#hw agitha

[link-is-a-dork]

Agitha in Twilight Princess (Gamecube, emulated) and Hyrule Warriors

[fever-project]

Hyrule Warriors Week - Day 4 - Outfit/Weapon Swap

quick little doodle before I vanish into the abyss okay @hyrulewarriorsweek

[revali-is-a-narc]

I mentioned a short while ago that Agitha-themed necklaces were coming. Actually what I said was "Agitha-themed necklaces available when?" or something like that. At the time, I was actually in the process of making them and also...

Filming them! I hope to start doing this kind of thing more often, not just filming crafting videos but art videos as well, alongside my random gaming clips. So if you're into DIY and crafting videos, give it a watch! There's pretty music to listen to as well, and your view will help me grow my channel. 💜🦋 (and don't forget to subscribe, that'll help too!)

[link-is-a-dork]

Felt yall would appreciate my local universities bug club poster

[theknucklehead]

I've been going back and replaying Hyrule Warriors (one of my favorite Zelda spinoff games) and I wanted to share some of the illustrations you can unlock in the game by collecting Gold Skulltulas on the different Adventure Maps. Here are the artwork you can unlock, the title for it and it's quest in the Rewards Map, and the map they belong to.

"True Parners", Story Mode

"Unity", Great Sea Map

"Chosen By Fate", Story Mode

"Those With the Wind", Grand Travels Map

"Rulers of Twilight", Twilight Map

"A Prayer Recieved", Master Wind Waker Map

"Guided By Courage", Lorule Map

"The Nightmare Closes In", Koholint Island Map

"Evil Power", Master Quest

"Boss Rush", Story Mode & Adventure Map

[funsizedcrow]

Linktober day 14: Fairy

Proxi!!!!!!!!!! I love her

[skyward-floored]

Thoughts about Hyrule Warriors as I play through it for the first time part 3:

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Ruto and Darunia are the best I love having them around now, Ruto is constantly running around getting captured or retreating and getting all huffy about it and Darunia is just cracking puns in the middle of the battle. They’re so funny <3

I love how Sheik battles with the harp, its so fun and fighting with music is a blast (lol). Love all the music she plays, and all the little references aaah. so good.

Impa: this dark Zelda must be an imposter!

Sheik:

Also Impa maybe you should clue your troops in to the fact that this Zelda is a fake MORALE IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW BECAUSE THEY KEEP LISTENING TO HER!!! you need to give a rousing speech or something lady

I wonder how Zelda felt fighting for her life against an evil version of herself... that must’ve been weird. And disturbing. Not to mention Impa, I wonder if she kept a bit away from that battle on purpose :(

Also ZELDA you can’t just poof back into yourself and not elaborate on anything?? “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you Impa” okay that’s great but why exactly did you hide your identity and go through all the lying and stuff??? I can think of some reasons but she just... doesn’t say anything??? I hope she elaborates at some point.

AGITHA???

Okay Agitha calling Midna a cat is hysterical and I’m sure Midna is on the verge of biting her or something but heeeeeeee hee hee hee boy is it funny

Poor Midna, though. I guess this is happening after twilight princess since she has the shadow wolf she’s riding on, and got turned into an imp again. And yes I’m trying to make sense of the timeline here even though I know it’s not really supposed to make sense.

Having three sides to a battle is fun, I like the extra strategy that goes into it >:D

Zant is alive somehow, hm. Reevaluating my timeline here... okay I’m either going with Cia bringing him back from the dead to cause problems, or he wasn’t actually dead after tp and Cia found him wherever he was hiding and was like “hey want revenge” and Zant went YEA

And finally, I think Lana Midna and Agitha should have a girls night or something. Go shopping. Find bugs. Defeat endless slews of monsters together. For funsies.

[smilesrobotlover]

We need another Hyrule Warriors with Linebeck in it; we need to see him in his full HD glory

GOSH you have no idea how much I think about Linebeck in Hyrule warriors. if only….

