#Give me Puppet Zelda Angst!!

[sheikfangirl]

"This is more me. Don't you think, Hero?" 🔥

Shout-out to my ZHS buddy @chihuahuana!! She suggested Puppet Zelda in a Gloom Dess, inspired by THIS 👇 ...i had absolutely no other choice but to draw it 🤣🤷‍♀️

She my Lady and Master. I love her okay! T_T

✋Glory to Puppet Zelda !

[robislav1986-blog]

I've been actively avoiding the fan communities to stay spoiler-free up to now, so forgive me if this has been brought up before, but quick question. Does anyone recall how Rhondson and Hudson got engaged almost immediately after you brought her in as the town tailor? Because between that and Mipha's intent to give Link the Zora armor as an engagement gift, I get the impression that Hyrule women make marriage proposals by offering articles of clothing to their intended husbands.

With that in mind, it suddenly makes a lot more sense why Zelda was so excited in her diary entry about the tunic she made for Link, why she went to so much effort to keep it secret, and why she arranged for him to find it in the throne room. The same throne room, mind you, where the seat of power is conspicuously repositioned to be off center, as if to make room for TWO thrones (which you can see in the puppet Zelda's illusion). The implications sort of speak for themselves.

Anyway, I just wanted to ruin y'all's day with that added layer of angst over the situation.

[sapientiiae]

Wishlist:

Just...casually going to set down a list of things I will always want to write with Zelda. ⊹ Masquerades/Balls - Give me all the fancy parties. Let Zelda dance the night away. ⊹ Rain threads - Stormy weather is my favorite weather. Let Zelda enjoy somebody's company while it is storming, even if it's just curling up and enjoying a good book while it rains. Dance with her in the rain. Kiss her in the rain. Give me all the rain activities. ⊹ Festivals - Attend a festival with Zelda! Browse vendor stalls with her, eat and/or prepare special food with her, and dance traditional dances with her! Bonus points if you're sneaking her out to do this! ⊹ Sneak her out - Speaking of sneaking her out! Sneak her out of the castle! Help disguise her and get her out of the castle so she can explore Hyrule as not the princess! Or sweep her off her feet and carry her away to a cottage in the forest so she can have some peace and relaxation! ⊹ Visit other villages/races - Let her immerse herself in the culture of other lands or the other races in Hyrule! Take her to Ordon Village or to see the Zoras! Bonus points if they have their own special celebrations she can experience. ⊹ Duplicates - If we can come up with twin shenanigans/alternate timeline shenanigans, let's give it a try! ⊹ Ancestors/descendants - The games have a lot of timeline craziness, so give her a chance to meet her descendants or her ancestors! She'll have someone she can relate to! ⊹ Dark romance - Look I love fluff and cuteness but also I'm a sucker for dark romances. We all secretly love angst. Let's explore a dark romance or toxic ship. ⊹ Future family - I love thinking about the idea of Zelda having kids one day and getting to live a happy life with the person she loves and their kids. If we ever ship, please come scream at me about the kids they would have some day! We can plot things and write out that family dynamic! ⊹ Puppet Zelda

[fanartfunart]

More Time & Time Again/ OoT Timeloop. (I think this is just a multichapter fic now) Link is helping his younger self out when the boy asks about his own adventure. Link recalls how he failed to change the future. (Tw for death mentions/implied death, fire/destruction, injury and angst.)

Time & Time Again & Part 2

Ao3

-

"How do you know all this?" The Kid asked, holding the Megaton Hammer uncertainly.

Link just smiled, "I went on a journey like yours a while ago....In retrospect, the hammer wasn't too hard to use compared to this one sword that was like, twice my height at the time."

The Kid glanced at Navi with wide, excited eyes. She frowned, "No."

"If I found a sword that big though-"

"Stick to the hammer right now," Navi sighed, giving Link a side eye.

He restrained a chuckle and leaned over to his younger self. In a low whisper he said "I'll give you a tip to getting a sword from Biggeron when she isn't watching."

The Kid pumped a fist and Navi zipped over to gently bop Link's head. "Don't give him ideas."

Link laughed, "I'm not! The idea is all his!"

Navi glared. Probably internally cursing the technicalities of them being the same person.

"Actually though, can you tell me about your adventure?" The Kid asked, tilting his head.

Link frowned. (He was small again, placing the Master Sword back in it’s pedestal. His legs still felt shaky from finally, finally having defeated Ganon.) "Maybe later. ...Besides, you still need to practice with that hammer. You do not want to pull a muscle using that thing... Trust me."

The Kid hummed, and shifted back into a readied stance with the hammer. He grinned "If I win will you tell me?"

"Who said anything about winning? It's practice, not a game."

"Sounds like you're scared you'll loseee, Grasshopper."

