#lin rambles

[linderosse]

Guys.

Super long post; read at your own peril (tl;dr at the end).

But I just had a brilliant possible idea about where Echo (the new Zelda from Echoes of Wisdom) fits in the Wisdomverse, so I’m documenting it in case I decide to use it.

See, merging Echo into Fable would be cool. They seem very similar already (relevant post), and it’s a good option.

Yet there are a few small problems with this. I can get around them, but they’re still something to consider.

Fable’s already in four separate games (Most Zeldas get one game or less). Adding EoW makes a fifth.

Fable is already quite powerful amongst the Zeldas. Adding EoW makes her a bit OP. I’ll have to balance that carefully.

Fable has a planned story arc in the Wisdomverse. This might conflict with EoW (for example, this is why LU decided against adding TotK to Wild)

So while I still think it could be cool to merge Fable and Echo, I’m also looking for other possibilities. I don’t want to introduce a new Zelda between Fable and Dawn unless I have to.

And then I realized:

There is already a canon Zelda between Fable and Dawn.

I’ve literally already introduced her.

I have plans for her that could totally work with what we see in Echoes of Wisdom.

She’s vastly underpowered and could use the abilities from EoW very well

I could totally see myself writing her personality into EoW Zelda— it’s a different take than how I’ve depicted Echo before, but it would work equally well imo

And she’s also the Zelda with the least canon information; the one we know the least about overall— especially since we never meet her in her own time.

Guys, if Fable doesn’t work out, I think it might be awesome to merge Echo with Aurora— Hyrule’s second Zelda.

Imagine this:

Aurora woke up centuries in the future, after the Great Decline. She’s trapped in a vastly different world with Dawn and Hyrule as her only solace. She loves them, but she’s not from here; and she can’t shake the dread that she’s left everything behind: her friends, her realm, her brother, who she still cares about despite everything he did to her— and also, of course, her Link, who she loves, and went on an entire adventure to save.

When she was Echo, she was a hero. But as Aurora, she’s an echo of the past; a mournful ghost of a bygone age

Tl;dr: What if Echoes of Wisdom is the era Aurora came from— and where she desperately longs to return?

Masterpost

(More thoughts on the timeline under the cut.)

So— Echoes of Wisdom seems (so far) to take place around the time of Legend’s era, with enough ambiguity that it could be either before or after Legend’s era of ALttP/Oracles/ALBW/TH.

Currently leaning towards “EoW before Legend” considering the similarities to OoT, but I could very well go with “EoW after Legend,” which would be necessary for the Aurora merge. The Oracle games, after all, have a lot of similarities with OoT in terms of races and characters present (Zoras, the Deku Tree, Zelda’s design, etc), and they come after ALttP, which doesn’t have quite as many. Same thing with FSA, which is canonically after Twilight Princess but obviously resembles Four Swords more, and both Wisdomverse and LU have shifted the timeline to match. So there is precedent for similarities to skip a generation or two, even in canon.

I also doubt EoW is going to include a Prince of Hyrule (the one character we know of from Aurora’s backstory). This is fine, because I’m confident I can come up with a reason the Prince was away during the events of EoW. Perhaps during the events of EoW, the Prince left on a journey of his own and first encountered the Wizard that leads to Aurora’s downfall.

Anyways, these are just tentative plans. We’ll see what happens when the game comes out!

[reedenthusiest]

DRIPPED UP‼️

[coffeewithcutcaffeine]

Guys, I am so sorry if I take forever to reply to messages, comments, or reblogs. I have been dealing with some pretty serious private matters for a while now, but things have turned for worse during the holidays. I will do my best to get back to you all whenever I can, but my burnout and depression might not always make me the most productive person. Please, bear with me while I am trying to make things fall back into their normal place. 🫶🏻

[miguelswifey04]

not back but yeah i’ve been so busy with college and talking to this one guy :,) in my soft lover girl era <3 he’s super fine and rly sweet.

[system-of-a-feather]

Back from therapy and Riku recommended me to ramble about this a bit here, but in terms of the narrative of our CSA as I see it, I was a very broken and very hurt child who really needed gentle care and affection and in a time of need, rather than getting that, I was fed to the wolves and eaten alive and left spat out the other end way worse than whatever horrid state I was in before I was eaten.

As far as the narrative goes, from that point my life froze for years until the past year or two, and it took a while to get time to restart, but while that pain and hurt is real and it was horrifically unjust and cruel and nothing that I deserved, I have the care and affection that I needed at the time here within the system and the few people in our life that our system puts in our company.

I was failed by the world and the adults and peers around me there and got horribly hurt and taken advantage of and that betrayal was deadly, but it really is okay now because I have what I need to live again. It still hurts if I sit on it and simmer on it and I don't think itll ever go away, but life continues beyond the simmer and I'm ever thankful for my second chance at doing and getting what I needed now that I am free and honestly, I am blessed to have the care and love I needed even if it came late and after a horrible failure.

