#ftm sheik

[jacksfandomrandom]

I made a Trans Sheik oneshot. I love the legend of Zelda and Sheik/Zelda gave me trans vibes from Oot. This oneshot is an Au where Link wasn't sent back to his childhood.

A couple months after Hyrule was saved and Link had a place at the castle, Zelda looked over the balcony in her room. Even though she almost died multiple times, she couldn't help but feel like she missed those days. Running around in masculine clothes and going by ‘Sheik’ brought her serotonin. She wanted to fight and be manly, like Link. However, she couldn't do that now. She had to help the civilization by being the princess. 

Her father didn't help much either. He always reminded her how princesses didn't fight. He got her more dresses which she didn't exactly enjoy. Yeah, skirts were cool, but the long and pink dresses made her want to vomit. She'd much rather wear a blue or navy tunic.

Impa walked into the room and saw the princess looking over hyrule from her balcony. She could tell something was up. The girl had been through a lot of trauma after being kidnapped.

“Good afternoon, princess Zelda,” She greeted her. Zelda winced at that title and name.

“Is something wrong?” Impa asked, leaning her elbows on the concrete bars. She was a fairly chill assistant/bodyguard. When Zelda was younger, she was sort of a parental figure towards her too. 

“Have you ever wanted to be someone different?” Zelda asked.

Impa was a bit shocked at this. I mean, she was a literal princess. Almost everyone would want that. But she answered a bit truthfully.

“Sure, sometimes I want to be a knight but I'm here, and I gotta deal with it,” she replied.

“No, I mean, have you ever wanted to be… a boy?” Zelda nervously said.

“Well yeah, being a boy has perks,” 

“No! You don't get it. I want to be sheik again…” Zelda admitted. Impa then realized what she was talking about.

“Oh,” she said in shock. She knew Zelda enjoyed doing that but always thought she was just a tomboy. 

“I- I don't know why I feel like this…” Zelda covered their face with their hands, tears slowly falling.

“Hon, I think I know what's going on,” Impa explained. 

“Y-you do?”

“Yeah, I think you might be trans.” She said.

Zelda uncovered her face and looked at her confused.

“Trans?”

Impa was a bit weirded out that they didn't know about that. They were 16. She then remembered how sheltered they were. The king wanted them to be perfect and normal and sheltered them from many things.

“So basically, Transgender means that your gender is different from what you were assigned at birth. Like, if you feel like you were born in the wrong body, it's a big possibility you're trans. But don't fully trust me in this stuff. I'm just a lesbian,” Impa told them

“So am I a boy?” 

“Do you want to be one?”

“Yes!” they said with enthusiasm.

“Then I guess you are, Sheik,” Impa smiled over to them. Sheik beamed at that name. They liked it a lot.

“What kind of pronouns do you want to use?” Impa asked. This started a new explanation. But after Sheik finally understood, he answered.

“He and They, please” 

“Alright. Welp, that's good to know. I'm glad I can help you out. I should get back to work though. I’ll give ya a haircut later. See ya, Prince Sheik,” Impa waved as she left. Sheik felt a massive amount of serotonin. It felt so good to be called ‘prince’. Hopefully, that haircut would be soon. Nonetheless, Sheik felt extremely good that he now knew what he was.

[plasmuser]

Pride Month Sheik/Link

Hey all! Since I can never actually finish a story before writing a new one, and since it is very late into pride month, I thought I’d do a cute little scene a day thing with my Hyrule Warriors au. Obviously I have published nothing, but at the end of the month I will just post the whole thing! Probably a bad idea but I hope you all enjoy what I bring to the table!

[twilightangel83]

Such a cute and wholesome little comic

just a little self indulgent trans sheik comic i made at 1 am :))

[uncanny-tranny]

One must imagine transmasculine Sheik

[spitblaze]

if i am being perfectly honest i dont think i remember any other clear indications of trans men existing while growing up beyond that family guy bit and like one transphobic joke about phalloplasty i saw on saturday night live

[bonerstar]

RAHH SHEIK TRANSGENDER CAUSE I AM NINTENDO

this ftm posting this right here says to LET SHIEK BE TRANS

[st-hedge]

Im trans, I dont really like gender/sexswapped characters mostly due to the fact.. when you see a male/any other sex changed to a biofemale its PURELY for smut reasons. And I just find that disgusting?

