#woke up hating totk

[zeldasavefile]

I wish tears of the kingdom did something actually interesting with the skyward sword parallels

[dandyleyen]

What if we got Zelda back at the end of ToTK, but she came back a little... different ?

[ganondoodle]

I am sorry to hear that the depression has stolen your spark.

I want you to know that you are the sole reason I gave Skyward Sword a chance. Your art was so beautiful and compelling that I just had to know about the media it came from.

Your art introduced me to an incredible community that years later, I am still benefitting from. Your art was the gateway, and I've always been thankful to you for that.

I hope your spark realights, and I hope you can kick depression right in its ass.

i- i did that????? qoq

yes im reviving old reaction pictures

i hope im not ruining the mood bc .. this legitimately made me tear up and i kept thinking of this ever since receiving the ask-

but bc i cant keep my mouth shut (i apologize if you are already well aware of all this i just .. like to talk i guess), i ... idk i have said this before but i feel incredibly conflicted about demise (am i allowed to like him??? do i even like him when i changed him so much??? am i a fraud fan????) and the game he comes from, i .. dont actually like skyward sword that much, or, not as much as it may seem like (my favorite is windwaker, second is botw), every now and then i even feel guilty for demise being my blorbo tm- as much as i love him im under no illusion what his introduction to the series did, the games lore is not .. great, it seems to have kickstarted the decline of the series writing and completely torpedoed any sort of fandom discussion by making zelda a literal reincarnation of the good tm gods of love and light and peace and everything good tm uwu and pit her against an evil demonnnnn that just crawled out the earth one day (??) and was only evil and bad and dark and hate incarnate an hated the good tm gods bc hes jsut so eviiiil, it gave rise to the utter dissmissal of any sort of ganondorf related discussions (funny how it only seems to apply to ganondorf, and none of the other villains hmmmmmmmmmmmm) bc, while not confirmed confirmed (though the fandom likes to pretend that), hes now widely seen as a reincarnation of demise and thus, doesnt need nuance or be given any grace or thought bc apparently when you say someone is a demon (or its reincarnation, which i dont believe ganondorf is, to be clear) that means its fine to not give them any thought bc demons are just evil tm and thats ok and good writing actually (wat????)

(if you take skysw as canonically how it all went down bc my interpretation makes it all be a fabricated lie so the gods can play their little games, there is no godess reincarnation, that was a lie to make way for an opressive kingdom belivieing itself to be irrevocably good no matter what they do etc)

it also cheapens any of the past entries, all of them have been flattened by this, why disscuss ganondorfs motivation lol, he just be a demon/demons puppet, zelda could never be wrong or do bad things bc she literal incarnation of goodness uwu etc- (and then totk, only the second game after skysw, retreads its points and makes it even worse while ALSO trampeling over that game imo)

i dont like saying it, but i do feel a little alienated even from ganondorf fans (i love him too!!!!!) bc they hate demise, and rightfully so, it feels weird having your main blorbo be the reason your second fav is constantly done dirty, why you cant even talk about anything critically bc 'iTs jUst a sIMpLe fAiRytALe' now and part of the reason the lore in general has gone to shit, and i dont know how much i can talk about that before i become an obnoxious 'well ACTUALLY my blorbo, who is the reason for all this, is ALSO done dirty and im gonna explain away the bad stuff via my completely noncanon reinterpretation-' guy, or if i already am what im doing with destiny is like .. my way of trying to fix it and make it interesting again? though at this point i guess im falling into the category of people who change their blorbo so much that there really isnt anythign left of the og, which worries me alot, though i wonder if thats even possible given how little there is to him in the first place, i so often see viral posts that make me feel guilty or conflicted for the way i work with media, "actually my blorbo did all those crimes and thats good you all who need to explain away the bad things are weak and annoying!!" "people who change their favs until they barely resemble the character anymore should just make an oc instead!!"-

i dont know if i take these types of posts too literally, i dont know when or how they apply, but it always circles around in my head, i know not everyone can like what you do, but i want to work with the material i have in an interesting way, not a puritanical way (or however you call that), its not in my mind every second, but it nevertheless makes me doubt what i do with my fanworks anytime i talk about them-

