#Lu rants

[luwritesomething]

i will never recover from this pic.

[scapegoatperry]

Probably gonna ruffle feathers and whatnot butttttt, I genuinely believe Bullet Club should've died when Jay left Japan. NOW, hear me out before anyone kills me lmfao. When you think about it, BC is already divided up into subgroups. Like more than it was before (imo anyway). It's not even truly Bullet Club anymore. I feel like David and the Wardogs could've thrived PERFECTLY on their own as just that. The Wardogs. I don't think he or any of the other four needed Bullet Club. And I feel the same way about House of Torture, too. I kind of even forgot they ARE in Bullet Club because I just don't see them as BC members since they're always doing their own thing. And I fully believe Kenta and everyone else that's in Bullet Club could also thrive without it. At this point, it feels like they're beating a dead horse unforunately.

[newartistgirl]

Twilight and why he would make a wonderful protagonist.

  It’s a weird statement to say out of the blue. I’m aware. But listen, please.

  I have all this rant already written about why if there’s one Link who will die it will be no other than the Old man. While thinking about that I came to the realisation Twilight has the protagonist material. Now, what do I mean with this? If you look closely, all of them have “protagonist qualities” and maybe it’s just the fact that some other storylines haven’t been yet explored that much why they haven’t shone as much yet. This is meant to be a story about the nine of them, not just some of them. Not just Twilight. So don’t take this too seriously, I could probably make a rant about any of the Links as protagonists whithout issues.

  Having said this, is time to clarify what does “the protagonist material” mean. Think about a protagonist, a rather old one. Nowdays protagonists in stories have a need of being different, of bringing something new and/or unseen, being outcasts, members of society who struggle... (They have a more romanticism vibe ig?), hence my interest on more traditional adventure protagonists. Having had a character like Link, whose background does not differ that much from game to game, since 1986, means that he, eventhough has had an evolution and slight changes through the years, still falls under the typical heroic protagonist who will fight against evil.

  So why did Twilight in this comic between all of them, who have been protagonists at some point, caught my attention? To sum it up briefly before expaining further; he is kindhearted, young, has love issues, a mentor and someone under his wing. His age, position in the group, and traits makes it easy to think of him as an ideal protagonist.

In games, we see a Link who is a simple hard-working boy who serves as a helping hand in the ranch. He is an orphan but seems to be close to Rusl and his son Collin, who aspires to be like him one day. All the children like to play with him and, of course, he has a very special childhood friend whom he shares with some kind of romantic-like scenes. (I’m specially refering to that one of Ilia regaining her memories and giving Link the whistle she made. The fact that the animators decided to have all the characters leave them alone, and a shot of Beth dragging Talo far form the window, added to the scene in general, makes obvious the intentions they had)

  In comics we see that same boy but with an added extra layer of depth. As it should be of course, because the biggest point of these comics, which started as mere interactions between the Links, are, you guessed it, the characters.

  Now it’s time to point out the things that would make him easy to place as a main character.

  1. Kindhearted. I know, as I stated earlier, this is not by any means a requirement. In fact, you can find many not so kindhearted main characters, (and not so main), who are still great. Still, this positions him in a good place among the rest of the Links, because, as we have already seen, Twilight has been seen several times being told secrets/problems, and or showing that he is trustworthy. If you have thought right now about Sky, you are right too. He, just like Twilight, is stated to be killed with kindness and Legend claims that, if anyone, he could trust Sky. So, what does make Twilight different from him? 

  2. His age. If you look back in the archives theres a post where jojo explains why she made Twilight be older than Sky when, in games, they seem to be around the same age. The answer is maturity. As I said a few paragraphs ago, in Twilight Princess, Link is a hard-working boy who helps around the village and kids like and admire, while in Skyward Sword, Link is a sleepyhead student who is outstandingly talented and lucky. Other way he might have not become a knight of Skyloft. This choice of making Twilight an adult instead of an old teen may have marked a little bit his position in the group, as kind of a second leader. But is he actually a “second leader”?

