#lu Time

[fattorimunin]

加油啊Wind君 我好喜歡無雙三人組喔他們一定是親兄弟

[lizzable]

Listen listen listen. Time, Hyrule and Wild for sure.

Look in the BACKGROUND. Twilight and Legend freaking out and thanking the Goddess. Iconic. Immaculate.

They got hit by a cursed wizzrobe

[veryloudgroan]

LINKLE IN YOUR STYLE PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

rllly wanted to draw more of linkle but I keep getting sidetracked....(sighs at my wips)(walks into a wallmart with my cheeks hanging out)

[librarygarten]

I love your ideas for isekai reader! but what about a reader who is a professional or hardcore gamer? in the sense that will probably finish the videogames with the minimum of items or with lower level weapons

all this based on my friend's experience, who when he completed final fantasy discovered that the weapons could be improved or that there were more powerful weapons to defeat the bosses

—————

the chain: this enemy is very difficult, we should upgrade our weapons and come back later-

Gamer reader: the life bar moved, it can bleed

the chain: ...b-but this enemy attacks from very close range-

Gamer reader: then attack from afar

gamer reader: If the enemy can bleed, it can die

As a certified baby that can't complete any game without a walkthrough, this is absolutely not my lived experience. It takes a special kind of crazy to do that. /pos

The battle was fierce. The monster was strong. The HP bar, something that apparently only you could see, hadn’t moved an inch. Honestly, it felt like you were playing Souls again.

You were no stranger to tough fights. What made this one different was the fact that you were actually in the fight, as opposed to controlling a game character. Getting up close and personal with a monster sure did change some things.

“We need to fall back!” Time yells over the sound of swords clattering uselessly against the monster’s thick skin. “Champion, cover us!”

Wild obeys, pulling out his Sheika Slate and sending chains of energy towards the beast. It will only keep it in stasis for a few seconds, but it was better than nothing. Sky lands one more hit as he flees and you see it: the health bar moves. It probably only lost 1 hp, but it was better than nothing. A few thousand more hits like that, and it would fall, no problem!

“The health bar moved!” you excitedly tell Time and Warriors as you sprint away through the forest.

“Congratulations?” Wars looks at you in confusion.

“That means we can beat it!” you insist. “We just need to get a few more good hits in and it’s toast!”

“We can come back after we upgrade our weapons,” Time decides. “The monster is too powerful to take on at the moment. We were barely able to get away as it is.”

“But we damaged it!” you try again.

“Not enough. We need to do more damage in a shorter amount of time if we stand any chance at beating that thing.” Legend pipes up, and you glare daggers at him. He wasn’t even part of this conversation! What was he doing, butting in and sharing his completely incorrect idea?

“Are you talking about the little nick I gave it?” Sky asks, coming to run alongside you. “I’d hardly call that damage. It barely bled.”

“If it can bleed, it can die.” You mutter. This was getting you nowhere. Fine. If they wouldn’t listen to reason, you’d finish the job yourself. Without so much as a goodbye, you turn on your heel and begin sprinting back through the trees towards the monster.

In your haste, you nearly mow over Four and Wind. Four curses as you pass by, momentarily thrown off balance. Wind somehow puts Four to shame with his own expletives.

“Where are you going?” You hear a voice call after you. “Do you have a freaking death wish!?”

You ignore it and keep running.

The monster is exactly where you left it.

You steady your breathing as it locks eyes with you. It charges. You roll. Your sword strikes against its side as you dodge.

-1 hp.

The best slams its fist into the ground, trying to squash you. It misses my millimeters. You stab at it again.

-1 hp.

Again. And again. You dodge. You strike. You slowly chip away at its health.

You’re not sure how long it takes. You can’t focus on anything other than your movement patterns. When it finally falls, the sun is beginning to rise. Weird. You thought it was afternoon.

“Y/N! What in Hylia’s name were you thinking!?” Your limbs feel like lead as Wild shakes you. It takes a few moments for you to connect that he’s even talking to you. Was he… scolding you? Him??? Mr. I-sled-down-cliffs-for-fun?

“That was… insanely reckless,” Time sighs. He’s standing behind Wild, and he somehow looks even more tired than you feel.

“Where did you guys come from?” You try to think back, but your thoughts are about as fast as cold molasses. They had left, hadn’t they? Why were they here? You feel yourself being sat down as Hyrule begins to heal you.

“Most of us went back to town,” Wind explains. “We were gonna fight it with better supplies.”

“I stayed back to watch. I was planning on pulling you out of the fight, but you… seemed to handle yourself alright,” Warriors massages his temples. “I swear, if I gray early I’m holding you and you alone responsible.”

“Why didn’t you wait?” Legend asks. His familiar snark feels strained. Awww, was he worried about you? If you didn’t feel like passing out, maybe you would tease him a bit. Instead, you decide to answer his question.

“Why would I?”

You can hear multiple Links’ blood pressures rise as they take in your words.

Congrats! Every Link has even more anxiety now! Are you happy?

