#marin loz

[clowns0up-felix]

Fem link’s awakening truther‼️ yes give link boobies and pronouns‼️ anyways may be obsessed with ur la’s link <3

GRINNING SO BIG JUMPING AROUND someone save her from the doomed Yuri

She does get the boobies after la I think tho

(Slight legendofdinner style study was a need today sorry)

[juxtaposedpunk]

Marin

[soup-guts]

I frequently think of that one ‘strongest Legend of Zelda Character’ ranking

As a result I’ve pinned legend as gojo.

Legends getting way more off model every time I draw him. Today he got diagnosed with mullet.

[deuynndoodles]

i saw some cool designs and wanted to update my marin design because of them

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Alrightie then, I gots the first batch of black redesign commissions that I got from over christmas done up! So from the top we got-

Astro Boy

Marin (from Legend of Zelda)

The Emerald Herald (from Dark Souls 2)

Monkey D. Luffy

Heat (from One Piece)

Marie (from Splatoon 3)

Now onto the next batch that i'll hopefully get done way faster lol

[funsizedcrow]

I like them a lot <3<3<3<3<3

[nopenototdaysatan]

How Many Times Could You Fall in Love with Me?

Hands shaking, Smoothing of skirts, Heartbeat racing. Gentle rustling of a necklace, This could be it. This could be it. She could be here. He could be here.

A door sliding open, A door sliding in. Gentle breaths hitching. A wide eyed turn to him. Eyes meeting, The most handsome eye color. Violet and Chestnut shining. Her Chestnut irises shining with joy.

As tears well up, Tears springing to her eyes. Trailing down cheeks and chins. Sobs bursting forward at the sight. Breathing hitched as a small murmur is heard Of him. “Marin?” An exuberant nod before flinging herself towards his arms.

Grasping her dress in his shaking hands, Grasping his face Pulling her to him As if any moment would take him from her. As if she would fade away in a moment. His worn eyes stare deep into hers, “Are you real?” As if she wasn’t actually there.

Bringing his hands up to mirror hers “yes! Yes, I am. I’m right here, Link.” He holds her gentle face with worry and stress, jumping to reassure. Like it’s the whole world to him. And yet his calloused hands on her cheeks, “I missed you.” Bring her to tears once more.

“I-I thought you were gone.” For no one but her Fiancé “I thought I had killed you” Would have those bone deep callouses. “I destroyed the whole island.” But where is his smile, his joy, his exuberance. “How are you here, my beloved?” Has the world stripped him of these?

Resting his weary head on her shoulder, “My dear husband-to-be, we are fine.” He smells her sweet perfume, “I thought you were gone forever once” Smelling of the island hibiscuses, “But my father reminded me that He is weak to her and her love. You are so much stronger than a dream.”

Feeling her guide his eyes to her hand, “For only someone living could have given me this.” To the ring resting on her finger, “For only you could know my engagement ring.” The one he had gifted to her. “With the most beautiful gems that shine like the sea.” The strongest of his rings to protect their love. “Only you can make me the happiest woman.”

   A kiss to remember each other by,

                                     A kiss to grieve the time they lost.

                                     A kiss to show their affection.

                                     A kiss between two loves.

                                  Nothing could stop these two.

                                      Not even an Odyssey.

And this is only the beginning. I have an idea for every song in the Ithaca sage all of them featuring Legend in someway. I hated formatting this though. I would have cried if this didn't look pretty at the end. Happy New years!!!!!

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #30 - Redo

I only set the first one for a day. Whoever gets the most votes goes to the next wave

Pictures below the cut

Ganondorf's horse (Legend of Zelda)

Giant Horse (Legend of Zelda)

Rom and Rem (Mare). Scroll down for their picture. They are the flying twins.

[snowstories]

The part where Marin tries to wake the Wind Fish is probably my favourite part in the entirety of Link's Awakening for how effectively it plays into the overarching themes and message of the story, utilizing Marin's character.

Marin tries to wake the Wind Fish because she believes this might make her wish come true. This is not interpretation, this is text. Earlier in the game, Marin states directly: "They say the 'Balled of the Wind Fish' is a song of awakening. I wonder, if the Wind Fish wakes up, will he make my wish come true?"* We also know what she wished for because of this piece of dialogue during the beach scene: "If I was a sea gull, I would fly as far as I could! I would fly to far away places and sing for many people! ...If I wish to the Wind Fish, I wonder if my dream will come true..." Although Marin refuses to tell us what her wish to the Wind Fish was, this piece of dialogue also makes that abundantly clear. Marin believes that waking the Wind Fish will allow her to fly to many places and sing to many people, like a seagull.

