#not riju tho
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I can't believe Yona was so unpopular with the fanbase upon the game's initial release..... Like I love the idea of Sidon x Link fish yaoi too but like it was never gonna happen in canon lol. Female characters are not "getting in the way" of gay fanbase shipping like corporations hate making prominent and active female characters and they hate gay romance even more. Yona is fine, I like her, I like that she has a reasonable head on her shoulders, I like that she has a similar """feminine""" healing magic domain (portrayed as useful) to Mipha but she's a lot more..... independent and active in her personality. I think my biggest complaint is nothing about her personality and everything about the fact that metatextually her character seems tailor-made to be the Perfect Fiancee who has graceful and feminine talents BUT she's independent enough that we don't need to see too much of her before the Boys go on the ACTUAL main quest. Like it's obvious that from a narrative standpoint she's padding and it sucks that another woman got sidelined, on the other hand from what bits of her personality we DO see I think every decision she makes is sensible and she's easily one of the most level-headed and goal-oriented Zora characters. It would've been nice if she was MORE of a character, if anything, but she wasn't, and we can still all draw Link x Sidon BL without like taking it out on a fictional woman
#i dont think anyone who follows me cares about this per se but im replaying totk and its on my mind#legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#totk#in general i love every zelda female character for women's rights reasons#i loved Mipha very much even though they made her main character trait being in love with Link. they did her so dirty and i love her#i loved Paya very much even though her main character trait was having a crush on Link and not believing in herself.#and then later being chief of the village and Not Relevant To This Story iirc#i loves riju even when they kind of dressed her in a weirdly sexualized and exoticized way?#which is true of ALL the gerudo but most of them are adult women#or 5 year olds in bikini tops which - hot take - i dont think is especially sexualized in its narrative framing#if you go to a beach you will probably see a 5 year old in a baby bikini top#it happens#i think the design choice is pretty orientalist and racist to dress all gerudo like that#but i dont think its sexualizing a minor just to HAVE prepubescent girls existing in demi tops#not riju tho#they do a WEIRD amount of panning over her hip bones and her washboard abs and idk it just kind of gives me an ick#and then there's also purah#complicated feelings about purah going from 100 -> 5-10? and peppy! -> 20 with a vacant doll expression#i have no idea what they were going for and i dont care#anyways ignore my tags
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Place of our ancestors ❇️⚡️
[Linktober 2: Temple]
#linktober#tears of the kingdom#zelda#totk#zelda tears of the kingdom#Zelda totk#linktober 2023#link#riju#legend of zelda#zelda fanart#TotK fanart#daeyumi art#lightning temple#green#idek anymore#i’m eepy while trying to tag the art again#this was my fave dungeon in totk#mostly bc of the aesthetic tho
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Let's go into the depths of the castle !
Originally this was going to be a dtiys challenge but I felt like I over did it too much so I won't count it as one. I'll try to do another one that isn't so over the top heh heh 👉👈
#sorri I kinda shied away it was supposed to be smth simple..I do like how it turned out tho!#tloz au#lf au#sidon#yunobo#teba#riju#navi#sheik#malice king#my art#scourge king
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riju redesign + new arm...
#slowly coming back to drawing... still lazy about coloring tho#i love the inking on link#someday i'll get better at coloring. someday...#totk#tears of the kingdom#riju#loz#legend of zelda#turnaboutart#i'll probably re-redesign riju cus the top part of her clothes bother me somewhat
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Linktober day eleven- dance
Riju my baby. On a glass bottle because I like engraving on glass bottles. I love how much her fighting style looks like a dance
Riju in totk is great because if anyone deserves to be able to summon a giant dome of lightning death. It's her. Skyward sword link's not the only one who can catch lightning with his sword B)
Drawing lightning is fun. And I really should start using references for these.
