#legend knows the legend of the Four Sword

[aikoiya]

Okay, I LOVE this sort of stuff. It just makes my entire day.

The Hylian written languages are a mess, man. But it’s nice seeing how they vary and how that’d affect how the Links communicate. I thought it’d be fun to share this since apparently written Hylian isn’t like, common knowledge in the fandom. Might be useful for art or the alike maybe? not sure

(really long post so. under a read more it goes! TL;DR of what’s in here: talking about and showing the written Hylian in almost all Zelda games, similarities between some, brief appearances in other games, and what writing system each Link would use according to all of this (basing it on the LU AU’s Links, but it could apply to any other Zelda AU out there), plus me trying to Connect The Dots™)

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[cokoakeostuff]

yeah i get anons confusion, the lore can be pretty vague and a lot of old misunderstandings or fanon are still presented as truth on a lot of forums for anyone wondering, this is my understanding of the full list of heroes:

-The Hero of the Sky/ the chosen hero: Link in Skyward Sword (they are the same guy! The manga is non-canon!).

- The Hero of Men: Appears in the backstory of The Minish Cap

-The Hero of the Minish: Appears in The Minish Cap

-(might be another weilder of the four sword between these two from the four swords prolouge/manual or that might just be the hero of the minish, its not clear)

-The Hero of the Four Sword: Appears in Four Swords

-The Hero of Time: Appears in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask Child timeline:

-The Hero of Twilight: Appears in Twilight Princess

-The Hero of Light: Appears in Four Swords Adventures

Adult Timeline:

-The Hero of Winds: Appears in Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass

-The Hero of Spirits: Appears in Spirit Tracks Downfall Timeline:

-The Hero of Legend: Appears in A Link to the Past, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, and Link's Awakening

-The New Hero of Hyrule: Appears in A Link Between Worlds and Triforce Heroes (no I don't know why he has such a stupid title. he comes before the original lol)

-The hero of...rifts? Echoes?: Link from Echoes of Wisdom (sorry i don't know his hero title)

-The Hero of Hyrule: Appears in The Legend of Zelda and Adventure of Link Wild Era Timeline:

-The ancient hero: Mentioned in BOTW having lived 10,000 years prior

-The Hero of the Wild: Appears in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom

YES, YESS.

That’s exactly what I understood too, very clever to point that sky is the same hero, he was just hearing legends about himself in the past, or al least thats why I think ?

Also I like to call EOW Link “Hero of Might” :]

You definitely did your homework, I love seeing zelda lore enjoyers fr.

[wellwornworldwalker]

I have an obsession with assigning theme songs to characters I like. Since Linked Universe is my current hyperfixation I realized I have a golden opportunity. Sleeping at Last is one of my favorite artists and he has an album called Enneagram. 9 songs for 9 personality types for 9 Links so without further adieu here is my totally flawed assignment of songs.

One - Warriors.

The list goes on forever Of all the ways I could be better, in my mind As if I could earn God's favor given time Or at least congratulations Now, I have learned my lesson The price of this so called perfection is everything I've spent my whole life searching desperately To find out that grace requires nothing of me

In the Swords comic Warriors admits that wielding the Master sword made him feel invincible and that nearly cost him his life.

Now Warriors has learned that his true strength is his ability to work with others, a strength he brings to the chain. I see Warriors as someone that likes rules, he needs the world and people to follow a predictable pattern. That puts him at odds with the chaotic members of the chain (That’s everyone, including Warriors.) He’s a perfectionist, specifically the type of perfectionist that believes if you want something done right you’ve got to do it yourself. He’s learned to work with others, and has overcome his initial instincts as The Hero.

Two - initially I thought Hyrule was the best match for Two but as I was writing this analysis I changed my mind to Twilight.

Sweetheart, you look a little tired When did you last eat? Come in and make yourself right at home Stay as long as you need Tell me, is something wrong? If something's wrong, you can count on me

You know I'll take my heart clean apart if it helps yours beat

Twilight is running himself ragged. He was pulling double duty as Wolfie and Twilight. He’s trying to make Time proud, then turns around and tries to mentor Wild. A thankless task because Wild is not interested in his mother Cuccoing. He's more used to the mature blue eyed wolf that pushed him to his limits and never coddled him.

And in Twilight Princess he became The Hero to save his village. Mayhaps Twilight is a bit of a people pleaser but…

I know exactly how the rule goes Put my mask on first No, I don't want to talk about myself Tell me where it hurts I just want to build you up, build you up Till you're good as new And maybe one day I will get around to fixing myself too

Twilight recently had his heart broken when Midna left and shattered the mirror. Maybe he’s trying to avoid those feelings by concentrating on everyone else?

