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fabdante · 2 years ago

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#please tell me about the older brothers PLEASE#im of course begging for horde zelda bc horde!!!!!!!!! blood elf!!!!! CRIMES#but also the idea of starcrossed lovers...#ok but like. you gotta give them happy ending or i WILL riot#is gan the chief of the horde? *gasp* can they be co-chiefs-- ( @ro-blaze )

Hello, I was summoned!

I got very excited so this got kinda long, a lot of random brother talk and AU details under the cut!

So the concept of Zelda having older brothers came from like a lot of Zelda AUs me and my girlfriend used to do. We had like...A Lot. And I love the brothers a lot. We don’t put them in every Zelda AU we make, but if they fit in we giddily include them because they’re fun. There’s a lot of AU’s where they all die, but in the WoW AU they’re fine! They’re all alive and fine in those ones. They also all come from three separate marriages the king had so I’ll split them up by wife, as I think that’s important.

Also fair warning, me and my girlfriend have a tendency to make a lot of AU’s that all like branch off of each other because we love to explore ‘what if’ scenario's. So, I apologize if it gets confusing asdfghj, there’s a lot of non concrete details.

Also a lot of the brothers are named after Zelda places or other Zelda kings, like Rhoam and Daltus, because we just thought those were fun names and felt like something a royal family who seemingly names all their princesses Zelda would do. There’s no relation to those kings and Zelda’s brothers.

First Wife

The oldest brother is Eldin

his mother is also usually the kings favorite but she died quite young and he never really got over her, as a result Eldin is usually his favorite

he takes his position as heir in stride despite how stressful it is, growing up to be a very fair and level headed sort of ruler

that is if he like ends up ruling because in some AU’s he dies which is a whole thing

Zelda and Eldin get along very well and he respects her opinions a great deal, even if she is the youngest of his siblings.

That said also he never got to spend as much time with Zelda as he liked when she was growing up, due to being much older and spending a lot of that time readying to be king one day.

with the WoW au’s specifically he’s usually High King of the Alliance due to the semi recent death of his father (though in some AU’s Zelda is High King of the Alliance, though I’m not sure if she has siblings in those ones) and torn between peace and the continued conflicts between Horde and Alliance as they are in a bit of a lull between, you know, the constant wars and what not

I’m going to refer to the death of the king in WoW AU’s as recent a lot, though honestly I can’t remember exactly when it takes place? I think it’s when Zelda was a child or her early teens so like, well within her living memory. But I’m not sure how recent or how old she was at the time.

also in WoW AU’s when he is High King, he is often recently married (within the past few years) and has his own son who is very little

Also in AU’s where he dies, he usually dies first and it’s also a whole thing because it’s before his father dies.

Second Wife

The kings second wife lived the longest and was the most stubborn. She often involved herself with politics, even if the king probably didn’t want her to be. Very smart woman, very sharp, very dangerous. I love her dearly. I still don’t think we ever settled on how she died

she also has the most kids out of the three wives, as she has three sons

The first two are the twins, Bayard and Daltus

Bayard and Daltus are very much opposites but spent most of their lives as best friends in most of the AU’s. Even as they get older and butt heads a lot there’s a lot of respect between the twins. That said, as they get older they start to disagree a lot more on the paths Hyrule should take to a point where they often do not get along like they used to.

Bayard is the most militaristic of the brothers. He is very much a soldier. He’s very good at tactics and all of that, a very action oriented person who doesn’t really care much about the finer details of politics and leading. He’s a soldier first and is popular amongst the soldiers because he tends to see himself as one of them and regards them as equals, often hanging out with them.

Daltus is very interested in diplomacy and academics. He’s the brother who questions things the most about the world around them and history. Usually he’s very interested in working out a better situation between the Gerudo and Hyrule where Gerudo is treated as equal, a root of conflict between him and Bayard. He, above anything else, wants peace and wants to do right. A lot of his studying is done on Gerudo and he’s gone on a lot of trips to Gerudo to talk to the people and leadership there.

