Zelda is the daughter of the Headmaster still, and is best friends with Link. They go about their days in the academy, learning to fend off monsters that have long since disappeared from the floating islands of the goddesses’ chosen people. Link is a lazy boy, content to loaf around and glide freely on his loftwing, while Zelda is much more studious.
Trying to figure out how to draw the characters to be similar to their in game counterparts yet still with zonai flair was quite fun! Even if I toned the zonai decorations down to make them easier to draw lol
Link’s model in Skyward Sword has bags under his eyes, and he begins the game having nightmares about an evil force crawling up from a crevasse in the earth. Perhaps he often dreams of terrible omens for things to come?
What if as the same way that the Ancient Hero spirit let Link their aspect, Mineru do the same with Tauro?
So this is my last brain cell doing something, just like the belt of Link can turn him into a kind of Zonai, what if Mineru with her mask could turn Tauro in a Zonai like her?
So, with the Ancient Hero aspect, that thing adapts for Link so he can still have his scars and other stuff, and the new hair grow more red-blond that just red
With Tauro, things are similar so he looks more as him, but still in the same spec of Zonai that Mineru was I can see this as a gift of Mineru to his favorite archeologist just before she passed away
Lauro as Zonai bcs this is actually a thing that I never saw with anyone else and guys, just think about them as silly cats in love, so much potential!
I just adore Zelda's little dragon noodle form in totk! My idea was to depict Hylia's appearance as a dragon in a rough sketch.
(I might fully finish it still unsure!)
(There are so many things wrong with this but I made it within an hour, so please have mercy! >.< LOL!)
Zonai Zelda - Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Photos by Finalegirl (on instagram)
I worked on this costume from June to December last year. It was a labor of love and I'm very sorry to say I'm disappointed in my own work. It was my first time sewing a dress, so I'm trying not to be too hard on myself. It's hard when I want to portray Zelda just the right way! The wig gave us all kinds of trouble the morning of our shoot so I just had to accept it as it was. ToTK Zelda has become one of my very favorite iterations of the character!
Impa and Grannie would still lead Zelda and Link through their respective journeys, the latent power of the gods building within them until they both are powerful enough to create the Secret Stones of Time and Spirit respectively to use against Demise.
When Zelda seals herself away, she creates the Light Roots all throughout the Depths to hold the Surface together, stopping it from succumbing to the evil rot Demise has used to slowly decay his prison in the earth and turn it into to a breeding ground for monsters.
Totk has had me in a chokehold even where I don’t get a shred of phone signal; thus not-completely-accurate dragon/zonai Zelda.
!!!Further spoilers for after defeating Ganondorf!!!
I really think that she should have retained some dragon-y-ness from being the light dragon for millennia. I don’t know if she’s a little more feral afterwards or not but there’s no scales or anything, which, yeah, I can get why, but I kinda wish we got dragon Zelda. (Though I could be wrong and this is just based off the cutscene after defeating Ganondorf)