Three - Time and Legend were fighting back and forth with songs Three and Eight. Those two are very similar . Both young hero’s that had their childhood stolen in a single defining moment. Legend watched his uncle die and went on the run. Time drew the sword and woke up seven years later having slept through his childhood. And they’ve become pessimistic and cynical because of that.

And a nice little detail that shows how similar Time and Legend are is when Legend and Warriors were betting on who Time’s wife was. War’s thought it would be the princess. But Legend correctly guessed it was someone different because he knew that wasn’t Time’s style.

But back to Time, because these two are different and maybe that just because Time has the advantage of years and age on his side but he settled in a way Legend hasn’t

Maybe I've done enough And your golden child grew up Maybe this trophy isn't real love And with or without it, I'm good enough

Time is who he is because he has Malon and the ranch. Malon loves the very normal man Time is not The Hero he had to be. The others immediately notice how different Time is when they get to the ranch.

He laughs, smiles, and jokes around. While on the road he’s tense and serious. He sees this quest as a duty and a responsibility, but he wants to be home. Makes you wonder why he’ll leave home and die to become the hero’s shade?

Four - Is FOUR

Jk jk it's Sky. The song Four is about ordinary touching divine. And if that doesn't sum up Sky I don't know what does.

Bodies fashioned out of dirt and dust For a moment, we get to be glorious

When Sky first encountered Demise the Demon King spends a lot of time pointing out that Link is human, brave for a human but still human.

Then there are these lines

But I've fallen in love with a ghost I lost my balance when I needed it most

He loves Zelda, a mortal incarnation of a goddess and in his quest to save her he is so often just a little too slow. He's there in the end and gets the job done but it's a close thing that haunts him.

Five - For real this time. This is Fours song.

The opening lines are

I want to watch the universe expand I want to break it into pieces small enough to understand And put it all back together again In the quiet of my private collection

He's a curios little guy and a smith. Always looking into the mysteries of the world, take them apart and remake them. Maybe that curiosity got him into a little trouble. He's got the four sword and one magic sword is more than enough for him.

The last lines of the song are

I finally feel the universe expand It's hidden in heartbeats Exhales and in the hope of open hands

Four has got the four sword but he is also the hero of Minish cap. He see's the large universe and the small important things that are closer to home. He's recognized this after the events of sunset and dawn. If this quest is to succeed he needs to let his brother's in. Wild knows his secret but that was more of a spur of the moment angry reaction. I'll be interested to see if he purposefully reveals his secret to anyone else.

Six - Six was originally my pick for twilight but I switched him and Hyrule. Fanon characterizes Hyrule as the healer but so far we've only seen him healing once. So I'm basing this off of his games, Linked universe canon and my hopes for his character arc.

We laugh about this line because Hyrule has what is considered the hardest game. Oh you sweet summer child. You complicated, pixilated little hero. Do you know what you've done? That's why I associate these lyric's with Hyrule's character

I want to take shelter, but I'm ready, ready to fight Somewhere in the middle, I feel a little paralysed Maybe I'm stronger Than I realize

Like Legend Hyrule lives in the fallen hero timeline. That's caused some serious problems for his kingdom. But unlike Legend, Hyrule seems to be open and friendly.

Is it courage or faith To show up every day? To trust that there will be light Always waiting behind Even the darkest of nights

It takes real courage to live in a dying world and still love it and it's people.

Seven - There was never any doubt in my mind that Seven was Wild's song. Some of these were difficult to nail down but not Seven and Wild. This song is about being restless and wanting to explore. Perfect for our Hero of the Wild

Then the song hits you with this sucker punch

But I want to be here Truly be here To watch the ones that I love bloom And I want to make room To love them through, and through, and through, and through The slow and barren seasons, too

Twilight has pointed out the Wild should talk to his Zelda about who he used to be and who he is now. But that means looking to the past and he's can't bring himself to do that yet. Instead seeing his life as two different people. The before and after.

Eight - I mentioned that I flipped flopped on choosing Time or Legend for this song but I finally decided that this is more Legend's song. Truth be told Eight could have been just about any Link's song. It's such a protagonist song. It's my favorite :)

Jojo has draw a picture of Legend with Marin and he looks so happy and playful. Something we don't see with the group.

But I can't let you see all that I have to lose All I've lost in the fight to protect it I can't let you in, I swore never again I can't afford to let myself be blindsided

He was open and loved once before but then he lost it. Not only lost it but had to be the one to destroy it himself, confront that maybe this happiness was never real to begin with. Now he's withdrawn and cynical. Legend is still all in on being a hero. (Unlike Time he's not looking to settle down.) But he wont be opening his heart anytime soon.

Can we talk about this panel from the bet

Are you talking about Time or yourself?

