#lu zombie au

[jl-11037]

This is the introduction post to my Linked Universe zombie au

Basic summary for the entire au:

The zombie apocalypse happened and everything went to shit. Now those who are left alive have to try to survive. But they have more problems to deal with than just the dead. Between having to find food and water, sicknesses that were once no big deal now being something that can kill you, needing supplies that are no longer being made and just dealing with the collapse of society in general. Those who are left have to fight tooth and nail to survive. Not to mention having to fight the living. The apocalypse just brings out the worst in some people.

Badass summary for the entire au:

The world has been plunged into chaos. The dead have risen and now terrorize the living. Those left alive are now forced to fight to survive. Even in a world drenched in darkness there is still hope. There are people fighting to bring light back to this land and stop the march of the living dead. But the people must be careful, for evil is rising and I do not mean the dead.

Basic au Information:

All of the chain’s Hyrules are combined into one.

List of places included that aren't Hyrule that are included: The Great Sea, Termina, Koholint, Holodrum, Labrynna, Lorule and Hytopia. 

Mix of magic and modern technology.

All characters that were Gorons, Rito, Zora, etc. are now all Hylian. The only ones who aren’t are Fairies and Gerudo. 

The postal system still works in Hyrule and some parts of Termina.

This au includes a large amount of side characters.

Other Information:

The chain are not traveling together. They will interact with each other throughout the au. Some of them know each other from before the apocalypse.

Even though this is a zombie au I don’t plan on killing too many characters. Because I personally don’t like when they kill off a bunch of characters in zombie stuff (looking at you walking dead and dawn of the dead). 

But some characters will die. I have already started choosing characters to kill off.

This post will be updated as I add to this au.

As of right now I have not written any stories for this

If anyone wants to know more my asks are always open and sending asks will help me with coming up with ideas.

The tag for this au is #lu zombie au 

[clancycosmic]

'I'm sorry Legend but your brother is not your brother anymore.'

More Zombie Twilight!

Reblogs are appreciated!

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I just. idk. something about Steph getting along best/closest to Jason and Damian out of everybody... like I have no clue how much canon basis that's actually got but I can't stop thinking about it. yeah, yeah, the Dead Robin's Club, we've all seen it, but also — they're the outcasts. the ones who forged their own paths, the ones who question if they're really wanted at all. they have the most fundamental disagreements with Bruce/Batman, based in numerous unfortunate uncontrollable circumstances. Stephanie Brown is an outlier and shoudl not have been counted. she forced her way in and died on the way out — middle point between Tim and Jason. she isn't part of the family the way anyone else is and her one tie to them (dating Tim) is a thing of the past but she still sticks around with the excuse of the nightlife because if she didn't what would she have to call family. her situation with her mom is complicated but at least she HAS a mom, yknow? and that's a point of connection with Damian, because his relationship with Talia is complicated and complex and fraught as well. so she gets it. she gets Damian and she gets Jason because she understands where he comes from and why he believes the way he does and can just accept it and move on. maybe she believes in capital punishment, too, just a little (maybe it would be easier if her father just died). her place in the family is so fragile and she almost wishes she didn't have one at all, she's so at odds with Bruce so often, the whole thing with Tim is a mess, STEPH HERSELF is a mess. but she has the most connection with Damian and Jason because they feel that way too. they've burned bridges and, to varying degrees, repaired them too. they've all died and come back. the three of them have a unique understanding of each other that the rest of the fam maybe can never quite understand. that's why I can't stop thinking about it.

[gryphonlover]

Linked Universe AU Directory

Anyway, I didn't put every single AU on this thing. I do not have the time and energy for that because there's over 600 LU works tagged as alternate universes on Ao3. I did follow some general guidelines when I was deciding which works to add, the most important one being that the AU had to be more than just canon divergence and had to affect all the characters equally. Feel free to add onto this post, if you think something is missing.

