#and this is about ganlink so like

[lily-alphonse]

That party meme but its me in the corner with the thought bubble: They dont even know about this awesome thing that just happened in my fic

Writing can be lonely sometimes, before its posted at least. I can’t wait to gush about it

[featherlouise]

The day I stop being afraid to draw wrinkles it's over for y'all

[st-hedge]

I’d love to hear your Ganlink headcanons for all the different links/ganons. I like to think they all had a mildly different vibes but still the same soft helpless love.

I don’t know where to start!!!

Okay I’ll talk about my two favourites. Starting with OoT. I think that they are squabbling goblins. Ganon is stubborn and has a bit of a high horse complex (can’t blame him) and link inquisitive and likes to pry at everything. Which results in them arguing and then link finding a loophole in Ganon’s reasoning/argument. Then link is rubbing his hands while Ganon doesn’t know what to say and is just pointing at the little fucker wordlessly. And I think that’s why they would get along great and ferociously make out. They are competent (sad, tired) idiots

And if I may talk about their counterparts - phantom/dark. I think that they are in some ways the opposites of link and Ganon, but they are also the same. Phantom is quiet, patient, but also resigned. Dark is loud, demanding, and constantly moving. I think they meet each other in the middle. While they look monstrous and are just ghostly, demonic creatures, they are very sweet with each other (screams and claws at walls). Without going into my fake lore, dark is confused by phantom’s imprisonment and disinterest in escaping, phantom tries to protect the silly little shadowy spirit from things he won’t explain

I love all the iterations of ganondorf people came up with prior to totk. But I’ll just talk based off of canon. I think in totk both Ganon and link are such little fucking teases. I think they would both play mind games with each other and have the best time doing it. They challenge each other and everything is a competition and people think they are insane. But also I can imagine link trusting to express his anger about *gestures at divine duty bullshit and mcchicken hylia* to Ganon and there being mutual frustration shared between them (man yells at cloud). They bring out the worst and best in each other and I don’t think they’d have it any other way

[concernedbrownbread]

Oh, to be traversing through Kakariko, reading gay lil journal entries HANG ON THAT'S A GAY LIL JOUNRAL ENTRY

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Rating Non-Zelink and Non-BotW Link Ships in Legend of Zelda Games because they don't get enough love

Malink; Malon x Link: Adorable and somewhat canon depending on who you think TP Link's parents are and what timeline shenanigans you subscribe to. Link's first non-Kokiri friend turning into his soulmate is cute and finding peace after the craziness of OoT is beautiful. Also, Malon is cute as a button. 11/10, love you, funky Horsegirl.

Ilia x Link: Pretty good but feels too much like a reskin of Malink to be really fun. People give Ilia grief for freaking out about Epona but it really isn't fucking deserved. Girl get's done dirty by the narrative and the fandom and she deserves better. Also, memory loss and falling in love all over again is absolute peak. 9/10, you deserve better, baby.

Marin x Link: A child's first taste of tragic ending and hot girls being doomed by the narrative. Very child friendly "Calypso and Odysseus" feel to this one. Still, Marin is absolutely adorable and the idea of falling in love with a literal dream is heartbreaking. 10/10, would cry like a little kid again.

Link x Ruto: Okay, hear me out, this one isn't terrible. Ruto's chld-like crush on the guy who saved her life is pretty cute and being a haughty teenager about it is pretty funny. Also, she understands they can't be together, and sends him off with her love and good wishes, which is surprisingly mature of her. I'm just saying, Ruto isn't the weirdo people make her out to be. 7/10, it still feels like entrapment

Midlink; Midna x Link: TOP TIER! BEST OF THE BEST! ABSOLUTE PEAK ROMANCE! Romeo and Juliet style star-crossed lovers from literal opposing sides of reality. Allies of convenience to friends to soulmates?! PEAK! Adorable evil goblin design for most of the game and then complete knockout reveal at the end?! ROMANCE DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE?! PEAK, I TELL YOU! PEAK! (Also I headcannon that because Midna looks like a Hylian she's considered ugly by Twili standards so Link finding her beautiful warms her heart). 20/10, best ship, best girl, best love story.

Ganlink; Ganondorf x Link: Objectively the funniest Legend of Zelda ship in existence and I will take no arguments on that. Destined enemies giving the middle finger to fate and falling in love instead? Amazing. Ganondorf hates every minute of it but he's also the happiest he's ever been with this stupid twink and he hates that too. 10/10, something something the Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day.