Link's eyes narrowed and he grinned, "Oh its on Shrimp."

"Wha- We're the same height!"

-

Link could’ve sworn he’d rigged this game so he wouldn’t lose. Link guesses he’s always had a habit of succeeding despite all logical odds out of sheer determination. He also blames the fact that Navi was helping Little Link and that was just unfair. He sighed as he stared up at his younger self’s near manic grin, laying on the ground.

“Story time!” the Kid said, putting the hammer down and holding out a hand to help him up.

Link accepted the boy-teen’s hand, defeated. He walked over to a nearby crate and hopped up to sit on the edge. The Kid followed and plopped himself in the grass, watching attentively.

He couldn’t tell the Kid his actual story, so he’d have to make up something. He hummed, “...Where should I start?”

“The beginning?” The Kid offered, laughing.

The beginning of his real story was complicated. Was it when the Great Deku Tree sent Navi to him? Or, with that adventure a closed book, was it when he returned to his time, to grow up as he was supposed to?

“Right... Well, when I was younger, I knew a princess in Termina... She saw that an evil man... uh, her uncle, would be king soon and no one believed her... She had asked me to help her.”

-

He skidded to a halt as he spotted the King and...Ganondorf. His heart pounded in his chest as he stared at the Greudo King. Images of his beastly transformation overlapped with the man currently in front of him.

Link dashed forward, past the guards and into the castle itself. He heaved his breaths as he took the most obvious path to the main hall. He didn't even stop to admire the original architecture of the building that would be transformed into Ganon's Castle.

"Who let this boy in?" The King asked, gesturing at him. "This is a private meeting."

Link swallowed, "Where’s Zelda?"

"Are you one of her playmates? Are you lost?"

He shook his head. He stared at the man, balling his hands into the skirt of his tunic.

"He appears overwhelmed," Ganondorf said, oddly soft, "Let him gather his thoughts."

-

Link shrunk away from Ganondorf’s full attention. He partly expected Navi to start speaking for him... The silence of her absence echoed like the quiet before Ganon burst from the rubble of the castle. His heart began a drum beat of “Danger, danger, danger,” in his ears.

He ran. Link ran past the crackle of fire echoing in his mind and behind his eyelids. The distressed shrieks from Zelda, unable to help, ringing in his ears.

“I stood in front of the current King, with evidence of the man’s plans in hand, and explained what I knew...” Link said, wishing that had been true.

“What? Already? You didn’t even get the big sword yet!”

“Oh, but you see...The King didn’t believe me. Put under a curse by the evil man. He was merely a puppet... But the evil man wanted more than the throne.”

-

He took in panting breaths as he stood in front of Zelda. The royal garden a soft earthy type of quiet. The twitter of birds promising calm. He closed his eyes briefly.

"Link? You're back already?"

He nodded and gasped for breath, "Ganondorf... is going to... get into the Sacred Realm."

Zelda's eyes widened, "Are you sure.... Oh... The Ocarina?"

With a nod, he let gravity take him and he plopped onto the ground.

"We must stop him then!" Zelda announced with determination.

Link smiled warily.

They had sat for hours. Zelda planned out how to deal with Ganondorf with the little information Link had been able to provide the words to explain. Exhaustion catching up with him, Link eventually fell asleep. His head on her shoulder. Her voice guiding him to kinder dreams than he'd had in a while. Even before starting his quest.

-

“The princess allowed me to sleep in one of the rooms in the castle. Although she probably didn’t need to since I usually ended up sleeping outside anyway... Got used to it. Sleeping in the big bed just felt too strange.”

“The princess seems really nice.”

Link nodded, “She is....” he sighed, “But, before we could implement our plan-”

-

He woke up to a muffled thunk. Link sat up and groggily wandered to the noise. He hadn’t thought about picking up his sword. He faltered as he noticed Ganondorf and a Gerudo woman bringing in a set of barrels.

Ganondorf turned to look at him and raised a brow. "Child. What are you doing up?"

He pointed to the barrels, brows furrowed.

"Ah, they are a gift to your King."

"It's night," Link forced out. Voice raspy. His glare strengthening.

The Gerudo King walked over to him, dramatic strides intimidating and imposing. Link scrambled to stay out of arms reach of the man. Ganondorf halted. "I get the sense you and the Princess don't like me too much."

Link distinctly regretted not grabbing his sword. His hand itched for something to hold, to protect him. "You're going to hurt people." He said in a harsh whisper, curling his fist.

"You sound so sure.... Why?"

Link looked away and took a step back.

"I don't intend to harm you, child."

"You killed the Great Deku Tree." Link hissed, feeling tears prick at the corners of his eyes.

"Ah. I didn't expect one of you to come out of that forest. Do you plan on speaking to the king? Tell him I killed a tree? I don't think he'll quite believe that... And if he did, it was one tree, do you think he'll care?"

