#opossum!hyrule

[hero-of-the-wolf]

Don’t touch it, Twilight had warned. And Hyrule hadn't meant to. Honest. It had been an accident, a mistake, one that he’d known the second his fingers had brushed against that cursed artifact.

What sort of necklace did the rancher have anyways, turning people into animals? The magic it carried was foreign and unfamiliar. It thrummed in Hyrule’s veins now, thick and viscous and suffocating. It felt violating. The pleasant warmth he’d come to associate with his own magic was gone, and its absence left him feeling hollow and so, so cold. Everything ached; the transformation had left him sore and stiff and still trembling a little. He shivered again at the unnatural chill that had settled deep into his very bones.

It’d hurt. From the moment he’d touched that necklace it had been all consuming, overwhelming him with agony the likes of which he’d never known before. But worse than the pain had been the sheer terror of not knowing what had been happening to him. Of everything changing, breaking, rearranging until he was left disoriented and struggling to breathe, all of his senses raw and dialed up to eleven. It wasn’t an experience he was keen on having again any time soon.

But… this new form wasn’t all bad.

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[hero-of-the-wolf]

how could you decline such a polite request?? 🥺

[skyward-floored]

for the doodle requests, would you be interested in drawing opossum Hyrule? 🥺

- hero-of-the-wolf

I would indeed :)

I forgot if he had any specific design stuff about him and ao3 wasn’t behaving so I couldn’t check, so it kinda looks like Twilight is just screaming with a random opossum. But that’s kinda funny too

[mariasparrow]

Head-cannon: Hyrule's Shadow Crystal/Dark World Form is a Stag/Fawn

Many people here think it wold be an opossum or goat which is totally fair. But I think symbolically, Rulie would make a good deer/stag/fawn.

(all images belong to @/linkeduniverse)

(https://bambi.fandom.com/wiki/Bambi)

They are seen as symbols of strength, virility, agility, and endurance in mythology, as well as stamina, grace, instincts, maturity, regeneration, and spiritual enlightenment. The stag – sometimes referred to as hart – is exalted among other deer. He is mature and experienced, having endured life’s challenges, and he has a massive crown of antlers to show for it. Doesn't that fit Hyrule to a Tee?

Lets break it down further -Stags can run up to 40 miles per hour. Plus, they can jump eight feet high and as far as 30 feet. In addition, they can survive in sub-zero temperatures. Furthermore, the stag earns first priority rights to a territory and his choice of mates after battling other bucks for dominance.

One of Hyrule's spells/power is jump, and heavens knows he's a tough survivor in a dangerous era. His battle with his shadow takes place right before he finishes his quest to wake Aurora (Sleeping Princess of AoL).

This fits since stags can also depict spiritual enlightenment and connection to God. In Arthurian legends, the stag perennially avoided capture, symbolizing an unending spiritual quest...which given his blood curse is right on the rupee, especially since deer were held as sacred to the gods and/or used as sacrifices often.

And I'll admit...I am stuck with the idea that due to his humbleness and self-doubt, Hyrule manifests as a red-tail fawn to match Legend's pink bunny...ala Bambi and Thumper.

Legend didn't need his dignity anyway...

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Just picture the fics that could be written on these two...especially if like Bambi, Fawn Hyrule gets stuck on ice and needs Bunny Legend's help, lol...

(The Ultimate Guide to All Things Bambi - MickeyBlog.com)

[hero-of-the-wolf]

HEHEHEHE thank you very muchly :)

[stormysprite]

The Chain as Weird Things I’ve Done

(I learned that writing something silly kickstarts my writing at work, enjoy my warmup from today!)

Time: accidentally become leader of multiple friend groups

Warriors: learned calculus out of spite

Twilight: holds family record for largest scar. Changes the story every time you ask.

Sky: spent ages learning to whistle in order to speak Bird

Legend: collected … everything (I’m much better about this now than when I was little, but I do mean EVERYTHING)

Wild: eaten dirt, sand, eggshells, bugs, stuff off the floor, etc. Draws the line at Jell-O.