  3. His character descriptions says it all. Only a few Links are stated to be or not be leader material, something important to aknowledge when theres a group of nine heroes working together. Time is said to be leader type, and is the leader of the group. Being the oldest has its advantages. Warriors is also said to be leader type. He’s called captain for a reason. Legend is said to be a leader type that chooses not to be one. (Something that -don’t kill me-, could actually make him an interesting heroic, or even antiheroic, main character, or sidekick of the protagonist). What’s interesting about the rancher’s description is that it is specified that, eventhough he is indeed a leader type, he does not think of himself as such. This is actually a good main character kind of trait that by the end of the story he may or may not have overcome (yeah, the story could end with the protagonist failing to succeed or change what was expected. That could be the point).

 4. The mentor. This is for a reason considered a trope. It’s often used in stories as a guide to the main character. It’s old and wise, and often dies (ironic isn’t it?). Of course our aspiring protagoist has a mentor figure; Time, whom he shares with a story yet to explore. Furthermore, he is not just a mentor figure to a hero, he is a mentor figure to an orphan hero, and they happen to be blood related? (Im laughing right now) Isn’t that like... too perfect? On a more serious note, this is actually a side of the story I that really hope gets even more relevant. (I reeeeally like this trope)

  5. Wild. As I said, Twilight has been told secrets and has been seen being a shoulder to cry on (and did a good job at handling those situations). However, there’s an important dynamic in the group that, in my opinion, could favour even more that main character-ish development. While I love (too) many of them I’m now talking about the Champion and the Rancher. It works as a kind of mirror to Time and Twilight’s dynamic (wouldn’t say relationship because, as far as we know, they are the only heroes to share blood. I guess that makes it a little bit different). There’s, as I said, potential for development and growth through this friendship, making Twilight be in a similar position to the one person he admires and looks up to. Would that help him realise, maybe, he is indeed a leader type?

  6. Love issues. I know this is not necessary at all for a main character but it’s undeniably a recurrent obstacle in the main character’s path who all romantic people probably enjoy. Sometimes does not even have to have “complications”, but the figure of the love interest has it’s own name for a reason. Twilight, in games, does not seem to have a major love issue. In fact, as I recalled at the beggining of this, now we could say, essay, it seems clear that Ilia and Link had feelings for eachother. And that they were reciprocated. So, what’s the issue? Midna. The answer is Midna. Eventhough it’s not confirmed at all, some people like to think that, after all that time they spent together, something more than a friendship blossomed. Mangas support this, and, eventhough they are not canon, neither is Linked Universe. This AU might be truthfull to the games to death, but has taken some obvious licenses (The fusion between some heroes to make the goup smaller, adding Hyrule Warriors’ Link...) I’m not here to say it’s wrong what was done ‘casue, honestly, I think jojo made really good choices. In fact, I could say that I think jojo has made really good choices too in what love life of the members of the group are concerned. Definitive pairs, being a frequent reason of disagreement, have been slightly avoided, at least for those who have a wide range of plausible couples. (I’m not gonna ramble about Time and Malon despite really wanting to. Just...best decision ever) What do I mean by this? If you think about it, love has not been yet a really important matter. It has been brought up several times but, if we look closely, as I said, the only officialy established relationships are Malon and Time, Sky and his corresponding Zelda, and, eventhough it’s not “a thing” Legend and Marin (They are not in a relationship, because... well, you know... But it has been shown that she is still in his mind with no other candidates) Some of them haven’t been reported to have a special someone, and, as jojo said, all those who hadn’t have a “special lady” to complicate things would by default fill that space with Zelda. No, im not forgetting about Twilight. Let me get there. As it has been shown for Wild and Twilight, all the posible ladys have been mentioned. The same way both Mipha and Zelda have been brought up to Wild, Twilight has been brought up Ilia (by Warriors), but most importantly, he has brought up Midna. 