"I'm not going to let you get into the Sacred Realm! You won't get Zelda or I to open the doors for you-"

"The Princess can open the doors?" Ganondorf grinned, "Thank you, young one, for that insight. I would have thought that particular goal lost without the Kokiri Emerald.... Now I can simply move on."

Link's eyes widened, he turned to run to Zelda. To get his sword. To do something. Ganondorf was fast. Especially so now that Link was small again. He never hated being small before this moment. He writhed against Ganondorf's grasp on his arm. He yelled and twisted and kicked.

"Stop it. You'll wake everyone up." Ganondorf snarled. He huffed, "I do hate doing this to a child but you give me no choice." He spoke in a language Link didn't understand. With a sharp jolt in the back of his head, he felt the energy sapped from him. He dropped to the ground. He felt wooden. Like a doll.

Ganondorf picked him up with ease. Dropping him over his shoulder. "It shouldn't kill you. Don't be alarmed. It took significantly more work to kill the Great Deku Tree."

Link's eyes widened. He hit Ganondorf weakly, struggling with the rest of his might. Ganondorf gave him a curious look, seemingly surprised he had even this much fight in him.

He was deposited in the bedroom the princess had given him. "Do try to get some rest, boy.... You'll need it." The door shut and locked.

Slowly, everything went dark.

-

"He cursed you?!"

Link nodded, "I later would realize that the reason I managed to stay awake as long as I did was because I had my own magic.... I had learned some spells before, but found out I could no longer do them."

The Kid frowned, "That's terrible!"

"I learned more later, it didn't entirely sap my aptitude for magic." Link glanced at his own hands. "I don't know... I don't need them as much anymore."

-

Zelda shook him awake. She shoved him to the floor in her urgency.

She pulled him up and before he was truly aware of his surroundings, he was being lifted by hands much stronger than Zelda. Link squirmed, the sleepiness draining from him quickly.

"Link wake up! Please!"

He groggily reached out to her. She gasped "Oh thank the Goddesses."

"Impa!" Zelda cried out. "My father! Where is he?"

"We don't have any more time to spare. I'm sorry Princess. We must leave. Now."

Link gasped. No no, this shouldn't be happening. It shouldn't be happening at all.

Impa ran. She remained surprisingly dexterous and agile despite carrying both children.

Link watched over Impa's shoulder as Ganondorf appeared from the door. His sword was stained red. He grinned and took large, striding steps after them. Impa threw Zelda up onto a horse. Link squirmed out of her grasp before she could toss him up with her.

"Link!" Zelda shrieked, "What are you doing?"

He took out his sword and gestured towards the gates.

"You can't!" She cried, reaching towards him. "You... you could-"

Impa spurred the horse on before she could finish. Link closed his eyes to dash out the image of Zelda's panicked face.

-

"I... never saw the Princess again for a long time after that."

Link nodded, "Eventually."

The Kid stared at him with a deep sadness. He knew he probably resonated too deeply into truth. He would have to change more in his story.

"But you did see her again. Right?"

-

Link tumbled to the ground, ignored. Ganondorf grabbed his own horse. Link roared in fury and made a leaping strike.

Zelda's scream echoed in the distance as Ganondorf clashed against his sword, creating a slash across Link's arm.

Ganondorf pushed him back before he could complete his attack. Knocking him several feet back. He scoffed, "I don't have time for you, child."

Link winced as he scrambled to a stand, listening to the clop clop of hooves. Legs shaking, he raced to the Temple of Time. He knew Ganondorf would be back. He hid behind a pillar, and waited. He could still stop it. He would just have to stop his past self from opening the doors! That could work.

-

"I ran to get the King's Mask before the evil man could. With that, he could rule the kingdom as he saw fit. Masks have great power in Termina, as symbols and sometimes magical items." He explained.

"Oh cool." The Kid leaned forward, "I wonder if any of the masks I had as a kid would be important to people in Termina..."

-

Link looked down with a soft smile, "Some of them, maybe. But anyway.... the mask was... gone, by the time I got there."

The boy ran in just as he expected, the Ocarina of Time still gripped in one hand. Link attempted to dash after him, only to he grabbed from behind. A large hand muffled him. He kicked and squirmed and bit. All it got him was a tighter hold.

“I should’ve known the royal family would send someone through time to stop me.” Ganondorf whispered to him, “I didn’t expect a child. Although, perhaps that’s all they have left.”

Link growled and knocked his head back, hitting Ganondorf’s chin. He was dropped unceremoniously. Scrambling to a stand, Link readied his sword, glancing at the spiritual stones in their places.

“Really?” Ganondorf huffed, “You think that little tumbtack will stop me?”

Link glared.

