#purpledemoncat

[odddaze]

I haven’t seen you on tumblr in a while so I just wanted to say miss ya and your arts and hope you’re doin ok!! 👋

I'm fine I'm fine!! Sorry for disappearing tho, I needed a break from social media, while trying to build back my self confidence (twice) haha... Not exactly sure if I'm fully up to being active on tumblr yet~

Seriously appreciate the check up! I'm so touched! ;3;

[noirandchocolate]

((This is to answer the FOR Kohga half of this ask. The ABOUT Kohga half’s answer is here.))

"Which day...? Now that's a good question. So would I know everything I know now, but be back in that time, in that place? I...hmm!

"I could say something like my wedding day, but... No. Too recent. I loved that, don't get me wrong, but I've got plenty of days left to spend with Sooga if I've got anything to say about it. It's about the future, with my Star, no need to live in the past about him 'til I get old!

"This is HARD!! There's a bunch of people I want to see again, but if I choose a day with him, that leaves her out, and vice versa, and if I pick something too long ago so Nana would be around...but-- Hngh! An-ces-tors a-bove! There's too many really good days! ...okay. I know what I'll choose. Noor, forgive me sweetheart, I'd pick two if I was allowed. Nana, I know you wouldn't blame me either.

"I'M CHOOSING!! A day I remember from when I was eighteen, and hot stuff, you'd better believe it!! It was early spring, and in the morning I was still on my way back home from a mission with my friend Mayu, and we made breakfast over a fire and talked about how funny it was that that stupid Hylian merchant fell for her card fortunes and told her eeeeverything we needed to know. And I said, 'Y'know what makes it even funnier?' And she said, 'What?' And I said, 'How I stole his pouch and there's 300 rupees in it.' And she! Grabbed me and kissed my cheek and said '[BEFORE-NAME REDACTED], you're the best!!' Ha-HA! Of course I was!

"We got home and I handed over the money to my Dad--you know, Master Kohga--and told him the whole story and he laughed and said I was coming along and oughtta go have some fun. ...I was almost as tall as him. I remember that. I went and said hi to Mama, but theeeeen~~

"I went out to me and my best friend Daqo's favorite secret little meeting spot up on the Highlands cliffs over the Valley. Beautiful view. I still go up there sometimes. He knew I was due back that day and kinda knew to show up even without me telling him, and well!! Y'see he and I weren't just friends. ...never officially anything else, but... Let's just say I got a kiss somewhere other than my cheek. Let's just say I kissed him plenty, too. Let's just saa~aay we stayed out there 'til the sun went down and just shot the breeze and had an itsybitsy little smoke we shouldn't've had, and watched the stars come out. ...stars, I...hey, okay, I'm not looking to cheat on my Sooga and I don't wish anything about us was different, but... Daqo was my best friend. And my first love and lover, even if we never said we-- It-- It was complicated, I guess. You understand? I'd just...if I could look him in the eyes again, I'd tell him I--hn. Well. No. Not if it has to stay the same. I couldn't. ((He stops talking and just sighs and looks off into space for a minute, lost in thought before brightening back up again.))

"Anyway, we went back inside for dinner, and I sat up with my folks at the big table and it was gyudon with extra fresh stambulb, and after that I ended up playing cards in a circle with Mayu and her boyfriend and Daqo and Laissa and Kanta and--well, everybody, practically!! We talked and talked on into the night, just being ourselves.

"In the end I came back to our family quarters--you know, the Master's quarters, but I slept in the front room then--and Mama asked if I knew how late it was but she wasn't really mad. We were in private, so I got to see her true face, just like every night back then. She was beautiful. All her life, she was. She pulled me down on the couch with her and asked me I was too old to play with her. No! NEVER!

"We played our shamisen together. Didn't even care how late it was. We woke Dad up, and he came and sang with us like he always did. I don't remember his lyrics but I remember his voice and how you could always hear the smile in it. If I could see that day again, I’d commit it all to memory.

