#spoilers for tears of the kingdom

[radplaidtacofan]

Tears of the Kingdom ideas based on the gameplay video:

* literal meat shield

* throw boulder, Recall, throw again

* attach Keese eye to boulder for HOMING BOULDER ATTACK

* build meat tower to sky islands

* double decker couch car???

* build a house by fusing boxes

* do you wanna build a snowman

[raylin-creates]

What Tears of the Kingdom Means for the Timeline

(The timeline I made as reference for my major LU+First Hero fanfiction project, I mean, but a lot of it, most of it, applies to canon as well)

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR TOTK AHEAD

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Surprisingly TotK actuality fits pretty well with the larger Zelda timeline I put together for my Toss Another Stone AU.

I know a lot of fans headcanon Sky as the first king of Hyrule, and I've read some amazing fics where that's the case, but seeing how Skyloft functions and Sky's personality I just couldn't see that happening. So I had Sky and Sun co-founding the surface settlement and the kingdom being established from that settlement generations later and Sky being posthumously named the first king when the monarchy is established.

So Rauru and Sonia being the founders of the kingdom of Hyrule fits extremely well and saves me a lot of work with the half baked backstory I was trying to build for the founding of the kingdom. (It was mostly the names. I am shit at naming things. Luckily Rauru and Sonia have names! Unfortunately the original sages still don't.) Making Sonia be Sky and Sun's descendant makes it fit even better, especially with my headcanon of Hylia being the goddess of time and Sonia's time power.

The game didn't confirm my theory about this being the end of the cycle, but it didn't refute it either and we don't know what effects swallowing a secret stone and having that stone destroyed could have so I'm keeping that the same until a new game refutes it.

My Link OC I've been calling Wraith who I based off of the sealing hand in the trailers we now know is Rauru, can no longer be claimed as canon compliant, which I expected but I'm still reluctant to part with him. Though honestly Wraith's backstory that lead to him becoming a spirit hand is actually very similar to Rauru's so other than the exact timeline placement (Wraith sealed Ganondorf a couple centuries after 10k while Rauru's era is clearly long before 10k since we have no sign of Guardians or Sheikah tech even ignoring the 'founding Hyrule' thing) it doesn't affect events too much, which I'm happy with.

There are two main tangles the backstory of TotK throws into my nicely constructed timeline.

The first, which is less of a tangle and more of a missing detail my brain won't stop chewing on: WHERE IS SONIA AND RAURU'S CHILD?? For Zelda to be their descendant they have to have had at least one kid and we don't get even a hint of their existence. It's easy to see how the developers maybe forgot about this detail with all the *gestures in demon king* you know, and it's easy to imagine they exist outside of the limited scope of the handful of memories we see, but it's something to think about. Also who ruled Hyrule after them? Rauru and Sonia are dead or as good as, and Mineru and Zelda, the only known relatives of them, are ALSO unreachable now. The kingdom must have been a mess after. You ever think of how those poor sages had to deal with the fallout?

The second, bigger tangle:

If this really is the original founding of Hyrule as a kingdom, it would take place before every other game except Skyward Sword, but Rauru seals Ganondorf and Zelda has the sages promise their powers will reawaken when the demon king rises again... but what does this mean for every other time Ganon/Ganondorf rose up as the enemy in another game (which is most of them)?

I can think of two explanations at the moment:

One: This is not the original founding of Hyrule.

It is in fact, a refounding of the kingdom after a time when the kingdom fell and the monarchy dissolved. This is not unheard of in the series, for the kingdom to be defeated or destroyed. In the Adult timeline the kingdom is swallowed by the ocean and destroyed entirely and is refounded later in the timeline. In the Fallen timeline (I haven't played the Adventure of Link yet so lmk if any of this is refuted in that game) There's still technically a princess and a castle at least, but the world is overrun by monsters and the people we see are mostly hiding and fending for themselves. The "kingdom" seems to exist in name only and the monarchy is defunct as a governing entity. Rauru and Sonia could have founded a new kingdom of Hyrule after the Fallen timeline, or during any of the large gaps between games.

Two: Ganondorf had not qualified as the true demon king until now to bring those promises into action.

