#post botw speedrun

[captain-castaway]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Link & Zelda (Legend of Zelda) Characters: Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Link (Legend of Zelda) Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Suicidal Thoughts, BUT in a blink and you'll miss it kind of way!, Mute Link (Legend of Zelda), anyway you ever think too long about the world record speedrun and think about the implications, yeah - Freeform, Angst with a Hopeful Ending Summary:

He's not her Link, even if the body is the same.

Zelda stands at the end of everything, feet settled loosely in the grass, staring across the field at a stranger. He'd woken up less than half an hour ago and in that short amount of time had blasted across Hyrule, slain the Blights and the Calamity and rescued her, and all of that because she was in trouble. Not because he remembered her.

[coern]

I'm about to make the most self indulgent nenekasa au doodle page you'll ever lay your eyes on (<- lying for I have no motivation)

[thatstuckietherian]

🐈hey hi hello!!! this is my silly little therian/alterhuman/otherkin sideblog for posting rambles and such! been wantign to interact with the community more sooo here we are

🐆you can call me stuckie or moth, but feel free to make up nicknames for me based off of my kintypes (like pidge, silver, blue, etc.)

🐺info abt kintypes and abt me under da cut

🦊theriotypes: melanistic grey wolf, silver fox, feline suntherian + ambitherian (specifically domestic cat and snow leopard), seawing (from wof)

🦉hearttypes: crow, melanistic barn owl

🐍linktypes: moths, ball python

🐛fiction kintypes: pidge gunderson (voltron: legendary defender), pidge (voltron: force), sylvester ashling (epithet erased)

i have lots of fiction hearttypes/linktypes btu i wont list them all as i want this to be a more therian-centric blog

🌠kinsidering: spacekin, machinekin, consolekin (specifically nintendo consoles), maned wolf, cross fox, marble fox, werewolf/werecreature, amphithere, peryton, reshiram, xurkitree, rayquaza, palkia, kaiju, botw/totk link, enderman, nightwing, icewing, winged human (? idk how to describe it)

🐉as for info abt me, im an autistic guy whos special interests are stuffed animals, speedrunning, and pokemon (i will assign pkmn to any1 who asks) currently hyperfixated on homestuck unfortunately (/j), but im also interested in drawing, writing, making ocs, most 2010's era cringe stuff, smo, botw/totk, hollow knight, voltron, sonic prime, warrior cats, creepypasta, old tech/consoles, taxidermy/vulture culture, biology, reptiles, and bugs!!

🐾if u ask me abt any of these things i will be very happy, i love yapping to anyone who'll listen :] anyway i hope u enjoy ur stay at my silly little internet corner

help how do i center thhis gif

[kholnt]

Hellooo I saw your post about Lost! I was wondering if there’s anywhere I could learn more about them?

Or if there isn’t, would you be willing to share?

My mind has latched on and I am rotating them in my brain.

there isn't (tis a shame) BUT i can yap PLENTY

i'll basically just talk abt the basics n if ppl want more details or ask specific questions then they can :)) lost is wild if he didn't forget in the shrine of resurrection. so yes, he's technically wild but he is VERY different he replaces wild, however there is an au where theyre both in the chain and we call em the trauma twins affectionately. he's the last to join and whoo boy does this boy have some trauma everything pre-calamity is the same + some headcanons. botw is mostly the same? the notable differences are that lost went through it as fast as he could (not in a speedrun way) so that way he could fufill his sense of duty to zelda, and that he didnt sneak into gerudo bc he was able to prove himself as a champion (he still respected customs he just. didnt actively ignore the law like wild did. menace /aff) he isn't as connected to the world around them and the few people that roam the land like wild is totk is a swap au (lost gets sent back in time) because lost has a terrible habit of being extremely self sacrificial. as for lost as a character, he's still the silent knight from Before. his knight training and thought processes are still in his head, just significantly more unhealthy from him failing the first time. theres so much to lost that i havent even brushed on but here's a list of all the issues this poor man has off the top of my head:

[margindoodles2407]

Hey I came across your post on the BOTW-Speedrun-Link thread. Where can I find your fic about it?? I'm in desperate need of this

Hello lovely anon! I will paste the ficlet into this post. I'm a bit sheepish to admit, but after a while I kind of forgot about this AU. If you'd like to see more of it, though, I'd be more than happy to keep writing it!

