Oni Link and Epona - 2011

EDIT seems this short story will not get finished BUT I have a fanfic that features Oni Link with wings (Tenshioni, angel demon, my story claims Majora removed the angle from the mask in hopes that the demon would consume him)
You can see the fanart piece for the fanfiction here along with link's to the chapters.


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Short story (still working on it)

The Oni Mask, given to Link by an enemy. The mask is said to be the form of a ferocious god, an evil possibly more fearsome than Majora himself.

Link becomes engulfed by evil as he dons the mask, the young hero barely able to keep a grasp of his true self in this form...Link is barely able to sustain shred of himself in control of this powerful body as the evil of the Fierce Deity cloaks him like an aura and a cruel girn takes over his face...and a blood lust begins to grow.

Without the Triforce of Courage Link would surely loose control altogether, if Link allows himself to be lost in the darkness of the Oni's soul he would become a creature worse than the Dark doppelganger he faced long ago, he would become a dark and sinister shadow of his former self...If Link lets the Oni take control then the soul of the Hero of Time would be lost forever.

But that is the risk the hero must take, he must take on the form of evil in order to defeat another evil...but the real challenge is not his opponent, but rather within himself...
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This is a remake of [link] which can also be found here [link] I always loved this picture, 7 years later I am still very proud of the layout, and I am still very proud of the poses and Epona's armor which were all done without referfence
But the coloring was a bit muddy and details smudged and I no longer like my Oni Link manic, I like him bishounen, and so I thought it was time for an upgrade.
And this time I have the moons face in there since people seemed to miss that on my old version, I did not add it before because I did the original during school and only had an Oni Link reference with me and I did not want to botch the moon's face. The setting is supposed to be like where you fought Dark Link in OoT since the Oni mask is supposed to be like evil and is a smiliar alter ego of Link, so I did a similar location, a sort of other dimensional endless cold-toned area like where you find Dark Link.


I am a big Zelda fan, Ocarina of Time being my fave as I have played in excess of 8 times…however I have only played Majora’s Mask 2 times because you don't have to replay it to do alot of the events and I liked it just a smidgen less as it was not quite as epic and aw-inspiring as OoT...
But there was 3 things about it that I liked A LOT; Kafaie being one of them, I like the whole scenario with him as it was the “deepest” feeling thing in the game; I also like how in the end you find out the skull kid was the same one you taught Saria’s song to in OoT, it made Majora’s Mask less distant; but the one thing that REALLY stood out and that I LOVED was Oni Link (aka Fierce Deity Link)
Now in case you did not know Oni is Japanese for demon, and he looks like a traditional Japanese demon with the classic white hair and red and blue marks on the face (you can also see this with Sesshoumaru from the anime Inu Yasha) ….now, me being a horse-nut and thus LOVING Epona a lot I decided to do her in Oni form as well. I gave her armor seeing as how Oni Link has armor and I also decided to make her white to go along with Links white hair, she also has the marks on her face and even a horn that mimics the double bladed sword (it is supposed to be attached to the armor plate on her forehead but adding in the straps to indicate this muddied up the design). It took a long time to make Epona look decent and Links face also gave me trouble…and don’t even get me started on the time it took to color it!

PS added in some blood to further show the dark feel of Oni Link, I see him as being almost evil, as if Link barely has a a grasp of his true self in this form...