  The picture may not be legible but he is saying: “A princess beautiful as the setting sun shattered my heart like a mirror into a million pieces”. Of course he is not refering to princess Zelda but rather her counterpart in the twilight realm; Midna. So that leads us to his original description. What does “getting over a complicated relationship” means? It is also an allusion to Midna and Links’. And yeah, I’ve got evidence to prove jojo meant to say Twilight is getting over a complicated relationship. 

    I’m talking about this.

  Look closely to that one that says: “Are his newly strong feelings for midna a phase? after all, Ilia was always the girl for him. This is a confirmation that, Twilight has, indeed, a kind of love story going on. And the fact that Warriors has brought her up in a teasing way makes me think that this may still be on the table and that it’s not so far away.

  Maybe this could be changed to; Why Twilight as a protagonist would have a special place in my mind. But, whatever. If you made it this far let me thank you very much for your attention. Any kind of idea, suggestion, and personal thought is  welcome.

[illululusion]

I genuinely cannot do this stuff anymore all I am is stressed im always on I just can't. just wholly and fully cannot anymore. i thought I could but honestly i cant this was the worst decision ive made in my life

[lu-morningstar]

Guys, I forgot to tell you but i saw pain hustlers and it was actually a great movie, super entertaining

I loved emily blunt in this one

[folkloresreputation]

my illustrator has crashed like 3 times already... pray for me and the ts poster im trying to make

[purplelovingbanana]

I just saw this post of this person saying “Every time someone makes a fic and makes Legend or Warriors a cunt, an Angel loses it’s wings and are grinded into paste” or something along those lines, and I just want to say, YES

LIKE, WE SHOULDN’T MAKE LEGEND OR WARRIORS THE ASSHOLE FOR THE PLOT!!!! As one of the amazing people who tagged it in their reblog: “Don’t make them a cunt, make them serve cunt, it’s what Hylia would have wanted.” No truer words could have been said. These are FACTS!!!! SPREAD THE CUNTY LEGEND AND WARRIORS AGENDA NOT THE BITCHY LEGEND AND WARRIORS AGENDA!!!!!

Edit: I found the post: https://www.tumblr.com/uousoupki/767447713678753792/everytime-someone-makes-legend-or-wars-a-cunt-in?source=share please credit them for this post, not all of this is original, lol

[theegh0st]

So far when whenever anything has happened, Legend has said something. I didn't notice it at first but I started to read all the dungeon arc rn and it's so funny. If someone says smth, he'll make a comment, if smth moves, Legend will step in aggressively.

( Art Belongs to linkeduniverse )

[biblicallyinaccuratespoons]

Zaiah rants about the new update because nothing gave them a notification tw spoilers for entrance pt 3!! all images belong to jojo of @/linkeduniverse

HE'S SO HANDSOME I CAN'T-

THE EEPY BOY!!! AND A ZELDA SIGHTING?? AUGH THEY'RE SO PRECIOUS

legend: grumpy, sky: giggly as always, Twilight: trying to lead them off his tracks

their faces <3 <3 <3

four is so smug the little angel <3

legend being a sweetheart propaganda

i am sorry to everyone i talk to, this will be the only reaction image i use from now on

four gets his time to shine with being a toon also wind pulls out a bottle IMMEDIATELY.

wind trying to catch it compilation feat. legend being smug

blue-core.

but yeah all in all i have some theories i've been cooking up with my bestie so if you guys want to hear me yap let me know or else i'll just do it lmao idk

[weepingtalecowboy]

I am surprised and kind of not surprised at all by how undeniably bad Hyrule's politics are

Like there is a demon knocking at your doorstep every decade or so

And instead of creating a system of actually destroying the demon again and again

You just throw your daughters at the problem and wait till a little blond boy comes and saves you

Like why is the whole kingdom so underprepared for calamity ganon

They had 10.000 years to prepare for it and instead chose to procrastinate till they had less then a year left and only then did they try to find a way to fix the situation

Like telling Zelda to get on and start zelding would have been useful when they had several thousands of years to prepare

But only like 17 years without a link to be found

Is just stupid they should have recovered the divine beasts the second that Zelda came to be or even earlier like several hundred years before the reawakening of the calamity

But that also makes total sense for a kingdom that won’t stop sacrificing daughters and relies entirely upon a single man (most Times a boy even)

And that is so fucking hilarious and pathetic

Like if I was an outside observer

I too wouldn’t want to involve myself into such a mess

[luna-loveboop]

Luna, my dear sweet friend, can I pick your brain?