Oh, one more quick note: It’s not exactly how I’d rewrite the story of the game from Speedrunner!Link’s perspective, it's more like how the aftermath would go if you took the speedrunner approach. I hope that's okay :)

It’s over, it’s finally over. The thing that had loomed over Hyrule Castle ever since he woke up two days ago was gone- hopefully for good.

He gazes at the girl across from him- Zelda, the old man had said her name was- the girl covered in malice and the grime of a century of hatred. Her blonde curls are matted and tangled and she’s covered in what looks like burn scars as she stares back at him with eyes the color of things that are alive- the only bright spot in her tarnished facade.

She blinks, hesitant, as if she’s not sure whether to stand there or run to him and fling her arms around him. He doesn’t know which he wants. So he stands there catching his breath, and she stands there dithering, and then the fleetest flicker of a smile crosses her colorless lips, and she says:

"May I ask... Do you really remember me?"

He stands there, because he doesn't really know what else to do. How could he? Her smile is widened in anticipation of what she wants to hear, a smile so warm and bright and hopeful that it makes him want to say yes, of course I remember you and see that smile turn to tears of joy that they can cry together.

But he can't. He couldn't lie to her. It would break her heart. He doesn't remember a thing about her- everything he knows about her he's learned in the past 48 hours.

So it's all he can do to clear his throat and stammer out, "No."

The smile vanishes in an instant, replaced by knitted brows and eyes full of concern. “Oh- oh, I see.” She crosses the field, her luminous gown flapping in the evening twilight like a tattered battle standard, and she halts in front of him to cup his face in her slender hands and gaze into his eyes- as if she could figure out what’s wrong with him simply by staring hard enough. 

“Do… if I may… can… do you remember anything? Anything at all?”

He screws his eyes shut and tries to reach back behind the curtain of blackness, but as hard as he tries, the furthest thing he can grasp is a sweet voice- her voice- begging him to wake up, to find her. He shakes his head in wordless apology, opening his eyes just in time to see hers cloud with disappointment. 

“I’m sorry,” is the only thing he can think to mumble.

“Not your fault,” she mutters back, almost to herself. She’s lost in a reverie, thinking of what next to do, and then her eyes snap back to his and the disappointment is replaced by determination. 

“You know what? That’s not important right now. We’ll figure something out. Just… come with me; we’ll make camp somewhere and pick this up in the morning.”

[clairiko]

ok sorta a random post but i've been learning how to do botw any% speedrun for funsies and wanted to share some of my favorite tricks ive learned ✨

[amiharana]

Hi it's the Slate anon again um. I love your posts on botw modern AUs just imagining all the antics they would get into. You know they would all have a group chat together, Urbosa writes with proper punctuation and everything, every one of Zelda's messages is programmed to sign with "Her Royal Highness Zelda Bosphoramus Hyrule CCLXXVII" and Daruk writes every single thing in all caps. Link as quiet as he is means every time they see "Link is typing..." it's a national event (and it ends up being "ok" or "🫡")

Daruk would have a long distance game night every week for a "bonding session" but an hour each time is spent in him figuring out how to turn on the camera for the video call. Mipha invites Zelda, Revali and link to her animal crossing island and Zelda does nothing but fill the museum with animals while revali spends an embarrassing amount of time decorating the island. A Mario kart session nearly led to the murder of multiple champions