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#linktober#riju#totk#Loz#Zelda#she is my baby#smoll art#this was very experimental/low effort#just playing around#I used like five different types of bits and broke all my rules#some of these cuts are way too deep and none of it's consistent. but it still turned out great!#I'm actually pretty pleased with this one :))#I'll draw lightning at any opportunity. I love doing lightning.#but yeah I forgot about her arm things until I'd done most of it. when I remembered I managed to squeeze them in tho
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I feel bad that I don't use Sidon's summon in totk at all, he is just... there, being pretty and using his spear sometimes
but when I realized that four people walking with me is A CROWD, I needed to make a choice and Sidon didn't win for just being pretty 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
A BETRAYAL, SHAME ON ME SHAME
#tulin is always a win tho#the best boi#riju and yunobo is a support in combat and mining#but yunobo went next after Sidon ajdgdjdj#so its just a group of three smols now#mystuff#totk spoilers
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Funny cat story: When we first got the kittens, me and my sister got to be the main deciding factor on names (there was still like input from parents but we did most of the choosing). Of course, we both immediately decided to name them after our favorite botw characters. Sis's was Riju, so of course the sand ish colored cat is called Riju. Makes sense. So of course, I was left to name the other cat. Now, I am majorly indecisive so I had two favorite characters, Impa and Mipha. So, we decided to wait and see which one she acted more like. Wait a couple days, decide on Mipha because she seems to be very graceful and calm. Turns out that was just because she's blind and didn't know the house very well so was cautious. This is the clumsiest cat I have ever met.
#cats#kittens#cat#as I was writing this she fucking bit my hand#she is now locked out of the room#riju is being a nice sleepy baby tho#loz
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Smth I don't praise enough is YunoboCo. LIKE FR they're my favorite part of totk. Basically Yunobo takes it upon himself to do some community building after Death Mountain becomes dormant again, which goes from volunteer work to opportunities for employment -- literally obliterating the Goron Mining Co which is fine imo becs that led by the Elder who. Is an Elder and it didn't have much direction beyond mine mine mine. The community project was supposed to make lives better for the gorons -- the majority of which were employed under Goron Mining Co, and they ended up just being absorbed into YunoboCo as a mining branch like Yunobo really said take care of your workers or else.
They also paved TWO new roads into Goron City because getting up and down the mountain was proving too dangerous, and they're pretty long roads! They also are the ones who hung up the colorful lights around the city to bring back the bright atmosphere the lava originally gave, and overhauled the entire minecart system. Like YunoboCo went SO hard. Death Mountain glew up in totk and I wish everywhere else got the same improvement treatment
#lindsay speaks#the legend of zelda#tloz: tears of the kingdom#like yunobo is a better community leader than riju & sidon imo and THEY'RE THE RULERS OF THEIR CITIES#not saying they're bad at it (especially riju she's literally a baby) but like w sidon for example it's great that he protected them from#sludge and everything but in the years between botw & totk what COMMUNITY improvements did he make?#maybe... commission an entire pavilion memorial for his sister and then replaced the other statue with... one of him & link#tho i think the sidon + link statue was commissioned by dorephan actually#it's just like. so what do you actually DO 😭#yunobo expanded his community paved roads boosted morale provided employment supported local businesses#(he had the new road paved near the bistro which is outside of Goron City)#no one was doing it like him
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Me walking through the Desert Shround in Totk to see my favorite Gerudo.
“We’re all gonna be safe, and we’re all gonna have a great time.”
Sees a small horde of Gibdo shuffling off in the distance
“What the Jesus Christ was that?!”
