#vaati redesign

[ask-vio-the-purple-link]

Seeing as this form has properly debuted now as well. Have Vaati reborn in all Vaati's desiring to be tall fulfilled.

Vaati reborn here is about 8ft tall and his feet typically engulfed in flame. His fangs larger than his hylian form and main eyes glazed over in Red. Where the central eye is he doesn't have a true body. Rather it's a void of tendrils and the eyebat keese

[grooviestsadpapaya]

Rat man,, 🐭🐀‼️‼️ I’m not set on this design but I like it so far

[silvykinesis]

Me info dumping about Vidow to my bestie as if I didn’t meet them through liking Vidow in 2007 🫠

[larrytheflute9]

Revisiting my designs for the older minish cap crew

[crestles]

[lunerat]

Vaati, but if he was a big angry mouse

[linked-history]

@twilightangel83 made the request for Minish Cap link next, though he didn't have too many designs to fill his page so he gets to share his with Vaati. It also shows some of the differences between the Forest Minish and the City Minish. Mountain Minish would be shorter and Stockier.

BEFORE THE ADVENTURE

When growing up Likari lived in the small minish village found in Minish Woods, though unlike most minish he was adventurous and curious about the world that they shared with the bigger inhabitants. He spent a lot of time with Festari, learning about the Hylians and their culture, even learning some of the language from the Guardian of the Deepwood Shrine. Festari also mentions the 'portals' within Minish Woods that in the past have allowed the Hylians to shrink and grow to interact with the Minish safely. Following the directions Festari gave him he was able to locate one of the portals located outside of their village and was able to explore the bigger world outside of his village, though he tried the portal a few more times to get the feel of changing his size first. Initially, at the advice Festari and the Elder gave him, he kept his less then Hylian traits hidden under a cloak as he entered Castle Town for the first time. While there he gravitated towards the children and finds himself unknowingly interacting with a disguised Princess Zelda. Initially Likari struggles communicating with the children with his limited knowledge of the Hylian language though after returning to his home in the Forest he asks Festari for help and the Guardian directs him to find a Jabernut, something that when eaten allows the ability to understand any language.

While their friendship grows Zelda and Likari they reveal the truths about themselves and Zelda gives Likari the nickname Link to help him blend in further. As Link spends more time in Castle town he finds new minish portals and new Minish, learning about the City Minish and becoming friends with Vaati. Though the young city Minish isn't as adventurous and remains safely in his home then trying the portals to interact with the larger Hylians. As Link spends more time with the Hylians, Zelda introduces him to an elderly blacksmith who lives outside of Castle town, someone who was near blind and wouldn't be able to see Link's less then Hylian features and gave LInk the ability to learn Hylian blacksmithing.

DURING THE ADVENTURE

Right away Link knew that the Vaati who had attacked the Princess and Hyrule was not the one who he grew to knew. Link takes the broken Pikori Blade to his village and learns how to fix it, also teaming up with the transformed form of his friends mentor. The two travel to each of the Shrines that the Minish protect and gather the Four Elements that are hidden safely within each of the Shrines. After finding the Element hidden in the Deepwood Shrine Link heads to Mt. Crenel where he meets Melari and his assistants who are able to fix the Pikori blade as Link enters the next shrine and gains the next Element within. Link learns that after the sword is infused with the elements it is able to create up to four duplicates of the wielder and sets out to find the remaining two elements in the Castor Wilds, currently missing, and Lake Hylia.

Link the then gains the guidance he needs to traverse to the Wind Element that had been missing from its place in the Castor Wilds. He is introduced to the Wind Tribe who have lived in the sky ruins long before the ones on the ground settled in their own villages. Link gains the final element and returns to the Sanctuary where he imbues the blade with its power before returning to the palace that had been changed by the power now corrupting his friend. Link manages to fight back the corruption, saving his two friends and returning the sorcerer Ezlo to his original form.

AFTER THE ADVENTURE

Ezlo and Vaati return to their home and Link, with Zelda's help becomes an ambassador for the Minish helping to pave the way for future Minish to join him and the Hylians, teaching the Minish culture and helping to build a settlement for the Minish in the Forest so that they are still able to keep to themselves while allowing interaction with the Hylians and other races of Hyrule.

[talasdoodles]

New steampunk Vaati. vs old steampunk Vaati from 2018.

