#Girahim skyward sword

[ovegakart]

Sky and Girahim meeting again in the Era's war

[yasmeensh]

I finished Skyward Sword and I LOVE IT! VERY MUCH!

beautiful beautiful game. I played it slowly and enjoyed every little bit of it ❤

The credits were beautiful, and the after-credits scene! 🥺 Oh my heart. I really love the Triforce wish scene. I hadn't realized that all this time, the goal was to avoid fighting. Going so far to find the full Triforce and wish for no war...

Zelda, Impa, Link, and Fi were all going out of their way fighting so that everyone else would not have to face the consequences of war, and that the innocents avoid suffering. It's so noble. Really makes me appreciate the whole story line of Skyward Sword.

The softness of the artstyle also reinforces this message. And how Link easily slips into a dream-like state, like when he listens to music. He wants to live in a happy, dreamy world. Another detail, is how mindful Link is of everything going on around him, even if he looks like his head is in the clouds xP (for example, at the start of every dungeon, we see a cutscene of him taking a moment to reflect before entering. He either stops to look at the darkness ahead or closes his eyes for a minute before starting the dungeon. I looovvee those cutscenes) I just love everything about it. This game makes me so happy!

 Aaaaand that's one more Zelda game completed!

[lily-alphonse]

Happy Pride to this absolute icon in particular

WHY DID LORD GHIRAHIM SERVE SO HARD

He's literally just the spirit of a sword. Like how does he get up to so much shit when Fi just chills in the master sword like a Siri I keep setting off by accident? Like they both took “being born to serve” to mean very different things lmao.

Ghirahim was brought to life and said hold my martini I'm going to LIVE

[lifepaint]

Another old drawing, with a bunch of Zelda villains owo

Who is your favourite one? owo

[estelian-01]

He’s finished!!! Y’all wanted Ghirahim so here he is!!! I’m so happy with how this turned out. Ended up becoming a bit of a lighting/shading study! That and anatomy!

@pickpocketwatch, @cutthroatcarnival, @nazunaisaturhouse, @hotcheetohatredwastaken, @needfantasticstories

[cookiewerewolf04]

I love Legend of Zelda and here are just a few pictures that I made in the past. :)

I REALLY like the Lionel that i drawed with a Pen. I made it free hand. (Like all the others) I just looked at some lions in the Internet to make the Face and Maine right.

Let me know if I should draw some more characters from legend of Zelda!

[rawliverandgoronspice]

TLOZ translations always seem to be a bit shitty. I still see people talk about the weird translation of the Demise monologue at the end of SkSw. I think someone said that Demise was more general with his statement, as in there will always be forces from the demon tribe fighting against the light or smth? Not specifically "us three will always fight". (I've read it a few times, but hard to remember, sorry.) (On the topic of SkSw, I kinda dislike how much it impacted theories within TLOZ, some theories are really cool, don't get me wrong. But now, even games that existed for years before suddenly are being pushed to fit with the lore presented in that game. Ganondorf being the best example: He no longer is his own character who did bad things because of his own will and actions, it's now "He did it all because an evil curse made him do it. He had no choice, he was born as a vessel for the demonic lord." The implications that "the curse of Demise" also would mainly go for the already vilified race of the Gerudo, and make their one male an evil warlord is already kinda... yeah... no. (Not to mention that there are other demon lords throughout the franchise that have nothing to do with Ganon.)

Ohh speaking of this I recently saw this post that did a good translation of that very moment, and pretty much confirms what you are mentioning anon; that it's basically a promise of that cycle coming back moreso than Demise himself coming back (especially since his actual and definitive death is a big deal in that game).

But yeah, I agree it has taken a huge space in the way the series is thought about. I pretty much completely missed that hard turn, as I couldn't play Skyward Sword when it released and wasn't super into Zelda afterward anymore (I had gotten too edgy.... 2011 was the year where I got obsessed with every horror videogame in existence basically except for Resident Evil for some reason I could never get into that series ANYWAY WAY off topic........), so coming back a few years later had me very ???? puzzled about how the theories had reconstructed themselves around Hylia and Demise and endless cycles (it's not that it wasn't a thing before, but I wouldn't say it was as much a Series Trademark as it is now).

