May 2023 Sketches 9 - Tauro (TLoZ Tears of the Kingdom) (Patreon)

Here's a picture featuring Tauro from TLoZ Tears of the Kingdom. The idea was suggested by Shin.

"Tauro, Tears of the Kingdom- This guy pretty quickly caught my eye while playing Tears of the Kingdom! Maybe, during his Zonai research, he finds some kind of ancient technology that makes him grow, making him big enough that he can examine the sky islands without having to launch himself into the air."

It was a really strange situation, everyone in Kakariko were confused by seeing a the, already big Tauro, EVEN bigger than before! He told everyone that he stumbled upon some ruins that fell from the sky that, as he read though it writings, a strange, green light surrounded his body...and as he came back to the village, he could feel his body slowly expand, as his body filled up his clothes more and more with each step, his shoes becoming uncomfortably tight...as his feet did him a favor, and bursted through the material, the footprints he left behind becoming bigger and deeper as he grew bigger and heavier.

Purah and other members of the village didn't know what to do, so they asked Link to scort Tauro on his next expedition. On the next day, Link and Tauro arrived to abother set of broken pieces of ruins fallen from the sky. Being his job, and also his curiosity getting the best of him, Tauro approached these too, as Link was looking around if there were any monsters to repel. Link's attention was soon taken by bring source of light...and it was Tauro! Once again, he was surrounded by a green light, each word he read from the writings shining bring, then peeling off from the stone slate, becoming part of this light surrounding Tauro, who was too entranced to finish reading the words in front of him. The literal knowledge of the old writings was becoming energy for the young archeologist...Link couldn't help but to stare at the whole situation, seeing how Tauro seemed to expand even further from Link's point of view. Tauro's vest protesting, and soon shredding on Tauro's back, as the tan man's torso expanded and flared out. Tauro's shorts becoming more like a comically obscene pair of briefs, most of the fabric sinking into the growing man's buttcheeks.

Once Tauro finished reading, not noticing whatever happened to him as he was doing so, stood up and bonked his noggin into the cealing, leaving a crack on it. He looked back down at himself...and yep, it had happened again. Link, who was similarly entranced, but towards Tauro's body growing, also snapped out of it. Link decided to go ahead and explain what happened from his point of view, and Tauro was no fool, he believed and understood everything Link told him, and put the pieces together pretty quickly: Somehow, the encient knowledge from these ruines is turning into power into whoever reads AND understands these ruins.

Both men should have been more concerned...but both of them seemed more curious about the whole situation. They shared opinions together. On Link's part, seeing that Tauro seemed to be his usual nice self, even with all this size and power on his hand, he could become a powerful ally to fight the Demon King. Meanwhile, Tauro thought that, if he could become bigger and stronger, climbing mountains to reach higher ruins might become easier...Heck! It might just be "tall tales", but he might even be able to reach the sky ruins by just standing!

Both men chuckling at the thought, and seeing that both of them were on the same wave length, both of them shook hands, and decided to look for more ruins together!

And both their theories proved right, as Tauro grew bigger and bigger with each visited ruin, Link was able to do the more tactical part of the combat, while Tauro lend his brute force to crush the monsters that were on their ways.

Soon enough, Link just had to grab on Tauro's strong, mountain-like back, as Tauro easily climbed up mountains to reach ruins, each passing day the mountains becoming easier to climb, as they shrunk down from Tauro's point of view....until he could just easily step on them to go beyond them! Tauro's curiosity and excitement grew along with his body, visiting more and more ruins each day, becoming exponentially bigger with each passing day.

Soon enough, Link had to install a giant magnifying glass on an artifact, attach it to one of his flying contraptions, to help Tauro read the writings from the now miniscule ruins that were floating in the sky, as he just had stand up to reach the highest of islands in the sky!

At this point, Link wasn't doing this to have a stonger aly, but it was fun to see Tauro so excitedly be able to reach ruins and knowledge he only dreamed about, as he happily grew bigger with each visited ruin. Its almost as if there was no threat in the world, and were just doing things for fun!...and I mean, even if the Demon King is still there, he was no match for this massive unit of an archeologist~

Hope you like it!