Link x Zant: Objectively hilarious as Link is seducing his enemies into submission yet again, like any self-respecting bard, but this one feels a little too Batman x Joker like for my liking. I really ship Zant x Therapy but Midna watching her rival give up his conquering ambitions for a twink is objectively hilarious. 8/10, not great but not bad.

Got others you want me to rate? Let me know! Or better yet, rate them yourself and I'll tell you if I agree or not.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

The Legend of Zelda: stats of the kingdom

A Statistical Analysis of Popular Fanfiction in the Legend of Zelda Fandom on AO3

I like numbers and stats and for some unfathomable reason I find it calming. So over the past couple weeks, I’ve been making this spreadsheet!

DISCLAIMER: This is not a judgement of the quality, value, or merits of any of the fics on this list. It's just me being curious about what's popular with the Legend of Zelda fandom on AO3.

Feel free to go explore the spreadsheet. My own observations and analysis under the cut.

TL:DR, Link has a lot of kinky sex. Sidlink and Zelink are vying for who’s the most popular ship. Also, this fandom has a shit ton of sub categories that are truly islands unto themselves and have their own conventions.

Methodology: I'm including all fics from the first page of AO3 results (20 fics per page) sorted by:

Hits

Kudos

Comments

Bookmarks

Anything tagged under the Legend of Zelda and Related Fandoms tag that was in the top 20 most hits, kudos, comments, or bookmarks made it into the spreadsheet. This ended up including 51 fics in total.

I put all the fics into one single spreadsheet in order to compare the differences between fics that are really high on the kudos count but not the hit count, or what has a lot of comments but fewer hits. Basically, I'm throwing a lot of things together to observe what gets engagement and looking at patterns that emerge!

Popular fandom subcategories:

Botw (41 fics tagged as such)

Linked Universe (9, including one mostly set in the world of BOTW)

OoT (2)

(I do wonder what it would be like to run these numbers on other fanfic sites, given the popularity boom of ao3 over the last 15 years or so. But also, Botw was an insanely popular game even by Zelda standards, so… who knows?)

Tags:

Character tags: Obviously, Link was by far the most popular character, but here are the characters that had a minimum of 3 appearances per category. Yay champions!

Zelda

Sidon

Mipha

Urbosa

Revali

Daruk

Story tags: Again, just going by sheer numbers, here are the story tags that appeared at least 3 times in every category:

Slowburn

AU – canon divergence

With honorable mentions to fluff, angst, double penetration, anal sex, amnesia/memory loss, and mute or selectively mute Link, who all cracked above 3 instances in 2 separate categories.

Relationships:

This was a tight race, but shoutout to Sidlink for eking out the win for the most highly rated ship in the Zelda fandom with 13 fics qualifying in my ranking. Zelink is close behind at 10 fics. (That being said, Zelink takes it by volume: 7,797 fics tagged as Zelink vs Sidlink’s 2,193)

Other popular ships:

Revalink (8) (this one surprised me! I didn’t realize my beloved birb was so popular)

Miphlink (3)

Link/Monsters (2)

Sidon/Reader (2)

Ganzelink, Ganlink, Malink, Miphzelink, and Miphzel all made single appearances.

(Pls don’t start ship war discourse in the notes kthanx)

All right, let’s deep dive into the numbers!

Fics in all 4 categories:

Interim - starkraving

Sands of time -tirsynni

Congrats you are officially the most popular Loz fics across all of ao3! at least according to my particular scope of analysis.

Fics in 3 categories:

Displaced - socksock

Drown In Me - bacchanalia

Alone We Fight - SilvermistAnimeLover

Blood Moon Rising - MarquesGillette

Popular authors (people who show up more than once in multiple categories sorry comments georg)

MarquesGillette

MaryDragon

SilvermistAnimeLover

ObakeAri

Hits:

Top 5 most popular fics by hit count:

Displaced - socksock

Interim - starkraving

To Save Hyrule - orphan_account

Sands of time - tirsynni

Drown In Me - bacchanalia

First page by hits:

Min: 117,917 – Sidon’s Epic Pining Adventure (ObakeAri)  

Max:  189,622 – Displaced (socksock)

Average: 145,385

Average wordcount for fics with the most hits:

140,909

Kudos:

Top 5 most popular fics by kudos count:

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy - Icka M Chif

Interim - starkraving

To My Dearest Friend - surveycorpsjean

26 Minutes and 42 Seconds - T_5Seconds

Blood Moon Rising - MarquesGillette

First page by kudos:

Min: 4917 – Finding Link (Umbreonix)

Max:  10321 – Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy (Icka M Chif)

Average: 6981

Average wordcount for fics with the most kudos:

41,136

Comments:

Top 5 most popular fics by comment count:

