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how the latest 3.1 trailers have felt:

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wdym this wasn't exactly how that scene looked like?

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Twilight watched as the Purple Wild's (Grape, dubbed as such when the Chain collectively vetoed against him picking Eggplant or Boysenberry as names) Animated-Creature-Thing spun chaotically, slowly chipping through the old stone wall of the dungeon they ended up trapped in together, separated from the others in the Chain along with the other split Wild's.

"How many of those things can you make?" Twilight asked curiously, staring at the Thing mesmerized. It just didn't stop spinning. Like one of those dreidels or tops he's once tried to carve for the kids in his village. "Does it ever stop?"

"I could probably fill a room with all the capsules I have. My Autobuild's would run out eventually but I have enough Zonaite to last me a while and Flora helped me optimize the amount everything took." Grape held out their newfangled arm towards the Thing. It made a weird hmming sound before a stream of green burst from it, and Grape carefully hovered the spinning device closer against the stone door to chip away at it faster.

It lacked any and all dungeoneering or splunkering artistry whatsoever, but by the Three it was efficient. Between the Spinning Thing and the Hoverbike that Grape manifested earlier to skip over an entire infinite pitfall platform puzzle, Twilight could tentatively admit to himself that he was beginning to see some of the appeal in magic. Some of it.

But with the sight of the glowing, clearly unnatural arm sticking out in front of him, Twilight couldn't help but stare.

Something had– or rather, something would happen to Wild in the future that would give him some newfangled magical powers but would cost him a literal arm in exchange. Twilight wanted to know so bad it hurt – but every time their present Wild, Leaf, tried to ask she was brushed aside. He didn't know if he would be any different. He didn't know how much this future Wild still trusted him despite how many years it had been.

Eventually, before the wall crumbles, Twilight works up the courage to ask. "Can I ask what happened to your arm?"

Grape, who was in the middle of yawning, snaps their mouth shut so fast Twilight could almost swear he heard their bone creak.

"You could," Grape says cryptically. "Might not tell you though."

Twilight doesn't wince. "Did it... hurt? Was it so bad that you can't even bring yourself to talk about it?" Twilight has moments – a moment like that. He doesn't want more of that for Wild.

Grape makes a so-so motion with their free hand. "I don't really like thinking about it but it wasn't so bad that I don't ever talk about it. That's not the reason why I won't tell you guys about it though."

"Can I ask why you won't?"

"You could..." Grape smiles back cryptically.

Twilight sighs fondly, returning them with a wry grin. "But I'm assumin' you won't tell me about it though?"

Grape winks with a quick snicker. The wall crumbles and the arms of the Spinny Thing stop when Grape drops it and throws an apple at it, before dispelling the construct. Then they pulled out a sword with a rock fused to it and started swinging. Twilight winced, imagining the scolding Four would give if he knew.

The two of them step through the rubble of the door into the next room only to find it nearly entirely empty. Twilight sighs, and begins to comb the walls for indents and secret levers. Grape follows his lead.

"Have you ever traveled through time before?" Grape asks suddenly, startling Twilight from where he was trying to inch free a section of brick. Twilight bites back a curse before he responds.

"Time travel?" Twilight looks towards Wild curiously. "A little. Why?"

Grape doesn't respond for long enough that Twilight almost goes back to scanning the walls for an exit but his patience wins out when Grape hesitantly speaks, "Apparently there are multiple kinds of time travel. Like time loops or one way trips."

"...Sounds interesting. Does this little incident have anything to do with your new curiosity in time magics?"

"Maybe. A little." Grape shrugs but he's tense in a way Twilight has learned to read as 'not lying, but there's way more to the story than he's telling'. "We've talked about it a little. Me an' Flora. We're not quite sure if this really is time travel– 'cause she says we can't be sure whether the sword actually summons a person from another time or if it just summons a sample of what they're like at a different stage in their life. But we're pretty sure it's the last thing. Especially because Fish doesn't have any memories of going through it when he was Apple though I have memories of when I was Leaf."

Twilight stays quiet and patient, waiting for Wild to continue.

Grape does. "So. It's not real time travel. I'm not really traveling through time and my real self in the future probably wouldn't have experienced this at all. Won't experience it? Iunno." He shakes his head. "That doesn't really matter– I'm just thinking out loud. Anyways, time travel. Sometimes the loop just goes in a circle but sometimes you just get thrown back or thrown forwards and there's nothing you can do. When it loops it kind of bends so it's malleable and things can change in that loop but when it's just. A one way trip... sometimes things Just Happen. And there's nothing you can do to change them no matter what."

He doesn't like how it sounds like Grape has gone through it first hand. "What do you mean?"

Grape Wild shrugged. "Iunno man. Like..."

They sigh. Twilight waits some more.

