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I don't even play Legend of Zelda, but darn it, yes I was inspired by the Metrocon 2007 Anime Human Chess match. There's a part where Link gets jacked up, and Zelda fights on his behalf. Would take forever for me to explain it, you'd be best off just watching it. I'm sure it's on YouTube or will be soon enough. But anyway, Zelda's sort of being a villain when she fights for Link, because the bad guy has him hostage. When her opponent tells her "think of the fate of the world!" Zelda replies "He means the world to me."

That's what inspired this. No, she wasn't dressed as Shiek when it happened, and she wasn't holding Link's corpse. I wanted to make the picture seem more like something that would or could happen during the game. Since Zelda seems to fight as "Shiek" as opposed to just running around in her dress (not that she wouldn't), I dressed her as such. But I want to make them both fairly roughed up, so Zelda's hair is coming out of the turban (not like she's fooling anyone at this point).

I wanted Zelda to look frightened, upset (because Link's hurt) but determined. And I wanted Link to look very limp and unconscious, because if he had any strength left in his body I'm sure he wouldn't allow her to even try to protect him as she's doing right now.

The poses were very challenging, I've redrawn this picture at least 4 times. The foreshortening of the sword, both of their poses and Zelda's face was giving me the most trouble. I'm still not certain if it looks like Zelda. I don't play the games, so any pointers would be great.

Finally, the biggest pointer...where the heck is this taking place? I have no idea what any of the dungeons in Zelda look like, and I don't want to look up some random dungeon and have this drama unfolding in like a level 1 dungeon or something. If anyone has any screenshots of any cool dungeon or really any place that I could reference for a background, that would be swell.

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I don't even play Legend of Zelda, but darn it, yes I was inspired by the Metrocon 2007 Anime Human Chess match. There's a part where Link gets jacked up, and Zelda fights on his behalf. Would take forever for me to explain it, you'd be best off just watching it. I'm sure it's on YouTube or will be soon enough. But anyway, Zelda's sort of being a villain when she fights for Link, because the bad guy has him hostage. When her opponent tells her "think of the fate of the world!" Zelda replies "He means the world to me."

That's what inspired this. No, she wasn't dressed as Shiek when it happened, and she wasn't holding Link's corpse. I wanted to make the picture seem more like something that would or could happen during the game. Since Zelda seems to fight as "Shiek" as opposed to just running around in her dress (not that she wouldn't), I dressed her as such. But I want to make them both fairly roughed up, so Zelda's hair is coming out of the turban (not like she's fooling anyone at this point).

I wanted Zelda to look frightened, upset (because Link's hurt) but determined. And I wanted Link to look very limp and unconscious, because if he had any strength left in his body I'm sure he wouldn't allow her to even try to protect him as she's doing right now.

The poses were very challenging, I've redrawn this picture at least 4 times. The foreshortening of the sword, both of their poses and Zelda's face was giving me the most trouble. I'm still not certain if it looks like Zelda. I don't play the games, so any pointers would be great.

Finally, the biggest pointer...where the heck is this taking place? I have no idea what any of the dungeons in Zelda look like, and I don't want to look up some random dungeon and have this drama unfolding in like a level 1 dungeon or something. If anyone has any screenshots of any cool dungeon or really any place that I could reference for a background, that would be swell.