drawn Jan 11, '04
posted for Jan 5, 2007
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This picture officially introduces Rana, a young
Hylian who I made up. Because I made her up when I was very young,
her backstory is uncomfortably similar to what is often called a
'Mary-Sue' or a character who is too good to be true. Rana, two years
younger than Link, was discovered on the edge of the Kokiri Forest
by one of the Kokiri children. She was given a fairy and taken in by
them, even more quickly than Link, who, as we know, didn't get a fairy
until the beginning of Ocarina of Time. Then, because she leaves the
forest with Link (side-kick character) she grows up during the seven
years he sleeps in the Sacred Realm.During this time, she turned from a chubby little girl into a lithe, wiry acrobat-fighter. She uses a Hylian sword, of course, but it takes her a long, long time to find one. She was captured when she was fifteen, and had to wait two long, mind-cracking years to be rescued by Link when he came back. She had what her fairy Naeri called "over-developed vengeance complex", and this picture is of her healing.
Link, after he beats the Forest Temple, goes to the Great Deku Tree's glade and sees a tiny plant... which explodes out of the ground into a small tree, scaring him. He falls over on his back, yelling in fright... and realizes that nothing's attacking him. So, when he found Rana couldn't laugh anymore, he eventually took her there and copied what he had done, and she stared - and then laughed. Yes! Score one for the hyper side!
I drew a whole bunch of Zelda pictures, so Ocarina of Time will be dominating around here for several weeks, real time, and several months, historic time. A lot of these have never seen the light of monitor screens. After that... there will be a couple more Middle Earth pictures, and one or two miscellaneous pictures, and then another section will get filled out. I love predicting the future like that... It seems that these pictures are 'memory triggers', and when I see them, I can sometimes remember the circumstances under which I drew them. This one, it doesn't work, but I can remember the story of the picture. That always happens.
Hey, we have a bit of a dilemma... we need a game-link cable that can connect GBA's and GBASP's, but I can only find one that advertises for GBASP's. I think it will work, and it's only about $10, so I'm going to buy it, but if anyone knows of one that is guaranteed to work between those two consoles we have, please tell me! The other option, said the salesgirl we asked, would be for my brother to buy a GBASP also, which would be much more expensive, but he'd have a back-lit screen, and it work guaranteed (I hope). The other, even more expensive option, which he is considering the most, is to buy a GBDSLite, which is $150! The original GBDS is $10 cheaper, but if he's over a hundred bucks anyway, he may as well pay the whole lot and get the latest.
The reason why we need this cable is so that we can play Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, which I gave him for Christmas... Well, he has lots of Christmas money. He was planning to save it for half of the Wii, but the DS could be a better investment at the moment. For the other, we'll wait until the ruckus over that little white console dies down first!
Correction: Dad bought us a link cable that really worked! We beat the trainee level!