#oc Nayru

[brigamia]

I think it’s finally time to share my zonai OCs with art done by the lovely @walrus-tusk-615bc! They’re part of an AU I’ve been rotating in my head.

This is Nayru “Ruru” (nonbinary) and their half-sheikah son Neberu “Nebi”!

Nayru is the last descendant of a long line of ice sages that trace their lineage back to Naydra (yes I subscribe to all the the-golden-dragons-were-once-zonai headcanons lol). Their name is ancestral, passed down from sage to sage. However, they excel more in base zonai magic than ice due to not having any family to mentor them—they lived alone for the majority of their childhood in the harsh tundras of the sky islands to the Far North (off the map).

And this is their son Neberu! His other parent is a sheikah with an also fruit-related name (Anbe). Unlike Nayru, he uses an even mix of ice and zonai magic (mainly for stealth purposes). He studies rare fauna once thought extinct, specifically insects.

[doragonrayenart]

24. After passing a test of wisdom, Sonia and her team confront the corrupted Nayru, a great Owl with aquatic and space-time powers. Sonia must save her from her corruption

[aufi-creative-mind]

[ZELDA CREATORS] August 2024 Banner - Lyanna City

Featured Artists: Nocturne, Hylian Tactician, Decopunk1927, @moon-x-flower

Late posting! I was the background artist for the Zelda Creator's August banner. The monthly location's based on Lyanna City [Present day] from Oracle of Ages.

This one was more difficult than I anticipated. Specifically, trying to translate a 2D topdown pixel image into a 3D layout from a ground level perspective. I actually resorted to using my Genshin Impact account's Serenitea Teapot realm to build a makeshift layout as reference.

Please check out the featured artists! They are all amazing!

[lime-sketches114]

One of my art fight attacks for @brigamia !!! I loved drawing their silly Zonai son of their Nayru! Nayru is blessed!

I'm glad to have you as a silly Zonai friend!!! 😁💕

Follow us on Art fight! Love to see your attacks!!!

[ezlo-x]

i need u guys to understand that Farore is the least normal out of the three. Ik ppl tend to hc Din as the more mean one of the group but not in this house, Farore is the crazy one here. All those demons you see? That was Farore. Majora? Farore. Monsters? Farore. Their scary appearances? Farore <3

[artpenumbra]

My two oldest OCs: Nayru and Nocturne.

They were originally created as Kingdom Hearts OCs way back in the early 2000s. Eventually I shifted them into just plain high fantasy and recently revamped them with brand new designs.

Princess "Nayru" Nayruen is your typical sweet princess who sees good in everyone. She's a bit clumsy, but is aware of the pressures of her responsibilities.

Nocturne is her faithful fae dragon based on the Osiria Rose. Much like a rose, he's very soft and velvety to touch. He's picky about who handles him, and there's only four people that he will listen to, Nayru included.

[aria-journey]

Nayru final version !

Well we'll see she's gonna be in the comic!

Or not...

Next update will be out soon !

[sketchbookofadventures]

Triforce bros - guardians of the springs au

Emery- red

Leon - green

Torin - blue

[iwanttosteallinksgender]

I’ve been hoarding Zelda art for ages, have a Nayru and a oc!

Honestly? Terrified to post my art again I haven't posted art in ages. 

[artisticzaati]

Serenade of Water.

[owlart18]

Baby, I've been there before

I was at the point where all I really wanted was someone

And now I'm still hanging on

I was at the end of every tether waiting for what once was

Lyrics from “What Once Was” by Her’s

The song is not specifically relevant but it is what I was listening to on loop when I worked on this new plot point!

