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[memedokies]

less than two weeks left to join the sticker club for Wind Waker stickers!

[typecastwritesssss]

okay but like the wind waker man. that intro. so many questions. we all know ocarina is dark but man wind waker just straight up said "and then they all drowned and the gods never came to help" hello??? how many years. how many decades. how much time did the adult hero of time buy for them? which child of zelda’s was daphnes? her son? grandchild? great-grandchild? when he stared at the rising waters and realized nothing was going to save them, his kingdom, did he think it was retribution for all the war? 

has it really been all that long? yes and also no. the lines are so blurred. the zora are birds and the kokiri are koroks and they had time to Get That Way but everywhere you look the old Hyrule, the Hero of Time himself, they're both all over the place. the deku tree is implied to be the sprout from the adult timeline but honestly who knows. the golden goddesses are statues on islands somewhere and there was a tower built to test who came after but…who and how and why? what was the tower of the gods even for? how did they know they’d need it? at what point did they accept the hero of time was never coming back so they’d probably need to train a new one? 

and oh my god, that outset island tradition. “dress your kids in green and give ‘em a sword and pray to the gods they’ll have the courage to cast down evil.” link rolls his eyes at it but he wears them to appease grandma. the revered clothes of the hero have had time to pass into “stupid traditional getup” territory. how many “failed Links” were there before Aryll’s brother? what evil could those children have possibly stricken down? the monsters in the woods?

“what became of that kingdom? none remain who know” like goddamn. say what you want about the hero’s shade in twilight princess. but at least the traumatized ghost got to meet one of his descendants and pass on his songs and his knowledge, even if that knowledge was only of war and death and combat. in the wind waker he’s a statue. an element of a legend mentioned once or twice by the last remaining holdouts of the past—holdouts who so badly want him to return, view him as the solution over all else, that they never pause to consider any other option. there are stained glass windows of the seven sages in the master sword’s chamber that are never mentioned. there is so much that is never mentioned.

nobody knows what the fuck anybody is talking about. link doesn’t know old hylian. tetra is running around the high seas (as a pirate. she and her retainers are now pirates. how did things get that way) with a piece of the damn triforce around her neck and she doesn’t know who ‘princess zelda’ even is. the juxtaposition between ganondorf, older and tired and wiser but still hell-bent on ruling hyrule even if it is a dead land full of nothing and no one, and tetra, a zelda that knows nothing, asking why he’s laughing and calling him insane. because hyrule’s dead. she has no frame of reference for his longing, or what he found so great about this sunken kingdom.

and this is framed as a good thing. the king of red lions thinks it’s better not to let either of the kids in on the loop until tetra nearly dies for lack of knowledge. daphnes nolhansen hyrule brought “the hero” back just to end ganon, and hyrule with him. was the plan always to let the sea fall in on him? maybe. i don’t know. but he rejects zelda’s plea with him to take him with them to the land that will be the new hyrule, because “it will not be hyrule. it will be your land” and that still gets me. he thinks the best thing to do with his kingdom, Hyrule, the kingdom of a whole hell of a lot of irl people’s childhoods, is for it to wash away. he wants the kids to live for the future and they do and they will and they name it hyrule anyway in his honor but he never gets to see it.

anyways i’m still mad everybody got butthurt over “trains in a zelda game” like come on now

[miscwitchling]

Prompt 5-6 is Fairy Forest - this is the Queen of the Fairies from Legend of Zelda; Wind Waker!

When she's done talking to you, she flops over like a puppet with its strings cut. I like the theory that her real form is a goddess, and her little child form was made to match Link in that game.

[mossyvulture]

Thinking about Komali and the Rito and wondering about his grandma. Did she die when he tried to climb up to visit Lord Valoo? We don't know much other than it was traumatic going up there for Komali so I can't help but assume.. I wonder if his rampaging hurt her.

[toonblade]

Linktober 2023 Day 14 - Ganondorf

Wind Waker Ganondorf is my favorite incarnation of the villain in all the series. He's not a mighty, evil king trying to usurp power and rule all. He's instead a sad, bitter old man clinging on to the past and unable to let go of what he could have had. He's humanized a bit, showing him as perhaps having decent intentions, once upon a time, though corrupted by his own drives and ambitions.

His final fight is also one of the finest. Again, contrasting to other Ganon's, the fight isn't to save the world. He's already lost. Instead, it's a battle of survival against a man with nothing left to lose, wanting to murder two children in a petty show of defiance against his fate.

God I love WInd Waker.

[troutwithfur]

I’ve seen a few people try to claim Ganondorf is justified because of what he said in the Wind Waker: "My country lay within a vast desert. When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world. And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes. No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death. But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin. I coveted that wind, I suppose." -Ganondorf While he’s absolutely right in everything he says here, the issue is when you look at his actions in OoT. He essentially commits genocide against the Hylian people and leaves the refugees huddled in Kakariko Village. His villainy is not because of his ideals of a peaceful life for the Gerudo (if that’s even what he believes), but from his actions. Ganondorf attacked the innocent people of Hyrule instead of just the Royal Family, who created the problem. Wind Waker takes place in the Adult Timeline, where the Hero of Time beat Ganondorf and didn’t go back to stop his plot. Ganondorf has clearly changed after this defeat. He even promised not to kill Link and Tetra while he was taking the Triforce from them, something any other Ganondorf would not do. He is the only version of Ganondorf to do this. Yet, his wish for the Triforce was to unflood Hyrule and give the kingdom to him. It’s questionable on whether or not he would revert to being a force of evil like in OoT. He’s a better person, but I don’t think he’s a good person.  In ALL versions of Ganondorf aside from Wind Waker, he is shown to be completely self-centered and willing to do anything to achieve personal power. It doesn’t matter what his justification for it was, his actions show he’s purified evil who only understands power, which is fitting as the holder of the Triforce of Power. 

[darkzeruda1214]

A special thanks to @mechabutchzilla for letting me dub their comic Please support the artist :)   Also another thanks to ClefferNotes for letting me use his amazing music: Zelda Wind Waker Theme - Orchestra Please check out his channel:   / @cleffernotes    Day 3 of posting until Tears of the Kingdom Comes out! See you guys tomorrow :)  BTW, what do you think King of Red Lions eats?

[pluviatrix]

links deserve to get SMOOCHED