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Imp-girl and Beast-boy have finally been given attention.

Beast is a rather nervous guy - mostly because that's how it felt to play him back when I first got the game - but ultimately steadfast and openminded. Midna always felt like she was lashing out at the world in the first half of the game, but showed surprisingly protective body language around Beast later on despite what her dialogue may have suggested at the time - she's always got an eye out for her enlisted warrior to make sure he isn't doing himself a mischief.

[Beast keeps becoming a brunet because my brother and I accidentally bought one of those copies that digitised Link with a darker colour palette. It's funny how things work out, because if we hadn't, I probably wouldn't have been able to make myself complete the spookier portions of the game without it. I was emboldened by the feeling that my brother was never far away, because look! There he is, running across Hyrule field with his sarcastic imp gf. Worked for me. Although my brother may have been a little insulted at being replaced by a dictionary character.]

Beast is a bit of a difficult character for me, because I want to show his gentle nature and character, whilst somehow getting the fact that he is fiercely terrifying and intimidating to many of those around him. A good fighter, sure enough, but what I wish to make clear is his deeply rooted refusal to quit, endurance, and single-minded focus. Hopefully, when his pages are ready, it'll come across as I hoped.

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Squire is about to discover that some trees have opinions.

First attempt with coloured source lighting (the fire rod) and I'm pretty happy with it!

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Prince Style Test - mostly complete

Baby, we are in business!

[Close ups under cut]

I have had way too much fun working on this guy. He is so bouncy and dramatic and filled with his own kind of charm.

His games are the ones I played the most (outside of a few exceptions) as a kid, so I have extreme nostalgia for cursing at my DS when it decided to not read a Gameboy cartridge. (the nerve)

He has a lot of nicknames amongst the Links ('Prince' is merely a title bestowed by someone who wanted to upset him - which didn't quite go how Pink intended - and is barely used by the other Links, much like how Pink is only called so when the others want to rile him up) ranging from their Storyteller, Dungeon Crawler, Adventurer, Bard, Swift, and many more. Currently, he stands alone as the fastest of the Links, but only for as long as he can bear the pain of going that fast in a body that tired.

Whilst an incredibly skilled fighter - adaptable, swift and bold - and only just beginning to reach the age of majority, he knows full well his body is at its limit. Despite this - or perhaps because of this fact - he takes any threat to the younger, or more inexperienced members of their group very personally. This can cause some friction between those Links and himself. Luckily, half a decade spent word smithing his way around perception spells and curses have made him very adept at soothing ruffled feathers. Unfortunately, he is inexperienced in one very notable aspect - dealing with constant companionship with not-so amenable souls. Getting used to others when they don't want to get used to him is going to cause him some grief.

Like many of the Links Hylia pulled to her from throughout the Eras, the Hero of Legend died before his time - he hopes to make up for it, for all none of the others think he should have to.

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Mer-Suit Hero of Legend? Mer-Suit Hero of Legend.

It's been a hell of a long time since I've played his earlier games, but nevertheless, he deserves a fancy page to himself.

Currently, his Mer-suit has been turned into a much smaller pearl necklace for ease of use. Poor bloke was getting pretty sick of carrying such bulky equipment with him - and so found a compromise. By technicality, he started out as a Mer when he first used the enchanted clothes to swim underwater. However, after years of use, the spell has shifted to better suit him, so he is now a Merrow, known not for drowning sailors, but for carrying them back to dry land. I will not specify when this change happened for... spoiler reasons.

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What are they in for? Wrong answers only.

[Poor Beast, getting lumped in with these fools.]

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For Linden? Giving her father grey hairs is the least of it. Equal parts mischievous troublemaker, enterprising do-it-yourself-er, and Daddy's Little Monster. She is going to drive the more mature Links to more than just the drink...

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Finally got my hands on TOTK and.

Well.

Let’s just say that this game is going to cause just as many frantic redesigns regarding background characters and areas and sequences just as much as AoC and Jojo’s LU is already making me do. Have to completely rejig some major lore. Redesign multiple in universe races (Zonai aren’t even the most glaring ones to fix, good grief) and drastically change how the grouping was going to happen. Because hoo boy, I am not interested in unintentionally copying someone else without credit when credit is due, and my ‘descendants of the Zonai Barbarians’ may have ad a name change to the Beast Warriors, but now I’ve discovered that their face paint is way too similar to Jojo’s depiction of Twilight Princess!Link. Which isn’t a bad thing. Just something I definitely don’t want to appear as a theft - so back to the drawing board on those guys. Which is a shame. They literally appear in Chapter 3 of Volume 1, so this is gonna be a tight squeeze.

In the meantime, it gives me the chance to go back over all the eras and their inhabitants, and adjust accordingly. Surprisingly fun so far. Especially if you put Skyward Sword before the events of the ancient calamity as I have. Makes the tech used by the Sheikah, the Zonai, and the Hylians of the time rather Steampunk in its own funky way.

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Style test with Lil Sister (Linden) [mostly complete]

Have to say - I really enjoy drawing her. She's very fun, has rather elastic expressions much like any Toon Link would, and is a great starting point for getting a feel for moving characters on still pieces. One day, I'll have to actually do backgrounds for her to stand in... However, it did make me realise that my current style is very inconsistent, and I need to get a lock on it before I move on to finalising pages. As it currently stands, its storyboard quality, but not much more.

She's also been a very fun character to write, but she - rather predictably - likes to go off script and take me for a trip off the intended path. So I guess I'll have to learn restraint when utilising her, too. She has, however, proved a good balance between the Canon Redesign Links and the Homemade Links for characterisation - most of my Links have a tendency to be rather depressing, so at least with have this rambunctious mischief maker in the team. But she won't be the only one for long.

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"This Barbie has seen enough," and by Jove, he really has. Drake, otherwise known as Mr Doesn't turn up until the last minute, two hours late with a fresh slushy to the Battle to End All Battles.

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Love it when a joke comment makes for a great muse. Don’t so love it when it means I’ve had to make this many canvases…

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Front Page of Volume 1

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Getting pasted by THAT Link’s Awakening Slime Boss. I’m dying to a slime. I conquered Thunder-blight in the first try. Why is a Slime making the best of me?

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Sheikah!Link finally gets a name!!!

Bones.

Very creative, I know. But! For now, have the tidbit of character lore that is the poor bugger is really, really bad at keeping secrets. Really bad. Won’t possibly backfire when working on the same team as Pink Link, who is a professional at sniffing out secrets and dragging them out into the light.

Not at all.

Additionally, he gets to be the biggest flirt in the team, for all he has less than a 5% success rate. It will frustrate him when the Heroes who are completely oblivious start outdoing him in performance, but he’ll get over it. Eventually….

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Many of the Links are mature, steady, reasonable adults. And some of them like to cause problems on purpose. 3 guesses what kind of Link the Pink Mage is. Old Mate gets into fights with children willing.

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The Hero of Legend, everyone.

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Uhhh.

How many layers am I allowed again? When do I find the Limit??? I’m the concerned, bc what if I start something big and need more layers but run out of space. Where do I stop???

I am.

Suffering from success.

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My favourite line from The Boy, The Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Beast (TP Link) gets to be that one friend with down to earth wisdom that always seems to come right when you need it. As a treat (and to make up for how my AU notes have treated him, boy this guy be going through it)

One day I'll actually be able to do a whole artwork start to finish without getting distracted by another shiny project. One day.