Hero Of Time - Tumblr Posts
Guess who? The Third part of my sculpture is done. I will paint it soon. More to come.
Panels with Time and the Master Sword are my favorite flavor of angst
Credit to @linkeduniverse
aren't you supposed to be a hero? you're awfully scary...
wanted to do like a screenshot modification/redraw?? like its technically just drawing it as a shaky lined comic book style thing
it was fun to experiment with! I hope to do more fanart like this
please go watch LoZ Hero’s Purpose on YT if your a LoZ fan!! Its made by this amazing long running LoZ animator MajorLink!
THIS and also the fact that music is what gave him power to save, too. without the song of time, he could have never saved the people of termina from the moon. the song of healing saved darmani and mikau. it also saved kamaro, pamela's father, and many others. music is deeply rooted into his identity as the hero. zelda entrusted him with the ocarina of time, and in linked universe he wears it in easy reach compared to his other items in his bag.
to the hero of time, music is power. it holds the power to save, the power to kill, the power to create, and the power of the hero. he wishes to pass on skill and power to his descendant, and he does that through song - the same songs that he once played as the hero. it's literally giving the twilight the hero's tools, in more ways than just combat.
one thing about the Hero of Time that really differentiates him from other Links is his connection to music. this isn't to say that none of the other Links are musicians or have a strong connection to music, like we have Wind Waker and Link's Awakening right there after all, but that the way music is integrated into Ocarina of Time and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Majora's Mask goes above and beyond a lot of the other games. the Hero of Time's personal connections are forged in duet and the sharing of songs—Saria gifting him her song and ocarina, Impa sharing Zelda's lullaby as proof of his connection to the royal family, Darunia warming to him after hearing the Saria's Song. Epona and Malon, the Skull Kids, the frog choir, the scarecrows, the Giants being called with a song. and, of course, you have the relationship between him and Sheik, how duet is the primary way in which Sheik can aid and communicate with Link. for the Hero of Time, music is so many things. a spell, a weapon, a key, a place, a salve, a mother tongue.
and for all that the howling stone songs are primarily easter eggs with not much else too them, in terms of gameplay or main story relevance, I think they're completely in character for the Hero of Time. what else would he leave behind, how else would he reach out to his predecessor but through a song?
big huge long rant/analysis about the hero of time and ganondorf in hero's purpose
i have a lot to say about this show so buckle up
first off, link. he's given his entire life, multiple times over, to the kingdom. and yet here he stands again. he enlists because he genuinely doesn't know what else to do with himself. he's known nothing but being the hero since he left the forest.
by continuing to fight, link reinforces demise's curse. and he doesn't. even. know it. zelda never told him. nobody ever told him. no matter what he does, link will only have to fight ganondorf again in his next life.
and he doesn't know what to think about it. when ganondorf finally tells him about the curse, he's so conflicted. being the hero ruined him. we've seen in the previous episodes his attempts to heal, to find something to give his life new meaning. but he only has found that in fighting longer. he doesn't know peace; only war. so when ganondorf tells him it's meaningless, this fight is meaningless, link doesn't know what to do. (these screenshots are from before he describes the curse but he tells link the exact details after)
he pauses each time before replying. his thoughts drift before he goes back to what he's always known, what's been told to him. he tries to come up with excuses why he should not listen to ganondorf - the people of hyrule (who don't remember him) and his father's death. zelda's lullaby plays as link and ganondorf fight. he is doing this for her. he is doing this for the kingdom. he's trying to remind himself that, because the alternative to fighting for hyrule is unthinkable.
but ganondorf is offering peace. he's offering something that to link, can only happen to other people. and his words make sense. link has been to the shadow temple, he knows hyrule's dark past. but zelda never told him about the curse. nobody ever told him that everything he's done will be meaningless in the next cycle. as ganondorf said, "meaningless courage."
this battle is not the hero of time's. it's between the chosen hero and demise. ganondorf and link are both only puppets for them, waging an eternal war they never chose to fight.
demise even takes over ganondorf's body at the end of episode five. and honestly, the same happens to link, too. zelda, skyward sword zelda, appears briefly when link's thoughts are literally changed to match his role in demise's curse. she laughs as well.
she appears again when link backs off for a second to comprehend ganondorf's words. the hero's spirit is literally not allowing him to stop fighting.
in episode six's teaser, the chosen hero appears, literally commanding link to return to him just like how demise commanded the same of ganondorf. the chosen hero raises his hand at the hero of time, and demise raises his at ganondorf.