Lofty gave me a veeerrry good scenario for a Time vs Sky conflict, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on what that could look like? I picked 2 very mature characters and now I have to make them brawl lolol

I think the best route (for me at least) wouldn't involve the master sword or Hylia. So this would be a personality conflict. I don't wanna spoil the scenario she gave me, so I thought I'd ask for your general opinion on what you think would make them fight, personality wise🥰

Feel free to delete if you don't care to go over this, but I thought I'd ask cus you're really good at going in depth with character analysis❤️

BYE FRIEND😀 also I hope you're doing well and you're amazing and wonderful❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

YES ok so personality conflicts between Sky and Time. There's... a lot to look at there lol.

So I'm just gonna look at each of their personalities +flaws, and then how they interact :))

Soo for Time

Time is dad. He's older and more experienced- and he's still a stubborn gremlin like all of them. He's patient with them but also stern- he cares very deeply about all the boys and Sky is no exception

I don't doubt for a second Time wants to be just as close to Sky as the others

One of Times biggest flaws is the idea of a closed mindset. Which makes sense, since we know Time's ending as the hero's shade- he spends years in that mindset of regret. Time has these thoughts of being too old to change (<no), and allows himself to keep holding onto bitterness, especially about the sword. Which he has good reason to be a grumpy old man already, with the mental and physical age difference, but still

Time is obviously capable of changing his mind- as Wind took a challenge to prove

But overall Time is still. He's not super expressive, my man likes to just be. He wants to be still and live, and hero as needed, and not be a super crazy hero, but just a chill dude with malon.

Time is patient and stern and calm and good. He is also closed and stubborn. That's all good, but it doesn't always work the best with Sky.

So Sky.

I literally love this ask because I could rant forever about his flaws to talk about them more (no one kill me).

Sky very highly values being a hero as part of who he is- in contrast to time who literally just doesn't want to.

I see so much of Sky's patience. And with good reason- with others Sky is endlessly patient and calm in resolving conflict. He's emotionally intuitive and intelligent and awesome

But Sky is also I think extremely impatient. With himself, and with things around him that aren't going well.

He wants answers and he wants them now, which is kind of scary from him. I see a lot about Skys temper, but I don't want to forget how much of that is from impatience- not knowing how to handle things going slow.

Because things moving fast and violently is how it needs to be right? *cough cough IMPA

For all sky is extremely patient with others feelings, he is one of the most impatient people with himself and his circumstances. Which a lot of comes from immaturity, which is my next point-

Sky is. A monster with pranks. I don't even know why it took me so long to realise this was Sky-

Saying 'I know we should help but this is too funny'. Twilight and wild are looking disturbed and like they want to help, and Sky and legend are just cold-blooded leaving four struggling for his shield and taking bets. He's very immature, and furthermore, he doesn't really respect Time as an authority as much in the face of pranking/joking

Bro is not remorseful at all I swear-

I also think 'nice hair' Sky is a little... idk judgy? With people he doesn't get along with as well. Like Hyrule. (Wait I haven't yet I gotta rant on that sometime sorry- but yeah he and Hyrule don't vibe well)

Sky can also be unrestrained with his words and snark- his words can practically be a prank in itself 'nice hair' 'am I late?'. I think sometimes he toes the line with pranks and joking around (like that one quest where you could break Peatrices heart?), and same with his words. Overall he's a snarky and sharper person- and being able to pull off good pranks and jokes isn't inherently a bad thing- he's smart. He's a kind person too, but I think sometimes his words and actions can be too sharp.

