#imalei

I came up w this concept for meelo’s everyday clothes and like...i like it a lot but it doesn’t 100% suit him...I’ll prolly try more stuff out and see if i can soften this design more.

MORE IMPORTANT DOE AND WHAT THIS POST IS ACTUALLY ABOUT,,, meelo’s parents sdkgjhksagjdhgkjh,,, i regret making meelo a straight up cockatiel cuz i thot they’d both have to b one and it’d b weird,, but then i had the idea to base his mom off of a goldfinch and his dad off of a white-faced cockatiel

Their names are Imalei and Rheto respectively ,, ha

THIS IS THE FIRST STRAIGHT OC COUPLE I’VE BEEN THIS EMOTIONAL ABOUT SINCE I WAS LIKE 14 I AM SUPER FUNKY FEELIN IT,,, i m so sad. I hope i get around to doing fulls of them guhhh ,, nd i have some ideas ofc

Like i said ,, i got ideas for lore...i ORIGINALLY had it under a cut but tumblr decided to be a fuckin punk. My fists are so large.

Rheto came from a line of warriors and was raised to be a leader in the highest ranks (i dont know names of ranks and i dont care to LOL). Imalei was a cuckoo and of course was shunned by everyone and lived off of scraps. Despite everything Rheto’s family taught him, he was one of the few people that were kind to her and he grew an affinity for her, eventually falling in love with her.

She felt the same for him and they started to court each other. But as quiet as they tried to be about it, it still got out to Rheto’s family and they did everything in their power to keep them apart. Not only because they themselves looked down on cuckoos, but having anyone in the family be with one, especially the heir, would “soil” the family name.

But eventually Rheto was sick of his family’s shit and was so devoted to Imalei that he went to her in the middle of the night to ask her to run away with him and elope far away. At first she denies him saying that he has a future ahead of him that she can’t ask him to leave behind, but he tells her “that future is meaningless to me if it means you can’t be by my side.”

So with that they run away with each other, leaving Hebra for the first time in their lives with next to nothing. Nothing or not, they were happy to finally be with each other without the labels given to them by others keeping them from happiness.

Soon after, they met a peddler who showed them kindness and let them work for him, which led to them eventually becoming traveling merchants themselves; running their small business with what their friend taught them. All while meeting new people everyday and traveling across Hyrule, feeling more free than they ever had. Later they had Meelo who grew up on the road with them for a short time. (Not important but while Meelo loved both of his parents more than anything, he was more of a daddy’s boy cuz he thought he was so darn cool)

Then when Meelo was 5, their cart was ambushed and they ended up being killed while Meelo hid. And like Meelo said in uh... that one chapter in EHC, two Hylians found him crying alone about two days later, still not having left his parents side. They didn’t know what to do with him, so they brought him back to Rito Village.

And Meelo was subjected to the same life his parents had escaped from, except he didn’t have the bravery to escape like his parents, or even Meezuli, did.

Another thing I was thinking of is that once Meelo came to the village, Rheto’s family instantly recognized him as Rheto and Imalei’s child. And instead of taking him in and caring for him, they were especially cruel to him because they saw him as the embodiment of Rheto’s misdeeds and his existence was an offense to their family.

So, when Meelo later bloomed, was recognized for his talents, and started to rise in the ranks, someone from the family...his uncle I’d like to think...does what he can to try to keep Meelo at a low status and is quiet about his reasoning for it.

Yeah :)