#i also headcanon lizalfos can magically extend their color changing when awake and aware which is why their armor changes too

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Does Liz retain the color changing abilities? i'm imagining her going to sleep all disguised, but having changed her colors to resemble words and paintings in her sleep by accident. Link, who at this point is able to recognizes her compared to other lizalfos, snaps a photo to send to his friends, Doesn't kill her, and just leaves

yes she can change colors!! Lizalfos don't sleep, it makes them hard to sneak up on at night, but i've decided they can enter torpor, which is a sort of temporary hibernation. it happens during sudden temperature changes, especially cold, or when food is scarce. i've walked past a lot of camouflaged Lizaflos that tilt their head to watch me but don't attack, even when i'm pretty close, which is the game mechanic i'm copping for this

during torpor, a Lizalfos will subconsciously keep themselves camouflaged by copying the colors around them, shifting to match if something changes like with the movement of the sun. their eyes don't close, but they aren't intelligently processing what it is they're looking at, so they might accidentally copy a blob of color without realizing that's a passing animal, or a person. it usually lasts hours, sometimes days if things are bad, but it doesn't happen nearly as often as sleep does and is always accompanied by automatic camouflaging. otherwise, when awake they've got pretty sophisticating color changing, and i think Liz would experiment with the words thing, that's clever, i like that

not exactly what you said but it did give me a cute idea i had to draw. Liz just wanted to wait out the cold snap with a pillow and blankie, already in the perfect spot to sunbathe when the clouds clear up. meanwhile Link only realizes she's there when she matches his outfit