Can You Please Draw More Tanis I Love Him So Much

can you please draw more tanis i love him so much 🥺

always down to draw my boy <3 here he is just chillin because i've been putting him through the angst grinder lately

i dont think the sages are distinctly aware of everything their avatars are doing, but i imagine some things probably bleed through

"hey are you gonna do more of that AU where Link gets turned into a Zonai" yeah brother I already did

its a super complicated au that involves Link going back in time thousands of years to try and nip the problem at the bud since a Zonai body is a bit longer lived and can handle time travel waaay more efficiently.

the deal Link made with the God of Time (named Ordona) to get the Ocarina of time + the melodies needed to save the world was allowing him to possess Link when he gets bored so he can play around with the mortals. (thus why Zonai link has fierce deity markings, they're the same god in this AU) when Link goes back in time to save Ganon from being influenced by Demise, he also decides to kick around the gerudo desert and ends up in Ganon's employ, basically sticking around to make sure that Demise isn't fucking with Ganon's brain anymore (this doesn't make Ganon less of a self absorbed jackass, but it DOES make him less murder-y which Link considers a win)

...for better or for worse he seems to get along with the gerudo and all of Ganon's monsters

also this au is predominantly ganlink because i said so. he's the kings silly rabbit if you will

downside is, Link is still gloomtouched from getting his arm fucked, so Demise is trying to set anchor at the same time as Ordona

the latent gloom starts presenting where Link has scar tissue, as its the most compromised, and spreads out from there. don't worry, eventually Ganon hucks Link and himself up to Hyrule castle and fetches assistance from Rauru and co. who are VERY confused as to why there's aNOTHER Zonai here????

some additional references, the first one is a set of armor Ganon insist Link wears when he's out with the guards (he does not, he thinks its kind of stuffy because he's covered in fur and scales now) and the second is a matching cloak Ganon makes him wear when they're at political meetings so people identify Link as part of Ganon's personal honor guard. (...and also because Ganon thinks its cool to match with the dude he's totally not crushing on)

last one is a nakey boy, showing his more prominent scars.

there was a vacancy, after all

“Ancient Hero’s Aspect”

We honestly didn’t learn much about the ancient hero from totk, and we only got the Armor Aspect, but I’m curious if we’ll learn more about them in a dlc or something

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(Please do not use or repost my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you)

I’ve seen a lot of people think the armor is ugly- which is. Fair. But I think they’re cute and since there’s really not much fanart for them I thought I’d do it myself

Basically

Down a Rabbit Hole I Went

I screwed up. I didn't think that using an ancient language on a piece of tumblr merch was necessary but I forgot what site I was on :) . This is tumblr, of course it has to be in linguistically accurate cuneiform. I went and hired an expert on Ancient Semitic Languages and Cultures. There aren't as many as you'd think that are willing to translate text for an internet gag so I'm so happy I found Paul.

Notes on the translation from the translator:

I used the ventive suffix on the imperative "give (rib+am)" which is a special feature of Akkadian that indicates the motion of direction. It makes it a little bit more authentic. The longer version actually includes the words "to me (ana iasim)", but a typical Akkadian speaker probably wouldn't have needed to say that.

Also, for the word "money" I used the Sumerian (KUG.BABBAR) instead of spelling out the Akkadian, because that was a common feature in Akkadian scribal writing. For the font I was happily surprised that Google has a Cuneiform font, so not only is it correct but it looks pretty neat too. Right now you can buy both versions in the shop but cuneiform version won't ship for a week or so as I have to order new stock with the new design.