[skyloftian-nutcase]

I realized today that Rusl and HW Link/Warriors is a sadly ignored pair. Some others pointed out that Warriors looks a lot like Twilight,esp pre face markings. Rusl would also be great at seeing beyond the captain to the young man there.

I mean, I wouldn’t say it’s an ignored pair, just one that isn’t even considered since they’re from two different eras and have never interacted nor had a reason to. Now, if Rusl had come to help in the War of Eras instead of Agitha, then I’d get it (honestly, anyone should’ve helped instead of her LOL, why did they choose her).

But if they did interact, I could see Rusl being warm and kind but serious to him. Wars is a soldier, and Rusl likely doesn’t have a great opinion of soldiers given how they act in his time. I feel like he’d figure out quickly that Wars is a good man and actually a brave fighter, and that would earn Rusl’s respect. And yes, given time, he might even fill a more fatherly role, especially if he fought in the war with Link rather than meeting him during LU - he’d recognize he’s pretty young and overwhelmed during the war.

[loz-furbies]

Hyrule Warriors Zelda

(While the characters have some dialogue during gameplay, this is based on just the cutscenes because I'm not replaying the whole game for this)

Design

I’m not a fan of HW Zelda’s face, while Zelda in all her incarnations has a rather generic anime pretty girl face, for some reason this one feels bland and barbie-like to me. And in general the aesthetic this time is a lot more fanservicey than usual, with the bikini armour and mini shorts. Which I guess is in line with the overall HW character design but I don’t have to like it. Even more than the bikini breastplate I’m bothered by the fact that her shoulder armour doesn’t seem to be properly attached to anything.

That aside I think this works well as a more action oriented Zelda design, with all the extra armour, while it retains her well known pink/purplish colour palette and the Hyrule crest. I also like her hairstyle with the little weight at the end of the braid.

Like most of the other characters, Zelda also gets unlockable alternate skins, some change her to look like the other Zeldas (and Ilia for some reason) in the franchise, while others are palette swaps of her HW look. So they aren't particularly interesting design-wise, but still a fun gameplay addition regardless.

Sheik again has a perfectly serviceable mysterious ninja design. The scarf doesn't look as awkward and I like the addition of the long braid.

I'm a huge fan of how the weapons in HW get progressively more ornate and impractical, and Zelda's lvl 3 rapier is exactly the type of magical girl weapon I'm into.

Character

Hyrule Warriors Zelda is a mature and competent leader, who also joins the battles in the front lines. Unfortunately there's not much else to her, like sure she's the nice and polite princess again, but she doesn't get that many interesting character moments and a lot of the story is just spent going through the plot.

As Sheik she has the same issue as in OoT, in that she doesn't have in common with her regular self. So Sheik's inclusion does feel a bit like waste and I would rather that they spent that time developing even one persona properly.

I have some issues with how women are depicted in this game, in that at times they feel sort of overly cutesy and infantilised and made specifically to be waifus. Like giggling a lot, doing specific kind of cute poses, staring lovingly at the camera in victory animations and stuff like that. It's not a huge problem with Zelda (or Sheik) and more prominent in characters like Lana or Linkle, but even with Zelda there is this feeling that the target audience is the kind who spends hundreds on bikini DLC.

Role in the story

For the first time in this review series, Zelda isn't kidnapped or cursed at any point of the game so good for her for that! She is a playable character and uses a rapier to fight, which ought to fill the needs of those who want a badass combat Zelda. Though I feel that is less meaningful in this game, since you can level up Agitha to lvl 100 and destroy all enemies as her.

However Zelda not being the target of a rescue mission does make her less important to the story though, since there's not much that replaces that. This is more about the game's character writing in general and not a flaw for Zelda in specific, but for the most part the characters just go through the motions. The story starts with Zelda having a prophetic dream that doesn't amount to much, and in between chapters the narrator tells how Zelda leads her troops to new battles, but I don't get much out of her as a character from that. She has a similar role to Link in that Ganondorf is after the Triforce that is in her possession, and in the grand finale she does some Triforce magic as a group, but otherwise doesn't stand out or do any interesting character driven actions.

