#moana AU

[heart-wit-strength]

Where Sasha is turned into a demigod after blessed by gods with a magical warhammer and stole the heart of deity Anne (it was fine figuratively, until it was done literally) bringing upon the curse of calamity upon land, and a human Chosen One sets to save her dying island

Taglist: @hey-its-puddlesock @blightcedas @yourpersonaltimebomb @darcysd20 @waybrights @lili250307 @amisplacedalphabet

[denieatsart]

Hey which of my crack aus should i ramble about

In the Middle au

Or

Moana au ( note this is not based off of @cakesmelons 's frozen au , I made this stupid moana bit while i was grounded and not even on tumblr yet , I was just listening to the moana soundtrack and my brain exploded )

[gamerbearmira]

What if Moana and Mirabel were half-sisters and they didn't know about it.

Someone’s been lying then 🤨 but idk. They’re from different parts of the world, i can’t even imagine how they’d meet 😭

[itzred-ovo]

Has anybody thought of a Moana AU for Ninjago?? :0

[real-sun-wukong-fan01]

Moana Au lmk

Where Sun wukong because fire monster like Te ka in Moana after accidentally takes his staff.

Art coming soon

WOOOOO

[sometimes-sleeby-octopus]

Sonic Prime Moana AU

A loose combination of Sonic Prime and Moana based on this post:

https://at.tumblr.com/little-horror-girl-love/these-are-the-same-vibe/zyh17bwj0fi9

Disclaimer: Characters might be a bit ooc because.

Environment:

- Instead of making universes, the Paradox Prism makes islands/regions when Sonic breaks it

- New Yoke is a ship rather than a city (because I’d rather draw a boat than cities)

- The regions are as follows: The Grim, The Aquamarine, and The Jungle

- The mainland still exists after the Prism shatters, but it’s unbalanced and wacky without the prism absorbing all the extra chaos with it’s order piece for Green Hills

- Instead of being above ground, the Prism is hidden below ground

- Once it is shattered, its pieces fly out of the cave and form the islands

- Green Hills Island!!! With more mountains and also meadows

Basic Character Stuff

- Everyone wears either bandanas or necklaces because I said so

- Shadow takes on the demigod role, guarding over the island in the shadows, sometimes chatting with the others (but not much)

- He has a gold necklace with a smaller chaos emerald for his powers (its role is alike to Maui’s hook)

- Eggman (kind of like a smaller demigod?) hides in the mountains, always trying to sabotage the island due to a vendetta with Shadow

- The non-gods like Sonic can get blessings that are essential lowkey powers

- The difference is that the gods/demigods can do everything well but have specializations (Shadow’s are knowledge and strength and Eggman’s are knowledge and corruption/disorder)

Half developed plot (might change if I write a fic or something)

- All of them except shadow are quite the explorers although Sonic wants to venture on to new heights compared to the others

- He goes exploring in underground caves by himself despite being discouraged by his friends

- Sonic comes across Shadow standing by the Paradox Prism, sneaking in the shadows

- Suddenly Eggman grabs him and offers to trade his life for the prism in front of Shadow

- Shadow’s like “nope” and fights eggman, trying to retrieve Sonic without hurting him TOO MUCH

- Sonic (blessed with speed and strength unbeknownst to him) suddenly finds himself running very fast after escaping egg man’s grasp

- He is unsure of how to stop running and slams into the Paradox prism, much to Shadow’s and egg man’s dismay

- It breaks and creates chaos on Green Hills Island and creates the three new regions

- As the shards ricochet around, Shadow loses his necklace and Eggman takes it

- Shadow is very angry and Sonic offers to fix it

- Shadow reluctantly agrees to help him

- Sonic sees the chaos on the island before he leaves and explains part of what happened to his friends

- Shadow tells them how to survive and he and Sonic are off by boat

(The Grim Region)

- At first it’s very rocky and stormy

- They decided to wait on a small island until the storm calms

- They talk and get along for a moment

- Training montage for Sonic because I love that for them and for me

- Storm calms mostly, back to the Sea!