-

Ganondorf summoned his magic and Link dodged out of the way. “Hm, you learned. Good to know.” Ganondorf walked past him, and Link ran forward to attack, but was yet again thrown back by a dismissive smack. Everything after that was a hazy blur.

Link woke up to the crackle of fire and a burning sensation on his left hand.

Link was quiet for a moment, feeling the oppressive smoke and heat suffocating him. Imagery of Castle Town on fire flickering behind every blink.

The Kid frowned at him, "Are you okay?" He whispered.

Link nodded, tracing the shape of the triforce of courage on his hand. He didn't quite know how the time travel worked with the sacred relic. He glanced at his younger self. He had it too, didn't he?

"Grasshopper?"

Link took in a breath and straightened his posture, "Right. Right. I'm fine. But um. Can we finish this another time?"

The Kid nodded. He stood and stretched. "...Um, quick question... If you don't mind... Why did you leave Termina? You grew up there. And you said it's doing fine now-"

"I was looking for an old friend... Now I just want to help people here."

"Oh. You're a nice person." The Kid concluded.

"...I've been told that." Link said softly. He ruffled the Kid's hair because he knew it would annoy him. "But! It's getting dark and if you don't go back home and rest, I'm gonna go find Sheik and he'll make you sleep."

The Kid gasped in indignation. Then blinked. "Wait you can find Sheik? Really? How!?"

"Oh my Goddesses, go sleep!"

"Is he here!? Is he following me or is he just going to places I need to be before me?"

"Forget Sheik, I will drag you to the forest."

The Kid laughed, "Okay, okay."

[tfloosh]

Closed Doors

Guys, I wrote angst, and it wasn’t even OoT Zelink. But it was TP Zelink, and it killed me because I love TP Zelink so much!!!

When Link first saw her, he was a wolf. Colors were distorted by his strange eyesight and the ever present twilight, but he could see her beauty, her strength, and her sadness. He could already see that she felt responsible for everything that happened, even him being turned into a wolf. In that moment, Link felt determination to help Princess Zelda flood over him, and he never looked back.

When Link next saw her, he was still a wolf. But Midna was dying, there was no time to do anything but plead for the Princess’ help with his eyes. And the Princess sacrificed herself for Midna, giving over part of her life force so Midna would live. Such a selfless act moved Link’s soul. Princess Zelda literally trusted them with her life to save her kingdom, and Link would not rest until he did.

The next time Link saw her, she was possessed, moving on puppet strings controlled by the evil Ganondorf. He hated to fight her, but he had to remind himself that Princess Zelda wasn’t really there.

After a savage fight with a beastly Ganon, Link saw her again, for the first time in his human form. They were standing in Hyrule Field, Midna wasn’t with them, and Ganondorf was tearing after them on a dark horse. She pulled them into an in-between space, where the sages blessed them with light arrows. Then before Link’s unbelieving eyes, Princess Zelda bowed to him, asking him to help save her kingdom again. Link could only smile and hold his hand out.

They returned to Hyrule Field astride Epona and ready to fight Ganondorf. Princess Zelda’s accuracy with the bow was impeccable, and that’s when Link knew he was in love. It was truly her presence during the final battle with Ganondorf that gave him the courage to win.

They escorted Midna back to the Mirror of Twilight together. Link couldn’t believe Midna shattered the Mirror; he would never see his best friend again. Their trip back to Castletown was quite until it came time for them to part.

“What will you do now, Hero?” the Princess asked him.

I want to stay with you, he thought, but he couldn’t say it.

“I must escort the children of my village back to their home,” he answered instead. “After that, I do not know.”

“Should you need of it, there will always be a place for you in my guard,” she smiled demurely. “All that I ask is that you return the Master Sword to its pedestal, so that it can await the next time it is needed.”

“Of course, Your Highness,” Link nodded.

He didn’t see her again for many months. He was invited to the castle to discuss his reward for saving the kingdom. He was nervous, but he wanted to see the Princess again.

“I wish to reward you for your deeds,” she began once they met in her office. “Without you, Hyrule would be stuck in twilight forever.”

She began to list the things he could have. A title, land, money, a position at the castle or rank in the army. But Link refused it all. The only thing he wanted that she offered was a knighthood.

“Then we shall schedule the ceremony,” the Princess smiled. “I think we can pull it together in a month.”

“That long?” Link asked shocked.

“Well it has been some time since the Royal Family has appointed a knight to the Order of the Triforce. It is the most prestigious order of knights in the country, and there are no members alive in this day, I’m afraid. But I will have you in no other order considering you are a Chosen One.”

“Chosen One?”

“I could tell you bear a piece of the Triforce since I first met you. You deserve this, Link, believe me.”

“I am humbled by your generosity, Your Highness.”

