#zelda 1

[zoobie-the-popplio]

What if Zelda 1 and 2 got modern remakes

[cloverscry]

have been chatting about the NES princess zeldas so here’s some miscellaneous thoughts on them! these are some of my rambling messages from discord that i cleaned up:

I imagine Zelda1 Zelda to be a very brave and strong willed person. She made the decision on her own to split the triforce and put it above her own safety. She was put in this difficult situation but she handled both this and being captured by Ganon with grace and courage rather than letting it all crush her. I think she comes out of it all thinking of it as something she has overcome rather than something she was a victim of, because she has this strong willpower that drove her decision making in the first place.

And when I think about AoL Zelda it always comes back around to how she deals with adjusting to change. I imagine she was put to sleep when she was still growing, and she wakes up in a grown body in a brand new world with a new princess and new people and everything she’s ever known is transformed including herself… feeling as out of place in her own body as she does in this future world and learning how to adjust to both.

I think she would be a bit afraid of becoming like her brother. Worrying about, what if she starts to want the power that this new Zelda has as the current princess? Since she’s from a time long past, she wouldn’t be given the same political responsibilities and trust as the current princess. But those responsibilities are what she had before she was cursed, they’re the one thing that she would be used to in this changed world. So she might find herself wanting this position as the Princess. So she sees herself becoming like her brother in this somewhat power-hungry way, and it scares her. Generally I think she’d be conflicted about her brother. The last memory she has of him is him cursing her, and when she wakes up she has to hear about how much he regrets it not through his own words there beside her but through his actions that are now just a distant piece of history.

[casunnart]

[perseytheperson]

New idea just dropped

au where the Z1 gang. Is happy. And they all live together. For like a year before it all goes to shit again

[chichimakesart]

finished skyward sword! only took me a fuck ton of time and four tries of the demise fight! i'll be playing zelda 1 and 2 next wish me luck (thank god switch online has the rewind)

[undedkat]

[itscherry-starlight]

Hey, tumblr keeps saying it can't process my response e to your response to my post about the blood curse idea so I'm throwing it out here. Uh... this is long. Sorry.

I've always taken it as canon since it was what the manual said and when we die in the game, Ganon appears laughing in the game over screen. We could say we named it "blood curse", but to me, it's pretty much implied that is canon and it would happen. Tbf, I actually already know abt the fae hc, that's definitely not canon I don't think they track him tbh, maybe more like looking for him over all the map

Eh, in my experience when someone talks about Hyrule having a "blood curse" they're not just talking about the idea that his blood can be used to revive Ganon, but rather a more specific concept that he's actually cursed, despite never being described as such, usually as a dying action from Ganon... and yes that is more in line with Castlevania 2's plot then Zelda 2's... and that game's mechanic where the towns are overrun by zombies at night is more in line with the idea I see in fanfics where the common folk seem to almost universally hate Hyrule and want to run him out of town... does the Linked Universe fandom think that Hyrule is Simon Belmont? ...probably not, but it would be funny.

Anyway, I got a bit sidetracked, from what I've seen the typical fan idea of the blood curse has monsters being able to sense Hyrule from a distance and I've seen fics where everyone somehow knows about the blood curse and it's used as an excuse to make everyone hate Hyrule because the fandom seems weirdly allergic to the idea of him not being totally isolated.

one member of the hylian royal family did what

So canonically the dungeons in Zelda 2, the 6 palaces/temples and the great palace/great temple, were made by the King of Hyrule who hid the Triforce of Courage as a form of trials and defenses to ensure the Triforce of Courage didn't fall into the wrong hands.

Stalfos in Zelda 2, as well as the stronger Parutamu, are completely exclusive to the palaces, meaning that the historical King of Hyrule, who is narratively portrayed quite positively which has some fascinating implications about the devs ideas in those early days, must have made some skeleton soldiers which would be considered necromancy.

Technically not even the only thing suggesting that the Hylian royal family is chill about skeleton soldiers near the end of the downfall timeline. It's way, way, way more of a stretch, but...

Zelda 1 has 9 dungeons, Death Mountain is Ganon's base of operations, but the 8 Labyrinths and those are where Princess Zelda chose to hide the 8 pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom to try and keep it out of Ganon's hands. So the Hylian royal family at least knew about, and possibly built those hidden underground complexes that seem to serve no purpose other then to be well fortified vaults.

Now there are some enemies found in both Death Mountain and at least one of the Labyrinths, so some of the things in the Labyrinths are either just part of Hyrule's ecosystem or an attempt from Ganon to raid the Labyrinths, and even the stuff exclusive to the Labyrinths aren't necessarily meant to be associated with whoever built the Labyrinths since the Goriya are exclusive to the Labyrinths in Zelda 1, but show up as more normal enemies in Zelda 2... but it's not outside the realm of possibility that at least some of the things exclusive to the Labyrinths are supposed to serve whoever built them.

So Stalfos (and Gibos for that matter) are exclusive to the Labyrinths in Zelda 1, and the Labyrinths are at least potentially affiliated with the Hylian royal family so... again it's a really big stretch, but the Hylian royal family late in the downfall timeline liking to use skeletons soldiers is actually a canon compliant theory.

The evidence isn't the most compelling, but there's stuff that can be interpreted as evidence, and to my knowledge it doesn't actually contradict any lore for that time period, so... eh?

Well, it's never stated is a curse, but the fact that you are sacrificed and your blood is scattered on the ashes of someone you murdered revives him, that's pretty much like a curse to me. It's not that it has a curse per se, but it's a figure of speech.

Whoa, the necromancy thing ia actually eally interesting, never thought about it

[littlelinkguy]

this is a find from a few years back but I still think about this a lot its like naoko takeuchi drew this mofo look at those legs [nintendolife article]