Sheik's inclusion in the story feels incredibly superfluous and just there to check the box of having her as a playable character. Zelda disappears after chapter 1 and the beginning of the game is spent looking for her, even when she reappears and joins the group as Sheik in chapter 2. When her disguise is eventually busted, the whole thing is brushed aside in like one sentence of how she had to hide her identity from her enemies for... some reason. This is definitely a "don't think too hard about it" situation and it's better if you just roll with it and accept that since this is a multiverse crossover game, they just need to come up with ways to bring the characters from different games together and it's just easier to get done with it as fast as possible. Though the Sheik reveal wasn't as fast as possible and we spent several chapters looking for Zelda, which I think was a waste of the player's time, since this was clearly marketed to existing Zelda fans so many probably were already familiar with the Sheik thing. Story-wise the most we get out of Zelda's disappearance is some character moments from Impa and enemy-disguised-as-Zelda doing villainy things for such a short time that it barely warrants a mention.

Gameplay-wise her rapier moveset is alright and one of my more commonly used characters, but does feel a little flighty. Now with the new LoZ game on the horizon there has been talk of if it's problematic if Zelda doesn't get to have a sword, or is it problematic to think that a girl can't be a hero if she doesn't use one, and this game's solution of giving her a dainty rapier with pink decorations is somewhat of a compromise. Her alt weapons, the baton and dominion rod, are more traditionally princessy options though I don't use them much since they feel a bit slow or hard to control. And Sheik of course has an agility-based moveset and is therefore highly useful in the "don't get hit" missions.

Relationships

Zelda and Link's potential romantic relationship is at the core of this game's plot, but the whole thing falls flat when it's not developed at all. The story is about a sorceress who split in half, and both halves (the villain Cia and the new ally Lana) are in love with Link, and struggle with the fact that he is "soul bound" to Zelda. So a love triangle (or square) story then huh? Except there is practically nothing between Zelda and Link so Cia and Lana's drama feels so out of proportion.

Zelda and Link don't know each other before the story starts and only see each other for the first time when Zelda inspects her troops' training session from afar. Then she disappears before they get any development, and Link has nothing to do with Sheik either. But even once Zelda is back as herself, they just don't share any meaningful scenes together. Link doesn't talk, but it doesn't make much difference since Zelda doesn't have anything interesting or personal to say to him anyway, they don't show interest in each other beyond rudimentary plot stuff, and there aren't even any basic "they are staring intently at each other" moments after the first one in the training grounds when they hadn't even met yet. Zelda isn't even the one to give Link his green tunic, nor does she take any part in the one character moment Link has when he lets the power of the Master Sword go to his head and needs to be bailed out.

The only actual character moment between them that I can think of is when Zelda compliments Link on his courage and says she believes in him, which is absolutely not enough when the possibility of them becoming a couple is the main driver of the plot (or I mean Ganondorf is ultimately behind everything doing his usual business and he doesn't care, but Cia is the unique villain of this game). The scene where Lana admits defeat and bows out of the competition for Link's love is so nothing because neither Zelda and Link are aware at all that they're even players in this. Like go talk to him girl, he is clearly available!

In the final scene of the main story Link places the Master Sword to its pedestal to seal the remaining darkness, and Zelda joins him to help push it to the ground. Which also doesn't feel like a "we made it to this point together!" moment due to the lack of development, but their fingers do touch during it so if you're desperate enough, that's a sort of hand holding moment.

Despite being a rival in this supposed love triangle, Lana and Zelda don't have any character moments together. Thus Impa as the devoted body guard is the only other relationship Zelda has, and even that doesn't have much else to it than this description of Impa. But I'd say you're still better off shipping Zelda with her, because they do know and trust each other already in the beginning, and at least one of them is passionate about the relationship. And Impa and Sheik have some sparking chemistry when Impa tries to figure out what Sheik's deal is.

