#stalfos

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[riddle-of-sphinx]

One of Two Things Perpetuated by the Zelda Community that bothers me to No End...

its the constant insistence that the hero's shade is a stalfos. Like. Ok. I understand his face is skeletal but just...

Ok here's the man himself.

And here are the depictions of stalfos in both OoT/MM and TP. They don't resemble each other at all. They are totally skeletal while only his face is skeletal, while his legs are transparent and ghostly. And the skull shape is totally different as well.

But do you know who the hero's shade does resemble?

These guys. They're the ghosts of hylian soldiers in Hyrule castle. It's hard to tell in these specific pictures, but these guys also have the skull like face and transparent legs.

The hero's shade is not a stalfos. He's one of these ghosts.

[zeldafloof]

Have the stalfos battle theme stuck in my head from skyward sword :|

It's not the worst song. But it's been stuck for multiple hours.

Why couldn't it be. Like. The lizalfos/magmanos theme instead? Genuinely like that one :3

Uhh uhh. Fun fact if you didn't know about it- the stalfos mini boss theme plays for several battles. The first stalfos fight in skyview temple with only one. A second stalfos battle further into the game where you go back through skyview temple and you fight three this time. Dreadfuse, robot pirate captain that took over the sandship, another robot that I forgor the name of that you fight in skykeep, and I believe there are two stalmaster battles- one in the ancient cistern and another in skykeep.

For the lizal them, that one seems to mainly go for fire minibosses- so any lizal battles in the earth temple, fire sanctuary, and I think it plays for the two at Skipper's area in the sand sea (forgot the specific name :/ along with the magmanos (magma hands that you gotta splash with water and then crumble) you fight three- both in the fire sanctuary iirc. The first fight is with only one, then the second fight makes you go against two.

Idk. I prefer the lizal theme cuz it's got. Like. A bunch of energy. I also like mimicking the movements of the lizals :3 they hunch over and sway from foot to foot. Idk, that's just my vibe man.

The stalfos theme is more of a "marching" theme. And there's three variations! Three!

Ye.

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