#totk s/i

[sapphire-heart-tippy]

This is my TOTK s/i! I based his outfit off of the frostbite clothes you can get for Link!

about him under the cut: (EDITED!)

Zafiro of the Zora

He was raised by zoras. He was born female but transitioned to male by a very skilled zora doctor, who also used a little bit of bioluminescence for the tattoos covering the scars. He was abandoned by his hylian family, they left him floating down a river. Zoras found him and took him in as their own. As a blessing from the goddess Nayru, he was given the power of the Zora's sapphire. Due to a prophecy, he was named after the sapphire. Zafiro is a very impressive swimmer. Using the zora's sapphire he wears around his neck, he can manipulate water and ice, breathe underwater, and shoot out ice shards at enemies. Zafiro may have ice powers but he's always preferred to be warm. He doesn't like the desert because, well ... There's no water! He is best friends with a pink zora man named Cuarzo. Cuarzo lost his arm while defending Zafiro from a lynel. This is why Cuarzo has a robotic arm made for him by Robbie. Zafiro always felt that it was his fault Cuarzo was injured. Zafiro keeps feeling like he needs to prove his worth by being a strong warrior. His parents (who are zoras) tell him that they're proud of him and they love him no matter what. But Zafiro still feels the need to prove himself to his community. Though he is very short and lean, he is very skilled with his spear and is a fast swimmer. Although he can be pretty tough, he's also pretty laid back for the most part when he gets comfortable. Cuarzo and Zafiro would get into trouble all the time. Zafiro becomes friends with Link. Link soon realizes that Zafiro isn't always trying to prove his strength 24/7, he just wants the feeling of freedom... He wants to be content... He just wants to feel like he belongs. Zafiro has tried to run away several times, but each and every time he goes back to the water. Over time Zafiro realizes that he doesn't have to prove himself to anybody. He lends his assistance to Link and helps him fight evil!

One day, Zafiro meets a man on the Zonai research team named Tauro. Tauro's energy and enthusiasm captivated Zafiro. Eventually, Zafiro developed a huge crush on Tauro but didn't want to admit it. Tauro can be very oblivious, so even if Zafiro decided to start flirting, Tauro wouldn't even realize it! Zafiro always feels like he's being awkward or weird around Tauro, but Tauro thinks he's super cool and enjoys spending time with him!

(more to come soon!)

[lsdoiphin]

like if you would ask her what's wrong

reblog to wipe away her tears

[pabro-picasso]

quick lil doodle cuz i got the totk art book as an early bday present and was obsessed w the construction of koltin's horriblin head

[daeyumi]

Penumbra 🌑🧿⚫️

[r-aindr0p]

A few LoZ favs scribbles and Ghirahim wip. I have a precise idea for coloring, not sure if I chose the right angle though- I'll see

[choccy-sippy]

2023 is ending and wow what a year it truly was. It all started with me getting Re4r as a treat for myself, only to walk straight into gay people beartrap unknowingly.

This year hasn't been kind to me but making new friends is something that I would not trade for anything else.

Thank you everyone for the massive support until now <3 I will continue to brain rot about these two with the utmost of my ability and with all my heart.

[lolliudo]

glory to master kohga!

[boom-bada-boom]

back again with another fic idea but i dont really have a name for this one lmao. anyways thank you totk for normalizing magical stones turning people into dragons 🙏

alright. the links lands in a time between heroes, a little bit past four’s time, so the minish and hyrule have their legends of him. and of course, theyre fighting monsters, as heroes do.

and the four sword is hit by Something, something powerful, something evil. no one is able to catch a glimpse of it but they could feel it. four flings his sword up instinctively to block, and the four sword

b r e a k s.

there is a bright light, and a voice—no, voices screaming. because the four sword had-has-will have only one link that wields it, and magical blades are always possessive, binding themselves to the soul of that who uses them. so the sword breaks, and it breaks its hero with it.

except the four sword is more than just metal and magic and minish power. it contains the power of the elemental stones within it. (because the stones themselves are just vessels, and vessels can change.) so when the sword breaks, and the hero breaks, the elements break away in turn. and they bind to the closest thing they can find that resonates with them.

