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Alternate Triforce, Chapter 3 Page 33

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[crestles]

Some loz au world building ideas.

[hoshidensha]

Looptober / Melotober Day 27: Subrosian + Spirit

I read that these lil guys like to dance, so here's a Subrosian boogie-ing with our mascot Boogie~

[mrmeltingpoint]

yo anyone else find one of these guys in the depths or is it just me

[nyastri]

I would like to inform anyone who didn't know that Legend has canonically been engaged before.

To a tree.

Oracle of Ages was crazy and I love it for that.

[the-east-art]

Oracle games my beloved

[aikoiya]

LoZ - Other Races Return

I just really want a game that brings back all the one-off races.

Twili, Minish, Mogma, Yeti, Subrosians, Zuna, all of them.

Hell, even the humans! Like, there used to be humans in Hyrule! Where'd they go!?

LoZ General Masterlist

[pumpkinsouppe]

I absolutely love seeing my zora ballet drawing get traction bc I’m super proud of it but I am unsatisfied with the background nfjdnljdfwn

I think once I get to a place in my art where I can consistently make pieces in a style I really like (and after getting a stronger art foundation in school) I will redo my zora ballet piece and then continue there with the other Zelda dance/art ideas I have

I want to make these pieces as a series but I don’t want crazy inconsistencies between the pieces so it’ll be a little while until I pick up that project!

[poinsciuri]

the oracles games, truly one og the best handheld release(s) in the zelda series

[sleepylink]

I know we are all on the Theory Train on why Legend is so grumpy here, but lets break down what he can Transform into-

Bunny. (Link to the past)

Moblin (Oracle games)

Octorock (Oracle games)

Like like (Oracle games)

Subrosian (Oracle games)

Hyrule ((Yes, he can turn into Rulie) Oracle games) (The Oracle games were fun)

A "Beast" (Link to the past manga (He was like a werewolf or something idk man))

A Painting (Link between worlds)

Did I miss any?

[the0maski]

Late for the Update people Update!: Moving Forward part 2

Old wolfie revealed!!! Give Wild credits he doing his best to explain! I would love to see old wolfie and Twilight meet, and I am scared that once there will travel to Wild’s time, that old wolfie has already left…

Those are really good questions, but Wild doesn’t know the end of Twilight’s life just that he was the inspiration for the divine beasts and a spirit!

On the other side Twilight does know what the future outcome of his mentor will be, setting Twilight and Wild experiences with spirit guide animals in a similar position, but also so different.

From what I understand from this panel, Wild knew the wolf from before he died, right? He didn’t want to meet him after coming back to live, so soon. Meaning old wolfie had already tried to help Wild before the calamity started.

I’m unsure about the grave part. Is Wild talking about his grave, the shrine of resurrection, or about Twilight’s grave thinking the wolf was an unrest full soul?

Shout out to Sky for 1: keep doing his task of finding the portal.

2: believing in Fi’s treasure-seeking ability.

(Skyward Sword reference, that one useless ability: Dowsing)

Love how all of them clown at Wild, best part there can because their have transformed at some point in the games!

(Four: can turn Minish size with a Minish portal. (Minish Cap) Split into Four versions of himself with the Four Swords. (Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures)

Hyrule: Fairy thanks to a spell. (The Legend of Zelda 2 The Adventure of Link)

Legend: Bunny form when he enters the Dark World. (In LU lore twilight magic can cause the same effect) (A Link to the Past)

Octorok with a Ring (Oracle of Ages and Season)

Moblin with a Ring (Oracle of Ages and Season)

Like Like with a Ring (Oracle of Age and Season)

Subrosian with a Ring (Oracle of Ages and Season)

Mermaid with a suit (Oracle of Ages)

Wall painting with a bracelet (A Link between Worlds)

Extra: In Oracle of Ages, when in the Ancient Tomb if Link gets hit by a blue Stalfo he turns into a Baby)

Love Time in this panels so much. He wasn’t even listening to the conversation, just heard his alias and said nope.

He really was the youngest of his kokiri siblings, spacing out and living in his own head. I die for young sibling Time as a headcanon.

Young man, you have no right to make this face! You impersonated a dead Goron hero! And having transformation items himself Wild had rather asked another person…

(Sadly the Mask of Truth doesn’t work with Epona in Majora’s Mask…would had make this more funny…)

More at part 3

[phoenixcatch7]

Just finished oracle of ages!!! Good game, good game. I have Thoughts.

I actually really enjoyed the story and characters! I figured going into the oracle games that it'd be a simple, cliché story, not much nuance or depth, and with Seasons that's basically what I got: din gets fridged in a crystal at the start of the game -> go get her -> you need a set of maguffins to do so -> fight big monster.

