You've Got Guts, Kid

Low Activity.-[ Ocarina of Time Ganondorf ]-

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                          Ganondorf

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I always wondered why they changed gan's design so much when his execution in TP was supposed to be Child Link's timeline, so I did a paintover

answer is He's Too Hot

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The important takeaway, as always, is that Ganondorf took Hyrule down before he got the Triforce in OoT. He's a pretty considerable threat as a sorcerer without it, so a dark magic resurrected version of him with or without is still a pretty imposing being to deal with.

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very rough n lazy age progression because I felt like doodling after work

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Verses

* Ocarina of Time - ( Main Verse )

Flexible. Primarily written prior to the events of the game, but can take place anywhere within or prior to OoT.

* Post-Ocarina - ( AU with @legendarylullaby )

Child Link Timeline. Ganondorf is arrested on conspiracy of treason, but escapes custody. After a couple years of lying low, and letting the world forget about him, he returns to seek both the Triforce and revenge on the Princess.

* Majora’s Mask AU

Ganondorf is not a villain, but an over-sized shop boy at his mothers’ potion shop. He can either be found manning the front, or out foraging in the swamps and forest. Nice, but not super used to interacting with people his age.

* Calamity - (BotW Canon-Divergent)

10,000+ Years in the Future, Ganondorf’s body is buried but his spirit remains unrested. Whatever human part of his soul remains is buried deep in malice, and while he can still access some of the clever, manipulative pieces of his personality, he has largely given into the seeting beast the Triforce of Power brings out of him.

* Rewind AU - ( Ocarina / BotW AU )

At the end of their fated confrontation, the princess Zelda takes a calculated risk: Rather than allow the King of Evil to die and be resurrected once more to torment some future Hyrule, she sends his conscious soul back through time to where the conflict first began -- Gerudo Valley, 10,000+ Years in the Past, when the wrathful being they know as Calamity was just a mortal man. An AU of the question: If you could go back, knowing what you know now, would you do it all over again?

* College AU

Flexible modern verse. Ganondorf is a business / polisci double-major who would prefer to be studying music. Can be a little grumpy, but mostly he’s just tired.

* Modern AU

Flexible general modern verse. Generally in this verse Gan is in law or politics, but can vary for plot.

* More as they’re developed.   Willing to write in WW / TP verses, but I haven’t played either in a While.

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random headcanon: Shuruq

Ganondorf’s horse, Shuruq, is a purebred Gerudo stallion (based on a Percheron). He was sired by the stallion that Ganondorf learned horseback archery on, and birthed by a retired, decorated warhorse. He’s a very large stallion, well behaved for the most part, but can be a assertive and a touch dramatic -- he is unmistakably his rider’s horse. But unlike his rider, Shuruq’s affection can be easily bought with apples and pats.

Standing next to each other, they look like an average horse and rider, but both of them are around 6 1/2 feet tall at the shoulder.

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cont || @legendarylullaby​

Ganondorf didn’t have children of his own. Gerudo Kings couldn’t sire young themselves, but many in history had adopted orphaned youth, or the children of their chosen queens. Ganondorf had avoided both of these scenarios on purpose. There was very little in him that wanted to be married, and no part of him had ever wanted children. 

Gaining the trust of the Princess was a small part of larger plan. 

...Mostly the part where she stopped telling everyone he was evil.

A deeper truth, perhaps, was that Gerudo children were very socialized, and mostly well-loved by their community. Witnessing, after the fact, how the King treated his only daughter had always made Ganondorf grind his teeth, but his eventual intentions for the man were hardly friendly. His disregard for his own kin would only make it all easier, in the end. 

These were truths he did not acknowledge out loud.

The one he had acknowledged was that he was busy, and not much in the mood for one of the Princesses’ rambling sermons about her magic and her dreams and whatever it was she was going on about today. Meanwhile, he still did not know where the Ocarina was, he still did not have the stones, and he was no closer to getting the Triforce now than he was when the year began.

So he’d snapped at her, in his deep, dark voice, his frustrations over a plan she knew nothing about. And she ran. And he sighed.

Children were a chore.

“Princess-” He called after her, knowing full well he would have to follow. So he stood, and he did, hoping her Nanny and the guards didn’t assume he’d done her harm.

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random headcanon:  Ganondorf’s Parents, Birth, Youth

Ganondorf’s birth mother fought under the Gerudo Queen during the Hylian Civil War as a highly skilled mounted archer. During a battle, she was thrown when her horse was injured in a chaotic fray. The man who found her and her struggling mount was a Hylian blacksmith who, rather than treat her as an enemy, took both she and her horse in to aid in their recovery.

The Gerudo army mistook this for a hostage situation and went to seek vengeance, but upon learning of this act of kindness, offered protection to this man, his land, and any under his employment for the remainder of the conflict.

The queen eventually succumbed to her injuries of the final battle, but mandated that the man’s efforts for protecting one of her warriors would be rewarded. After the war was over, he was granted a rare welcome to Gerudo Valley, which he appreciated but rarely used, due to both it being a place of extreme weather and the rest of Hylian society’s hesitation toward the Gerudo people. However, he and the archer remained in contact, and eventually created a child.

At some point after Ganondorf’s conception, the Blacksmith was murdered by two in his employment for what they had seen as betraying their country. They attempted to frame Gerudo thieves for the murder, but the Hylian King was well aware of the man’s relationship with the Gerudo -- along with the loyalty that Gerudo show for those they bond with -- and the two men were shortly after found out and put to death. Partly as a genuine punishment, and partly as a peace offering to the Gerudo people who, by now, had come to work often with this particular blacksmith.

