Deku Stick: Improvised weapons and temporary torches, Link uses these sticks in the same way many children do. Unlike Link, most children are not on an adventure with the fate of intertwined worlds hanging in the balance. In drawing the deku sticks, one was bare while the other had deku nuts still attached. I imagined the stick with nuts sounding like a rattle when swung.
Children practice the basics of all sorts of skills by playing with sticks. Fishing, drumming, fencing, and even wand skills are all first learned by playing. This connection between children and their sticks is reinforced by the ritual of dowsing that all children in the village undertake as they come of age. Adolescents entering adulthood are tasked with venturing into the forest near the village alone and return with the stick that calls to them. The adolescent, returning with a stick, returns as an adult in the village. The nature of the stick is interpreted by the elders to determine what vocation is best suited for the newly christened adult. Most people in the village keep their dowsing sticks as mementos of the ritual that determined their place in the world.
Deku Nut: These naturally occurring flash bang grenades are used by Link, Deku Scrubs, and Link as a Deku Scrub, to attack enemies and shoot far off targets. With the deku nut serving Link so well, I am not surprised the Deku Scrubs were able to defend their lands from outsiders.
The baba bush, also known as the pellet plant, is an aggressive ambulatory plant that hunts small animals by spitting its poisonous seeds with deadly accuracy. The seeds are coated with a paralytic poison that can be carefully harvested by skilled rangers. Baba bush move slowly and rarely hunt anything larger than a fawn. Adults have little to fear but children should be wary of pellet plants roaming on the shadowy forest floor.
Fairy Slingshot: Child Link is unable to use the bow and arrow so he must make do with this slingshot. I know many people growing up that only wanted a slingshot because Link uses them so frequently in his adventures.
Children in the village are not allowed to carry weapons until they have gone on their dowsing. It is not uncommon for children to bond to objects that indicate what sort of future they may have in the village. With bows prohibited, many future archers learn shooting with slingshots they either inherited or cobbled together. Most adults in the village will also attest that the toys they loved in their youth helped them complete their dowsing in the forest.
Boomerang: Found inside of Lord Jabu-Jabu, Link uses his trusty boomerang to strike nerve clusters, flip switches, stun enemies, and retrieve items that are out of reach. In Ocarina of Time, the boomerang is a child only weapon which implies that the item is silly.
The black boomerang is covered in ceaselessly blinking eyes. Only the elder of lore of the village knew anything about the nightmarish boomerang. The details of the boomerang, along with other important information, were traditionally passed between the elder of lore and the pupil selected to replace them as part of the pupil’s induction ceremony. Before a ceremony could be completed, the current elder disappeared amidst an earthquake that fell on a fog choked night under a lightless moon. The earthquake destabilized the ground and opened a hidden passage down into the chamber that houses the boomerang. The stone chamber appears to have been constructed to appear as the innards of a savage wurm. With three more quakes since the first, members of the village are worried their homes will soon be swallowed up by the earth. What is disturbing the balance and what does this terrible boomerang have to do with any of this?
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The theme I followed when drawing Ocarina of Time’s items was upgrades. I wanted to try to do some work where I iterated on the same image. I tried to do chains of items that show a progression. I hope that is clear in the drawings themselves.
Please don’t profit from my work without my consent but feel free to use this personally as you see fit.
Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph
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