final words about link. ganondorf's words may be a desperate attempt by him to make link give up the kokiri emerald, but he's right. all along, link has been a puppet. a puppet of the crown, a puppet of the hero's spirit, a puppet of demise's curse. fucking chills
okay next ganondorf. yeah i'm not done yet. holy shit i have so much to say about ganondorf.
ganondorf, unlike link, is aware of the cycle. "my ensuing demise has enslaved me." it is a cycle he is desperate to break. he still hates hyrule, yes, but he has put part of the blame for demise's curse on it.
he sees link as just as cursed as he is. and not "cursed and yet the hero", but "cursed to do horrible things." his view of the world is negative to all three triforce holders. he hates zelda, he hates link, and he hates himself. he wishes to break the cycle so that all three will no longer war with each other and kill the land.
his manipulation towards link is so interesting. obviously, ganondorf does not want to become buddy-buddy with link... but he tries to convince him that they should share a common goal. he knows link is traumatized. he knows link follows the kingdom's orders without question. and he uses that against him. though ganondorf might have debatedly "good" intentions, he is still using link. both zelda and ganondorf are using link.
and the scene where he realizes who link is. screenshots won't do this one justice so i'm linking (lol) a timestamp. (the video is embedding weird sorry, it's at 29:25). the music is incredible during this scene - all of the music for hero's purpose is, but i digress.
starting with the music. it's an arrangement of great fairy fountain... with final hours in the background. the greatness and holiness of link and zelda, and ganondorf's impending death. jesus christ majorlink, you've made something better than the game itself
ganondorf's first reaction to link is fear. above all, he is still terrified of the hero of time. the man who defied nayru's laws to kill him.
and look at the way link's first sight of ganondorf is versus ganondorf's first sight of link. they are both terrified of each other.
it's something to acknowledge that before ganondorf connects link to the soldier who stands before him now, he sees him as a child. when he tells link that they are similar in their uprisings and being forced into destiny, he isn't wrong. really, none of what ganondorf tells link is wrong. they are both victims in this story.
i'll likely reblog this later with more thoughts i have about them because this has been cooking in my head for about a year now. there's also great depictions of skull kid, impa, zelda, the happy mask salesman, malon, etc etc... i love this show. everyone watch it right now, even though if you read this i just spoiled episode five. and listen to the ost. and scream about the references to skyward sword and twilight princess with me.
ending this with a frame where impa cries out to the goddess and prays that the lives of hyruleians are not worthless, and then it cuts to zelda and link. and yes, link is a puppet to the crown - but impa and zelda still care about him very, very much.
hehehe ^_^ cooked this up rq for you i've been brainrotting them all day...
hero there's this Idea in my head. hero of time during like hero's purpose/that time in his life in general. child/early teen hero of twilight ends up in his care for whatever reason. they get close and hero of time starts to see this guy as his son. then years later as the hero's shade he finds out who the kid will grow up to be
OH MY GOD CARAMEL,,,,,,,,,...,,,,,HEROES OF TWILIGHT AND TIME FIRST MEETING.,,,,,,,MY BELOVED,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
do you mean like with time travel????????? like hero of twilight travels back in time as a kid and needs to be taken care of??? and then heroshade encounters him again years/centuries later and realizes OH.......THIS IS THE KID......................IT WAS THE HERO OF TWILIGHT...................
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Raven from my Inktober 2021!
I really wanted to show another of my favorite works from my Inktober 2021, this is dedicated to Raven day!
I love this character and many things about him made me think that he is the Hero of Time for the many similarities (theoretically for me he certainly is 💖).
I loved his story so much that I included references of him in my comic for my Time!
I for one think it's an absolute crime that there isn't more art and stories about these two together.
I started this a while ago, so I'm not 100% happy with some of the line work in it, But overall I'm happy with how it came out.
Hi so I've fallen into mandalorian hell there's no saving me. I'm also having a crisis because episodes 7 and 8 stole my spine and there isn't a second season yet.
So anyways I was struck by a thought. So like mandalorians just up and adopt orphans and if a kid happens to impress them they have the kiddo become a mandalorian.
So let's assume a post majora's mask young hero of time Link ends up in the star wars universe.
...How fast would Link get adopted by mandalorians?
Another dumb AU idea, probably.
So the hero of time looks like the first hero from that one skyward sword manga right? So here's the dumb idea: the hero of time, years after his adventures and an adult once again, wakes up to the song of time ringing in his ears, in a place he doesn't recognize, and wearing a green tunic and red scarf that is definitely not his. That's when some people show up, see the hero of time in the first hero's garb, and immediately assume that he is in fact the first hero. They then drag him back to whatever strong hold they are holed up at or whatever. This leads the hero of time being force to pretend to be the first hero while figuring out what the hell is going on. Also the hero of time needing to restrain his burning desire to punch the goddesses hylia in the face.