I think Jojo also said in the post with their ages that she made him slightly younger because of his immaturity compared to twilight. Do with that what you will

So point is, Sky has flaws that are mildly subtle but still prominent, like his impatience with himself and situations, his immaturity with joking and temper and words, and I hc he's a slightly judgy person. 'Nice costume' to Zelda like SKY but I swear I love him. Don't kill me for discussing flaws please I have a dog

So how this comes together with between him and Time is pretty cool-

Skys impatient, and Time has a resistance to change in his mindset- which means that as far as the sword, Sky wants change now, he wants validation and Time to not hate it. Time does not care about this because the sword hurt him and he's spent years hating it.

But with situations and stuff, especially with the entrance arc, we can see Sky being very impatient after Twi's injury- from what I can tell he wants to rip dinks throat out. But it's still subtle- what's not as subtle is how much Time wants to slow down. He wants to hold them back and protect them, and Sky is impatient in a frustrating situation. I could honestly see Sky wanting to run after the shadow on his own right now (sorry, I've been rereading elastic heart). Sometimes patient + wanting to hurry up doesn't work well.

If you think about it in relation to their journeys it makes sense that they are portrayed this way. Skys journey was about rushing and trying to hurry up. Times journeys were horrifying, with this insane feeling of running out of time.. but he could still turn back said time.

I can't even count the number of people I've seen say they tried to rush through the eldin temple as fast as possible on reruns- after Impa telling him it was too late trying to run as fast as possible even knowing it wouldn't change anything. That translates into skys character, and it must be insanely frustrating for him.

They are both heros. Time's journey was about saving the world and Sky's was about trying to kill a god. It's a big disconnect between them- one is patient and one is not, one doesn't want to be a hero and one's life is being a hero dating a goddess. One lightheartedly jokes and one throws a love letter down the toilet (SKY), one is older and one is immature. Yet on the surface Time wears a scowl and Sky is as soft as can be.

They are so very different in so many ways, but so much alike- they are both heros, they both want to be young and playful at heart. They both really like stabbing things and setting them on fire. And also saving the world.

They are also both extremely mature in ways beyond their years and endlessly kind.

I love them so much.

I wasn't sure to say this in the post bc the ask is about personalities, but I feel like another major issue between them could be whatever happened with Time and timelines and the triforce. Obviously the timeline is messed up. I also have not played times games... but I think in timeline talk one he mentioned the triforce of courage ended up broken? I can see Sky not taking well to all of that.

Soooo in terms of personality conflicts that would make them. Fight? Yikes what are you planning Oma, I would say there's several possible triggers outside of the master sword and Hylia (which I think is wise of you to avoid btw)

I think that Skys impatience contrasting with Time's fixed mindsets can have issues. But the way Sky has shown no acknowledgment of Time when he's tried to stop the boys goofing off w/ pranking can also be a trigger- as well as that sharp and sometimes insensitive snarkiness in Skys words we all know and love. They have. A lot of issues. lol.

Yeah! I uhh hope that helped and was relevant or made sense at all- I swear I love these guys. These two are fun to look at because outside of the obvious stressor of the sword they have a lot of other issues as well. They have differences in thinking and personality that can lead to a lot of tension between them.

Thank you for the ask and I can't wait to see what you come up with

The art and comics is by Jojo @linkeduniverse au :D

Thank you for listening to my rant, and here's one of my favourite pictures of these guys

Simply majestic <3

:)

@skyloftian-nutcase

[luwritesomething]

imagine being so fucking serious about a show/piece of media that you start an anti movement for HUMAN characters with HUMAN emotions and HUMAN trauma. of course they're going to be fucking problematic, we've all been pieces of shit some time in our lives. fucking face it.

when talking about supernatural, have you seen the writers on the show??? the misogony/racism on their characters are the writer's fault. blame the actors if you want, too, for not stopping it when they got priviledges over the scripts. that's fine. but you don't have to shit on someone's favorite character when said character is constantly evolving, learning AND failing again. that's human nature. that's trauma's manifestations (you don't have to support those trauma responses, I DON'T). i understand it can affect the reality, especially for impressionable people, but hell.

the whole point of supernatural IS trauma and the toxic responses of it, how it is tried to be justified by using the family card. dean and sam both have done terrible things. the producers/actors/writers saying the point of the show being about family and inconditional love is subjective, and the point i see to the show (the one above) DOESN'T SELL. they want to sell. welcome to capitalism, you're gonna hate it.