"Things Happen, in the future. Big things. Second adventure things, y'know? The type of thing that Just Happens and there's nothing you could've done to prepare yourself for how bad it was gonna get and even if you tried you'd've just been setting yourself up for failure and disappointment." Grape turns to him, giving Twilight a full view of his melancholic eyes. "Do you understand? My past self would only drown themself in useless worry if I tried to warn them of what was going to happen. And it wouldn't change anything anyways."

Twilight frowns. "So you're just... not going to tell yourself any of that? Not even if it means there's a chance that things would end up better for you?"

"There's no point." Grape states. "And anyways, I know for a fact I never tell myself it so there's no point in trying to convince me; it wouldn't work. All you'd be doing is giving yourself a lesson of futility."

"Cub..."

"Twi..." They return in the same tone, before visibly dismissing him by going back to the walls.

Twilight ruminates on Grape's words for a while until a loud exasperated groan coming from the champion catches his attention again.

"Oh! I'm such an idiot!" Grape smacks themself on the forehead before their hand lights up again with a green glow. He starts to scan the walls through again, and near an area Twilight could've sworn he checked thoroughly, Grape Ultrahand's a spot in the wall and pulls a chunk of it out to open up a hidden doorway. "Hyaa! Take that stupid empty room. Power of a dead goat king's arm! C'mon, let's go see if this next area finally leads us to the others."

Twilight watches as Grape takes off dashing through the hall, resisting the urge to reach out to him. To question him more thoroughly, to scold him for running off, to comfort him from all they've gone through. But Twilight doesn't do any of it.

It's as Wild said it was earlier: a lesson of futility.

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i had a dream recently that wild used the four sword and its magic split him into his past, present and future selves 🤔 so ofc i had to draw this concept

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POV you woke up not expecting to get hatecrimed today

(It was wild, he broke another sword)

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some LU headshots in my style for personal reference. subject to change bc drawing consistently is a bitch but overall i think i’m happy w them! (ignore the comic/writing idea in the upper right corner it may or may not be made into a full think idk yet—)

typed notes for each lu member + a little extra below cut

wild—

oval eyes

rounder oval ((ish)) face

amber earrings

healed scarring

androgynous

i tried to reference the boys’ canonical character models to individualize their features more. i love botw and totk sm but personally i’m not the hugest fan of the way the characters look for it? even so, i think the rounder sort of eye shape works really well for my wild

his colors specifically i drew to be a bit more sunset kissed/orangeish bc i was referencing a wild photo in which the time was sunset. thats abt it. but i think it’s really pretty on him so i’m probably just keeping that whenever i draw wild

warriors—

cheek bones/jawline

rounder ears

pointy eyes ((eyeliner that could stab a person))

cheek scar bc i felt like it

i stole away some of wars’ side fringes, forgive me i couldn’t decide whether i wanted them to cover up his jawline and chickened out. if anyone actually read the comic thing you’ll see smth abt the old man and wars talking abt how his hair parted to the other side of his face during the war. i made it to ‘vent my frustrations’ bc i drew his hair part referencing HW photos of link instead of LU wars and it’s now become my headcanon.

his hair color is vivid bc HW color pallet is pretty damn vivid and his eyes & earrings are a deeper blue to match his scarf. color coordination!

anw he’s a pretty boy so i made him pretty — that’s pretty much the rest i have to say abt that

time—

tired eyes

longest ears

(slight) rbf

both time & legend have half circle/oval eyes ((kind of. at least that’s what i tried to go for to give them a more worn/serious look))

i’m not the best with differentiating ages. i tried to make him look a bit more worn/oldest but i also wanted all of them to still carry some of that classic pretty boy link look. don’t have much else to say but he has the longest/angular ears bc fairy boy. let’s pretend four’s don’t look longer than his i drew him later and forgot

twilight—

<-takes more features from malon ((who i haven’t drawn yet so you don’t have any reference on that))

pretty boy face (wasn’t intentional but it is what it is)

twilight princess link is v pretty. twilights usually one of the more rugged (for lack of a better term) looking ones bc he’s among the taller ones/apart of the “adult” squad but i accidentally made him very pretty looking. oops. don’t know if that will remain consistent for him if i draw him more so we shall see

him and time share less features than i might’ve wanted? you can see a bit of time’s jaw in the way his face curves but overall they don’t share many features. again, he takes more after malon. but their hair textures are incredibly similar if that means anything

gave him jade studs bc they reminded him of midna and are practical enough that he can just keep them in the whole time (bc he will lose them or forget abt them if he takes them off)

sky—

rounder face

big eyes

lips

big ears

his hair color was a bitch to get right im not sorry i had to say it color is so hard to work with. in any case! skyward sword link has bigger looking eyes cus of the style and i just ran w that. his earrings are magenta to match sun’s dress but look red when the light catches them right (or wrong ig bc they look red in dim light too) just bc i realized his earrings were red to match his outfit/crimson.