HI SLATE ANON 🥺🤍 IT'S NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK!! and i'm glad to hear you like the modern aus!! imagining what the champions w zelda and link would be like in a modern au brings me much joy

zelda's signature LMFAOOO i bet she started off with just "—Zelda" and then kept adding shit until it was ridiculously long and she just keeps adding stuff it to the point where if she just sends the word "hi" her signature is 99% of the message. daruk absolutely types in all caps and he tries to use slang words but it's a hit or miss he's very much the How Do You Do Fellow Kids? meme. i agree w link being quiet in the chat, but i'm torn between him being online often and just lurking silently + reacting to messages with emojis or him constantly having his phone on do not disturb, low brightness, and <10% battery all the time 😭😭 the gang buys him chargers but he always somehow breaks them ksjhdfjkd

the idea of the champions having a game night over like a discord call or something is so fuckign cute im cryingfhgjk it doesn't matter what the game is, revali is going to end up being ridiculously competitive and try to win every single time. link effortlessly beats him every time tho LMAOKDJFHDKJF zelda link and revali playing animal crossing together 🥺🥺🥺 link lowkey be tearing up zelda's island and steals all her fruit though LOL

this kinda made me think of a twitch streamers au 😄 i think zelda would be like a just talking/variety streamer like think pokimane or valkyrae; mipha would play games like animal crossing or stardew valley, but then randomly do a fortnite stream but the thing is she would fucking slay at it????? 😭 i feel like urbosa would play a lot of horror games like dead by daylight, resident evil etc. me personally i can't handle horror so props to urbosa bc it doesn't faze her at all whatsoever

i'm not sure what daruk would stream? would he even be able to get his setup together like he lowkey gives me the same vibes as the one time snoop dogg did a stream and forgot to log off so the live was just on for like 12 hours or something LMAO. now revali and link....... they are The Streamers Ever. i think they're both variety streamers but also like speedrunner rivals and also revali would speedrun elden ring and link would speedrun super mario odyssey

imagining the champions+zelda getting brought together by like . fuckin, idk someone doing love or host (hestu but he's the austinshow KJDHFDJKH) and the dynamic between them all is just so good they end up somehow becoming a stream team :] the champions+zelda playing jackbox or among us together :> revali losing his shit when he gets killed but also being the most efficient murderer and so is link so they kill everyone else in the game Quick Asf 😳 revalink have a "We are a good team" klance moment LOL......

imagine the champions having a minecraft server that they stream on and it's called the CSMP (Champions SMP). zelda has admin perms and revali is always asking for admin too claiming that he's the second most responsible person on the team, and to prove a point, zelda then gives admin to urbosa much to revali's chagrin. while this is all happening, daruk is still learning the wasd keys and trying to move and link is already in the nether #SpeedrunnerLife! mipha is 1000 blocks away swimming with dolphins and finds a sunken ship with treasure :> they eventually add the descendants to the SMP too, and impa and rhoam make special appearances on link and zelda's streams!

i highkey love this au 😭🤍

[triforce-of-mischief]

A French link that noclips through every shrine (bc apparently botw in French has better times for speed runs?) I love ur tags on that one post kgodkfnekf

French: "What do you mean you don't know how to noclip?"

Bread: "I just don't?"

French: "But you speak French!"

Bread: "Only because it's faster than English."

French: "How can you use some speedrun strats but not the most important ones?"

Bread: "My quest wasn't that big of a deal anyway."

French: "What was your quest again?"

Bread: "To cook bread as fast as possible."

French:

Bread: "I ruined everything by the way. I don't recommend speaking French if you can't understand it."

French:

French: "What the-"

[awildlion]

How do people even find mutuals on tumblr anymore? Here's what I post if you like the same stuff pls let's be tumblr buddies (16+ pls)

Hollow knight, cult of the lamb, the binding of isaac

Animation (the last wish <3)

Legend of Zelda (BOTW TWO POG)

Kirby

Skyrim

Speedrunning

Creative writing

Space / aesthetic posts

Shitposting

It won't let me delete the poll so here's a question <3

[thebleedingeffect]

your twilight princess posting got me interested. are there any playthroughs/lore videos you recommend?

ROARS twilight princess is so so fucking good, especially as a loz game its so fucking good I promise you.

Here's some twilight princess lore vids/play throughs that I really like!! :DD I hope you enjoy them as well!

Playthroughs -

Pointcrow's edited twilight princess series is really good, it's his first playthrough of the game!

This video is very funny and chill, not a serious playthrough at all but I enjoy this guy alot

If you're a fan of speedruns and seeing games being slowly destroyed, linkus is your guy

Twilight princess but nothing makes sense, it's great!