I honestly have more support and care and a more intensely supportive system that helps me and cares about me more than I ever could have dreamt of having before hand, so honestly, I struggle to hold long term complaints. Horrible things happened, but I currently have way more than what I could imagine when I was in need, and its met so much more than I requested that it does honestly make up for all the bleeding wounds I took on.

I guess I forgive the world for the cruel joke cause I guess I am just thankful to be part of this system and have so many supportive peers in this brain and body with me. It makes me feel like part of something and like I belong and am wanted and cared and thats really all I wanted since I've existed. I'm pretty happy and satisfied and its weird to say considering I was trapped in it for years upon years, but the CSA trauma I held just seems to disappear in the background as a side arc to my life the longer I float around the front and Ray helps me integrate more into the system. It's authentically kind of becoming an "oh that, right" than the endless spiraling void it used to be.

[linelpisffxiv]

The one thing I love about the G'raha fanbase is that...

I don't think we ship just one WoL or generic WoL with him.

I know I ship several specific WoLs with him and they aren't just mine.

Vivi is different from Raih'a is different from Z'ahra is different from Lin is different from Rai is different from Leilei is different from...

Like, I ship generic WoL and Meteor with him too, but like... I can list several specifics that I'm all over for it with.

(I also ship him with quite a few other NPCs too. Snoegeim, Deryk, and Hyth all have desires to or have tapped that in various other verses, especially Teri's and Mneme's. And I like the idea of G'raha/Estinien in that funny High School AU. And I'm certain we can get many more options in the future, but those are the three on the top of my list. There's literally only two/arguably three NoTPs I have. Well, other than G'raha/Any WoL not into him.)

Anyway, yeah. I don't think I'm the only one not pretending that these scenarios are secretly my WoL and just... genuinely cheering on and enjoying each specific WoL's personal story with him.

(This applies to many other characters as well. If I'm enjoying pics of your WoL with a character, I'm not pretending it's Meteor or mine there. Your WoL's relationship with Y'shtola is different from Teri's. Go let your WoL live their best life with her. And all the WoLs who are with other characters too. I'm just... cheering you on.)

[hylias-gremlin]

Have the collection of my simping predicament

Thank you @swordsoffour @sparklingpixies @trulytiredhermit for these lovely on point presentations of what's going on inside my brain.

[lunarprinz]

ofc, no offense to op but this post is really confusing to me...? wdym it drowns out any lore? first off- this makes it sound like the devs purposefully crafted narilamb and ignored other characters, literally just having them be uninteresting. second, we have little bits of lore here and there and its the player that puts it together and it's fun, but we all have to understand that, at the end of the day, narinder and the lamb are the main characters and have a lot more focus and interactions! i disagree with the thought that fans can "wash out" content. but... let's say fandom content is the same as lore content, sure. the bishops are wonderful, and i personally adore shamura as my fave character, so if i want to see shamura related content i will go to the shamura tag... simple as that. this is not a story heavy game and the bishops are support characters to the story of the lamb with their former god. if you think the cotl tag is (understandably) overflooding with narilamb you can always mute the tag in case you're annoyed by it. i'm not too big on it myself but i feel overjoyed in seeing the cute art made of two characters i like :)

Narilamb is mid

and I’m tired of pretending that it’s not.

[flamingtoads]

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 1 — Soulmates ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @goldengroovy's @olnfweek2024

MC: Micha

Long ass ramble under the cut 😂

Okayokayokay SO-

I love soulmate au's. I cannot tell you how many fics I've read or how many prompts I've played with or media I've consumed or how many bullshit ideas I've come up with in my own head for them, I CANNOT.

It's just - hhhhhhhhhhhh- Soulmate au's and Time Travel au's are just the shit that gets me out of bed some days 😩💖my world weary soul drinks that shit like medicine, okay?

That all being said, it's probably a little ambiguous which au I picked to some, so let me explain: There are two au's I'm mashing up here really, both are from fics I've read back in the day. One being a Clack fic and the other a Thilbo one 🤷‍♂️kind of calling myself out here but w/e, they were good fics.

The Thilbo one is easier to explain - the concept is "Heartsong" which is, literally what it says on the tin. You find out who your soulmate is the first time you hear them sing (and no, that does not mean everyone is just a naturally good singer - they can be ass at music but, the point is, when you hear them their song is the perfect song for you and your heart knows that). There's a lot of little nuances to this one - things like you hearing your heartsong when you dream so you always know the moment you find them. Also people who have quiet dreams because their heartsong died, sometimes before ever even meeting them. etc etc. The heartsong also seems to expand, in some respect, to instruments (as Thorin plays his harp one night and Bilbo starts to hum without thinking about it because it sounds wonderful to him and that's how Thorin finds out).

Overall, it's a very soft and sweet concept to me and as someone who has a deep love of music, it's also one of my very favourites.