... this wasnt really the point of the message was it ... apologies, i hope not every ask will devolve into a sort of mini rant ;__; i dont mean to invalidate what you said, (and im not saying skyward sword is all bad, its full of charm, from characters to designs, just the lore is .. damaging) it is incredibly touching bc me or my art having a positive impact on people blindsides me every single time like "WHAT??? IMPOSSIBLE you MUST be thinking of someone else, no way i could do that", when something gets brought up my thoughts just kinda start pouring out, i thought about deleting everything i wrote, but then felt like that wouldnt be as genuine anymore (i am not normal tm after all and im long past a point pretending otherwise) and have wasted another hour for nothing, so im gonne leave it in and hope, pray even, it comes across correctly

q-q

[symmetrycrypt]

i really need to write out all my (extremely negative) thoughts on totk with my two separate playthroughs, where i obviously played blind the first time, and then deliberately ignored all the memories the 2nd time, and how the 2nd playthrough pissed me off significantly less but the whole game is still so poorly designed where they're concerned because the game practically BEGS you to go look at them if you don't, while looking at them.. very potentially ruins the entire mystery the game is trying to be

[that-one-loz-nerd]

Hot take: Totk's story would've been 1000% better if the zonai were introduced more slowly

[lucky-clover-gazette]

one thing i love about totk’s story is the sense of RESPECT the world has for link. like compared to botw, where he’s this kind of fabled failure of a hero (similar to zelda) who everyone thinks is dead, whose ultimate enemy (clammy ganon) is a beast devoid of personality who *can’t* feel any type of way about him.

but in totk, he is so respected and known for what he has done for the world in the past five years. even when npcs don’t recognize him AS himself, they speak of him highly. yiga clan members hate him so personally and use his actual name. they have fanart of him on the walls. zelda speaks of him SO highly in the past, convincing the sages who are total strangers to tell their descendants to assist him. the sages, in turn, assist him without question, especially the ones who were already his friends. zelda convinces rauru to put his absolute faith in link, and that’s how we get the most badass cutscene in the game: rauru imprisoning ganondorf.

because holy shit, that cutscene. the music is what elevates it, but what’s already there is so good. re: the music, rauru’s theme flowing into link’s triumphant theme during his speech about link beating ganondorf, then flowing back into the resigned resolution his own. goddamn. and then the lingering hyrule castle/gdorf theme fading as he’s imprisoned. goddamn.

and ganondorf (here’s the big point of the post) actually takes link seriously. like the whole “i look forward to meeting him” was partially aloof on his part, but this man was DETERMINED to insult link the second he woke up after this confrontation. he is pissed that people respect link and think he’s capable of stopping him. it feels so personal on his side of things, unlike even windwaker, where ganondorf had a lot of personal stakes and was a complex character, but saw link and zelda more as pawns then adversaries. and in oot he’s straight up just like “uh who’s this kid,” and in twilight princess link doesn’t even know ganondorf is the real villain until the end of the game.

ganondorf meets link in the opening of the game and takes his arm, his sense of normalcy, and best friend away from him. the entire game is link learning how the hell this happened in the past, seeing ganondorf’s arrogant personality and pure contempt for everything he stands for, and wanting very badly to not only save the world he loves, but also his best friend, who sacrificed herself so he may stop ganondorf.

what i’m saying is, that final confrontation feels SO earned. and it’s incredible—the way ganondorf taunts link during the fight, takes cheap shots at his arm, and then essentially kills his own personhood out of a refusal to admit defeat.

there were disappointing things about ganondorf in totk, but this was not one of them. both his and rauru’s characters entirely justified themselves over the course of the story. a month or so out, i am still so pleased with this game.