- Things go poorly in the grim after a run in with the New Yoke and it’s dystopian crew due to Sonic’s careless and inexperience

- Shadow only gets half of his emerald and half of his power back and storms off back to the island right before he and Sonic reach the Aquamarine

(The Aquamarine)

- Sonic is alone and sad, gets lost and picked up by the Dread and his crew

- Eventually The storm is back oh no

- The crew tries to gain control but their ship sinks

- Sonic tries to swim and calls out for help

- He sinks into the water and it all goes black >:0

- He wakes up drenched back on his boat with Shadow!!!

- They make up and get going again, Shadow got the crystal from the Aquamarine

- And then it’s into the jungle

(The Jungle$

- The greenery gets in the way crap, gotta get out of the boat

- They get hunted by two tribes (Amy variant with Knuckles and Birdie and Rouge Variant with Tails and Big) who then fight

- Shadow easily gets free and he and Sonic help the tribes get along again

- The tribes now one tribe lead them to the Jungle’s shard

- More journey, The New Yoke is back, Shadow and Sonic win!!!

- They get the Grim crystal

- As they go home they realize the crystal isn’t whole, keep searching, find nothing

- They gotta sacrifice the emerald to get home quickly (what a twist I know)

(Back to Green Hills)

- The island is in ruins nooo

- Basically huge team up of everyone ever

- Eggman with New Yoke crew and then everyone else on the other side

- Obviously everyone else wins and Eggman and co is chucked off the island

- Crystal whole with the Island stabilizer part

- All the regions combine WHOA

- happy end and shadow makes friends (especially with Sonic, could be interpreted as sonadow but like. Doesn’t matter it’s whatever you want it to be)

- The end Jesus CHRIST that was long

TLDR: Sonic prime au where Sonic prime meets Moana meets ooc characters. Shadow’s a demigod who defends the island against Eggman. Sonic fucks up and breaks the crystal. Shadow and Sonic go get the pieces and have conflict that gets resolved. The 4 crystal shards make three regions, the fourth being to keep order on Green Hills. Crystal piece unite and so do regions, happy times for everyone. Sonic and Shadow are best friends (yay!).

[keticatowo]

I forgot to show how macaques glow. And you were pinned to the wall.

[imaginative-joy]

“I am Moana of Motonui and you will get in my X-Wing, fly across the galaxy, and restore the heart of Te Fiti!”

Here’s Jedi Moana! Since Moana is a voyager and travels using the stars as her guide, I thought it’d be fitting for her to be a pilot flying among the stars. Her lightsaber is inspired by her oar (complete with a Maui autograph) and the shell she leaves behind on Motonui… and the heart of Te Fiti as the kyber crystal! As for HeiHei… I thought about turning him into some Star Wars critter, but it just seems appropriate that no matter what universe he’s in, he’s just a chicken 😂

Also, Mini Maui made it into this piece!

Merida/Prints Mulan/Prints Belle/Prints Raya/Prints Tiana

[kristinahamato]

It's called when you were inspired by "Moana" movie and decided to cram a moment of movie into the trolls 😅

I made it in two versions

[cherllyio]

The Warrior of Flower Fruit Mountain

This is Macaques design from my Moana AU.

He is currently an enomurs and terryfing Shadow Monster, but he was once Sun Wukongs old "friend", and travel buddy on their many voyages together in the past.

Why is he like this? Well i made little angsty backstory, with clues to what happend to the once great Warrior.

You can read it either here, or on A03 where i also posted it (here)

The Voyager, The Sun and The Monster

Chapter 1 (Prolouge): Drowned by your Love

There is a small island, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, where both terrifying demons and small monkeys live together. One of these creatures inhabiting the Island, while just as much monkey and demon as the rest, stand outs quite a lot.

He has beautiful silk white hair, six magical ears, that can catch the wind flap of a bird thousands of miles away, and a pair of radiant golden eyes, that will pierce through anyone who dares come near.