[crazylittlejester]

Okay, Jes, I just woke up so none of this may make sense but. Ask upon ye. Colorsssssss

So I had a LU-related dream a while back. Looking back on it, it’s more of just a gaggle of Links that were vaguely inspired by LU. Still going use the LU names cause yes. It was a superhero AU where Warriors was a knight by day and vigilante by night. I think he went by Warrior(s?) as a vigilante and was just called Captain as a. Well. Captain.

Anyways the only other thing I really remember from that dream, was that Four was like his squire? His student or something, he was always just right next to Wars in the day and stuff. And, at night, Warriors was chasing down Shadow. Like FSA Shadow. Probably stole some force gems of something, I don’t remember why, but Shadow was a villain.

All this dreaming gave me an idea. A Links Meets idea. I’m trying not to make more of these, I already have three of them. But I honestly think I could fit it into at least one of them if I try hard enough.

The idea is that FSA Link would be HW Link’s squire. And that FSA Link would be called Light cause he’s the Hero of Light and all that jazz. And that HW Link(just gonna call him Wars) would call him “Little Light.” Cause that’s cute. Maybe even “Fairy Light” cause you know. Wars likes fairies. Also, the colors and Shadow would have their own nicknames, like Mage Light, Fight Light, Book Light, and Night Light. Green can be Little Light actually. Wars could still call Light “Little Light” at first, and then shift to calling him Fairy Light after he sees him split I think. Idk, I just love cute little nicknames man.

Also I love Wars being an older brother figure always. I’m shaking him around. 

Also also also. Picture this. During the war, Mask and Tune trying to make him a scarf after his original one gets torn to shreds in a battle. They make his a shitty looking scarf and hand it to him, and it’s made with so much love that Wars almost bursts into tears right there and then.

And also picture everyone pitching in to make him more scarves and outfits. Like, you know the Koholint outfit? Marin made it for him. The Wind Waker outfits? Tetra, Medli, and King Daphnes made it. Also, you know how the Hero's Clothes (Twilight) outfit is just a piss yellow version of Wars’ normal tunic(with gold shoulder armor)? Agitha tried her best. All were made with love and care and it was the happiest moment not only during the war, but it’s was the happiest moment in Link’s life.

Anyways, I hope you a great rest of your day! May the Ao3 author’s curse back the fuck off forever :D

WOAH THATS A COOL IDEA FOR A LINKS MEET AU

ALSO PEOPLE MAKING HIM MORE OUTFITS AND SCARVES?? thats so sweet oh my god, especially mask and tune making him a shitty version of something he cares so much about that got destroyed, i know he could just feel the love from the one made by mask and tune every time he looked at it

[link-is-a-dork]

[fever-project]

Hyrule Warriors & LU

Okay, so this whole thing is fueled by my desire to see HW stuff not only in relation to LU, but also in general.

I mostly see just Warriors, young Time, and Wind in these stories, with very brief mentions to other characters, mainly just Ravio, Midna, Marin, HW Zelda, and Impa. Don’t get me wrong, I love these characters, but there is a whole roster of other guys you can include as well and make them be more important-because they are???

Time and Wind aren’t the only ones from their time. Darunia and Ruto may be from the Adult timeline, but they are there, they are playable characters, and no one seems to mention them, like at all. Tetra, Medli, and King Daphnes are also playable characters and are there. Aryll is also there, she speaks for Toon Link.

Time and Wind are not alone, they can still see Warriors as a big brother figure, but that doesn’t mean you can just pretend that everyone around them just doesn’t exist. I’m hoping that in general, the people in the HW fandom don’t do this, but oh my goodness I’ve never seen Medli even mentioned even once in the HW with LU stories. Maybe that’s just me, and I just need to look harder, but I still feel like these characters are underrepresented, and that not nearly enough people are simply looking at the character list for HW. I know that LU focuses on Links, but having them not interact with others that aren’t Link in a place where they clearly would just boggles the mind. Im not trying to hate on anyone, I’ve loved all the HWLU fics I’ve read, I just want to see more character interactions. And more HWLU in general.

