So guess who’s thinking of revisiting her “Links as Ritos” redesign idea! (Se

So guess who’s thinking of revisiting her “Links as Ritos” redesign idea! (See also: I bought the tabletop game Wingspan a while back and am back on my bird nerd bullshit.)Which Link is what and reasoning for choices under the cut. I love that the designs of the Rito in Breath of the Wild hint at different species, so I wanted to choose birds that fit each characters personality as much as their looks.Going from top left to bottom right I’ve got: Four (painted bunting) - colorful, has a tendency toward keeping themselves hidden, known to warm up to people once socialized Hyrule (American kestrel) - small but incredibly effective hunter, specifically adapted to get by on lower food intake than other falcons Wind (silver gull) - adaptable coastal scavengers, juveniles also adorably speckled Legend (Indochinese green magpie) - one legend is that magpies are hoarders (research shows this is untrue, magpie Legend is an outlier and should not have been counted), highly intelligent members of the corvid familyWarriors (sacred kingfisher) - birds held in high regard in New Zealand for their mythical associations, patient hunters who survey their surroundings before striking quicklyTime (great horned owl) - of course the general owl association with Time, that intimidating and sharp look, but for real this bird is a beast and can take on things larger than they areSky (woodchat shrike) - adorable, unassuming, can and will stab things (I just really love shrikes, guys)Wild (squirrel cuckoo) - jumps from branch to branch like a squirrel, rarely flies and instead glides from place to place, excessively long tail, forager, sticks to the wilderness but has been known to be sociable with other animals Twilight (Harris’s hawk) - one of the rare group-hunting and nesting hawks, social birds -- source link
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