#botw links meeting au

[science-lings]

okay I’ve been inspired, time to list all my versions of botw/totk/aoc link lets go

Wild (He/They): Nonbinary, LU Wild adjacent, generally who I write whenever I write for LU, kind of his own thing bc I feel as though I tend to stray when it comes to lu characterization to fit my own wants. Has the most trouble with memories and their past, has the least control over his emotions. Things like sorrow and anger hit really hard for them and they have more trouble regulating it. Still silly and GNC though, just not as confident about their gender presentation yet.  

Sage (They/She): Genderfluid, HSFR botw/totk Link, really leaning into the whole death/rebirth/reincarnation thing with this one, accidentally picks up a spooky vibe because they have a skeleton horse and a big comfort cloak and is extremely good at making potions. This whole vibe what I’m leaning into for Another Second Chance, even though in that one the botw Link is still called Wild lol. 

Guardian (He/Him): Too anxious to think about gender rn but is a aroace queen. HSFR AoC Link, half sheikah and it is important to his story. His life is kinda dictated by his dedication to the throne by being descended from a long line of royal knights and sheikah who have vowed to serve the blood of the goddess. Also he’s betrothed to his Zelda and on his way to becoming King/Prince Consort.  

Aryll (She/Her): Cis woman (but with complicated gender feelings as she was discouraged from being feminine for a long time and has trouble feeling valued while enjoying typically feminine things, you know the vibe) My Fem!Wild/ Link AU, is the most likely to commit regicide. Had an easier time recovering memories during botw bc of her large amount of shared moments with Zelda. 

Linkle (She/Her): Trans woman Link au, has a bit of an egg cracking moment when she was getting into gerudo town, don’t have much for this one, it might be where I put all my Link being close to the Gerudo hcs. Like, after sealing the calamity, she and Zelda go to live in Gerudo Town instead of Hateno and they’re real close buddies with Riju and Linkle goes to the nearby great fairy to get her gender magically transed. idk i love the gerudo and think they deserve better. (also her name could be changed i kinda made this one on a whim...) 

Spirit Sage (They/Them): Fem leaning enby, totk role swap au where Link gets sent back with the spirit stone instead of Zelda, they lost their arm but the stone lets them summon a ghost version that they have to learn how to control (a feature also seen with HSFR Sage), trained under Mineru and tries to assasinate Ganondorf a few times. 

Time Sage (They/He): Masc leaning enby, pre-calamity was a trans man but then their gender got pickled for a century and their ideas on gender changed a little. They lose their arm but don’t get a replacement. The secret stone they had with them amplifies their time manipulation abilities (bullet time/ sitting by the fire, that kind of thing) They have to learn to fight just as will with their left side and not wield any sort of shield. The story is closer to the canon version than the Sage of Spirit version of the au. 

Gladiator (He/Him): trans man, ssbu Link, pulled from his quest pretty soon after botw. Older brother/babysitter to Young Link (MM) and Toon Link (WW), Eyes have been opened to the multiverse and he’s kinda just vibing with being kind of immortal and meeting the strangest people. ssb lore is wacky so he’s at least allies with all of the other characters, including ganondorf at in the end. Has the least amount of fashion sense and cooking ability but at least he has little brothers and is buds with Kirby. 

[echoes-of-courage]

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[houseofheroesau]

And one for wild

Five minutes.

They left him alone for FIVE MINUTES.

[bahbahhh]

DAY 22-NPC

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[zelda-the-sacred-realm]

Did Twilight mentor Wild or is this the first time they meet?

So they met during Wild's adventure, but as I said in a previous post, Wild only knows him as a wolf, so he doesn't recognize him immediately when he meets him as a Hylian

He considered him more of a traveling companion and a 4-legged friend than a Mentor, I can certainly tell you that Twilight helped him a lot, but they separated at some point (as Twilight had urgent problems to solve)

Wild will see him again for the first time during the story and therefore there will be a reunion ☺️

[starshipdecay]

My Links-meet AU at a glance! I wanted to finally sit down and draw them all, though the designs certainly are not final.

Feel free to (aka: please do) send asks and questions about them to give me things to draw about :D I have so many thoughts about them.