His name? Liu Mihou. Also rightfully known as “The Warrior of Flower Fruit Mountain”

On normal circumstances The Warrior would be either be training, gathering food supplies for him and the other monkeys, or making his presence known, to any hostile idiot, dumb enough to try and challenge him. 

But not today. Today, you can find The Warrior in the early morning light, preparing for voyage he is not sure when, or if he will ever come back from.

Yet... The Silk Monkey knows it will be worth it. For the person he is looking for is worth everything, and more, that can be worth something in this world.

 “The King of Flower Fruit Mountain!”, “The great sage equal to heaven!”, “The Monkey King!”. Or, as Mihou knew him: “My Sun”.

Just a few hundred years ago, these two celestial monkeys were sailing through all the great oceans together. Battling through storms, strong enough to destroy entire islands, becoming more powerful than the other demons could ever hope to become, and at the same time forming a bond strong enough, to become something greater than friendship.

Except…that all changed when Sun Wukong started playing against a power, he was not prepared for. The power of the Jade Emperor.

This traitorous act against the emperor, would ultimately end in the great sage’s downfall, where he would be catched and imprisoned by the Buddha himself, and pinned down by his very hand. And now, he was now trapped under “Five Element Mountains”, until an unknown destiny would free him.

Nobody, not even the wisest of the immortals, knew when that day would come.

It’s been 500 years since the great sage’s new destiny, fell upon him. Yet now... he has disappeared.

Mihou didn’t know how or where, or if it was done by fair means or foul. He solely knew that the once immense mountain, that had once sealed away his sun, was now only rubles and ashes of its former greatness.

Initially Mihou had been exited, ecstatic even, about this news. However, he quickly realized that like mountain, the King too was gone.

No messages, no clues, no anything. He was truly… gone... But he wasn’t "gone, gone" that would be crazy! "Sun Wukong, The Great sage equal to heaven" could never, would never.... Yea... His sun is fine, he will surely find him!

Plus, Mihou got all the things he needs to find The King, his magic ears being a big part of it. And then… they can be together again, and everything will be balanced, just like before! After all, how can a moon shine without its sun?

He confidently looks down at his own reflection, his silk white hair and shining ears animated in the cold and radiant water below. Everything is going to be ok.

But then he notices the dark roots crawling up his hair.

Dark roots that are slithering its way inside his silk white hair, like an infection, and turning it as dark as a burned corpse.

And nearly, one thirds of his entire mane can’t reflect any of the suns glow back anymore. And it will never be able to do it again.

For a second, it catches The Warrior off guard, but he really shouldn’t haven’t been surprised by this.

These dark roots have slowly been taking up more and more of his silk white hair, for well… Mihou keeps failing to remember that, but it was before his sun disappeared, he knows that much.

Mihou closes his eyes, trying to push the thoughts back. But instead, an old memory creeps up, and fills his soul with dread.

...

A demon. It attacked them.

They were young, stupid and furthermore in love, and together, they thought nothing could stop. Neither in celestial realm nor on earth.

Sure, Mihou was barely half the power of his counterpart, but that didn’t matter. It never really had mattered. The only thing Mihou and Wukong had ever cared about was each other.

Except, this time, it DID matter. Because… Wukong got hurt. Badly hurt.

There had been so much blood… Macaque could barely look at him… and Mihou had started panicking… while a piercing cry had cut through the air, when his Sun was impaled… The world turned around… everything had become so awfully quiet.

And Mihou had just been STANDING THERE. He had done nothing, but tremoring in horror over the cursed remains that was his dying sun. And then that awful, awful demon that had HURT HIS SUN, started whispering terrible, terrible words in his all too powerful ears…

“Oh, how sad” … “did he mean much too you?” … “What a pity…” … “you should have protected him better then…”

And… He listened. For wasn’t it true?

