different version of botw basically, but wanted to reuse the map and models so they just said yeah uhhhh its totally a sequel yeah yeha that makes sense, its not erasing botw and doing essentiall the same thing again but bigger cooler and better (tm) its just uuh a ...sequel ye.

#ganondoodles talks #totk spoilers #totk #sorry i got longer again #also what was calamtiy ganon then #if it was ganondorf trying to resurrect himself outside of the seal then ... wouldnt he ... mention it or something or anyoone no? #also dont like how all the teasers made it seem like there was soem great mystery as to how gan got down there- #.. actually how DID he get down there thats a pretty weird place to go to war too #-aynway and WHO did this to him omg he looks in pain maybe theres more to it alll omg #and then its just ... yeah cool guy tm sealed him #oh ... ok #why would you tease us with a good time then bring stale chips and an empty beer can you have brought with you three times before already #like i get we love to read more into stuff that isnt there #but they were oh so vageu with the teasers and stuff we got to see when its all just #the same schlok but even more tasteless than before

[cinnamin-is-a-star]

I can't think of a funny caption, but I've been wanting to draw something for Totk's ending for like a month now, so here it is!

#tears of the kingdom #loz #totk spoilers #i ADORED the ending so much #I have some criticisms with totk's story but honest to god the sheer HYPE factor of the game makes me now care #i turn my Writer Analysis Brain OFF for this game bc it's just so fucking cool and epic. makes me feel like a little kid #I don't really like how Link looks but everything else is cool so eh it doesn't matter too much #oh wait i forgot more tags #tears of the kingdom spoilers #tloz totk #loz fanart #fanart #totk link #totk zelda #totk ganondorf #hey look cinnamin drew something

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Honestly for all the "am I pushing this too far? should I pull back?" moments I have working on Thralls' outline, I am often reminded that this is actually a pretty charitable interpretation of what may have happened between OoT and TP....

#thoughts #oot #tp #thralls of power #animated project #there's a version that is 100% arguable where ganondorf got arrested immediately and the gerudos revolted guided by twinrova #and were crushed or pushed away #and that was that #and link leaving for termina only where this “issue” was “solved” #and then he died in the lost woods with zelda ruling hyrule as she grew #it doesn't feel implausible at all #of course there's the opposite take of #oh yeah the gerudos were immediately cool with the murder of their king they apparently partially worshiped and twinrova?? who cares #and they co-built a weird monument/gifted their monument to the hylians to build a prison in which to imprison and execute their own king?? #and to do a weird coliseum thing about it too??? where soldiers and prisoners were apparently sent to die?? #and then they just left. for no reason. #and nobody remembers them and calls them “a pack of thieves” including people who were there at the time of the execution #and the last person with seemingly traces of gerudo heritage 100% identify as hylian #anyway #it's hard to give a “nice” explanation to what happened that doesn't feel incredibly contrived unfortunately

[sittingoverheredreaming]

Still mad that this, the only trailer shot of Sonia, framed her as a really powerful being and the one shooting the giant death beam of light

But the real in-game context is that she’s just acting as support power for her husband and then she dies.

#totk #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom #tears of the kindom spoilers #loz #I don’t fully hate Sonia’s story (actually love her death scene I love smart Ganondorf) #but I do hate the narrative implications and that it was so clearly framed as a fake out #oh yeah here’s a powerful beautiful woman doing powerful shit #SIKE she’s augmenting her husband’s power somehow and her own power is just because of the bauble he gave her #(not only but STILL) #I have too much going on rn so of course I must put it all off to vent about a game

[flaskuwu]

If a character has hardly any merch sometimes you gotta take matters into your own hands…

#I’m making a pin for Mineru…. #Maybe Spirit Tracks too #Ganondorf is a no brainer #any chance I get to make stuff for him I will #flask rambles #I’m suprised there’s so little pins for Zelda enemies #Like a chu chu pin #I wish there were more secret stone pins #OH RIGHT MY SPLATOON CHARACTER

[edgy-dragon-trash]

Madman scribble lookin ass. I can’t sleep.

#dragon’s art tag #Ganondorf #totk #totk ganondorf #hes in my brain and hes so fine and oh shit oh fuck #theres an astor one too in a reblog now

[zoekrystall]

Got to all the dragon tear memories and noooo whyyyy did my guess with zelda doing it had to be right. More than dragon tears were shed oh dear hylia. Idk if I am just more emotional lately or if that close up with her dragon form crying got to me. She looks absolutely radiant as a dragon but whyyyyyyyyy. Idk if I like or hate it. It is interesting but my emotions </3 Let me at least get close to her as a dragon. I will fail but I will absolutely try to speed after her now.

#totk spoilers #Got to the last then her dragon flew by and I just said 'oh that looks way too close to zelda oh please not tell me I'm wrong'. #Went to the last tear but wasn't sure I was ready. Man. #There are still mems n story I wonder if that like changes or if she truly stays one and that's it #Hnnnnnnnn #Was smth w the last one I got being the 8 one w the three having a nice tea time #and then her dragon form flying above me and reveal the last one #Didn't cry much bc it's genuinely hard to let myself cry but nonetheless totk now counts as a game that made me #Which is an achievement #ganondorf sexy yadayada yes I agree but MY GIRL TURNED INTO AN IMMORTAL DRAGON SO THAT LINK CAN SAVE HYRULE #I might. Have stronger emotions abt zelink/zelda than I think huh. #I am an empath but only with fictional characters /hj #Link and zelda became like children to me. My darling daughter why did you do that. I get it but WHY #I could try to talk abt all this more eloquent all I say is I get why and support her decision. She knows what she does. #Link and me will not let it be in vain but ik you already have absolute faith in him #her dragon eyes truly mesmerize me they feel so full of emotions #a wild lux appears

[deltagalacticdaydreamer]

I saw the new Tears of the Kingdom trailer, here are my thoughts

It looks like the game is going to be freaking awesome

Rehydrated Ganondorf is looking amazing

It looks like we're having companions now, which includes Sidon and Riju, so maybe Yunobo and Teba will be companions as well. Also, from the looks of all the people behind link in that one shot, I wonder if we're going to be able to just recruit mercenaries or random people from off the road.

