Hello! It's been a while! I hope that things have been well with you & am sending many prayers & blessings your way!
If you have any new ideas for your botw-totk rewrite that you wanna chat about or even just thoughts regarding AoI, I'm open to listen. 😄
Hello!! Well I'm fine! Just desperately waiting for something to happen on Zelda's 40th anniversary :D
...Which is just a few days before my own birthday so I would really love a surprise, hehe 😇 but I'm also trying to keep my hopes low!
What about you? How is it going with your new job?
To be honest I'm focused on another comic project these days so I have almost entirely stopped working on my rewrite. But I've been feeling like going back to it lately! I especially miss working on my own version of Hyrule and thinking of the rebuilding effort, what to do with the NPCs, etc., it was so much fun ^^
I still haven't played AoC and I don't think I will :/ First I'd need to get a Switch 2 and it doesn't seem that interesting at the moment, and second... I just can't anymore with that story and anything TotK related haha.
But if you have any thoughts on it or ideas for your own projects, I'd be happy to chat :D
Planned AU: Remember when Vlad infected Sam & Tucker with ecto-acne? Do you think that was planned by Maddie or something entirely done by Vlad? Do you think it was an attempt to force them to become compatible for mutation, possibly, in an attempt to give Danny people who would live as long as him. Or as more subjects to experiment on. I'd think after King Tuck & Undergrowth, they'd become especially accustomed to ectoplasm.
Wow, that’s horrifying. But yeah, I think you’d be right, Maddie tells Vlad in Maternal Instinct he’s not allowed to do anything without running it past her first, so the whole thing with infecting Sam and Tucker would’ve had to be something she approved. And I think that’s a very good guess, like she was playing around with different ways to prepare humans for ecto-mutation. And maybe she thought she was being compassionate by choosing Danny’s friends so that they could have slowed aging right along with him and he wouldn’t be alone.
She’s just SUCH a good mother. uwu
I don’t know if she expected Danny to actually travel back in time to try to cure Sam and Tucker, though. And obviously, she wouldn’t have been able to see any of it (although I don’t think Clockwork actually let Danny do anything in the past, I think it was probably just a simulation).
If I think of a good way to write this, I’ll post it!
Hello, Ms. Jully! It's been a bit. I hope things are going as well for you as they have been for me recently. :D
Anyway, I just learned about a blog called botwandtotknpcs &, while I'm sure that you probably already know most of what they have posted, you never know if they might end up coming across something that you hadn't, so who knows?
Also, I've been loving your Zelink advent art. It's so cute❣️
Anyway, praying for you & yours to recieve all joy, peace, & blessing this Christmas season. God bless you! 🫶
Hello!! I'm fine, just a bit tired ^^ I can't wait for the holidays, I have two weeks off around Christmas that I'm going to enjoy with my family✌️
What about you? Looks like you've been doing great :D
Oh I think you've already told me about this blog! It is really useful (and I know how much work it is to catalog all these NPCs because, well, I did the same thing for myself haha). Thanks for recommending it!
I'm glad you're enjoying my Advent calendar!! I can't wait to post the next drawing (that I actually managed to finish in advance for once). Aaand it is my favorite pairing 😇
Thank you! I wish you a Christmas filled with warmth and joy as well! 💜
@aikoiya The post was getting long again so here's a new one!
I knew you were going to answer that saying "this is unfair" isn't real life logic haha (and I agree that life hasn't been fair to Sky and Sun anyway). It's just that such an ending would probably leave me feeling unsatisfied and even a bit robbed, and I think it would require a lot of other changes to be made to the story in order for it to work properly. But anyway you're right, as things are now this would just be happening behind the scenes so what I'm saying doesn't really make sense. But just thinking about it changes my perception of SS in a way I don't really enjoy, so it's not a theory I favor.
Yes in that setting I'm pretty sure that the other Sun would not make herself known to Link and Zelda and would let them have their happy ending. But I think Zelda would likely suspect her existence and know that something is wrong. I guess even Link could notice that the Temple's doors are suddenly open and would ask Impa a few questions.
I had no idea Tingle called Farore the Goddess of Wind in WW, so I went on a little quest to see if I could find the same quote in the French version of the game. Apparently it's in Tingle's description of Outset Island and I never had the chance to play with the Tingle Tuner mode. I can't find the same quote in French anywhere and I don't even know if this was included in the HD remake (I guess I'll have to wait for a Switch version to find out… if they ever release one). This has me wondering if this quote isn't something exclusive to the English version, but I can't be sure and I'd like to know what the original Japanese text says. The French wikis mention that Farore is the Goddess of Wind in WW but don't provide any quote, it just looks like the pages were translated from English but that they couldn't find the same quote in French. It's really frustrating!!
