#skyward sword prequel

[divan-daikon]

finally showing off (one) of my loz ocs yuuuhh mkay so I've spent months making sure this guy was lore accurate enough and I've spent an unhealthy amount of hours just thinking about him and his descendant's role in the story so imma get on with it

(i'm trying to finish the hawkmoth redesign i swear I'm just strugglin)

[ovegakart]

Demise was actually asking about the smoothie.

Link could be 42 and Demise still would've called Hylia a cougar. Shes like a thousand something.

[palmolli]

I feel like nobody talks about the fact that Skyward Sword Link can sing, and I have evidence to back it up. IT'S NOT JUST A HEAD CANON!!!!

I was curious about what Link would sound like talking, so of course, I went digging for voice actors. Since sksw is my favorite Zelda game, I searched up that Link's actor first, Takashi Ōhara, or Ôhara or Oohara it's like different everywhere for no reason but it's the same guy. And, when I did, I found this video riggghhhttt here:

Admittedly, I geeked out a bit... but like C'MON THAT'S FREAKING COOL, RIGHT??? Bro has an AMAZING voice, and he's done like... like a lot of roles... Anyway, this is just a really cool fact, if you already knew, that's awesome and if you didn't, you learn something new every day and that's also very awesome. Fanfic writers, go crazy go wild please send me them pleslelskpelslssss plesssss

Wait I write fanfic

mweheheheheh....

[lanayrutower]

going from the hylink depictions in fandom and all the zelda games where link dedicates his life to saving and serving her to the skyward sword prequel manga is wild because you meet the first link, and he's just like. idgaf about hylia (the goddess). you gods are just as pathetic and powerless as we humans whom you supposedly reign above. why are you coming to me to fix your problems. why do we even keep you around. i don't want your stupid sword. the bird is cool, though.

[marinsawakening]

Hylimpa is so fun especially since I have a very different opinion on the dynamic than the other 3.5 people that ship it. Impa is not the one pining Hylia is. Hylia is a goddess with emotions strong enough to transcend human comprehension and 0 emotional regulation. She's in love with humanity and mortality and especially this one deeply loyal human who just keeps living despite the odds. She wants to study Impa like a bug, hold her like a lover, protect her as a deity, and more than anything desperately wants to mirror her heartbeat. Impa is what Hylia wants to be and who she wants to be with and she's deeply abnormal about it.

Meanwhile Impa has firmly goddes-zoned Hylia. Like you're not going to think of the deity that has a little alter in your house as a romantic prospect. As far as Impa is concerned they have the divine equivalent of a boss/employee relationship. Hylia is out here desperately trying not to incinerate this mortal with the force of her love and Impa wants to know if she's been scheduled for work.

[shadowsageingempress]

Valor: Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

Flower: Listen-

Wild: Not all of them. Thirty and fifty aren’t spelled with the letter e in it…

Breeze: Sweet Hylia…

Twi: … if you can split a number in half evenly, it’s even. Thirty and fifty are odd.

Time: Fifteen plus fifteen equals thirty. Twenty-five plus twenty-five equals thirty.

Midna: Twenty five plus twenty five equals thirty? You sure about that?

Twi: Lord have mercy…

Breeze: Bye.

Twi: *laughing hysterically*

Time: One. Three. Five. Nine. And since everything after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter e.

Hourglass: You forgot seven!!

Twi: It just keeps getting worse.

Valor: *laughs* What is going on?!

Wild: You whole ass forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even!

Twi: Why would eight be brought up if it’s even in a conversation about odds??? She said “every single odd number has an ‘e’ in it” not “every single number with an ‘e’ is odd” what the fuck?

Sky: Er, guys. Two is odd and doesn’t have an e. Just saying.

Midna: Did you deadass just try to tell me that two is odd? Throw the whole light world away.

Twi: Two is odd?!?!

Linkle: Wait, what about zero, that’s an odd number, no?

Wild: Okay, but hear me out. Fifty and thirty make up for the fact that they have no e by the way they’re pronounced third-e and fifth-e.

Time: Why do thirty and fifty matter, they’re fucking even!

Warriors: What the actual fuck is happening?

Winds: One is an even number.

Midna: I’m gonna smack you.

Linkle: Negative thirty and negative fifty have an e in them.

Sky: Zero isn’t a number.

Wild: It can’t be divided by two, though, can it?

Warriors: It can??? Zero divided by two is zero??

Wild: I’m a dumb bitch.

Time: Od numbers: One, three, five, seven, nine!

Midna: Od numbers, huh?

