๑Suvinak✨️🕊🌷

What did you mean when you said he understands you more than you'd like?

...I'd prefer to say no more on the topic for now. It's... a private affair.

TOOK ME 412 DAYS BUT SHE'S DONE

The rito consider musical performances and the action of learning music a sacred act. All our children are taught to sing, or play an instrument. Naturally, I did both, and two instruments, at that. I'm versed in the violin, and the Marimba. I haven't played since before the Calamity began, I was too preoccupied. Naturally I will continue to excel, but it wouldn't hurt to get a bit of practice in. I listen to whoever is willing to perform. As I said, the act of performing is sacred. Respect for the performer who is willing to bare a portion of their soul to the audience is ingrained, and in my opinion, correct. Critique is important for growth, but one who listens to another's performance just to insult it is... well, asanine, risible, and very likely, derisory. I'm interested in that hylian instrument, the ah, Harp, I believe. It's an interesting sound.

mastered.

(botw/aoc concept scene, set soon after the champion's inauguration.)

(p.s: Sidon basically nagged his way onboard Ruta, both Mipha and Dorephan where hesitant to let him on but in the end he got his way when Zelda was on a visit to watch Mipha pilot Ruta and study the beast's systems)

(EDITS:

They're both nerds and they get along, I just know it.

Mipha: ✨✨😄✨✨

Link: 😦 am I in love????

(Yes, yes he is.)

Another drawing from my miphlink x Tangled AU idea :)

future's peril

her home.

Just mere assistance

Ugh. Do I look like a bioligy teacher to you? Why don't you pick up a book for once in your pathetic life?

Fine. I shall explain this exactly once - and only because clearly I am the only Rito many of you fools seem to know, and it is important that you understand in which the ways we differ to Hylians -considering the fact we shall likely be fighting side by side in future battles. You should understand the workings of your allies and the way they move and fight.

This is the anatomical structure of a Rito skeliton.

As you may see, it is not drastically different to your own. Yes, we have very long wings and fingers compared to Hylians. We also have a pelvic bone called a synsacrum, a much narrower ribcage, and our knees bend in the opposite direction to yours.

Our upper maxilla is technically not part of our skelital structure, but rather a keratin structure similar to Hylians having teeth and nails, however we still include it within structual sketches.

Rito bones are hollow, not containing the marrow that Hylian bones do. They are very brittle, however very quick to heal.

Next we have the Rito muscle and organ structure. This is where we really vary from Hylian anatomy.

Rito have large, flat wing and back muscles for flight, we also have incredbly thick muscles around our thighs. While an at-ease Hylian may be standing straight, the Rito leg muscles are elasticated at tensition and are at ease when crouching. This is to cushion landings.

We also have cresting muscles at the base of our skulls and tails, which can lift the crest or tail for intimidation or mating purposes.

Rito eyes are different to Hylian eyes. Hylian eyes vibrate very slightly so that they can constantly percive depth in their surroudings. However, Rito eyes are stationary, thus we will often bob our heads silently while watching prey or enemies to enable ourselves to correctly detect where they are. Motionless, Rito have a hard time observing things which aren't moving. However, we are able to perceive a great deal more colours than Hylians can - including ultraviolet and infrared. Rito feathers contain a huge amount more patterning than Hylians are able to see.

Our internal organs are far smaller than most races in Hyrule for the purpose of keeping us as light as possible for flight, however this does make us susceptable to a variety of diseases and illnesses.

Rito have three 'stomachs'. A gizzard, which acts similarly to a Hylian mouth, grinding up the food we swallow into a digestable paste. Often we consume small amounts of gravel with our diets to provide roughage for this organ. A regurgitation pouch, for collecting and spitting up undigestable matter like bones and fur, and for feeding infants post egg-laying. And a regular stomach for digesting the paste-food and distributing nutrients to the rest of the body.

We have one intestinal tract instead of Hylian's two - for efficiency, of course. If it's all waste anyway, why do you need to seperate it?

Rito also function similar to Zora, with a cloaca instead of external genetalia. A female Rito will have a uterus which can expand up to fifty times its size to accomidate a growing egg, while a male Rito will have internal testis which produce a mucus-sac containing semen which can be deposited from the body during reproduction. Rito are incapable of knowing whether they're male or female until adolescence when they either begin laying eggs every three or so months, or do not.

Then we get onto the Rito feathers - which is a similarly important part of our anatomy.

Rito are covered in four different types of feather. Our primaries and secondaries, needed for flight, and our base and resistance, needed for sustaining body heat and the elements.

Chicks are born with little to no feathers, then typically grow an entire body-coating of base feathers within their first week or so of life. These are incredibly thick, downy feathers that trap warmth to keep our internal structure safe from the low tempretures.

As a fledgling grows, they will start to gain their primary feathers first. A thicker, sturdier kind of feather which cover our wings and make up our tail. Fledglings can start learning to fly as soon as they have all of their primaries grown in - however they are incapable of flying more than a short distance until their secondaries start to grow, as their wings are not thick enough to hold their weight.

Tail and cresting feathers begin to grow during adolecence, as do resistance feathers, which slowly begin to replace the base feathers of your upper body with each moult. These are a sleek, waterproof feather, much sharper and thicker than a base feather, and they act as a protective, waterproof layer for weathering the elements.

Throughout our lives, Rito do not tend to grow resistance feathers in their lower regions, which remain downy and soft. While Rito can be suprisingly strong swimmers, too long in a body of water will soak these feathers and cause them to become extremely heavy, and they'll take several days to dry out.

Rito also have plumes which grow at the back of our heads - a different kind of feather all together which Hylians often mistake for hair. While these are not included within anatomical structure illustrations, our plumes play an important part in our cultural practises. We never cut them and they never moult, but rather we grow them our entire lives, and longer plumes are considered a sign of wisdom and power. Warriors often wear them braided for efficiency on the battle field, however traditionally Rito captains will style them high above their heads to display their length to intimidate opponants.

And also, if it weren't for this ask blog and this post, Kohmli and his lil universe I've been making wouldn't have even come into being as a concept/character. This ask blog genuinely helped me get out of a creative burnout period back in March this year.

It's crazy that I first made Kohmli as a concept exactly 5 months ago now (March 28th 2025, ~1pm PST), literally in the middle of Spanish class while I was spiraling. Internally I was like "FUCK IT!", drew a bird head, slowly refined it over 12 days, and the rest was a lot for me since then. Somehow that single moment turned into a whole ongoing story and an OC who means the world to me.

This post was the spark that lit everything. The seed that grew into me finding my creative rhythm again. My art has evolved, I’ve grown so much, and I honestly don’t know if any of it would’ve happened without stumbling onto this blog first.

Thank you man, genuinely, for helping me through some stuff, I mean it. I’ll always remember this post as the moment that pulled me out of burnout and reminded me why I love doing art in the first place. 💙

might as well leave this here: @asktheritochampion (Hope this doesn't pry)