Hyrule: bitten twice by the same opossum (not on the same day)

Four: mummified a frozen chicken, held a traditional ancient Egyptian funeral for it (rip King Cluck)

Wind: Barnacle. Phobia.

Bonus:

Ravio: started a candy store (using VERY old Halloween candy) with absurdly high markup prices. Became highly successful through the Marketing Strategy of Being Small and Cute

Flora: spilled paramecium all over a display with important documents

[crazylittlejester]

Wars knitting plush toys in his spare time and giving them to his brothers. They all drop them off in their homes when they return (they always end up with several between visits). HOWEVER they all have one they keep on themselves at all times. It does not get dropped at their house, it lives in their packs

What kind of plushie do you think each member of the chain would keep in their pack?

OOOOH

He’d ofc make Legend a bunny (because he’d for sure go up to Sky like “hey what dyou think Legend would like?” and Sky is secretly an evil shit and he’d all innocently say “A pink bunny” and Wars would be so confused why Legend reacted the way he did when he gave it to him, but Twi and Sky were dying laughing so he just brushed it off). I think Legend would just be so touched by the fact that Wars made something for him, that little pink bunny would be so important to him

Sky would get a little loftwing, Wars could use one of Sky’s carvings as a reference!

Wind would get a seagull. And he’d carry it around with him until the day he died.

Twi’s gettin’ a goat. A goat army, actually. Wars has made him several and Twi cries every time because they’re so cute and dorky looking. First one Wars made for him was a little uneven and odd looking and Wars almost didn’t give it to him because he felt bad it wasn’t perfect but Twi literally loved it so much it’s his favorite one

The one that Four keeps ON him is one he actually asked Wars for, and it’s a little stuffed Shape. He needed something he could just squeeze that wouldn’t break, and that he could just kinda mess with that wouldn’t end up hurting him, and a soft little squishy Shape was perfect. Wars gave it a little happy face. He’s made Four other actual ANIMALS, but the Shape is the one Four keeps with him

Wild got a blupee, he showed Warriors a picture of one once and Wars was like “i need to make this.” and Wild got super excited. He absolutely adores it, it’s on the bigger side but he stores it in his slate so he doesn’t have to worry about it taking up too much space. INCREDIBLY fuckin’ huggable and very nice for him to just Hold, especially at night

Hyrule I think would appreciate just any little gift any of the others gave him, but his favorite one Wars gave him that he carries around in his bag with him is a little opossum. It has an incredibly silly little face (this is partly inspired by @hero-of-the-wolf’s headcanon he’d be an opossum if he touched twi’s crystal)

Now Time’s is a very fucked up lookin’ horse meant to be Epona that Wars made intentionally hideous as a gag gift, but it is honestly one of Time’s most treasured possessions now. It genuinely means so much to him, and he treats it very gently. Warriors has since made him things that are actually very high quality but nothing will mean as much to Time as that incredibly fucked up looking little Epona (he definitely sticks it on his bedside table and stares at it every night once the journey is over and they’re all back in their own eras)

[taddy-cat]

Raccoon Wild set something on fire and is enjoying watching it burn (the little arsonist). He decided to wear the thunder armor before he got transformed, so that's the shirt he has on

After seeing @seaotter-17 's opossum Hyrule I was filled with the mighty urge to draw a raccoon Wild, please enjoy the chaos baby

[hero-of-the-wolf]

*TAKES HIM AND RUNS*

Jes, Emmie, Emi, Mel, and Lamp (and anyone else who voted for the little guy) you all will have to take turns with crocheted Opossum Rulie! You have to share him, okay? I'm also going to trust that you'll take good care him. Also, DON'T LOSE HIM!!! He gets away very quickly. He's very fast for such a small guy. Here you go! Have fun!