The Clack one is a little less easy to explain? I think. Maybe because it's nuances are so round about but I'll do my best. The concept for this one is "I Only See Colour When I'm With You" - anyone who knows how Clack fics usually go knows where this is probably headed 😂 and I am sorry to have hurt you but, overall, the idea is: You live in a noir-esqu world where everything is black and white. This only changes when you find your soulmate, of course, who brings the world into full saturation and lets you see colour for - possibly - the first time in your life (I say possibly because I genuinely can't remember if you start out colourblind or if it's an age cap thing).

Unfortunately, for as much as I adore this concept, it's been a long damn time since I read the fic and I don't even know if it still exists somewhere. So I can't actually recall if it was a 'you have to touch them' or 'you have to hear them' thing but the fic takes place with Zack on the cliff right before Midgar where he holds Cloud and looks at the sky - so I'm willing to bet it's a touch thing.

I also really loved this fic because it was the first one I'd read that brought in the concept of multiple soulmates to me - As Cloud later sits with Aerith and sees the colour he couldn't see with Zack, meanwhile Aerith only sees black and white, because she was only able to see colour with Zack (who was never able to see colour with her, because he needed Cloud for that).

Essentially, they all needed each other to see the world in colour. As a polyam person who didn't quite realise I was poly back then, it was a very comforting (and now dearly cherished) fic.

Anyways! Now that you have the background on the two concepts, you can kind of get what I'm going for with this piece.

Tamarack, Micha and Qiu are all soulmates in a fuzzy, desaturated world (I'm sorry, I'm not cruel enough to but them in complete greyscale LOL) and the way you find your soulmate is by hearing them sing and, when they do, your world is suddenly vivid and bright and beautiful. Suddenly, you can see things as they were meant to be seen and it's a permanent change (unlike the Clack fic) but things are always clearest and brightest when your soulmate speaks or sings 💖

I get a real kick out of the idea that Micha's known for fucking months that Tamarack is his soulmate (if not years) because he's always listening to her play but never says jack shit about it because he's emotionally constipated that way 😂Though genuinely, it's probably because he just doesn't think he's her soulmate and he's a bit against finding out he's right honestly.

Joke is on him, he's Qiu's and Tamaracks soulmate! And he couldn't have picked a better moment to grow a pair an take the risk 🥰

[goldengroovy]

warm up doodle of the cutest ppl in the world

[linderosse]

Epona!

Accessories and outfits!

Makin’ smoothies for status buffs!

Conditional Ultrahand!

A potential Dark World???

It’s a bit too early to tell for sure, but I think Nintendo might have actually achieved the blend of 2D Zelda and 3D Zelda fans have been clamoring for since OoT released over 25 years ago.

I’m so hyped!!!

New Trailer

Wisdomverse

(More under the cut)

That said, the placement of Kakariko Village under Death Mountain (like OoT) instead of in the east half of the map (like ALttp/ALBW) is interesting. And (Kakariko seems to be in its place!) we’re confirming that all the OoT/MM races— Gerudo, Deku Scrubs(!!) are present alongside the River and Lake Zoras (like in the Oracle Era).

More points in favor of this being situated after OoT, so potentially between OoT and ALttP— essentially, making this Zelda the Downfall Timeline version of Lullaby, or the Zelda directly before Fable.

This’ll have interesting implications for what the combined timeline will look like if I fold Echo into Fable, or if I make her a new Zelda :)

Either way, I can’t wait!!!

[reedenthusiest]

Waiter i demand more flint and cosmo fanart and fan content now

[coffeewithcutcaffeine]

me, doing research for Voievod: *extra focused, kicking my feet in the air, could spend hours piling up info on the most minuscule area*

me, doing research for the Master's thesis:

[miguelswifey04]

hi baes! if you do send requests or asks pls make them short pls pls pls…i’m gonna start college soon and i will not be able to write as fast or pump out fics…this is why i’ve been writing short drabbles lately 🥲 but i’m fine!! i’m js so slow and unmotivated lately, andddd i have sm going on in my life rn :,(

[system-of-a-feather]

I'm gonna roast him cause he deserves it but Chunns an abrasive idiot. He's by far one of our most simply driven parts and honestly the one best at just being in the moment and all - he literally is primarily motivated by the opportunity to just think while doing monotonous tedious tasks by himself and listening to music. However, he deeply finds people stressful and irritating so he typically finds anyone being around him something disrupting his peace so he's very easily annoyed by people, and so he's very abrasive and when in a bad mood, intentionally or not, one of the meanest parts (to people outside of the system).

And so this dude is simultaneously one of our most peace-seeking peaceful parts AND one of the meanest and harshest parts at the same time. And while I 100% get it and understand the mechanism, the dissonance between what he seeks and what he does is just... brain splitting I swear to god.

He's actually a huge himbo who would admit himself that he has two flies buzzing around a rotting apple for a brain, but he presents so angrily and abrasively to most people irl it just... my dude you give me a headache

-Lin