#my ganondorf design for my au!!

[daeyumi]

Desert King 🌅🌺🪷

[Linktober 2022 Day 23: Ganondorf

[onesunofagun]

Drinking Ganondorf soup while I'm sick because it's good for my soul;

[acianoh]

Zelda Shippūden!

[power-play-au]

Hyrule Warriors for the Ganondorfs meet Ganondorfs au :D

[sapphic-loser16]

Power Play AU

(or, LU but with the Ganondorfs)

Okay lads, this is just a quick concept post because I lost my old one. The gist is, the ganondorfs are collected from time and space and thrown together into Hyrule to atone for their sins. The cast list is at follows:

Pipes (Cadence of Hyrule Gan): he’s the oopsie gan, and isn’t supposed to be in the mix on a point of him being fourteen and not a megalomaniacal dictator. He likes music!

Antediluvian (Wind Waker Gan): he’s the oldest, and the least evil after Pipes. He’s tired all the time, but he’s really trying his best. Resident old man. Dual wields. Gets really bad headaches.

Idol (Twilight Princess Gan)- he’s dark, brooding, and calculating. Also laughs weird (pipes is trying to break his dark chuckling habit). Definitely the saddest, but he hides it beneath his anger. Wields the sage sword that he was executed with.

Legion (Hyrule Warriors Gan): he’s tall, he’s mean, he’s grumpy, but gods take it all does he have a good head of hair. Tactician of the group, but also bullheaded and stubborn. Wields trident

Prime (Ocarina of Time Gan): most extroverted, also really likes music. Most prolific magic user, and the most annoying out of all of them. Uses magic in combat.

Tarragon (Tears of the Kingdom Gan): quiet and calculating, but occasionally lets loose to have a good time. Newest to the whole “saving Hyrule” schtik, and the most suspicious of it after TP Gan. Loves sandseals. Dual wields scimitars.

[cwazytvthings]

Currently writing this scene for my prequel fic and I got the urge to draw it 🫣 I love these two star-crossed haters sm

(I completely rewrote the first chapter and now I'm currently working on the second. Can't believe I've written so much TvT)

[smilesrobotlover]

I’ve barely been able to draw anything digital in days and this is the first thing I make

[doctorcanon]

Some working designs for a "Zelda Saves Link" story I've been sitting on for a while. Featuring Link as a world weary war hero and Zelda's half brother and Sheik as Zelda's advisor and bodyguard and Impa's grandson.

This would be their designs at the beginning of the story but eventually Zelda will cut her hair, become Hyrule's Greatest Archer, reforge the Master Sword, save her brother and become the benevolent Queen Zelda XIV.

[onefey]

Could you draw two alternate universes in which Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf have all switched Triforces?

haha sorry this one took so long to get around to i had a brief bout of No Motivation. anyway i did more of a full-on roleswap because honestly i don't think they'd change much if they Just swapped triforce pieces.

also i was experimenting with a pixel brush so. click for better quality if it looks wonky ✌

[bugger-loz]

random ass doodle dump… (featuring colgiri from @kollieflower’s au!!! he’s so silly)

[noodelak]

The Gerudo Prince

[daeyumi]

✨⭐️ Essence of Divinity 🌟✨💫

[Cycle of the Stars au]

[gamingstar26]

Yes, you are exactly right about totk!! A lot of my own complaints come from the story (or lack thereof). To be honest, it's a rare LOZ game that has a particularly complex or nuanced story, but in my opinion, the best ones more than make up for it with their characters.

My favorite game that I've played is Skyward Sword, and I desparately want to play Wind Waker, because the both of them have such fun and compelling characters that I don't really mind the simplicity of the narratives (and Wind Waker even hints at nuance the other games won't dive into!)

