#bird dad teba

[moonteaa]

When you meet the legendary princess of Hyrule who kept Calamity Ganon away for 100 years and realize she’s just a little bird. Hehe I offer wholesome dad! Teba doodles with Zelda.

Personal HC: her nickname “little bird” lives on through Teba. 🍃 🤍🪶

[im-trying-my-best-i--swear]

When your adopted daugther finds a mask holding the soul of a rito, puts it on, making you question (again) how she holds the wisdom of the goddess. And now you have to find out how to turn her back to normal, and find who the dead missing rito is.

not happy with the design but I just kinda winged it.

[hobartsaglet]

legend of zelda: breath of the wild except the only thing that changes is that Teba gets to look into the camera like he's on the office every time Link does something stupid

[linzerj]

Just getting this idea out there so that maybe I'll actually finish writing it one day, but -

I've been on a Legend of Zelda kick recently. Currently replaying BOTW. Never played AOC but I've watched gameplay and all the cutscenes so I know what happens. Planning to play that and TOTK again soon. But I've got this idea cooking in my head.

Theres a post that talks about "what if you could find the Divine Beasts in the Depths", and another funny post that was just "what if Teba was the sage of Wind and not Tulin?" And I remembered when BOTW had just come out, and then AOC after, and people were speculating about the characters, like Teba, being the New Champions and getting to bond to the Divine Beasts.

That didn't happen in canon, but. Hear me out. What if even just one of the Divine Beasts bonded with a New Champion... like say, the one who doesn't become a Sage?

Teba, Sidon, Riju, and Yunobo return from their adventure in the past/alternate timeline/whatever, having saved those Champions and that Hyrule from destruction. Their own timeline is still the same, but they continue on as they do in canon.

Except they all meet up shortly after returning home, and one of them (Sidon or Riju maybe) asks "hey did anyone else try going to the Divine Beasts only to get rejected" and while the rest are like "yup wonder what that's about, sad" Teba is like "no wtf are you all talking about I was settling back in with my wife and kid."

But something about it sticks with Teba. He goes home, looks up at Vah Medoh, and thinks, 'it probably won't work but I may as well try just to confirm.'

...Vah Medoh accepts him as its new pilot.

I'm unsure as to whether or not Revali's spirit will still be there for a quick hello - but if he is, he'd be like "whomst?!" And Teba would be like "if you were still alive I'd definitely adopt you because thanks to some time travel shenanigans i know that you desperately needed a parental figure in your life".

Mostly everything else proceeds as is canon up to the start of TOTK - except for the other Divine Beasts continuing to chill at their resting places, because upon hearing about Teba successfully bonding with Medoh, the others want to keep trying.

But, for whatever reason, Hylia decided that you cannot be both a Sage and a Divine Beast pilot, so the Beasts acknowledge them but never quite accept them as their pilots.

Then, TOTK. Then the chasms. Then, the other 3 Divine Beasts taking a plunge into the Depths.

Teba freaks out a little bit, but Medoh is circling Rito Village and is fine, except now there's these random floating islands but also a fuckass blizzard that's making it almost impossible to keep everyone fed, and Teba's just been saddled with Elder status so he's super in charge and Tulin is in a bit of a "I can do anything let me prove it let's go" phase and is trying to convince Teba to use Vah Medoh to fly up and stop the blizzard, but Teba is way too busy trying to keep the village from falling apart to go right now -

Then Link shows up, and Tulin runs off, and Link follows him, and the two go up and find the Stormwind Ark and fight Colgera and as the magical blizzard finally ends, Teba is just like "what the fuck".

Tulin tells him he's become a Sage, and isn't that cool dad?! And Teba is like "you're 12 and you're going to help fight a demon king?!?! Wtf?!"

But then at some point, Tulin (who knows the other Sages from that time he was in AOC, and meeting them a few times with his dad after) one day looks up from his breakfast and says "oh hey Sidon just became the Sage of Water! I saw it through my connection with Link!" And that's when it clicks into place for Teba why the Beasts never quite accepted the other "New Champions" - because they were destined for something else.

But Vah Medoh is still here. And it's pissed that it's fellow Beasts are gone and it also wants to blast Ganondorf in the face.

Unfortunately, Teba can't let it blast the castle when Link and co go to confront the Zelda illusion, because Tulin is there, Link is there, Sidon and Riju and Yunobo are there, and it's not the real demon king yet anyway.

Teba is grumpy about it, about letting Tulin go off and risk his life when he's a child and Teba is an adult, but then a huge dark dragon explodes out from the chasm below the castle and Vah Medoh is all too happy to fire upon it, knowing it's Ganondorf and wanting some sweet revenge of its own.

Teba's just surprised he can see the dark dragon, it's huge but he'd heard tales of only the young, or those chosen by thr goddesses, could see dragons. Maybe it's because of Vah Medoh that he can see this one, and the little light dragon that comes in and - hey is that Link?!