(what, after all, are the colors shaded by?)

all of this happens in seconds, in moments, covered by the bright light and the screams. when the light dies, four dragons in familiar four colors split off in a panicked haze. they leave behind nothing but a broken blade and a leather bag.

basically the chain goes on a minish cap adventure but they dont have a cap and also the stones are just the colors turned into dragons instead.

also reversing the finding order so its green, blue, red, vio now. green is just looping around in the stratosphere or whatever. blue is hanging out near the zora since, yknow, lots of water. red is in eldin for similar reasons. no one can fucking find vio actually because how the fuck do you locate earth??

along the way they slowly discover that hey? the colors kinda represent the goddesses sorta? except what is vio then?

(wild is the first one to make the goddesses connection. hes like huh theyre kinda like the dragons from my time. yeah theyre like protectors of the goddess springs, its a whole thing—wait a minute.)

DUNGEONNNNNNN CRAWLLLLLLL,,,, the colors hide out in dungeonssssssss,,,,, its literally like a whole ass zelda game,,,,,

btw for the general shape of the map, the volcano is in the NW corner, the water in the NE corner, theres a rain forest in the SE, and i guess a desert in the SW??? N is grassland leading to the lost woods, W is moutain range with ice stuff going on, S is also grassland but it leads to swamp, E is lake hylia with some woods surrounding it (as you can tell i am trying desperately to frankenstein a map together from three different ones. sigh.)

if we’re going the “imitating a zelda game” route idk what kind it should be tho. we could do the oot/albw/eow/etc route, collect three items in three dungeons, have a break from dungeons with some situation that is a big move in the plot and frequently involve collecting the master sword, collect more items in more dungeons and fight boss for real (lots of adventuring and dungeons). or we could do the st/mc route, which is five dungeons, but you have a quest to get to each, so its more like quest-dungeon-quest-dungeon-etc. i think this also depends on the size of the game actually. all the bigger games have the first type of storyline and the smaller ones have the second

okay further research reveals that the oracle games, and links awakening, all have a collect 7 (or 8) items and do the thing to fight the boss. so it has the dungeon number of the larger games, and the quest to the dungeon pipeline of the smaller games

EDIT: okay after much consideration. we’re going with option two. mostly bc i dont want to make that many dungeons up 🙃

anyways they also have dungeon monsters and bosses. just like a real dungeon :)

EDIT 2: concept that each dungeon has parts stolen from mc/fs/fsa dungeons

okay dungeon ideas time. mc has two minish dungeons and two regular sized dungeons. the deepwood shrine (earth) and temple of droplets (water) are minish ones. the cave of flames is an old hylian mine in mount crenel and the fortress of winds is. well. a fort.

but green is in the clouds so that just leaves the fire dungeon to draw from in mc.

speaking of clouds, fsa very conveniently has a level named “realm of the heavens”. it is in fact just a whole level in the clouds. also theres the palace/tower/whatever the fuck of winds. so yk. (angst opportunity?? the chain climbing the tower only to come upon the room with the shattered mirror?? thoughts chat?)

as for blue. uhm. well. all i know is i want an ice based dungeon where its got a big ole water pool that probably is fed by the ocean or smth and thats where blue is hanging out. kind of like eow with the weird twister beastie.

as for vio. he is underground and that is as much as im certain of. did have a big ole brain wave that the way to get to him is through the building that will one day become the palace of the four sword, before it is sent to the sacred realm (to become the dark realm). other than that. you gotta go deep into a forest to get there??

and for bosses for each, red gets the helmasaur king (from leg’s time; helmasaur king ii was the boss at the end of the red sword’s portion of the palace).

im not gonna lie i kinda fuck with helmaroc king for green, not only because big bird for the wind element (and from wind’s game lmao), but also the irony of huge bird flying above clouds. sorry sky youve been culturally appropriated.

