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Sun and Aurora laughing in a leaf pile! I’m pretty proud of this one too, it’s cute. I found some cool free leaf brushes for this.

For March of the Zeldas day 26: Crunchy leaves underfoot and a chilly breeze with sub prompts Autumn, fallen leaves, Time of Change

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Aurora again! Maybe I should tally up what girls I’ve done on each day and see who I haven’t done as much of.

For March of the Zeldas day 27: Cool shade and warm grass with sub prompts Summer, Swimming, relaxing in the sun

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The Twang of a Bowstring and the Spark of Swords

Teen, has a fight(no real blood, just to be safe) all HHAU people make an appearance, Dusk has pov rights this time.

“We’re coming up on some unsavory company,” Dot warned, holding up a hand. Dusk laid a hand on her rapier, glancing around at the others. She knew Artemis and Dot could fight, but what about the others? The three of them, well, four with Shadow, couldn’t protect the six others. 

“Alright. How many of you know how to use a weapon. Show of hands.” Artemis instructed, raising her own hand. Dusk raised her hand, as did Sun, Dot, Shadow, Sheik, and Tetra. 

“Does a magic rod count?” Fable asked, one hand falling to the fire rod at her hip. “Otherwise, I can use magic to fight.” 

“I’ll count it. Who can use magic to fight?” 

Somewhat unsurprisingly, almost everyone had their hand up at that, excluding Dawn, Aurora, as well as Sheik and Tetra, who put their hands down sheepishly. 

“Alright. Dawn, Aurora, remind one of us to teach you how to defend yourselves at the very least. Tetra, your inability to use magic to defend yourself concerns me, so we’ll handle that later as well.” 

“Concerns you, why?” Tetra asked, visibly offended. 

Dusk could answer that one. “Because you haven’t used magic once, and haven’t shown any indication of knowing how to. Not using magic at all can have consequences and be risky for yourself and Shadow and I.” 

Tetra settled for pouting about it. Fortunate she didn’t chose to continue to dispute it, Dusk would prefer if they got rid of the unsavory company as quickly as possible. 

“Alright. Aurora, Dawn, Flora, stay here. Anyone less confident fighting monsters and willing to stay back?” 

“I’ll stay back,” Fable volunteered, stepping back to stand near the two. “I can show them kind of the basics of offensive light magic anyway. Plus if I’m using light magic it might get risky.” 

“I’ll stay back as well,” Sun said, pulling a sheathed sword out of one of her bags. Dusk still wasn’t sure why she didn’t keep it on her, it seemed unsafe to have it so hard to access. Although she supposed that between everyone here with sensing skill they had plenty of warning. As evidenced by the fact that they had the time to stand here and plan this out. 

��Alright. Who has long-distance capabilities?” Artemis was good at this, although Dusk supposed it made sense, she had led in wartime. Maybe if she spent enough time around the older woman she’d pick some of it up. Maybe it’d just rub off. 

“I have my bow, although I use light magic with it,” Dot said, slinging the bow in question around to hold it out. 

“I also have a light bow, although mine isn’t physical,” Dusk admitted, remembering the bow she used the arrows the light spirits had given her with. Although now that she thought about it, it hadn’t really been fully light magic, even then. 

“I suspect most of us have used some variety of light bow,” Artemis mused. “Just out of curiosity this time, who’s used a light bow of some variety?”

Dusk raised her hand, as did Dot, although somewhat hesitantly, Tetra, Fable, Flora, and Artemis did as well. That was the majority. 

“I think they noticed us,” Shadow warned after a second, tilting his head. “Coming closer. We’d better move out or they’re getting the advantage.” 

“Alright. Dot, Dusk, stay back if you can to snipe, everyone else, try and stay out of each other’s ways, Shadow, we’ll try and warn you if there are any big light magic displays so you can hide.” 

“Sounds good to me,” he agreed, what looked like a sword made of pure shadow forming in his hand. “Let’s go, I’ve wanted to have a good fight for a while.” 