So let me just give you all some ideas I have for HWLU/just HW fanworks. Someone might’ve already made a fic with them, and if so, please link me as I would love to read them.

Captain Link, Mask, Toon(there are so many different nicknames for this guy, but I’m just going w/ Toon rn), and Aryll are at camp. You can dive into Aryll and Toon’s relationship, as well as Link and Mask’s relationships with their own families, and at the end you can have Aryll consider Link and Mask to her brothers too. You can even add Linkle there if you want her and Link to be siblings. Aryll and Linkle can even bond! It would be sweet.

The Spirit Tracks Zelda is a playable character, in her phantom form, so I’ll call her Phantom. She knows that Tetra is her ancestor and whatever relationship she and Toon had, your choice. She and Tetra can be friends, she and Toon can be friends, she can be friends with anyone! Phantom could let Toon know about his successor, and there are a bunch of things you can do with that. She can talk about Spirit to Toon, and the adventure she had with him. This could be included in a Chain meets Spirit fic where at least Wind would know about Spirit beforehand, or the other way around with Phantom telling him all about HW! The possibilities are endless!

You can have Mask and Ruto learn about the fate of the Zoras from Medli, and wouldn’t that just be heartbreaking. I know you people love your angst, and here it is, already shining upon a silver plater.

I feel like Marin and Ravio would be friends. Have Ravio mention Marin offhandedly to Legend, maybe accidentally. Marin can be real. Ravio can have pictures of her. I know you people love Ravio.

Fi is a playable character. Like she actually is there, not just as a sword, and she does turn into a sword to beat up enemies. Have her be a character and maybe let Mask’s resentment of the Master Sword go down a bit because of her. Or have Warriors talk to Sky about her, giving him hope that one day he’ll be able to see her again.

Skull Kid is also a playable character. So is Agitha and Tingle. Do something, I don’t know I honestly don’t have any idea rn, but I do know Agitha plays a semi-important part in the plot, with Midna.

Those are all the ideas I got for now. I love HW and love how people are writing for it with LU. There is just so much more people can do, and so many characters to work with. I’m just a bit sad that people tend to forget them in favor of just having the Links, which is understandable because this is about Linked Universe. But I just feel like some people are missing out on some wonderful writing opportunities here. Or maybe that just me, and I’m being a butt, who knows.

[sleepyheadnat]

Gonna try to take part in @rebornofstars's Sepfember event this month!

My idea for it is assigning a song for each character I'll be writing about and then writing a piece featuring that character inspired by that song. Of course, all songs will be Brazilian ones because I've been rediscovering my love for my country's music lately hahaha.

The song/characters list looks like these so far:

AoL!Zelda | Trevo (Tu)

Marin | Canto Do Povo De Um Lugar (I'm particularly in love with this one)

ALttP!Zelda | O Que É O Que É?

OoT!Zelda | Construção

Din | Alice (Não escreva aquela carta de amor)

Malon | Samba De Uma Nota Só

MC!Zelda | Coisa de Casa

FSA!Zelda | Aquarela

Tetra | O Descobridor Dos Sete Mares (This one is very on the nose hahaha)

TP!Zelda | Apesar De Você

Agitha | Menina Largata

Midna | Panis Et Circenses

HW!Zelda | Meu Abrigo

Linkle | O Sonho Do Barnabé

Majora | Domingo no Parque (Yes, Majora... It'll make sense when I write it — I hope! Hahaha)

I'll be posting the fics as I write them at my Ao3. Let's see how it goes!

[funsizedcrow]

cursing my past self for not paying more attention when my dad and sister were playing hyrule warriors like. five years ago.

[skyward-floored]

I'd like to hear about your hw rewrite ideas 👀

- hero-of-the-wolf

*cracks knuckles* gladly!