Carlos from MarvelandZeldaFan's Children of the Heroes - KR5

This is an Adjuration - notfreyja

My Art - KR5

Sidon's Epic Pining Adventure - ObakeAri

Priestess of War - KR5

Woohoo! You all get to meet KR5 aka Comments Georg. Comments Georg has long conversations and RPs in the comments of their ao3 posts, which are usually fanart. TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS TOTALLY FINE AND COOL! I think it’s quite delightful! However, it does completely bork my ranking system because outside of comments, these posts do not have a lot of engagement (like, less than 100 hits and less than 20 kudos) and I don’t think they count towards my analysis of “what is popular in the Zelda fandom writ large”. But they qualified based on my criteria. Which I think speaks to the weakness of my criteria more than anything else tbh…

Anyways, shoutout to Comments Georg for truly showing off what it means to be a statistical outlier.

First page by comments:

Min: 1568 – The Quiet River Rages (MaryDragon)

Max:  43808 - Carlos from MarvelandZeldaFan's Children of the Heroes (KR5)

Average: 4131 (which goes down to 2042 if we exclude KR5’s impressive max, which is a full order of magnitude more than notfreyja in second place with 3470 comments. Very much demonstrating the power of a statistical outlier!)

Average wordcount for fics with the most comments:

275,593

Bookmarks:

Top 5 most popular fics by bookmarks count:

Interim - starkraving

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy - Icka M Chif

Sands of time - tirsynni

To My Dearest Friend - surveycorpsjean

Alone We Fight - SilvermistAnimeLover

First page by bookmarks:

Min: 973 – Expatriate (thehoyden)

Max:  2984 – Interim (starkraving)

Average: 1468

Average wordcount for fics with the most bookmarks:

70,027

Fic Ratings:

G: 3 (literally all fanart from KR5)

T: 22

M: 8

E: 17

Unrated: 1

Observations:

I ran this twice. Once including crossovers, and once excluding crossovers. This filtered out a lot of large drabbles and things like “flash fiction fuckings” which, no judgment, you do you, they just weren’t super relevant for what I was looking for. If you wanna see these stats including all the multifandom stuff that shows up, here’s the link for that:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DXDKXutIzVC-Iac93fFSDohAkphrn67yV-DmRt9xXmU/edit?usp=sharing

(I’m going to break academic professional analysis here and get on my soapbox for a sec – please don’t post big multifandom one shots where you tag like 20 different fandoms and every single kink that gets written about across 103 different chapters. This is literally what series are for. These kinds of things just clog up the tags, and it also makes it harder for people to find the things you’ve written that they want to read! I know this was a convention on ff.net, but this is not ff.net! We can make authors' lives and readers' lives easier!)

There were 38,427 fics in the tag “Legend of Zelda and Related Fandoms” (including crossovers, that goes up to 41,634). I manually added one back in though because it was entirely a botw story, just loosely inspired by another game.

Linked Universe fans comment a LOT. Strong correlation between high comment and Linked Universe fandom subsection. Y’all are very involved and active, and you show support to your authors. I salute you!

Sidlinkers, y'all are horny and I respect it.

Zelinkers, dear god we do love a slowburn.

All the most highly kudos’d fics are very low in the comment count. It’s almost an inverse correlation.

Excluding crossovers increased the correlation between hits and kudos quite dramatically.

There were not very many au’s other than canon divergence. Only one modern au as far as I could tell from a cursory examination of tags.

Lots more clustering, far less disparity between min and max numbers than when I ran this with A:TLA numbers.

Far less consensus on a vibe. Way fewer big writers, but lots of little writers doing their own thing.

Truly a lot of E fics. We are horny bastards.

We need more stuff written for games other than BOTW!!

There aren’t as many fics that are like “oh everyone in the fandom has read these fics”. There are probably those fics in each subcategory of the fandom, or within the specific ships, but there aren’t as many general fics that have entire fandom-wide appeal.

Thank you for reading! This was a lot of fun, and I hope you found it interesting. Shoutout to the Hateno Hangout discord for helping me refine this mess :P

Further shoutout to my partner who helped with writing some SQL to help with tag analysis. Truly partner of the year.

If you want more of this kind of egregious nerdiness, I did this with the top fics in the A:TLA fandom a couple weeks ago: https://www.tumblr.com/cooking-with-hailstones/751749202663669760/statistical-analysis-of-the-most-popular-atla

[i-got-too-many-links]

tell me about the Ganondorf/Link ship 👀

Hi anon!