Dusk concentrated, forming the bow she had used in that decisive final fight. The arrows wouldn’t be as powerful, but that was probably good. Her hands had been burned badly after that fight, just drawing them back. 

The monsters weren’t that far ahead, which wasn’t surprising, and Dusk did as ordered with Dot, hanging back and calling on every ounce of calm she could to concentrate and wish she had a way to practice on moving targets before this. 

Dot took shot after shot, some missing, but some also hitting home in monsters, be it their arms or head. A couple of arrows did incidentally hit one of the other Zeldas, but it always dissipated harmlessly against them. Dusk wasn’t sure her arrows would do it, so she didn’t fire off nearly as many arrows, worried about hitting someone she didn’t want to. 

Artemis finished off the last of about twenty bokoblins, marking an end of the battle. 

“That everything?” She asked to no one in particular. Dusk had no great skill with sensing, so she wasn’t the ultimate authority, but she couldn’t sense anything besides themselves nearby. After a second, both Dot and Shadow glanced at each other, then nodded. 

“Nothing left,” Dot confirmed, nodding again. “We’re in the clear. I’m a little surprised there was even this big of a group, the Links were here relatively recently.” 

“They are fallible, they could’ve missed some,” Tetra pointed out, sheathing her sword and gun. “So does Flora want some of these parts?” 

“Yeah probably,” Artemis said, crouching down and starting to collect them. Dusk wrinkled her nose at the guts, horns, and teeth strewn about the ground. She was not touching those. She didn’t care if Flora wanted them, she was not touching those. 

To her utter horror, Shadow picked a gut up, sniffed it curiously, then bit into it. 

“Shadow!” Dot scolded, and his ears tilted back guiltily as he hid the gut behind his back and swallowed quickly. “No eating monster parts.” 

“It tastes good, like those fizzy things you let me have the one time,” Shadow said, decidedly not relinquishing what was left of the gut. Utterly disgusting. At least everyone else there was making similarly disgusted faces, excluding Sheik, who, in the quarter of their face visible, looked almost morbidly curious. 

Dusk elected to ignore the rest of that argument and start striding back to where they had left the others. She was not going to watch Shadow do more stupid things. Honestly, eating monster parts, that was appalling. What had she done to deserve this. 

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Vivid Flowers and Crisp Spring Air Chapter 2

Still Gen, still mostly Aurora and Flora, some Artemis, Rhondson and Karson show up briefly

After their picnic, which Aurora had, indeed enjoyed quite a bit, they started heading down the path to Tarry Town, Flora in the lead. 

“Huh, that’s new,” Flora said as they rounded a bend to find construction being done on some things in front of a long narrow bridge that led to an elevated island. Aurora admittedly hadn’t thought the island would be so far off the ground, or that the bridge would be so thin and flimsy looking. 

“Are you sure that’s safe?” She asked Flora anxiously. “It looks a bit…thin.” 

“Yeah it’s totally fine, it’s sturdier than you think. It’ll hold anything. Not sure what they’re building though.” 

“Might be fortifications,” Artemis contributed, studying the in-process structure. Aurora supposed she would know, she was the one that had been in a war. “It looks like it could be a guard tower. You mentioned monsters were fairly common in your world? It would make sense to guard the bridge.” 

“I guess that’d make sense. We won’t know unitl we get closer though.” 

When they did get closer, to no one’s suprise, Artemis was right. It did look like a guard tower, and that was confirmed when Flora approached and asked about it. 

“Link came by recently with his friends and the one in the scarf suggested having one, he was woried about the town with how many monsters lived in the area. We’ve only really got one person t staff it, so we’re really just building a gate across the bridge, so it can be open and staffed during the day, but at night we can close it and sleep easy.” That did sound smart. Aurora admired the structure. Even though it was still in progress it looked very sturdy. 

“That is a god idea,” Artemis mused.”Figures Warriors was the oneto suggest it.” 

“Odd name for a boy, but yeah it was a good idea. He helped us draw up plans too, although we improved them obviously.” 

“You are expert builders Karson,” Flora agreed, butting in. “How’s Bolson been doing?” 