But yeah. Ganondorf having his own motivations makes him immediately stronger as an antagonist, especially since his deal is quite complicated all things considered.

I am having a thought about how a lot of Zelda villains' motivation is a sort of rebellion against nature. I have scratched enough digital paper about Ganondorf's situation, but like... Minish Cap Vaati is also very much motivated by his refusal to remain small and whimsical and seize power instead of staying in his lane (and then he gets horny in Four Sword so, maybe let's not go there), Zant is.... Zant, Hilda in A Link Between World has been cosmically punished for trying to reject the Goddesses and create a world on its own terms --like SERIOUSLY this is HORRIFYING I feel like we don't talk enough about how utterly nightmarish of a reality that paints for Hyrule as a whole-- Girahim is devoted but fights for the side more or less destined to lose... It's interesting how Hyrule is hostile to change and anything that threatens the statut quo.

(then you have the occasional Majora and Yuga, whomst I dooon't think really fit the above category --to their full credit! and then you have Bellum, who is..... a blob...... And I don't remember enough from either the Oracles game or about Malladus to put them in either category, I need to replay those games)

Hyrule really has this frightening quality to it when you stare at it for too long: that your two only options are to either graciously submit to your assigned cosmic role, or fight it and become darkness incarnate in some way. A Link Between World showed, quite starkly, that trying to escape that binary choice is *not an option*.

[shanked-ace]

[the-mountain-flower]

Smn I realized abt Girahim from Skyward Sword and why he acts the way he does.

Obviously the doylist reason is because he's a very queer-coded villain and his flamboyant nature is supposed to portray him as unhinged and evil *exhausted queer sigh*; but I like coming up with watsonian explanations for things that don't have them in canon bc it's fun, so let's pretend it's not bc of prejudice and look into why Girahim acts the way he does, cuz it's actually interesting to think about.

Fi and Girahim (who btw I headcanon as using she/they/it and he/they/it bc that makes sense to me) are both spirits of a sword created connected to a deific power. However when we meet Fi, she gives the same energy as a newly-made sci-fi robot. She seems to only exist to serve their purpose, and doesn't look beyond that, or even seem to consider anything else than what it was made for.

However by the end of Skyward Sword, Fi expresses that although she seemingly does not feel emotions, they do feel something it believed is close to happiness.

Girahim, on the other hand, has no shortage of expressing its emotions. He is angry, excited, devoted, and all while showing a very distinct personality. If they were made for the same purpose as Fi, this wouldn't initially make sense (again, queer-coding). You could probably explain this as a byproduct of it being a weapon of Demise, except that he and Demise are very different people. While obviously influenced by Demise's evil, this wouldn't explain them having a distinct personality the way it does. And if this were the case, why would Fi not have the equal/opposite effect from Hylia?

But bc of how Fi went out of her way to express feeling happiness by the end of the story, and their overall subtle characterization, it's reasonable to conclude that the longer Fi acted as its own entity, the more she grew to develop something akin to the personhood other sapient and sentient beings have.

This means it's plausible that the reason Girahim is such a distinct character, and expresses his emotions so strongly, is because they have been acting as its own entity for a very long time. It makes sense that he portrays their feelings the way it does, if he didn't always have/perceive them.

Which is fascinating imo.

[josiwonderland]

This news has just filled my heart with rainbows!

[bluebird-ascended]

Linktober 2023 day 15: favorite character

couldn't decide whether to draw him with or without the coat, so have both

[ovegakart]

ganondorfs girl squad

[hyrulecollective]

Ghirahim is such a DIRTY LIAR! “I won’t murder you, I’ll just beat you within an inch of your life instead!!” He just killed me (I started the battle on two hearts, hero’s quest mode)

-Time? Maybe a little bit of Sky

[kuwupikaa]

Love playing through skyward sword but the lanayru mining facility was genuinely exhausting omfg.

[bitten-button]

And they should

[estelian-01]

so I finally figured out how to use the airbrush for shading! One of the things about Procreate that was driving me crazy was that the blend tool didn’t work like blending in traditional mediums. But now I can finally start trying out some more realistic shading!!! @pickpocketwatch @needfantasticstories here’s a little sneak peak at Girahim so far!!!!