I'm standing guard, I'm falling apart And all I want is to trust you Show me how to lay my sword down For long enough to let you through

I can't wait to see his brother's break through that hard exterior and see the kind and empathetic person underneath. We see flashes of it.

(Memories is a gold mine for everyone's characterization, just saying.) He's emotional mature enough to know where to really lay the blame. I hope he can help Wild see that. But I think to really get through to Wild he'll need to be emotional vulnerable and he's not prepared for that yet.

But in the end Legend is a hero through and through. Since he was 11 he's been The Hero and he shows no sign of stopping.

I'ma shake the ground with all my might And I will pull my whole heart up to the surface For the innocent, for the vulnerable And I'll show up on the front lines with a purpose

He's grumpy and cynical but still a hero.

Nine - By process of elimination Wind is number Nine. I'm not really happy with this one but none of the songs really fit Wind . So I decided to speculate about Wind's future. Wind and Tetra are supposed to reestablish the Kingdom of Hyrule, a daunting task for a 13/14 year old. No wonder he admires the kings of Hyrule so much

Wake up Fall in love again Wage war on gravity There's so much Worth fighting for You'll see Another domino falls Either way

Quite the opposite of Wild , Wind is always looking to the past to build the future.

This ended up being longer than I thought it would be but I also didn't even talk about half my feeling when it comes to this album and Linked Universe. IDK how that possible. But I've said enough and I just needed to share my thought. And you guys should totally listen to the album.

[mirensiart]

Got me thinking, (not same Anon btw) the headpat on four, why not have them feel it? As in the 4 Fours.

Like how Legend and Ravio have a link, couldn't Four have a special link too? Since they're one dude, how about them feeling some of the same sensations? Maybe muffled, so it's not completely overwhelming, but enough so all of Four at least knows he's being petted?

That's a good headcanon! But I personally like the idea that they're separate people when split like the four swords manga

And also cause tossing each other and beating each other up is too fun in four swords to have them feeling each other's pain or feelings lol

But rest assured, if you pat four in the head you're basically patting all colors so that's something, right?

My personal headcanon is that when they're split they are individual people but when they merge into four all of their memories, their wounds, their knowledge all get transferred to four

So like say the colors get separated, they regroup, then merge— four now has the collective memories and knowledge of all of them despite the colors being separated

Also for the wounds, say red has a scratch on the cheek, blue a sprained ankle, vio a cut on the shoulder and green scrapped knees, they merge and now four has all of their wounds combined lol

Like that's the special "link" I headcanon they have, but I do like ur headcanon too! It's cute 💖

[marenwithanm]

I guess this is a Thing™ now cuz I keep finding more of these in my files lol.

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[casual-emo-artist]

Several months of work due to school and moving, but the idiot (affectionate) was finally done and put to use at my local Comic-Con!

the embroidery is hand done with the a chain stitch because I think I’m hilarious.

yes I know he doesn’t use the master sword, to that I say, “hush”.

might remake the tunic in the future and not use that damn stitch because it was a NIGHTMARE and honestly not to the scale I’m happy with.

edit: Y’all gonna make me cry

[amanitacurses]

Scientist x Monster

[localicecreambiter]

ROUND 2 BABY!!!!

they gained melanin

There was gonna be a 6th, but I got lazy and didn't feel like replicating the lighting in that 3rd one sooo this post may be edited

edit for these two

@indigoartistqueen

[hauntinghyrule]

Do you dare? >:]

[smilesrobotlover]

I was thinking about how my design for Veran reminded me of Faima.

[james-p-sullivan]

If your option isn’t listed please reply in the tags!

[bluutooth]

it's red in here

individual ones cuz yuh

[weepingtalecowboy]

Point of view you are Sky trying to imagine what a horse looks like

The horse girls be like : “Picture this: a tall, majestic creature with four legs that end in these incredible, sturdy hoofs—like oversized nails, but shaped perfectly for the ground they walk on. They’re all muscle and power, but somehow, they move with the kind of grace that makes it feel like they’re gliding, like those birds you told us about.

Their faces are long and elegant, with these soft, expressive little lips at the end of a mouth that seems impossibly long—but it’s mostly hidden under smooth skin, so it’s not weird, I promise.(he is wrong) And their eyes! Deep, dark pools that are somehow both calm and intense at the same time, like they’re looking straight into your soul. They’re strong, beautiful, and full of personality—like walking art you can befriend.”

You hope you’re wrong about it

[scamperin-shroom]

I love these little guys so damn much

[theforgxttenshade]

"What do you want?"

Vaati art be upon thee.

[gatitopicante]

Met a loftwing in Sky's Era. Very kind birds unless you mess with their other half.