Flower: Anything that ends with a zero, two, four six or eight is even and the rest is odd. One, three, seven and nine. Stop freaking out, all of you.

Hourglass: You forgot five!

Warriors: Dude, what about four?

Midna: What about it?????

Warriors: That doesn’t have an ‘e’ in it!

Midna: THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S EVEN?????

Ganondorf: Are you guys okay?!

Ghirahim: I’m fucking sobbing!

Zant: I’m honestly so confused right now.

Tetra: What is going on??

Ganondorf: This is the height of our stupidity. It has to be, or future generations cannot exist.

[thewitchdoctor39]

I’ve been chipping away at this First meets the chain fic for months now, and I finally finished the first chapter during the LU write-a-thon a couple days ago!

[fourswords]

y'know just the fact that hylia had to ask link whether he was going to take revenge on the kingdom that held him in contempt or save it from doom was enough of an eye-opening moment as it was (even though hylia already knew what his answer was going to be):

but genuinely if he hadn't already died and could've heard what hylia said about his imprisonment and suffering being "willed by the heavens" because it was "necessary to transform him into the one fit to wield the master sword" i think he might've just been like Actually. Fuck you guys. Revenge it is. because while link DOES stand with his comrades again after his imprisonment and DOES call them his friends even after their betrayal and DOES pray for their happiness above the clouds with all his heart and DID want to take to the sky with them.....the emphasis on the land itself being what link fights for more than the people is absolutely woven into the story here. when he stands above the crowd of people and promises to always defend the land of hylia, he looks out at the mountains, not down at the crowd, and even says:

"Though people's hearts may change with time, this land's beauty, pride and purity never change. If you have need of me... ...then I will forever fight to defend you."

and the amount of times the destruction of the land is emphasized....

"Wicked desire assaulted the world's surface, staining it the color of obsidian... ...and the mountains, the plains, and all that flowed pure on the earth were ruthlessly scoured by fire."

and when the demon king strikes link down and goes on to continue his rampage before hylia eventually seals him away, link doesn't think even once of the people until the red loftwing appears and link asks him if he would show their people to the skies. instead, he thinks this:

"My hometown... The beautiful air... The mountains... The rivers... ...reduced to this. Will this be the last thing I ever see?"

like. he stands with the people even after all they've done to him. he acts as their figurehead. their pawn that they cast aside to torture and rot and only dragged back out because lord dagianis died and they finally decided that a hero was needed again. he fights with them. he calls them his friends despite everything. he hopes for their happiness. but first and foremost, it's the land itself that he fights for, not the people living on it. not really. when he says "people's hearts may change with time" he kind of even acknowledges that—it's a verbal slight against them and all of their fickleness concerning him and his imprisonment and his freedom the instant they were in danger again (same as when he said "It was you—my own people—who said you had no need for a powerful hero. And now that it's convenient for you, you want me to fight?"). and maybe nothing would've changed if he'd heard his suffering was ordained by the gods. maybe his love of the land still would have won over his hatred of the people and the gods doing what they did to him and he still would have fought just the same. but i honestly would not have blamed this dude one bit if he'd just decided to be like "Fuck This. Fuck All Of You." and dipped. he's suffering more than jesus out here

[imlurkingintheshadows]

not so different you and I

[itti-the-mouse]

If you're allowed to Unironically Block people for thinking Ocarina of Time is a better choice than Majora's Mask, then i'm allowed to Unironically Block you for thinking Skyward Sword is anything other than the absolute worst the series has to offer. Bye.

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Zonai Skyward Sword AU!

Hey, It’s been awhile!

Anyways, I recently replayed SS after being absolutely enamored by Echoes of Wisdom, so I thought I’d doodle a bit more about it :)

It’s tough thinking of comics for this AU, since there’s not a lot of lore surrounding the zonai that’s all that concrete, but I do hope to expand it sometime! I did give some thought to the Loftwings though.

I think it might be cool if they were a little more prehistoric/dinosaur looking, though I tried to keep them as similar to their in game counterparts as I could. I like to think they’re cared for like the Sky Bisons of ATLA, and they get to choose a partner for life as children.

I also love the idea that Link’s loftwing has the same spirit as Epona, and that she has reincarnated with him as his eternally loyal friend. No one knows where the crimson Loftwing came from, only that she appeared to Link one day and never left his side.

It takes a little from the prequel comic to SS, where Hylia’s Loftwing pledged its loyalty to the Hero.