So I ship Ganlink in many of the canon universes, but the one I'll talk about here will be Twilight Princess, my favorite iteration of Ganondorf as well as Link. I'm putting a lot of the Manga's backstory onto Link. In this instance, Ganondorf's invasion of the castle is successful, and Link is captured.

Ganondorf makes the first move, with Link in a cell a la Peach and Bowser and just kind of talking at him. He doesn't hurt him because where's the gratification in that? He won. He had exiled the princess to the desert and sent the ruler of the Twilight packing back to her realm. There wouldn't be any pleasure from torturing the hero any further.

Link learns that Ganondorf's motivations are entirely centered around saving his people from the harsh desert. He learns that the King of Hyrule denied him and his people asylum as well as supplies to keep them alive.

Link doesn't speak at all (I headcanon him as selectively mute due to a combination of gender dysphoria (he's trans) and a HORRENDOUS stutter that people made fun of) and he's shocked that Ganondorf appears to respect that.

Ganondorf at least attempts to get him to speak, but it's surpringly not that forceful. "You are not much of a talker, are you, Chosen?" And a shake of his head gets Ganondorf thinking.

Ganondorf starts learning Hylian Sign Language in the hopes he can get Link talking.

The first thing Link asks him once he realizes Ganondorf understands his signing is if he's the last of his people. Ganondorf seems angered by this, but the anger ebbs away quite quickly to a somber sort of look, and he sits down in a chair outside the cell. The conversation goes something like this:

"You're the last of your tribe... aren't you?"

"... Yes."

"I'm sorry."

"It is no fault of yours what happened to my people."

"If it helps... I'm the last of my tribe, too."

"Your small village in the forest would suggest otherwise."

"They aren't my tribe. They took me in several years before this all happened."

Link shares what happened in the city he destroyed by pulling that sword. Ganondorf appears to be sympathetic. He opens the cell door and releases Link's limbs from their chains. He fully expects the smaller male to strike him and run, but... the hero merely sits on the stone instead. Ganondorf sits across from him.

"Why did you not run?"

"What's the point? I've got nowhere to go."

"Your village?"

"They think I'm dead. Besides, nobody would want some washed up hero who failed the one task he was given."

Ganondorf winces at this. It is his fault, after all.

"Was it even your choice to begin with? This task?"

"No."

"If given the choice, would you have done the same?"

Link's sign is much more snappy this time. "No."

So... not only had this boy failed in his goddess-ordained task, but he hadn't even wanted to do it in the first place.

"The goddesses have a cruel way of pawning about their chosen."

"Could've figured that out on my own." A bitter glare from the hero.

"Come." Ganondorf stands up, gesturing Link to come with him.

And so, Ganondorf outfits Link in something OTHER than green, he puts him in blue. Gives him his own room in the castle. Allows him to come and go as he pleases. And when Link inevitably leaves the castle, the people swarm him and ask him how he escaped. And they're shocked when he says,

"He let me go."

[curseofpower]

Finally I'm doing it. It's been over 3 months since I nearly 100% ToTK and studied every landscape on my stupid hoverbike. But here it finally is.

My big ass ToTK post.

After I completed the game, my mind was going wild with theories and possibilities about what happened to Ganondorf.

I could not and still do not believe he was 'born evil'. I think something happened to him, and it happened right around the same time Zelda showed up so we never got to see who he really was. Not entirely, anyway. I believe the evil Rauru sensed was the ancient evil spoken of in the shrines (because why else would he be so familiar with the feeling of it?) and what do we know about the ancient evil? It existed before Ganondorf. Possibly long before, because there were old looking shrines connected to lightroots in cutscenes from the ancient past before Ganondorf became the evil's source.

I believe the ancient evil is something that came from the depths. It was unleashed by the ancient Zonai due to their excessive mining. I believe they created the lightroots and shrines above to try to control it, but when they couldn't, they simply left.

Because they knew the world was doomed.

As for why the evil would have ended up with Ganondorf and not some other powerful leader? Well, before the Zonai disappeared, they must have closed up all the holes they'd used to get to the depths in an attempt to bury the problem before leaving.

All except one.

The one in the Gerudo desert which is in an area that had once clearly been inhabited, before we knew there would even be depths in the world (botw). The damn thing even is a massive plot point in both games due to the Yiga clan. It's not subtle. It's there.

So here's where the evidence ends (mostly) and the story formed in my mind. I'll be posting snippets from something me and my partner co-wrote based on my idea.

While my original plan had Ganondorf fighting the demon alone and losing (becoming possessed) only to come back home alive and be hailed a hero for his apparent 'victory', our story has Link going into the past to make sure that failure doesn't happen, and he has the souped up master sword to do it with.