“Doing well as always, still waiting for you to ask him to build you a house fit for a princess.” 

Flora gave a rather pained smile, evidently this had been an argument for a while. “Yep I’m sure. I’m still good just living with Link, thanks.” 

Flora was quick to herd them past the man after that. 

“What was that about a house?” Aurora asked delicately, not wanting to upset Flora, but she was very curious. 

“Well, Link and I sort of share his house, neither of us really lives there for very long though. Bolson has kinda gotten it into his head that it’s not right for a young woman and a young man to be sharing a house when they’re not involved, even if neither of us stay there for long. We’re rarely even in the house at the same time, even if we’re incidentally both in town at the same time.” Flora sighed, ears dropping. “And I’ve had enough of being a princess for a lifetime. I just want to be Flora, random hylian girl who just travels around and never stays in one place for very long.” 

“I can understand that sentiment,” Aurora sighed, remembering all the times she’d cried after a fight with her brother and desperately wished she could just be a regular hylian girl and could run off to hide from him outside of the castle. And more recently, having fights with Dawn and just wishing she could leave and not have to deal with any of this. 

Boy did she often wish she could travel and see the world with Hyrule, but he’d never let her come along. He always said it was too dangerous, and he was probably right. Aurora didn’t know how to fight, even if Fable was teaching her how to use her magic offensively, it was slow going since Fable basically had to start from the beginning, since her, Dawn, and Tetra had basically no magical background. 

“Anyway, guys, this is Tarry Town. The town Wild basically half founded. Karson back there built it from the ground up, Wild contributed materials and collected a bunch of people for him.” 

“Flora, it’s good to see you,” a beautiful and very tall red-headed woman approached them, bending down to give Flora a quick hug. Oddly enough she looked a bit like Dot. Mostly in the coloring and height, but also a bit in face shape. “How have you been? I see you’ve collected some friends.” 

“It’s good to see you Rhondson,” Flora replied, smiling. “And yeah, got some friends. This is Aurora, Fable, Dot, Shadow, Dawn, Dusk, Artemis, Sheik, Tetra, and Sun. Guys, this is Rhondson, she’s Karson’s wife.” 

“Interesting names,” Rhondson noted, smiling. “It’s good to meet you all.” 

“They’re all nicknames,” Artemis admitted, offering her hand. “You have a nice town here. Easily defensible.” 

Rhondson laughed, taking Artemis’ hand and shaking it. “The guy in the blue scarf, Warriors I believe it was, said the same thing.” 

“We are aquainted, so I’m not surprised,” Artemis said, and Aurora thought she looked a bit embaressed. That was kind of a weird thing to say. 

“Is where Link usually stays open?” Flora asked, steering the conversation back on track. “We’d like somewhere to stay for the night.” 

“Of course it’s open, Link isn’t here. You’re always free to use it. You may not have done as much as Link, but you’ve helped our village plenty in other ways.” 

“Right. Oh! Rhondson, I wanted to ask, are there any gerudo who know how to make paint? Aurora wants to learn how to make paint, but we’re kind of low on options for people who know how.” 

“Hm, I’m not sure. I can send a letter to ask if you’d like.” 

“That’d be great, thank you.” 

Aurora smiled at the thoughtfullness of her friend. Whether or not it panned out, she appreciated the thought. It was a cute village, small, but homey, and clearly very new. She remembered Flora once talking about the calamity and loosely what had happened, and it was very inspiring how the world and the people were managing to recover. A new village, one where there could be people of all species living together and working together. 

She hoped that one day her world could recover like this. The land beautiful and green, and new villages able to thrive. Hopefully they would be able to manage it one day.

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Vivid Flowers and Crisp Spring Air

Gen, Aurora's pov, Flora has a major role, and Artemis shows up somewhat briefly. They've arrived in Flora's world just in time to see the flowers bloom.

For March of the Zeldas day 19

“Oh wow,” Aurora breathed as she stepped out of the portal. They’d just been in their world, which, well, it was sort of home, but it was kind of dreary. 

