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I don't know her name or anything about her but I would jump in front of a rampaging horde of bison and then proceed to throw myself off a cliff into shark infested waters for her
I'm still standing
Legend hates the gods. Change my mind. No no no, hate is a too small word. He despises them. Which is why I believe I'm still standing is the song best fit for Legend.
"I'm still standing better than I ever did." Could be referring to when Legend stopped believing in the gods or gave up on them.
"Picking up the peaces of my life without you on my life" Refers to Legend finally finding peace in himself without having to worry or think of the gods, finally getting his footing back.
I could go on and on but I'll just do this. Sorry for the religious people, sorry Sky but this is the truth 😔
If there was a crossover of Percy Jackson (book or series idc) and Legend of Zelda or Linked Universe, I feel like Legend and Percy would bond over the fact that they both have just about as much bullshit that they can take from the gods. They're both so done TvT
I'm still standing by: Taron Egerton
Okay, confession time: I absolutely fucking hate that BOTW!Link's hero outfit is blue.
Part of it is that the green getup is classic and pretty integral to the character's image, but the other part is the in-universe religion. Link's patron goddess is FARORE, so why are we putting him in Nayru's colors??? The golden goddesses are the most consistently present religion throughout the games!
(they're acknowledged in all of them except BOTW/TOTK, which appears to have gone through a revival of worship for Hylia, and the downfall timeline (OG games), where the characters are Catholic [yes, angsty tumblr user, you read that correctly, please don't come at me, I believe in freedom of religion, and if fictional characters want to believe in God, let them]).
𝘖𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩, 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘬𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥
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𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏
Link 🟌 Zelda 🟌 SET
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
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.
Hylia
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I wanted to draw a Mucha style Goddess Hylia (as I imagine her)
This took forever but I’m kinda happy with the final result.
Demise curse and Zelda´s bloodline
So here I bring a contribution that is not art but a headcanon.
I been wondering this for a while, and I don’t know if someone thing of it already, a missing link (not Link) in Zelda’s bloodline.
During the events of Skyward Sword, in which we know is the first time the Goddess Hylia is reincarnated as a “human” (Hylian), she and Link are cursed by Demise to repeat the battle over and over again (which was not very smart Demise, they keep kicking your butt) and we get the specifics of their “reincarnations”
“Those who share the blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero...”
From that phrase we learn two of things:
- The importance of the (future) Royal Bloodline, because only direct descendants can be the reincarnation of Hylia aka Zelda.
- That the Chosen Heroes are not necessarily related by blood.
Which means that the Hero of Legend can come from anywhere, as long as there is someone with the Courage to fight against Evil, the hero will be reincarnated, but not with Zelda, she needs the blood of the goddess, but that wouldn’t make any sense if Hylia was reincarnated on a random girl, which made me think that at some point previous to sending “humans” to the live in the sky, the Goddess Hylia gave birth to a half “human” baby.
That would explain why is the bloodline so sacred and (maybe) why from all the races on the land, humans were the ones she protected the most and trusted the Triforce with. (She didn’t, she just had someone of her own team among them).
So now I’m free to believe of a goddess having a thing for a mortal which is always great. (Zelink’s origins???)
happy trans day of visibility!! hylia zelda and link are all transgender nintendo told me so
the thrilling sequel
happy trans day of visibility!! hylia zelda and link are all transgender nintendo told me so
originally i just wanted to draw skyward sword zelda, but then i thought about hylia and hwhoa boy let me tell you that i think about hylia
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Our prayer to the goddess
Me, On a Good Day: Goodness do I love dragging Hylia. She's on thin ice and the way she ended up dealing with Demise and unwittingly doomed First's Incarnations and her own definitely deserves scrutinizing. As a mythology fan one would think expecting a goddess to love you back would be a fool's errand.