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The lightroots began to go out with no one to care for them. The ancient evil, no longer contained, started to seep forth. This thing I call a demon, was too weak to break forth immediately due to being indisposed for so long, so it began to attack the closest civilization to it.

This started with a plague.

The demon was angry. It's entire being is hatred and greed personified. It wanted to lash out just as much as it wanted a host in a position of power so that it may more easily inflict eternal suffering on the world above. Ganondorf and the Gerudo were prime targets in all regards, as back then, they were very well off and well established.

So here's where Link arrives at the kingdom. Still Ganon's pov.

As you can see, I didn't go with the popular idea that Ganondorf's Second and Third are Koume and Kotake. I made a couple OCs instead out of those two in the cutscene. Sorry. Neither are Nabooru either because uh this isn't OoT as much as it wishes it was. lol

Anyway, Link's POV, written by my partner.

Ganon's POV

That's all for now.

This is a slow burn ganlink story alongside... everything else it is. I took massive liberties with Gerudo culture based on what I know from other games later on in the story, and also played much more on the fact Ganondorf is a sorcerer than the game did. I took away what I could, however, making him adept at creating illusions mostly.

Also I'd like to say the way Link gets to the past is much different than what happened to Zelda. It's a doozy, but since my cowriter came up with it I'll let them decide when I can reveal that.

But anyways this post has gone on long enough. Let me know what you guys think, if you want!

[jullbnt]

Hello :D besides Zelink, are there any other loz ships you ship? :3

Oh hello thanks for asking!! I guess I'm going to disappoint you though cause I don't really ship anyone else? Besides Zelink variations such as Shink or Hylink of course (I'm dying to draw something with Hylia and the Fierce Deity... I love that stuff 🥹)

I guess the only couple that comes to my mind is Anju and Kafei, but they're canon so 😅. I'm not exactly obsessed with them either but their quest is my all time favorite (pretty sure I’m not the only one). Also I'm convinced Kafei is meant to be Link's equivalent in Termina with, you know, his whole business of being an adult trapped in the body of a child and being torn apart from his love because of it. A bit of a stretch maybe but I can't unsee the parallel with OoT Zelink!! So yeah they're meaningful to me but for Zelink related reasons again...

As for the main characters I'm not really interested in Link or Zel being with anyone else. I understand that some people can find these two cliché/boring/forced or whatever, but for me seeing them as soulmates/eternal lovers makes their stories so much better and emotional (I'm also really into the "union of wisdom and courage against absolute power" symbolism, I wish the Triforce would be brought back in the games for that reason).

That being said I don't mind some other ships, mostly Malink (I love Malon and can definitely see her with Link if Zelda is not an option), Midzel (cause I've seen some amazing fanart and it kinda makes sense to me, I much prefer it to Midlink) or Link/Marin (but I see it as some sort of dream version of ALttP Zelink so...). I'm not actively looking for that stuff and am not interested in drawing it cause I'll always prefer Zelink, but I don't mind stumbling upon it.

I guess the one ship I really don't like is Sidlink? Or anything with Link and a Zora character really (yeah sorry haha). Also Ganlink/Zelgan tend to make me a bit uncomfortable (except if Ganon is portrayed as a good guy but that’s still not really my thing). Same for any villains, I'm just boring like that I guess

Oh also. Ilia. I don't dislike her as a character but I hated how she was forced on Link in TP (like most people I suppose?)

And that's all I have to say? I didn't think I would end up writing that much, sorry for rambling a bit 😇

(and also for my English. I'm always a bit nervous when I write something long)

In case this wasn't obvious I very much enjoy talking about LoZ so feel free to ask me anything haha 😁

[tinka-tank]

got any dc character headcanons? specifically for the s2 cast but any work fine!!

Let's see... I don't have a brain that thinks a lot outside of her own ocs because I have a brain the size of a walnut so...

James: in a greeting he was speaking perfect Spanish and he's Brazilian and they speak Portuguese so I would like to think at least one of his parents is Mexican or he has lived there bc he also claims he loves Mexico so yes this is true and real

He also makes the cliche tiktok youtuber videos and makes Aiden do challenges and mukbangs w him and he can handle his spice but Aiden can NOT... I also like to think he takes longer to get ready in the morning just because he admires himself in the mirror for a bit. But it's no biggie bc Aiden spends 5 mins a day admiring James in return

Riya: honestly I Hate how people use the DC pride pic to say everyone else missing is straight like what if they were in traffic and missed ?? Like personally I just like to think Riya has never explored her sexuality at all and is not really aware of her interest in women (maybe someone here likes Riya x Grett just a little) so she doesn't say or claim anything really

But I do think she'd also do fashion campaigns. Like beautiful woman on a magazine cover. Ik she'd look so good w editorial makeup and fashion on..

