thelegendofhino

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I cant wait to see hino even more clearly

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Dunno if Hino still has a chokehold on your mind, but I discovered your blog today and I just wanted to say you're an absolute king, a total champ, I love seeing people passionately display their love for obscure characters!! Your thoughts on him are so goddamn good. I hope 2025 will treat you well, you deserve nothing but the best!!!

Thank you so much! He absolutely does still have a chokehold on me, ive just not been very focused here since i got waaaay into the elder scrolls for a while. Ive also just run out of things to say about him that i havent already said, sadly. I hope your year goes well too, and sorry for the very late response, i did not see this at all until just now. Im glad you enjoy :>

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All that to say, i may have to consider that i might, in fact, have a crush on him. You cant ever be too sure with such things. I have no idea how to tell. I just cant help but smile when i see him. Just some guy. My favorite guy.

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Well its been a while for various reasons including but not limited to getting really really into the elder scrolls for about 3 months straight. But anyway i never stop thinking about hino. Its gotten too far. I thought, what if i try rutabaga. Because his name in french and danish is tabaga. Yes, that made me want try a vegetable ive never had before (or even seen, since it was surprisingly difficult to actually find any). And you know what? It was delicious. Im very pleased with this.

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Hino and I have something in common... We both have legs.

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My favourite crazy person!!

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He does not even flinch

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More of our friend the happy mask salesman in animal crossing

Might adjust a few things here and there, but heres the happy mask shop. Tried to incorporate both n64 oot and oot3d shop designs.

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There arent enough things to do with him

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We went to the lovers pond

There was a blood moon after we got there

This took forever btw

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Hino means "sun", which is an interesting contrast to his obsession with the moon. Given how the sun and moon tend to be depicted in myths and fiction and whatnot, it makes sense for him to be named after the sun yet only have eyes for the moon.

His japanese name Hinabagan is supposed to sound like higanbana, which is this flower:

The red spider lillies, which are associated with death and the afterlife (from what i can understand), which goes very much in hand with his whole thing with the blood moon.

His other names are Hinagan and Tabaga. Im sure Hinagan is just a shortened version of Hinabagan, but im curious about Tabaga. It keeps the "-baga" part of his japanese name, but it doesnt seem to have to do with the moon or that flower, rather most likely being based in the rutabaga, which is a root vegetable, more specifically a hybrid of a cabbage and a turnip. Considering plenty of characters have fruit/vegetable/flower names, its not too odd that he would have one too, but compared to his other names it seems more out of place. Unless, of course, theres some sort of weird mythology around rutabagas that im not aware of (there is one thing in europe where they carve rutabagas to ward off evil spirits? I guess?). But also there may not be anything deeper about it. Who knows.

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If link is 5ft-5'4 then that means most other hylians are at least 6ft tall on average. I wonder, then, how tall the yiga blademasters in botw/aoc were before getting shrunk in totk.

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I miss hino so much. I hope he's alright, wherever he is.

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Is hyrule in the southern hemisphere? The moon seems... upside down.

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My final conclusion to all of this is that you cannot interact with anything when a panic blood moon triggers, and so i will never know if hino reacts to it or not. Based on his lack of mentioning it aftwerwards, its most likely that he would not react to it if you could speak to him.

Also, if hes out of the cage and you trigger a panic blood moon, the cage will go back on him with him still standing. Normally it would just stay where you moved it.

Finally found a way to trigger a panic blood moon...

After a good amount of trial and error, i have made the unfortunate discovery that you are not able to interact with npcs after reloading a save to allow the panic blood moon to happen.

Which means that, unfortunately, i still have no way of knowing if hino does his blood moon dialogue during a panic blood moon. However, i have found that he does not react to it while still in the cage, and he does not mention it if you speak to him after it passes. This most likely means he wont react to it, but id still like to confirm it. Also, it seems like his positioning in the fort causes the monsters to immediately aggro on him upon respawning, while anywhere else they will not notice him.

My next best bet is to be able to trigger a panic blood moon while hino is out of the cage and close enough for me to interact with him before it happens (and far enough that he wont react to whatevers going on, preventing me from being able to speak to him). I havent managed to find a way to do that yet, though.

Ive done this all at his boné pond location since that has a body of water close by. There are two other locations of his that have water nearby, but not nearly as close as this one.

Another thing that makes this all the more complicated is that you cannot reload the save and have him outside of the cage. He will always go back to sitting inside the cage even if you previously removed or destroyed the cage via fusing.