@crazylittlejester, @hero-of-the-wolf, @emig22, @starwolfie, @sunfloo-wers

[hero-of-the-wolf]

trick or treat!

a wild opossum Rulie has appeared ‼️‼️‼️

[ahanarhorse]

My thoughts on what the chain's dark world form would be(Twi's crystal magic stuff). No idea how the crystal thingies of his works, never played the game, but here's some animal ideas because I like animals.

Twilight- Wolf, oviously

Time- also wolf, that's cannon in TP, right?

Wild- forest boy is a coyote

Warriors- He's a lion, I know there's a lot of different ideas, but I like to think of him as a lion.

Sky- Swan. 'Look! So pretty and cuddly and- AH HELP HE'S GOING TO KILL ME'

Wind- Sneaky seagull pirate. Steals people's food for fun

Legend- Bunny!!

Hyrule- Saw someone (edit: it was @hero-of-the-wolf!)say he would be an opossum, and honestly, yeah, he would be.

Four- European hamster, he would just be so cute.

Bonuses:

Malon- Fox! I know she's a horse girl, but a majestic fox acually feels right to me.

Ravio- Magpie, the sneaky thief

Blue- Badger. No questions.

Red- I think he would be a mouse

Green- Capybara, he's chill

Vio- Great tailed grackle specifically

Shadow- Raven

Flora- she has golden retriever energy

Sun- albino peacock

Any other ideas are appreciated!

I might draw them, and might not. Send an ask if you want me to draw a specific one sooner than eternity.

[gryphonlover]

psssssst you got any other angsty ideas for opossum!Hyrule?

(don't tell Jes)

- hero-of-the-wolf

Hiding secret opossum things under this nice read more. Nothing suspicious here. Just keep scrolling, Jes.

Supposedly, opossums taste kind of like pork. (Stephen Winnick) I am not suggesting anyone should actually eat him, I'm just saying one or two individuals may be familiar with the idea of eating opossums. Personally, I would not recommend eating one, but I would also eat greens from the lawn, so... yeah.

Opossums have also been compared to pigs by some very old, very dead famous colonists, but I don't really see the similarities, myself. Seems like the most they have in common is what they eat and what they taste like. (I would like to point out that their diet is terrifyingly diverse. Opossums have been seen eating just about everything, including "skeletal remains of rodents and roadkill animals.")

I think some parallels can be made regarding estimated lifespan. The generally agreed upon average lifespan in the wild is 2 years. 2 years. That's not very long. Of course, people say that it's short because of predators, and opossums can live up to 10 years in captivity, but the average lifespan in captivity is usually closer to 4 years.

If you assume that there are lots of monsters and barely any support for Hyrule in his home era, then I think it's reasonable to assume that he's going to slip up and die young. As much as I want him to live a long, happy life, in that situation I think he'd inevitably die around the age of 25. Maybe a little older or younger, but he definitely wouldn't make it to Time's age.

Now, I don't know exactly how Dark World forms work, but given that Twilight has a lot of experience with that sort of thing (and Magic Wolf Senses), I rather like the idea that he has some kind of intuition about it.

This is utterly horrible to do to him, but you asked for opossum!Hyrule-related angst, so here you go. I'm finally getting to the point.

What I'd like to see is that Hyrule ends up in his opossum form and encounters Twilight, who figures out what's going on and wants to fix it. (Bonus points if he plays dead and fools Twilight.) One way or another, he puts two and two together and figures out that Hyrule's an opossum because they're terrifying and don't live very long. Maybe they're generally considered a symbol of people who die young or something like that in Ordon. I don't know. Whatever works. This causes a whole long existential crisis because he knew Time would eventually die (see: Hero's Shade) but he didn't realize Hyrule probably would as well and now here he is as a freaking opossum and everyone knows they're dangerous, but they also die all the freaking time. Anyway, at some point stuff happens, and the subject is actually brought up and Hyrule tries (and fails) to reassure Twilight by telling him he always knew he'd die young, and it doesn't really matter anyway because he already died once or twice (see: dolls) so really he's living on extra time and once he dies it's actually for the best for his era (see: Ganondorf ritual). Twilight, being a normal person, is not reassured at all. This would also be a good opportunity to insert one or two random historical documents/folk stories from after Hyrule's era about what actually ends up happening. (Bonus points if he dies even younger than Twilight expected.) Also, they are heroes, so an attempt to change fate is going to be made sooner or later. What happens next is up in the air because that just puts us back at the "is determinism real" debate, and no one has solved that in the last several centuries anyway.