Aiden: he is eastern european coded to me... not sure what country but he and Tom (season 1) are in that group to me.. also he calls James things like "snookums" "snuggle bun" and most importantly his "beautiful god of beauty" period 😌

Hunter: he does drag or something like that, his name would be something like June Thanasia (euthanasia) or The Bride.. or I was also recommended the name Bloody Mary like some kind of Lady Gaga or horror themed one

You will see an upcoming post of how I imagine one of his drag looks to be and I had a previous post of him in a wedding gown for this very reason, I think he likes the corsets and lots of jewelry and beads !

Ally: she likes to cosplay video game couples or ships and just not tell Tess that it's gay as hell like. She will dress up as Link and make Tess be Ganon to fulfill Ganlink or Ally as Zelda and Tess as Midna to fulfill Midzel... I also think she has posters of female video game characters who gave her the Bi Awakening...

Lake: absolutely is secretly fashion obsessed and has very cutesy themed outfits hidden around with matching flowers to put in her hair... I really think she'd look like a human flower in fashion aesthetics

As for Season 1.

Miriam: doesn't know what an air fryer is and she doesn't want to know either get it OUT of her face and I also really want to believe if Jake doesn't live with her she will have him do so after all stars so they can spend her final years together making memories and doing mundane things like shopping cooking and wandering around at 3 am for no reason

Fiore: I refuse to believe she doesn't treat a random ass stuffed animal better than real people, I guarantee she has at least ONE and it's def a unicorn like bye or cat like on her pjs byeeeee

Ellie: She had an emo phase and I know she had one bang over her eye and wore ties over everything and had a studded belt and such.. I know her power

Jake: that man is Chinese to me we've seen how I draw him this is hc I will DIE ON. I don't care whether he's Wasian or not, what matters is he really wants to wear more hanfu but is shy about it... but I like to think he loves womens Tang or Qing dynasty hanfu the most...

Also bc onc is SO disrespectful to him (I'm dramatic) I know they'd never admit he can play an instrument he SO gives me the type to have had a band in high school like tell me he isn't giving that energy

Tom: he smells bad, but to tame this he probably smells like your average cheap men's 3 n 1 body wash like think dove or suave or something like that like you can't convince me he isn't sweating balls out here, also he's secretly into fashion and desires to wear all the mini skirts his heart desires

Grett: passion for fashion like LOOK at her outfits ? Wearing heels and running around ? I know she desires so badly to dress more freely and even more showy, but because of how poorly she's been treated she is a bit insecure about her body and how it looks in certain clothes.. but I know she will learn to love herself the way we love her and wear the most stunning outfits and jewelry her heart desires

Ashley: I am going to be crazy w this one but as someone who's family hails from the North of Mexico, I have to think she's somehow Mexican BUT PROBABLY A NO SABO KID.. like I doubt she knows one word of Spanish other than swears but this is MY truth

Drew: he used to look up boys kissing on YouTube

I can't think of other bullshit I thought of but this is what I am thinking do we have thoughts opinions any add ons or disagrees ??

[raphahsleon]

I am so new in this but...

It all started with a ganlink, in truth it had been a long time since seeing them made me tender these two, but it just exploded a few days after finishing last year… so… well… apart from already having drafts for some fics about this ship (I will enjoy making each version of this sag), I will also try to draw them… Fairy of paradise Link & Ganon.. And there are still many more…

Notes:

-Why is Ganon like this… he needed a less "extravagant" way to take care of the poor fairy boy… -Link is deaf, he uses a bow more, the sword is from the four swords… and the long dress is courtesy of Ganon -[Sorry, I don't usually paint the original]

[featherlouise]

I’m incapable of being normal about these two

There are like 2 ganlink fics with Time (LU) and Gan on ao3 so I’m taking matters into my own hands

[st-hedge]

Pls talk more about how Ganlink are gremlins to each other ur brain is so big and wrinkly btw

thank u i spent all day ironing in these wrinkles

this made me think of something i've been meaning to paint since may and keep forgetting. i looked at the demon king's bow when link uses it in totk and thought 'huh that's a quite big bow, must be a pain to draw back for a small dude like link'. but then i remembered that he can even handle lynel bows so this would be nothing

but not everybody knows that. so then that led to the thought 'ganondorf is a good archer. what if link requested that he showed him how to use that bow and then pretended that his teeny tiny little arms are not strong enough to draw it'. he struggles pathetically while ganon glares until it looks stupid enough that he interferes and puts link's hand right on the bow, leaning right in, and corrects his pose etc etc all while cursing him out. meanwhile link is grinning and going 'eheheheheheehehehe success'

then when ganondorf manages to get link to fire off one good shot he looks down just to see the gremlin shite smirking up at him all sly

[batrogers]

Fluffy (with a bit of spice) prompts: General post-OoT GanLink, inner-wrist kisses.