[daeyumi]

hcs for Link, GO!

cw: mention of possible self harm; mention of injury

spoilers for totk events & end of totk

okay so i’ll be doing these for botw/totk link since he’s the link i feel the most familiar with

also i’m sorry that this list ended up like 8 miles long lol & believe me i had to restrain myself a lot

- transmasc (he/him or he/they)

- aroace

- sleeps on his back

- NOT a morning person. he likes his sleep & has trouble waking up sometimes (so many ppl seem to hc him as an early riser but i just. don’t see it lol. i think he’s the kind of person who woke up from that 100 year nap asking for 5 more minutes)

- /can/ talk, chooses not to. when he speaks his voice always has that quiet scratchy quality to it like he hasn’t used it in a while

- likes having his hair brushed

- his hair is full of leaves & at least 4 different sticks at any given time

- loves puns. the stupider the better

- likes dressing pretty. he doesn’t get the chance to do it often & most of his clothes are caked in blood & sweat so it feels good to look nice occasionally

- #1 questionable food enjoyer

- big gremlin energy

- naturally warm hands

- probably has a sweet tooth

- a bit of a hoarder. a habit he picked up from being alone in the wild for so long

- favorite fruit- apples

- probably musically inclined & would be good at playing an instrument

- loves animals (also great with animals)

- really spontaneous & gets distracted easily

- his arm doesn’t magically grow back post-totk. after the end of the events of totk, he is missing his right arm up to the bicep & has heavy scarring around his right shoulder, basically the same area where the zonai tattoos were when he had rauru’s arm

- heavily scarred in general. this one is basically canon, but i figured i’d include it since link’s character model doesn’t have any visible scars (even tho robbie in botw mentions needing to see link’s scars as proof that it’s really him. give link visible scars nintendo u cowards)

- self conscious about his scars, especially the ones from pre-calamity era that he can’t remember how he got them. they’re a constant reminder of the missing part of his life

- (totk) extremely uncomfortable with having rauru’s arm attached to his body. he hates that it is not his own and it feels alien and strange to him even tho it still operates as if it’s a part of his own body. borderline wants to self harm bc he does not want “his” arm that does not belong to him- hates the sight of it but has to deal with it because of its usefulness to him

- doesn’t do well in social interactions that involve more than 1 other person. /maybe/ 3-4 if he knows them Really Well

- extremely uncomfortable with being known as the hero of hyrule actually

- moderate to severe insomnia. he’s been through a lot & has a ton of nightmares as a result

- definitely has some degree of ptsd

- feels extremely guilty about all the ppl he can’t remember from 100 years ago— he regrets their deaths, but more so than missing the people themselves, he feels guilty that he can’t even remember them to mourn them properly. complicated emotions surrounding this, he doesn’t like to talk about it.

[mx-legend-of-faye]

Do you ever just stop and think about how totk Link was really put through the wringer?

First the entire Calamity from botw. He died, all his friends died, and Zelda was trapped. For one hundred years. When he woke up a century later he couldn’t even remember his friends and family until far later.

And then things are looking up. The Calamity is defeated, Zelda is back, rebuilding efforts have begun.

But then it’s all taken away from him again. The Upheaval happens. Link wakes up missing an arm and missing Zelda. He has to once again relearn how to navigate the world, not because he lost his memories again, but because the Upheaval changed so much, added so many things.

And not to mention he then learns what Zelda has been through. He must really hate himself, really feel like a failure. Back in botw he wasn’t able to defeat the Calamity until after dying and coming back a century later, during which time Zelda was holding off the Calamity all by herself. In totk he couldn’t catch her and she fell into the past, the far, far past, where she had to lose herself and become a dragon just to fix the Master Sword all by herself.

Link has friends, sure, and the sages were there this time around. But ultimately he was alone on his journeys.

Idk you guys. I just think it’s so heartbreaking. Botw/totk Link is a character built upon a foundation of sorrow. He helps so many people and yet hardly anyone helps him.

Im gonna shut up now because apparently the tracks to my train of thought got blown up and I no longer know where I was going with this.