[yiga-hellhole]

"the zelda timeline is bullshitted and fake and-" wind waker and phantom hourglass and spirit tracks are all direct sequels of each other. the games themselves say this. adventure of link is a direct sequel to LOZ. the games and guidebooks that came with it say this. link to the past was made as a prequel to explain how the triforce came to be in the state it was in in LOZ. the games and guidebook say this. ocarina of time was then made as a prequel to this game. also links awakening, as per in-game story and guidebooks, is the same link as the one from alttp. but then majoras mask was made as a sequel to ocarina of time, even if it conflicted with the events of link to the past, which suggests the whole time travel thing had some consequences. twilight princess, with the execution of ganondorf and the literal hero of time teaching you the way of the sword, is then pretty safely assumed to follow some time after ocarina of time. the oracle games feature twinrova attempting to resurrect their son, but summon ganon instead, telling us that it AT LEAST has to take place after ocarina of time and before LOZ. skyward sword pretty solidly establishes itself as the very beginning of hyrule, so has to happen before everything else.

its literally only the handheld games and the actual timespans where the timeline wobbles. the vast majority of it makes perfect sense. timeline haters simply have only actually played 2 games at best (one of which being botw) and then read some salty tumblr posts.

[ovegakart]

what if hylia was like nine feet tall and thoght link was cute

[palmolli]

I did not care for Breath of the Wild.

WAIT WAIT WAIT! I CAN EXPLAIN! DON'T SHOOT!

It's not that I HATE BotW. I certainly don't. I just don't love it. Though I very much DON'T like totk... that's an opinion for later. This is in no way a good critique or a review. It's just my opinion.

Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda game that I ever played, like many of you in the fandom right now. I bought it with my own money (I'm a jobless minor) after interacting with the fandom for a bit before even picking up a game. And like most people, the feeling of starting the game and waking up in that bathtub, that feeling of wonder and mystery, was awesome.

I will give credit where credit is due, BotW got me through a time when I was at my lowest. It gave me an escape to a much better world, a safe space, one I could go to when I had no hope for reality, something to hold onto if you will. The release of TotK gave me something to look forward to during a time when I didn't want to wake up the next morning.

I have every reason to love this game, but I don't.

Honestly, I'm TIRED of BotW and all the sequels and spin-offs.

Botw came out since people were so tired of the linear Zelda formula. ... that formula lasted for longer than I've been alive, yet it's only been about 8 years, and there's been such an uproar of people complaining about the new shiny open world formula.

Why? Well, because most of the gaming industry is open world now and having a linear formula is what made Nintendo feel unique... oh, and also because Nintendo completely failed at making totk's map feel new and interesting. They just slapped a bunch of random crap on the map here, and there with almost zero thought. When I first played totk, I felt like I was playing some kinda modded version of botw. It felt a little illegal. And playing it feels like a chore. That's never happened with any other Zelda sequel.

Even though Majora's Mask's assets were all reused from Ocarina of Time, the game still felt new and inventive. The game had meaning. The game had a THEME. AND THAT GAME WAS MADE IN TWO YEARS. TOTK TOOK SIX!!!

Cough cough. Pardon me.

Another reason I'm just sick of botw.

It's everywhere. It's Nintendo's golden goose. Just about everyone who plays games has played BotW. It's so big that it overshadows the rest of the franchise. It's basically Ocarina of Time all over again. Just... worse.

A sequel, a prequel, and another on the way. Ocarina of Time was never THAT BAD. It was given one sequel. That's it! Nintendo is just turning into Disney. And let me tell you something.

I loathe disney.

Too afraid to make anything new, so they rely on things that they know will make them money. Too afraid to say anything and spark controversy, so all of their content is void of anything actually meaningful. There's no particular audience. They appeal to no one by appealing to everyone while overly reliant on a fan base they know will bow before them and just buy whatever they churn out.

And, again, it's just like the word Zelda has just become synonymous with Breath of the Wild. Any Zelda content on most platforms like Tik Tok, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest..

I AM SICK OF HIS FACE. WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES HE'S ALL I SEE. WHEN I OPEN THEM, HE'S ALL I SEE. HE IS EVERYWHERE AND I CAN'T ESCAPE HIS STUPID. FACE.

EVERY DAMN SKYWARD SWORD EDIT IS SOMEHOW MADE ABOUT BREATH OF THE WILD ZELINK I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!!!

and this isn't a you problem, by the way. If Breath of the Wild's your favorite game, own that, bro. This is a Nintendo problem.