Wasn’t he the one who now stood beside his fading sun, that could barely light any brighter than the flickers of an ending campfire? Wasn’t he the one who had just been standing by his side, while his sun had worked so hard for everyone. Worked so hard and continued getting stronger. To get strong enough to protect his people. To protect Mihou. And he is now dying for the sake of a six eared demon, that would never be able to pay him back. Mihou hadn’t earned any of that. Wukong hadn’t deserved that. Mihou was a traitor.

The demon didn’t even notice, before it was too late. The demon didn’t even notice, before his insides lay before him, and he lied next to it. The demon didn’t even seem to notice Mihou’s scream of agony and pain, before his soul had already left his body.

Everything after that was a blur.

A blur filled with small glimpses of his dying sun, while an unworthy Warrior had desperately tried to save him.

And when the world finally came back into the view, his sun… His sun was ok. His sun was ok. His sun was ok.

“Sorry I scared you so badly there, my dear moon”, Wukong had said with a sad look on his face. “I must admit, he wasn’t as strong as me, but he sure was clever.” His sun had said with a grin on his face.

And oh… How Mihou could have looked at that smile forever. Yet… he was constantly reminded of what had happened.

If that demon… If that god forsaken demon had been any stronger, just a bit, Wukong…

Mihou couldn’t risk that… Never again would he look at his dying sun, covered in his own torn open flesh and shattered bones. Never again would he hear, Wukong’s breath draw close to its final limit. Never again would The Great Sage be betrayed by his own Warrior, who he thought he could trust to always protect him.

For in The Warriors own eyes, he was a traitor. A foul soul who would simply overserve as a prejudiced destiny would drown out the only spark of hope left for their island and its people.

Hence why Mihou did, what he did next.

On the darkest day of the year, where the shadows rosed higher, than their own creators, Mihou stood in the middle of an abandoned Island. He was hoping for someone who could help. And soon enough, someone rose up. The silhouette of the darkness. A spirit. One made of magic not seen quite often.

“The six eared Macaque asks for my help. Don’t you have enough assistance from the king already?” the spirit remarked in a gravelly, judging, voice, whilst turning itself into a clone of The Great Sage to prove its point.

“Yes, please, I need your wisdom…”

“My wisdom… Well, there sure is a considerably amount of that, you will have to be more specific…”

Even though he knew exactly, what he had been come for, it still took Mihou a few seconds, before he finally answered:

“How do I protect someone, who is stronger than me? How do I make sure, I can help someone, when I barely have the strength of the wind, against a storm coming their way?”

Mihou could feel small tears starting to pierce through his eyes, yet he did little to stop them. “How do I make sure, I don’t betray the people I love, when they need me the most?”

The silence after that was barely enough time for the water to hit shore in its never-ending rhythm. Despite that, it had felt like millions of winters and summers had already passed, by the time the silhouette finally spoke again.

“There is one way….”

Mihou looked up.

“However, as all things, it comes with great consequences.”

“I will do anything, please! Just tell me what I need to do!”

The silhouette seemed to watch him like a hawk.

“You are more stupid than you look, Warrior of Flower Fruit Mountain.”

The shadow started morphing into something else.

“Liu’er Mihou, for my power you need to know. This power requires the utmost control. One step aside could lead you drowning in its pit, leaving you only as host to submit.”

The shadows showed The Warrior consumed by shadows, until there is no light left in him.

Mihou took a deep breath.

“How can I control it then?”

“Warrior, only destiny will be your reaper.”

It morphs back into its normal silhouette.

“Now… do you accept this power?”

Mihou, looking back, should probably have thought it more through. But back then, the guilt and love for his Sun had been so strong, it had almost blinded him.

“I do, I accept it.”

And then everything went black.

...

Hundreds of years later, Mihou still doesn’t know, how or when he ended back on Flower Fruit Mountain.

But that didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered then, was the power he had now. The power to protect the island, its monkeys and… his sun.

Wukong was skeptical at first, luckily the King had always been more of the oblivious type, so he quickly started to pride the new power as much as Lihou used too.

The newfound power Liu’er Mihou had gained were shadow powers. He could manipulate, create or absorb any shadow as he pleased.

