#legend of zelda vaati

[lavleyart]

Yumeship time! Lady Lumina and Vaati. He is a bit vigilant over her but she tries to calm him down. They've been through a lot so it's no surprise that he is quickly irritated. Hot-headed grape lol.

[Disclaimer: My yumeship does not invalidate yours - I do not engage in husbando wars]

[clayspacestation]

Redrew the coloured page for Minish Cap!

[bluury2]

ENJOY THIS ANIMATION OF VAATI AND SHADOW

This is canon and you can’t change my mind.

Sonic dub by snap cube

[blackstarchanx3new]

Darkvaati ^w^

[yasaoart]

And speaking of Vaati and The Minish Cap...I realize I never shared this ATC I painted. Poor sweet Vaati deserves so much more love. As does this beautiful game. (Look below the cut to find two photos of my painting).

[vaalnii]

out of the keychain concepts that i posted, i finally managed to finish Vaati!

he was a pain in the butt, but he ended up looking just how i wanted him too! still have a lot to learn about shading and lighting:3

Octavo is finished!

i can’t draw lutes… so png:3

[thesunmakesmetired]

Why are we not talking about minish Vaati more often??

I knew the game version was already great but like the manga version has me in tears rn

[yandereunsolved]

— ღ Yandere Vaati ღ —

"Welcome to my palace, my dear."

"Vaati—!"

"You know my name? My reputation must proceed me."

"Why did you bring me to such an accursed place?"

"You are the fairest maiden in all the lands. I had to have you all for myself."

"No."

"Excuse me? 'No'. You don't get to 'no' me. I have watched you for years. I waited for you to accept my advances. Yet every time I left a gift on your bed or a note in your pocket, you always rejected me. You didn't even like to be gifted with the heads of those who wronged you! I could wait no longer."

"No! I am not loving some creepy, perverted fuck who likes to kidnap virgins."

"Did you just... insult your husband? That is quite rude of you."

"I'll do it again."

"It seems I may have to break you in. Prepare to feel the greatest pain and pleasure from Vaati the Wind Mage!"

[thearttomb]

It all began at the break of dawn, one child stood up to protect all of Hyrule when all the knights of Hyrule who had fallen under the dark clouds, and all the monsters of Ganon and Vaati were unleashed to cause havoc onto Hylians and other living beings. Hylian Hallow Night Frights's holiday was amplified due to Link's heroic act, and the others that he claimed were not "related" to him. That specific day was made after Ganon's defeat, and Hyrule was saved from his monstrosity, and it shall be celebrated for years and years. Hallow Night Frights is the day when everyone dresses up as those who threatened Hyrule back in the day, going door to door for treats, and once dawn breaks, the ceremony ends with the great sunrise after the clouds of that dreadful Vaati had parted, shining its light back down onto Hyrule once more. This time, with Hyrule's previous brave knight long gone from being banished, it seems that we have a familiar face returning, yet it is too far fetch to be him. Happy Hallow Night, Hylians! (This took forever since September 20th, even when my laptop just broke down from an update bug, which I hate, it still took me a while to get the entire piece done. Anyway, have this Halloween poster for your Zelda/Halloween/Game fixation!) Happy Halloween, my Candy Skulls!

[rosescore245]

Zelda Ramble: Vaati

I felt the need to talk about blorbos and by god i shall, christmas gift for y'all!

Vaati is a very interesting character to me, with or without my personal headcanons. His presumed motivation, told to Link in Minish Cap by Ezlo, is purely that Vaati fell into obsession over the evil of mankind, but that doesn't make much sense, does it?

EDIT: Stating here that I accept asks! If anyone wants to ask for my opinion on a certain Zelda character from any game, I'll be happy to blab all of my thoughts on them! I can't promise a massive block of text, but I can promise a thoughtful paragraph or two at the very least! Just give a name (even something like "that weird guy in the blue-ish shop") and the game and I will FORM thoughts haha

[Rest of RAMBLE Below!]

