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sexy genre of making characters needlessly suffer for your enjoyment and yet its called "whump" the unsexiest name in the world

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about a month ago I started replaying all Zelda games in chronological order and ever since then I've been toying with the idea of drawing all/most of the incarnations in some cohesive manner.

I've now finally settled on these Mucha-inspired diptychs, starting of course with the game that started it all!

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The Collector

I dedicate this to @perryelornitorrinco!!! go follow their milk league!!!

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I see your 'Sky has asthma and that's why he can't run', and I raise you: Sky has Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, and that's why he can't run.

Now, before you run away because you've never even heard of IST, hear me out. (If you don't know the condition, it's a dysautonomic heart condition vaguely similar to POTS, just without the low blood pressure.)

We all know Sky's lived above the clouds with minimal oxygen levels his entire life, as have most of his decedents, so it wouldn't make sense for him to have shitty lungs, right? That's where IST comes in. See, it's not related in the slightest to physical health or upbringing, it's just a non-genetic thing that is due to your sinus being a bit funky. It's also not life threatening, so that takes away from Skyloft needing to have non-canonical advanced medical procedures. IST's main symptom is that it severely decreases your stamina by making your heart race and you become extremely out of breath, often meaning you have to stop and wait for a bit for your heart to calm down.

Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so too.

However, and here's the real seller- unlike asthma, you can just power through and not die. It really, really sucks, but this ability is quite the gamebreaker for me when you think about all of the extreme physical tasks Sky has completed in game, not to mention his swordplay, that if he had exercise induced asthma would've very likely set off an attack. With IST tho, yes it would feel like you were dying, but it is absolutely be possible to just power through your symptoms and have no adverse effects except from your extreme discomfort and fatigue afterwards.

TLDR: Sky has Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia because it fits him so much better than asthma, as someone who has both asthma and IST. And no, this isn't just me projecting my hyper specific heart condition onto one of my favourite characters, what do you mean....

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link sketchbook spread

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Here's some Hero's Purpose watercolor doodles.

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Finished phantom hourglass not too long ago. Wind is just so happy when he catches a fish.

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Redraw and redesign of this TOTK piece I did before playing the game✨

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Old WIPS, these won't be finished..

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GUYS. This is a must see!!!

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I literally want to eat this art style and chomp on it it looks so good

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Winter's Delight (@fswintersdelight), day 26

Happy December! Hope everyone's been staying safe and warm (or safe and cool, if you're in the southern hemisphere!)

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Zelda light dragon cosplay part two :)

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Can I just say: I love Linked Universe!?!!?

It's literally changed my life for the better 🤣

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Zelda x Classic Paintings

Frederic Leighton - The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet (1855)

Frederic William Burton - Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864)

Gaetano Previati - Paolo e Francesca (1887)

Emile Levy - Le Vertige, Idylle (1867)

William Mulready - The Sonnet - (1839)

Charles-Antoine Coypel - Young Girl Holding a Mask (1745)

Lamia - JW Waterhouse (1916)

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Zelink ballet!! More under the cut 💜

And last but not least...

Pick your favorite ;)