Here are two pics I commissioned recently, since I wanted to see how Link might look as an immortal dragon 💖 Thank you so much @eethok and @smugcomputer!
This is an AU where Link got his arm back, but Zelda stayed as a dragon at the end. So she wouldn't be alone, Link became a dragon too using Mineru's Secret Stone.
As the Light/Demon Dragons are called the White/Black Dragons in other languages like Japanese, I decided Link should be the Silver Dragon. Maybe his English name could be something like Knight Dragon, because he’s silver like a sword blade, or the Hyrule knight armour he sometimes wore in the past, and due to him mostly flying at the Light Dragon’s side.
I was more involved in brainstorming aspects of the left pic because I only printed one set of refs. Design info under the cut.
Dragon Link retains his hair and eye colour like the Light and Demon Dragons do.
Like Farosh he only has one horn, with ‘damage’ resembling the decayed Master Sword.
He has eight eyelashes like the Demon Dragon (the elemental dragons only have six and the Light Dragon has seven), but with some lashes longer to resemble the Sheikah slate symbol. @eethok suggested the eyelashes be blue like Link’s hair tie, and that’s where the Sheikah slate symbol came in. This symbol is also used on the Purah Pad's screen.
He has a canine-like snout to reference Link’s wolf form from Twilight Princess, and the pink patches are vaguely referencing his pink rabbit form from Link to the Past.
His spikes and other accents are green to represent the Triforce of Courage, since the Light Dragon has blue spikes and the Demon Dragon has red ones. Even though this Link wears blue more, he still gotta be green! I tried to choose a shade like the Tunic of the Wild.
His inner eye colour and sclera might change because I haven't fully decided what they should be yet. The Light Dragon's inner eye colour is green and she has purple sclera
I'm not sure if his spine scales would be blue or silver, since the Light Dragon's are gold like her eyelashes, but the Demon Dragon's are black like his scales.
The poll spoke, with Unfused winning. I did however duplicate the Master Sword twice in two different weapon displays just in case.
To respect the poll results, Zelda's dropped torch will stay with the Unfused sword. Now I get to figure out what other weapons to display and what to fuse to them, like Light Dragon horns, or a Silent Princess or Sundelion, stuff like that 😊
Got all of Botw's Zelda Note Memories today. The last one in the Sanctum was annoyingly vague about how exactly to get in there with triggering the cutscene 😅 all the new lore is fun, looking forward to finally upgrading to the switch version of totk and unlocking the memories there too, except a lot more organically since there's a lot I haven't done on it outside the main story 🙂
Managed to display the Master Sword along with the torch Zelda dropped at the start of the game. Not sure wherever to have the Master Sword with a fused item, though, so it has those runes on it.
Aaaa thanks for the comment, and while that would lovely, I'm sorry to disappoint you ^^; The area in the picture is the South Hebra Sky Archipelago. I saw the Light Dragon flying over this zip line and thought it was very neat.
On this occasion, the dragons passed it from the side rather than flying over the zip line. Maybe they did it so they could see Hyrule Castle and not be flying facing away from it.
You can see what I think is Bravery Island in the background, as well :)
Occasionally, the Knight and Light Dragons travel a familiar path above Hyrule, mirroring the journey once made by the Light Dragon alone, though they sometimes alter the angle or direction slightly. Can you recognize where they are flying?
Here is the beautiful pic I commissioned from @snokkart. Thank you so much!
Though the Light and Knight Dragons's bodies emit a glow, it is not that useful in helping them see things in the distance. Their eyesight is keen enough in most circumstances, but not all.
The Knight Dragon adapted, however. Rare times when he was apart from the Light Dragon, he would roar and listen for her roaring back to figure out where she was.
Soon after, he began to use his roaring in another way. If he ever becomes disoriented in a fierce storm at night, he will roar and use echolocation to get his bearings. The Knight Dragon's sensitive ears can pick up any rebounding sound and determine if he or the Light Dragon are in danger of crashing into anything, like a mountain or the sky islands, and change course accordingly.
2024 is the Year of the Dragon! 🐉✨ I'd love to get a drawing of my Dragon Link made now that I have his design more finalised. I wonder if anyone has their commissions open... 🤔
Here is more Dragon Link art, this time commissioned from Mistressmoogle.
I decided to go with his back scales being the same color as his eyelashes, like the Light Dragon. I think it looks pretty nice with the silver of his main scales and his green spikes! ✨
