#TotK Link

[daeyumi]

stars in your eyes 🌟💫

[2022]

[echoesofwisdomcountup]

658 Days since Tears of the Kingdom Released. Yeah this is Botw art but it makes me think about all the tunes Link hums when cooking in Totk.

-Link humming noises-

[demiboydemon]

[zipperqwerty]

I like drawing AU link

Asl for sure 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[intooned]

Is it weird that I'm very attracted to dark-skinned women with lightning? That's weird right? I blame Yoruichi.

Day 42– GERUDO SHELTER

Bularia’s irritated, Riju’s exhausted, and plots are to be had with the gutted insides of ancient war machines.

(This totk rewrite au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time and the butterfly effect devolved from there.)

((Wanna support me? Check out my patreon, with my throw away sketches and references! Remember to use web or android folks, apple charges 30 percent tax.))

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nobody asked but here is my take on Yona because I need to get it out somehow.

This is a pro-Yona rant from a sidlink fan, addressed to people who enjoy media analysis. Because I don't think it's necessary to pretend a whole character doesn't exist in order to enjoy a ship, if you can learn to look deeper. I am not claiming to know the universal truth, this is just my opinion and my read on things.

I don't want to spend too much time on this first point, but a lot of people seem to be of the opinion that Yona's existence in Tears of the Kingdom was a ploy from Nintendo to bury sidlink. I personally don't think that's the case, firstly because I think it's overestimating the reach of sidlink to assume that Big Nintendo would care to go out of their way to sink the ship, and secondly, a lot of things just do not make sense if that indeed was their intention.

Now, I can't claim to know what every writer and game dev involved in TOTK was thinking, but from a purely logical standpoint, why would they include so many gay ass scenes if their intention was to destroy the ship? I'm thinking first and foremost about the scene where Sidon gets on one knee and gives Link a ring as "proof of his vow." There's just no way that not a single person in the writers room saw the implication there, let's be honest. Why on earth would they put this scene in there if they cared at all about killing off sidlink? It's like using oil to put out a fire. Like I said, it simply makes no sense.

Onto the topic of Yona herself, and the reason I'm posting this in the first place, I don't think I'm the only one who noticed the lack of chemistry between her and Sidon. We know the TOTK writers were capable of writing good chemistry because they did it with Rauru and Sonia, and through just a couple cutscenes at that. So I don't think it's a coincidence that Sidon and Yona don't have that between them.

If you've not read the new zora stone tablets written by Sidon scattered around Lanayru, there is one where Sidon describes how he had once seen Yona as a sister and how he admired her just as he did Mipha. Yes, granted, it is written in the past tense, but why on earth would they include this in the first place? why not say they were merely childhood friends, why precise that they viewed each other as siblings (or that Sidon did at least)? As for the part where he says his feelings have grown harder to describe with time, that is such a vague line it could literally be interpreted any way you like. I have no clue if this is unique to the english translation, so if anybody reads japanese and has read the tablets, please let me know if this was originally intended.

Regardless, Sidon also mentions that Dorephan informed him that Yona would be his bride, implying in no uncertain terms that this was an arranged marriage. The lack of agency in this relationship doesn't exactly scream romance, now, does it?

LASTLY!! the most significant on screen interaction between Sidon and Yona by far is the scene where Yona scolds him (rather sisterly behaviour I might add) for refusing to go to the Water Temple with Link and let her help with the sludge. She accuses him of projecting his grief over losing Mipha onto her and letting himself be paralysed with the fear of losing a loved one again. Similarly, the most significant interaction Yona has with Link is when she fixes his Zora armour up for him – the very armour that Mipha had made for him. I'm gonna say this straight up, it is odd how much the game directs our attention to the parallel between Sidon's supposed love interest and his sister. That is, unless, there is in fact no romance between him and Yona.

So. Rather than writing off Yona entirely as many people are quick to do, I invite you to think deeper on her role in the game. Yes she's very underdeveloped as Sidon's love interest, but ask yourself if that even is the most interesting way to view her. I know a lot of people don't care to think about sibling relationships, even less so chosen family, but for those of you who do, I'm asking you to try to revisit Yona and Sidon's relationship in that light.

Consider the tragedy of losing one sister to war and another to politics, of growing apart from someone you considered family and be robbed of the opportunity to rekindle that bond because you are now betrothed to them. Imagine suddenly being nobody's brother, nobody's sister.

Even if that interpretation isn't as compelling to you as it is to me, at the very least, I'm tired of seeing unwarranted hate for a character that is nothing but helpful and kind. You are perfectly allowed to like or dislike any character, you are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to misogyny. If your only reason for hating a female character is that she "gets in the way" of a ship, you are being sexist. Full stop.

[that-vexaholic-cryptid]

They really roasted our hero so hard in his own game

[leaperfr0g]

Febuwhump Day 28, Recovery

@febuwhump

Master list (Click for better quality)

[My appreciation to the Febuwhump team and others below!vv]

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Side Note,

More light hearted than others but still darker in theme since it shows the aftermath of TotK. I still stand by my opinion that Link should be an amputee!

Also

HOLY SHIT I DID IT!!!! I DIDN'T THINK I'D ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO MAKE IT THROUGH ALL 28 DAYS BUT I DID!! SO FREAKING PROUD OF MYSELF RN!!! I'm so happy with how much my style has improved over these 28 days, I've learned alot about my style and I feel like I've improved in parts of art I have otherwise been lacking in or struggling. Thanks for sticking with me this past month you all are the best!! Thank you to the whole @febuwhump team for making this challenge possible, you all are incredible! And thanks to all the ones who liked and reblogged my art, and to the crazy one who decided to follow me! I definitely don't deserve it lol, my art ain't that good so thanks for atleast seeing something in me!

Welp I'm going to crash in bed now because GOD am I tired of art rn, gonna take a few days break and come back for the BotW anniversary! Thanks again!

- LeaperFr0g

[championofhyrule26]

Photoshopped the totk art from the game awards

[demiboydemon]

[choodraws]

💧 (old totk art i never posted from last year + a recent scribbly one)

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[aikoiya]

Okay, now, you see. I was entirely unaware of this, but regardless, I LOVE THIS!?!?

Like, don't get me wrong, I hc Hateno as being more Scottish & Ordon as being Irish. BUT the thing about it is that in my version of things, Hateno was originally founded by immigrants from Ordon, SO this still works amazingly well!

And also, I hc that Wild's dad had a much more recent blood tie with Ordon & that, normally, he's fairly chill, but when he's pissed, both his Irish-coded & Scottish-coded blood sort of rises up. Like, I believe that during the Calamity, he just went full Braveheart meets Micheal Collins & that his team were the knights/soldiers who made the biggest dent in the Guardians' numbers. Like, if he died, he did so while spitting in the lense of one of the Guardians or calling them an "overrated pocketwatch." Twas he that Wild obtained his agent of chaos tendencies from!

Anyway, thank you for this!

Was talking to my husband about how Twilight Princess Link is often depicted with a southern accent, and he made the argument that because LoZ is based significantly on European folklore, Link would actually more likely be a goat farmer from somewhere in the United Kingdom.

I am now creating a headcanon that Link speaks with a VERY thick Scottish accent and I will not hear any arguments to the contrary

[daeyumi]

I am what you made me 🩸

[solarwreathe]

let’s not talk about this, ever

[clowns0up-felix]

Burying vs digging

[luftballons99]

there was only one bed