This, wherever and whenever it was, was very far from dreary. The sun was shining brightly, the grass was an impossible shade of green and looked so refreshing, and there were flowers everywhere. 

“Aww yes! I had hoped we’d land in my era in time to see the flowers!” Flora said, beaming as she turned to look at them. “Can we just stay here for a while? A lot of these are medicinal, and some are super strong pigments I can bring to Hateno to the dye shop to dye my clothes, and we can just relax for a bit!” 

Aurora looked to Artemis hopefully, and she seemed to be considering it. 

“Alright, we can stay here for a bit. It can’t really hurt, we’ve been going full steam ahead for a few weeks.” Artemis nodded decisively. “Try and stay within sight of at least one other person, alright?” 

She got a chorus of agreements, and Aurora muttered her own before crouching down right where she was to look at the flowers. Maybe she could use some to try out for her paints? She was pretty sure some paints were made with flowers. Although they were probably usually dried. Could she even dry the flowers? 

“Hey, Flora?” Aurora asked, a bit overwhelmed by all of the different kinds of flowers. “Which ones are the most heavily pigmented?” 

Flora came over almost immediately, crouching down next to her. “You were trying to make paint, right? I’ll help you find good ones for that. Flowers that are super strongly pigmented actually mostly aren’t great for flower crowns, so it won’t interfere with plans to make flower crowns.” 

Aurora actually didn’t know how to make a flower crown, she’d never had the chance. Maybe she could ask one of the others to show her. 

Honestly, she wasn’t sure she’d seen this many flowers in her life, even before she’d gone to sleep and woke up to a ruined world. This was a lot. 

“They all fill different ecological niches,” Flora narrated as she started picking flowers, showing them to Aurora. “The bright pigments I think are just to make them more attractive to things looking to pollinate them. This flower makes red, this one blue, and this one even though it looks red actually makes purple. Otherwise, most of them make the color they are. There’s another one that I don’t see right now that actually makes a nice blueish green. The flower is yellow though, it's so weird.” 

Aurora blissfully allowed Flora’s rambling to wash over her, picking the right flowers and keeping track of them and their colors in her mind. Maybe she could ask Flora to help her dry them? Could her slate do that? 

Maybe when she had enough. Eventually, she wouldn’t be able to come back here to collect flowers and would just have to survive on her own stash. She was already missing the paints she’d hopefully be able to make with access to all of these other worlds. Once she worked out how to make paint anyway. 

“Hey, Flora?” Aurora asked when Flora paused talking to breathe. 

“Yeah?” 

“Do you know if we could dry the flowers? I’m not sure how to dry flowers.” 

“I actually don’t really know either, I have some dried flowers in my slate from Paya, she enjoys drying flowers a lot, maybe we can collect a bunch and have her dry them for us? We can just collect them when they’re done drying.”

“That’d be cool, thank you Flora,” Aurora said, offering her collection to Flora, who put it into her slate along with all the other flowers she was collecting. “Are you sure it’s okay if we pick all these flowers?” 

“We could never pick all of them, and the plants will bloom again soon anyway. Most plants here will bloom three to four times through the spring and summer, just to make sure they can spread as many seeds as possible. That’s why they’re the species that survived. They evolved to make sure they could take advantage of all the new empty lands.” 

“Oh, that’s a relief. Thank you for telling me.” 

“Of course.”

“Where are we anyway,” Aurora asked after a while, handing another bundle to Flora. 

“Oh I probably should check, thanks for reminding me.” Flora stowed the flowers then swiped to the map part of her slate. “Oh! We’re near Tarry town! We can head there for the night! I’ve been meaning to check in on it.”

“Tarry town?” Aurora asked. She hadn’t heard of that one, and she thought Flora had brought them to all of her towns. 

“It’s a small town on an easily defensible island with just one bridge to the mainland. During his quest Wild helped build it and bring people in to populate it. It doesn’t have a shrine very nearby, that shrine all the way up there on that hill is actually the closest one.” Flora pointed out a shrine on a hilltop that was fairly far away. “You can take the road, although it’s faster to just paraglide down. Wild was able to obtain one for me, so I can do it, but trying to get you all down wouldn’t be easy, so we’ll just take the road. More time consuming, but safer.” 