Admittedly it was the first game, which meant less story, but even if I hadn't linked (heh) the games for extra end game content Ages just did so much more.

Unlike din, naryu has someone else willing to help her. Ralph (the twinkiest twink to ever twink) was a young man who was her devoted friend (there was a weird crush triangle thing going on with him, Link and naryu, I always felt like I was missing subtext) and, spoilers for a 20yo game?? I guess?

He was the dethroned descendant of the ancient queen Ami. His family definitely still have big money though. He was pretty clearly supposed to be a comic relief character with a twist, but I ended up really liking him! He was over enthusiastic and over confident, but not unintelligent, a decent swordsman (I think) who was incredibly loyal to his friends and held some deep rooted responsibility for the people his family used to rule. Kind, determined, good with kids and people in general, he was terrified but willing to sacrifice his very existence to save the people.

The world building was also great! I don't think I've ever played a zelda game without gorons, but hylians were in short supply. To be expected outside of hyrule, I guess? Anyway, there were also lizard people on an island (tokay!) whose entire deal was.. A bit outdated? Rude, brazen and aggressive to outsiders, they lived in crude huts, worshipped things they didn't quite understand and were generally the old Hollywood stereotype of an isolated jungle tribe.

There was also, like, zora racism? There's a zora village underwater, and one of them was like 'us sea zora are nothing like those river zora 😒' which handily solved both my question of if the river/ocean zora divide was canon or fanon and the relationships between the two. Are they even the same species?? It just makes the rito even weirder but hey lmao. In all honesty I was pretty sick of the river zora at that point too, I swear there were two of them popping up in every screen that had even a sliver of water deeper than the knees and they CONSTANTLY shot fireballs istg they were such a pain. They were literally everywhere and so hard to kill.

On the plus side mermaid suit ^u^!! A dungeon item (the mermaids cave), the item had a desc like 'the skin of the mythical beast' which raised SO many more questions than it answered. The zora were delighted to see a young mermaid! The use of 'maid' implied either a) the zora all thought link was a girl and he didn't correct them (eyo genderqueer androgeny) b) the zora don't subscribe to gender the way humans do (eyo genderqueer androgeny) or c) all fish people look like mermaids regardless of their specific gender (eyo genderqueer androgeny). It literally could have been all three who knows. Maybe one day we'll actually meet a mermaid in zelda.

Also, there's a mini game in Seasons, which I played first, the subrosian dance. It's a pretty popular part of their culture, it's got music, it's got professional dancers. In Ages, you find the gorons doing the exact same dance! Rosa, a subrosian performer you meet in Seasons, is also there, saying her people's dance is better (tbf it is), but if you go to the past you'll find the gorons actually invented the dance first, as part of their love of games and entertainment, and you can talk to two subrosians who are talking about bringing the dance home! It's so interesting to see little details like this, where the travelling subrosians visited their fellow cave dweller lava eating people centuries ago, brought it back home where it exploded in popularity and centuries later became refined as a whole folk dance with spinning and everything, with the people forgetting where it came from, where the gorons keep their dance exactly the same (having to do a rhythm game without rhythm is hard).

Actually, there was so much political fantasy drama going on in the past?? Like, you've got the childless queen taking care of her people, a budding village and a few more settlements across the kingdom. Early in her reign she tried to build a tower to act as a beacon to her fiancé lost at sea, which is a romance story all on its own, but it was cut short (maybe because of funding?). Centuries in the future, it's just ruins. You've got people living on an ACTIVE VOLCANO starting a symmetry cult around a artifact called 'tuni nut' which, presumably, stabilises the volcano? And it's entirely cut off from the outside world. The goron elder is crushed under rocks and their economy is failing. The zora king got poisoned and he's about to die without an heir because a witch turned the fairy queen into an octorock, but the man in charge of the only cure refuses to hand it over until someone passes his tests.

Most of it is solved relatively easily by link and a copious amount of time travel, but the thing with the ruling queen only gets worse. When the evil witch invades the kingdom, she possesses the oracle of ages, naryu (who's a little implied to be the Actual Creation Goddess Naryu reincarnated) and travels back to the past to bring about an age of despair in the present. She does this by slipping into the royal court and befriending the queen as a serving girl, rising up the ranks to become her closest advisor and corrupting her (pretty sure mind control magic is used a li'l). She convinces her to restart the black tower project, pouring all of her and the towns resources into it - forcibly conscripting every able bodied worker and working them to the bone, all while monsters start to circle the tower. With all the fear and resentment, it quickly becomes a beacon of dark energy, a perfect focal point to perform black magics.

