#dorephan

I’ve seen different heights in the models and screenshots ;; First is these screenshots from AOC, with a standing comparison amongst the zora npcs that are up to his waistline:

Here’s the BOTW model on the left (source), and the TOTK model on the right (source) that’s significantly larger:

By going into both games with him sitting on his throne, the model size seems to not have really changed from botw:

felt like sharing my headcanon for Mipha and Sidon's mother – this is Queen Runala :]

as you can see Dorephan's genes hardly contributed to Sidon's creation. also i imagine he was a grumpy person when he was younger. Runala definitely put him back in his place a lot and he had no choice but to chill

A lot of people seemed to like the design I did for Sidon and Mipha's buff mama, so I thought I'd add some things about her, and her relationship with Dorephan!

🌊 Her name was Solaile, which both follows the musical naming schemes of the Zora royal family (Do re, Mi fa, So la, Si do) and also is similar to the name Soleil in French, meaning the sun.

🌊 Dorephan married into her family and originally came from an oceanic Zora clan. You cannot look at that man's shapes and tell me he was originally built for land, he looks like he'd take one step and fall over. The name Dorephan is also one he adopted upon marrying into the family.

🌊 Queen Solaile was fearless and had a spitfire attitude, facing issues head on and even throwing herself into danger if it meant protecting her people. Where Dorephan is careful and calculated, she was proactive (and maybe a bit reckless). They balanced each other out extremely well. Dorephan misses that sense of balance she brought, and became even more cautious after she passed - esp over Mipha and Sidon.

All the unique Zora... or mostly unique as the black one from the right is Khira and her pallet swap is Chroma, but the files were still marked NPC and not UMii so yeah... unique Sidon head does not fit into the mask. the model has separate head model when he wears the mask that hides big portions of his head X"D (Also will he grow as large as Dorephan? there might be something about rulers of Zora that make them grow larger than typical Zora, as Muzu is still normal adult size and Dorephan? that's a big boy) Once again past champion is smaller that others. She is still a teen Zora then.