In the WoW AU’s specifically Bayard and Daltus both advise Eldin and are on very different sides of the conflict. Like, Bayard would like to continue the faction wars as he feels the Alliance has not been given what they’re owed by the Horde. Where as Daltus thinks peace and continuing the armistice between the two is priority. He also believes that the Alliance owes the Horde plenty for crimes done to them.

Zelda and Daltus get along very well, I’d stray to say he’s one of the ones she’s closest to and the one who ideologically she tends to agree with most, especially in WoW AU’s where she is just princess and not High King herself.

In WoW AU’s specifically also Bayard loves his sister, but he does not trust her completely due to some Drama tm that happened with her mother (more on that later)

(Daltus is my favorite)

In AU’s where the brothers are no longer alive, Bayard and Daltus usually live the longest but they don’t do great without the other. They’re very sad about it. Also Daltus usually is put to death for treason? I think??

The twins have a younger brother also who we’re in the process of renaming. I think we settled on Byrim?? (He used to be two brothers but the characters weren’t super developed so with the WoW AU’s, we decided to combine both)

for sake of clarity I’m just going to call him Byrim. Subject to change however asdfghj

Byrim, being so far down the line of succession, is not at all interested in prince stuff or royal things. If anything he fears it. He is however, the romantic of the siblings and gets himself into a lot of situations due to his romantic liaisons.

Beyond being that though he’s also really interested in archeology. It’s his passion and he’s really into finding and researching artifacts. Usually he does this alone, but in WoW he’s very neutral in the conflict between Horde and Alliance and spends most of his time with the archeologists who are also neutral.

Byrim’s the most detached from the other siblings and castle life. He’s got other stuff he’s up to.

Also I don’t think we ever reworked how he dies, but when he was two guys in Zelda AU’s the romantic used to get killed because he was sleeping with one half of a marriage and that did not go over well when the other half found out. And the archeologist used to get really interested in Majora and just kinda...disappeared and no one knows where he went but are all sure he is not coming back.

Third Wife

this one is Zelda’s mom

in Zelda AU’s she’s usually quite sickly, which leads to her death shortly after Zelda’s birth. The king has a soft spot for her, but she does not compare to his first wife. She was very sweet though, and very musical.

in WoW AU’s however Zelda’s mom is a High Elf who is wedded to the king for political reasons. While I won’t speak for the kings intent, she often feels like a trophy and does not like this.

She uses her position close to the king to eventually kill him and flee back to the more recently formed Blood Elves, defecting into the Horde. And this, of course, causes a whole lot of problems.

It’s not public knowledge that she is the reason the king is dead. This is a tightly held secret even in the family, only the oldest of the three brothers being aware that their father did not just die but that he was you know, murdered.

And this is why Bayard loves Zelda, but does not entirely trust her. He worries that she might defect like her mother and leave them, something he does not want because he wants his sister where he can keep her safe and near.

Zelda has one full brother however. His name is Rhoam.

Rhoam is the meekest of the siblings.

Sometimes he’s quite sickly like his mother which is what leads to his eventual death.

He’s a musician and also has little interest in the crown and conflict around him. He would prefer it if things were peaceful and prosperous, but he does not really want to get involved. He’s very quiet also, very nervous about big events.

He is Zelda’s closest friend out of her siblings. Sharing a mother led them to have a particular bond, and in the WoW AU’s with them being the only half elves in the family this made them close. They also share a lot of interests, like music and reading. Also being the closest two in age, they spent a lot of their childhood together.

In WoW AU’s he is less magically gifted then Zelda, not really having a strong talent and connection to it and he doesn’t really have much interest in learning it further. I think it kind of scares him in the context of WoW AU’s, due to the addictive nature of magic in that universe if not handled properly.

Zelda is the youngest, always.

She’s also well liked by all her brothers, being their baby sister. She’s closest with Daltus and Rhoam She also butts heads with Bayard the most.

She’s very academic like Daltus and will study things with him and the two are known to have long conversations about cultures and history. In WoW AU’s, the two of them tend to discuss paths towards peace and reconciliation between the Horde and Alliance and both tend to argue for this path to Eldin.

More WoW AU Notes!!