Link stayed in the castle until his knighting ceremony. He didn’t see much of the Princess during that time, but they did occasionally have meals together. Link looked forward to their time together far too much than was proper, but he didn’t care. The feelings he had for her hadn’t faded since the end of the war, though he didn’t know what to do with them. How did one approach their future Queen and confess their love?

The whole of Ordon Village came to see Link be knighted. They were dressed in their finest, and Link couldn’t be happier to see them there. After the magic words were said and Link was tapped on each shoulder with the ceremonial sword, they were hustled off to the ballroom for dinner and a dance. Link sat in a place of honor next to the Princess at the high table. They talked as they usually did with Link listening more than speaking and Princess Zelda smiling more and more.

“Traditionally, you and I would open up the first dance together,” she explained as their dinner plates were replaced with dessert plates. “But I thought you would rather dance with the beautiful young lady from your home. I’m sure you’ve missed each other a great deal.”

Link swallowed, “Well, yes, as much as any brother would miss their practically adopted sister who loved his horse more than him.”

The Princess’ eyes widened, and she brought a hand to her mouth to quickly stifle her laughter, “I apologize. I just thought with the way she looked at you-”

“It’s alright,” Link shook his head though he couldn’t wipe the grin off his face. “She does have a crush on me, but there are few people our age in the village, and I’m the only one with a horse.”

The Princess laughed again, “Perhaps I should introduce her to some of the men here. If anything she will broaden her horizons, and it will keep their attention off me.”

“You have suitors here?”

“Yes,” she rolled her eyes. “They never leave me alone, but I sadly have no choice in the matter.”

“Are they really that annoying?” Link laughed.

“Yes, they truly are,” she sighed. “They are all just vapid and vain boys who know nothing of the world. At least three of them have tried to tell me how the invasion could have been handled better.”

“Well, if they could have done it better, why weren’t they out in Hyrule helping me?” he raised an eyebrow to try and appear serious despite his laughter.

“I know,” the Princess laughed along. “They are simply horrid.”

“What if you had a suitor that wasn’t as annoying or stupid?”

Princess Zelda’s laughter fell and a frown covered her face, “I don’t think that is possible, no matter how much I would want it to.” Her eyes turned to the half-finished dessert in front of her. “My counselors would not approve. Even if he was newly titled, they would argue he was not born of noble blood.” She refused to look him in the eye. “I’m sorry, Link,” she whispered.

“Let us speak no more of it,” he said, a sad smile crossing his face. “We still have a dance to open. We should enjoy our time together while we can.”

“You’re right,” she said raising her eyes to his. There was a strong determination behind her amethyst eyes. She placed her napkin on her table and stood. Everyone in the ballroom followed suit.

“I do believe it is time to dance,” the Princess smiled at the crowd. “If you would all join me on the dancefloor, we’ll get this party well and truly started.”

Everyone clapped, and Link savored the feeling of Princess Zelda on his arm as he escorted her to the dancefloor. The Princess kept him on the dancefloor for over an hour; she refused to dance with anyone else that evening. In the end she retired early, taking Link with her so they could say goodbye.

“As a knight, you will receive invitations to every major royal function for the rest of your life,” she said. “I would hope that you could come to my coronation, but I understand if you wish to stay away from court life.”

“I don’t know,” Link said. “Is court life as horrible as you make it out?”

“Oh, no, not really,” she smiled. “They are on their best behavior at most balls.”

“Then I will try and make a point to attend. It would be expected of the Hero of Twilight anyway.”

“Indeed it would,” she sighed again as they reached the door that led to the residential wing of the castle.

“I’m afraid this is where we must part,” Princess Zelda turned to face him. “I have enjoyed this time with you, Link, and I hope that we can remain good friends.”

“Of course, Your Highness,” Link bowed.

The door closed behind her, and Link turned to walk away, hoping he could somehow close the door in his heart.

[whale-shark-queen]

You mentioned fucked up weird AUs in your one post? I'm interested. Tell me about your favourite one(s)!!

AAAaaaah thank you so much!!

Uhhhhhhh heck most of them involve N turning into some horrible Thing because he’s the Estranged Outsider with a Connection to the Bad Guys Even If It’s Not Willingly (yknow like how Eren from snk is a titan shifter or Rin from blue exorcist is part demon) and all of them involve vuvuzelashipping (Nxall the Nuvema lot) I don’t really have a single favourite but I’ll summarize the ones I like most (also note that some of them are good dad Ghetsis/Dadsis aus because u gotta balance out the angst somehow plus dadsis aus are Cool)

Under the cut because I literally can’t summarise for shit and I’m sure no one wants to scroll past 3 pages worth of this (mobile users I apologise since the app is SHIT and refuses to even acknowledge these) 

Also here’s a bit of an index so u can skip to ones that sound interesting instead of going through them all but first u should ask nationalharmonica about her aus bc I love all of hers and they’re awesome and need more love and she also helped with alot of these aus too!! ESPECIALLY the Dragonflower au which I won’t include here because I think she has it on her blog somewhere already.  If ur wondering why I haven’t posted any of these it’s because a) i have neither the skill, time or patience to draw up proper references for all of the characters involved and b) I’m always worried theyll seem too Out There for some people but here we go au masterpost i guess, if anyone reading would like more info feel free to ask!!!