Link (and Ralph) end up in the past and get hauled in front of the queen, with possessed naryu at her side, who basically jeers at them and ensures the queen won't listen to their untrustworthy lies. The townsfolk are getting increasingly stressed as their village fills with rubble and their men are worked to the point of collapse. Armed guards start to appear to keep the workers under control. Eventually, Ralph uncovers a hole in the guard rotation, and he and link sneak into the palace through a secret entrance Ralph oh so casually knows about. Link and naryu fight, but with stupendous timing the queen walks in to see naryu collapsed on the floor, Link standing over her with a sword. She calls for the guards, but before anyone can react, the witch, banished form her first vessel, leaps into the queen herself instead. Ralph shoves past the arriving guards and into naryus arms, while link moves in from of them. The queen orders the guards to attack, but naryu, reawakened, pulls them back to the present in the nick of time. In the present, the black tower is magically growing, reaching higher and higher into the sky, terrifying the people of the city.

Then! Ralph, who at this point is suspiciously invested now his actual goal is completed and naryu is safe, vows to go back into time again, away from naryu, to live under the now evil queen and bring protection and comfort to the villagers as a direct act of resistance, because the witch is feeding on their sorrow to power an unknown ritual (link knows. Link, canonically, has told nobody). So this teen in fancy robes and cape goes back to the oppressed, poverty stricken town under the thumb if someone who wants him dead and lives there for weeks if not months dedicating himself to supporting the village and bringing people's hopes and spirits back up, presumably while living out of someone else's wooden hut. In the middle of a literal depression inducing miasma that's sapping everyone's joy and will to live.

That just. Takes insane strength of character. That's a feat of pure, distilled, compassion as anarchy.

Link's off bouncing between past and present doing dungeons and solving easier issues through either sword or magic item, but Ralph is out here doing the long hard slog for little reward.

Link finally returns to the black tower completed, affecting even the people of the present, and, preparations complete, rushes to the past. Ralph is nowhere be seen. Talking to the villagers reveals several have a crush on him, but an old man saw him running for the tower, sword drawn. There's a man pacing by the entrance, who saw the kid run in, tried to stop him. He said Ralph said that he no longer cared what happened to him. That the man realised that Ralph had quietly succumbed to the same curse of despair they all were under. Link fights his way up to the top of the tower, where Ralph confronts the evil queen, sword at her heart, but every step she takes into it, he steps back. The witch laughs. She asks him if he's really willing to write himself out of existence - being the queens descendant, and all. Ralph leaps back, into links chest. He's shaking and stuttering, but he lunges, and is knocked out in one blow. The queen now asks link the same question: is he willing to erase Ralph? If he strikes her, kills her, the queen will die, childless, and he will never live. She leaves, and link rushes to Ralph. He's awake but unresponsive, defeated. With a heavy heart, Link leaves him to chase the queen. It's naryu who finds him, brings him out of the tower.

When the witch is defeated, the curse is lifted, and Ralph is once more energetic and kind. He's a little quieter now, though, sticking close to naryu. For all he was a loud and headstrong kid, I gotta say I was very impressed.

He would have made a good king.

[the-east-art]

[undertheopensky]

Become Like Stone 1

Whumptober Day 6: Made To Watch

Characters: Four, Legend

Trigger warnings: HARD warning for torture in this one; blood, burns, violence to a child (if you personally consider Four a child)

Read on Ao3!

After an eternity of piercing screams, the man returns the metal rod to the coals they’d brought in. Four slumps in his chains, panting.

“Oh, are you tired, baby?” The woman reaches for his face with one manicured hand.

Four snaps at it.

She slaps him, open handed.

Undeterred, Four tries to kick her. Hung from the ceiling with his toes just barely brushing the ground, even trying just swings him backwards and away from her, making her laugh in a high, girlish titter.

“Now that’s just rude,” she says, sounding delighted. “Darling, would you?”

That’s the way it’s been. The woman talks, sickly and cooing, playing at softness while cruel glee lights her eyes. She’s the one in charge.

In contrast, the man hasn’t spoken a word the whole time. Not when he first chained Four up. Not when he’d beaten him on the woman’s orders, striking hard and precise with fist and metal stave. Not when he’d whipped his back bloody.

Not now, as he holds the red-hot metal to Four’s ribs, emotionless in the face of Four’s screams.

Legend screams too, curses and threats and pleading in equal measure. He doesn’t know how long it’s been; the windowless stone cuts them off from outside so completely it may as well not exist. They come and go at random, too-short intervals. And the whole time, the pair have been fixated on Four, on making him scream and struggle and bleed.

He doesn’t even know what they want.

Four gasps with equal agony and relief as the metal is taken away. Sobs catch in his throat; every movement of his chest pulls at burn-tight skin and open wounds. Red and black burns march down his torso in neat lines, marred by the way the skin bubbles and warps. The latest one is white in the centre, blisters already forming at the edges.