SWORD SHIELD

From the looks of it, we have some new bosses, which is a great upgrade from just having the blights in the first game. it seems we might also be getting more traditional dungeons, which is also nice.

Overall, I am excited for this game and I can't wait to build mechas and weird weapons to fight stuff with.

#zelda #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #botw ganon #hydrated ganon #ganondorf #sidon #riju #yunobo #teba #oh yeah I think the redeads are coming back #so that's cool #I wonder if we're going to get gohma back too #that would be cool #legend of zelda

[deliciousmicroplastics]

[guy who's writing two separate Ganon fics already] YOOO WHAT IF I WROTE A ROADSIDE PICNIC LOZ CROSSOVER

#so the train of thought that led to this: #me: im stuck on boss battles in totk and oot but at least i like ganon #me: what if au where the zonai were treated more like typical alien invaders? #oh but maybe they did still die and we're just stuck w their stuff but the stuff is—OH FUCK #anyway ganondorf as red au (i acknowledge they arent very alike) #i just think in a world like rp he would prob end up too powerful but too invested in some personal gain and thus be out in the trenches #hmm idk if ill get to this but i shoudl check out stalker (movie or game) sometime #loz posting #waxing philosophical

[bloobluebloo]

I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING AND THEN I CAME ACROSS ONE OF MY OLD SCREENSHOTS AND GOT INSTANT PTSD SERIOUSLY THIS WAS THE WURST

#IT WAS A GANONDORF ONLY LEVEL TOO #face your inner demons they said #this is not the imprisoned oh no #this is the DARK imprisoned #50% more evil and 1000% more annoying #ganonthots

[commander-goo]

posting this now because I think the high has worn off. opinions in the tags

#totk spoilers #totk story spoilers #major spoilers #totks story was mid as hell #the gerudo area was hands down the best part of the game #everything else felt violently undercooked especially for a game that has techically been in development for #LIKE 10+ YEARS #im awaiting the inevitable 30 dollar story dlc that half-assedly attempts to fill us in on vital information that was just left out #i hate what they did with zelda #the sage shit is stupid as hell and so are the zonai (sorry mineru this isnt about you) #also them forgetting the triforce is like a thing i guess 😐 #like yes. yes i enjoyed the game exploring and Playing It is fun #but oh my god your series is known for its story and THIS is what you give us #not even going to TOUCH the absolute timeline fuckening that occured here too #like congrats devs i guess. you got your aliens in zelda but At What Fucking Cost #also not touching ganondorf. my man will never be given justice and i have accepted that #this game just. it doesnt have the soul botw does. it explains too much and too little at the same time #ok i think thats all. if you read all this ill kiss you passionately under the moonlight

[saccharinerose]

I beat TotK today ✌️

#saccha's thoughts #totk spoilers #for my tag ramblings #ganondorf's second phase sucked so much ass #oh my god I was SO BAD at dodging his attacks #it turns out im still rusty #do appreciate the master sword having infinite energy during the fight #ganon pulling the 'forbidden spell' that zelda also used was fucking baller #holy shit #a genuinely good idea for his final phase #the final phase being relatively relaxed was also VERY much appreciated #was kinda hoping for a bit more dragon v dragon action #and maybe the 3 elemental dragons showing up too #but eh can't have everything. #very curious what any potential dlc for this game will look like

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I think I have the full outline for Thralls. ;;

#thoughts #thralls of power #animatic project #it's wayyy too long #but I feel like I prefer letting the project follow its own pace and not completing it #than rushing it and losing all the nuance to be found #but yeah rip the zora storyline I did squeeze it to almost nothing #but it still holds some of its idea and I would rather not force it #a lot of stuff I didn't know how to connect clicked #so yeah!!! #it's not perfect yet there's a bunch of stuff that remains very handwavey for now #and also: what do we do with this story etc #but I think the shape of it all makes sense #and I think I managed to do what thralls was there to do which is #recontextualize the moment where ganondorf get granted Power from the gods from “oh no! horrifying!” into triumphant yet tragic catharsis #literally all of thralls is there to justify this moment ;;

[sir-avodoodles]

Since I drew Volga (dragon) yesterday I accidentally drop-kicked my brain into “Hyrule City” mode so today I drew Volga (bossman) and a couple attempts to draw Link.

Then I’m the shower I had several brilliant ideas relating to dehydradorf and dumbassery. I will probably draw more of that tomorrow if I remember (I hope I remember)

#siravodoodles #inktober #inktober 2023 #day 21 #totk #link #volga #hyrule warriors city au #ganondorf #how have I never drawn him before. why are there no reference images for our fav dehydrated mans #oh yeah technically proxi is there too #gnight

[some-french-asshole]

My life expectancy shortens every time I fall for a character with thick eyebrows

#this is about #karamatsu matsuno #rise donnie #gyro zeppeli #and probably more but that's already more than 2 nickles so no more thoughts or else I'll have to hide in a hole amd never come out #oh god #Ganondorf is probably in that list too