Lore videos -

Might be a bit of a spoiler for Ganondorf but it's extremely good, so yeah

Meta about twilight princesses message!

Sort of an overview of the loz but twilight princess is a pretty large part of the video

Hi, join me in my love and appreciation of twilight princess

If you're really curious I have wayyyyy more video essays and playthroughs but they're not twilight princess exclusively. Alot of them include ocarina of time, skyward sword, wind waker, botw, totk, and I've been getting into other loz games meta :]]

I'm gonna try and see if I can find meta videos about spirit tracks... what an underrated game...

[cangrellesteponme]

So I need to share I've seen posts going on about Zelda in TotK being taller now than Link, and considering botw fandom IS indeed so much thirsty, I am awaiting something like the two to be drawn like this:

I'M JUST WAITING

(I mean everyone's busy with Ganon but c'mon)

my good friend i still haven't played TotK (i've been extraordinarily busy between my deranged homosexual artist activities and my life as an accomplished scholar as we know. just had to be gay and speedrun assignments as usual, so i practiced self-restraint and did not buy the game. i desperately want it tho) which is why i haven't been posting like a rabid dog with a keyboard and decent media literacy. so unfortunately i don't have the knowledge (or time) required to draw this (which i would. i see the vision.) but my zelink loving ass will be WAITING for people to draw this just like you. and if they still haven't done it when i'm less busy, i might do it myself.

(but let's be real. i'll probably be busy with ganon like the rest of the fandom. i mean. we know how i feel about his VA.)

[citriarchive]

pinned post!!

lemon

23

they/he, but like, "he" in the "eldritch entity that transcends gender" way, not the masculine way, y'know

black

aroace(spec) nb lesbian

eldritch horror contained in a lemon

likes, follows, etc. come from @mob-cemetery even though i'm the ONLY bitch that uses tumblr 🥲

This year's song:

byf

DNIs don't really work + there's just too many specifics for me to put them here, but I pretty much avoid interacting if the vibes are rancid (generally this is for bigotry or being whatever creeps that prey on kids are calling themselves to fly under the radar). If I don't want you following me or interacting with me, I'll just block.

I occasionally post and rb stuff related to my mental health, but it's mostly just fandom stuff.

I don't like having discourse on my feed because it's stressful.

I'm horrible with DMs because of brain shit. Sorry!

interests

Talk to me about literally any of the following (will be edited as time goes on)! Bold + italicized interests are the things currently consuming my enitre brain rn:

Shows: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (esp. parts 1 and 2), BoJack Horseman, Sk8 the Infinity

Video games: FFXIV (up through patch 5.55; I haven't gotten through much of Endwalker yet!), Ace Attorney (currently playing through Farewell, My Turnabout), Stardew Valley, The Sims (especially 2 and 3), 3D Mario (esp. Sunshine and Galaxy...and SM3DW but that kinda doesn't count?), The Legend of Zelda (esp. Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and BotW), Cytus + Cytus II, FNAF (but fuck Scott Cawthon)

TTRPGs: Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire the Masquerade, The Witcher

Music: Ghost and Pals, Ghost, Masayoshi Soken (namely the FFXIV OST), Kristopher Maddigan (namely the Cuphead OSTs), Mili, Toby Fox (take a guess), Evanescence, The Mechanisms, MARINA

YouTubers: Scruffy, WeskAlber, EasySpeezy, Salmence, Ginny Di, One Shot Questers + others that I am subscribed to but my current interest is significantly reduced.

General: Fiction writing (including fanfic), psychology, sociology, statistics, music composition + music theory, speedrunning (which ig falls under video games but don't look at me), card games

I probably missed some because my brain cell fizzles out when I try to list my interests, lol.

tags

general:

#; random – stuff i couldn't think of a tag for

#; serious – serious topics that i feel strongly about and want to speak on and/or spread awareness about

#; me kin id – for stuff i find relatable that doesn't fit into anything else

#; mental health – stuff related to mental health, though i usually keep most of it to a different blog

#; physical health – i need a better tag for disability stuff but this is that

#; arts! crafts even! – tag for commissions/gift art!

video games:

#; gay-ce attorney – ace attorney (kinda obvious but i need consistency)

#; critically acclaimed mmorpg – ffxiv

ttrpgs:

#; the ttrpg tag(tm) – general/overarching ttrpg stuff

#; vane-glory – vane, my tzimisce from vampire the masquerade

#; this bard needs therapy – yaevinn, my bard from the witcher

#; all i have is rage – sareash, my paladin from wild beyond the witchlight

#; never-ending nightmares – ramsey, my city of mists character

#; cryophobia – vian, my sorcerer from time of the frostmaiden

contact

99.9% of my usernames are citriosis. :P It makes shit easier to remember for me. Ask for my Discord, though.

