I think it’s finally time to share my zonai OCs with art done by the lovely @walrus-tusk-615bc! They’re part of an AU I’ve been rotating in my head.
This is Nayru “Ruru” (nonbinary) and their half-sheikah son Neberu “Nebi”!
Nayru is the last descendant of a long line of ice sages that trace their lineage back to Naydra (yes I subscribe to all the the-golden-dragons-were-once-zonai headcanons lol). Their name is ancestral, passed down from sage to sage. However, they excel more in base zonai magic than ice due to not having any family to mentor them—they lived alone for the majority of their childhood in the harsh tundras of the sky islands to the Far North (off the map).
And this is their son Neberu! His other parent is a sheikah with an also fruit-related name (that I haven’t come up with yet). Unlike Nayru, he uses an even mix of ice and zonai magic (mainly for stealth purposes). He studies rare fauna once thought extinct, specifically insects.