“Safe is good,” Aurora agreed, shuddering at the thought of flying out into open space. That would be scary. Just a piece of cloth keeping her from falling and splattering against the ground. Even if Shadow could probably catch her, it was still scary. 

“I think you’ll like the town,” Flora said, humming a little tune Aurora vaguely recognized as something Sheik had played the night before. “It’s small and friendly. I’m sure they’ll be overjoyed to see us.”

“That is nice,” Aurora said, handing her another bundle of flowers. Her stomach rumbled, and Aurora looked up at the sun, which was about right overhead. “It’s nearing lunchtime.” 

“Oh yeah, look at that. We should have a picnic.” 

“Picnic?” Aurora asked. She wasn’t familiar with that word, what was it?

“Wait you don’t know what a picnic is?” Flora seemed oddly concerned about this, which only got worse as Aurora shook her head. “We gotta have a picnic now. I bet some of the others haven’t had a picnic before.” 

“Are they fun?” Aurora asked hesitantly. 

“They’re the best.” Flora replied vehemently. “You’ll see.” 

Aurora was sure of that. Flora seemed very enthusiastic about that. 

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Lil chibi versions of some of the girls! I might do the rest of them at some point, so stay tuned. I was experimenting with other sketching styles and decided they were cute enough to keep doing.

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Aurora! The princess who slept for like 600 years and accidentally slept through the calender changing.

Transcript:

Aurora

- Pretty sure she’s about 15, some of her memories from before are slightly fuzzy, and due to the calender changing, she’s not sure where her birthday is

- An inch shorter then Dawn at just under 5’6

- Prefers bright colors, they remind her of her old life and time and give her hope for a new day

- Optimistic, hopeful that their ruined kingdom can live and grow and flourish

- Is happy just being a princess, she wasn’t really prepared for queenhood and doesn’t like confrontation

- Really wishes she could get along better with Dawn, but worries they’re too different and their outlooks are too different to work

- Might have a small crush on Hyrule, but she’s increasingly sure he doesn’t like anyone like that, so she’s working on getting over it

- Wishes Hyrule would come around more often, she feels more safe to sleep when he’s around

- Often won’t sleep for days at a time, sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident, her body is still adjusting to being awake

- Has been working on some healing magic with Hyrule, and thinks she’s passable at it, but people don’t really get hurt too much, so she’s not sure

- Tries to study magic, but there’s almost no books on it left, Dawn has said they mostly got destroyed when the calender was redone a bit after she went to sleep

- Somewhat eager to go on this adventure, hoping that maybe it can be the push for her and Dawn to get along better, and eager to see all of these other eras

- Cannot cook, Dawn tried to teach her for a bit, but they mostly got in arguments over the outlook for the kingdom

Aurora uses she/her for Sheik!

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Dawn! With some fun alt color options for her clothes. I’m pretty fond of them all.

Transcript:

Dawn

- Recently turned 16

- Keeps her shoulder blade length hair back in a braid so its more out of the way, but likes the segments in front

- Doesn’t have training with her magic, but uses it for small things like lighting up a room regularly, so she doesn’t have the same issues as Tetra.

- Wishes their hero would visit more often

- Has a somewhat strained relationship with Aurora, not on purpose, they just have very different views and hopes

- Would like to have a better relationship with Aurora, but doesn’t consider it likely

- Very pragmatic and down to earth

- Rather shy, but has an iron will, won’t back down if she is challenged directly

- Doesn’t like confrontation, but isn’t afraid of it, will face it head on if needed.

- Princess in name, but functions as a queen and does all of the work of a queen. Won’t have the official title for another two years, but she isn’t afraid of it.

- On the shorter end of princesses, although taller then Aurora at 5’7

- Wears muted colors and practical clothing

- Knows the basics of cooking and can feed herself, knows some foraging, knows at least the very basics of a lot of crafts and practical skills

- Not the best at cooking over an open fire, but she’s working on it

Dawn uses they/them for Sheik