I mostly just have notes on fleshing out the story, changing a few characters, actually fitting the game and other era stuff in with canon in a way that might make sense and things like that. And I only really have stuff about the base game since that’s the one I own, so I’m not going to go into dlc/definitive edition stuff as much. I’m going to focus on the three different displaced eras mostly in this post just because that’s what I’ve mostly got fleshed out the most :)

But first I also have to mention a couple other things first:

Kid Link has been upgraded to story mode character, instead of merely unlockable in that one mode. Sheik has a much more legitimate reason to exist and Impa realizes much earlier that this random Sheikah warrior is actually the missing Zelda. Cia still looks suggestive, but has clothes that look more like clothes and not just underwear. She and Lana have the same skin tone. And I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting but that’s the main stuff. Moving on!

Skyward Sword

I’m placing this one about... hm. I actually have two ideas here about that.

The first is to have this take place a few hundred years before skyward sword, and be only a distant history lesson by the time sksw itself rolls around, which would make sense but for the fact that Skyloft looks a little too much like it does in sksw to be that far off.

The other idea is to make it be fifty or so years before sksw, and be part of the reason Skyloft isn’t all that populated. The bit of war that touched them took out a fair amount of the population, and Gaepora was a kid around when this all went down, which inspired him to start the knight academy when he was older. Both have their pros and cons, though I think I’m leaning towards the second.

That’s the biggest thing I’m changing for this era, though I will address the Groosenator paradox, being “how can the Groosenator be around to stop the imprisonef if this is before Groose is even born”. Well you see, canons in loz have two names: canon, and Groosenator. The army from hw brings their canons along with them when they go to sksw’s era, and they call them groosenators because they’re from an era after they were invented. Bam.

Ocarina of Time

Placing the time for this one is tricky, since Ruto is an adult, but I don’t know if she’s like... gone through oot..? Is this the mm/tp timeline where Link is still around? Is this the ww timeline where Link left? I do not know. And I don’t know which makes more sense.

Aside from the Sheik stuff I’m largely leaving this bit untouched. I think it would be fun to include more sages, maybe even oot Zelda, but admittedly I haven’t thought this one through quite as much (except for the sheik stuff).

Twilight princess

I’m placing the era of twilight in this game as happening after tp itself. “But Peggy where’s tp Link then” he’s either on vacation so far away he didn’t realize what was happening until it was too late or Cia accidentally yeeted him to botw as a wolf. Don’t worry about it.

Anywho this part begins with Lana heading to twilight-era Hyrule, finding it absolutely covered in twilight, and later meeting Agitha and Midna. In my version I’m kicking out Agitha as a main playable character, because out of all the cool characters in twilight princess they picked her?? The bug girl?? She’s nice and all but no. Sorry. She can still be around as part of the story (saving her makes a good level mechanic), but not as a major player. She can even be playable still, but not as a major person.

I’m replacing her with the Resistance. Lana gets to the era of twilight and finds Rusl, Shad, Ashei, and maybe Auru (don’t know if he’d be active enough to want to fight) trying fruitlessly to protect Kakariko, figure out what the heck is going on, where the huge influx of monsters came from, and how the heckin twilight is back. Lana explains about the monsters, but can’t tell them much about the twilight. Somewhere in here Midna shows up on her hunt for Cia, furious at being an imp again, even more furious about the twilight spread over Hyrule again, and especially majorly furious that Zant is somehow back. The game never explains this, but I’m saying that Cia somehow brought him back. Or he was secretly not dead and laying low. One of those.

The Resistance goes along with Lana (and Midna once they convince her they’re on the same side) to stop Zant (Zelda maybe shows up for a bit, but she’s holding down the fort in Hyrule, so after a quick “oh crap Midna’s here that’s bad”, she’s not around as much). I figure the Resistance members are all one “character” in that each combo is like, a different one of them or something. Or they’d all be different lol idk. This is getting really long and I’m running out of steam haha.

But yeah those are my thoughts on those parts at least— I have more thoughts about character interactions and some other random things, but like I said this is really long XD hopefully that answers your question at least a little :)