#urbose

Another finished commission; a reimagining/rearrangement of my stained glass Champions designs!

So, I just saw a post where someone had drawn Dark Link and a Dark Mipha, and I had a thought

I think we can all agree, the bosses of BOTW were pretty bad overall. There was a couple of high points, like Thunderblight’s speed and electricity focus, or how unique Calamity Ganon was as a character.

But now I’ve seen that post, it got me thinking, why not have corrupted Champions as the Bosses. As in, the way the Guardians were corrupted by “drops” of malice in the Ganon is reborn cutscene that plays on the Great Plateau, the Champions could have been corrupted the same way, and the Malice could have created distorted versions of them. Like, Daruk could be more spiky, using his Stone Smasher to try and kill Link. Or Urbosa being a now-unparalleled close combat fighter. Mipha would be like a healer, but the reverse, throwing Malice-infused balls of death to Link. Revali could have been a twisted, lethal killing machine, as aerodynamic as he is lethal. And the souls of the Champions are still inside them, so defeating the corruption does what it did before, but now with extra weight, with the Champions basically seeing Link outmatch a hyped up version of themselves.

And for the final boss, maybe Ganon needed a host body connected to a source of Power, like someone with the blood of Hylia for example. So, the King. And then that would add to the struggle Zelda goes through for 100 years, trying to stop what looks like her father from destroying the world.

Then when the Beast phase happens, instead of such a simple fight, it could have been feeble imitations of the four Champions corruptions, or however many you killed during the game.