#totk spoilers#Totk#tears of the kingdom#totk riju#Riju#Those thing’s actually scared me#glad it wasn’t a redead tho
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link: so happy to be defeating ganondorf with my bestest friends sidon, yunobo, riju and *checks smudged writing on hand* tulip
#literally who r u#no h8 tho i like him but it’s just a bit jarring lmfao#totk#tears of the kingdom#the legend of zelda#tulin#yunobo#riju#sidon#hob.txt
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TOTK has blown me away so far but the only major disappointment has been the dungeons. I like how they have their own unique atmosphere but they really just feel like rehashed divine beasts….activate the terminals and fight the boss. the lightning and fire temples were the only ones I found even interesting
Zelda dungeons really peaked with twilight Princess and skyward sword
#loz#legend of Zelda#totk#tears of the kingdom#also the new champion powers kinda suck#except Riju I’ve used her quite a bit#and tulin sometimes#still prefer Urbosa tho cause I don’t have to aim
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#i finished the regional phenomena quest wheeeeeee#whoever came up with flying gibdos is going to hell!!!!!!#riju: there are flying enemies incoming!!!!#me: there are WHAT#oot redeads are still scarier tho#now i must find the last geoglyph and get the master sword :)#and then i guess i have to go see purah but im gonna procrastinate that for a while#apparently theres a very juicy quest in the storm cloud above the faron region soooo? perhaps?#i also still need to do joshas quest 😶#i keep forgetting and also i dont like being in the depths sowwy#im gonna procrastinate main plot mostly so i can avoid Ganondorf is evil because reasons and also he has no nuance#LOOK I i love ganondorf but its time we wrote most interesting villains#u did it in windwaker....wheres the person who wrote ww gan i want them back#ik this game is kinda like oot on steriods but its ok....u don't have to make ganondorf completely unsympathetic to make him a good villain#u can make hyrule morally grey at least....actually corrupt at best...it would be so juicy#ofc if they went full on gan fighting against his destiny i wouldnt complain eiter 👉👈#LIKE WHAT FUCMING HAPPENED TO GANONDORF FIGHTING AGAINST HYRULE.FOR THEIR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HIS PPL AND JUST TAKING IT TOO FAR#what HAPPENED TO HIM STARTING OUT FIGHTING FOR A CAUSE AND BECOMING CORRUPTED BY POWER#totk gan just seems to be Hehe evil man want power#the fucking way zelda and rauru talked about him lmao#LIKE MR RAURU U DID NOT GIVE ANY REASON WHY U THINK HES EVIL#man was just like yeah he gives me a bad vibe#and zelda.....dude i dont like his name eww he must be evil#nintendo thats terrible writing ik u might have been alluding to the curse and zelda just knowing by his name that hes bad but my god#anyway slides around hyrule on my dalmation spotted horse named rolly and definitely doesnt long for a better plot#to clarify im not saying the plot is bad as it is and it's probably my fault for having expectations#its a great game!!! the plot os really good!!!!! but man
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“use your power to charge the four batteries, and it will function once more” babe i’ve got ascend it’s fine we don’t need to solve any puzzles
#text post#elianna plays totk#totk spoilers#legit tho right after the gibdo fight it flew away right?#and then riju was like 'OH IT WENT TO THE TOP'#so i just abused ascend and got to the top EASILY#but that's apparently not what Game wants#sad#my brain is fried from puzzles i have small tiny baby brain just let me fight monster with stick
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Riju's Theme
#totk#tears of the kingdom#riju#audio#love her theme... gives me chills#really wish sages' themes were longer tho
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Lord of the Rings AU where Link is Aragorn. OR he’s Beren and Zelda is Luthien.
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#Sidon is obviously Sam#because he’s so freaking loyal and supportive#uhhhh Purah would be Legolas#functionally immortal and objectively hot#Or maybe Tulin would be Sam idk#Yunobo is definitely either Merry or Pippin#Impa is Gandalf#obviously#or maybe Riju is Legolas? epic one-liners and ties to the inciting incident?#crap now I wanna write this I HAVE ENOUGH WIPS ALREADY I DONT NEED MORE UGHHHHH#seriously tho I will write this one day
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Help I keep calling Rij Miph that's not her name her name is Riju not Mipha
#im sorry riju#TwT#oh in refernce to my cats btw#i dont post much about botw i guess tho#mostly reblog pretty art for it#cats
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