#aoc wild

[lu-birdbrain]

WIP as usual, have at it

#lu #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu wild #aoc wild #aoc link #never finished it but here you go

[yutaan]

A papercraft commission of Zelda from Breath of the Wild/Age of Calamity, featured here with the Bow of Light! I had enormous fun cutting out both her swirling hair and the swirling shapes of the bow's decoration - extra-detailed shapes like that take a long time, but the end result is very satisfying. ^_^ And, of course, I'm always excited to make Legend of Zelda art!

#the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #age of calamity #princess zelda #bow and arrow #papercraft #papercutting #paper art #traditional art #my art #I grew up on Ocarina of Time and then Majora's Mask #so those will always have a special place in my heart #but everything I've seen of BOTW and AOC is absolutely gorgeous

[hesitatenight]

is that....?

#loz #botw #breathe of the wild #tears of the kingdom #totk #aoc #age of calamity #yiga clan #master kohga #sooga #yiga blademaster #yiga footsoldier #link

[artsy-moonwalker]

link series pt 14

Breath of the Wild

#link #fanart #Zelda #link fanart #Zelda fanart #tloz #loz #legend of zelda #the legend of Zelda #botw #botw link #Zelda botw #breath of the wild #breath of the wild link #age of calamity #aoc link #tears of the kingdom #totk zelink #totk Zelda #link series

[villian555]

You are Link yes, but Link is NOT you. He is his own character, as much as some of you want to pretend he isn't at all:

He is sweet, honest, has insecurities. Has worries. Cares

As fun as "manwhore tarzan gremlin" Link can be in fan content, far too many people treat that as canon just because of popular memes or fanart. When in reality, he's more like. a serious and awkward teen who makes an occasional joke every now and then.

It sometimes feels like people forget he's meant to be a loyal knight and a hero

Just because YOU don't care about anything or Princess Zelda, etc, doesn't mean that Link also doesn't care.

#zelink #botw zelink #totk zelink #breath of the wild #botw link #tears of the kingdom #link #totk link #legend of zelda #loz #tloz #age of calamity #aoc link #zelda #hwaoc #zelda hot takes #unpopular opinion #stop projecting so much that you actually think he's a “chad” asshole who treats women as just fuck objects #or just an idiot monkey #he's not like that at all #“link doesn't care about her” wrong. YOU don't #sad some of you hate to see a fantastic female character get the happiness she deserves

[kenneduck]

This 1000% happens in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.

#sidlink #tearsofthekingdom #sidon #link #zelda #prince sidon #zelda fanart #botw #zelda breath of the wild #breath of the wild #age of calamity #hyrule warriors #Hyrule warriors age of calamity #princess mipha #aoc mipha #loz mipha #breath of the wild mipha #champion mipha #mipha fanart #lady mipha #mipha x link #link x mipha

[coconi]

somehow I always end up making these 💙💚 (insp. here & here)

#revalink #loz #botw #breath of the wild #age of calamity #aoc #revali #loz shitpost #there's a biiiig chance at least one of these has been done before but if so i forgor #cheers ✌️

[maz-koshia]

hi this is my theory

#master kohga #yiga clan #age of calamity #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #aoc #botw #totk #loz

[demiboydemon]

#the legend of zelda #the ueue after q is silent #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #tloz #botw #zelda #age of calamity #aoc #hw aoc #hw link #tears of the kingdom #link #loz link #loz #tloz botw #tloz aoc #loz botw #loz aoc

[shellshooked]

whoever designed totk purah deserves a big smooch on the lips

#like. wiped the floor w aoc purah im so sorry😭😭 #like this is peak tloz design im so serious #shes so mother #my art #totk #tloz #tears of the kingdom spoilers #tears of the kingdom #totk fanart #botw purah #totk purah #tloz fanart #loz fanart #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #the legend of zelda fanart #breath of the wild #botw fanart #botw

[naetles]

happy international lesbian day

#credits to whoever made this because i found it on twitter a year ago but can't remember whom i retweeted it from :( #the l in link stands for lesbian #so does the l in zelda #it's either lesbian or t4t and bi4bi when it comes to these two just so y'all are aware #do not interact with this if you disagree #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #age of calamity #tears of the kingdom #tloz #botw #aoc #totk #link #zelda #zelink #international lesbian day

[snail-studios]

pretty pretty

#snailsstuff #art #loz #fanart #zelda #artwork #mipha #breath of the wild #princess mipha #age of calamity #mipha aoc #aoc #lady mipha #~

[pichichustudios]

✨Sheikah sisters ✨🥰🙏❤️❤️❤️

#purah #impa #the legend of zelda #tloz #totk #botw #aoc #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #tloz breath of the wild #tloz tears of the kingdom #totk purah #botw tears of the kingdom #age of calamity #Zelda #loz link

[kbluebirdart]

Do I ever tell you all that I love angst and yearning stories (with a happy ending!)

