A heart-seeking bow from Wind Waker.
Hero's Bow: In Wind Waker, Link earns the Hero’s Bow by proving himself a true hero in the Tower of the Gods. As the dungeon item for the Tower, Link gets to practice using the box to shoot targets that hold doors shut and distance switches that need flipping. In the hands of the hero, the bow is both a weapon for slaying evil and a tool for solving puzzles.
When you get offered a bow that is guaranteed to shoot an arrow through a heart when drawn, you should stop and think about the implications of such an enchantment. The careless and bloodthirsty among you would think it a boon, surely it will slay all my enemies unerringly. A more suspicious person might wonder what happens when you draw the bow with no other living being around for miles, who does the bow slay then?
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I can still improve a lot in drawing compelling bows. Bows in fantasy media are usually depicted as wildly interesting and hyper complicated curved statues that wouldn’t really work. Pre-modern bows are simple but effective things that inspired fear and awe not because they looked particularly fearsome, but because they could slay a person from hundreds of yards away. Modern pulley bows and Olympic shooting bows do look pretty wild, so I guess I should start looking to them for inspiration.
Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph
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