as for blue, he gets gyorg from majoras mask. time is sweating. gyorg annoying as fuck and you get to try to scramble to dry land once the dude recovers so you get anxiety as well. blue would fucking hate the bitch. 10/10 perfect option

i struggled to find something for vio, especially after accidentally making a “one boss from each timeline” thing happen. but i think i found one i like. skyward sword’s koloktos, simply because many handed boss always sick. and also because of the climbing out of hell scene in the mfs dungeon. the pits vs beautiful upper level concept is honestly kinda fire for doing his dungeon with. also its closer to the beginning of the timeline instead of down the splits

for the dungeons maybe you need to get some symbol of the respective goddess to enter the dungeons, which is where each color ran off to hide within by pure instinct. like the medalions that have shown up in some games or something. which also helps with them making the goddess connection, since theyre hiding where their respective goddess protects them (four, literally helped give the goddesses a house in mc: 🧍)

had a huge brainwave that the colors all fuck up the elements around them in a big ole radius. green accidentally makes tornadoes and hurricane winds around him and since the tower is pretty close to the castle it affects people there too. red irritates the volcano in mount crenel (because it had lava inside of it but on the outside crenel is mostly dust and dirt and stuff) and it starts spewing lava and stuff. blue whips the ocean in a big circle around him into a giant storm and thats why the chain cant just swim to him and have to go through the dungeon. vio accidentally causes earthquakes and sinkholes and he also makes plantlife grow absolutely crazily. yknow, to really up the ante on this whole quest. and now we even have a very good reason why they go to get green first (he is affecting castle town directly).

something something vio and shadow something something light and darkness something something hylia is light but she is a burning light and that kind of light always casts the darkest shadows something something vio uses shadow magic because he casts light

how do they learn about the colors? well, four left behind his bag and in that bag is a journal that has both random ass thoughts and communications between the colors.

the minish are in fact present in this one and they are trying to help the heroes but literally none of them can translate. except four but. awol. so theres some goofy ass shenanigans happening in that direction

(twi in wolf form, listening to the minish chittering and chattering: 🤔)

(legend crouched down next to him, trying to translate as the resident “language expert”: 🤔)

speaking of the minish, the colors all still have the ability to shrink. in theory. theyve got the feather earrings and everything, which would look cool as fuck on dragons i should say. but anyway.

they cannot shrink on their own because their elemental magic is overpowering their minish magic. they usually have at least some elemental powers as the colors but now that is increased tenfold. the chain gets magic bottles that are sourced from the minish who enchanted them with power that can temporarily overcome the overwhelming elemental aura to get to the color’s minish magic. thus making them small :)

and when the colors are trapped in one while minish-sized they can no longer become big again.

yes you can picture lizard-sized dragons being incredibly grumpy in glass bottles.

when they capture a dragon, they head to the minish? maybe. idk someone to make a four sword using a fragment of the original sword and the elemental stone in the dragon. so basically instead of repairing the four sword and splitting, since theyre already split and the sword’s already in pieces, they repair each split and then combine them together. idk how they get the elemental stone out of the colors, but each time they repair a four sword piece they reverse the transformation and get the color back.

so they adventure around with the colors, is what im saying. which is good news for them communicating with the minish lmaoo. no more charades for them

(red, blue and green in a football huddle trying to figure out where the fuck vio is hiding: (hushed but increasingly incensed arguing)

the chain watching them argue at every turn and wondering how the fuck four seems so stable all the time: )

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Sidon: Yes I would like to commission a statue!

Artisan: Of course Prince Sidon. What do you want the statue to look like

Sidon: I want you to create a statue of Link riding me!

Artisan: (processes) Oh! Like how you were swimming to take care of the divine beasts

Sidon: Yes, that’s what I was refering to (crumples fanfiction he wrote.)

[willyhoos]

final totk verdict.

[fandomloreblog]

You cannot tell me that Tauro from the new Tears Of The Kingdom Game isn’t autistic with a hyper-fixation on Zonai ruins. YOU CANNOT TELL ME OTHERWISE, THAT MAN IS DEFINITELY NEURODIVERGENT AND I LOVE HIM FOR IT

[sapphire-heart-tippy]

I remembered that you can make people say different lines of dialogue if you're not wearing anything

So I decided to ask my man Tauro what his dialogue is

UUUUHH....

SIR... MR TAURO SIR... I wouldn't object but I would probably hide in the nearest body of water and it would boil by the power of my blushing

(I realized I forgot to include the part where he says the reason he doesn't run around in his underwear is because Paya told him to put more clothes on)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Alright I think I’ve sent a ask in before and you answered it, I’m not sure if I’m just repeating myself but if I am feel free to ignore!

Alright I wanted to talk about changes in the gerudo culture, now naturally culture norms will change and fade as time goes on. But with the gerudo I can’t help but feel that they were forced to change much of their culture just to appease the other races.

