#setting tp link

[verflares]

caution: dog will bite

[heros-shade-fanclub]

He found a baby in the wreckage of a wagon train

Thanks for your requests, @waroferas and @dragkbluire !! I love getting to see you guys in my notes bdjshjsjdjd

[hw-link-official]

Link is already pretty wee, but i have an even teenier Link as well. behold his son

[have-kake]

Miss ma'am, I'm going to cry!

[faize-art]

Twilight Princess Link has been on my mind lately. 🐺

[funsizedcrow]

im gonna be honest i think the pouch/item check thing in skyward sword is dumb. its a magic bag of holding ohh this little medallion cant fit shut up

[beardedhandstoadshark]

Please I need answers, I keep seeing it but there's nothing in that game it could be based of ;-;

[pocketramblr]

Who knows what Gerudo culture or fashion would have evolved into by 'Rule's time but it's nice to think about him getting to experience a bit more of it in another universe... Before BLYGanon sours it for him... Also been thinking about that Great Fairy of the desert...

[fellingclickproducts]

[thebleedingeffect]

Dark link being the heroes spirit save me...... save me dark link heroes spirit.........

[techtrickszonedotcom]

Block WIFI user and Website in TP-Link NX200-5G WiFi router | Mac Access...

[heros-shade-fanclub]

What is your favorite thing about the Hero's Shade? What is your least favorite thing about him? (How long we actually get to see him is not a valid answer because I also wish we got to see him more or that he appeared in pretty much every other Zelda game too.)

ooooooooohhh. oh anon i love you. saw this and started pacing around my room in excitement

I made a post about it before I think, but there's a quote that's like "in the end you become the person you needed that time when no one helped you" and that sums up my feelings well. In ocarina of time (and ESPECIALLY majora's mask), plenty of people teach you things and help you out here and there, but not in the same way the hero's shade watches you on your journey + actually teaches you to protect yourself*. There's almost a feeling of loneliness/isolation in oot and mm (<personal opinion), whereas one of the major themes of tp is that you're never alone in your fight. and what better representation of that than heroshade. turns into a kitchen appliance

He's got so many good lines too tbh. something about "go, and do not falter" makes me stick my head into a cement mixer. and we as a fandom are sleeping on the memeability of "A (blank) wields no (blank) unless the hand that holds it has (blank)"

My least favorite thing is probably how he calls Link a disgrace during their first meeting LIKE GIRLLLLLL. absolutely no reason to talk to him like that. i don't know that guy

I also think. and this is so nitpicky. the sword training music is very meh. it serves its purpose but as the track associated with him i think it leaves something to be desired. I love MajorLink and Brock Hewitt's choice to make his leitmotif the Ballad of Twilight/Courage Theme instead

*you could make an argument for Sheik or Kaepora Gaebora or even Navi here but their roles are still different i feel. and in majora's mask you very much have No One

[bonus-links]

Director's commentary maybe?

HELLO!! lots to say abt this one

i have this diagram with the entire plot of bonus links on it where every plot point is a digital sticky note. anyway the note for this update was just called "loft and wolf talk about being assholes". The original intent was for them to talk a bit more about how they both left their families behind (re: the party update) but the scene ended up taking itself in a different direction, as they so often do. I've saved that dialogue for later tho >:-)

this panel? bane of my existence to color. you would think after 3 years of making these comics I would have learned how to color night time lighting. ANYWAY. i think it's really funny that Wake is the only one managing to get a good night of sleep 😂 good for him

this whole scene was originally also going to be at night but a) i am so tired of night lighting and b) i thought this kind of morning twilight was appropriate for this conversation :-) it turned out a little brighter than intended maybe but I did my best lol

one more thing to keep loft up at night forever

this is directly referenced from this TP screenshot, I think from the mortal draw training. one of the overall themes for this update is, loosely, the ghosts haunting everyone, so. hello hero's shade :D and hi mask

speaking of ghosts haunting everyone, Loft's BG is the pattern I use on Fi's text boxes, and Wolf's is the shattered mirror of twilight

i also set up these shots to kind of parallel each other; wolf and loft coming to an understanding, while slate and champion can't. another parallel being how Fi is silent the way Champion is silent.

I'm not gonna comment too much on Champion and Slate's conversation (or lack thereof lol), but I will say that Champion's role in the story is like. one part literal and one part metaphorical. Champion is not fully the person he was when he was alive. It's the ghost of him in all senses of the word. something to keep in mind

in regards to the fairies, that's actually a total happy accident 😭 i was just sort of coloring them at random, but it really does look like it could be Ciela, Leaf, and Neri 🥺 i'll leave that interpretation up to you guys

omg also if you saw the WIP for the last page on Patreon, I had originally drawn Slate without his tunic. Literally the only reason i changed it was bc I felt like the page needed the pop of green from his tunic lol the dark color of his turtleneck kept getting lost in the bg. so yes I did have to go back and redraw/recolor every panel 😭

that's all for now, thanks for reading!

