you can tell i got kind of lazy with this one. oh well. trying some shading and i think it turned out well, overall!

anyway this is Mazura aka Horsehead, the first boss from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, drawn as a MLP pony. i kinda felt like he should have a tail, but idk, the original Mazura didn't have one so i didn't give this guy one, either. i'm definitely not a big fan of the 2nd Zelda game, i don't think most people are, but i like it... in theory. it has a lot of interesting ideas - Mazura being one of them of course. if they hadn't gone for SO MUCH "cheap difficulty" in the game, i would have probably enjoyed it a lot. i tried to draw his armor as close to the original Nintendo sprite armor as possible, though it's naturally kinda difficult to translate into this different body shape + from really low-res sprites to a full drawing.

this version of Mazura has REALLY STRONG TEETH and is thus able to hold the mace in his teeth, and attack with it!

for the sake of consistency, let's say his cutie mark is just an original Famicom / NES sprite of himself.

Mazura © Nintendo