Link to the Ao3 Collection

Age Swap | Age Shuffle AU

Apocalypse - Unspecified | Brothers In Arms

Apocalypse - Zombies | Autolysis

Apocalypse - Zombies | LU Zombie AU

Fae | Across the River

Fae | Flower Garden

Fae | From Open Seas, to Dark Tangled Depths

Folklore | If You Thought This Was Gonna Have a Cool Title, You Obviously Don't Know Me

Fusion - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Hyrule's Adventures in Wonderland

Fusion - Among Us | Good Riddance

Fusion - Atlantis: The Lost Empire | The Sage's Journal

Fusion - Big Hero 6 | Fierce Hero 9

Fusion - Captain America: Civil War | United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Fusion - Dungeons & Dragons | LU x DnD Crossover

Fusion - Full House | Full House AU

Fusion - Lethal Company | Linked Company AU

Fusion - Lethal Company | Linked Universe AU: Lethal Company

Fusion - Mad Max | And the World Ends Again

Fusion - Monstrous Regiment | Linked Regiment

Fusion - Nailed It! | You Really Nailed it Right There, Buddy!

Fusion - Pokémon | LU Pokémon AU

Fusion - Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice but it's a Fair-Play Whodunnit

Fusion - Tangled | LU Tangled AU

Fusion - The Hunger Games | LU Hunger Games AU

Fusion - The Incredibles | Linked Universe Incredibles AU

Fusion - The Secret World of Arrietty | The Secret World of Wild and Twilight

Fusion - Spirited Away | One Summer's Day

Fusion - Star Wars | Tales of Courage from Across the Galaxy

Fusion - Warrior Cats | Faronclan AU

Gods & Goddesses | And the Universe Said "I Love You"

Heist | Heist AU

Historical - 1800s | City of Light and Dark

Historical - Supernatural | 1931

Science Fiction - Space Crew | Linked Nexus

Mermaids | Flared Fins

Miscellaneous - Disability | Shatterproof

Miscellaneous - Intrigue | Castle Intrigue

Miscellaneous - Magic | We Could be Immortals

Miscellaneous - Unspecified | Eyes Wide Open

Miscellaneous - Unspecified | Manus Lupus

Modern | Adoption AU

Modern | Good Enough

Modern | In the Heart of Hyrule

Modern | LU Modern AU

Modern | Modern Zeldas AU

Modern | Ranch House AU

Modern | The Many Realities of the Hero Spirit and Modern Living

Modern | The Roadtrip AU

Modern | The Weather Outside is Frightful

Modern - Actors | Linked Universe Actor AU

Modern - Coffeeshop/Café | Looking for Group

Modern - College/University | All You Need to Know

Modern - College/University | Linked University

Modern - College/University | Oh No, They're Theater Kids Now

Modern - College/University | RIP

Modern - Emergency Services | Of Officers and Stuffed Elephants

Modern - Farm | Fresh from the Farm

Modern - Ghost Hunters | A Haunting in Hyrule

Modern - Healthcare | How to Save a Life

Modern - Healthcare | LU in Healthcare

Modern - Magic | Everything but Blood

Modern - Magic | Family is Made of...

Modern - Magic | Maybe Human 

Modern - Magic | Summer Camp Lon!

Modern - Magic | The Chain that Binds Us

Modern - Magic | Wild's Magic Shop AU

Modern - Monsters | Here There Be Monsters

Modern - Movie Theater | There's a Remlit... Loose in the Theater!

Modern - Music Camp | Linked Repertoire

Modern - Newsroom | BSX: Hyrule SatellaNews

Modern - Newsroom | Professions and Professionals

Modern - Office | Linked Corporations

Modern - Opera | Opera House AU

Modern - Retail | The Hot Topic Debate

Modern - Retail | What Goes Down at Festival Foods

Monsters | Seelies and Selkies

Murder Mystery | How to Kill a God

Post-Nuclear War | Chain Reaction

Royalty | Every Other Star

Royalty | I'll Be There

Royalty | Royal Links AU

Royalty | Lost Prince AU Part 1 & Lost Prince AU Part 2

Soulmates - Platonic | Marks on Your Body, Marks on Your Soul

Soulmates - Romantic | Castle Town Coffee Shop

Vigilantes | Empty Streets Full of Life

Vigilantes | We Will Find You, Wherever You Are

Wings | Four's a Dad!?

