#i think the bowwow thing is fun in general not just related to the au. link gets a whole free dog what's not to love

[fourswords]

more characterization fun with the four sword heroes meet au:

so in the original four swords game link can actually obtain a chain chomp to keep in his inventory. what this means he literally owns a chain chomp called BowWow like in link's awakening. and the thing about BowWow is that he won't attack the link he's tethered to, but he WILL attack other links that are within reach as well as enemies. i like to imagine that knight eventually trained BowWow to only attack enemies and not friends and so he pulls him out to say hello one time and the other three are just like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING" and knight just says, completely straight-faced, "oh, this is my dog." so anyway i think BowWow would become the group pet. eventually

because four is smithy's descendant, on some level i do believe that four would want smithy's approval despite the fact that smithy is ten and also has no idea that they're even related and i think this would translate into four trying to make himself smithy's favorite. which would include him letting smithy talk his ear off about the minish and blacksmithing and kinstones and whatnot (even if he doesn't care about it at all. especially if he doesn't care about it at all). this backfires because i don't think smithy would play favorites he just likes everyone. this is what four gets for trying to win the favor of a child who's so pure of heart that it canonically enables him to walk on clouds. meanwhile light and knight can very visibly see what he's trying to do and light definitely starts teasing him about it and gets tripped for his efforts

light and knight often compare different swordfighting styles used by the knights of hyrule in their times—since light is so far apart in history i think it'd stand to reason that there would be some changes made to whatever the standard method taught to knights is and they have fun just going at it for a while. smithy is interested at first because he's never seen competent knights before but then gets bored and wanders off after a while. four is standing on the sidelines occasionally dropping annoying little comments like "so do you fancy knights do tricks for rupees? how much do i have to pay for you to do a little dance" and then runs away laughing when light goes after him

smithy is the only one who can somewhat play an instrument because he's the only one who even has one (the ocarina of wind). he doesn't practice very often though so sometimes he misses notes. it's okay though he's trying very hard

i like to think that four just has zero magical items on him because 1. he just didn't encounter any on his quest. he just showed up with his one (1) magical item and sealed vaati away in said magical item and then had to leave it behind. 2. carrying all that sounds like too much effort and he'd much rather just rely on his own skills anyway. this is in contrast to smithy, light & knight who all have magical items of their own. light is mainly based off the manga than the game, but in the game fsa link DOES have pegasus boots and i'd like to think light eventually found a pair shortly after his adventure as well. so he, smithy & knight would all have pegasus boots. and guess who they like to leave in the dust for fun sometimes

smithy doesn't like cats to the point where he'll literally climb knight like a tree to sit on his shoulders if he sees one. knight doesn't mind this and actually kind of empathizes because he was also able to turn teeny-tiny during his adventure because of the gnat hat and if he thinks about it he can definitely understand why smithy and cats don't get along. he's very glad that he himself never encountered a cat while tiny.

since shadow is still stuck in light's literal shadow and has no interest in pretending to not be there, a brief "yeah he's my friend no he's not evil (anymore)" explanation comes quickly after the other notice him, probably very soon after they first meet. some time has passed since light's adventure so they're on completely good terms now (they've already hashed out the "you betrayed me" situation and the "destroying hyrule" situation and whatnot) and light's actively looking for a way for shadow to have a body again. if one of the others catch light muttering under his breath to seemingly no one it's because he's snarking at shadow.