Bacterial Contamination inspired au aka bacterial pestileNce

BotW au

Ib au

PMMM au (the longest one)

Plasma/Aether swapover, N wins+UB monochromeshipping au

Simple fNaf dadsis au

sister locatioN dicksis au (yes I have two for that because I only found out about the secret springtrap cutscene at the end of SL that changes everything the other day)

Nombie (dadsis) au

isolatioN au- Au based on the song Bacterial Contamination.  N goes to the snobbiest most pretentious school you can imagine only because his ex mafia boss dad wants the best for him.  N hides the fact he’s being relentlessly bullied until a teacher phones Ghetsis up asking why N is in such a state whenever he comes into school (BC bruises and cuts and looking roughed up in general).  N goes to therapy and gets meds but surprise they’re an experimental drug and he’s a bug boy now

- BotW au where Touya is Link, Cheren as Revali, Bianca is Mipha and Touko is Zelda.  Ghetsis (who is kinda like Demise if he hung around to make sure his curse worked) is the king of a neighboring region who’s a bit of a warmongering asshole but his son N is friends with princess Touko and her…ahem, associates, which is the only reason Touko’s dad stays civil with him at all.  He uses this to his advantage and infects N with the Malice and reveals his plan to take over Unova, knowing fine well that N would run away to Touko for help.  The truth is he’d set up N to be a ticking time bomb and eventually he becomes the Calamity.  After the whole ~100 year coma and releasing the divine beasts~ thing Touya only remembers who N is after killing him but dw there’s a blood moon just as Touko is sealing the Malice away and N’s freed spirit is brought back to become a friendly giant fluffy spider boy just because I said so

- Ib au with N as Mary (obv Ghetsis is Guertena) except instead of going crazy and trying to kill everyone and being burned up and dying himself the toutous make him sit in the frame while they drag it out of the portal to the real world: problem solved.  I have all this stuff about the others being able to step into his frame but he can’t leave unless someone else draws him so he can possess the drawing but I won’t go into it here BC this post is gonna be long enough already

-Okay I have two madoka aus because possibilities for N are Ndless but I’ve only really developed the dicksis version whereas I only have a witch design for a possible dadsis version so here’s the dicksis one.  The first: Ghetsis is kinda like Walpurgisnacht and N was originally a familiar that represented Ghetsis’ interest being only in things that directly oppose him who was becoming powerful enough to become a witch of his own.  Not wanting him to have even a fraction of power himself Ghetsis transformed him into a human shape, gave him sentience and intelligence and as close to a pure heart as possible so he would be easier to manipulate and led him to believe that magical girls/boys hunt down innocent witches for fun and have witches trapped in their soul gems and tasks N with stealing people’s soul gems to ‘free the witch inside’.  The problem is that the alteration gave N the mindset of ‘innocents who aren’t involved must be protected at all costs’ rather than Ghetsis’ mindset of ‘don’t give a fuck about anyone unless they’re a problem’.  N is also sent to integrate into human society so that he can find magical peepos easier so he ends up coincidentally going to school with the Nuvema kiddos.  He ends up becoming friends with them until he finds out Cheren and Bianca are magicas (I’m just gonna call them that for simplicity) but even though the toutous arent magicas they still support them which is all very upsetting and conflicting for N but he tries his best to protect the witches and steal more soul gems until the others eventually call him out on it and prove to him that the shit Ghetsis told him is bull.  When he goes to confront him about it it’s too late, Ghetsis has absorbed enough witches to become a Walpurgisnacht-like entity, and finally allows N to become a witch.  I’ll link the drawings I’ve done of him but basically his labyrinth would be like a puppet theater and even tho hes the witch he’d have this fuckin giant messed up ghetsis-lookin puppet master familiar who pulls at his strings and coordinates his attacks.  There’d be an audience of masked figures that look like all the magicas he’s caused the deaths of, tiny animals with scissors to represent his wish for freedom and also his fear of his ‘father’ since they never actually get to cut the strings holding him up, and figures that look a heck of a lot like the nuvema kiddos watching in a balcony.  This is all tied into a theory I came up with that almost all the witches are able to be saved since yknow how Homura had that figure of Madoka locked away and Madoka was able to bring her back, and how Sayaka had the violin guy and Charlotte had that doll that probably represents her dead mother? My guess is that if the people those figures represent are brought to the witch and reach out to them the magical girl inside would be able to be freed.  But yeah since N was never really a human the Nuvema kiddos can only really save a fraction of his conscious and he ends up like Bebe.  They all beat the shit out of Ghetsis and everyone lives happily ever after with their pocket witch bf

