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Published: 2015-12-21 21:11:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 13023; Favourites: 369; Downloads: 269
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This is a reinterpretation of one of my favorite moments in one of my favorite games of all time: Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, for the Nintendo 64. In this scene, Link meets Zelda for the first time, while she is peeking through the window at the evil Ganondorf, who is mesmerizing her father, the king, in order to gain power.The screenshots on which I based the painting are here: sta.sh/02auvau12s7p and here: sta.sh/0ey44wcu61a , and if you would like to see the scene itself, that's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rrXB… . As you can see, my reinterpretation is a bit more sensual. But then again, Zelda always was a sensual character, even when she consisted of just a few pixels.
This is a single layer painting made with a single brush. I had a lot of fun making it, and I hope you will enjoy it. The painting is large so you can download and print it and hang it on your wall. If you do, send me a picture
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Welp, that's a hot Zelda. *favs*
What makes you say she was always sensual? I can see it in things like Hyrule Warriors, but beyond that, not much.
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Hmmm... Maybe it's just me. I have always felt a certain tension in her character and its relation to Ganondorf and Link. A bit like Red Riding Hood, the wolf, and the hunter. Zelda is strikingly beautiful and Link's reactions to her as well as Ganondorfs possessive tendencies suggest a similar reading.
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Wait there was a hunter in the red riding hood story? I don't seem to remember that at all, what kind of adaptation are you pulling from? Also I think your reading into the sensuality thing a bit to much, at least in canon though. It's a good work of art don't get me wrong, but this scene is supposed to have them as kids and it just feels weird. final thing I'm gonna point out Ganondorf doesn't like Zelda I don't think he would have any possessive tendencies towards her because he want the Triforce of wisdom. He loves power not people. Whatever carnal desires people have he doesn't have with Zelda.
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There is generally a huntsman or a woodcutter in the story, see e.g. Grimm's version: germanstories.vcu.edu/grimm/re…
I think that Ganondorf's relation to Zelda clearly has erotic overtones, and Link's interactions with Zelda evidence romantic interest as well. It's not really advanced psychoanalytic interpretation to suppose the core of the story is the rivalry for Zelda between Link and Ganondorf
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PLEASE EXCUSE THE FACT THAT THIS IS A LOT TO READ.I respectfully disagree and I can prove it through the actual canon. You can have a damsel in distress set up like this without any erotic overtone's. Keep in mind that both Link and Zelda were like 10 years old when they debuted on the NES with some exceptions like breath of the wild or ocarina of time, but in most games Link and Zelda are children. So you really can't say something is suppressed for younger audiences when damsel in distress stories don't inherently have erotic overtones. A beautiful princess can be kidnapped by a villain without want to get in her pants. That way of viewing of the situation is just an interpretation of said story telling. Here's the thing some interpretations can be flat out fucking wrong (sorry for the language I don't mean to sound like a jerk) Link and Ganondorf or Ganon as he usually is in most games don't have a rivalry for Zelda in an erotic way. In canon Ganondorf kidnaps her (though not in every game) for the purpose of acquiring the Triforce of wisdom. Also he wants link there as well because he wants the the Triforce of courage so that he can become omnipotent and all powerful. This story has a similar framing to Disney stories but even not all Disney princess operate this way. I'm respectfully trying to say without compromising any seriousness I'm putting forth now that this is your way of interpreting the damsel in distress story element in the legend Zelda series and I know this because you went out of your way to create a more erotic leaning of the scene from ocarina of time and replaced them with adults. I'm not attacking you for your interpretation feel free to have it but you know that it does not work that way in canon because clearly there isn't enough based on the fact that you in your own words say the overtones are suppressed. If there was you probably wouldn't have made and adult version of this scene that shows Zelda having more skin. It would only have your art interpretation of that scene. Yknow animated a little differently but not actually cartoon.
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Whether the damsel in distress scenario is ultimately symbolically based in the central theme of our species’ survival is up for discussion. I think it is, you think it isn’t. Fair enough. My painting states my theory graphically, but you don’t have to agree to appreciate it
Also I would agree with you that not all versions of Zelda bring this out equally. However I struggle to see how you could miss it in Ocarina of Time. Link and Zelda’s interactions in that game, as well as Ganondorf’s general attitude wrt Zelda, are at the very least suggestive.
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You missed my point I'm saying in some stories it is and in others like Zelda there isn't enough there in the first place. Your conflating erotic with romantic there similar but there not the same. One has the element of wanting to get in the persons pants you know for carnal desires, and the other genuinely cares for said person and wants to spend time with them outside of wanting to have sex with said person. That right there is the romantic element in between Zelda and Link and what little interactions they have with each other they are romantic and not erotic. Key difference here is one is carnal and the other is based on romantic feelings. The suggestive nature here is not there at all also Ganondorf doesn't interact with Zelda that way if at all b/c he freezes her in a giant rupee looking thing and by the time she escapes she calls him a pitiful man. That is what he is a pitiful man, there is no suggestive attitude with him towards her because quite simply he hates her and everyone else. You can't just say one minute there are clear overtones and then say its my theory graphically or use that as justification or proof thereof. That just isn't how things work.
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All right, I guess if you separate things like that you wouldn’t see it in the same way. I tend to look at fairy tales as harboring much darker themes than the surface suggests - and Zelda surely is a modern incarnation of classic fairy tales. See e.g. www.google.nl/amp/s/mariellisd… I am not saying that this view is “correct”, but it is certainly interesting, especially from an artistic perspective.
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Ok good to know your now aware of lighter interpretations. But this believe it or not is the correct, objective or canon way to view this story. Interpret it how you like but try not to say that the erotic overtones on the damsel in distress is there while that itself was not how Nintendo wanted you you interpret this story. some interpretations of certain stories especially Freud's Marxist beliefs are not really objective and I like to take the story as objectively as possible.
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I think I can see what you mean, though I think that sense of sensuality comes from what's inherent to the damsel in distress scenario.
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Wow, nice reinterpretation, I guess if they had met when they were several years older.
It kind of looks like someone is looking in on them in the reflection by Zelda's hand, Impa?
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Thanks. The reflection is the painter's
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