Twinrova, serving as an interim matriarch after the Queen’s death, was made aware of the male child when his mother died during childbirth some months later. Because of the high tension that still existed between the nations, and knowing that Gerudo Kings, while good omens in Gerudo Culture, were bad omens in Hyrule, she hid him away, and the valley kept his birth a secret for the first few years of his life. It helped that he was very ill, and couldn’t do much as an infant or toddler, so he was very easy to keep quiet.

Once things had calmed a bit, Twinrova disclosed his birth to Hyrule’s king, and immediately attempted to arrange his marriage to the king’s daughter, born a few months prior to the Gerudo prince. The kind was disinterested in this for several reasons, but sent his congratulations to the Gerudo people, again, as a sign of good will. Twinrova continued suggesting an arranged marriage even as he started accompanying her to Hyrule around the age of 10. She would not stop suggesting this until Ganondorf, as a teenager, began taking over ambassador duties to Hyrule without her company, at which point both he and the King found some relief on the matter.

Around the age of 15, Ganondorf underwent his trials to gain the trust of his people, and his crown. He was absent from his role as ambassador for several years after his coronation, extremely busy induction to kinghood, a serious (and deeply avoidable) injury, and subsequent journey of self-fortification. The king would pass on and the princess would marry the current king, a local noble. Ganondorf was invited to but unable to attend both the funeral and the wedding -- learning of both after his return to the Valley and made to  a prompt return to Hyrule at 18 to apologize to both his old friend and her new husband for his absence, at which point most of his job became making friends with an entirely new king who was...nowhere close to filling the shoes his predecessor had left for him.

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          She has failed in every step of this plan. She allowed EVERYTHING to fall apart. There is no solace for the Zora Princess, not even in death. She has scrambled from the battleground’s floor to a recluse area of Ruta. For a moment, she tries to calm herself. The signal must have been heard, someone must have heard it. SOMEONE HAS TO SAVE HER! 

                         But no one has come for her && what was once her greatest achievement is now her own inescapable hell.

          She buries her face into her hands as her sobs ring through the beast like a siren being overtaken by the waves. Each tear burns her cheeks with their trail, leaving marks ‘pon her. (As if she weren’t marked enough by the beast that had SLAIN HER.) 

                       “Oh Father…” Mipha cries to herself, “Father, please. I don’t want to die like this.”

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His fingertips dragged against the wall as he walked the length of the divine beast.

With no form of his own, he took to mimicking his environment; Here, the malice broke down and rushed like river to anything he wanted to closer inspect. A gear. A lever. A weapon. Reforming, in part, to touch it, or absorb it into his body, if this could be called such a thing. The phantom was almost serpentine in this raw form, before it stood upright, and red hair seemed to rise from the pulsing black like a body in water.

The he heard the crying. 

The single eye mechanical eye, centered in a face stolen from the beast, whirled to sense a direction, and his neck twisted too far to follow it. Once again the form sank to ink, disappearing to rebuild at the source ...with the unwitting help of the tools built to destroy in.

Reappearing in a room that held the Zora royal, he spoke. Its voice was almost human, but distorted. Wrong. A warped recording on an old machine. Something screaming in the background.

It was too calm. It was terribly certain.

“You can’t hide from me, Princess.”

What a familiar sentiment.

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New Verse - Calamity

“Legend has it that Ganon was once a Gerudo born in the distant past. Even if he was once a man, the only way to describe his current form is as a calamity. Both Calamity Ganon and his phantoms have fiery red hair similar to the Gerudo, which may hint at some truth the the legend.”  - Creating a Champion

Ganondorf has been dead for centuries by the Age of Calamity, but death has never done much to stop him. His name has become synonymous with apocalypse, and his history as a human being is long forgotten -- to both the world, and himself. Calamity is the corrupted, concentrated, unconscious wrath that has come of Ganondorf’s hatred for the gods and the kingdom of Hyrule. He has not forgotten his anger, or his enemies, but his reasons for seeking power all those millennia ago are buried far beneath his bitterness now. His only goal is to see Hyrule fall. 

This Ganon is a glitching blend of his lucid, manipulative, villainous personality, and pure unmitigated fury. The broken triforce embedded in his soul has aided in drawing this great rage out of him over thousands of years of imprisonment, and isolation. He has no set physical form, as he has largely forgotten what he used to look like, and tends to draw his image from scattered memories and instruments of violence that the malice has absorbed.

cw: psychological warfare, psychological torture, psychological abuse, manipulation, violence, blood

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ooc.

I feel like now that I’m following more than three people who know me outside of rp I should put a disclaimer that my grumpy gamer takes should always be taken with a grain of salt asjkld 

I’m a whole adult who has (for the most part, still making an active effort) grown out of  the ways of fandom elitism, and while my opinions might be screaming at the top of my lungs, I promise it’s just me letting myself be a kid and get mad about fiction for the catharsis of it. 

Your gaming preferences and favored blorbos are never going to be used as a value judgement here. If I’m being a butt as a fan, as a person I definitely understand there’s a reason we love the things that we do, and I love that art can do that for us!

Most likely if you see me yelling about something fictional, I am just having fun yelling, and you’re allowed, if not encouraged, to ignore me lol

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Adopting Erik Dellums as my Ganondorf vc

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Ganondorf's 5 Ethics are:

Don't abuse your animals

Don't abuse your children (other people's children are debatable)

Genitals are like nomads -- harmless unless they try to cross into your territory uninvited, at which point they can and may be destroyed

Don't rob the poor or sickly, unless they're talkin' shit

Placing your hand on a foreign body renders it forfeit to the will of that foreign body

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thanking god every day for making me queer-coded and extremely dangerous

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kind of a dilf. reblog.

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