[syndxlla]

nsfw

the hierophilia zelink potential….

(and other various NSFW/smut zelink thoughts)

MDNI

(in between botw and totk, specifically. my head canon is that four years have passed since Link woke up from the shrine of resurrection. two years defeating the calamity and then another two years till the upheaval. making zelda 21 (121) and link 22/23 (122/3))

these two are HOT for each other, they’re the only people they’ve ever been attracted to, and have been raised under the guise of purity and sanctity their entire lives. it’s always the sheltered ones who are the horniest.

there’s only one bed in this home in hateno. it’s used a lot.

link is so turned on by the idea of zelda being the goddess descendant. the fact that he of all people gets to intimately love the most divine being in the world is a dream.

he feels so inadequate, but zelda is just as obsessed with him. he doesn’t have to do much to get her hot and bothered.

link gingerly whispering “i want to worship you”

“then get on your knees and pray”

link has a praise kink

zelda has a degradation kink

it pairs very nicely for each other

link kisses every part of this woman’s body. he takes his time to kiss each individual finger, he kisses her ankles when her legs are spread open and resting on his shoulders. he kisses each of her eyelids, he peppers kisses along her jaw, behind her knees, inside of her thighs…

zelda is a hair puller, a biter, and nail dragger. she hates the idea of hurting link, but he begs her. he’s so desensitized to touch that what’s rough for the average hylian is mild for him. he’s built up so much scar tissue that allows zelda to be rough on him.

“i have a confession to make”

“then you should atone for your sins”

link getting in his knees and eating her out from bellow

don’t even get me started on how obsessed with oral sex these two

oral fixation go brrrrr

he is a foodie, after all

link being gone for a few days because of a favor he owed purah, and when he gets home he swipes everything off of the table and practically throws zel onto it, hungry for a real meal

or behind their house, zelda’s ears bright red and face flushed as he eats her from behind outside. terrified of who might come around the corner

link distracting zelda from her morning devotionals by kissing along her neck.

“i’m trying to pray, love”

“i’ll give you something to pray about.”

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Cooler totk would've been everything proceeding as normal, except instead of Zelda turning into the light dragon, she finds another way to restore the master sword and prolong her life. Everything goes normally for Link, but instead of fighting Ganondorf, Zelda shows up and oneshots him, only to turn on Link and the sages next. Turns out that, over thousands of years of waiting, she's grown to hate Hyrule (why? That's not important. Maybe she was working with Ganondorf after he woke up all along, which actually makes the golden sparks after the bosses die make sense)

First phase is fighting her normally, but time can be slowed down, and she can move faster than you or the sages. Projectile attacks are thrown straight back at you, and flurry rushing doesn't work. Second phase, she transforms, but instead of turning into a demon, her hair grows out, her clothes change into a suit of armor resembling her white dress from botw, with the bow of light to match. The triforce is clearly visible on her hand, and she draws power from that instead of the secret stone (making flurry rushing possible again)

The Master Sword doesn't power up like it does near gloom, and the sages try to remind her of their shared history and all the good things about Hyrule, and finally hers, Link's, and the champions' past, only to get thrown aside one by one after failing, removing them from the fight.

Final cinematic phase (now outside Ganon's lair), instead of turning into a dragon, she turns into something like Hylia, huge wings and all, and is considerably taller. She summons the Master Sword from your hand to use against you, and you have to use the now discarded bow of light to shoot her down and retrieve the Master Sword. Her time abilities stop you from using bullet time, and you shoot at the joints on her wings. Once you've knocked her and the Master Sword down, you have to get close enough to deal the final blow, stabbing her in the heart. Her Hylia form disappears, leaving her in her Zonai dress, and the final moment before she dies in Link's arms, she briefly becomes the Zelda you knew, and apologizes, looking over Hyrule. She dissolves into light, sending a shockwave through all of Hyrule that cleanses the land of gloom and destroys the castle in a symbolic gesture of "the royal family is no more"

Anyway. Nintendo hire me.