We have like three main types of WoW AU’s. Alliance Zelda, Horde Zelda, and High King Zelda AU’s

Also in all AU’s Link is Zelda’s personal guard. He knows all her secrets and keeps them very well. Also he’s usually just a guy?? He might be like half elf also honestly I haven’t really thought about it he just has very big ‘he’s just...some guy’ energy.

In Alliance Zelda AU’s, they typically take place in a period of tense peace between factions. So like, most lulls in the faction wars in WoW. Eldin is still newer to the throne and everything, and also has developments in his personal life (like the recentish birth of his own son, who I think is usually a toddler at time of the AU’s?)

Similarly, Gan is also new to the title of Warchief. His mother had been Warchief before him and passed the title down, and while he’s respected amongst the Horde he’s still like...very new to the job. (Also beyond the like, representatives of all the different races in the Horde, he has a council of close friends and advisers who I love dearly)

Also unimportant but Gan’s dad in the WoW AUs was part of a like traveling group of actors and story tellers before settling down with his mother and I love his father a lot ok he doesn’t have a name this is all I know about him but he’s important to me.

Both are dealing with the very complicated situation of peace between the factions after everything that’s gone on between them and the differing demands of all the people in their respective factions

on the Alliance side, however, Daltus and Zelda manage to convince Eldin to allow them to go visit the Horde side and begin discussions with the Horde leadership. Zelda was not going to be allowed to go at first but Eldin agrees to allow her to, well guarded of course.

And this begins the relationship between Zelda and Gan, who very quickly begin to get a long and foster a secret friendship that turns into a secret romance, with a lot of Zelda just sort of teleporting herself to his location under the guise of language tutoring.

I don’t think we ever settled on an ending?? But this AU to me never really felt like it’d end tragically, also like...a marriage between factions could be nice!! (Also I don’t know what happened to Zelda’s mom here or the fall out from it)

Also Link is long suffering and exhausted having to cover for their secret romance. You ever try to cover up a secret romance when one of them is like over 10 feet tall??

Horde Zelda AU’s work under the idea that after killing the king, Zelda’s mother does not escape alone but takes both of her children with her.

She receives a bit of a hero’s welcome given the fact she just killed the High King and got away with it, so Zelda and Rhoam grow up pretty easy though Rhoam is no more talented at magic then he usually is and still very nervous.

Zelda as she ages begins making a very strong impression amongst the Blood Elves, largely in politics and academia. Which is what eventually gets the attention of fairly new Warchief Gan. He takes her on as an adviser and their relationship moves from there until she’s worked her way into essentially being his most trusted second in command. And they are quite the dangerous duo and are living their best lives honestly.

There’s a lot of potential drama to be had in this AU, especially since I’m assuming she still has her brothers and Eldin is now king and everything but honestly I just got really focused on Zelgan living their delightful lives together in Orgrimmar that I had not thought through the rest yet asdfghjk

High King Zelda AU’s run under the assumption that she’s become Queen recently and Gan still recently became Warchief and Zelda uses this shift in power to attempt peace talks with Ganondorf.

She’s a very bold High King and I love that. A lot of ‘will show up in the middle of your war camp with only herself and her personal guard who is just some guy’ vibes. Which is what she does, just turn up where he is with literally just Link to discuss terms.

The two are quite intrigued by each other right away, something that is probably worrisome to Gan’s council (and definitely worrisome to Zelda’s advisers)

This one also does not have an ending, however there is a variant following the classic Zelgan tale of a political marriage that actually goes pretty well because they get along pretty good actually.

We also have this like, fourth variant of WoW AU which is just very silly and not meant to be thought about too hard. But the premise of those ones is that WoW and Zelda take place on the same planet, just opposite sides of it. As a result, Gerudo and Hyrule have relationships with the Horde and Alliance on the other side of the planet. This AU does not have a lot of details and mostly exists because ‘wouldn’t it be funny if this happened?’, but I like it I think it’s silly.

#fab talks #idk if i have tags for this type of thing asdfghj #ship: some divine prank #fab talks headcanons #my fic #those are close enough until i figure something else out asdfghj #thank you for indulging me #i really love the brothers they're important to me sdfghjk

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