For 's contest, who I love like a steaming pile of heck. The contest is sadly now concluded. You can view all the great entries compiled here:
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Final version(please do not copy edit, or use without permission) Characters belong to Nintendo.
The basic idea is that Link is going away to do something heroic, and they exchange something from their person as a promise to return.

Everytime I think this is "done" I find something else to alter and tweak and embellish. I entered a rough version of this pic, (now in the scrapyard). I mostly kept working on this for myself. As I said before, I may continue tweaking this up until the due date. But that's mainly for me. If an "artist" isn't happy with her own doodles, how can she expect anyone else to be?