(Commission info here | Pride icon commission info here)

Alt version with more text visible:

[ultimatefangirl-exe]

Doodling a fluffy girl

Keep an eye out

[loz-furbies]

Ralph

Design

Usually it's the girls who get unique and memorable designs, and the boys have to settle for a much more boring isekai mc-kun style look, but not here! This is amazing, bright blue frilly bell bottoms with purple stripe decorations! And the little wizard hat! And the 00's deviantArt OC edgy hair over one eye! The badass cape! Oh he has nail polish too! He is just great. In general he looks a little dorky but that's okay, it's a very memorable design. The cape fits the hero image he's trying to maintain, even if he's not very good at it.

The eyebrows are also a striking design element and even has plot relevance, but more on that later. So, uh, spoilers for Oracle of Ages? Or in general all of these potentially have spoilers for their respective games, not that I've warned about that before...

The frills and triangle pattern are elements that also repeat in the Oracles' designs. I really like this, they're all different so it doesn't feel like they're wearing a uniform, but it also gives the sense that the world has its own distinct fashion style.

In the entire LoZ franchise there are remarkably few friendly older teen/young adult male important npcs, or at least in the "attractive anime twink" style Link inhabits, compared to the situation with the girls (when almost all games have at least Zelda in the main girl role). And Ralph is one of the few exceptions, which I welcome. Or like I said in Nayru's entry, he's actually a lot shorter than I thought and might even put him in the "kid" category, but I elect to ignore that.

Character

Ralph starts out reasonably enough saying how he counts on Link with Nayru's safety, but quickly changes to stating that he doesn't think Link's help is needed after all. After Nayru is kidnapped he pops up here and there through the story on his own quest to save her, repeats how he will be the one to save Nayru and usually has a pretty condescending attitude towards Link ("Well, if it isn't Link! Dawdling about, as usual.") But he does offer some useful advice during his appearances, so he's willing to help and share information at least.

Later Ralph expands his heroism to wanting to save the general population in addition to Nayru, and even gets a moment where he is ready to sacrifice himself for the greater good despite being scared ("Maybe it is terrifying… But if I must, I must. To do nothing and live just isn't me.") In general he feels like he's the typical hotheaded shounen hero of his own story.

Towards the end of the game Ralph has to eat some humble pie when Link saves the day. After this Ralph apologises for his behaviour, praises Link, admits that he was the one who didn't accomplish anything, and outright says that he now considers Link his friend.

In general Ralph gets surprisingly much character focus for a character in a GBC game, he gets to show a lot of different emotions in different situations and even gets noticeable character development.

Role in the story

I would say that Ralph has the most well developed role out of all the characters in both of the Oracle games, which is peculiar since he isn't even the poster girl. He's the only one to get a proper arc, and has a lot of presence since he shows up in OoA regularly. And most importantly after Nayru gets saved after dungeon 6 out of 8, he is actually the final damsel in distress for OoA. The execution is a little different since Nayru's predicament is the usual kidnapped girl fare, while Ralph has to be saved from himself since he rushes to fight the end boss on a suicide mission. You see, after Nayru is freed from the villain's possession, the villain possesses the queen (in the past) instead, and it is revealed that Ralph is her descendant. So he intends to kill queen even if it means that he won't be able to be born. The way this works is a little clunky here since he already knows Link is able to undo the possession, so his sacrifice feels kind of dumb and reckless. Also he only survives because of plot armour because the villain could have killed him before Link takes over the battle but just chose not to. But points for trying I guess, this is still way above the writing the other characters in either of the two games got.

Considering how much focus Ralph gets and how actively he tries to contribute, it's a little shame how his actions don't really amount to anything. The most you can say that he works as the game's hint system because sometimes he points where the player should go next, but it would be nice if he got to do something more notable too.

I feel that he is similar to the original Pokemon rival (Blue) in that he's this cocky rival that shows up to mock you through the game, and the in the end you get to feel vindicated when they're defeated. Both of them are even actually helpful by sharing information too! Though I do feel kind of bad for Ralph since he's just so crushed at the end and just lies on the floor lamenting how he looks like a fool now.