Also Me, A Second Later That Same Day: You know, maybe we are looking at Hylia wrong, maybe we are judging too harshly. Who knows maybe we are just conveniently ignoring the fact deities have different views of reality and that, given she loved First back, she likely hates/hated herself just as much if not more than we do. Maybe she genuinely tried to do her best with what she could at hand even if she went and traded notes with the Pale King in methodology, No Cost Too Great, we theorize she's a goddess of time so who knows what she saw or knows that we don't and maybe the cycle was always fated to happen no matter what she did and we have to consider Demise getting the Triforce would have been just as bad if not worse even if he can't use it to wish on anything. Maybe we are judging her too harshly because of our mortal point of view.
Me Once More, After that Same Line of Thought When Anything Goes Wrong in a Zelda Playthrough and The Boys are on One Heart or Angst Hits after Remembering How Their History Goes: This is all your fault Hylia.
Hylia fans, enjoyers, critics, slanderers, folks who like Linked Universe but are mine's, Legend's and Time's spirit animals in wanting to vibe check a goddess for what she did with them and First, an idea/sleep deprived headcanon for y'all. Just an idea that will be completely obliterated by Tears of the Kingdom but hey I can dream.
Hylia, but she purposefully uses the appearance of each of the Zelda's depending on who she's dealing with, but just a bit... Off, Lullaby, but her head moves like an owl's, too bird like in nature for it to look normal (alluding to her connection to the Loftwings), Dusk, but her lips don't move when she talks, her voice booms like thunder but is as soft as a breeze, Flora, whose words feel scorching like an inferno and sitting near a crackling fire at the same time, just a bit grating but you can't help but be comforted, wanting to get close, wanting to stay close. Artemis, but her eyes are blank, not even how the Light Spirits portrayed the Interlopers in Twilight Princess, straight up no iris or pupils, because 'eyes are the window to the soul' an deities wouldn't leave theirs, if they even have any, open to anyone to use, her looking at you makes it feel as if you have just been flayed open from neck to gut, your organs on display, a bone deep cut of too much knowing, does she know it? Knows your deepest secrets? Your deepest fears and insecurities? The things you would want no one to know? Will she execute you for them or will she accept you for a it?
Just saying, if y'all don't want to go full on monstrous (though if ya ask me monstrous Hylia is PEAK), uncanny valley is always a good idea as any, maybe have her wear a bird mask to 'hide' her identity so that it gets harder to tell, make it so that her voice and speech patterns are all of rh Zelda's melded together. Remember, Hylia's form in the manga was as close to a human as she could make it probably because she didn't want to scare First/The First Hero off (because ya know, deities are basically living concepts, they can have multiple forms and usually looking at their true ones is a bad move, hence why many of them shape shift in myth), Sun/Skyward Sword Zelda is her human vessel, but who's to say after so many years from there some things wouldn't start slipping through the cracks? It's in the subtleties, the very, very subtle differences that tell anyone the Zelda's aren't human, but the vessels or something much bigger than them, something which is always on the edge of time, waiting. Watching.
Also, if we go the Tears of the Kingdom theory route, or a ghost Chain in general, I also proposed Ghost Zelda's, all of them by Flora's side, but she could only really see or talk to them after she unlocked her powers and the differences between them and Hylia is very, very obvious once you start looking at it.
Plus, if we are possibly seeing the 10.000 years ago Zelda, then I propose we just leap and see them all after so long. Or that BOTW Link/Wild also can see the 10.000 years Catalyst Hero, or the rest of the Links and/or dives into their memories for maximum emotional damage, in this essay I will-
What I absolutely love about Link’s new powers is that it feels like we’re finally getting to see the “magic” aspect of wielding the Triforce of Courage.
Fuse? Ultrahand? Being able to create and manipulate anything you find in the wild? That just screams courage and adventure, not to mention how the Zonai were in the Farore/Courage region.
Even if the arm is Zonai technology or something, I’m still happy.
The god of war and his silly bunny owls
Fierce Deity? More like Fierce Daddy
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The bottom right is Full Colorization of what Deity did when Hylia let Wild die