Every Minish Link met during his journey in the first game was sickeningly optimistic. To the point that even Minish like 2 feet away from Murder Mittens Cats were quite cheerful, and the Minish who literally did ALL of the shoemaker's job were glad to do so. Even the Crenel Minish were very optimistic despite a much harsher climate and hardworking culture. That is why I am assuming that the magic that fuels the Minish existence makes them inherently Good and Light, for lack of better words. Thoughts of undeserved ill-will do not show up in any conversations Link has with the Minish, so I assume that Minish feel no need to inconvenience others.

So Vaati's original motivation was not malicious, but became so when he transformed into a Hylian. I personally do subscribe to the theory that Ezlo was a very old-fashioned, strict, and unsympathetic teacher to Vaati, and Ezlo learns how to be a better person while traveling with Link, though never perfect. The Minish Cap Legendary Manga has hints of this in the Bonus Panels, where Ezlo and Vaati have a very negative relationship, honestly. Ezlo sends him searching for a full day for a herb that does not exist, both wasting time and damaging Vaati's self esteem and trust in Ezlo as a teacher. Though, Ezlo also apparently, according to the manga (and I QUOTE), is, "going to all the singles' parties in town." So it's not the most Serious source, though 2/4 of the Bonus Comics are Ezlo outright saying multiple times that he is hard on Vaati, sooo.

Vaati was not fulfilled in his apprenticeship with Ezlo, that is certain! He felt like he was not learning anything of note, and so he wanted to Actually get stronger, not whatever this was. When Ezlo started making the Wishing Cap, I genuinely think Vaati thought he was a moron. An all-powerful artefact that doesn't have any safety measures? AND he trusted HYLIANS to use it? I personally believe that Vaati had bad experiences around Hylians before, and I have a whole Tragic Backstory or whatever, but the only part that matters for his Distrust is this: I believe that, during a minor flood, Vaati was swept off from his home and into the center of a panicking Hyrule Town, and, as a young Minish who had NEVER seen a Hylian before, his first impression was a bunch of frightened people acting out with panic and anger at the situation. He had no reason to trust the tales told about how great Hylians were when his only experience was genuinely horrible, so excuse him for thinking leaving a completely unguarded magical, reality-bending wish-granting HAT in the hands of Hyrule wasn't a good idea.

A combination of feeling Ezlo as incompetant and cruel, his yearning to actually learn something to make him a powerful asset to the Minish, AND his trauma with Hylians compelled him to steal the cap and use it. Though he didn't like Hylians, he knew they were strong, and there were likely many great mages among them. Sure, he knew of the Light Force and Picori Blade, but they weren't part of his plan until the magic that made him Minish was removed by the Wishing Cap. The moment that Light was pushed away, Vaati only had his own negativity and Wind magic by his side, which set him thinking.

He wanted to become powerful before, but now that Minish Magic wasn't flowing through his core, there was nothing stopping the plan from spiraling from ambitious into malicious. Especially since I also have a theory that Demise's Curse is not necessarily a reincarnating soul, but a disease in the hearts of all living things aside from the Hero's Spirit and Hylia's Children (Link and the Royal Family essentially), so ANYONE could have a "flare up" and become a vessel of Demise, which is why multiple avatars of Demise's will have existed at one time. When the Minish Magic was no longer keeping his heart pure, it was very, very easy for the Curse to flare up and consume him.

So innocent enough ambition is warped into demented malice as he begins his takeover and chaos-bringing path.

Of course, the story's pretty cut and dry after that, Link reforges the holy blade, takes Vaati down with the power of Clones, all is well. But the Four Sword is special, I believe in many things about it. The most relevant are as follows:

The Four Sword takes in power from the elements used to forge it anew. Therefore, as long as it is at least able to touch Air, it will literally only grow more powerful. When it is able to touch Earth AND Air, it's accelerated, and if Water joins in (rain) then it's like a boost. If someone decided to light the resting place on Fire, then that would also only benefit. This is how I explain its growing power over the games/mangas, from Minish Cap's mindless and fragile clones to Four Swords' solid mindless clones, to Four Swords Adventures having four entirely independent copies of an individual. Keep in mind I believe this power intake IS very slow, but constant.