Like why did they stop training Molduga? Why did they change their style to be more feminine etc.

Personally I feel like they were forced to change their culture so they wouldn’t get attacked. Why? Well example the sheikah, the sheikah are a tribe very close to the royal family. They will take out anyone who is a threat to the royal family, correct? Well who used to actively oppose the royal family, the gerudo.

I believe the sheikah still have a prejudiced against the gerudo because, you cannot find a single gerudo in kakariko village. You can find gerudo npcs outside the village thought, on the dangerous rode. Wouldn’t it be easier and safer for them to just cut through kakariko village? Unless there was still bad blood

I’m sorry to bother with my my insane ramblings I just wanted to share and I felt this place appropriate to share my thoughts.

Thank you for reading and thank you and have a nice night/morning/afternoon

Hey, thanks for the ask!

I mean, regardless of what actually did happen in canon, if anything did, I have to say that BotW, and then TotK's internal narrative regarding the gerudos feels rather worrying to me --for several reasons, some of which you do mention here.

The gerudos, by virtue of having the strongest culture that differs from hylians, is the one that is also the most dynamic in these games' shared reality (so TotK's mythical past, BotW, and then TotK modern era), the one that is the most malleable and ongoing internal change.

The first time we see the gerudos, historically, they have a certain political structure that seems to rely on kinghood, have certain skills related to war (the molduga situation), and even have fashion sensitivities that are relatively different to modern era's gerudos (the mohawk, etc, and I Will Not mention the ear situation for the inconsistent mess that it is). Then, the whole shenanigans with Rauru happen, we see the Sage of Lightning having a fashion sense that feels closer to what we know, and we get to see active collaboration happening.

Fast-forward hundreds-to-thousands of years later: not only are gerudos vassal to Hyrule pre-Calamity, but, while their town is still closed behind walls, the gerudos have a strong cultural focus on seeking (mostly) hylian husbands. We get to hear about the younger generations pushing against the strong rules keeping the city closed, and that the walls aren't as closed as they used to be.

In TotK, not only is the actual language evolving (so even if old hylian seems to have been a thing, the speed of language evolving is to be noted imo), but we see clear examples of the ancestral rules being challenged to the point of near annihilation. By the time we leave the gerudos behind, two hylian men have snuck inside the walls/forced their presence upon them, and we have heard of at least another group who have been working for years to make them bend the rules for their sake. Zelda came around and influenced their war techniques, and even their ancient legends get recontextualized as involving hylian men with the Eight Heroin, or as monstrously evil and something to seek forgiveness for in the case of Ganondorf. Subtextually, I'd argue we are assisting to a culture being assimilated in real time. It might be portrayed as a good thing, as old, useless or even arguably bigoted traditions being cast aside, but I still have to insist that while gerudos are yielding their cultural identity under (mostly) hylian pressures, hylians spend the *entire game* rediscovering and reinforcing their own culture and pushing forward a cultural heritage that is thousand of years old --even reinjecting lost elements of its roots into its prosperous future.

And, yeah. It's kind of worth noting at least.

[macabrecake]

Fuck.

[shadowlinktheshadow]

i took matters into my own hands and created this:

some things about this au that have been floating in my mind:

spirit (i dont know what to call him in this au 💀) hangs around lookout landing or whatever trying to learn more about zonai tech

while purah and robbie are focused on more advanced and "futuristic" tech with zonai material, spirit is thinking of something more modern (t r a i n s)

idfk what to call the quest, but it's a side adventure (which means it's not a main quest, but it's bigger than a side one)

also idk about how it would work out, but im thinking he'll give you build idea/pointers for what he wants and you have to go build it (gives you 100 rupees for your hard work)

Once you finish building a prototype he'll ask you for something more complex (gives 100 rupees + a meal?)

And finally once you finish the final build, it'll cut to some dialogue and then you can ride his train (300 rupees + first time free admission)

hudsons company helps with building the tracks

there'll be stations around towns of hyrule and he'll take you there for only 20 rupees (just find a station to unlock it)

this makes absolutely no sense gameplay wise because you can just teleport anywhere but TRAINS

(this is for clothing but) just a botw/totk-ified royal engineer outfit

[ghostieblotts]

So many projects I want to work on, so much planning to do for fun trips, so much holiday fun imminent, and not enough time