Shadsie
Sage of Tales
I'm talking interesting, weird little things - not "I named my online handle after this character" or "I'm blond like Zelda," or "I'm brave like Link." I'm talking about more coincidental or just plain odd stuff. Any and all games.
Mine:
Shad - We share a name. No, *did not* name myself after him, and no, Shadsie is *not my real name.* I've been using "Shadsie" as an online handle for years. I think I started using it back in 2001, long before Twilight Princess came out and long before Shad the character was even "born" most likely. It evolved from my previous online handle of "Shadowcat" - which came about in the late 1990s when I needed an online handle and decided to name myself after my then kitty-cat, Shadow. (Shadow is now elderly and in the care of my parents since I couldn't take her when I moved across the country). "Shadowcat" evolved into "Lady Shadowcat" when I saw other people using the name and found out that some character from the X-Men comics I didn't know about had the name and people kept confusing me for an X-Men fan. People I knew online had taken to calling me "Shads" and "Shadsie" and it just stuck. Then, in 2008, I get Twilight Princess as a gift, play through to meeting the character Shad (while my Link was named "Shadsie") and hilarity ensued. I like Shad, it's just that our sharing of a name, of sorts, is an amusing coincidence.
Malon and Twilight Princess Link - We share jobs. I've had work on and off as ranch help for people who raise horses. It's one of the odd jobs I've taken in between getting other kinds of work, such as graphic design (which I actually have a degree for). Currently, and for the last year, I've been working as a stablehand for a nice little farm after having the job procured for me by people who work for a service for people with emotional disablities. I'm bipolar and pretty severe with it and have found certain things associated with my version of it a hinderance to keeping "normal" jobs. The boss I work for now is kind and understanding on angelic levels, and frankly, I can approach thousand-pound animals with an ease that I cannot approach live (not behind a computer screen) human beings with. I muck out horse stables - it's not a glamourous job, but I can deal with what issues from horses much better than the verbal equivalent that issues from the mouths of people. There was one year some years ago that I kept goats, too - worked at a petting zoo. All, in all, if I lived in Hyrule, I'd be very happy to work at Lon Lon Ranch or Ordon Ranch. I'd feel right at home.
Ganondorf - I was born and raised in a desert, like he was. Let's just say that his words in Wind Waker about the harshness of the land that made him covet Hyrule... having been born/raised in southern Arizona and having moved to pretty, temperate, forested and well-watered Pennsylvnia, I TOTALLY understood where he was coming from.
Gerudo decorating - In Ocarina of Time, have you noticed the interesting decorations on the walls/above the doorways in the Gerudo Fortress? Skulls - decorated with feathers. I got totally happy when I saw those the first time because a quick little trip to my Deviant Art page in my signiture will show you what I like to do with the found skulls of wildlife and cast-aside livestock. I paint/decorate them. I use similar decor to the Gerudo. Must be a desert-raised thing (doing that is kind of common in the American Southwest, where I come from, but even there, people didn't do with cattle and deer skulls quite what I do with them). What the Gerudo did... reminded me of that.
Mine:
Shad - We share a name. No, *did not* name myself after him, and no, Shadsie is *not my real name.* I've been using "Shadsie" as an online handle for years. I think I started using it back in 2001, long before Twilight Princess came out and long before Shad the character was even "born" most likely. It evolved from my previous online handle of "Shadowcat" - which came about in the late 1990s when I needed an online handle and decided to name myself after my then kitty-cat, Shadow. (Shadow is now elderly and in the care of my parents since I couldn't take her when I moved across the country). "Shadowcat" evolved into "Lady Shadowcat" when I saw other people using the name and found out that some character from the X-Men comics I didn't know about had the name and people kept confusing me for an X-Men fan. People I knew online had taken to calling me "Shads" and "Shadsie" and it just stuck. Then, in 2008, I get Twilight Princess as a gift, play through to meeting the character Shad (while my Link was named "Shadsie") and hilarity ensued. I like Shad, it's just that our sharing of a name, of sorts, is an amusing coincidence.
Malon and Twilight Princess Link - We share jobs. I've had work on and off as ranch help for people who raise horses. It's one of the odd jobs I've taken in between getting other kinds of work, such as graphic design (which I actually have a degree for). Currently, and for the last year, I've been working as a stablehand for a nice little farm after having the job procured for me by people who work for a service for people with emotional disablities. I'm bipolar and pretty severe with it and have found certain things associated with my version of it a hinderance to keeping "normal" jobs. The boss I work for now is kind and understanding on angelic levels, and frankly, I can approach thousand-pound animals with an ease that I cannot approach live (not behind a computer screen) human beings with. I muck out horse stables - it's not a glamourous job, but I can deal with what issues from horses much better than the verbal equivalent that issues from the mouths of people. There was one year some years ago that I kept goats, too - worked at a petting zoo. All, in all, if I lived in Hyrule, I'd be very happy to work at Lon Lon Ranch or Ordon Ranch. I'd feel right at home.
Ganondorf - I was born and raised in a desert, like he was. Let's just say that his words in Wind Waker about the harshness of the land that made him covet Hyrule... having been born/raised in southern Arizona and having moved to pretty, temperate, forested and well-watered Pennsylvnia, I TOTALLY understood where he was coming from.
Gerudo decorating - In Ocarina of Time, have you noticed the interesting decorations on the walls/above the doorways in the Gerudo Fortress? Skulls - decorated with feathers. I got totally happy when I saw those the first time because a quick little trip to my Deviant Art page in my signiture will show you what I like to do with the found skulls of wildlife and cast-aside livestock. I paint/decorate them. I use similar decor to the Gerudo. Must be a desert-raised thing (doing that is kind of common in the American Southwest, where I come from, but even there, people didn't do with cattle and deer skulls quite what I do with them). What the Gerudo did... reminded me of that.
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