The woman giggles and claps her hands. “I think that’s enough for one day. Darling, come.”

“Hey!” Legend thrashes in his own chains. “Hey! Let him down first, you assholes! He can’t breathe! HEY!”

The man doesn’t so much as glance at him as he picks up his tools and wheels out the bucket of burning coals.

Legend roars wordless rage after them, then turns his attention on his brother. Chained to the wall as he is, it’s all he can offer.

This time Four’s been left shaking and crying. If he holds himself up on tiptoe the weight of his body doesn’t drag at the mangled arm, but the upwards stretch of his torso pulls at the burns.

He coughs, low and wet, and Legend goes cold all over.

“Ledge?” Four’s voice is faint and rasping. “Can you… talk to me? Please?”

Legend would do just about anything for Four right now. “About what? Stories?”

“Just -” Four shudders - “anything. Please.”

So Legend talks.

He talks about sneaking into the castle to visit Fable, because no one would let a commoner boy in to talk to the princess.

He talks about the headache that learning Subrosian was, compared to Labrynnan - “You do not want to know what they do to their verbs, it is a travesty” - and about his half-completed smithing apprenticeship. How he’d tried to go back to it, only to be interrupted by this portal business.

He talks about the apple orchard back in his Hyrule, that nominally belongs to him but he can barely stand to look at. The house that had been all but empty until Ravio moved himself in.

He talks until his brain short-circuits, his words failing like they always do, eventually. When he stops being able to piece sentences together, he falls back on music.

Legend doesn’t sing much, prefers the precision of a well-tuned instrument, but he has a nice enough voice. He sings travel songs, stamped into his mind like muscle memory from singing them over and over; the wordless tunes of the dancing songs Din had taught him, when he’d broken his ankle and couldn’t dance himself.

He even sings the Royal Lullaby, which in some eras he could be killed for knowing.

Four makes a soft noise and blinks hazy eyes. “Th’ sounds nice.”

“You like that one?” Legend’s heart hurts. Four’s barely stirred the whole time and he can only pray his stupid rambling is somehow making things easier. Letting Four’s mind wander somewhere the pain isn’t so all-encompassing, and he’s not precariously balanced between strained breaths and total agony. “I have lots. Played a lot.”

“Mm. Seen y’r c’llection.” Four’s eyes flutter closed. “Wh’n we get out, ‘m g’nn teach you… minish songs.” He smiles to himself, just a little. It’s still enough to make one of the cuts on his face crack open, starting to bleed again. “Sing it ‘gain?”

Even in the face of this suffering and misery, Four can still think ahead to ‘after’. Still smile even though he’s in agony.

All Legend can do is sing.

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Read Part 2 here!

[margindoodles2407]

Consider: Languages

Awakener muttering curses in Great Sea Gaelic

Orpheus slipping back into Kokirish when he's excited, angry, or stressed

Additionally, Orpheus being fluent in Dekuspeak, Zoran, and Gorondi, but ONLY when wearing his masks

Dawnbringer using Ordonian Idioms in his Ordonian Accent :)

Odysseus being a polyglot with a natural talent for learning languages and, by the end of his adventures, being fluent in Mudoran, Koholish, Holodrumi, Subrosian, and Labrynnan AS WELL AS Old Labrynnan

Language and grammatical barriers between the heroes during Hyrule Warriors (because languages change over time, even if they're all speaking Hyrulian)

Fractal and Radiance speaking Picori to each other when they don't want people to overhear their conversations

The Colors all having mostly similar but just-different-enough-to-be-unsettling vocabularies, speech patterns, and inflections

Skylian incorporating tweets, whistles, and other bird noises into its pronunciation

Sunshine learning Zonai in the distant past and reviving it in the present after the end of TotK, writing down the alphabet, grammatical rules, and writing the first-ever Zonai-to-Hyrulian dictionary

Genesis and his Calatian dialect :) and Somnia awakening at the end of Zelda II and speaking an older version of Hyrulian that's just different enough to present a language barrier

VISIONARY AND ODYSSEUS INVENTING THE HYRULIAN EQUIVALENT OF BRAILLE

In A Link Between Worlds, Hyrulian and Lorulian having the same words and grammar but different pronunciations of said words (like tomato and tomahto)

THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

Quick key for those who want it:

Hyrulian= common language

Zoran= Zora Language

Gorondi= Goron Language

Dekuspeak= Deku Scrub Language

Kokirish= Kokiri Language

Koholish= Koholint Island

Labrynnan= Labrynna

Old Labrynnan= Labrynna’s Distant Past

Holodrumi= Holodrum

Mudoran= what is in the book of Mudora in ALttP

Skylian= Proto-Hyrulian, spoken on Skyloft