I like to imagine a world where they are friends for so long time before calamity. Please excuse any grammatical errors! and thanks for reading!

#Please excuse any grammatical errors #fan art #botw #zelda #zelink #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #botw link #princess zelda #my art #botw zelda #botw zelink #maybe #Aoc #comic #my comic

[onefey]

"gorons are allowed into gerudo town because they're genderless / female to gerudo standards" is the best piece of lore in zelda. because out of all these characters,

this is the one that's canonically nonbinary

#i love you daruk and your gender swag #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #botw #daruk #loz #age of calamity #aoc #<- the like. best vai competition or w/e. best side mission in aoc #this has probably been said to death but im putting it out there anyway #fey rambles

[valictini]

I was watching a video analysing how the Yiga clan were handled in botw and how the person analysing it lamented the fact that Kohga was a joke character who totally destroyed the much more threatening image the yiga clan had all throughout the game. Although I do understand the sentiment (I felt that way for a long time) I’ve come to realise that we might not be viewing it in the right perspective. I ended up writing a comment under that video explaining how I saw things, and realised that maybe it could interest people here too? So here is the fleshed out version of it:

I think part of why they made Kohga extremely goofy compared to a way less goofy clan of literal assassins is to emphasise how even though the clan originally held some understandable beliefs, it has become a cult of personality over the years, and like most cults, the leader is way less charismatic than his followers make him out to be. Indeed, from the outside, it seems absurd how anyone could take Kohga seriously, let alone kill under his command, but from the inside, Kohga is the Beloved Leader That Guides Them Towards Victory, and anyone threatening him deserves to die.

In a way, yiga clan members feel like vulnerable, impressionable people who were enrolled into a cult and given a Big Family and a purpose (and a lethal weapon) by their lovable Master Kohga who wants the best for them… Except if you want to get out, then you’re a filthy traitor who also deserves to die. It’s especially visible when you beat him and they all get personally mad at you for killing him. They didn’t care about Ganon, they didn’t seem to actually understand the bigger picture, they only cared about Kohga.

It also shows how, like the rest of Hyrule, the Yigas are very much disconnected from their own history, seemingly holding on the grudge their ancestors held more as an excuse to continue to enact violence and perpetuate the cult of personality than fighting for a “noble” cause. Only Kohga seems to actually care about Calamity Ganon, and the rest of the yigas seem to be just tools to him. Wether or not he’s actually conscious of what he’s doing is unclear. Is he a fully aware con artist, or is he purely another product of Yiga indoctrination?

So yeah, to me it feels like a parody/critic/mockery of cult dynamics. It shows that this gang of assassins are indeed a real menace, but for seemingly no reason other than “that one lunatic they admire told them to” and “if they go away they get killed”. The reason why the clan was originally created becomes almost anecdotal. Under the current leader, no one is required to actually know what they’re doing, they just need to follow orders.

In the end, I think it is the intention the developers had because cults are a rampant problem in Japan. At the very least, even if it’s not a actually conscious critic, it’s a concept that is much more present in their cultural landscape than ours and that almost certainly influenced how they handled the Yiga clan. Basically, cults are not cool and can even be dangerous both for the public and their members. Cult leaders especially are not cool and often are con artists. Therefore, Kohga couldn’t be badass, he had to be a doofus getting beaten in the most unexceptional way possible.

#botw #breath of the wild #master kohga #yiga clan #kohga #loz #the legend of Zelda #tloz #meta analysis #i purposefully didn’t talk about kohga’s change of heart in AoC because to me this game is not canon #one could argue it proves that Kohga is actually not aware of how catastrophic enabling Ganon would be #but for the sake of keeping it focused on botw I didn’t mention it #cult mention #valictini talks