[snowmaze1969]

Just finished totk and boy do I have some thoughts. (no i totally didn't watch someone else do the ending after i had completed all of the other main quests because i got impatient. totally......)

anyway totk spoilers for the whole game below. also my thoughts will become less conherant as it goes on lmaoooooo have fun o7

I'm going to put it frankly, I disliked the ending. (for the most part) while there were some amazing parts that I loved (cough, the sages, cough) I feel like the whole zelda part could have been done better. Just a disclaimer I DO NOT ship botw/totk zelink. that's a whole other post i'm not going to do rn but just thought i'd put that there. The first part in the depths was great. It was brilliant even. I loved the sages and I loved the whole Gannon swallowing the stone just to kill like. It is SO in character. It is such a Gannon thing to get rid of all traces of his humanity (hylianity???) just to kill his fate entwined nemesis. like, oq3ighbqpeifjnqpirjgnpqieugnqpithjnpiqgn. omg. Amazing. then dragon Zelda came in and I was like ok. That makes sense. some instinctual part of her dragon self must have realized that Darkness = bad and link = trying to fight darkness = good. so I was like ok. and honestly that fight was pretty epic. It was something new. I was really well done. Then I feel like it started to go downhill. I can say that I almost cried when you were able to rewind time for Zelda. I was like omg they can bury the body, give her peace. The whole shabang. And then Zelda woke up and I was like ugh. I hate it because its so tropey. The classic good beats evil the princess falls in love with the knight in shining armor everything is great. botw did better with this. while the whole loz series is that trope, botw felt more like an, we made a lot of sacrifices and things wont be ok for a while but maybe someday it can get better etc. nothing lovey dovey there. but then totk gone and did the everything turned out great ending. I would have loved a Zelda died ending. i'm not a zelda hater but I feel like it would build off of the whole oh boy everything is shit rn but it will get better given time. They don't need the monarchy anymore link can be free etc. When zelda lives it gives off a very happy everything is great vibes. despite the fact that uh. no???? It's not????? Mineru was obviously sad but I feel like they ruined it by trying to do more zelink shipping. It gives off very I know I was an asshole at first and I know you has a fish gf but now shes dead and i'm nicer too you now but I was also only mad at you because of my destiny/things out of your control lol lets date. Like what????????? idk but that just sounds weird to me.

anyway i'm going to compleatly change topic and talk about future lozs/ and endings.

This is a brilliant place to end this timeline. there are many theorys about what timeline/ where its placed but I feel like this game is the end. The whole Gannon gets consumed and finally destroyed etc perfect ending. It has a very clear air of finality about it. And honestly I feel that if Zelda had died it would have added A BUNCH too it. It would cement that finality. Gannon is gone fr this time (power) Zelda would be dead (wisdom) and there is no proof that link has the triforce of courage so idk man but that feels like nothing but the ending of a timeline. (but of course Zelda HAD to live because of their precious good always triumphs evil/ knight in shining armor & princess love intrest trope but ya know. whatever)

Talking about a future game, I would love to see something in the ww timeline (no it's not cause it's my fave game who said that.) I think it would also be cool if they gave the new game an open world setting like botw/totk but added a linear story line. (kinda like ww but with a lil more open worldiness) but idk thats just my opinion.

Anyway feel free to yell at me or have a convo in the responses i'd LOVE to hear your opinions. Just dont hate on me plz just cause I have different opinions than you. i'd love to hear an avid zelink shipper give me their opinion but anyways bye yall.

[keefwho]

June 03 - 2023 Saturday

10:08 AM

I really wanna hang out with someone today but I don’t like feeling annoying. But that’s because in the past when someone asked me to hangout and I didn’t want to, I’d be a pushover and do it anyways and hate every second of it. So I project that onto other people. I don’t do that anymore and I shouldn’t assume other people commonly do that either. If someone doesn’t wanna hang out then they’ll say no. 

