The Legend of Zelda is a series that lends itself to a surprising number of fairy tale adaptations. When I wanted to write a fic that used those tropes, I had to figure out which ones to go with. One of the first things I decided, when choosing the villains, was that each one would appear human but be revealed as something monstrous. I was drawing from a sort of Bluebeard template.
I chose Zant as one of the villains because despite suffering major Hijacked By Ganon syndrome, I loved the dude to death. He was very memorable, to say the least. (Though his breakdown was...rather unexpected). As a Twili (a race of beings introduced specifically for Twilight Princess), he also was clearly inhuman, mysterious, and creepy, which fit very well for what I was going for.
I decided that Zant would be serpantine based on his long neck and the shape of his head. I also wanted a snake-based villain, because they often crop up as bad guys in fairy tales, be it as a regular snake or a dragon.
For whatever reason, the fairy tale that I mainly associate with villainous snakes is The Prince and His Three Fates. Perhaps it's because the image of his wife quietly subduing the snake with milk and killing it is so striking. In any case, I decided that that would be the way Zant would be defeated.
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Date: 2012-08-13 02:49 am (UTC)I chose Zant as one of the villains because despite suffering major Hijacked By Ganon syndrome, I loved the dude to death. He was very memorable, to say the least. (Though his breakdown was...rather unexpected). As a Twili (a race of beings introduced specifically for Twilight Princess), he also was clearly inhuman, mysterious, and creepy, which fit very well for what I was going for.
I decided that Zant would be serpantine based on his long neck and the shape of his head. I also wanted a snake-based villain, because they often crop up as bad guys in fairy tales, be it as a regular snake or a dragon.
For whatever reason, the fairy tale that I mainly associate with villainous snakes is The Prince and His Three Fates. Perhaps it's because the image of his wife quietly subduing the snake with milk and killing it is so striking. In any case, I decided that that would be the way Zant would be defeated.