[Also on AO3]

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When staying put finally began to drive him crazy again, his adopted-mothers suggested he travel with their King. He figured it would hardly hurt to drag him back out into the desert, away from Hyrule and its people and all the little conflicts still simmering beneath the surface there.

The problem was, he hadn’t thought about what it would mean to be alone with him so long, or what else had changed, between twelve and nineteen. Link looked at him and thought, I’m not the only one who grew up.

The Gerudo King was... calmer. More mature. Link could look at his face and see he, too, had finally grown into his body, a face still dominated by a nose that no longer was the only thing you saw. He had a decent jaw, weighted down by his mature beard and longer hair...

Link sat down and gave into the urge to brush the curls off his shoulder as he settled in with dinner in his own lap. The Gerudo King merely glanced at him and nodded.

Nearly a decade ago, Link thought, I killed you. I deflected your magic with magic of my own, and you died screaming for my blood. And now...

Now, Link caught his amber eyes with his own and looked away, because the thoughts in his mind weren’t violent.

Certainly not in that way anymore, at least.

The Gerudo King reached out and tucked his fingers around Link’s jaw in return, and Link did not flinch away.

“Was it just your wander lust they suggested I join you for, or something else?”

Link cleared his throat and cursed Nabooru all over again for her teasing... but they’d noticed he liked men as much as women a long time ago. He gave up when he knew he was blushing and turned his face away, but the Gerudo King – Ganondorf, curse him – let go only to pick up Link’s right hand. He pulled it to his face, and Link once again couldn’t resist.

Didn’t want to. He felt his breath on his skin and did nothing as his lips touched soft skin, followed by a brief lick of his tongue.

“If you’re unsure, I am happy to help you explore...”

He liked Malon, he thought, dully. Malon was sweet, and pretty, and safe.

....but, right now, he was right: he didn’t want to be safe.

“I don’t trust kings,” Link said.

Ganondorf leaned closer, and pulled Link with it and kissed near his elbow, then, his food put aside in favour of something more.

“Good,” he said. “You shouldn’t.”

There was nothing else to worry about interrupting them, that deep in the desert in the end.

[flovey-dovey]

Seeing all this Ganlink is making me wanna toss my own AU onto the pile~

It’s basically a soft soulmate!AU and mashup of Minish Cap and Ocarina of Time, wherein in Hyrule, there’s a legend about Kinstones. You find half of one at a random point in your life, as if put there by fate, and if you meet and fuse Kinstone pieces with someone who has the other half, they’re destined to be your soulmate.

It’s mostly Hylians who believe in this legend, what with there being so many different cultures, though not impossible, but even so it’s a very big surprise when Ganondorf finds one of his own, though he doesn’t entirely understand what they are or what they mean despite spending the occasional week or so there on business trips to the castle.

Link has one too and is very secretly romantic about it, hoping someday to find The One to fuse it with, but almost ran out of hope because nobody’s ever matched his. And then, naturally, one day him and Ganondorf cross paths and discover that their Kinstones were a perfect match. Not so perfect that they have to keep it a secret from everybody though.

Some other fun facts about the AU is that it’s a sort-of rewrite of Ocarina of Time where:

- Ganondorf’s biggest goal is more land for his people and is trying to be more diplomatic about it. He’s keenly aware of the affect power has on people, and hates the way the Hylian King- King Dorom Taraghlan Hyrule- wields his. - Ganondorf is reluctant to bring war to Hyrule because fire and death leave a bad taste in his mouth, but he will if push comes to shove because he’s roughly this 👌 close to snapping. - Link was raised as an orphan in the town of Hyrule and was something of a thief, wanting a better life but kind-sorta accepting that this was his lot in life. - Zelda has had visions of disaster and believes Ganondorf is the reason why, but there’s more to them she doesn’t realize, among other things. - Both Link and Zelda are besties and meet when they were young, while Zelda was training under Impa, who accepts Link under her wing as well. - Impa is more aligned with Zelda than her father because she feels bad that her people are being relegated to torturers and feared agents of the shadows. Shadows, yes, but she wants peace as much as Zelda (and, to an extent, even Ganondorf) does.