I wish I felt deserving of love and respect 

4:16 PM

Its days like this that just make me hate myself more. Why can’t I just get over my problems? I’m hurting myself and the people around me. All because on some level, I keep the cycle going on purpose. Because I’m afraid of change, or I like the attention, or I want to stay at rock bottom so I can’t fall any further. I hate these feelings of mine. 

6:01 PM

I probably shouldn’t be drinking sad and alone but fuck it. I got nothing else to do. 

11:48 PM

Today was not good. I’m going to be brave and admit the real problems I’m facing, because I intend to correct them so I should feel no shame in them. When I woke up things were okay. I made potstickers and spicy ramen for breakfast which didn’t sit totally well. I think I was playing TOTK while cooking. After breakfast I don’t remember doing much until streaming on Twitch. I did my grocery shopping for mom to pick up tomorrow. I ended up streaming Shipbreaker for a couple hours which was okay. I choked REALLY hard on my coffee halfway through. After that is when I started sulking. The entire day I was feeling bad because I felt annoying. I felt like anyone only wanted to hang out with me if they reached out to me first so I felt unwanted. I was also bothered by the short responses I would get in reply to my offers so I took that as meaning my presence wasn’t welcome. I know thats not true but I was deep in my own head today. It just got worse over time as I was met with no offers to do anything from anybody. I tried to cope with Zelda and drinky time but it wasn’t working. I started to lighten up when it was VR time and I was reminded that I am cared for and my friends do like being around me. Maybe not as much as I like being around them but it’s still something. 

It’s not fair to assume that though. All my assumptions are based on the worst case scenario. When I don’t know something, I assume the worst. I don’t think I should have to be told how people explicitly feel all the time. It’s on me to have the self respect to believe that I am cared for by people that so generously take the time to let me know it by spending time with me. They might not show it the same way as I do, the might even also be nervous about being too much. But that doesn’t mean they don’t care immensely. I have to learn this. 

[ganondoodle]

(totk rant)

something i dont know if i have ranted about specifically is .... how i hate how little defined the sonau (zonai) magic is

like i get it, its magic, but it feels like it can do anything when the idiot plot demands and cant when it doesnt for no good reason, just like the enigma stones (secret stones)

(its not that each little thing is a problem, i dont need everything single thing explained, but that the whole mess of sonau magic, enigma stone magic and elemental magic feels like .. a mess, and a stupid mess at that! you dont know what is what and what soemthing can and cant do and that leads to a bad kind of confusion, one that makes it feel like there are no rules except when the plot demands it)

(also i will forever refuse to call it sonau 'tech', bc its not, its some vaguely stone textured pieces that do a thing when hit or pieces floating around some vague magic bs, theres no cogs, not maschinery, nothing that makes you feel its got an internal mechanism like the shiekah tech had-- worst part being they had planned sonau bs to be more magic than 'tech' but then, as i previously ranted about, decided to make it 'so players can immedaitely know what it does just by looking at it' and then decided they still needed to explain to you what the obvious fan thing does 5 times over when you already learned it on the literal tutorial ALSO ITS A FAN- WHAT IS THERE TO TEACH ME ABOUT IT- ... wrong post .. anyway)

sonau magic, apparently, can, replace an entire living persons arm that was 'beyond repair', when the person giving their arm IS ALREADY A GHOST (or dead for that matter, yes you can argue its the part of his arm that was left over at that point but .... that also leaves the question how the hell he could suddendly, conventiently, move that arm part independendly to catch link, when it flopped over limply a second ago .. and was also able to .. see? how would he catch him otherwise .. but only after it flopped over .. for no apparent reason too, its not like zelda picked the stone right off it or soemthing-- ALSO why does it not look like it then, like its long nailed creepy thing, but instead his perfectly alived arm argh)-

teleport people to places that have moved kilometers away from where it originally was (as in, rauru teleporting link via dismembered arm part train to the garden of time that was not in the sky last he remembered) but ..only like that?? i guess?? since no one else ever teleports via sonau magic, its always shiekah stuff that teleports except for this one instance (and it cant be it just went back to raurus ghost bc .. he acts like he just woke up as a ghost too so he couldnt have been ghost chilling in the garden of time either ....... why wasnt his ghostly version attached to his slightly less ghostly arm part anyway .....)