sky and the next three (everyone sans wind) probly look the least off their character models

legend—

oval iris

full rbf

multiple piercings ((this is important for u to know))

longer narrow face & features

boy’s a strawberry blond bc i said so. and also legend purple eyes propaganda. i don’t know where exactly that originated but like i love it and im on board. he also has purple stud earrings he always keeps in — curious, isn’t it. he probably has more than i gave him but well, thats all i gave him. it gets the picture across. hc that legend realized he couldn’t get more fingers for his rings but he could get more piercings that could handle jewelry that did almost exactly the same thing. practicality!

also i couldn’t decide on legend’s hair length. its all hidden by that hat of his so i just… didn’t draw the back half portion of his hair. does that make my legend bald at the back of his head? you decide.

hyrule—

wide face narrow chin

freckles!!!

bigger earlobes

the earlobes is me projecting /hj but i tried to reference the og link’s face shape for him which idk if i like yet. he has freckles and more accent colors in his hair and eyes which is a subtle thing but a sorta maybe reference to his fairy magic. no piercings for him! i forgot them/didnt see them on og link and can’t really imagine when hyrule would ever get the time to pierce them so he and wind can do that together eventually to bond. legend will do it probly — he obviously has the experience and wild can’t be trusted (offered to pierce winds ears with a knife canonically)

wind—

big eyes

void eyes

big ears but rounder than skys

soft face

fluffy hair

wind’s 100 yard stare *does* things to the chain but none of them tell him that because he’d definitely use it to freak people out. i couldnt decide between going lighter sun bleached hair wind or bright blinding yellow toon link hair so i kind of meshed them together to create that. tried to make him the youngest looking

four—

symmetrical angles ((and then i drew a polygon quadrilateral bc thats the shape i used as a reference)) for cheeks and eyes

minish feather ((earring))

minish ears & nose

hime bangs

yk the picture of a minish that comes up when googled? thats what i used as a reference for his features. ears specifically, nose somewhat. four’s eyes are usually the greyish hazel color you get from mixing all of their colors together but i liked the split look for this piece more. his hair color is also wind’s but inverted so wind’s lights are four’s highlights and his darks make up the brunt of the base color as a slight reference to how it’s occasionally theorized/hc that wind is four’s descendant.

and the hime bangs were bc i wanted a little more “link side fringe” variation and i thought the sort of straight cut looked nice. hime bangs are not the right term tho bc he parts them to the side and doesn’t have that straight cut on his forehead but i’m too lazy to fight the correct term

— thank u for reading, go hydrate and eat if you have not <3

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my first offering to the zelda fandom

translation —

Revali: “Why should this NOBODY be trusted to lead US in this upcoming battle?”

Zelda: (kinda) wants to disagree because statistically Link has been a huge help and has saved her life multiple times now but can’t.

SFX : Inhales

Link:

probably the 20th or so sword he’s needed since all the others kept breaking

rubber helm he refuses to take off

stripped the moment he could after the first battle

dented his shield because he surfed on rocks

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in case you couldn't tell im going so crazy over your sol drawing how could you it's so amazing and then WRITING ABOUT KOM. KOM. im never over him.

10/10 artwork. im going to stare at it and cry now. sxjgxhjxgjs.

AJDKFKS I SAW AND IM SO FLATTERED I READ EVERY THING U WROTE

I love Sol, I love angst, I loved :] kom and the writer inside of me can’t let things be without a little angst lol so i just had to write that,,

now i feel obligated to draw more kom angst lol-

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The fall of the Stratos…

“ You fought for this lot. “

no matter what they do, it always fails. no matter how many times or cycles, they can never save them. can never save him.

kom can’t be saved.

why do you keep trying?

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ive yet to attempt to woo nomi, cal, or tammy and complete some finer details of specific routes but here’s where i stand with my meagre 50-60 hrs of gameplay take it or leave it :)

teenage exocolonist has been my latest hyperfixation and i am in actual love, i would marry this game were it possible i love it so freaking much

My tierlist.... please share yours I wanna see ur tierlists.......... https://tiermaker.com/create/i-was-a-teenage-exocolonist-1498063

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death incarnate

v good game, very much love this one — they’re all so fun actually and the art is so good i want to study it more. i will be spending a few hrs a day periodically until i have unlocked the full story (i already broke free in like 16 attempts - thats good right? i hope so) and mayhaps will do some more art later

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Currently thinking abt Jingliu’s story quest, spoiler’s ahead beware —

I’m thinking about how much of an impact Jingliu’s torture had on Blade and how fucking devastated Jingliu must’ve been to go through with it. I’m thinking about how Yingxing must’ve still been reeling from the new effects of the abundance and his possible regret and grief for ending up as the very thing he hated and swore to fight against—

I’m thinking about the way Jingliu must have chased him down after hearing or- or seeing and experiencing them attempt that resurrection and feeling utterly betrayed by two of her closest friends— two people who were supposed to be Baiheng’s closest friends— (How could they do that, how could they do that, how could they do that?!) —and swinging her sword, the Shard Sword (the one he made— the one he gave to her), at him mindlessly and hurt, with the intent to make Yingxing feel the same way.