"I went to bed thinking life was going pretty great. Feeling like I knew exactly where I should be, and it was right there.

"I dunno, maybe I should pick something bigger and more important! But to relive a day just like that one? Knowing everything I know, about what was going to happen? I'd leap at the chance. And that feels pretty important to ME."

[purpleandgreen13]

So when I said I've been spoiled with art, I really meant it!

For over a year now, I've been wanting to get some art of my SDV farmer Jerusha Howard and her husband Dr Harvey Brennan but have been too nervous to ask. I recently had a small amount of a payout, so I decided to treat myself!

I wanted a quiet relaxed moment of Harvey and Jerusha sitting on the porch on a hot summer's day, taking a break together. I also wanted Bear (their German Shepherd) in the picture, because I love him so much

Thank you so much to the art genius that is Bast @artjdg AKA @purpledemoncat for bringing this moment to life in such a beautiful way. You are a pleasure to work with, and i love the way you draw Jerusha so much! Your talent and kindness to this nervous commissioner was so lovely, you made the process so easy!

Enjoy this moment of calm and remember that summer is on its way!

[callmebliss]

purpledemoncat replied to your post “Black Nailpolish”

OPI!

WHAT

[noirandchocolate]

What is Master Kohga's most favorite thing to do with his friends, when he's taking a break from leading a clan and signing papers and such busywork?

Hello my loooove, thank you for sending me a question about our guy! <3

Kohga! Loves! Going up to Spectacle Rock and setting up a campfire and just hanging out shooting the breeze with his buddies while somebody cooks something. It reminds him of old times, when he was a teen/in his early 20s and out on little missions and trips as everyone learned how to be full adult members of the Clan. More carefree times, for him, because he wasn't Master yet and his responsibilities as Heir and as a Footsoldier were important but not...well, Master-level important.

He hasn't done this as much since the Calamity was vanquished, because he's an even busier guy than usual and his time and attention are even more divided, but...

He really loves getting as much of his friend-crew together as possible and just hanging out, talking about old times and teasing each other and getting updates on people's kids, and families, etcetera. He brings his shamisen along to twang away while the gossip and tales and sake flow. The group always ends up tipsy and hanging on each other and singing or pointing out stars in the sky or joke-sparring or reminiscing about those who aren't with them anymore and it's just very...warm.

Kohga loves his friends, and loves that on such occasions, while they of course always remember he is Master Kohga, they treat him like he's still their old friend they've known since they were all little veiled kiddos running around the Complex getting in trouble. <3

[noirandchocolate]

Trick or treat baby!!

Reese’s SHAPES for my girl!

[noirandchocolate]

Questions about Kohga! What is the legacy he wants to leave behind now that he helped defeat the calamity? Like, how does he most want to be remembered on far-future ascension days? And question FOR Kohga! "Which day do you most want to relive just one more time?"

((Thank you for sending, bab! This is the ABOUT Kohga answer. The FOR Kohga answer is here. And this is a good one to end today's spree on. <3))

So! The legacy our Master Kohga wants is not necessarily or only as The Master Who Defeated Calamity Ganon. This is because, while he logically knows he made the right choice to 'switch sides,' as it were, he also knows that this turned some of the Clan's stated and long-held goals on their head. And he also also knows that while the Clan was instrumental in the Calamity's defeat, it was a true group effort and he himself was not one of the two people most responsible, but one of a set of team leaders. So while that was a glorious moment of valor, surely (and the Clan has celebrated it during Ascension Day presentations since), Kohga wants his legacy to be less Guy Who Was a Key Support in Defeating the Thing the Clan Had Looked To for Millennia as a Means to Its End of Destroying the Hyrule Royal Family and By the Way Doing That Meant Allying With Said Royal Family, and more...

What he's done since then. The things he's personally done or set in motion that directly benefit his people, and the things he's done that show they have benefited and are benefiting themselves through his Decision.