lift entire pieces of land into the sky i guess ?? (off screen ... somehow .... for no reason ............ after all the sonau that were there were dead (who did that?? the constructs??????????) and no scar left on the surface either)

make shield, once rauru, otherwise minerubot (we dont know if either did that in the og fight with ganondorf since ... we dont get to see ANYTHING of that 'fight' i am BITING this game in a non sexy way)

let you swim upwards and through ANY amount of earth (only link ever does it)

glue literally anything to anything (unless you shake it too hard) and have that glue actully make the glued together pieces work together as if there was a mechanism connecting it (only link ever does it like that, other NPCs are shown to be able to get pieces to work together without it ... and with no explanation either how THAT works, sicne there is no mechanism in anything??) (fuse is just the same glue glued into an extra ability slot, its not different in any means)

can ALSO glue stuff to the literal MASTERSWORD?? which, if i can be honest, i really dont like, idk, the mastersword itself being fused to some random other material and getting those weird green symbols on it while even changing its form temporarily when you pull it out?? idk, that feels like desecrating an holy object to me (and yet again .. sonau stuff in everything and everywhere ..)

reverse time on objects and generally copy other peoples abilities?? its not the stones since link doesnt have one, its like .. built into rauru bracelet even, thats kinda weird, what do you mean his bracelet is perfectly made for housing that exact number of peoples abilities- or ghost copies for that matter O.o

grab someones heart and seal it in a condition between life and death for THOUSANDS of years while dissolving its wielder ??? i would consider it being influenced by rauru light powers (which is still stupid to give to him of all people) having sealing capabilities towards "evil", but when he does it its really only typically sonau magic stuff, green glow, the symbols, the spiral (... why IS it a spiral, did he turn himself into a less stupid version of the shrines? lol)

(now theres things that overlap with the engima stones, but since its all such a mess i cant tell what part is strictly sonau magic bs and what is magic pebble bs and what is just kinda ... both)

stripping people of their clothes and teleporting to weird dream like dimension tm (end of game)

bringing back ghosts (rauru did the oh no im ghost gone now too which is why i cant tell you anything you should know link looooooool- whoops he back) sonia was never even shown as a ghost before (why? .. no seriously, why? you cant me she didnt have any regrets when she died? why does everyone get a ghost like its nothing but not sonia .. until that point .. which is probably just so she can hold hands with rauru and fuck off again, we wouldnt want her around when rauru isnt, the most importnatest coolestest guy to ever kingexist )

reverse irreversible transformations via stone (you can, uwu its time powersss!! me all you want it sucks in every aspect and i will not be argued with)

restore someone 'beyond repair' arm even when it was not fully purified as it was implied to be necessary at the start- and also just .. take away the arm that got transplanted? (games allergic to consequences)

(more stone than sonau but .. i feel like those two are inherently linked anyway)

"enhance" peoples already existing magic abilities- which .. isnt really true? like that sounds like a lie bc except for giant rauru laser he uses only once, no one seems to actually use it like that, speaking of which

giant laserbeams capable of taking out an entire family of moldugas

my point being, like i talked about before, is that all of the other people with stones, we either dont get to see what they can do bc they just get it and are only shown standing around doing nothing giving no example of its effect (old sages) or the new sages creating copies of themselves that they give to you, which i would argue, is not enhancing their abilties, bc their ability is very element specific, not the shiekahs copy game, yes their ghost houses their ability but .. thats not 'enhancing' that just a double- plus, and this drives me mad, THEIR GHOSTS GO AWAY WHEN THE REAL ONE IS AROUND, which defeats even the idea of it being stronger just bc there two of each now, so they get nothing and you get a ghost copy if they arent around themselves which is not something i would call "enhancing" (its so gamey .... it only exists like that so you get shitty companions with those abilities in the game and when they are around dont get double the already shitty way of activating them.. and i hate it, i hate how gamey it is, you can make things work without it feeling THIS gamey)