Anyway that's a bit weird because WW already establishes Zephos as the God of Wind, and he seems to be a minor deity compared to Farore. The way I see it, wind is just the element that Farore tends to be associated with, and since a lot of myths might have been lost with Hyrule in WW this could just be a mistake on Tingle's part. I mean this is the game that gave us the Golden Triumph Forks haha.
I'm not limiting Nayru/the Golden Goddesses to a singular domain, quite the opposite ^^
To me Nayru being the Goddess of Wisdom includes different concepts such as order, law, science, magic, etc., and even time (since she's introduced as the creator of the world's fondamental laws), while calling her the Goddess of Time doesn't include all of that. That's why I wrote that I found it a bit restrictive. But sure she could have both titles, the same way Farore could be known most commonly as the Goddess of Courage and also called the Goddess of Wind in some situations.
Oh I didn't think of the blocks from OoT! I would say though that they don't really use any time powers, they're just random blocks that appear or disappear for some reason when Link plays the Song of Time (it's just as absurd as playing the Song of Storms to open holes in the ground haha). But yes they were blue and associated with time, and of course Nayru is too. The difference with Hylia in my theory is that Nayru created the rules of time (if that makes sense) among other fundamental laws, while Hylia's power specifically allows her to manipulate time and foresee the future. In a way I see Hylia as Nayru's spiritual daughter who inherited some of her powers over time (and that's why the color purple she's represented with is very close to blue).
The Master Sword has also been depicted as either blue or purple though, so that asks the question of the true color of all of these things! Nayru is definitely linked to time so it makes sense that the timeshift stones are in Lanayru (and Hylia also doesn't have a province named after her).
"From the edge of time" could definitely just be a poetic way to say that Hylia kind of recorded a message for Link before dying haha. But I find it interesting that she would phrase it like that, I like to see it as a clue.
Well if Zelda simply sent Link to a point further back in time, wouldn't there be two Links existing at the same time in the Child Timeline? But sure Zelda creating a brand new timeline also raises a few questions that kind of... make my head hurt. I'm not sure what happens exactly, I've always wondered! All we know is that Link finds himself in the Master Sword's chamber with the Door of Time already open, which hints at things happening in a different way this time (because he definitely doesn't have the three spiritual stones and the Ocarina of Time yet since this is before Ganon's coup, and the ending seems to imply that this timeline's Zelda doesn't know him yet). That's why I believe Zelda might have done something a bit more complex than sending him to a point further back in time, but there's no way to be sure. The Triforce of Courage is also visible on Link's hand during the ending, and we also know thanks to TP that the Triforce is still separated in the Child Timeline despite Link and Zelda preventing Ganon from entering the Sacred Realm this time. So maybe Zelda isn't able to change everything? It's complicated haha.
Anyway, whether OoT Zelda creates a new timeline or just sends Link further back in time, that's still huge time powers and that's not something Link is able to do by playing Zelda's Lullaby.
I also believe it is more likely that Talon inherited the ranch. True, Talon might not always have been so lazy, but maybe if that was the case the game could have hinted at hit. All we know is that he leaves his daughter alone with Ingo and only comes back after Link deals with the situation, which does not make him look so great. And he only promises to work harder after that.
I'm kind of bad with names so I'm impressed you're going through all of that trouble to rename the settlements!!
I haven't gotten to developping the technology that much yet, but I'm really interested in seeing what the different races could do with it!
I love the idea of using the Sheikah to infiltrate the Yiga bases. I wish TotK had done something like that and shown the Sheikah helping Link that way.
Same, I was so excited when I heard about these pirates… and then so disappointed to find nothing more than a bunch of bokos with no backstory.
Vignoble is not related to noble (though I kind of make the association in my mind, especially since vignobles are sometimes called châteaux).
Yes I thought you could maybe use clos! Aquaticlos is funny, it can work! Though maybe you could use the same logic as for the raisins (I love this Raisins de Terre idea by the way, it makes sense!) and say that what the Zoras call a clos already refers to something that's underwater, since that's probably the case for most of what they cultivate.
I don't mind helping you with French, I'm glad to do so! You put so much effort and thought into this, it's really interesting.
BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 (or more) people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out 💖
Hi! Um... I'm sorry that my reply is taking so long.
The thing that's taking so long is the details regarding my thoughts on what happened during the Hyrule Civil War (because I'm excited to talk about it), unfortunately. But, it IS coming! It just may take some time, is all. 😅
Sending many blessings!
It’s okay don’t worry!! I’m a bit short on time these days anyway haha ^^
This makes me even more curious to read your thoughts but please take all the time you need! :D