And she is not wrong! If you get the secret ending (obtained by not dying during the game), you see a vision of Marin change into a seagull after the Wind Fish wakes. Marin's attempt at waking the Wind Fish and her repeated assertions that waking the Wind Fish might grant her wish is, in part, clever foreshadowing for this secret ending. This is clearly part of its function.

But another, arguably more important aspect of Marin's attempt to wake the Wind Fish is that it serves as a kind of dramatic irony for the player, regardless of whether they know about the secret ending or have even finished the game: at the point of the game where Marin tries to wake the Wind Fish, you, the player, have already had Koholint's Big Secret revealed to you. Marin, on the other hand, is entirely ignorant. We know that waking the Wind Fish would make Koholint vanish, but Marin doesn't.

An isolated, surface-level reading of the situation is as follows: Marin, in her naiveté, is attempting to accomplish something that would doom her. This reading is, to a certain degree, understandable: Koholint's transient nature, and its inevitable end, is certainly sad. We can wonder whether Marin, knowing the full extent of the consequences, would have still wanted to wake the Wind Fish. That was her home, after all, and while she would like to explore the great wide somewhere, she might have been less eager to if she understood that this is only possible if her home did not exist anymore.

But ultimately, this reading is shallow and does not engage with the explicit themes present all throughout Link's Awakening. While Koholint's inevitable end is sad, yes, it is also ultimately not a tragedy. The Nightmares in the world have the aim of controlling the dream and, to accomplish it, are prolonging it unnaturally. The only people who ever protest your quest to wake the Wind Fish are those same monsters, the obvious bad guys of the story. In the end, after the Wind Fish has woken up and Koholint has vanished, we leave on a shot of Link watching the Wind Fish fly off, smiling. It is the nature of dreams to end: all throughout the game, this is made abundantly clear, spelled out in the Wind Fish's final speech, and crucially: this is not a bad thing. The bad thing is forcibly prolonging a dream, clinging to it and refusing to move past it, as the Nightmares were doing.

Engaging with the game's themes, the cynical reading holds no water. Koholint's end is no doom; its doom would be existence in perpetuity, especially if ruled by the Nightmares, as would be inevitable (they are the ones keeping the Wind Fish asleep, after all). By attempting to wake the Wind Fish, Marin is not dooming herself. In addition to all of the above, again: there is an ending where she does have her wish come true, if the Wind Fish wakes. She was correct.

So what, then, is the purpose behind this scene? If not the dramatic irony of unwittingly working towards your own doom, what does it want us to take from it?

Marin is an interesting character on Koholint. While its other residents routinely and consistently fail to comprehend even the general idea of a world beyond this island (as shown by dialogue such as "Dude! You're asking me when we started to live on this island? What do you mean by 'when?' Whoa! The concept just makes my head hurt!" by the children in Mabe Village), Marin asks questions. She's restless, as evidenced by her frequent visits to the beach, her need to know about the world beyond Koholint, and, of course, her attempt to wake the Wind Fish. Why is Marin capable of these questions, whereas most of the other residents are at best unconcerned with the outside world or, at worst, incapable of even thinking about it?

It is up to interpretation, but I posit: for the same reason the Owl is. More or less, anyway.

The Owl is perhaps the strangest part of the dream, not just more aware than the other residents, but more aware than you, as well. It acts as your guide, purposefully so; it references being 'instructed' to help you ("I was instructed to give you directions... Your next goal is north, in Goponga Swamp!!"). The reason for this becomes clear during the ending sequence, where the Owl reveals: "As part of the Wind Fish's spirit, I am the guardian of his dream world." The Owl has a much more direct connection to the Wind Fish than the other residents, which makes sense; as the dream world's guardian, it would have to be aware of its nature and its mechanics in a way none of the other residents would be.

'As part of the Wind Fish's spirit' is interesting; the most literal way to interpret this is the literal one, where the Owl is a part of the Wind Fish's spirit in a way most everyone else on the island isn't. This is supported by the mural you find in the ancient ruins that tells you Koholint's secret, which depicts the Owl immediately alongside the Wind Fish.

But it is important to note that all of Koholint is a part of the Wind Fish; its dream, if nothing else. While the Owl obviously has a different role and greater connection to the Wind Fish than the other residents, it is not unfair to assume Koholint's residents all reflect parts of the Wind Fish, as dreams often reflect parts of ourselves, as well.