I’m thinking about how Yingxing must’ve first felt when he died — the first taste of nothingness to cleanse him of the utter agony of devastation and grief, and then the horrible feeling of everything when he was resurrected again. I think about the way Yingxing, so open and honest, feeling so deeply, must’ve ley out a sob when his chest began to heave again. I think about the way Jingliu must’ve watched with tears of frustration and agony shining in her own eyes. (You did this to yourself. I failed by not stopping you but you and Yinyue-jun were the ones who disgraced her memory first — you have no right to cry like that!)

I think about the way Jingliu must’ve made a conscious effort to destroy his hands— his pride and joy, the ones that made the Shard Sword she turned against its creator. I imagine her throwing it on the ground after the first— or one of the first few of his many deaths, telling him to “Rise” and “Stand” to face her, forcing him to fight over and over again living over a hundred deaths as punishment for what he did.

I think about the way ‘Yingxing’ must’ve slowly died in this process of hours or days of endless torture and punishment with his heart as an artist splayed out and destroyed, flesh bared and heart unbeating as the artist in his mind marvels at the beauty and fantastical agony that became his existence until he no longer thinks; mind rewritten with Jingliu’s preachings of “The three who must pay the price.” and her merciless sword techniques and lessons. I think of how Yingxing, the existence that he was, had truly been killed and warped in all the suffering Jingliu imparted on him — and I wonder how they could ever mend that bridge again.

I think about Jingliu stopping only after the hundredth death as now Blade stands on steady feet with muscle memory from the past nth deaths until Jingliu turns her back with her final lesson and parting words; satisfied, but not fulfilled, by the way she’s carved her presence and regrets into Blade’s mind and body irreversibly. I think about the way she spared ‘mercy’ to him by leaving him astray and to escape the Xianzhou and Luofu. I think about the effort it must’ve taken Blade to chose aimless wandering over eternal sentence… or maybe that too had been Jingliu’s choice.

I think about Jingliu, walking away with nothing but white noise and mara screams, echos of the past, filling her mind until her body gives out from restless days of fighting Blade, forcing onto him the punishment she so strongly believed he deserved — because she couldn’t rest until the lesson had finally set in, what kind of teacher would she have been if she had? I’m thinking about the way her body collapses to the ground like a puppet cut from its strings with no one to catch her and no one to see her at her weakest as she mourns for everything they once had but can never have again because of what they did. Because of what all of them have become.

And finally, I think about the reports that must eventually reach Jing Yuan at the divine seat of foresight. I think about the way he must feel; knowing one of his friends is irreversibly dead and the other three have torn each other apart in that grief. I think about how destroyed he must be, choosing between his duty and his lovers— but finding all too much fault in the choices they made and the suffering they have caused. I think about the decisions he would have to make and the punishment he’d have to invoke on Dan Feng becoming Dan Heng in spite of his emotions, because he is the last one left. And if no one else can remain on the Luofu then he must be the one to carry their memories.

I think that the High Cloud Quintet are irreversibly scarred by themselves and by each other, and I wonder how they’ll ever be able to mend things.

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inktober 2023 day 6 - golden

skipped day 5 bc ngl wasn’t doing great but im better now! and i love how this piece ended up — everyone meet dao hartdall. he’s from the same universe as zilch from day 3 and is absolutely gorgeous when decked out in his noble regalia. he’s still cute in less fancy clothing, but not as regal for obvious reasons.

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inktober 2023 day 4 - dodge

look at my baby, hes abt to go off and commit some crimes !! or escape from the law after committing them idk smth like that

was dreading today bc ew action poses but i had fun w this! and i love drawing tulip, i need to draw him more

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inktober day 3 - path

my oc in a sort of witch hat atelier au bc they’re standing on those glowing paths that coco loved at the beginning. their name is zilch and i love them very much!

they’re not specifically a witch hat oc but they absolutely fit the aesthetic and would, in fact, make an absolutely amazing brim hat.

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inktober day 2 - spider

its totally canon that behind scenes the spiders got lose in the stellaron hunter base and silver wolf deleted exactly 11 out of existence, blade ruined three separate pieces of furniture, sam did.. idfk what and elio just let this all happen because he found it funny.

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inktober day 1 : dream (nightmare)

featuring towa from slow damage & maya’s hands

i love the composition of it, hate the colors and rendering. might try again at the end of the month maybe but i won’t beat myself up abt it now cus i can’t put 120% into every single one of these drawings and it do only be day one