I love smut, I read smut of all relationship types, but I've come across A LOT of fics even in like.. TLOZ a03 that have Links Meet AU and the Links getting used/abused are somehow magically biofemale now just for smut. It gives me the ick, almost violently.

Having Sheik be a male? Perfectly fine, he's literally referred to as a male from OOT npcs (Ruto I think?). Having Sheik still be Zelda 'in disguise' but ftm? Perfectly fine, theres valid character development to back this up.

Characters being genderswapped because it helps people identify/reasonate with them more? Why not. But I doubt it'd be in such a way to just use the character as an object in a smut fic. Just my two cents i guess.

HUH we must go to very different corners of ao3. I’ve not seen that before! But ur response to it, fair enough I’m not arguing with that. Though I don’t ever want to assume someone’s intent behind writing something that or make assumptions about them as a person. I guess I was just purely thinking about someone drawing a character to be of a different gender as an exploration of a ‘what if’

[milo-hypno]

Where the FUCK is the ftm Zelda fics i'm dying. you're telling me y'all saw sheik and didn't make more than like, 20 of them??? that's wild to me. you saw a character whose very existence has been tied to being a princess, incredibly publicly, who struggles within the confines their role, and you didn't go "what if he was actually a boy with no support system who desperately wanted to transition but was worried about how the public would see him"??? Do i have to do everything myself

[sincosma]

Anon here! I completely agree with TP being the hottest (even without a fixation on the wolves). Like you said, he is the most fleshed out, he's slightly ridiculous, and he's part of the community. I also think for me it's because I love the moody atmosphere of the TP world, it's just... so good? (Minus the City in the Sky, and the oocca - what the fuck). I genuinely bought a WiiU just to play TP lol.

I'm forever sad there's no Sheik in the game though, I'd love to read stories set in the universe. I have a full Link/Sheik hc set in the universe myself... and I can't wait to see what you'll do with it once you finish Sanctuary!

I also think that he actually objectively is the most attractive Link. He looks pretty mature (BOTW Link looks like TP Link with some influence from Wind Waker Link which isn't great, although his body is 10/10 and excellent against FTM dysphoria), and his clothes are SO GOOD and his colour palette is too!

Nintendo should give us more moody queer Link, ahhh the dream! (I know there's not a lot of queerness in-game but there is to my heart and that's all that matters)

Totally agree with you about botw Link being TP Link with influence from WW!! The mood of TP literally cannot be topped imo. MM comes close, but TP still has a bit of an edge imo. Since we’re on the topic of HCs, I really view TP as a somewhat direct sequel to Oot and MM. I mean, Time is in the game. They’re confirmed descendants. I guess it’s not even really a HC at this point. But then you look at the official timeline and you wanna scream into the void so… 💀

BIG AGREE about the more gender neutral Link designs. My non-binary goblin ass really idolizing that body shape waaaaaaay too much. 😅

[loz-tearsofahomo]

The way i headcanon zelda to be trans either/both directions

[xena3queen]

Some trans Female to Male Zelda characters.

[galahadenough]

I’ve thought about this a lot as a transmasc individual who grew up liking the idea of them being separate, and I think part of it for me might be how that plot line ended. Sheik was revealed to be Zelda, the dress is back, and is immediately captured to fulfill the “damsel in distress” role. I don’t really remember this because I have a terrible memory was a kid who wasn’t psychoanalyzing myself, but it makes sense that the idea of being forced to detransition would have been off putting.

Now I like the idea a lot more, both a ftm framework or a more fluid one. Especially the idea of her/him/them being confused about their gender (because of dressing as a different gender that long without the self-actualization of getting to choose it).

Sometimes, I think: OoT Princess Zelda is queer coded.

But then I see that the fandom likes to treat Sheik as a separate entity from Zelda and I get a little sad and think, "Am I the only one who does?" 🥲

[blueskittlesart]

(Different anon)

I had an AU where Sheik and Zelda were separate people (specifically twin siblings) but Sheik was still trans lol

Anyway do you have any specific thoughts/hcs for them? Like if they're ftm, trans-masc, genderfluid, etc?

YESSS ive talked (EXTENSIVELY) about this before LMAO but basically i think sheik is nonbinary!! i like the idea of him using both names (sheik and zelda) and she/he pronouns interchangeably. to me its like. a kid who grew up totally powerless fucking with some established conventions a little bit as a nice little show of the power she's since reclaimed. She gets to define her gender on her own terms regardless of what makes sense to everyone else!!