Like... echoes of wisdom... seems like everyone kinda forgot about it. Including me. It brought new things to the table. AND NOBODY CARES!!!! BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO FOCUSED ON BINKLE BONKLE'S MISADVENTURES. Though, it did keep the art style of Link’s Awakening... which I honestly do not like all that much. C'mon Nintendo, give us a new art style, you bunch of greedy cowards.

Now, to get off track for a moment.

My favorite game is Skyward Sword. Yes, this is relevant. Breath of the Wild and Skyward Sword are almost complete polar opposites of each other. One leans into tradition, while the other runs from it. One is reliant on story and characters, the other on gameplay.

People absolutely HATED Skyward Sword once upon a time. Now more people are starting to like it. People LOVE Breath of the Wild, and now more people are starting to think differently.

This point I'm making here is expanded further in this very ahead of its time video that explains this far better than I ever could.

Basically. People complained. Nintendo over corrected. Now we're here.

These two games are what REALLY got me into the franchise. Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda game I ever touched... but Skyward Sword was the first game I ever finished. Like ever not even lying, I'd never finished a game in my life before Skyward Sword.

The game actually motivated me to continue. The dungeons were fun and engaging, and same with the characters. I was genuinely invested and finished the game at one in the morning, shaking and in tears. Keep in mind I'd watched a playthrough of the game before I was able to play it myself. I already knew the story.

Then I finished breath of the wild.

I did not cry.

I did not shake.

I just finished it and put the game down.

Skyward Sword gave me a reason to give a damn, Breath of the Wild did not. Sksw Link felt like a person to me. He wanted to get his Zelda back, and so did I. Breath of the Wild Link, however... he just woke up, and he has no idea who the heck Zelda even is, so he's just gonna go collect koroks and blow stuff up. No motivation... just... do whatever whenever. Which is fun, yes... but it's not all that impactful.

Skyward Sword gives me a cozy, warm feeling, while Breath of the Wild gives the opposite. Empty. Cold.

Like... I just don't care about Breath of the Wild. I really just don't. And I am just so tired of it being the only thing on the menu nowadays. The characters felt like cardboard cutouts to me. You have to actively seek out any character or personality in them (the main ones). That was not a problem in Skyward Sword. Just sit down on a dang bench, and you'll find more character in Link there than in most botw memories.

I know botw Link's whole silence thing has a reason behind it, but it just feels like an excuse. They could've expanded on it a bit more. In concept designs, he's shown to have a family. But they scrapped it. They really could've done so much more with that.

This rant was incredibly messy, I know, but I just needed to get this out somewhere. This has been boiling within me for far too long, and I had to put it into a teacup and make tea, or else I'd go insane. I'm not trying to be a contrarian or anything. This is just how I feel. And I'm not trying to say any fans of botw or people who don't have access to the other games are fake fans. I understand that games are expensive and hard to access.

This is purely my opinion, and you're allowed to think differently. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk, and have a nice day.

[lanayrutower]

this is who he is to me.

Variant:

[marinsawakening]

Thinking about how Skyward Sword completely squandered the story potential of a Legend of Zelda prequel again. It's really by far the thing that irks me most about it. One of the absolute most baffling things about it to me is that it, like damn near every other LOZ game in existence, pulls the 'exploring the ruins of a mysterious but advanced ancient civilization' thing instead of, y'know. Basing itself in one of those mysterious but advanced ancient civilizations?

I just feel like that's such an obvious and natural choice that it really baffles me as to why they didn't go with it. The Ancient Civilization is a staple of the LOZ franchise; nearly every game has some variant of it. Dealing with that which was left behind by people and societies long gone is one of the most common motifs in the series. So if you are writing a prequel, why wouldn't you explore what such an ancient civilization actually looked like? I really like Skyloft and the Lanayru desert sections with its time travel mechanic were some of my favourites in the whole game, but this 'exploring mysteries of the past' thing the game does is ultimately just another retread of what the series has been doing for ages and ages.

And if you are making a prequel, wouldn't you want to, y'know, subvert that? Give it new meaning? It would've been so obvious to set the Zelda Prequel in a thriving advanced society (whether technologically or magically), the kind whose ruins you explore in many other Zelda games, and show just how it fell to ruin. Show why Hyrule always seems to stand on the ruins of others. Show its relation to the past from the other side for once.

I like Skyward Sword fine (and of course I am completely abnormal about its Impa) but I am so deeply deeply frustrated that LOZ's take on a 'prequel' was a story almost completely uninterested in meaningfully engaging in any of the series' unspoken assumptions, structures, and motifs. To the point where it couldn't even do the obvious thing and set itself in one of those ancient civilizations of the past that Hyrule's foundations are built upon.