The Wind Fish is being forced into a slumber for much longer than is natural by the Nightmares. Repeatedly, the Owl references the Wind Fish growing restless as you get closer and closer to waking it. Before entering the seventh dungeon, the Owl states, directly: "Go! The Wind Fish grows restless!" Upon exiting the seventh dungeon, you can find Marin on the bridge, after having attempted to wake the Wind Fish.

I say the reason Marin tried to wake the Wind Fish, as a matter of fact, the reason she wanted to leave Koholint at all, is a reflection of the Wind Fish's desires to do the same. Her role in the dream is to reflect the Wind Fish's restlessness; or perhaps, that's a fancy way of saying that this is one of her main thematic purposes in the game.

Marin is Koholint's personification. Not necessarily in-universe, but for the purposes of gameplay. It is harder for the average player to get attached to the whole of an island than it is to get attached to a singular girl, who is opinionated and likeable, with a strong personality and hopes and dreams. Without Marin, Koholint's inevitable fading would have much less emotional impact, as Marin shows us that Koholint's residents are people, and provides a microcosm of the island as a whole for us to get attached to. Marin is, effectively, Koholint's representative to the player.

As such, Marin mirrors Koholint in many ways: sweet but mischievous, a bit weird but lovingly so; her name is literally 'Marin', meaning 'marine' in at least French and probably Spanish (I don't speak Spanish and only a little bit of French) and it's one letter off in English as well. When Marin tells you not to forget her at the end of the game, this is connected to the Wind Fish's declaration at the very end, that Koholint will now only exist in memory. This demand to remember her not just meant to be taken literally; it's also meant to be taken as a declaration by the game to remember Koholint.

As such: Marin's restlessness are intended to be reflective of both Koholint and the Wind Fish. Her desire to leave the island and fly away is the Wind Fish's, and therefore, Koholint's, as Koholint is a part of the Wind Fish. The purpose of having Marin try to wake the Wind Fish is to signal to the player that the island wants to wake up; the island's representative made an attempt, and the Nightmares' monsters punished her for it. She needs you to help rescue her, like you need to rescue the island.

Having Marin attempt to wake the Wind Fish is one of the strongest moments of writing in Link's Awakening, showcasing the story's themes and overarching message in an interesting way that adds a lot of character to Marin as well and I'm very, very normal about it.

*All quoted dialogue in this post is taken from the Link's Awakening DX script on gamefaqs, which I would truly love to hyperlink in this sentence but Tumblr is refusing to let me, so it can be found here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gbc/197769-the-legend-of-zelda-links-awakening-dx/faqs/38914.

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[clowns0up-felix]

Hi i just want to say that i am obsessed with ur art and character designs...i looove the way you draw <3<3<3<3<3<3 i especially love your bunny design transfem alttp/links awakening link is one of my favorite headcanons <3

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

EEEHEHHEHEEEE TYY TYYY ^_^ I AM SO HAPPY ALWAYS FOREVER THAT PEOPLE LIKE BUNNY I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT HER HERES MORE ART OF HER AND THERES MORE TO COME

Thank you for the kind ask wahhh <3

[luckynekokat]

Linktober 2024 Day 27: Rest/respite

Marin

I love Marin and her design - very cheerful and fun! I often like to listen to the OST from various games and I always love the music from Link's Awakening. The Ballad of the Wind Fish in particular is beautiful and I love to play it often on the ocarina when I find myself in a free moment.

[deuynndoodles]

[ID: A colored, digital illustration of Link and Marin from Link's Awakening. It is a bird's eye view of the scene where Link washes up on Toronbo Shores, with one difference: Link is a mermaid.

Link rests her head on her right arm, wet hair spilling over her shoulder. Her hat, scabbard and shield are resting in the waves next to her; her tail drapes behind her as water laps at her scales. She has pink hair and a bit of a tan. Marin kneels and reaches out a hand tentatively. She is a woman of color with brown skin and russet curls. Both of their faces are obscured. end id]

beached

[bloggingthefamily]

Mouseover Text has been sealed in the Sacred Realm.

I quite enjoy these charming illustrations, especially how they connect.

[funsizedcrow]

Linktober day 9: Secret/Mystery

Ok tbh I just wanted to draw Marin. But her existence is definitely a mystery...is she real? Or is she just a figment of Link's imagination?

[donnetellotheturtle]

This is so cute I love them