Random notes:
Hylia doesn't recognize that the hero of time isn't the first hero, she identifies mortals by their souls and the hero of time does in fact have the soul of the first hero.
Hylia does notice the sudden "personally shift", especially how he keeps avoiding her and tenses up whenever she's around. She's worried for her hero and vows to figure out what's wrong and make it right. She's doing this with the best intentions, not realizing that it's only making the hero of time more stressed.
Link has all of his gear from his adventures and is not afraid to use them. He avoided using them at first out of fear of being found out, but eventually ends up realizing that saving people is way more important and just either deflects questions about his "new" gear or bullshits his way out of the situation.
The fierce diety isn't evil, and link using the mask could be used as the "identity reaveal"
Another option: the hero of time became the feirce diety after the fight with majora, and low key works with the goddess of time now. The goddess of time was pissed off when she finds out what the hero of time had been through, and decides that hylia obviously is NOT responsible enough to have a chosen hero and yoinks link. This of course opens up the possibility for the goddess of time showing up and giving hylia a stern lecture. Hijinks ensues.
This entire concept is perfect for angst and drama and yet here I am wanting to use it almost exclusively for hyjinx and Tomfoolery.
My brain won't be quiet so have a part two to the "skeleton dad au" as I am now calling it until I can think of an actual name for it.
As the hero's shade, Link can transform into the golden wolf. He didn't know this at first, but once he realized he could he started using his wolf form quite often. Interestingly, after the curse is lifted and link is "revived", he is still able to transform into the golden wolf.
Malon is just as much of a gremlin as her husband. Case in point: at one point Malon decided it would be funny to try and squeeze herself into Link's ribcage. She didn't consult Link on if this plan was a good idea at any point. She of course gets stuck, and in the end Talon has to help the couple get out of the mess. Malon was -and still is- completely unrepentant. Link was horrified by the experience and refused to leave his wolf form for 2 weeks.
Link got cursed into the form of the hero's shade while protecting lon lon ranch from a demon. During the fight link lost an eye. When Link landed the final blow on the demon, a surge of dark magic knocked him to the ground and surrounded him. When the magic dispersed, Link's transformation was complete.
When Link woke up after getting cursed he had a full blown crisis. It took some time, but with Malon's help he learned how to cope with his curse, eventually embracing it. After the curse is lifted, it takes Link some time to get used to being a hylian again.
Link honestly has no clue where the armor he wears as the hero's shade came from. He never owned a set of armor like the shade's before getting cursed. It just kinda appeared on him when he got cursed. Furthermore, the armor can't be removed by Link or by anyone else.
Link is very guilty of skeleton puns. A rather infamous one of his is "humerus" jokes. He becomes known for pulling out his humerus while making a horrible pun like "well I think my jokes are pretty humerus." Everyone groans and tells him to stop but they all secretly love his puns and he knows it.
Once, when Link got truely upset with something someone said, he chucked one of his bones at the person's head. When the person in question asked what was that for, Link looked them dead in the eye and said "because that wasn't very humerus of you." He had indeed thrown his humerus. This becomes a reacuring event.
After the curse is broken, someone says something that would have normally earned them a humerus to the head. Link on instinct goes to grab his humerus, but instead finds his now fully reformed arm. Link can now only glare at his intended victim as he informs them that they are so unbelievably lucky that he can no longer chuck his bones at them.
Once, An unwanted suitor of Malon heard rumors of how her husband turned into a skeleton, and assumes that they mean Link died. He sees this as a chance to try and win Malon's heart, and sets out for the ranch. The man immediately starts showering Malon in "condolences for her loss" without giving her any room to correct him. The suitor is both oblivious to Malon's obvious displeasure aswell as the figure that had entered the ranch house. He doesn't notice that anything is amiss until a shadow falls over him and a cold, sharp hand digs into his shoulder. Moments later the man is running for his life from the ranch, a golden wolf nipping at his heels, and Malon leaning against the doorframe as she laughs uncontrollably.
Link at some point brings home a stalhorse and declares that they're keeping it. He names the stalhorse Stal-lion, much to Malon's glee and Talon's disbelief. Epona becames the best of friends with Stal-lion, and will kick you if you ever say anything mean about her friend.
If you just found this, here's a link to part 1
Song Of Friendship - by ME
Hopefully the photo quality is decent enough :/
CRYING 💀
“Nothing bad ever happens to the Hero of Time!”