This power also made it easier for him to learn the “72 transformations”, which Wukong had already learned hundreds of years ago, since Mihou could “copy” them using his shadow powers, until he didn’t need Wukong by his side anymore to do it.

Though, as all things, it wouldn’t last long until he learned the consequences of his choices firsthand.

Wukong and Mihou had been fighting a demon, who was stronger than what they were used to, but they had been fighting a lot of them recently, anyway. However, for just a second, Macaque had become cocky, and his let the shadow powers run free to devour their enemy whole.

Expect, after the fight was over, Macaque noticed the dark hair for the first time.

It had been small at first, barely noticeable, but with every “slip up” it had gotten more and more noticeable.

It wasn’t just if he got cocky in battle. If something had hurt him mentally, it would also grow. Which, when Wukong got trapped under the mountain… The infection had grown to the length of two small snakes crawling up his legs and arms in just a few hours.

Moreover, when they got into a fight while Wukong was trapped… The fur on his legs was almost completely black.

So, the 500 years that had slowly been passing by had been both a physically and mental war in his head, that from each day that had went by got closer and closer to winning…

The lack of a king also meant that more demons had started to attack Flower Fruit Mountain, therefore Macaque had to use way more power than usual, which would just make the curse worse...

And then every night, if it was a quiet one, he would cry himself to sleep, in his now empty nest.

Yet, as the black fur was getting dangerously close to his heart, which Mihou did not want to find out what happened if it reached it, there was… hope.

Wukong was free now after all!

Mihou was so sure, that as soon as they found each other again. When he could finally embrace that golden fur again, everything would be fine.

And as Mihou looked down the boat, now ready for the long voyage ahead, he felt A hope rise in his chest, for the first time in these 500 years.

Everything will be ok; nothing bad ever happen anymore.

Wukong is waiting for him after him after all!

…

Right?

[miracles-and-butterflies]

Heartstopper AU be like

Camilo: *literally spends weeks scheming with Marco and his friends to get Mirabel a girlfriend (Moana) so he can have the double date of his dreams*

Mirabel: *gets one on her own*

Camilo:

[denieatsart]

Moana au

Ok look the moana au came to me while I was grounded and listening to the moana soundtrack and was like HEY WHAT IF UTMV so yeah .

Nightmare is the dad dude ( in this au brother ) , Ink is Heihei ( I'm sorry lmao ) , Swap is probably Pua , Error is Maui ( thought it would be funny ) and idk who Ta'fiti is ( pls correct me if I spelled that wrong )

Nim is the grandma / mom ( what ?? Deni making Nim nice ??? No WAY ! )

Since many people are confused by Error as Maui , I saw it as , " Ok . I need Maui . …. Error . he's self centered and thinks everything he does is right , an attention seeker , ends up destroying a lot of stuff , etc .

" instead of a pink boa he'd have a pink lei or something " - Nash ( tysm Nash this is canon now )

I picked Dream as Moana because to me they have . Idk . They're similar in some ways - constantly wanting to explore and do good for their people , someone who wants them to stay close , something that gives them a necessity to leave

Ink being HeiHei and Error being Maui I think were my favorites , especially with their interactions in the movie lmao . Error repeatedly throwing Ink into the ocean and also trying to eat him

Anyways that's the end of this stupid ramble lmao . Most of this was pasted from me spamming people on discord about it

[gamerbearmira]

how many if y’all have watched Moana 🥸 cause I got sumn. something about your younger siblings making you watch Moana everyday, 5 days in a row does something to you

Lil moana gets some funky magic stuff from touching da heart. but she doesn't get to use it again until later 🗿

And only her grandmother knows, for obvious reasons

Aight back to Encanto

[jacarandaaaas]

MOABEL CAMP COUNSELOR AU🦋🌊💘

wanted to do a fun little au for the end of summer and thought the idea of moana and mira as summer camp counselors would fit so well! both girls are really good with kids and lots of fun so this job is right up their alley! miras in charge of arts and crafts whilst moana does the water sports!! moana moved down for the summer and mira took this job as julieta recommended it for her! and of course over the few weeks they develop feelings for each other!! (the kids know before they do and tease them both relentlessly about it!)