He wants his legacy to be the useful and innovative tech he and a whole bunch of other Yiga folk have been creating and will continue to refine and expand on. (He's the Master that brought the Clan back to the roots of its ancestors, who refused to let go of that part of their culture until it all ran down, who kept the records, who continued using the runes and magic.) (The Master who made the Sheikah techies listen and take notes and accept that the Yiga had important knowledge and documents and skills to offer.) (The Master who's hopefully going to turn this tech into a lucrative source of income for the Clan as well as a source of respect from the other races, again.)

He wants his legacy to be the expanded and fully-revealed banana and citrus groves in Faron. (He's the Master who brought that out into the open and secured the Clan's most important crop from interlopers.) (The Master who, again, has turned something the Clan did for itself in secret into a legit rupee-maker.) (The Master who's shown Hylian banana farmers how it's done.)

He also wants his legacy to be the rice farmland the Clan has bought up in Necluda, ending the Yiga's long history of disguising themselves to buy another of their staple food items. (He's the Master who's proving the Clan doesn't need to subsist on scraps or deal with higher prices or hide when buying things.) (The Master who's encouraging his Clan-mates to learn new tricks--farming in fields, wow! And that's only the start! I hear they're working on leasing some soybean fields next!)

He wants his legacy to be the trade deals he's openly made, as equals, with the other races of Hyrule. For artisan goods. For crops. For monster-killing services. On and on. All of them made without begging, groveling, or apologizing. As. Equals.

He wants his legacy to be as the Master who took the Supposed Golden Holy Princess of Hyrule up Satori Mountain to meet the grandfather of the First Master, who showed her, the Hero, and the Champions the bloody and unjust and now-undeniable truth of 10,000 years ago.

But most of all, Kohga wants his legacy to be his people, walking the world and Being Yiga, without fear of being murdered on sight, of being immediately distrusted, of being imprisoned. His people, vibrantly sharing their culture and their goods and their talents and skills. His people, safe.

They will always be different. They will always be a bit apart, as they will never bend to Hylian Rule. They will not give up the parts of their heritage that make them Yiga. Their traditions, their masks and hidden true faces, their rituals, their weapons and magic, their home in Karusa Valley beneath the mighty Highlands. They have been in the shadows. They have been the shadows. This is an important part of being Yiga. But now, they can enjoy the light just as well.

What does Master Kohga want his legacy to be?

He wants it to be, decades hence, a group of Eye-veiled children, running the streets of Castle Town making mischief. Tumbling down grassy hills and jumping over puddles and chasing frogs in creeks. Laughing and singing and climbing trees and practicing their magic. All under a dazzling sun.

Little foxes, red and black and white. Unhidden. Safe. Yiga to their core. And free.

[noirandchocolate]

LoZ questions: 🗻🧚

(From this LoZ ask list. Hello bayyyyby!)

If you were in a Zelda game, where would you live? What would you be doing? (aside from being the hero or princess) Well you know if I was in BotW/TotK/AoC I'd be your hot Rito wife kidnapping any Yiga who try to kidnap you. <3 (Because I'm trying to annoy the Clan enough that they'll kidnap me too lol. I am becoming Master Kohga's official chronicler or dying trying.) Joking aside I like that 'sona and enjoy thinking about having fun adventures with you and Zora Joey exploring and writing stories about the things we see and the people we meet. I also have a fun thought that in Twilight Princess I'd have a book shop in Castle Town that could take the place of the fortune teller maybe? Link could come in and I'd show him maps and books that coincidentally give him hints in story/riddle form about where to find pieces of heart and where to go next and stuff. In Ocarina of Time I'd just straight up be the Dog Lady in Castle Town, wiggling and clapping for my precious baby puppy.

Favorite Zelda companion? Ohhhhhh my god Midna. I almost said Fi because she's my darling baby sword spirit and I love her and cry over her but MIDNA THO. The sass! The secrecy! The gradual opening up and giving and receiving of trust with Link and Zelda! This! Companion! Has! Character growth! Plus she is very cute. Midna Come Back challenge.