#I also did this for phantom ganon too. pull out a spring and boing! and repeat

[luna-loveboop]

Shoot the eye!

I just pulled out a spring and jumped in the air to shoot at them until they were dead

I think it's sort of funny

When I learned about Gloom Hands, it was on tumblr, because I hadn't played TotK yet

But when I DID start playing, i remember I was seeking out shrines to complete and ran into my first gloom hand up at that one shrine that's floating just above the ground, where you have to climb a root to get up to it. And up over the hill, i saw this black and purple blob moving. Moving towards me

And my first instinct was to climb, climb high, and hope it couldn't get me up there.

It couldn't. I didn't even have to fight my first gloom hand, it just....evaporated out of frustration of not being able to grab me

and I sat up there for a while, thinking it was a trick and the thing would come back. And I sat and waited until i decided to risk it, dropping down and grabbing the weird new thing, but then hurrying back up to my hiding spot

Because people talked about the hands, not what they dropped, or that they disappear after a minute if they can't shake you like a doll.

And I don't think I ever actually got caught by the hands until I did the Deku Tree quest, where I honestly was so running out of ideas because sitting on a ledge and bombing them from above was getting me nowhere, so I willingly jumped in with them hoping it would make a difference (spoilers: it did not)