Tears of the Kingdom tries to use plot driven storytelling, but... expects us to be far more invested than most of us ever really are. There's hints of character driven story in there, but it all just falls flat in the end and feels really superficial, ESPECIALLY when you look at how they treat the women in this game. Zelda is JUST the sacrificial maiden (again) whose only autonomy comes from choosing to give up her autonomy. Mineru is JUST the smart character who magically technobabbles the solutions. Purah is JUST the scientist that tells you where to go. Most indicative of Nintendo's attitude in this, to me, is with Riju. The way they treat her, it's clear they want her to fill the role of the sexy one, but they know that won't go well if they go all out because she was canonically a young child in the last game. Still really gross, Nintendo you're not subtle.

All this to say that TOTK thinks it's more clever than if is, and fails to pull its own weight in any meaninful way.

All of this!!

I’ll add a bit more that I forgot to add:

Yea usually zelda games have simple plots overall (with some expectations of course) but they do make up for it with memorable characters, etc, etc…

My favorite zelda game is Ocarina of Time cause of the lore (also gameplay of course) and the how interesting it is to me and the overall themes it goes into being tragic and relatable, even tho the surface story is simple overall.(the hero of time games being my favs cause of the story driven nature yet also have fun gameplay) Also other games like skyward sword having a good engaging story with good characters (Groose is the best), wind waker being a simple coming of age story, but also having the king and ganondorf both cling on to the past, etc.

Like you said totk thinks it’s clever and fails to deliver on making us invested in a meaningful and exciting narrative, in a way it’s using tropes from previous zelda games like oot, botw, SS and link to the past without even knowing why they worked in the first place. While failing to reuse tho tropes in a more unique way like previous games have done. It’s true there are hints of character driven story it’s just ignored or mentioned in a half assed way.

Also like I said in the post the lack of consequences with the main story at the end, like Link’s arm just being restored even tho furry rauru had said it was beyond saving, and zelda being recalled back to normal, so her “sacrifice” was not worth it at all (master sword is also worse somehow like wtf zelda)

I’ve also noticed the way totk treats the main women it’s very not good, like you said with zelda she’s just sacrificial maiden turned into a dragon, mineru being exposition dump lady cause that’s all she does tbh, also has the worst Sage ability in the whole game, etc.

zelda being the worst one. (Tbh botw/totk zelda is mixed overall she’s overrated) cause she’s dumb as hell didn’t even recognize that Ganondorf and Calamity Ganon could be related, she does nothing until furry rauru and sonia are dead. Also being a terrible princess, she didn’t even do any meaningful things to hyrule’s rebuilding efforts other than build a school and some small memorials and fuck around doing whatever the hell she was doing pre totk. Also she stole links house damn it.

there’s also the way the gerudo are treated in the zelda series as a whole, but that’s a whole other topic others have done better at that. Like with totk and botw (mostly totk) being helpless yet also warriors needing help from hylians to even survive in their own home?! Like how ingame they explain that zelda of all people was the one to help them get to know the desert and how to survive better wtf? And the secret heroine side quest end, how it’s just some random hylian guy to be the hidden 8th. (There goes the 7 sages and the 8th being the hero of time theory)

Also the way the botw events are treated. they just pretend that none of the ancient tech never existed at all and refuse to mention anything about botw, only in small passes. And the side quest with the Hateno school mentioning the original calamity.

The depths having potential to be better but we’re just empty and massive instead, I like the bargainer statues those are cool as an concept. And the sky islands being boring and copy paste the same few islands throughout.

Holy shit this game makes me write entire essays of complaints. I’m sorry if I repeat myself I’m terrible at explaining stuff at times.

Now I’m going to play the zelda games I’ve never finished to cleanse myself of totk.

[hofudlaus]

whatever happened to the triforce swap thing

It's still rotating in my brain a bunch I just haven't had time to get it out of my head recently :(

[catpersonponything]

further sketches of link, zelda, the princess and some other key characters for my au like princess zelda’s brother (his name is Offram) and ganondorf

click for captions

[featherlouise]

Hollow x mothfriend mermaid x fisherman AU when?

:0000 how bout NOW