[birb-boyo]

I wanted to make the biggoron sword and looked at LU for a size reference and um

This sword is two different sizes💀💀

[newartistgirl]

Twilight is “fine”

  His recovery was sudden and unexpected. Also, incredibly well timed with the shapeshifters’. Is this related?  I never believed he was going to die. This comic started just as a bunch of interactions between the heroes, and, eventhough now he have a storyline, the main focus it is still the Links. This means that a death so early on the story would have been odd. “But, the slate said...”. I know I know, but I highly doubt that will be a treat in the near future. 

  Before going into all the random thoughts on this matter lets recap. Twilight got hit and “cursed/piosoned”. They tried a fairy to heal him and it didn’t work. Hyrule, thinking that his magic spell might help goes along four to the town. Wild finishes off the iron knuckle. 

  I might add aslo before starting that, in my opinion, Hyrule’s magic spell was not working either, or at least definitely not as intended. Maybe it sort of prevented Twilight’s death, but for sure has not healed him.

Hyrules’ answer to Time asking wether it was actually working or not is not so calming. Instead of: “I feel he is getting better” or “Each time I get less tired, he is improving” (don’t take this too serious, I have no idea how his magic spell actaully works, and even less of how it feels), he says that he knows Twilight is still fighting so he won’t give up. The thing here it is that it seems that he won’t stop trying eventhough it does not seem to be working. Just in case it is actually doing something they don’t notice, or that it will eventually work somehow. Furthermore, it would not make sense. How come Hyrule’s magic works but not a fairy’s? I would say that the fairy refused for any sort of reason due to Twilight’s cursed condition, but potions wouldn’t work either, so it’s not the case.

1. Thanks to Wild we know that while they were trying to heal Twilight the shapeshifter was already injured. Meaning this could have been the reason why a fairy wouldn’t work, nor any kind of magic. The shapeshifter was draining  Twilight’s energy. And, after it gets destroyed by Wild, he starts draining more and more energy, this time not just to heal a wound but to sort of “revive himself”. And, now that we have seen he’s recovered his body back, Twilight has also started his recovery. 

2. But what if the reason behind not a single kind of magic working on our rancher it’s said “poison/curse” monsters have?

This panel kind of shows that, indeed, something is going on with his blood, just like the monster’s. He is cursed/poisoned. One could argue that monsters have become stronger and Twilight nearly dies... Well, we don’t really know how monsters have become “cursed/poisoned”, maybe they went through a nearly-dead stage before becoming stronger. We don’t see monsters with scars, nor them bleeding with open wounds, but the shapeshifter has had to get them cursed some way. Maybe not exactly the same one used with Twilight. However, the main point is if it actually has the same consecuences for both. Will Twilight become stronger? Are monsters controled by the shapeshifter in any sort of way? (It’s not the first time they scattered without explanation. Furthermore, in the sunset arc, we see that once the big guy gets defeated they all run away, so it’s not crazy to think that, if not controlled, at least, they follow it) And... fairies can’t heal monsters, can they? Are Four or Wind that far off? 

3. Maybe it is a little bit of both ideas. It is posible, as far as we know, for the shapeshifter to have been draining Twilight’s energy to recover his material form (As seen, he was never actually “dead”), added to the fact that, Twilight's blood is indeed poisoned.

  To finish off, just a little detail that I didn’t notice until I read the comment section; Time was holding his ocarina. It may not mean anything. He knows the consecuences of using it. But... If required to save the life of his descendant... Would he have...?

  Again, as always, thanks for reading and sorry in advance for any spelling mistake I might have made.

[smilesrobotlover]

It amazes me how people will look at my comic, that has a hw Link that’s different from LU, with a story that clearly is not connected to LU at all, and will still tag it as linked universe

[thatlinkclickfan]

The link click ads know what they’re doing