[hemoqueer-coining]

+ introduction +

welcome to hemoqueer-coining, my autism fueled coining blog for troll hemoqueer identities!! i have always been intrigued by the hemoqueer community that kankri mentioned in his monologue, and i love imagining how trolls would experience queerness, so i have made this blog to express some of that love :] my terms can be used for fantrolls, fictionkin/fictives/introjects, people who identify as/with the troll species, etc.!!

i mainly coin terms, but i may also post flags as well. you are free to make flags for my terms (even if they already have a flag!!) i am also only coining hemoqueer terms for now, not any sexualities/romantic identites/gender identities

this blog's mascot is my beloved fantroll Neozzu (she/it/they)!! she is demigold and bluefluid :D

+ requests +

please view my request guide, found here!!

+ disclaimers +

i am a disabled full time college student, and probably won't have a lot of time/energy to work on this. please dont get upset with me if i take a while to fulfill your request; this blog is my passion project, not my job

this blog is, above all else, a place for me to store and share my headcanons. some stuff i share here will not agree with canon. you probably wont agree with all my headcanons. and thats okay!! please note i am not trying to claim anything here as fully canon, and please do not get upset with me if you don't agree with my thoughts

+ tag guide +

#hemoqueer coining - all hemoqueer terms coined on this blog

#flag addendum - for any terms that have flags. i plan on adding most flags after the fact so that's why it's an addendum

#reblogged term - terms coined by others that im reblogging on here. not "official" in the sense that they won't be added to the dictionary, unless the coiner requests for me to post them on this blog

#not a term - anything that's not a term

#words from the moth - my silly nonsense

#interrogating this moth - all non-term related asks

i don't use any other tags on my posts just cuz idk which ones to use LMAOOO

+ about me +

you can call me moth!! as mentioned above i am an autistic college student who is hyperfixating HARD on homestuck. i love my mspfa so very much <33333333

i also enjoy stuffed animals, speedrunning, pokemon, smo, botw/totk, hollow knight, voltron, sonic prime, warrior cats, creepypasta, music, old tech/consoles, taxidermy/vulture culture, biology, reptiles, and bugs!!

feel free to send me asks about anything tbh i love yapping,,,,

[kaijtxri]

Tears of the Kingdom Spoilers (for what I’ve gathered, at least.)

Zelda’s in an infinite Causality Loop. Because she’s there as the Light Dragon in the Present in literally the title card AND probably also there with Link before ToTK even begins which is fucking WILD to think about.

Because Zelda’s a Sage of Time in ToTK, and the only other game she WAS a Sage of Time was in Ocarina, We can safely assume that the timelines all interconnected, and that a new loop has taken form. But as also like how many years has it been since BoTW? 5? 10? Somewhere in the middle?

Tulin and Riju note towards it being somewhere between 5-10 but the whole timeline of Kass soon leaving and Penn showing up and talking like Kass was some sort of big ol legend. also Revali’s bow being 28 x3 is very sadge and pitiful for Link to have.

 god that would also mean Dragon Zelda would’ve gone through time and would probably maybe be floating around in Past BOTW, present BOTW and then ToTK, unless they traveled in time to post BOTW pre TOTK

God Aizen in ToTK given all the life and plotting I’ve given him over on discord.. I don’t have to change much up except for Him probably giving Revali’s Bow to Teba so he can hand it off to Tulin when they’re ready. All I know is that this dumbass Rito is gonna see Link again after all of these Zonai structures have appeared for a grand total of 10 minutes before they go back to what they’re doing.

