I like to imagine that the Chosen Hero and the Fierce Deity are the same guy, so I wanted to try designing them with that in mind! I've got to try drawing Hylia next.
As a result, I decided to put together a rudimentary language for the Minish (since in the games it's just jibberish).
Since my first language is English, and since I dont quite have the time to make up a bunch of my own verbs, I'm using English verbs as the base. I have the grammatical rules more figured out than anything else, but for verbs and nouns it's effectively:
Cut the verb/noun off at the first syllable/vowel and then add the corresponding ending (which is normally a tone indicator like a trill or just the subject of the sentence). For verbs/nouns that are extra long, cut the word off at the second or third syllable/vowel.
A bunch of the random grammar rules I've made up are below, including verb tenses. Technically I didn't check how well any of it works in practice, but this was just for fun anyway.
Adverbs -> I forgot to put these in my diagram, but for adverbs you would just use the usual verb and add the "O as in boon" vowel at the end. I also haven't come up with anything for adjectives yet, but I imagine they're similar to nouns/verbs and come before the subject (same placement as adverbs).
I based this language on all of the Minish names in the game, but I've only played it English, so keep that in mind. I'm not sure how they differ in other languages.
That's all there is to it though! Here are some sample sentences:
- Cori lis-ri -> I listen to them
- Linkri -> My name is Link
- Rii~ lo-ri -> I love you (vague)
- Wisho-cao~ wa-ri -> I want the wishing cap
- Ri-cao~ stol Vaatiri -> Vaati stole my cap
Note: I can't really show the vowel differences because they dont exist on a keyboard.
I just wanted to try my hand at designing all of the Link's. Mostly wanted to focus on making the hairstyles all different, so none of the eye/nose/face shapes are accurate (although I did do the ears!)
I have so many thoughts about their possible design differences, there are a bunch of little things and headcanons that went into these.
The symbol versions and the ??? Link are for a story idea I've had, but I'm not yet sure what to do with.
Doodles of alttp Link. I want to make him a proper design (like I did for MC), but I haven't played through all his games yet.
These were inspired by my hatred of Beamos (I tried fighting one for like 20 minutes while playing alttp). Also because I love the "Joy!" text when you get a red rupee in LA.
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