Wings | Wings AU

Wings | Wing Bois

[fanofstuff01]

Okay, Zombie Apocalypse Au with @cakerybakery

What if how Adam and Lucifer meet, because I love the idea of Lu being a mafia boss, he saves Adam from being eaten because Adam ram out of bullets or couldn’t grab his own gun?

YESS!! YES YES!!! I love this!!

One towers over him and Adam thinks it's over only for Lucifer to shoot it from it's head.

And then maybe he just grabs Adam and brings him to his own car, and Adam just goes along with it in order to escape.

Then they go to Lucifer's own crime center bunker

[st4rrmii]

A quick lil thing from my Zombie Apocalypse au, Lu is a lot more aggressive in this au (as one has to be in a post apocalyptic world) and poor Ben has to keep his ass in check, as you can tell, shit don't work.

[fever-project]

What if the LU guys get cursed into beings of endless agony. What then. Idk, I’m kicking and screaming to not get back into my creepypasta phase(I don’t think it’s working) and I finally watched a few mlp infection aus(basically zombie aus). I got inspired. Please ignore the crappy names I gave them, I just felt like I needed to put something there. The colors are also off(I didn’t even properly color Marin, I just blocked out the shapes). I got lore for them ig and reason for why. Yeag

So it’s like an au where the black blood can like, infect people, specifically the Links. Marin, the Dream Granter, comes from Legend’s infection. He gets trapped in a twisted version of Koholint with that thing chasing him around. He has to wake himself up by speed running getting all the instruments and waking the Wind Fish all over again. All the while plant-based body horror is happening to his actual body. Plant-based body horror actually freaks me out so bad, so I can’t draw that hah. But he will free himself in the end and will be coughing up various plant things for weeks. He’s overall fine physically in the end 👍

Warriors is the smallest one I drew, Heroic Face. He’s actually coated in black blood, and crying it out. Eyeless Jack looking mf lamo. He hostile to everyone, but can eventually be talked back into reality. The Links cannot fight him, he’s used to fighting many enemies at once. He keeps mumbling about not being an actual hero, about the war, about how different he is compared to the other Links. So, they enlist in the power of friendship to help snap him out of it. Of course, that’s not all they have to do, they also then need to beat him into next Tuesday. Wars will still be fighting them, he can’t control that, but he will hold himself back for a moments, letting them get a few hits in. At the end, he’s better mentally over all. Physically, he won’t really be able to move much for a while.

Idk how Ravio would work tbh, maybe even after being infected he would act like his usual self for a while. But over time, he’d get more and more aggressive, hating things that bare any sort of resemblance to him. Of course that mean he would eventually go after Legend and the other Links as well. I’d image there is a giant maw under his bunny head, he would try to bite his friends and also just try to attack them any way he can. They have to smash the mirror to finish the first phase, after that he’ll be inconsolable, unable to be reasoned with at all. Before that he’s more aware of what he’s doing, but can’t really stop himself too much. It’s like the opposite of Warriors fight. They still need to beat him into next Tuesday. He’s doing terrible at the end, physically AND mentally. Though being technically a Link, huh.

I’m also thinking of it infecting the Zelda’s as well, but idk yet. Idk if I’ll continue this. Tell me if you want more ig lol.

