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help the girls are fighting ✬ (also major thanks to @adorkastock for the post reference! [Image ID: Ganon and Link are posed falling into each other with their weapons in hand. Link holds a forest bow, his hair tied up with Zelda's hairpiece, wearing BoTW Hylian armor and a stern expression on his face. A young adult Ganon looms above him with glowing yellow eyes and ruby hair, and small tusks wearing flashy Gerudo voe armor, a green cape, and a cutlass. A white moon glows behind them, with a painted red sky. A @ganonposting watermark is in the bottom right corner]

#what if they were the same age and also hot #ganlink #loz ganon #ganondorf #ganon art #ganonposting #a lovely mish mash of my fave designs #yes ganon is a technicolor piñata #as a treat #star makes art #a shameless self reblog for art purposes

grenapple0547

Tough journey

ud0der

Morning routine

spooksier

protect them all

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immanuelcouldnt

Roleswap Ganondorf and Link. I have thought about this a lot actually. For @talisman975

feluka

imagine if i did my work. if i sat down and Did it. and it was Done. can you even imagine such a thing

goodfriendo

st-hedge

Happy 5 years of existence to my ancient era LoZ trio. The absolute bastards. A remake of this old art

pocketseizure

Sealing War bas-relief early concept art

cloudieloool

I have to add a personal bit of lore here because this “full silk road” Ganondorf imagery makes me insane.

I swear I did not invent this for the lore.

I heard from an elder during Chinese New Year dinner this year that there are family stories about Mongol migration, and possibly old Jurchen / Wanyan history.

It is not exactly my direct ancestry line, more like extended family lore, but it still made me realize again how complicated family history and ethnic history can be in China.

The Jurchens were a northeastern frontier people in Chinese history. They founded the Jin dynasty, and Wanyan was the name connected to their ruling clan.

A powerful people from outside the “central kingdom” narrative.

A kingly, almost mythic image.

Conquest, fear, political memory, and being remembered through the eyes of the kingdom that saw them as a threat.

So when I look at totk Ganondorf’s design, especially the silk road imagery, Buddhist art influence, desert king image, and that powerful figure outside the central kingdom narrative, it hits something very specific in my brain.

Of course, real history and Zelda lore are not the same thing.

So maybe my Ganondorf obsession was not random after all. ☝️🗿

cloudieloool

One more thing: this is also why the “Silk Road” part matters so much to me.

This kind of wrathful protector / dark guardian imagery is not a Japan-only thing. Many of these traditions have South Asian / Indic roots, and then traveled through the Silk Road and other Buddhist transmission routes, changing and becoming local in many places across Asia.

My hometown region also has a local Buddhist visual world connected to the Dali Kingdom, including Mahākāla / Daheitian traditions.

For example, Zhang Shengwen’s Dali Kingdom Buddhist painting scroll shows many Buddhist and guardian figures, shaped by religious and cultural exchange. Local Daheitian / Mahākāla statues also carry that same fierce guardian energy: dark skin, fierce faces, weapons, guardian-deity posture, and red hair / flame-like red crest details.

So when people reduce all of this imagery to only “Japanese Buddhism” I am just sitting here like…

Please look at the whole road. 😌💢

immanuelcouldnt

🌊 a sneak attack from the rear 🌊

jasqreate

Demon King Ganondorf (Tears of the Kingdom)

bloobluebloo

I think of this concept art and sigh wistfully 😔

nobody-fromweb

he is pretty NOM NOM NOM (this one is super old)

fieldsofbran87

if I ever write a Ganondorf “redemption arc” in anything, I’m definitely including a scene where he experiences true guilt for the first time and because he’s never felt it before immediately assumes he is dying and freaks out

fieldsofbran87

you are so right prev

the origin of this post was me thinking about a scene where he like saves a village or smth, and after all the villagers are thanking him and this little Hylian child comes over and gives him a flower or smth, and he gets flashbanged by the memory of young Link on the draw bridge and kinda internally implodes