“ And I am one of Hyrule’s five champions, Revali. Master of the sky, best archer among the rito.“ Teba gave a dry annoyed look while the young lady was silent. She only looked at him with that unreadable look of hers, stone expression annoyingly resembling that of the chosen hero’s. “ ….Only among the Rito? “ He became scandalized, a scowl forming when those foreign eyes of hers—not foreign, rito—lit up. The sound of her quietly giggling then met their ears, the Rito champion turning perplexed while Teba raised his own brow. This ‘Ooccawan’ girl only brightened further in a reserved manner, delighted and endeared where previously her expression had been dull and blank. That he was for whatever reason the cause of this outward display of emotion left him feeling stricken with a rare feeling of modesty, Revali turning his eyes away as his feathers ruffled and his heart skipped.
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A wip, if only for the fact that I never designed clothes for this girl when I did the initial art up top, the bottom image only having happened last sunday. In an Au version of my character Aria, I like to pretend she the mama of @zeldahijinks Skali, who’s second parent is a reader/character insert next to Revali. (although even then she definitely does not even fit into their story fic as she is a dancer/item enchanter/magic user type)) For those curious, Aria here is a member of a made-up race of mine, the Ooccawa. They’re a race created way back when before ten thousand years ago in BOTW by the ugly as sin chickens that are the Oocca you see from Twilight Princess, to serve and help them until they could relocate to the sacred realm as they’re hideous pathetic chicken bodies could not hold up to their apparent brilliant minds and powers they hold within. In truth, the Ooccawa are actually wind spirits given flesh, ones that are docile and passive as they wouldn’t have answered the call or summons of the Oocca otherwise and served them. They are also ‘made after the Oocca’s image’, biologically engineered through the combination of hylian and Rito genetics, hence the nice and neat hybrid look you see on the right of the first image. Like in windwaker they kinda do the ‘spontaneously sprout feathers on arms to produce wings’ thing. Or they did. Present day, where they live isolated on a far far off island where literally everything and it’s mother and brothers are out for your blood and the only safety is the large overpopulated city surrounded by a magic barrier…they don’t have their wings and chicken legs no more as they become further and further from the original wind spirits their ancestors were due to plot reasons. The Aria you see on the left is her prior to a rather scary event that happens to her in my fan story (which I’m nowhere near at since she only appears in the third arc where the champions get a revival! Ugh D8