ooooor, are just a set piece, like sonia, who doesnt use her stone for anything, bc she cant have been too weak on her own to time reverse a single cup of tea now can she (i wouldnt put it past them)

the only other time it seems to work as it was said is with ganondorf, bc he had miasma (gloom ... ) powers before and just kinda .. miasmad himself up more

time travel! somehow!! even though the traveling person has not shown any time powers before that point, has no idea what the stone is or how to use it, and no idea where to go, nor to think of going there even in panic (which is something i would have accepted, like .. idk atreus travel via the marbles in god of war, how he thinks of home and travels to his old home instead of where he meant to go, thats a neat twist!) (also .. sonia is the one whos lived all her life with time powers and, supposedly, acts like a mentor to zelda (if you can count that one scene where she says some vague -cheer up- stuff) .. what if sonia could time travel, bc she actually knew how to use it, and went into the future to warn them or lead them into the right direction .. already thinking of better things again ..)

stones can also turn people into eternal, immortal (lie, you can kill dragondorf) dragons, permanently (also a lie, zelda is reversed, and 'she was just sleeping uwu', stone she ate is ALSO back) (dragons being something i thought of being ethereal, untouchable and timeless sacred beings you shouldnt try to understand or control- but no, sonaus stupid stones can just turn people into them and its only used for one cool set piece and a fake emotional hook, also a shitty way to bring zelda back into the future all fine and dandy bc her learning to control her sudden new time powers well enough to travel back on her own would have been too much agency for our little maiden prize- the whole dragon thing also feel like desecrating dragons to me)

(probably more im forgetting here lol)

in the end, what my problem is that its TOO much and TOO messy, theres no lines and all the rules told to you are proven wrong with no input from you or even hint at it being possible and no logical lines to it

like sure, in botw the shiekah tech and the encient energy is also rather vague, but you get a sense of what it is, its magic that powers their tech! and it doesnt go beyond that (unlike the sonau stuff which is .. both made AND powered by sonanium?? which feels a little ... stupid) and the people sometiems had some elemental magic, like urbosa and her lightning etc in totk its just all over the place, all the things work together in vague ways and seem like they can both do everything and nothing, which leaves you with an unsatisfying confusion and possible frustration (if you are me, who cares too much) instead of a intrigued curiousity (like i had with the ancient energy from botw) that can still feel like you not knowing the answer too doesnt distract from anything, its feels plausible on its own-

... hey, been some time since i got to rant in long form! take everything with a few more grains of salt than usually, i still have covid :/

[keefwho]

June 02 - 2023 Friday

11:46 PM

This morning I woke up an hour early to attend the Furality otter meetup. It went okay, not much happened. I started making conversation with someone at about 3/4 of the way in, before that I was just observing. She was an Irish girl who mained a wolf avatar she made herself. Unlike most other users in the world, she actually made conversation and I ended up friending her. I meant to try and meet up with her during the puppy meetup but I was busy at that time. After that, the day went as usual. I had spam, green beans, and spicy ramen for breakfast. I finished the day’s commission with time to spare and drew myself a pride icon which I’ve never done before. After stream I did my workout which was a very intense session of Box VR, I really went hard today. I had also gotten my new showerhead and weedkiller in the mail. The showerhead is nice, not great. What is great is the mist feature it has, it was life changing. As for the weed killer, I think I did an appropriate job dispersing it but I’ll have to wait and see. In the afternoon I hung out in David’s server. He wasn’t there and I was hoping he would join but he didn’t. Without him there, the others seemed rowdy. A couple people trauma dumped hard, there was game raging, and then the hate speech started. Not just racism, but a negative attitude towards bronies and awtters. Like, REALLY negative. I left at that point, also on account of 3 of them stuffing their mouths. I spent the evening on my own drawing something for Daisy and playing TOTK. It was an okay day.