#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!

[laplumedupetitluma]

Okay so lore p2

And the shatter effect on the cristal ball is normal ^^ i'll let you guess why (i mean TvT if my craziness/au interest anyone that is)

Okay so here another part of the lore without any details like you know something is going on but you dont know what yet ^^. Also you might have recognise them but yeah the golden goddesses i tried again ^^" 🥲 i feel like that what i'm mostly doing but hey better than nothing and i tried to do them in my style soooo yeah?

And now new mystery who's that girl on the last drawing exactly? And who's that "he" they're talking about?

[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

[aria-journey]

Nayru final version !

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

Or not...

Next update will be out soon !

[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.

[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

[musical-chan]

Oceanis and his sister lore, yes please, I need more

Well hello! Deity reference pictures for you!

Oceanis and Oceana/Thalassa are the only identical twins of the old deities! They're still separate people; none of the deities have the same marks as the other but the twins come the closest. (Up until Link copied his dad's marks exactly but even that is changing) Their hair actually shifts colours a lot so while in the reference pictures they look different, they can have identical hair if they wish.

Both of them have a fairly standard deity body type though they tend to lean a little androgynous. They do define as their particular gender choices but they could potentially pass off as the other if they wanted to and, in fact, have done this in the past to trick their Siblings. Their armor is the standard deity armor you see in the Fierce Deity design, their symbols even being identical because their domains are the same. Both wear the long, flowing pants and blue tunics under silver armor with Nayru's symbol on one side, patterned ocean waves on the other. Though when Oceanis got his third Goddess marks, his shifted to the triangle that is seen on Nocturne's.

Oceanis: Protector of the Eastern Oceans and the Watery Depths Alternate Names: Oceanus, Tideus, Poseidon,  Nauticus, Seaborn Weapon: Huge 2-handed axe made from a dark blue metal; the accents on it look quite a bit like ice. His weapon spirit is named Ays. (sort of sounds like saying Abyss without the 'b')

Oceanis absolutely has whatever a deity version of ADHD is; he bounces from one thing to another at a moment's notice, can have a hard time focusing on something unless he is hyper focused and seems to have an endless amount of energy. Despite this, in more recent centuries he has taken on the job of teaching new deities how to actually be gods and goddesses and he is very good at it. He is an excellent shapeshifter and does so frequently.

Oceans/Thalassa: Protector of the Western Oceans and the Warm Shallows Alternate Names: Oceana, Oceania, Leucothea,Thalassa, Sedna, Sassuma Arnaa, Nanshe, Ahurani Weapons: A one-handed sword with a shell-like hilt and a trident. Both weapons look as if water moves under the surface and are a lighter blue than that of Oceanis' axe. Cor is the sword spirit's name and Ral is the trident's

Thalassa was the last name the deity was known by before she and Oceanis merged. Within Oceanis' body, she is mostly known as Sister or the Protector of the Western Oceans. Some of the deities still remember her former name but without anyone to worship and name her, she had defaulted back to her original titles. She was the mischievous one and loved travelling far from to spend time with her Siblings but never shirked her duties to protect the warmer oceans. She only ever had the blue Goddess marks but should she still have her own body today, she would most likely mirror the ones that Oceanis has in a similar way.

She has been a part of Oceanis since the time of the Chosen Hero and while she spends most of her time in a form of meditative sleep, she keeps on eye on her Brother and protects him from a sorrow that might have otherwise consumed him. Though her cold tolerance is not quite as good as Oceanis', she was close friends with Warm Waters and Hebra.

As always, I use this picrew for my OC creation needs!

[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.

[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!