[kibblenoodlesnail]

Shakes aggressively in I have too many aus

Coming soon/already on an Ao3 account near you

TSAMS

A sign and a lot of confusion (Main)

Solars Villain reformation au

Bonding over past

Human College au

Star infection au

Actor au

A different path

Burned Out Stars

Sirens, Pirates, and alot of other ocean shit

Lunars misshap

War between the Sun's

Undertale AUs

LuVerse (Main)

202 Luverse reborn

Inverted lies

Reverse/ An Inking mistake

Fantasy

The new soul

Roommates

Reincarnation

Villain Lu Crew

God mom Lucy

Human teens

Zombie

All of these will include my ocs and likely OC X Cannon, judge me if you want idc

[texasthoughtsaboutnothing]

Limbus Company Zombie AU:

What "AU," do you seriously believe that The City, of all places, doesn't have an active zombie problem that people just have to live with and still go to work?

Notably, Hong Lu has been zombified twice and enjoys the sense of ego death before Dante winds the clock. Don has also been bitten several times but it hasn't affected her at all???? so the Sinners just assume she's always been a zombie and just hasn't realized yet.

[bbinkus11]

Here are a list of modern AU fics that I have in my bookmarks:

We Will Find You, Wherever You Are by Tessa_Reads (incomplete, superhero au)

Looking for Group by Tashilover (complete, coffeeshop au,  one of my fave fics)

Slipping through your fingers (like sand in an hourglass) by Mintyy_Fresh (incomplete—time travel AU)

Linked Universe Wing AU but It’s a Modern AU and the Wings Are an Angel Action. By Cutebutalsostabby (incomplete, queer empowerment fic) (incomplete)

Head becomes the hand becomes the knife becomes the mind by Dekuscrubb (zombie apocalypse au - incomplete)

Antiques by Silent17 (crackfic oneshot - complete)

LU in Healthcare by Skye_the_Lofty_Nutcase (series of fics – modern au where the chain works in a hospital -incomplete)

Family: Lost and Found Edition by Me_aGlorifiedPigeon (Cia stalks Wars - incomplete)

Linked Universe Townhouse AU series by St0rmy (of no relation to me) (9 out of 11 fics complete)

Level One by LightBlueScrubs (complete – intense medical fic about Wild motorcycle crash)

Skulltula and Thunder by me (UnexpectedStormy) (complete – oneshot Warriors + Hyrule modern military)

This list is not exhaustive, there are other modern or apocalypse aus out there, but these are the ones I have bookmarked.

OMG THANK YOU!!!!! This is so helpful I’ve been looking for these! Thank you stormy!

[crazylittlejester]

Just wanted to share a detail from my Lu zombie au that I am very slowly making.

Linkle is trying to train her cucoos to kill zombies. Warriors has added this as yet another reason to fear cucoos.

Linkle training cuccos to kill is soooo funny because i imagine her standing there like “:3” while the birds commit murders

[jl-11037]

Zombies are just cucco snacks for the ask game!

Tagging @unexpectedstormy because they asked about this too.

Zombies are just cucco snacks is a story idea for my lu zombie au. And I have not written anything for it yet, I've only jotted down the idea.

Linkle loves cuccos and has a couple during the apocalypse that she takes care of. She is trying to train her cucoos to kill zombies. Warriors is worried about this for a two main reasons.

One, what if the cuccos turn into zombies(they can't only people can but Warriors doesn't know that).

Two, what if they mistake a person for a zombie(no clue if they would be able to tell the difference but Linkle is training them to attack only on her command).

The fact that Linkle is doing this in the first place is another reason on Warriors list of why he doesn't like cucoos.

Bonus detail that @crazylittlejester came up with when I shared the idea with them: Linkle goes :3 while watching her cuccos kill things

[clancycosmic]

He's unimpressed

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

can i ask why you like zombie fics? :0 and like. what tone/tropes/ect you like?

