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actually,,i have many thoughts in considering making a custom ganondorf doll. I have this old ww ganondorf toy that I have already modified before, I pretty much altered his face (my twt followers did not agree w me using full on acrylics for his face but oh well). but the idea of maybe going a little further and make him fully poseable has been resting in the back of my mind for a very long time. So I made a blueprint(?) of how I would possibly make this work. also maybe making him alternative accessories like different facial expressions and different hand poses.

Look who’s dancing 💚

This is just a little snippet of something I’ve been working on (I was missing my ballet AU). The final animation will be around 15 seconds long and will include music! I’ve been working on it for almost two weeks and only have 5 seconds done 😆

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Origin of Hyrule no. 1: Skyward Sword. Zelda, Link, and the Skylians settle the surface world at the game's conclusion. Notably, their dress looks nothing like the Zonai era.

Origin of Hyrule no. 2: Tears of the Kingdom. Rauru and Sonia are the king and queen who founded Hyrule. Notably, Zonai mechanisms and architecture greatly resemble the pre-Skyward-Sword-era Lanayru mining tech and symbolism, though Skyward Sword's art direction is more cartoony than TotK, so that has to be taken into account.

That's where it gets cyclical. If TotK's forgotten era came first, then:

Zonai influence should be ALL OVER Skyloft

The Gerudo should not exist, because they're (implied to be) descended from Groose, a Skylian; at the very least, there should have been a whole Gerudo culture in the Sky

Where did the Secret Stones go?

We should have seen Zeldra flying around in the sky, let alone Dinraal, Farosh, and Naydra

But if Skyward Sword came before all things Zonai, then:

The Lanayru Mining Facility (assuming it to be Zonai in origin) should not exist

Hyrule should have already been founded by Rauru's time

Of the two, Skyward Sword being first on the wild surface makes more sense. But if that's the case, there are even more questions:

Where did the Secret Stones come from? Are we to believe that Hylia gave them to the Zonai, since the Golden Trio have already left the Triforce and departed?

What about the Zonai themselves? They supposedly descended from the heavens. Were they just up so high that the Skylians couldn't find them? Did Hylia cleave the ground twice? Did they spontaneously appear up there like mice in grain bins?

Why is there a whole Temple of Time with bells that Rauru, one of two of the LAST of his species, woke up and went to sleep to? In fact, why is there an entire kingdom's worth of structures already built before the Sky Reckoning?

My solution:

The Gerudo are extremely weird and rigid about gender, to the point they hurt themselves in their confusion. They break up families and ban the girls from interacting with men just to send them to school in order to... teach them how to interact with men and the entire ordeal leaves everyone involved riddled with anxiety and a comical lack of social skills. Why would Ganondorf be immune?

Now, I am well aware that the whole "voe are banned" thing is probably because the Gerudo decided after Ganondorf that men are bad news. But that in itself shows that they were never reasonable about it to begin with, since they're letting one man's actions speak for all men. I digress.

What I'm getting at is that Ganondorf may have been doomed by the narrative after all. I never bought the idea that Ganondorf is a tragic character who's only evil because of Demise's curse, or because he was just trying to provide for his people, but I can buy that his people's general inability to be normal around him contributed to him going mad. As in, he could have turned out to be just an average spoiled-prince-turned-ambitious-douchey-king, but he had the misfortune of being raised by people who WILL ensure you are anti-social, completely out of touch with reality, and the opposite of well-adjusted by the time they're done with you.

The Gerudo NPCs' dialogue makes me wonder what kind of NPC dialogue we could have gotten from the random Gerudo men who were born every 100 years and never caused Hyrule problems, or from Ganondorf himself for that matter, if he was allowed to wander the kingdom himself for a bit. Could you imagine an idiot savant version of Ganondorf—a version of him that is clearly cunning and skilled but can also be awkward and straight up ignorant in the same way his subjects who travel the kingdom are sometimes?

If I had a nickel for each of my favorite games that started with a mysterious goat person who was former royalty adopting a wayward human after they fell into a bottomless pit leading mysterious otherworld hidden from the surface… I’d have a Phineas and Ferb bit.