Link Not having the shiekah slate makes sense because Zelda is the one who has it, (at least she has it so he’s not constantly putting his life in danger even more, looking at Wind Bombs, especially. Is it explicitly stated how many years it has been? Anyway I’ve watched way too many speedruns the dupe glitches are canon.

[jothb]

Not about music but growing up I always had to pirate games. Not a statement asking for pity, just a fact that happened. Sometimes I'd feel bad, but I mostly just wanted to play videogames.

One day I pirated Undertale. It became my entire identity for two years. I *loved* that game and it affected me in ways no game really has ever since. I played it over and over so many times, trying to get faster and faster (I don't know if I knew what a speedrun was), looking for secrets, finding them on my own (It should be noted I played undertale without access to the internet, I was staying at my grandparents summer house at the time). I still remember how smart I felt when I figured out how to solve the piano puzzle, or that you could sell dog residue for infinite money, or how to edit the save file to give me 999 hp to fight sans. I don't think I ever had or ever will have such an experience with a game again. It was the most memorable summer and it completely changed how I viewed videogames ever since. However I've given Toby Fox no money

Fast forward a couple years and I buy myself a Switch. It's a good console, and I was really enjoying playing the two games I bought with it (botw and metroid dread). Still, I decided to open the e-shop and see if there are any games I'd like to purchase. The second I open the front page I see it.

Undertale

I couldn't even finish a thought before I bought it. This game means so much to me, and now that I could finally buy it, pay for it, I did. I haven't touched it in years and yet I still remembered everything. It was like visiting the neighbourhood you grew up in and seeing how little everything changed. I finished it the same evening.

I don't think you're morally required to buy games you pirated once you have the money. Hell I didn't do it with every game I've pirated (if I did I would go bankrupt). But I know that just because someone can't pay for a game, or chooses not to, says nothing about whether they would support the developer or not. I didn't just do this with undertake too btw! Spiritfarer is another game that I bought *because* I loved it so much

Anyway fats forward another couple of years and I learn about the Bits and Pieces mod. It's for Desktop and I don't have money to buy Undertale on steam at the moment, so I just pirate it. At this point I already paid Mr Toby Fox (to be more precise I paid Nintendo and they gave him a cut), and had I the money to do so, I probably wouldn't have objected to buying the game on Steam. But I didn't, so I just looked up a pirated version and installed the mod on it.

I was greeted with a fucking anti piracy screen. Undertale doesn't have one. At first I assumed they just did the kind of piracy screen I have found memories of - "hey dude just tell your friends about the game if you can't buy it". I remember seeing one on my pirated copy or Terraria.

Nope. The game told me I am a greedy little fucker and should go pay Toby Fox. Like it literally says "you gotta pay Toby Fox". This wasn't added by Toby, this was added by a *mod*. It genuinely felt kinda disgusting. Of course I looked up how to go around the anti piracy screen, but it made the entire experience much more miserable. It was like coming back to the neighborhood you grew up in only to see it gentrified and fenced off

I don't know how to finish this post

fun fact: if you pirated six full length albums from your favourite band, listened to them all back to back 5 times, and then sent them $20 on ko-fi or whatever, on average they would have earned slightly more money per play than they'd get from you streaming the same shit with ads on spotify.

[likeapro42]

Multifandom Ideas and Headcanons Master List

Just to get ahead of the game, here’s the Master List of all my fandom ideas and headcanons for my own perusal.

Also, feel free to ask me about any of my AUs. That will only give be happy brain juice

(Fandoms are in ABC order, but links are by when they are posted)

DC Comics:

Batfamily:

Jason speedrunning pissing Bruce off with his choice in partners (JayKyleRoy)

Linked Universe:

Legend kept (accidentally) dodging the draft of Hyrule Warriors

A sneak peak of Wand and Caliburn

Legend of Zelda:

A thought on the 15 hearts it takes to pull the Master Sword in BotW

Ninjago:

The Forgivenshipping/GreenFlower, found family, language of flowers, slowburn no one asked for, but I (roughly) plotted out anyways

PolyDemption AU

The good ol’ younger-sibling-licking-the-hand-covering-their-mouth trick, but dumber