[interlink-au]

Skyward Sword's Fireshield earrings are clip-ons. Link wears clip-ons!

Come to think of it, the designers also said this about Twilight Princess Zelda's earrings:

Are everyone's earrings clip-ons? I'm on the deep-dive now...

I think they're going to crop weirdly, so you'll have to click on them. If you look carefully, the ones in BOTW/TOTK appear to be clip-ons as well.

It's hard to tell with the Hero of Time or Twilight since the Skyward Sword hoops blend in so well. OOT Zelda could also go either way. In one picture it looks like the earring could go all the way around, but in the other it looks a ball and post set-up.

I can't see very well on either of her OOT models because of her hair and the resolution. The Smash model could lean either way just as much as the art does, but I'm leaning towards the second image.

Zonai earrings seem to be clip-ons because BOTW/TOTK Zelda doesn't appear to have pierced ears when she's not wearing them. She doesn't wear any in BOTW. The earrings from that ancient time period also seem to be attached to whatever part of the ear they want.

...I don't really have a conclusion for this post. It was just supposed to be about the fireshield earrings, but then I remembered TP Zelda and got lost in the sauce. I guess the takeaway is that it's possible no one pierces their ears. Or some do. Or they all do but some earrings are clip-ons anyway.

[alch-emi]

I got inspired to design my own version of Link and Zelda and may have gotten a little bit attached woops.

EXTRA DETAILS BELOW IF UR INTERESTED:

For the timeline, these two are placed after Twilight Princess. TP!Zelda is this Zelda’s great grandmother.

Link works for her parent’s potion shop, she delivers their potions to people and general stores all across Hyrule. I imagine in a game setting you would deliver potions as part of side quests and use the shop’s alchemy station as a cooking mechanic.

The goggles that Link wears are magic goggles gifted to her by Impa. I can see it functioning as a “Lens of Truth” type item that allows her to see through illusions (which becomes very relevant).

Unlike her other counterparts, this Zelda is HATED by her people. They don’t like the way she disregards people’s feelings in favor of finding the most logical way to solve civil conflicts. Awful rumors are often spread about her. She doesn’t notice this.

Zelda was given combat training by Impa mostly bc of Hyrule’s history of being taken over by evil. She wanted to be able to defend herself and her people should something like that happen during her time. She also just respects Impa a lot as a mentor figure.

Link had a major crush on Zelda when they were kids. Now that they’re no longer close she thinks she got over it, but girl is in denial big time. If the subject is brought up, she gets rly pathetic and tsundere abt it.

Zelda sees Link as weak and a bit of a thorn in her side. She hates how stubborn and reckless she is. Part of her wishes Link would give up and tells her to “stop pretending you’re a hero” bc internally, she thinks Link will get herself killed and doesn’t want that.

They basically have that dynamic where they are rly brutal towards each other and have a lot of unprocessed feelings, but also ultimately know everything abt each other and will sacrifice themselves for the other no questions asked.

To elaborate on the plot stuff, basically Zelda gets trapped in a mirror which was actually a gateway to a “mirror world.” Its basically Hyrule but everything looks reversed and it kinda looks like a dark fucked up version of the SS Silent Realms.

When Zelda and Link both look into a reflective surface at the same time, they can see and talk to each other. This happens the first time on complete accident btw.

Perchance these two learn that they have to work together to get Zelda back to Hyrule and in the process confront all their weird hangups abt each other and their awkward situationship. Who knows.

[mirensiart]

I personally never used wind waker's magic armor, but I think it's very funny that it doesn't change link's outward appearance/outfit (like tp's magic armor that is a whole new outfit)

anyway, I just got the idea of like, that one scene in lord of the rings where frodo is like skewered by a cave troll spear and everyone freaks out and believes he's dead cause no one would survive that, just for frodo to be perfectly fine cause he had a secret mythril chain mail under his clothes?

ok think that but it's wind receiving a hit from an enemy that is 100% fatal and everyone losing their minds just for wind to pop up like "lmao guys I'm ok I activated my armor just in time :D"

And twilight like physically feeling the grey hairs growing out of his skull cause of wind's stunt, the captain is like sitting on the ground recovering from the heart attack he just suffered and time is feeling the migraine setting in caused by high blood pressure lmao

Legend hits wind on the back of the head for scaring them all like that while swallowing down tears lmao

They all scold wind for not telling them about the armor but then they all spend like 2 hours poking at wind and asking questions regarding the thing

Eventually twilight has to step in when talk between wind+wild starts getting into "let's see how many things can u survive while wearing that thing :D" territory