I like that the revelation that he is the queen's descendant is foreshadowed a little (with how he knows about a secret entrance to the palace) and isn't just dropped out of nowhere in the finale.

Relationships

Ralph is a childhood friend and self-proclaimed protector of Nayru, acts kind of jealous about the possibility of someone else doing the protecting, and spends most of the game running around trying to save her. I don't remember instances where his behaviour could only be interpreted as romantic so make of that what you will.

Surprisingly his most interesting relationship is with Link. Or he is the main character, but at this point of the franchise he usually doesn't get nearly as many character moments with even the main girl of each game so it's pretty big.

Ralph strikes a one sided rivalry with Link about the Nayru rescue, and then behaves in a condescending manner when they run into each other. However I find it interesting that he doesn't blame Link at all for Nayru getting captured in the first place, because it was Link who brought the disguised villain close to her in the first place. Or it wasn't Link's fault since nobody know about the disguise, but I would have imagined that Ralph would hold it against him.

Once Link is the one to save Nayru while Ralph did nothing he apologises properly, and starts preparing to take down the villain, even if it would cost him his own life. And then he starts throwing lines like "May fate bring us back together!", and later "Umm… Link… Don't forget me. I mean, I think of you…as a friend…" when preparing for his suicide mission. If this was a more popular and recent game people would ship these two way more but now they only have 5 results on ao3. Even the villain refers to him as Link's "dear friend".

Once the day is saved and everyone is hunky-dory Ralph comments how Link is amazing and apparently teases him for the embarrassing statue the queen put up for Link. Then they get a cute cutscene in the credits where Link tries to teach Ralph to do the spin attack with the sword, but he spins too much and gets dizzy. So we end on the note that they're friends now, with Link taking a mentor-like role.

He also gets a brief scene with the queen, with both being proud about the relationship, though the queen takes offense at being called grandmother. It's a shame they don't get to interact more, but it's nice that their relationship didn't go completely unaddressed.

[bunnakit]

I promised ages ago that I would remake this post with some easier to read text and properly put the text in a post, and 3 months later I finally did it!

Just a reminder, this is all my own observations, research, opinions, etc. We only have 2 examples of the Zonai to base things off of, which means we have to draw a lot of assumptions and fill in a lot of gaps. There's no wrong way to engage with their lore, create an OC, etc. This is just a breakdown of what I've noticed, looked up, pondered, and the process I used to make my own Zonai~

Something I think is important to note (and keep forgetting to mention) is I named Vasru using the naming conventions we can easily discern - Mineru and Rauru both end in 'ru' but it's unknown if this is a title, family naming convention, or simply something applied to all Zonai.

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Long neck, arms, and torso but relatively short legs by comparison. Wide hips with very narrow waist seems consistent between AMAB and AFAB but unknown if racial or familial trait.

Rauru has small horns, unknown if Mineru does as well as we never see beneath her mask. Unknown if horns are a sexually dimorphic trait or individual trait.

Floppy vs upright ears are potentially a sexually dimorphic trait but could also differ per individual.

Shared center eye, nose, and eye markings. Unknown if racial or familial.

Hair, ear, and eyelashes all same color. Unknown if white hair is racial or familial.

There seems to be a penchant for jewelry and adornments.

Unknown if limited to royal family. Shows heavy Mayan influence and often features nods to the Triforce, Sheikah Eye, and dragons.

Rauru features a tuft of scale-like fur on his chin and cheeks, only cheek fur is shared with Mineru. Chin fur is likely a sexually dimorphic trait.

Sexual Dimorphism - A distinct difference in size or appearance between the sexes of an animal in addition to difference between sexual organs themselves.

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Draconification is known to be achieved through swallowing a secret stone.

The Zonai and the dragons share many physical characteristics such as horns, ear, and eye structure. In an excerpt from 'Creating a Champion' we learn the dragons do have some goat-like features intentionally.

