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Year of the dragon! Have some Tears of the Kingdom art!

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Identity of the construct hero

(Spoilers for the newest Age of Imprisonment trailer, if you're looking out for that.)

I think everyone has determined that this guy:

is gonna be a Link/spirit of the Hero construct somehow, due to the fact that they play Fi's theme during the footage. But I haven't seen many people come to the conclusion that it's this guy:

And I'm going to 100% prove it.

I assume I don't need to prove that guy was definitely worthy of Fi. Not only is he most likely this guy (and Impa also thinks so):

But wearing the Ancient Hero's Aspect also grants the Master Sword Beam Up bonus, same as the other Link outfits.

2. The construct is definitely being put into the Zonaite set, which is also the exact same outfit worn by the Ancient Hero.

3. There are also other features that seem to resemble the furry guy, rather than a regular human/Hylian.

4. We see in the same trailer that Rauru's Sages had different starting outfits. When they take the oath and receive their Secret Stones, they get outfits made of this white/gold fabric, which are clearly the equivalent of the Champion Blue for Rauru's court.

...So why is this guy wearing it too?? The TotK Masterworks artbook confirms that it's the same fabric used for the Sages.

Seems very likely he served the "Hylian Champion" role for Rauru's court like a parallel to BotW Link...

5. And if all that wasn't enough... why did Nintendo put so much care into designing him and then not say *a single thing* more about him? The TotK Masterworks artbook has a single page on his visual design that doesn't give away a single clue about his background or identity, and there's not a mention of him anywhere else in the entire book, even in the "unsolved mysteries" section of pages.

Questions left unresolved:

❓If he's the tapestry hero, then who's the princess?

There might very well be a reason that the ancient Sages' masks directly resembled the Divine Beasts... could it be that the whole group from Rauru's time had more direct influence on the Calamity battle than we'd thought? Could this be... TotK Zelda? (Honestly, I hope not, the poor girl's had to do enough. Plus, she probably wouldn't regain long hair just for this.) Alternately, if you look closely at the tapestry detail, you can see she seems to have tear tattoo(s) on her cheek and white marks on her arm... could she be Sonia?

❓Did he go backward or forward in time? Or... neither? The Calamity happened after Rauru's time....... right?? (See above) But then again, the TotK Masterworks artbook specifically calls out these statues in the Depths as one of the game's "unsolved mysteries":

I think we all thought they were frog/lizard men but the book specifically says those are "small/beast-like ears". Could the Ancient Hero be from their race? Could he be even MORE ancient than the Zonai?

They definitely do share the general fashion sense (the neck jewelry, the arm/elbow decoration, the waist attire; if you look closely, maybe the forehead ornament too).

And this (the trailer shot right before we see the construct) is definitely not "modern" Zonai text, it's either the archaic script used in spellwork... or something even more ancient. You can trust me I'm a Zonai archeologist

❓How/where does he get the Master Sword? I have no freaking clue, insufficient data.

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hold me love me touch me, honey be the first who ever did

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pink funeral

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to kinda pat myself on the back for fully posting Act I of my longfic, i doodled a few moments from it! can you guys recognize the chapters? zelda’s dress? ;)

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The Apothecary and her Favorite Customer

Thanks @enchantmentzine for having me as one of the artist contributors! It's a pleasure to meet some fellow Zelink creators and squeal with their awesome works!

This zine is FREE and can be download here: https://enchantmentzine.carrd.co/#zine

Timelapse below the cut

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springtime on the farm! 🌸

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The Legend of Zelda: Couple of the Wild | Ch. 10

The TENTH episode of Season 1 has been released for The Legend of Zelda: Couple of the Wild!!! Thank you all so much for the support!

Music in the episode is mixed by @linksthoughtbrambles!!!

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This is not your fault.

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I have been thinking a lot about what a cancer diagnosis used to mean. How in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when someone was diagnosed, my parents would gently prepare me for their death. That chemo and radiation and surgery just bought time, and over the age of fifty people would sometimes just. Skip it. For cost reasons, and for quality of life reasons. My grandmother was diagnosed in her early seventies and went directly into hospice for just under a year — palliative care only. And often, after diagnosis people and their families would go away — they’d cash out retirement or sell the house and go live on a beach for six months. Or they’d pay a charlatan all their savings to buy hope. People would get diagnosed, get very sick, leave, and then we’d hear that they died.

And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.

It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!

Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.

We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.

And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.

We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.

Anyway, I’m preaching to the choir here. But it is a quiet miracle what’s happened in my lifetime.

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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skylands🌤️

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hehe

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it's blorbo art time ✨