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This is an end-game spoiler for the Nintendo Wii game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. View at your own risk lol

I love Twilight Princess so much that I made another painting to pay homage to it. This time it's Midna, but she's not the Midna you might have seen in promotions for the game, or even during the progress of playing. The ending of Twilight Princess shows Midna in her true form, a beautiful princess. :O
I was all like WTF when I found this out. I've not finished playing Twilight Princess yet, I'm up to the end (Hyrule Castle) but can't bring myself to finish it, as I don't want it to end. :( But, I will one day :|

Bit of a story behind this painting - I was having a good old time making it, and then BAM, all of a sudden it didn't save and I got an end of file error message. :cries: It was almost finished, too. I freaked out, but after I came to my senses and remembered I'd saved a work in progress image of it, 1/4 done.
That was a miracle to me, so everything turned out okay, and I finished it. I thought it'd take me twice as long to remake, but luckily it didn't. I'd remembered how I painted it before, and probably ended up making it look better than it did before I lost the file. So yeah :| :D

Obviously, because of the gigantic spoiler, there aren't many pictures of true-form Midna on the internets, so I had to look at the many Midna paintings on dA, so thanks for all the help, deviants. Her head-dress ornaments aren't the way they're supposed to look, so I made them up.

Sketched in Open Canvas (I think this was why it fucked up)
Coloured in Photoshop.

I hope you like it, thanks for looking :D :heart:

Artwork copyright bratchny (Lauren C.) 2007.
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:iconshedend:
Gorgeous pic, well done! Midna is awesome, and you've certainly captured her beauty here. :D Congrats.
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:iconbratchny:
Thanks very much :D I have two more Midna paintings in my gallery you might like, if you haven't checked them out. Midna is awesome, I wish they'd include her in another Zelda game... perhaps Link can visit her and we can see more of the Twilight Realm, which looked so cool, pity we only got to see a little of it.
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:iconshedend:
Just had a look at your gallery, and I'd seen & faved one of them before, but not the other. It's faved now though. Beautiful. :D Make more!

And yes, the ending to TP really upset me. :( I love Midna, and loved the deep relationship and love that developed between her and Link. I desperately want Midna and Link to reunite, hopefully in a sequel. Nintendo can't just get rid of her, she's probably the most loved of new Nintendo characters in recent memory. In short, please please bring her back!

But enough of me being a blabbering emotional divvy, your work is great! XD
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:iconbratchny:
I checked out your favourites folder and saw you did have one of my other Midnas in your favourites, thanks for that :D And for the latest favourite!
Yeah, the ending was pretty sad, after all the adventures they had together, she had to leave, but it was meant to be, I guess. I agree though, Midna's one of the best new Nintendo characters, it'd be a shame if they didn't use her again :( If Nintendo aren't retards, they'll bring her back!
I really liked how they made her a bitch at the start, that you as a player were kinda miffed to have her tell you what to do, and I was a little suspicious of her to begin with, but when she finally shows her good and sensitive side, it was quite a surprise. Plus, her design's great, I've never seen a character look like her before.
Don't worry about being a blabbering div, I'm one too =p (I will admit, I shed a tear at the ending, mainly because it was nice to see everything return to normal, the kids travelling home, the Gorons wrestling, Castle Town doing the Malo Mart dance :D but the saddest bit was Prince Ralis all alone and his mum's ghost watching over him, that was just too sad, haha - I'm a pussy.) =p
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:iconshedend:
You're welcome, you're a great artist! It must have been hard work sifting through my quite large Midna collection, heh. :D

Yeah, the ending. :( Wasn't sad, after she has gone, to then look at the Light Spirits' Springs and reminisce about the times Midna and Link spent with each other at those locations, and to see the Master Sword returned to it's pedestal and think about how there they shared one of their intimate moments, with Midna asking him for help finding the Mirror. The music as she leaves, too, is an absolute killer for me, plus Midna's reassuring smile and the hurt look on Link's face...ahhh! :'( Now I've got myself going. She really should be brought back, I feel. Eiji Aonuma did say that if they heard enough voices for her to return, they will, and I certainly think the demand is there. :) I'd hate for that to be the last of her...

Her character development was brilliant, yeah. One of my favourite scenes was after the Mirror is reassembled and Midna tells Link of her change of heart over him and the Light World, and how she didn't care at first but now feels obliged to do everything she can to save them. It's very moving, and illustrates her caring, loving and sensitive side.

Yeah, I can be reduced to a big blubbering baby ;), and I'll freely admit I did shed tears at the end. It annoys me how you ladies can show all the emotion you want, whereas for us men it's frowned upon. It's daft. But anyway, nice to see she affected you too! :D
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:iconbratchny:
Hey, sorry for the late reply. It wasn't hard looking through your Midna collection, I found some cool stuff :)
I did like the montage of all the places in Hyrule, looking back to everything going back to normal. The ending theme was great, I loved all the music for TP, the remixes for Death Mountain, Lost Woods and Zora's Domain are among my favourites. What about you?
If Eiji Aonuma said he'd bring Midna back if enough people loved her, then whoohoo!
Yeah, I liked that part too, about her change of heart, seemed like after silently going where Link went, after he interacted with eveyone, she seemed to see how good Hyrulians were and that they needed helping, and that two sides of a coin thing, without light there isn't darkness, I think something like that was said in the game...
I might draw imp Midna one day, but she looks a little difficult to draw. I made a papercraft of her and Wolf Link, and she's sitting on him, it's so cool :)
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:iconmidnachrysalislover:
Great drawing, very beautiful.
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:iconluisarafidi:
Are prints of fanarts allowed? Anyway, very nice pic.
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:iconbratchny:
Oh, I wasn't sure if they were, so I looked at the FAQ, turns out they're not. Oh well, no one would buy it anyway.
Thanks for your comment.
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:iconluisarafidi:
I wanted to make prints of my fanarts too, but they're not allowed, shoot.
And you're welcome.
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