[bluewings55]

Sketches are dooonnnneee on ze boi

[lavleyart]

I drew a Vaati redesign by @namiku1 as part of my "You send me Vaati art and I redraw it" kinda event :3 Thank you for sending me your design!!! he looks awesomeeeeeee (and thanks for the opporturnity to practice anatomy hehehe)

Original by namiku1:

[vagueandominousvibes]

Saw your tags and YES OFC. I love your art style, and im honored you made the choice to follow me. I was SHOCKED

Thank you!!! I really love the ideas you’re playing with and I’m looking forward to seeing where you take them!

Regarding my own ideas … y’know how I said I’ve already got a number of Four Swords AUs projects to complete and that this would be something to get around to eventually? Well, my brain decided to ignore all of those:

For those not in the know, demon-nayra shared an awesome idea earlier this week that essentially boils down to Vio, Red, and Blue being directly tied to the Four Sword and being the same characters in both Four Swords games (this is demon-nayra’s original post about it). My brain grabbed the idea with both hands and ran head-first into another AU, which I’m going to call “Goddesses AU”.

In the Goddess AU, Green is Link, Hylia’s chosen hero. Vio, Red, and Blue’s spirits have been tied to the Four Sword by the Golden Three, so when the Four Sword is drawn, they’re released to assist Hylia’s chosen hero. Each of them is tied to one of the Golden Goddesses: Vio to Farore; Red to Din; and Blue to Nayru (I recognise the irony of Blue being tied to the Goddess of Wisdom, but I think it’s really, really funny). Whether they were created by the Goddesses or whether they were regular Hylians once is unknown—all they know is that when they defeat Vaati for good, they’ll be released to live out the rest of their lives like regular Hylians.

Back during FS (as opposed to FSA), they assumed they would be released once this particular adventure was completed, and were making preparations accordingly—Vio was setting up to study and research, while Red got engaged. Blue didn’t have any particular plans, but would have been happy to travel. An amount of their character development happens during this adventure. At the end, however, instead of being released, they were locked back into the Four Sword again.

When FSA occurs, they’ve been locked in the Four Sword for centuries, but for them it’s only been the blink of an eye. They emerge, and at first they mistake the new hero for the previous Green. Then they realise what’s happened. Red especially is deeply distraught—not at anyone in particular, but grieves losing a person he loved and had prepared to spend the rest of his life with. Vio and Blue both get a bit protective of him, in their own ways: Vio tries to distract him, while Blue tries to fend off anyone or anything that might hurt him further (physically AND emotionally) and argues with the Goddesses. The new hero (who gains the name Green) has no idea what’s going on and tries to get everyone to focus on the task at hand.

Idk how much of this I’ll write, but I had a lot of fun redesigning the characters! (Not convinced by Vio though …) Regarding the designs, I drew inspiration from Din and Nayru in the Oracle games for Red and Blue. I really like the parallel of the Goddesses having stand-ins in at least two of the timelines, so using concepts and symbols from Din and Nayru’s designs felt like a good approach. I’m also very tempted to say that Red’s a good dancer and that Blue plays the harp (when nobody is listening, of course).

[ask-vio-the-purple-link]

Seeing as Vaati’s here at last it’s time to get his introductions around!

While Vio doesn’t talk about him much, Vaati talks about Vio as if he’s a pet of his. He is shorter than Vio by around 4 inches but that doesn’t stop him from being a menace to others. Taking great joy in seeing fear shown to him

He likes jewelry a lot but finds it inconvenient at the same time so he keeps it minimal. And out of pettiness he altered the wishing cap into being a circlet that way he can act like it’s a crown instead. Afterall he sees himself as king of the world in his own eyes.

Along with that he seems to have some sort of fascination with Red.

Like most Vaati’s he has his other forms, though he just uses a few of them to be lazy for the most part.

[blackstarchanx3new]

Mmmm I might spoil Vaati's redesign because I've been itching to draw art of him with his new design in FSR X'DDD

Though it'll be awhile before we see it in comic. So...Like yall pretend to be shocked what he looks like later haha.

[starryhologram]

Couple of months ago i made a vaati reborn redesign and i keep drawing it

So heres a doodle dump

Self indulgent dragon 💀💀

[krolicz-ek]

“You mean I’m not good enough for you? You’re hurting my feelings ~”

ah yes, vaati. this man has been my comfort character literally since i was 11 and i haven’t really gotten into drawing him until recently. i thought this azula quote fit him a bit too well so i had to make this, i might post a detailed sheet of the way i redesigned him later

[6th january, 2023: so uhh this has been sitting in my drafts for ALMOST AN ENTIRE YEAR and i’ve only JUST gotten around to posting it... wtf]

[smilesrobotlover]

With the idea of Vaati and Astor being on the team…. Redesigned Vaati just a tad. I wanted to make him more bat like