they have a dance party every night and s’mores!!!

here’s a bunch of doodles and an alternate version where they’re from opposing camps!

anyways more of this silly au to come because I’m having fun and reliving my own camp experiences rn hehehe

[sleeplessdreamer14]

my contribution for mermay

Jim’s brought home plenty of creatures before when he was a little kid, but this one takes the cake. Sarah’s gonna love this.

reference from mellon_soup

[amiharana]

ok I was reading thru your tattoo/flower shop au and I had to share the brainrot.

I hc revali as indigenous (particularly great plains native american) and oh man, what if at some point he very hesitantly brings up with link that he wants to get facial tattoos or something similar that's significant to him but he's nervous?? And Link goes out of his way to learn traditional stick-n-poke techniques so he can be the one to give revali his tattoos?? And it's like super sweet and meaningful for them both and Link feels honored that revali trusts him enough to ask? (and also revali is scared shitless and Link has to stop several times so he doesnt mess up and hurt revali more than it typically would)

like what if though???

ahem (taps mic) Hello can anyone hear me. i haven't written a tumblr ask in ages i feel ancient

first of all, i'm glad to hear that you still think of my tattoo/flower shop au haha it's been way over a year now since i wrote it. i still very much appreciate everyone who drew art for it 🫶 i've had a few passing thoughts about writing it into an actual proper multi-chaptered fic but i've been busy wrestling with school, work, and my personal demons for the past year that it's been quite difficult to even think about writing anything. thank you to anyone who's still here; i appreciate you a lot 🤍

i love the hc of revali as indigenous and i think it really fits in with the presence of the rito people as we're introduced to in the games, but i won't touch on that too much since i'm not indigenous/well-versed in indigenous culture. you know what i Am well-versed in though? these gay ass mfs

i had to reread my own au post for this Lord it's been too long, i wrote back then that i thought of revali as someone who isn't too fond of tattoos and doesn't have a great pain tolerance for them, and i still believe in that LOL. mixing that in with a hc where revali is indigenous is quite interesting, because i would assume that tattoos are an important/frequently appearing aspect of the culture? revali's parents have also passed in this au and he's alone with no family running the shop, so perhaps revali was estranged from his indigenous culture while growing up/at some point and became interested in trying to connect with it as an adult. maybe he came across the topic of traditional tattoos and after researching about it, he became interested in getting one but again because of his low pain tolerance, he thought it probably may never happen. well...

during one of their shared lunch breaks perhaps at a new cafe that's opened up on tabantha street, revali absentmindedly mentions his family and the tattoos. link immediately looks up at him from his food, those lovely blue eyes searching his face curiously.

"traditional tattoos?" he says, cocking his head at revali. revali blinks. well, of course link would have interest in the topic since he was a fellow tattoo artist himself, but the way he was looking at revali was...

"well yes," revali continues. "i suppose i haven't really talked to you much about myself personally, have i? i'm an indigenous hyrulean and my blood is descended from the rito tribe, but i'm not well-versed in my own culture." he mumbles the last few words, looking down at his coffee. "my parents and i lived on reservation land until i was 5 and then we moved away to a bigger city for work. there weren't many other rito there and so i didn't grow up with a lot of other indigenous folk. i don't know much about my family or my culture because of it, and even after my parents passed, it's never come up until now." revali glances back at link, who is now watching him with rapt attention. he looks away again, his cheeks beginning to warm. "i thought it would be nice to connect with my culture by getting a traditional tattoo of the rito tribe, perhaps something small so i can handle it. though, i wouldn't be able to travel to the reservation to find a traditional tattooist because of the shop and neither do i know of any tattoo artists nearby that could do it..."

"i'll do it," link says suddenly. revali looks at him again and blinks. link's eyes are bright and wide, blazing with determination. he's still holding his sandwich in his hands.