- the au where 1) plasma and aether are sort of swapped around and 2) N beats the toutous in the final battle.  This is actually based on nationalharmonica’s courtesaN au which is awesome BTW (but it doesn’t involve actual courtesans or N being a courtesan at all but its Sarah’s au so if you’re interested you should totally ask her about it).  Ghetsis keeps Touko and Touya prisoner and just to rub it in their faces blackmails Cheren and Bianca into joining and doing sciency experiment shit which ends up with Touko and Touya becoming UB fusions/hybrids themselves; Touya with Kartana and Touko with Celesteela.  Ofc in the later stages they are able to destroy their place of confinement and escape with Cheren and Bianca to find N who becomes understandably fucked off and upset that his friends have been put through all this shit but begs them not  to kill Ghetsis so he can ask what’s going on.  When he does Ghetsis stabs him with a syringe full of UB fusion shit because he knows fine well hes gonna die he just wanted a final ‘fuck you’ before he is killed by both fire and paper cuts.  Surprise! It’s a Guzzlord.  N becomes a big squishy boy. I’ve done drawings of N in human Guzzlord fusion/hybrid form but I’ve been afraid of posting it but uh if anyones interested i will

- Simplified fNaf dadsis au - basically N and the Nuvema kiddos are the ones that were killed and stuffed in the animatronics, Ghetsis owns the place but risks going bankrupt pouring money into helping find the culprit and also his son and his friends when they’ve been stuck in the one restaurant he kept open to stay afloat.  Nate is the new nightguard and they decide to fuck with him to get rid of some of the boredom of being alone together in the one building for like…30 years or so.  In the end they fess up and make Nate pizza as an apology and they’re chill again

- sister locatioN dicksis au - I already summarised a thing i wrote of it in response to an anon but I’ll include here too.  Once again Ghetsis owns all the shit with the animatronics.  Anthea and Concordia get killed by one of them when they were young so years later Ghetsis sends N down to ‘free’ them (surprise he only wanted to get rid of N) but since their spirits have been fused into one hideous amalgamation of animatronics they’ve gone a bit loopy and want to leave.  The whole scooping room thing ensues and they accidentally turn their brother into a zombie

- Nombie au bc Z is a sideways N heheh I ahven’t thought up much of the background for it but it involves Plasma being a pharmaceutical company that is sort of accidentally being the cause of it.  N gets separated from his dad who ends up being the leader of a large group of people in a little town sort of thing they were able to reclaim but is Sad bc he thinks his son is dead which ends up being half true bc surprise N is half immune and ends up being a conscious zombie boy who wears a curtain as a cloak so he doesnt immediately frighten people bc he got his eye shot out by hillbilies, his face scratched up, his throat bitten out and his heart impaled on a pole (hes a freak without a human heart geddit) zombie apocalypse stuff happens

- isolatioN au - basically spawned from the thought of ’what if N was kept even more hidden away/locked up/never even left at all’.  Plasma is instead secretly in the Pokemon poaching/hunting/selling business but are disguised as…well you already know about Plasma.  The nuvema kiddos had varying levels of rough childhood and were desperate for money so they all joined up; the toutous as night guards and the dualrival s as researchers.  Hidden deep in the facility is a certain tree haired manchild who has been kept in a cage for pretty much his entire life.  Ghetsis does a mother gothel and makes out its to keep him safe and brings him Pokemon to ask about where they live and what other kinds of Pokemon live there so that Ghetsis can release them safely back into the wild go hunt for more Pokemon in the area if there’s anything good there

There’s a few more that I have but I won’t include them because im worried it’d be a waste of time if no one takes interest in any of these but uh thanks for asking and reading if you did!!!

[motherednature]

BOSS BATTLE FROM PHINA TOO

send me “boss battle”, and i’ll post the music that plays when your muse fights mine as a boss.

throne of the demon thief by zelda reorchestrated.

you know i was gonna be nice and just give you a song i can picture these two just sparring like normal loving sisters but :)

first off it’s good to know that this song starts out as the theme used for the battle in which ganondorf uses zelda as a puppet to fight link. so you can probably guess where i’m going from there…aka: sylvana got in Too Deep w/ hermaeus mora and is all kinds of batshit crazy / disillusioned / emotionally broken / etc. which is very convenient for mora because…sylvana is so obsessed with being recognized and valued against her sister the dragonborn that she’s willing to destroy all of tamriel for the sole purpose of stepping out of that shadow. or at least, hermaeus mora kind of…planted that idea in her head, which is FILLED with an amount of forbidden knowledge that would probably kill most mortals in their madness. it starts out very slow and very still ( cue Dramatic sailor moon villain speech here ) but there’s a kind of sweet part!…where i imagine phina makes the plea that this isn’t sylvie, that mora is just using her…

which is…very promptly Cut Off lol. and the battle music starts again, very slowly ( WITH THAT GOD DAMN CELLO GOD DAMN ), and you kind of get the image of a serpent slithering into the scene as sylvana makes her entry into the battlefield.

