#ganondad

( currently can’t do art rn - sorry ;w; )

BUT YES !! -

Time and Ganon have this really odd relationship in the au were they used to be team mates and have this mutual respect for one another. But then end up hating each other’s because of the absolute disaster their final mission was and just end up avoiding each other like the plague afterwards.

I just have this scene in my head where Time gets called into the headteachers office because Sky is being bullied by this little Jack ass ( affectionate ) Groose.

He goes in and is like “ what kinda kid does this shit -“

Then Gan walks in , and it alllll makes sense.

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But then Groose and Sky become friends and now Time and Ganon are forced to tolerate each other’s presence.

‼️ ALERT ‼️

Sorry it took me so long to answer this! It’s been a week.😅 I love Eternal Empire, it’s my writing baby (one of them lol)!

Hmm, just one thing … I’ve really enjoyed playing around with Gerudo culture and its effect on someone growing up, especially for Ganondorf and Lin. I mean, it’s a society completely made up of women (except Ganondorf, of course) in an incredibly hostile desert. There are going to be some major cultural differences in every part of life. I imagine growing up in a tribe of fierce female warriors had a big impact on Ganondorf, and I try to reflect that in EE—he’s a great fighter, he’s willing to make tough choices to save the people he loves, but he’s also very nurturing and in tune with his emotions. And without the Triforce of Power/Demise’s Curse muddling up his thoughts and intentions, those softer traits become more evident and safer for him to express. 

TL;DR: Eternal Empire Ganondorf is a very good Girl Dad ™️. And his two daughters 1000% have him wrapped around their little fingers.

It me!

Using my miniscule platform to gush about fan creations and amazing comics I like!

BUT

I would like to raise you. Reluctant Ganondad!

Picture this! Link and Zelda are very young (like wind waker age) and they both have unfortunate home lives. Link has no family and was essentially raised in the castle training day in and day out. Zelda only has her dad who is just like Roahm in botw but worse. They both absolutely hate that they have to do all this (at such young ages too). Well the time comes for them to fight ganondorf. He’s expecting full grown adults, not literal toddlers.

He absolutely refuses to beat up children, but they aren’t leaving. They obviously need actual tlc and a goddamn nap.

I love having a ever so slightly different approach to the found family version of the Triforce Trio and the lore there. This is not canon, but I don’t think I mind that.

This version is one where Ganondorf was genuinely just trying to make conditions better for his tribe and on his way back to his rented room in town unwittingly stumbles across the little Princess and a small feral boy outside the castle after dark(they were trying to catch fireflies with varying levels of success).

Instantly, they’re all over Ganondorf because the fireflies basically fall into a trance and follow him until he dismisses them. (It was a simple spell he prefers using in my version so he can see better in the dark)

They love it. They love Ganondorf’s subtle charge of magic around him, they adore how gentle he is with them despite his frustrations with how those meetings are going, and the fireflies are definitely a plus because they now have a jar full of them.

The little Princess is scared of the dark and it’s too warm for a fire during that summer. Impa didn’t seem to know what to do, but Link sure did when he became friends with her. They were just having difficulties because Link isn’t very agile like Saria or even Mido.

So Ganondorf starts to show up to help babysit the Princess. Link starts following him back to the rental room, and Ganondorf lets him because Link is literally homeless at the moment.

Link has full access to the Fierce Deity power even when he’s a child in this version, and Ganondorf stares unflinchingly back at the Deity.

When the true colors of the King show, leading him to outright tell Ganondorf to his face that he isn’t helping because they’re brown, Impa firmly decides that Ganondorf is a better influence on the Princess than the King himself is and passes the honor of caretaker to him so she can resign out of spite and lead a revolution with the women of the Gerudo.

So when the revolution is about to hit the castle, Ganondorf grabs both and runs.

Link is mostly confused about the transition, but Zelda is alarmed. She doesn’t know what’s happening, why Ganondorf would rush them out so quickly, and why he’s not explaining even as they’re on a horse out of the city.

They go to the Lon Lon Ranch first. Ganondorf has a friend there (my oc, Bear) who will give them a place in the barn for a while with him because he lives in the loft. Ganondorf leaves them with Bear and Phantom, because he wants to help Impa raise hell.

There was only one incident where Phantom had to be overprotective and it was when some of the King’s most trusted servants came searching for Zelda. This is kinda what it looked like since Phantom wasn’t yet fully grown.

After that incident, Ganondorf made his ghostly counterpart. It was made specifically to protect Zelda and Link, and to make it easier for Bear to work the ranch.