"i-i couldn't ask that of you," revali says, heart skipping a beat. "you'd likely have to learn an entire new and unfamiliar technique, and—"

"i'll do it," link insists, placing the sandwich down and wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. his eyes are still trained on revali, just as insistent as his mouth is. revali swallows.

"use a napkin, please," he mutters, passing link one. the blond takes it and grins at him. "if it's something that you greatly desire to do... i will assist you in offering as much information as i can. i... appreciate it, link." i appreciate you, he thinks but the words get stuck in his throat. link's smile only grows.

thinking about link who researches rito tribal tattoos for a few weeks and reporting and discussing his findings with revali during their mon/wed lunch breaks. thinking about link who spends countless nights staying up compiling everything he finds into a document, the different types of tribal tattoos and their meanings, researching the materials and tools needed for traditional tattoos, sketching different tribal symbols endlessly for the perfect one for revali in between tattoo sessions with other clients, thinking about where on revali's body it would go, thinking about revali's warm skin under his hands... let's keep it PG link 🫡

the day finally arrives when link introduces the tattoo sketches to revali. link probably shows him a few ideas of a small rito symbol on his fingers, wrist, deltoid, ankle, and even ribs. HOWEVER. i really like the idea of the winged rito symbol across the back of revali's shoulders to represent his wings in canon? so what if. link who sketched a drawing of revali's back muscles with the winged rito symbol and he doesn't mean to show it to revali since it's a much bigger tattoo than revali wanted, but revali happens upon it anyway while scrolling through the sketches on link's ipad.

"what's this one?" revali says pointing at it.

link glances over at the screen and flushes. "oh, i didn't mean for you to see this one," he murmurs. he uses two fingers to zoom in on the image slightly. "i just had an idea for this particular symbol, so i sketched it out because i thought it'd look nice. i know you wanted a smaller one, so we can just focus on the first sketches—"

"it's beautiful," revali cuts him off, voice soft and still looking at the winged sketch. "how much do back tattoos hurt?" and link is jaw dropped, staring at him with hearts in his eyes LMFAOOOOOOOO

thinking about link who actually reaches out to a traditional tattooist from revali's tribe and asks if he can mentor link so he can learn their technique??? maybe link and revali who end up traveling to the reservation together so revali can visit and link can learn directly from the tattooist??? revalink road trip and sharing a bed trope??? link would probably only take a week tops to learn the technique since he's like a prodigal artist and the tattooist is impressed. also revali getting to spend time with and learn more about his culture from others from the tribe who live there 🥺

if revali does get the winged rito symbol tattoo on his back, he probably wouldn't get it as a solid color, maybe link would incorporate more tribal lineart into it like the totk zonai imagery? i've never gotten a tattoo so i don't know if back tattoos or the style of solid color tattoos would hurt, but regardless, link would make revali as comfortable as he can throughout all the sessions 🥺🥺🥺

originally when i read this ask and you mentioned facial tattoos, i thought about link gently holding revali's jaw between his pointer finger and thumb to readjust the positioning of his face in the midst of tattooing him, and revali sucking in a breath at the contact WAHHHH but with the direction i took with this post, i also thought about link laying a flat palm between revali's shoulder muscles, feeling the warmth of his skin and tracing his shoulder blades with a featherlight touch and revali getting flustered but muttering, "are you going to keep me in suspense?"

link traces a line down revali's spine. "are you sure you want to get this tattoo?" he murmurs. "we can still do the smaller ones instead if you want. i know how you feel about it, with your pain tolerance and all."

revali snorts, trying to mask his nervousness. "i've already made up my mind. it's a beautiful piece that you put a lot of thought into and i'm not backing out now. besides..." revali's voice lowers into a mumble. "i wouldn't have gone through with it if it was anyone else. i trust you."

link's cheeks pinked in the sweet way they do when revali catches him off-guard, but he can't take it back. he doesn't want to take it back, because it's true; revali trusts link for this with everything he has.

hhh . AHHHH . i just think. yeagh.