WELL. I generally just enjoy apocalyptic stories. I read the Left Behind series when I was like, 11, just because my dad happened to have all the books (hilariously, I don't think he ever read more than the first two or three lol but we had the ENTIRE series. 12 books. and I later collected the Left Behind Kids ones too skskdnfnskfnsk. hashtag just church kid things???) and it kind of just... grew from there. I don't think I ever really gave zombie stories in particular a second thought until I was like... 14 and a friend had mentioned that she watched the show The 100 and I just. got curious about it, bc it's already a post-apocalyptic story, which is enticing to me personally, and in the midst of my secondhand fandoming via that friend, I came across this one fic that made it into a zombie apocalypse AU. it's called "This Is A Song About Somebody Else" and the worldbuilding is just... AUGH it's just such good worldbuilding?? like the way zombie infection works in that story is SO interesting and the way it's shaped the world the author places the characters in is so well fleshed-out. (I will say, fair warning, there is some sexual content in the middle of it, but the worldbuilding and character arcs are good enough that I just kinda scroll really fast as soon as I hit that and continue reading once the scene is done skdcnskfnskfn). basically I attribute my love for zombie stories to that really well developed fanfic I read when I was 14 and then last winter spent literally two days scrolling back through AO3 to find again. and I've still never seen the source material!! I've never watched The 100 and honestly idk if I ever will!!! but I secondhand fandomed for a while and that fic gave me an interest in zombie stuff that continues to this day akdkxkanfndskfn

so the thing with apocalypse stories in general, including zombie ones, is that action doesn't cut it for me?? like my favorite apocalypse stories are Station Eleven (the book, not the HBO adaptation. I have thoughts on that that I might share at some point but idk.) and Gracie's (@imissthembutitwasntadisaster) apocalypse-verse and those are both... very quiet. almost mundane even as the world is ending/has ended. there's a calmness to it that I can't totally explain, but it's really just... life. living in the midst of things. and that's the thing that got me about This Is A Song About Somebody Else, too! there's calm. there's a sense of stillness that's fallen over the world and it's kinda chilling but also draws you in!! THAT'S what I think I love the most in apocalypse stories. (also — TLOU definitely gets the balance of action/mundanity right as well, even though being based on a video game there's a lot more action required than a lot of the stories I'm discussing here.)

and obvs when I'm talking about this stuff, there isn't just ONE THING I'm into regarding apocalypse/zombie stories. I like all kinds! I'm not picky tbh. but my favorites are when the worldbuilding is interesting and presented well, and also when the horror of the circumstance is very present in a way you the audience can really feel. I LOVE the horror of it all. but also, what it comes back around to is the perseverance and what makes it WORTH persevering.... the HOPE.

[somer-writes]

saw you were struggling with the urge to write so here’s a little idea seed for you by that might just be right up your alley. Feel free to use whenever you feel like it or not at all 😉:

gloom hands from totk

those things were worse than the guardians oh my gosh they are terrifying. And then what happens after you finally beat it after dying so many times?? I straight up paused my game and laughed it was so awful. I then died several more times

Huzzah! I can answer this ask now!

you got me cooking on this idea ive been mulling around about gloom and such so welcome to the apocalypse!

this will be a long fic with lots of gore, horror, violence, and character deaths (temp and perm), as well as permanent injury.

the general gist is ganons tomb is opened in a modern era and it unleashes gloom into the world which acts kind of like a zombie apocalypse!

all lu boys are here as well as their zeldas and a sampling of recurrent characters as well as some oc's for flavor.

lore can be found with #pestilence au

[wishfulsketching]

Another AU with our OCs. This time it’s a lighthearted goofs with fairies. Lu Zhen gets saved from his bad life accidentally when fairy king decides to send his son to kidnap him as ransom. They let him live freely in the city when they see that Lu Zhen is more than happy to be there and also, one of Lu Zhens bodyguards is also the kings husband.

No, the king and his avatar did not tell their husband about their plan. Yes, their husband got kinda mad. But then Lu Zhen himself pretty much thanked everyone for the kidnapping and when to wear the prettiest fairy fashion he could find (while falling in love with Long Min).

Also, Lu Zhens kinda friend, also a rich kid, gets accidentally involved with fairies by being saved a big, fluffy bee fairy. A injured gang leader accidentally frees a fairy who’s been sealed away for using dark magic, and now they’re tormenting each other. A zombie looking fairy who loves light finds his way to Lu Zhens  driver, and settles to his apartment because it’s warm and bright