[hero-of-the-wolf]

art credit @/linkeduniverse

Time hung the Couple's Mask on his wall 🥺

[aikoiya]

I love the look of the underbust corset on EoW Zelda!!

doodle dump from last night

[manyfandomfanatic]

LU incorrect quotes

Hyrule: You're not ascending to godhood, you're just dehydrated.

Legend: Outta my way, boy! I'm about to liberate myself from this mortal shell!

*Later*

Legend: H-h-hopital

Twilight: Yes, I'm adopting Wild, and you cowards can't tell me no!

Everyone:

Time, nodding: That's fair.

Wind: I'm sorry for being annoying,

Wind: It will happen again.

Twilight: Bonjour, Warriors. Voulez–vous coucher avec moi? Warriors: No, I don't want to sleep with you. Twilight: Is that what that means? Oh, man, I had a really gross tennis instructor.

Wind: I’m going to dunk on you. Warriors: Bring a ladder.

Wild: The last time I went to an urgent care clinic, I checked off 'excessive crying' on the symptom list, and then the nurse got really confused and said that was meant for babies.

Time: We’ll find another route, it’s not safe for amateur adventurers. Wild: That sounds like a challenge. Time: I have to stress, that is not a challenge. Wild: …Is exactly what you say to dissuade the weak of heart from accepting the challenge. Well, challenge accepted! Time: There is no challenge!

Warriors: I never understood why people cared so much about their dumb friends until I got a dumb friend myself. Warriors: *Picks up Mask* Warriors: I’ve only befriended Mask for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room, and then myself.

Why do I do this?

[cassieisinthebasementt]

Linked Universe as things that happened on my ghost tour

Legend: Are you Human?

Ghost: No.

—————

Wind, doing the Estes method: Loved one

Time: *walks in*

Wind: Get in. Father.

Twilight: *shrieking* ————————

Ovlius: COINS. ELEVEN

Sky: I only count nine coins though?

Wild: Maybe it can’t count.

——————

Hyrule: The ghost just said a slur

Legend: Damn.

——————

Wind: Malon.

Hyrule: Umm-

Time: Why does the ghost know my wife?

———————

Ovlius: Homeside. Wish.

Four: I wish I could kill people too.

Ovlius: Tesla

Wind: ELON MUSK?? —————————— Warriors: If you’re using the emf against the wall and it turns colors, congratulations you’ve found human electric equipment.

Sky: *EMF and phone pressed together* wow so cool!

———————

Ovlius: Norman.

Wild: Some accent.

Twilight: well we are down south.

[inlovewithsidecharacters]

The Face in the Stone

(Sky Centric)

Sky finds a Ganon carving that looks way too much like Groose, and suddenly he's questioning everything. His friends remind him that Groose was his buddy, curse or not. Sky decides to remember him, because, well, what else can you do?

> --- <

It was just another dungeon, another ruin long since abandoned by time. The stone walls were cracked, ancient carvings worn by the ages, yet some etchings remained untouched, clear as if they'd been carved yesterday. The Chain moved cautiously through the space, wary of lingering traps or enemies, the flickering light of their lanterns casting eerie shadows over the walls.

Sky trailed behind slightly, his fingers absently brushing against the carvings as he walked. He’d always had a deep respect for history—especially the parts connected to Hylia—but something about these carvings unsettled him.

Then he saw it.

A massive engraving, larger than the rest, depicting a monstrous figure with piercing eyes and a mane of flowing hair. A battle was immortalized in stone—warriors clashing against this beast, swords raised high. It was unmistakably a depiction of Ganon.

That in itself wasn’t surprising. Ganon's legend stretched through countless generations, and many ancient dungeons carried his mark. But Sky’s breath hitched in his throat as his eyes traced the features of the monster.

No…

The shape of the jaw. The nose. The hair that, despite its wild and unkempt nature, still bore an uncanny resemblance to—

Sky took an unconscious step back, suddenly lightheaded. His chest tightened, his heartbeat pounding in his ears.

No. No, no, no. That didn’t make sense.

But he knew those features. He knew that face.

Groose.

The resemblance was uncanny. Too uncanny. And suddenly, pieces started clicking together in his mind, pieces he had never once considered, pieces he never wanted to.

Demise’s curse. The hatred that would follow him and Zelda forever.

Had Demise… chosen Groose to be that hatred?

A sharp gasp left Sky’s lips, a choked sound that made the others whip their heads toward him.

“Sky?” Time’s voice was firm, but there was a thread of concern woven into it. The others looked at him warily, noting his paled complexion, the way his breath had turned ragged.

Wild stepped forward, looking between Sky and the carving. “What is it?”

Sky’s fingers trembled as he lifted them to the stone, brushing over the engraved jawline as if the act alone could disprove what he was seeing. “This face…” he whispered.

Wind squinted at the carving. “What, Ganon? Yeah, we kinda figured he’d show up down here.”

“No,” Sky murmured, his voice nearly inaudible. “No, you don’t understand. He… I know him.”

The room went silent.

Hyrule frowned, stepping closer. “You know him?”

Sky swallowed, his throat dry. He tore his gaze from the stone and turned to face the others. “He looks just like someone I knew. Someone from my time. A friend.”