So that's my proposal for an opssum!Hyrule angst fic. :)

[hero-of-the-wolf]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ MY SON

Trick or Treat!!!!

HI! :D

I may have gotten carried away drawing opossum Rulie and did a lot but shhhhh he’s an adorable bean and both you and him get a bunch of candy!

[sunfloo-wers]

I did some watercolor doodles of Rulie :D

details and description under the cut:

From left to right then top to bottom:

the whole raft Hyrule happens to have in his pack

semi horrifying ball fairy(?) with limbs

a Fleam or Phlebetom (or bleeding knives) because I was possessed with the idea of Rulie purposefully cutting his skin and therefor spilling some blood (and like, blood curse) so monsters don't attack something/someone, which naturally, led me to researching the tools of bloodletting :D

fairy Hyrule sleeping against a red potion

a smidge bit of Fire Spell trailing behind the swing of sword

Hyrule's sword (I had to re-do this due to the complexities of the handle, so it's a bit smudged)

A very happy positive Hyrule giving two thumbs ups

pink ball fairy Rulie flying about (I remember seeing pink fairy Hyrule somewhere a while ago and really liked the idea :D I forget where it's from though, if anyone knows feel free to tell me)

The sliver flute with some music notes coming out the end

tiny mid-adventure Rulie walking away from a mirror that Dink is walking out of. Dink's got a sword and Rulie is about to get stibbity stabbed :D (Listen. I know the Zelda II dark link doesn't come out of a mirror, and the FSA dark mirror doesn't look like that anyways, but I was given the prompt mirror by a friend and this idea forced me to do it sooooooo :D also the mirror is purple and the background of the AOL dink fight stage is purple so I have at least a bit of accuracy :3)

Hyrule casting Thunder Spell via snapping, with lightning striking the fingers and little storm clouds surrounding it

the magic boots that let you walk on water in AOL (no clue if they're also in Zelda I )

The big blank spot in the upper left hand corner was opossum Hyrule but I did it without reference and turns out I do not know what opossums look like so I'll do another one some other time :P

BUT YEAH

Little guy :D

this was my first real try at painting with watercolor without pencil sketching first, and for that I think it went fairly well :D

Bye!

[hotcheetohatredwastaken]

So I've seen art for Warriors as a swan, and Hyrule as an opossum (I think he's more platypus, personally). So what kind of animal do you think Wild would be if he touched Twilight's crystal?

Honestly, I think that Wild would be another wolf. If Time is a (golden) wolf, and Twilight is Wolfie, and you head canon that Wild is part of that family line, then I think it makes sense that Wild would also be a wolf, or at least in the canine family like a coyote.

If I can't choose a wolf, though, I think that he'd be something like a bobcat. Fast, wild, and agile. What do you think he would be?

[hero-of-the-wolf]

‼️‼️‼️ MY BABY

I did a few doodles of Opossum Hyrule based on your crocheted little guy, he was too adorably shaped to resist drawing :D

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!!! THIS IS ADORABLE!!!! HE'S SO CUTE AND PRECIOUS!!!! Thank you so much!!!! This is beautiful!!! I'm, like so beyond happy right now!!! I love your art so much!! Thank you!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm tagging Emmie because opossum Hyrule is hers, and she'll absolutely love this!!!! @hero-of-the-wolf