but as you can hear in this song, there’s hints of zelda’s lullaby among all the kind of oscillating and delirious kind of melodies, because there’s still some scrap of sylvie, phina’s bookish lil sis, underneath all the madness and bitterness that is the archmage of winterhold, handmaiden of apocrypha. and of course phina doesn’t want to HURT her sister, mostly just defending herself against sylvana’s RELENTLESS magic attacks, all while trying to appeal to that sliver of goodness still left in her…which at first only makes sylvana angrier out of sheer frustration because she’s so !!! god damn invested and convinced in the “i’m not worthy of your love, i only want your FEAR” narrative that she just…only gets more intense with her attacks. the piano is very quick in running through its notes and the general rhythm of this part of the song is very fast-paced, which is consistent with sylvana’s fighting style being all about moving swiftly from place to place and never staying in one place too long, and generally using her magic to fight from a distance.

and of course since mages are shitty and tricky little fucks WITHOUT the influence of mora’s knowledge, sylvie is one of those bosses that just WON’T. FUCKING. DIE. she’ll summon all kinds of horrible shit from oblivion for phina to fight along the course of their battle, aka, the later part of the song, which is used for fighting ganon’s huge beast form. or, if you really want to go down angst lane, you can imagine these theme coming after phina finally has to kill sylvie :) but like every batshit megalomaniacal mage, necromancy is their one stop ticket to Having The Last Word, and so this last theme is phina having to fight her sister’s dead body :) and basically indirectly fighting hermaeus mora himself :)

[sheikfangirl]

your puppet zelda headcanons are definitely making me reconsider her as a concept!! i agree she felt very underdeveloped but has a lot of potential. from a gameplay perspective, if you had your way in integrating/rewriting puppet zelda into totk's narrative, how would you do it? i feel like you'd make her infinitely more developed lol

Hey @pitchblackespresso Thank you for your patience! I know, your question has been in my inbox for a couple of days now but I thought it was so interesting I really wanted to take the time to think about my answer before replying. Obviously, I would've looooove if the dev team added more depth to Puppet Zelda, I mean, she's a walking horror movie trope just waiting to ooze angst and hurt!! hdkjlsgjsjniosdgv!!!!! I happen to be a game dev in real life and I play games with a game dev point of view... I always put myself in the team's shoes and I have empathy for them. Making a game is hard work and what they achieved with TotK is insane. Obviously Puppet Zelda wasn't their priority and I can't wait to learn more from the Masterwork book... I would never ever pretend I would've done a better job than them!! Buuuuuuuut! We are here to brainstorm and have "what if" fun! Here are a couple of confused ideas that will, hopefully make sense :) Find a way to boost the "confused Link" narrative. Puppet Zelda was so obviously NOT the real Zelda, I wish the writers had played with our skepticism a bit and made us doubt and consider that she might just be the real Zelda. I want to be manipulated by Puppet Zelda dammit!!! (and be stepped on, but that's another story)!

Trigger Puppet Zelda encounters!! Going to a specific place on a Blood Moon and trigger a Puppet Zelda encounter !

Picture this: Blood moon ambiance, 100 times worse! She could've made Gloom Shrines appear, full of hellish puzzles or just straight up old school dungeons? But...scary dungeons!  Who here is OoT Shadow Temple PTSD? I sure am! Picture The Shadow Temple, but black, red and on Steroids....the kind of weird shit straight out of the original Hellraiser or a PG-13 version of Berserk's Eclipse. Evil Quests? Something that would've been super dark but sadly impossible without the integration of some kind of morality system like games such as Dragon Age and Mass Effect (Games I'm also obsessed with by the way) : Having Puppet Zelda give Link Dark quest objectives that would have made us question her sanity and intentions and have consequences on Link.  A Good old fashion Battle We should have had the opportunity to FIGHT HER!!! That would've been HEARTBREAKING!!!!  Bonus: This one is not about Puppet Zelda, but about Link. It seems like a detail but..I wish his model changed as we progressed throughout the story. The closer you get to the end, the more dirty and tired Link would have looked, like Wander in the influencal masterpiece game "Shadow of the Colossus." I hope you are not disappointed by these couple of proposals :) Welcome to the cult! Glory to Puppet Zelda ✋ Cheers!!!