The existence of the 3 dragon-themed armor sets along with repeated dragon structures in Zonai ruins could imply that Dinraal, Farosh, and Naydra already existed in the time of the Zonai.

It's important to note as well that the Zonai were often seen as Gods from the heavens. With this and the obvious connection the 3 dragons have to the 3 Goddesses from previous games (Din, Farore, and Nayru) I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that perhaps Dinraal, Farosh, and Naydra were Zonai tasked with protecting Tri-Force (which the Zonai were known to worship) and in an effort to better guard the Tri-Force they swallowed each piece and underwent the process of draconification. The shared names, elements, and corresponding Tri-Force pieces just make this thought process very interesting to me.

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When designing my own Zonai OC (Vasru) I was very careful to pull as many details from the game as I could. In an effort to keep his design from being too busy I simplified some elements of the various armors and jewelry.

Vasru is transgender and to represent this I took the markings from the Ancient Armor (the reward for finding all shrines) and used them beneath his pectorals.

If we operate under the assumption that horns are a sexually dimorphic trait we can then assume Vas'use of the Dinraal inspired headdress is in an effort to cover that missing feature.

When designing a Zonai I believe it's important to take inspiration from elements of the game and respect the Mayan influences shown.

Have fun!

[lime-sketches114]

FLUFFY ZONAI!!!

Here's some more Zonai ocs! These versions of my OCS are from different regions of Hyrule! Avalon is from Faron and Adama is from Tabatha/w. Hyrule area. They like to travel to learn knowledge or have a good fight in Adama's case lol.

I tried to channel the fluffiness in their designs. (You can thank @briarbramble for making me fall in love with their floofy Zonai 💕) I also got inspired by @brigamia 's OC that was drawn by @walrus-tusk-615bc ! I love Nayru and Neberu so much! Especially baby Nebi AHHHHH🩷🩷🩷

Hope you guys like my Zonai! I love making Zonai based on my other OCS n stuff :3 it's fun! Also I'd love to talk about Zelda stuff! If you wanna message me that's ok ^^

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[trippygalaxy]

Ooooo??? I saw your post!! Sir Raven x oc??? 👀

Care to share maybe? 🥺👉👈

GASP! YES!!!

(picrews, not mine)

THIS IS VAL, or well, her full name is Valentina!

Shes a human witch, less booky/studies and more herbs/gut feeling- this doesnt mean she doesnt study or read, but she was more taught like how a grandma would teach their granddaughters to cook! Eyeballing it and somehow it just works! So she reads when she wants to learn new or different things about spells, or when shes learning about mythical/magic beings!

ANYWAYS

She and Sir Raven met when Raven first came to Holodrum. It was a more of a customer/seller relationship at first as the knight would come to Val when in need of potions, knowledge or help with things in more arcane nature. But after Veran (villain of the ooa game) took over Nayru (oracle of ages) and started to influence the Queen, she and Sir Raven began to hide people away in a hidden village to keep them safe from the Queen's growing tyrannical like ruling, which inturn caused them to start bonding more! Sadly, Raven often left the village to go back to the Queen as he was still her Knight, and a highly regarded one, to keep up appearences and to figure out what was happening to the ruler. Raven did not want to leave the village people by themselves, fearful of what would happen to them if the Queen's guards found them, but Val made a promise to the knight that she would look after them, doing everything in her power to keep them safe. She also shyly promised to greet the man everytime he returned to the village.

When Link comes around, Val very much acts like a mother figure to him, taking care of him and giving him protection charms and potions.

She and Sir Raven have a very...slow burn esk relationship! Both very focused on doing their respective jobs that its hard to grow anything, especially when you're worried about the other person dying. It consists of small acts between them, nights shared on patrols, reassuring words shared while bandaging the other up and other things!

Theres more to her, shes a big worrier and has this need to be perfect for the village, feeling like she cant be good enough for the people like Sir Raven is, and more! But didnt wanna dump it all on ya incase you got bored half way through!