It’s just a very fun and sweet story about soulmates, forbidden love, Link going “I can fix him” while Ganondorf is all “I can make him worse” and falling in love and character growths and discovering dark secrets of a shining kingdom’s throne.

I could go on and on (and I most likely will later now that I’ve opened the floodgates) but for now that’s the basic gist of it! :D

[tirsynni]

LoZ Whumptober/Nanowrimo (as I failed to complete it in October), prompts 1 - 15:

Sands of Time Ganlink 1/3 - "Calling to You (My Safety Net)" “But now this room is spinning while I’m trying just to fill in all the gaps.” Safety Net | Swooning In which the call of Link's new home proves stronger than common sense or years of experience. Mistakes are made.

Revalink One-Shot - "Almost a Memory" “I’ll call out your name, but you won’t call back.” Delirium | “They don’t care about you.” Link wasn't sure what the Hero from a hundred years ago would have done, but he was confident that he could have dodged that arrow.

Malon/Link Gen/Pre-Relationship One-Shot - "In the Cold Light of the Moon" “Like crying out in empty rooms; with no-one there except the moon.” “Make it stop.” After Termina, nothing fits quite like it should and Time marches on even as Link wishes it wouldn't.

BotW Gen 1/2 - "Riding the Lightning" “I see the danger, It’s written there in your eyes.” Cattle Prod | Shock | “You in there?” The Yiga were either very lucky or were competent for a change. It didn't matter. Either way, Link was about to have a bad day.

Hyrule Warriors Gen 1/2 - "So Far to Fall" “You better pray I don’t get up this time around.” Debris | Pinned Down | “It’s broken.” When the small child with the Spirit of the Hero entered the battlefield, Link had no plans on getting attached to the feral brat. He swore to protect him, to keep him safe, but that was supposed to be the end of it. Now trapped and wounded with the young hero crying in front of him, Link realized far too late that he had failed.

Revalink One-Shot - "See You Later" “Do or die, you’ll never make me; Because the world will never take my heart.” “It should have been me.” Tomorrow, Link would finally face the Calamity. He feared that tomorrow would spell the end of many things, not just that nightmare. An unexpected source provided reassurance. If Link had learned nothing else since awakening in the Shrine of Resurrection, it should have been that death wasn't the end.

Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors Gen - "That Old Familiar Sting" “I paced around for hours on empty; I jumped at the slightest of sounds.” Alleyway | “Can you hear me?” In an alleyway in Castle Town, with Sprite and a handful of burning corpses as his witnesses, Link faces his failures once again.

Sands of Time Prequel - "Airless" “I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier.” “It’s all for nothing.” Immediate SoT Prequel: Before Link awoke in the desert, it was just him, Epona, and a terrible decision to make in a cold cave.

Hyrule Warriors Gen 1/2 - "Can't Rain All the Time" “Learning everything ain’t what it seems, that’s the thing about these days.” “You’re a liar.” Hyrule Warriors Gen 2/2 - "Can't Rain All the Time" “Can’t you see that you’re lost without me?” “You said you’d never leave.” The war was over. It was time for everyone to return to their original time. Whether they wanted to or not.

Hyrule Warriors NC Cia/Link 2/2 - "A Song of Love and War" “All the lights going dark and my hope’s destroyed.” Captivity | “No one will find you.” Link thought he knew what to expect of Cia: what she wanted of him and what would happen if he was captured. He was so very wrong. (Second chapter = Whumptober Prompt) Cia and Link meet again: this time, on the battlefield.

BotW Gen One-Shot - "Deep Silent Complete" “I haven’t slept in days but who’s counting?” Insomnia | “I’m up, I’m up.” Link was no longer sure what were nightmares and what were memories, but at least he wasn't alone... even if he couldn't figure out what exactly his lupine friend was.

Sands of Time Ganlink 2/3 - "Calling to You (My Safety Net)" “It comes and goes like the strength in your bones.” Cold Compress | Infection In which the call of Link's new home proves stronger than common sense or years of experience. Mistakes are made.

Hyrule Warriors Gen 1/2 - "Just Hold On" “Feed me poison, fill me ‘till I drown.” Water Inhalation | “Just hold on.” If Link survived this, his old commander was going to yell at him if he saw him again. This was beyond stupid. It didn’t matter. It hadn’t since that moblin backhanded Sprite and knocked him into the raging waters of the river.

Sands of Time Ganlink 3/3 - "Calling to You (My Safety Net)" “I don’t need you to help me I can handle things myself.” Suppressed Suffering | “I’m fine.” In which the call of Link's new home proves stronger than common sense or years of experience. Mistakes are made.