The Four Sword applies four different types of seals. Earth fuels the seal on the Mind, such as logical thinking and sanity. Fire fuels the seal on the Memory, obviously memories and emotions. Water seals aspects of the Body, mobility, forms the sealed may have taken. Wind seals the Soul, the essence of an individual, the personality, magic too. These seals are independent from one another and can be broken at different times. They also have a taste for devouring the magic, and, well, Vaati is a meaty morsel. The seals wear him down over time baseline.

Vaati is freed multiple times after he is first sealed, but the first time is particularly intriguing. In the Game, Four Swords, Vaati has a very simple motivation---he wants a wife. Which he never had ANY desire for before.

So what happened?

Well, I believe that only a few of the seals broke. The Earth merely cracked, Fire holds strong, Water is cracked, and the Wind is completely broken. Vaati only has access to his demonic body, a small amount of logical thinking, and all of his magic and personality. But he doesn't remember much of anything about his Before. I am personally using the official Timeline's spacing here, so I would apply the first 4swords about 100 years after MC, making the Zelda of the game MC's granddaughter/great-granddaughter. And let's be honest, I think the ONLY timeline with DECENT record-keeping is the Adult Timeline, which is surprising because LITERALLY EVERYTHING FLOODED. Some information was lost, yes, but it's basically all THERE, they have a TRADITION with the HERO OF TIME'S MEMORY. Thus, I believe that the Link and Zelda of the first 4swords were not well-informed on how Vaati SHOULD have been.

Blah blah blah, Vaati isn't acting like himself, he's sealed again, and time passes. Timeline gets turned into a shit smoothie, and for some reason Vaati only ends up being notably released in the Child Timeline. I personally think Vaati fucking drowned when he came out in the Adult Timeline, and the people of the Downfall Timeline were so battle-hardened that they didn't really need a hero to kill his ass. Only the relatively-peaceful Child Timeline was just right for him to both not die immediately and also be able to cause any ripple in the Daily Routine.

But something was WRONG with him. The once super chatty and prideful Vaati literally doesn't have a single line. He doesn't even have his usual dramatic entrance, just sends the Links flying with some air and dips (in the game, not Manga. As much as I love the manga, I usually apply the Manga Elements to the Base Game because the Game has More Substance for their adventure). He's not himself. He's not THERE. A husk wearing a familiar face, no memory, no real personality, no logic, really. More animal than person. More monster than man.

The Vaati that started it all had long since been consumed, only the last dregs of him escaped at all. A tragic end for a fun character.

Lmao this thing is literally so long and I tried to make it shorter by not just spouting off every headcanon I have. Sorry, but it's my thing! Let me know your own thoughts if you want to, I love hearing others' opinions and theories. Heck, tell me to kms if you wanna, it would be funny---disagree with everything I said and kick me in my nonexistent balls.

Happy holidays, hope you all had a nice and tasty meal and a warm night in comfy blankets. Pet an animal if you so choose, drink something because it's good for you, remember some of you have work tomorrow, sadly.

[dearchose]

Vaati

I had started this concept for a irl painting, but at the end, I didn't like it enough and went with another design. I still like it though so I'm posting it here... after more than a week

[lavleyart]

Vaati Reborn and the Sorcerer! :D I learnt a lot while painting them :)

[mirensiart]

I drew this vaati months ago and forgot to upload it here too!

So here is mr. Vaati, winner of the most fabulous hair in all of hyrule contest 💖

[masked-phantom-47]

Vaati The Vengeful Minish

[blackstarchanx3new]

Four Swords Adventures Manga Fan Comic: Four Swords Returns

Chapter 26: Turning point

Pages 855-859

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9/10 People don't learn their lessons unless it ACTUALLY affects them. And even then...They'll probably just KEEP hurting people because other's suffering doesn't mean shit to them. :D

[w1ndmagevaati]

he gets more silly