#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]

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

[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.

[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

[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.

[vampire-wizard-solidarity]

people who make theories about totk without even mentioning the calamity 10k ago from botw’s intro are kind of wild to me. like. totk is a direct sequel to botw. why would you think they’d introduce a whole new plot with new lore completely disconnected from botw instead of using the clear setup mysteries from botw. some of you are clearly treating this as a a completely new instalment instead of a continuation of botw bc ur so obsessed with ‘the timeline’ or larger zelda lore that it’s difficult to acknowledge that the zelda series never really cared much for continuity nor exploring larger series lore in detail.

[nexus-nebulae]

desperately wanting to be a proper zelda theorizer but having no access to the games myself

[finaldawn]

staring at the mangas like "if i take the skyward sword manga as canon then i should probably give more credence to the oot and tp mangas characterizations."

and then i proceed to ignore them :>

[petitexmagician]

frozcnlight // Not sure what you mean o: But if that helps - The old Impa is from the present and the young one is from the past

Thats it! Thats the thought I had right there! I've two LPers play Skyward and whenever I see Impa and know full well her younger self and older self are there I can't help but question if the younger Impa was from when Hylia just got through sealing Demise and making those hell trials or not.

[sonicasura]

Remorseful Primal Berserker, Lamortmon (Digimon)

Vengeful Reminder, Scar of Vendread (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Snowborne Hatred, Chien Pao (Pokemon)

Wyvern of Malice, Magnamalo (Monster Hunter)

The Cruel Vampire King, Myotismon (Digimon)

[ovegakart]

a meme i put wayy too much effort into

[lanayrutower]

this is who he is to me.

Variant:

[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.