Maybe it ends with Teba going down to the Depths with Link to visit the other Divine Beasts, and suggesting that the locations stay known so that future generations may try to awaken them. They don't really need the Beasts anymore since both Calamity Ganon and Ganondorf have been defeated, but Medoh doesn't want to turn off and is happy just chilling at Rito Village with Teba. The end.

I have like 2.5k of this already written, I just wanted to use this post to write more of the ideas for the fic structure before I go to bed lol. And this idea probably doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense canon-wise, but it doesn't need to because the only reason this exists is because i love Teba and wish he'd gotten more screntime (or at least some spoken dialogue in the cutscenes!) in TOTK.

[botwstoriesandsuch]

i did not expect tulin content but i am HERE FOR THE TULIN CONTENT

[rito-luvr]

HES SO FUCKING HOT GAHHHHH

[ceceformayor]

[moonteaa]

Head pats for Zelda from dad Teba because she deserves it and I just think he’s the father figure she didn’t know she needed. 🍃🤍🪶

He’s a good bird dad.

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

I miss Teba :(

[iiryebreadii]

listen im all for little grown up tulin helping us out in totk but wHERE IS TEBA. IF TEBA IS DEAD IM COMING FOR NINTENDO'S THROAT.

[im-trying-my-best-i--swear]

following the headcanons of @moonteaa of bird dad teba.

basically every older person that ever treated zelda nice won the parental figure award agains king Rhoam, with the exception of king Dorephan, who we both agree that must have acted more like a grandpa or an uncle that has know zelda for most of her life.

plus alt version of the second image below

[muchmossymess]

A Revali Fanfic Recommendation

I urge you all to put your life on hold for a moment and go read this brilliant fanfiction:

A hundred years after the fall of Hyrule to Calamity Ganon, and the hero Link has finally sealed the darkness and freed the Divine Beasts of their curse - and with it, their pilots are finally free. But not just as spirits. Awake once again, the four Champions of old have a second chance at life and must re-adjust to this future world with their decendants. Well - all except for one Champion, who doesn't have a decentant. Or even anyone left alive that knew him. Teba is happy to take in his revived ancient idol as one of his own, but sharing a living space with a hundred year old Champion with an ego the size of his divine beast and who might have some issues he's not willing to share can be a lot sometimes and they don't always see eye to eye. Revali thinks he should return to leading the new generation of Rito warriors. Teba thinks this actual child should never have been leading warriors or fighting a war in the first place. Tulin is just excited to have the infamous Rito Champion in his house.

Beautifully written and lovingly crafted, this baby can fit so much trauma and whump into the most gut-wrenching and heat-breakingly found family story you may ever read. 130,000 words, 36 chapters (and still regularly updating!), and a CRIMINALLY low number of kudos. If that doesn't sway you, here is some gushing under the cut <3

You think you've read a champions revival fic before? This will have you saying "how the FUCK have I not seen this before" and completely change the way you view everything (mild exaggeration. m i l d). We have all of your favourite revali tropes: being a dick and getting owned, being a dick and being right, getting own and never showing those feelings to the light of day, getting killed, getting unkilled and loved, showing emotions but being super weird and revali about it, bonding with tulin!!, bonding with teba and the rest of rito village, bonding with the champions, having panic attacks and trauma, vah medoh being the best ever, being a terrifying force of nature, being an idiot kid, and so much more!

Do you like grumpy dad teba? Do you like revali swallowing his pride? Do you like revali immediately spitting his pride back up and being a bitchy bird? Do you like mipha and revali as gossip buddies? Do you like the complete and utter fool revali makes of himself everytime he so much as hears the name link? Do you like people seeing right through his facade and calling him out on it?

AND NOT TO MENTION THE WORLD BUILDING??? this fic is so in depth of the political climates, racism, lore, changes in culture during times of war, colonisation, biology of the races and just fucking everything?? It adds so much life to the world of hyrule I am genuinely shocked at how much this person clearly loves these games (botw/totk/aoc) and they are able to incorporate all of this amazing information in a way that flows so naturally and just hhrnngngg I am fucking insane about it. THE SCIENCE, oh my god how did I forget all the wonderous thoughts surrounding the divine beasts and the sheikah tech, oh god and how they write the magic system? Guys I swear it's so good.

Characterisation is on point, everyone feels so full of life and that they are reacting exactly how you would expect them too, and they just seem so real, like they are right beside you as you're reading. The author does an IMMACULATE job of drawing you in and making you feel a part of the story, all the while being just beautifully written?

Don't get me started on the attention to rito culture. I have never seen someone pour so much love into something before, genuinely on of the greatest things I've seen. I've always had a fascination over how the races of hyrule view each other, similarities and differences, how their cultures and histories intertwine, and conflicts that may arise. But oh. my. god. My jaw was on the floor every time, it's so rich and beautiful but not without the horrors (and oh god, they are Horrors tm) and again it's just so real!!!

