#checked what the differences between four swords and fs adventure is

[winnie-wine]

Minish cap thoughts part 6

and then im going to bed lmao

In the cavern you fight gleerok in, there's carvings of it on the back walls

When you use a treestump portal, Link bounces off of some mushrooms. When you use a rock portal, he bounces on these gems, which don't look that comfortable to land on.

When he uses a giant pot, though, he bounces on clovers! All the things within the minish portals are green, I've noticed. Interesting. I also noticed some strange things about the sanctuary.

Image: Left: Melari's saying "The sanctuary is a strange realm, trapped between two worlds." Right: Melari saying "IT is the bridge between the Minish world and the human world." Melari describes the sanctuary as a an in-between type of realm, which is interesting because in the four swords games, it's not really an in between realm, it's just like. A courtyard in the castle, that they can walk into. But when the door to the minish realm is closed, can you still access it?

I also had a moment where I was like "WAIT! It's not the FOUR SWORD sanctuary yet? So why?" and checking the game's script, yeah it's not. It's the elemental sanctuary, or rather just 'the sanctuary.'

Image: Dialogue from Ezlo saying "Nobody in the castle seems able to see it but you and me..."

Maybe????????

Idk. iirc, this room that Link is in is the last room in the last cutscene, right before Ezlo closes the gate, meaning THIS is as far as a hylian can go. So how is the sanctuary accessible later in the timeline?

Sidenote: This is in the fucking BASEMENT of Hyrule castle. How the FUCK is there grass. And the sanctuary where the sword is in the four swords games, IS OUTSIDE. in the time after the events of the swords forging, was the castle above razed somehow and the royal family moved to a different castle and the capital followed them, leaving the sanctuary exposed? The sanctuary is implied to be sealed off, therefore the sword within it, until the next time the minish realm is accessible, so how did it move to a place where the future zeldas and links can access it? Or is every four sword game ever set on a 100 year interval where it comes back into this realm?

LU interjection: Four is every four sword game Link, so there's two possible explanations. Maybe since the sanctuary is the bridge, they can access the bridge still, but not the minish realm that the bridge leads to. This would imply that both sides can meet on the bridge, so yay! Four gets to catch up with Ezlo. The other possibility is that he forged the Four Sword, which lets be real is a sword that instantly drives you mad even without the headcanon that Four is a Pacific rim Drifting style four way group project, even just reconciling an adventure's worth of four sets of memories would be. Not great. So, since LU involves time travel, perhaps the goddesses saw what the sword does and were like "That's an effective solution. Not. Not a great one. But effective" and decided to inflict that on literally nobody else, so everytime the four sword is needed, they time travel the same fucking guy to draw it. So then to be even funnier, sometime after MC, FS, and FSA, maybe before or after LU, he is drawn to before his hyrule's history to forge/wield the picori blade. Bc let's be real. Hero of Man? Who the fuck is that guy?

Also, "the way between the minish and hylians closes" is... really interesting considering minish like. Live in tangible locations in Hyrule. Is there a minish realm and those guys are immigrants to our world? Is it that kids can no longer see them bc they occupy the same location but exist on another level of reality? idk.

Image: Dog talking to Link

Minish Link can talk to animals. So he CAN communicate with cats, but in this game, they're just assholes. I know people are like "all cats are assholes" but i have two, both of whom are absolute lap cats, and one of whom runs to hide in specifically MY bed when she's scared, so i disagree.

Image: symbol on the ground looks like a purple six-slice hexagon pizza I don't have any particular thoughts about this panel, just that purple was an odd choice that sticks out a LOT in the otherwise green/blue color palette, and that this is a SIX figured symbol, which. I guess it's not the FOUR sword sanctuary yet, is it? So there's no reason for it to be four. Might be symbolism from the war the Hero of Men fought with the picori blade in, in the prologue.

[amberstone-16]

(POLL) On this week's episode of 'Nintendo Loves Consistency:

Okay I need help on this one;

I spent ages coming up with character concepts and even entire Uncle Iroh-esque scenes and chapters for my fan comic (@the-chains-that-link-us) based on the four elements infused into the four swords: earth, water, fire, and wind.

They're even coloured green, red, blue, and violet, making it obvious where the four links' respective tunic colours came from.

I used the screenshot of the four swords opening to assign each of them an element, have given them nicknames based on these elements and even written whole chapters talking about the spiritual/mental connections between them and their elements.

However, after noticing a few other writers and artists had them assigned differently, I had to check and found that Four Swords and Minish Cap had wind and earth swapped. (Four Swords Adventures doesn't colour them at all, just leaves them as stone.)

I had assigned Vio and the other games purple link as being the wind element, and called him Gale

The same for Green being Earth and calling the other games green Link Terra.

I'd written about how they all embodied their elements and how they can learn lessons from their respective element.

I'm just wondering if I should scrap it and start again using the colours in the Minish Cap, since the elements are more present in that game, and that's the version most writers and artists have used, or if I should stick with what I've written as it matches Four Swords.