[linksconverge]

GAME: Age of Calamity DIRECTORY: Height ref, #character tag

One of Hyrule's extraordinary Champions, though they certainly don't feel like it given how everything's turned out. With what they perceive as a failure of grand proportions — and with whom Terrako has enlisted for help — they have little time, capacity, or believed right to concern themself over anything more than: how do they fix this? Not exactly hostile but hardly welcoming, the majority of the party finds interacting with them something like trying to grind down stone barehanded.

WEAPON: Royal Broadsword and Hylian Shield. Prodigious with the blade since childhood, their swordsmanship proves to be amongst the best of the party — even as they're hampered by the painstaking process of adapting to their prosthetic arm. Their drive would be admirable, if it wasn't so self-denying.

GEAR: Champion must-haves. Perhaps the most fitting way to describe the nature of their inventory would be "excessively functional". Outside of particular standouts like their paraglider, hair-tie, or seasonings kit, nearly everything is carried for its necessity rather than for any sentimental value. Notably, there is an absence of the equipment that used to define the Knight Who Seals the Darkness.

SKILL: Sheikah arm. A transhumeral prosthesis engineered by Purah and Robbie with the help of several medical professionals, for part of the right arm Knight no longer has. Powered by Ancient Cores and a miniature Guidance Stone, it's network-interfaced with the Sheikah Slate, allowing them to make use of Sheikah Runes even in the device's (and Terrako's) absence. It's not a perfect solution (check-ups still need to be regularly conducted and Knight has residual and phantom limb pain on top of everything else to handle), but it's enough.

SKILL: Royal guard. There's more than just extensive combat training that comes with being a knight, of course. For one so involved with the Royal Family, receiving a formal education in equestrianism, the arts, sports, etiquette, survivability, and so on was par for the course. How well they took to each subject is a different matter altogether.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNICATION: Hearing, though with auditory processing issues. Understands Hylian (Modern Alphabet), conversational Zoran, Sheikah, Rito, and Goron, and very limited Gerudo. Non-speaking, they use the present era's Hylian Sign Language to communicate.

Literate, so they'll try to write if given the means to when needed. They're otherwise pretty decent at pantomiming.

FAMILY: They have an official byname, technically, but aren't keen on being associated with their father and have opted for the toponymic alternative offered by way of their mother. Not that they're on the greatest terms with her, either. Out of their family members, they're closest with their younger sister — which isn't saying much when they feel like they're distant friends at best and barely acquaintances at worst (it's complicated).

PERSONAL TIMELINE: Went through the events of Age of Calamity when they were seventeen-years-old. It's been over a year since.

NICKNAME ORIGIN: Taken from their occupation, as proposed by Patches. Cori signs this as is ("knight"). Linh and Patches fingerspell (alphabetically, "K-n-i-g-h-t").

[batrogers]

In the Shadow of Death is complete.

[mememan93]

Forget all the Links meeting aus, forget the idea of different links entirely, It would be much funnier if there was only one link, the same guy, doing elaborate dress up to make it look like he was different links. in this essay i will-

[lenahiro]

Tears and the Thunder Helmet

[fruitysoupy]

I experimented with colours today :] here's those doodles + a couple extra ones

Apple, Puzzle and Seagull :]

And Birdie and Wolfie I used for light/shadow practice!

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[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

If I ever write a Zeldas meet au (it'll happen soon) it'll be over in like 10k words/10 in fic minutes. They wouldn't have trust issues or whatever they would just fix it immediately by pointing the nuclear bomb Zeldas at the problem. Maybe soften it up a bit first with the melee fighters. Only reason it would take longer was if the problem wasn't right next to them to start with

[parksrway]

links meet au 🤨❌

sheiks meet au 😌 ✅

call that shinked universe

[caramel-catss]

i finally. made their refs. if anyone remembers this au

they're also on artfight !!

rabbit - dragon - wolf

[savimatteo2810]

I put this off for months because if there's anything I hate it's drawing armour and I guarantee you that every time I draw him he will look different because this armour sucked.

So, to explain Calamity;

He's not... Actually from Age of Calamity. I haven't worked out the details yet, but he's Link from before he died in BotW. In retrospect, I probably should have named him something slightly less misleading but it's... kind of too late to change it now so whoops.

In BotW, he's essentially dead. This Link is doomed to die, and despite the fact that his body is revived, I don't think that matters since Calamity himself would be dead.

Fun.