Be warned, however, that there is gore and viscera and terror and hurt and war crimes and death (duh), but for each terrible thing to happen it is repaid tenfold in love and kindness somewhere down the line. (Unless you are into hurt no comfort, then sorry buddy!) It is a beautiful narrative and the exploration of trauma and self is mind boggling and just go read it!!! 😭 😭 😭 I just love this fic so much, it has instantly sky-rocketed to one of my top 3 favourite fics I've ever read, and I'm so grateful to have found it and now be along for the ride that if I could bring that to one more person then by god I will fucking do it

[video-game-birds-tournament]

Round 3 - Side A - Match Up 1

Propaganda:

Teba

Bird dad. He's just a guy, no powers or anything, and he just shows up to help Link and be cool. I know there's other Legend of Zelda guys in here but he is the most Dad of them all.

Wave the Swallow

Jerk birds in video games are common, but Wave is the rare GIRL jerk Bird! Support women's wrongs

(With Jet and Storm, on if iconic or not) (I'd say yes. At least in the Riders trilogy. They're Team Sonic's main foils in those games (aside from Eggman, of course).)

(With Jet and Storm) Since most of the birds we have on this list are arrogant peacocks (pun intended), here's a whole trio of them! But at least these three have the abilities to back up their preening.

she blew up a 15 year old after her 14 year old boss told her not to. also, in the sequel game, she gets concussed and then immediately chooses to hop on her flying skateboard and zoom right into a black hole. oh and in sonic birds are canonically alien-genies

[rito-luvr]

What type of bird I think Teba is (an analysis)

Before we start, I would like to mention the art book “Creating a Champion”. On Teba’s page, at the bottom, it mentions how he was based on a hawk. However, they aren’t very specific as to what type of hawk— because there is so many types. So this lead me to wondering what type he was based on. I did a bit of research on the species and I found one that I am certainly convinced he might be.

There is a type of hawk called the “Black and White eagle-hawk”. Unfortunately, not much is known about this species and it’s behavior because it is so rare, so I didn’t get a ton of information. But I did take a good look at it’s pattern, color, and a few other things and I am almost certain this is what they based Teba off of.

Here’s what it looks like:

There is so much similarity to him and this type.

For starters, It’s yellow and black hooked beak, it’s black back and wings but mostly white color, it’s grey-ish black striped tail feathers, and even it’s eyes. Now I know Teba doesn’t have black eye patches EXACTLY like that, but he does have the grey-ish marks around his eyes. It all makes so much sense.

Oh and here’s Teba’s page from the art book for scale.

Now as far as behavior goes, like I said, little is known about this species of hawk, so I couldn’t find anything.

There are a few things about this bird that are very different from Teba, but I think that is to be expected, as the Rito aren’t supposed to be LITERAL birds. And this is fiction, after all. The big thing that’s different about this species, is that they are mostly found in forests and humid or hot environments, unlike Teba— or the Rito in general.

But as far as everything else goes, this bird is very similar to Teba. I do truly wish that there was more information on their behavior, but there isn’t sadly. There is one last thing I want to talk about briefly before I end this.

When this species of hawk is in it’s juvenile age, the parts where it is typically black, can appear more brown-ish grey. Of course, it darkens over time though. This would explain why Tulin, Teba’s son, appears more brown-ish grey on his wings and back, instead of black, like his father.

And here is Tulin in the art book for scale:

Notice how the color on top of his wings is a little lighter than Teba’s? That’s because of his juvenile state. I was always curious about that anyway, why he was a lighter color than Teba, I mean. This clears that up. Not sure if anyone even cares about that but I think it’s a neat detail anyway.

So, there is my analysis on Teba and what species of hawk I think he is. This is all so fascinating to me and it’s so fun learning more about his character— and simply the Rito in general. I’ve always loved birds and had an odd amusement to them, hence, my love for the Rito.

I’m not sure if this will even be seen by many or not, but even if it isn’t, it was a fun post to make and I had fun doing the little bit of research that I did.

Hope you guys enjoyed this :3

[eevee-91]

Honestly, I watched a video on youtube, I forgot who it was I think it was hyrule gamer who put it in perspective that Revali had it the worst between the champions when the blights came. He had an extreme disadvantage as Rito can't see in the night and that's when they attacked. He couldn't quite see Windblight well enough, which is why his SOS signal was so frantic. Like Penn is funny, but Kass.....well Kass plays music and he's so jolly. Also I really like Harth. Where is he in TOTK lol I haven't been able to find him.

This started off as a all for one blog but....

Watch it only become teba and rito alike.

[nerdy-toast]

“Revali would hate kids” stfu, Dadvali be upon ye.

He literally doesnt hate kids if yall read his diary or see how he treats Tulin in AoC, shut up.

Anyway, making a future au for him and Mel, this is their daughter, Aria!

Revali is her biological dad, but Mel isnt the mom (cuz she isnt a Rito) think of like a surrogate egg?? But i was sad Revali didnt have any descendants (especially tied to the Sage) so when him and Mel want ti start a family, a Rito woman (another character im gonna have to make) helps and she is a Sage descendant, so when Aria hatches she is also a Sage descendant but also Revali’s blood kid, she later becomes the ancestor for Teba and Tulin. Still working on everything but :(( it sucks Revali “was just some bird who was good with a bow and made his gale” with no one left alive related to him.

(This follows the AoC timeline but still)