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I pray to a god who does not listen

Drawing some more of my LOZ nonsense. It’s a personal headcanon that Link is aware of his eternal cycle, and knows it was caused by the goddess Hylia. He grows weary, but reigns eternal.

Personally, I like to start my mental timeline with ocarina, but the idea of skyward sword happening and over the ages this great love rotting into something completely other is also pretty interesting to me. This was mostly spawned by the observation that Zelda is more of a held title, a lineage- in BOTW it’s very frequently mentioned that Zelda’s mother was the previous Zelda to hold the title and powers. But with Link he’s usually just a kid. Living with his grandma, among the kokiri, taking up his fathers sword. Link is not a lineage, Link is a person. That’s really neat to me.

“Crowley? My dear, are you listening?”

“Yeah, yeah, of course Angel. Keep going, i’m here all night.”

I’d like to add onto this since i’ve gotten a few comments about it- in totk a lot of the statues seem like their own entities, similar to the devil statue. To me it seems like that shift happened with the great upheaval, and might even have something to do with the giant Hylia statue being toppled in the ruins. It seems to me like her places of worship have been disrupted with the giant surge of ancient magic and the recent Ganon events. The two major statues (Mother goddess and Temple of time) both send you on quests that result ultimately in the righting of some point of worship- the goddess statues in the spring especially seem like servants of Hylia freaking out because in BOTW the spring statues were supposed to be the direct Hylia line if Zelda’s research is accurate

I don’t think people talk about the messed up relationship between the goddess hylia and her chosen enough. Like, Link takes a LOT of nonsense through his generations, but specifically the fact that Zelda spends all of BOTW desperately looking for her approval and her to speak to her just once, spending all her time devoted to this destiny, while Link (while he is very much dealing with his own stuff, THANKS HYLIA) can just. call her up. she speaks to him no problem all the time. we exchange her objects for hearts and stamina the whole game.

And Link doesn’t even seem surprised! In both games this happens in! Like he had memory loss in BOTW yeah but for it to be so ingrained in him that he doesn’t startle TALKING TO A GODDESS is astounding. Just, thinking about that. If Link could do that and knew the whole time. Wondering why she only spoke to him. Knowing it would break Zelda if she knew, asking hylia why. Anyways i’m back on my LOZ nonsense the one chosen by an fickle god trope is very dear to me

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long live the cause