There was a pause.

“...Sky,” Legend said slowly, watching him carefully, “do you know what you’re saying?”

Sky laughed, but it was a hollow, breathless thing. “I think I do. And I hate it.” He ran a shaking hand through his hair, looking back at the carving. “Demise’s hatred was supposed to follow me and Zelda forever. But I thought— I thought it was just his spirit, not—” His voice caught. “Not someone I knew.”

Realization dawned across the group, horror settling in.

“He was cursed into being Ganon,” Warriors muttered. “Or at least, into being his reincarnation.”

Time stepped forward, his expression unreadable, but his eyes betrayed his concern. “Are you sure?”

Sky let out a bitter, almost hysterical laugh. “He had red hair. His jaw, his nose— It’s him, Time. I know it’s him.” He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, but his chest felt tight, his lungs unwilling to expand properly. “Every time we—” He stopped, swallowed. “Every time a Link has killed Ganon, they were killing him. Killimg a version of Groose.”

A heavy silence filled the room.

Sky’s hands clenched into fists, his breath shuddering. “Does that mean that in the future, he betrays me? That he turns into that?” He gestured sharply at the carving, his voice cracking. “Is that what happens to him?”

His vision blurred for a second, and he realized his eyes were burning. He quickly wiped at them, pressing his palms into his face. This wasn’t happening. This couldn’t be happening.

Twilight was the first to move, stepping up and placing a hand on Sky’s shoulder. “Sky,” he said softly. “We don’t know if that’s what happened.”

Sky let out a sharp exhale, shaking his head. “But what if it is? What if Demise’s curse twisted him into—” He gestured to the carving again, unable to even finish the sentence.

Twilight crossed his arms, his face grim. “If that’s true, then it means he never had a choice.”

“And neither did we,” Hyrule murmured.

The weight of the realization hit them all at once. Every Link here had fought Ganon in some form. Every Link had killed him. If what Sky was saying was true, then every single one of them had played a part in this curse.

Legend, the first to snap out of his shock, immediately put a hand on Sky’s other shoulder, squeezing firmly. “Look at me,” he said.

Sky didn’t move.

“Sky.”

Slowly, Sky met his gaze.

“We don’t know the whole story,” Legend said. “Even if this is true, even if Groose ended up being tied to the curse somehow… that doesn’t mean he betrayed you. And it doesn’t mean you betrayed him.”

Sky took a shaky breath, but he still looked lost.

Time finally stepped in, placing a firm hand on Sky’s back. “You said he was a friend,” he stated.

Sky nodded weakly.

“Then remember that,” Time said. “No matter what Demise did, no matyer what fate may have forced upon him, Groose was your friend. That is not something that can be erased by a curse.”

Sky’s breath hitched, but he nodded again, a bit more firmly this time.

There was a long moment of silence before Warriors spoke. “And…” he said carefully, “even if Demise did set this up, even if Groose was tied into this—” He looked at the carving, then back to Sky. “We can’t change it.”

Sky flinched.

Warriors hesitated, then pressed on. “I’m not saying that to be cruel. I wish there was a way. But we all know better than to think curses that old—curses from a god—can just be undone.”

The words settled over them, heavy and suffocating.

Sky inhaled sharply, his fingers curling at his sides. “So that’s it, then?” he whispered. “Groose is just… doomed? Every cycle?”

No one answered.

And maybe that was the answer in itself.

Sky felt like he couldn’t breathe.

Legend was the first to step in again, his grip on Sky’s shoulder tightening. “Listen,” he said, voice firm. “You may not be able to change the curse. But you can still remember him. You still have him. You can still make sure that he and his name, isn’t lost. You can still be there.”

Sky swallowed hard.

“We can’t fix this. We don't know how,” Wild admitted, voice soft. “But you don’t have to bear it alone.”

Sky took another breath, deeper this time, though it still felt like there was a weight pressing on his chest. Slowly, he nodded.

Legend gave his shoulder a final squeeze before stepping back. “Alright,” he said, clearing his throat. “I think we’ve had enough horrifying revelations for one dungeon. Let’s get out of here before something else decides to shatter our worldviews.”

Twilight snorted. “Agreed.”

The group slowly gathered themselves, but the air still hung heavy.

Sky lingered near the back, looking at the carving one last time.

He couldn’t fix it.

But he wouldn’t forget.

[cheriate]

little guy.

[cheatsylu]

"Hey! You scared all the fish!" >:0

Comparison below!

Original drawing by @linkeduniverse / Jojo! Based on this mini comic

Link to process Total time taken: 39 hours 40 minutes

[chiangyorange]

time should start throwing rocks too it would be funny

(obvs not canon to lu at all but i will never say no to a girl whose also a troublemaker)

[wickedcriminal]

Oh that's where he went

[hero-of-the-wolf]

art credit @/linkeduniverse

some of my favorite panels of the chain <3

[mirensiart]

Do you ever feel a strange heartache sadness when dusk falls?

continuation of my pain sharing curse au :) feat emotional pain this time lol

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