I also think he's trans in all timelines, so even when link resets everything he still starts using the name sheik and fucking around with his pronouns later in life. the name "zelda" has a lot of expectations and attachments that come along with it that just... don't ever come to frution in the child timeline because of link's actions, so it gets to a point where she doesn't feel quite like "zelda" defines her completely, but she also doesn't want to fully abandon a symbol of her heritage and, in some ways, a symbol of the sacrifices link made, too. so he keeps both names and uses whichever feels right in the moment!

i especially like the idea of link growing up with zelda for like 10 years and just. in the back of his head hes like. WAS that an egg thing or did she just really want to cosplay a sexy ninja for a bit. like hes PRETTY sure she's gonna trans her gender at some point but there's no easy way to be like "so i watched you have a gender crisis in another timeline. how r we feeling about being a girl rn"

[sister-dear]

I’m bored and it’s been a while so gender and sexuality headcanons lets gooooo. (Keeping in mind I am not always even internally consistent about these, it’s fun to explore different aspects of things and I love seeing other people’s different takes, etc.)

Sky: Cis guy, bi/pan, in a closed poly relationship with Zelda and Groose and intending to remain so long-term.

Four: GAY. So very gay. And Dot’s lesbian. They gossip and tease each other mercilessly over potential crushes. The colors are not all cis guys but Four is.

Time: Bi/pan, demi-romantic, sex favorable ace, monogomous. Goes with ‘he’ for convenience but doesn’t actually care, would answer to any pronoun you cared to use. Sheik was his first crush.

Legend: Cis guy who is GNC as all hell. Bi/pan and poly. He likes his lovers to have other lovers because he really likes life on the road and that way he doesn’t need to feel guilty over leaving for long periods of time. He hates feeling tied down.

Hyrule: Aroace, FtM trans. Might enjoy being in a queerplatonic relationship but he is also quite content to be on his own, long-term relationships are either something he’s never considered for himself or has only recently started to think about.

Twilight: Bi/pan, monogamous. Currently single but does want to “settle down” with a single long-term partner at some point.

Wind: Might be ace, might be gay, so far he’s been having far too much fun exploring and adventuring to care about that stuff.

Warriors: Intersex, uses 'he,' bi/pan, might be on the aro spectrum. Enjoys flirting and having bed partners but prefers that single life. (The intersex is a newer headcanon and I’m still doing research to figure out how to best represent it, but it’s something that isn’t talked about enough and deserves some rep in this group.)

Wild: Genderfluid, aro but NOT ace. Has at least one lover in every major settlement of the botw era. Zelda is not one of them, she’s more like a sister.

[twink-between-worlds]

Bonus notes that weren't added;

Light is blind in his right eye. Vios hair is white.

Prince has gold eyes, as does every other Zelda except Sheik. Prince is ftm trans.

Moon has markings on his face. His cheek markings look like stars while he has a crescent moon shaped marking on his forehead (this is where he got his nickname from)

Siren has memory issues due to being repeatedly catapulted into things

Courage also has memory problems for the same reasons as above. His eyes started out blue but after killing demise they went red

Sprout cannot whistle. i just think this is fitting

Warriors and Sheik are t4t, both ftm

okay @astral-catastrophe indulged us so here's an entire post about the warped timeline au! we're mostly going to talk about our links in this one! going from youngest to oldest! also @fwoosheye

Siren

Siren is WW, ST + PH link! they are 14. they're still a pirate, but they make more time to visit Aryll and their grandma back on Outset. They are banned from using the windwaker unless absolutely necessary because they're a complete riot of a child. They have a pet pig who is appropriately named Chunk. Aryll made them a bracelet which they wear 24/7! they're small, so they find squeezing into small areas much easier than most others. Has a peg leg

Prince

Prince is ALTTP, ALBW, OOS, OOA, LA + TFH link! he is 16 and is the twin of Queen, his zelda. he and his sister are working royals, so while he is a prince he is also a blacksmith! there is a permanent portal between Hyrule and Lorule in the castle garden, and Ravio still leeches off of lives with him! he's autistic and semi-verbal. he uses crutches to get around. Prince also splits into King, Duke, and Princess, but it only works in Hytopia. They're trying to sort out a way to do it without the wizard

