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It's still July! Here's a korok for disability pride month.

I went to find reference photos for cane users and was really mad to find a lot of "old man leaning way too far over who even uses a cane like that?!" (Stereotypes that give you back and arm pain.) And the other genre of photos was "dapper people who aren't using the cane as a cane but rather a fashion accessory" Which feel less harmful to one's back but also not useful to me for what I wanted to draw.

I personally use my cane standing upright and move it in sync with my sore leg on the opposite side. And apparently one day I'm gonna have to get a friend to make me reference photos of my own gait but here's a korok based on my guess from what it feels like. I have many opinions about canes and adjustability but I didn't feel like drawing my beloved collapsible hiking cane so you get something visually simpler.

Since I don't use the cane all the time people are sometimes shocked to see me with it but my own mental image of self has included the cane for a number of years now.

my wip post made me realize that a LOT of people had the canon event of getting obsessed with zelink from the subspace emissary from super smash bros brawl and lowkey i love that for us and for them.

written for @zelinkcommunity Zelink Week 2026 Day Six prompt Heirloom

Rated: E for adult content

Summary: Years have passed since Ganondorf’s execution and Link’s adventures in Termina, but the past still weighs heavily on his shoulders. His self-doubt keeps him from fully committing to the one person who loves him unconditionally - Princess Zelda. To truly be happy, he must learn to surrender his heart to her.

Chapter Six snippet:

The hollow sound of the ocarina melts softly into the lilting notes of the harp. Link finds himself playing from memory, eyes gently closing as his fingers move of their own accord. A slow, sweet song unfolds around them. 

Zelda’s Lullaby. 

He soon becomes lost in the music and is taken back to the day she first taught it to him.

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"We did it. Despite losing friends along the way, we're finally free. I'm glad you stayed with me. We got the chance to start a new life and see what this vast world had to offer us. I know my home was above the clouds, but these lands feel the same... because you're with me."

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The moon was falling. Again.

It probably said something about how long Link had been trapped in Termina that he didn’t feel even the least bit of fear about this any longer, not even as it made the sky burn.

He could end this. Go face Skull Kid—Majora—and call up the giants to preserve this town. Not need to live through these days even one more time.

But… he hadn’t been able to help everyone he wanted to. He thought he might be able to this next time, if he hurried. If he went without sleep. It only seemed right to do all he could, if there would be no more repeats.

One more time, he promised himself. One more time, and then I’ll save them all.

He raised the ocarina to his lips and played the song his fingers had become so familiar with over the months or years or however long it had been. He expected the usual silence as the last note faded.

Instead, the quiet was interrupted. “LI—!”

Link knew that voice.

There wasn’t time to turn his head for his eyes to confirm what his ears had told him, because the song’s magic had already taken hold of the world and he fell through time and arrived on his feet at the doors of the clock tower.

All this time, and something had finally changed. Zelda came here. Zelda came here.

He wanted to see her again.

His grip on the ocarina in his hand tightened. He’d already promised himself that this would be the final cycle, he would end things this time regardless of how many people he may or may not be able to help. This just gave him more motivation.