LoZ: Yeto and Yeta headcanon
Added 2020-09-19 19:40:31 +0000 UTC4 outta the 5 main races are now officially finished! I just gotta finish the Mogma and I'll be done with all of them! :3 But until then, here's the completed artwork for the Yook!
Yook, otherwise known as Yetis, are a race of huge, gorilla-like bipedal creatures who live on the peaks of the freezing, snowy mountains of Lorule. Despite their fearsome appearance and gargantuan strength, they're rather friendly, and have been known to guide lost hikers back on the trail to return home. Unfortunately, the Yook were once hunted to near genocide for their thick coats and tough hides before the practice was outlawed, and so they're cautious towards outsiders. It's only recently that they've begun to allow visitors to their humble village, but the current political climate among the Yook is a tremulous one.
-Yeto was once the leader to the Yook before being beaten in a fight for the title against his younger adversary, Yuk. Now he and his beloved wife Yeta live out in the outskirts of the hidden village, living a quiet life while dedicating themselves to helping lost travelers and keeping them away from the village. This is mostly because, under Yuk's aggressive leadership, the Yook village is not safe for outsiders.
-Yeta is Yeto's soft-spoken wife. Yeta is motherly to a fault, with barely a hostile bone in her body, but she isn't one to be pushed around. Upon her husband's defeat to Yuk in combat, she was outspoken on the harm he would cause their village by leading them down a violent path and was the only other one to stand up against the newly crowned chief, the others too afraid to say anything. She and Yeto were then forced to leave the village, living on the outskirts and dedicating themselves to keep outsiders away for their own safety.
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I admittingly think of these headcanons in such a way as if they were events that would happen in a LoZ game, so there's some ideas floating around where it'd have Ravio (the player) visiting and meeting Yeta and Yeto, and eventually helping them save their people from Yuk's influence. I'll design Yuk later but for now, please enjoy the granddad and grandma fluff-gorillas! :3
