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I mean here's the thing, every time I have new ideas about this fic you're usually the first to know 😅 I have no idea what I haven't already told you!

At this point I think I really need to replay botw with the whole story in mind. There are so many moments that I want to highlight and want to make sure that they're fresh in my mind.

Lou, thanks for always making me laugh and being silly with me 😂 And for being your kind and loving self. I'm so glad we're friends! :)

3. your favorite piece(s)?

It’s been a little while but I think this is still my favorite thing I’ve drawn! (x)

22. do you have a favorite color palette to work with?

I really like working with warm palettes and often end up putting a layer of soft yellow on top with a saturation setting to brighten the piece💛

23. how many artstyles can you work in confidently?

hmm i guess 2? I have a slightly more detailed style for fuller illustrations and a more doodle-y style for comics and stuff. (And then a really ugly extra simple style for pen doodle comics lol.) Altho I supposed those are not necessarily separate styles but like registers/levels of the same style? And they’re pretty tied to the medium as well! Digital pencil brush vs digital pen brush vs physical pen and paper

Thanks for your questions! 💜

and if it's okay to ask for more than one... Untitled WIP #9?

Hi Lou! Thank you for asking!

For the Zelda Suite studio project, I've been working on the Zelda suite for about two years. I played it on my undergrad senior recital with a harpist last year, and for my first master's recital this year, I got the opportunity to perform it with a full band, and it was really magical! I was already planning on making a (home) studio recording of the Zelda suite with just me and a synthesized backtrack for a while, but synthesizers wouldn't be the same after playing with real musicians. So I decided it was worth it to reach out to them about collaborating again on the (home) studio version of the suite! (Being an introvert who hates bothering people, it was a bit nerve wracking, but they all seemed happy to play again.) I'm currently working on click tracks to send to everyone for remote recording, so I don't have much to actually show yet, haha 😅 Anyways, please stay tuned, because I'm planning a lot more with the Zelda suite and I'm really excited!

As far as Untitled Artwork #9, it's this lol

Link was quite talented with hair, Zelda knew--perhaps a little too talented, always being enlisted by the ladies of the village for an updo or some other elaborate haircut, and she usually didn't mind.

Except for this time, as she rummaged around their house mumbling, "Oh, where is my hairbrush?"

I've been letting this one stew today...

I think this would be a post-Calamity fic, Link's POV.

So in this fic, Link would not really know himself well enough to interpret his own feelings on-the-fly, immediately? And I don't mean this in the sense that he doesn't know because he woke up with no memories. I mean it more, like, as a core part of him. So, it takes him a while to look back and interrogate his reactions and feelings to things. This would've been true for him pre-Calamity too. I hope this is making sense?

Zelda and Link defeat Ganon and then, whoa, there she is, this new person in his life. He starts feeling all kinds of things, but he actually doesn't really know how to interpret them?

These things confuse him, it affects how he interacts with her. They have bright moments and then moments of miscommunications, little fights.

Eventually he gets so frustrated that he has a conversation with Impa. Impa patiently asks him a lot of questions and when he's forced to say things out loud, he suddenly realizes what's going on: he's developed feelings for her.

Zelda makes him all flustered, happy, frustrated, excited, etc., but he's been slow to interpret what his reactions actually mean?

Once he realizes, he doesn't leap right away into confessions: he's only just figured out what's going on in his head and heart after all! He needs some time to understand himself and rework how he's been interacting with Zelda.

But it becomes obvious to him, now that he knows. And this is where we get to a Little Bit of Longing because then he's just into full pining mode, now he's actively aware of it.

Of course, there'd be a very sweet scene where they'd have their first kiss. Link does manage to express himself to her, Zelda teases him a little because she's finally pieced together what his deal is. They're cute together, yay!

Lol how did I know you would ask about one of the Deku Tree Link WIP's, Lou 😏 THANK YOU FOR ASKING, I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THIS AU For this ask game OKAY SO I don't think I've talked to you about Raven Dekuson before.......... So, let's remedy that. FIRST THING TO KNOW: My "Deku Tree Link AU" is one of what I call my "megafics." Which means: it is not a oneshot. ;) "To Take Up the Crown" is the story that is the "main" story, I guess you could say? It was certainly the one that started it all. OoT Link, the Hero of Time, is one of the most famous Deku Tree Link's that there is, and that there ever will be. (whispers) But he is not the only one. ! —And now, my excuse to talk about my beloved obscure blorbo who only lives in the Zelda manga: SIR RAVEN from the ALttP ORACLE OF AGES manga by Akira Himekawa 🔥 ALttP was a typo and I'm not gonna say why because Sparrow lore but whoops my mistake