#minish cap

[wutheringmights]

Basically, when someone asks you what the kingdom of Hyrule is like, this version of the map/world/people/gameplay is what you think of?

[starshipdecay]

Toon Zelda redesigns! I've never been fond of the Toon Zelda design, and these girls deserve some individuality. Design notes and rambles below the cut :D

(time to turn the proper grammar off i aint capitalizing all this. warning: i am verbose)

first up, tmc zelda!

shes the one most like toon zelda, since i felt like the vibes fit the *most* (though not a lot). also, with her place on the timeline, i could justify a lot of bits, like the wings and the cape

the cape! obvs it comes from the toon zelda base design, but also it involves skyloftian fashion! i take the timeline as a challenge, and i once saw a take somewhere that the skyloftians all wear their family crests (most often birds lol) on their person. zelda here (and link too) do just that, wearing their family crests on little caplets. on the back is, of course the royal crest

i went very cutesy princess for her. tmc has such a *whimsical* vibe that i feel is very. muted? by the fact its stuck with the toon style. so i wanted to put in that vibe here. also her sprites make it look like her skirt is super poofy, so how could i not?

curly hair: i wanted something interesting, and most zeldas have straight hair. so! adds to the cuteness

i didnt draw it so well but she (and link) both have very sleepy expressions. zelda especially just has a sleepy expression in her sprite, its quite adorable.

shes not as decked out as other princesses, cuz i see tmc taking place before the royal family really starts to get *royal* as we see it. shes still of course got a tiara and some embroidery tho.

Tetra! her base design isnt all that changed from the original. her name is a fun hc of mine tho. i think "von Hyrule" sounds better as a surname than just "hyrule". shes not zelda, but shes still a descendant.

(WW) princess z (as i call her)

I went more oot zelda vibes for her, since she would be closer, temporally, to oot. i also went very warm, since ive never seen the flood as a *warm* endeavor.

shes got the shoulder danglies, as most zeldas have shoulder armor of some kind. the danglies instead of actual armor are supposed to kind of evoke a royal sea captain kind of vibe.

shes ghostly, with a fish-eyed stare. shes been dead and gone for a long time. shes also a bit taller and a few years older than tetra (as of ww). shes just some spectre the king saw in tetra, not at all a close match

tetra, being smaller than princess z, doesnt fit into the clothes. the dress is too big for her (as is in canon gd that skirt is WAY too long for her), the coat is baggy. the role of a princess *literally* does not fit her.

the ribbons! theyre my replacement for the wings, and they represent the wind in the game! since its represented by white lines, the ribbons are a perfect symbolic match. (also, a note, tetras hair is shorter and coarser than princess z's)

i mostly bullshitted the blue panel but the vague idea i gave it was 'a hope for the triforce to give good fortunes to the people' (pictured as dots, mostly behind her arms)

Pirate Queen Tetra

ph! about a year has passed, and tetra has really grown into her own! as well as literally grown!

shes still tetra, pirate and captain, but shes incorporated that royal heritage into her identity: quite literally! she made piecemeal of the original outfit (what was left of it anyway after the fight), and added bits and pieces to her new life.

she also takes full advantage of said heritage to call herself pirate queen. its great for branding. whos gonna say she CANT go by pirate queen?

the seagull feather is from Aryll. only crew member tetra wears a trinket from (who can say no to that ball of sunshine! certainly not tetra)

not many notes. yall can see whats there. (also she still wears her hair in a bun, its just in a low bun (you can almost see it) when she wears her hat)

st zelda!

first note is: shes not a princess! shes an heiress of the company tetra had made and left behind. hence her title of Lady zelda. ("new hyrule" rly just like-- the ending of ww was *literally* that hyrule is dead and thats okay. how did they miss that :sob emoji:) also calling her Lady Zelda fits with the train vibes

shes in a 1880s style bustle dress because 1) i am OBSESSED with bustle dresses. i love them. so much. 2) the more historical vibe works really well with trains! also a lot of the other outfits in the game have late victorian vibes, so shes certainly not out of place.

her hat (and gloves): any proper lady has a hat on when going about town, however, when she gets body snatched, she pulled out her hatpin to use (ineffectively) as a weapon (she IS tetras great-great-granddaughter), causing her to lose her hat *and* hairdo.

shes still got the hatpin in her ghost form, too. she uses it to threaten people for funsies

Ribbons! on the topic of hairdo, her ribbons! visually tying her to tetras design, the ribbons here instead take on the image of train tracks, with her pin (on the left side) evoking a train engine. the pin also makes her look rich and girly. when her hair comes undone, this makes the ribbons all loose, like how the train tracks disappear in game. (the hat also kinda connects her to tetra)

thanks for reading :D i hope you liked reading this as much as i liked typing it

[fairymascot]

dude zelda minish cap is literally so magical, its like a ghibli movie to me. sure tears of the kingdom has sprawling cg vistas or whatever BUT IN THE RAFTERS ABOVE THE BAKERY THE LITTLE GNOME PEOPLE HAVE OPENED A CAFE

this lil dude put a candle in a mug inside his home. this is like a fireplace to him. his tablecloth is a leaf. Are You Seeing This

you can shrink down and help an overworked shoemaker who fell asleep at his desk by fixing the shoes for him. look at this. you are smaller than his goddamn pinky finger

this guy LIVES inside a library book that he CARVED OUT!!!! u can see the freakin depth of the pages and how they overlap each other where he carved them. im crying. minish cap you will always be famous

[linderosse]

Every Zelda has a favorite Link (excluding their own). Flora’s is Four :)

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[qvarr]

Other than BOTW and TOTK, Minish Cap is the only other Legend of Zelda game I played. I wanted to draw a scene of Link taking a break while climbing up the bean stalk. (I am also in my sun halo era, so I'm gonna add a sun halo whenever the opportunity rises now. lol)

[dragonsleather]

I finished Minish Cap today

[archivebottles]

been thinking about minish cap a lot recently

[IMD ID: A stylized version of Link from Legend of Zelda Minish Cap incorporating more minish-like clothing, with Ezlo looking more like a bird. Image 1 features a minish sized Link in a forest looking confused at a map. While the 2nd image features Ezlo yelling 'IDIOT' at link in a simplified chibi style. /END ID]

[tinsil]

so much to see at the festival!

[hyde-nseek]

Hylian Game Titles pixel art project is complete! Please enjoy all 19 games in their respective Hylian script.

This was honestly super fun to do. I feel like I know so much more about the world of Zelda, and I've started to find small things in games I've never noticed before. I can confidently say that I'm fluent in Hylian now.

Which one is your favorite?

[islandlobster]

da toonies 💪💪💪

[kommandantpinks]

I dont even know why im posting this other than wanting to save the gif so uh

Yes

Edit: The reblogs have gone out of hand

[mochiwei]

Day 22: NPC

[sighsra]

minish cap

[kiln-pixels]

Hi, I am back with more art.

[0tacat]

Minish Chat

[hibbeln]

Temperance ✨️

I can't imagine anyone better for this card than Four :)

(Reposted due to my mistake, I finished it too quickly because I was away from home, but this gave me the opportunity to change something that was bothering me hehe :D)