Light

Light is FSA, FS + MC link. he is 17! He splits into Vio, Red, Green and Blue at will. For a good part of his time with the other links, he does not have a shadow, since Shadow died. He's kind of a roulette wheel in terms of how he acts, what he knows and what he can do; but it's easy to adapt to whatever his “mood” is any given day. He and his Zelda are very close, to the point they think of each other as siblings. Light has a minish feather on a necklace along with four charms that represent the colours. He lies a lot, and sometimes he doesn't even realize he's lying. Threatens people to get his way sometimes. Autistic + has ADHD. Blue has OCD and Vio has severe anxiety

Moon

Moon is TP link! his wolf form is much bigger than an average wolf, so it's obviously the result of magic. He's 27 and married to Shad. He mainly looks after the kids in Ordon, but still cares after the goats when he can. He has basically no relationship with his Zelda outside of being civil. He still has a bit of heartache relating to Midna but he's getting better. Basically everyone's parent

Courage

Courage is SS link! He's 28, and married to Wisdom, his Zelda. After killing Demise he gained some of his powers, but he really doesn't like to use them. He has a small fear of storms after what happened to Wisdom and he never really forgave himself for what happened to her. He still has her harp and he's extremely cautious about time since he really doesn't want to be late ever again. His loftwing is called Crime.

Sprout

Sprout is OOT + MM link. he's still got all the masks he got during mm, but his favorite is the deku mask. He's 30! He's in a platonic marriage with Malon, and they live on a farm together. He has a necklace with a blue fairy charm because he still misses Navi :( he likes just sitting in the woods and staring off into space just...doing nothing. it's a bit creepy. Likes to steal. Might be a kleptomaniac, he isn't sure. He has a lot of facial scars due to the overuse of the masks he'd obtained.

Warriors

Warriors is HW link. he's Linkles twin brother! He's 31, and dating Sheik <3 (his Zelda is a trans king tyvm). he basically adopted Sprout during the war and he basically became a single father at that point in life. He has to use a cane to walk and he has a fair amount of burn scars. He's retired but still gives his advice to training soldiers. living his best life. Proxi speaks for him as he is completely mute. he struggles to tell the difference between left and right and uses his hands to remind himself

[aquaticflames]

What are you LGBTQ headcanons for the Lu gang?

Time: aspec, sex-favourable panromantic. i h/c that he doesn't give labels much thought! he's comfy as-is, and feels completely content with how he and Malon communicate about it, so it doesn't bother him. he's just Time, and she's his Malon <3 (although he had a whopping massive crush on Sheik for the entirety of his first adventure and still gets teased for it. he takes it in stride. "What do you want me to say? You were hot and mysterious, of course I had a thing for you.")

Wars: bisexual/aromantic! he'll enjoy a bed partner but won't seek anything more romantic in it. i also took on a h/c from @sister-dear for Wars' gender presentation - he's intersex (karyotpe mosaicism) and goes by 'he'! love this headcanon and was delighted to adopt it from you sis hfjhjghg.

Twi: oh my god he is the biggest bisexual. has always been comfy with it and did a double take the first time he met Shad. insists he probably would've asked him out for drinks had he not been preventing imminent peril. might give it another go at some point. i also h/c that he hasn't given his gender identity much thought at all. is comfy with 'he', but i have explored this a tiny bit further with him before.

Sky: cis male, sex-neutral ace/bi-romantic! i also have been slowly inching more and more toward sky being polyamorous thanks to various trios i've seen with him, which is delightful. he has so much love to give you guys <3

Wild: demiromantic ace (i h/c him in a QPR with flora, who is aro/ace in turn) and genderqueer. mostly goes by 'he' because he's comfy with it, but loves it when he gets to go by neutral or feminine pronouns too. won't go out of his way to request specific pronouns one way or the other though - everything works, in his opinion!

Hyrule: aro/ace ftm trans. been big on this one for aaages. <3 i do h/c that he is generally a pretty affectionate person by nature, so i also think he'd not be opposed to being in a QPR, like wild. :) (hasn't thought about it tho, since he hasn't really stayed in one place long enough to wonder).

Legend: gnc cis male! and pan (open to a polyam). it takes a lot to get him to open up but he shows affection in meaningful ways when he does.

Four: genderfaun! so very gay. goes by 'he' and 'they', and i do h/c that his preference for either one is influenced by the colours.

Wind: he's not sure yet! hasn't given it much thought, got too many things to see and places to be. :]