Anyone who's played Skyward Sword to the end knows of The Bringer of Demise: the literal Demon King that put the entire cursed cycle into motion, and Ganondorf's... predecessor? Creator? Regardless, Demise is certainly responsible for why Ganon just keeps coming back in one form or another. And in TotK, when Ganondorf transforms into the "Demon King Ganondorf", he looks A LOT like how Demise appears in SS. I believe that this Ganondorf is closer to being the demonic god of hatred that started all this than any other prior instance of Ganon. He's more powerful, more obsessed, and had more time to let his hated fester. (So much so that that hated manifested as a writhing semi-sentient mass of malice known as Calamity Ganon, but that's a different topic.) He's become the Demon King on a level prior Ganondorfs simply hadn't achieved.

I think the most likely answer is a combination of both.

I think it makes most sense for Sonia and Rauru's era to be taking place prior to the 10k Calamity but after the three timelines either merge or become synonymous (with botw's and therefore totk's canonical timeline placement being "at the end of all of them"), after an unseen event causes the kingdom to completely collapse and they refound it as a new kingdom and reestablishing the royal lineage of Hylia's blood.

This easily fits within the looseness of the canon timeline and avoids contradictions with having Ganondorf sealed by Rauru while another Ganondorf is running around causing havoc in Ocarina of Time.

I Also think that this Ganondorf DID become a being closer to Demise than a mortal man when he took the secret stone (which,remember, amplifies the power already there, which in this case would be his connection to Demise), his appearance, speech, and powers all reflect that.

TL;DR:

TotK mostly fits well with my headcanon timeline, the main snag being: if Rauru is sealing Ganondorf underground from near the beginning of the canon timeline all the way to the events of TotK, what does that mean for the games that take place between that period where Ganondorf/Ganon appears? I've concluded that Sonia and Rauru are in fact refounding Hyrule in an era after the other games but still long prior to the 10k Calamity, and that the Ganondorf in TotK became something closer to Demise than any other version of himself.

[nicoroni]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom Relationships: Link/Sidon, Link/Zelda Summary:

Sidon is getting married. That can't be right - Sidon hasn't mentioned it. It can't be right - but why would a stranger lie to him? He takes a step back, out of her reach - to her credit, she doesn't comment, simply takes her hand back in a graceful movement, and continues as if Link isn't struggling to breathe. As if he doesn't feel like the ground is crumbling below him, as if his heart hasn't just been ripped out of his chest. -- or, Link finds out Sidon is engaged and he doesn't take it well

Nintendo no homo'd us and it hurt my feelings so I wrote sad fic about it (but don't worry they get a happy ending!)

shout out to @isleofair for being a large chunk of how/why this fic got finished :D

(she is very inspiring and I appreciate her a lot)

(The link is in the first reblog! <3)

[trashyswitch]

Day 13: Sneak Attack

Arin and Dan are doing Game Grumps together, playing Tears of the Kingdom. Arin takes his time building a cool vehicle to show off to Dan, who goes to the bathroom. When will Dan come into the Grumps room again?

*sigh* I need to set reminders on my phone or something. Whatever...Game Grumps is now on my list of YouTubers. I hope you enjoy!

Moved Link around to show off the pile of parts. “Okay. I have Zonaite parts out the wazoo, and I’m going to make the ultimate car.” Arin explained. 

“Hold on, I gotta pee.” Dan said, before getting up. 

“What?! B-but-” Arin whined. 

“Use this time to make your car. I’ll be right back.” Dan told him before walking away from the mic and leaving the room. You could hear the door close in the background while Arin moved Link closer to the collection of crap. 

Arin sighed and started to move Link around the landscape, using the Zonai arm to put pieces together to make a vehicle of some sort. What he was making…no one could be entirely sure. Not even Arin could comprehend what he was coming up with. All he knew was that he was taking Zonaite vehicle parts and crumpling them together into a flying, driving thing with rockets and batteries and…anything else he had in his inventory. He had everything here, he just needed to turn it into something that drives, steers and flies. 

The truth is, Arin kinda just threw some things into the middle and hoped it would turn into something awesome. And while it kinda was, it…also wasn’t at the same time. He added 4 big wheels to the vehicle to make it look like a dollar store monster truck, before adding about 6 fans on top of each other on the back…before adding a pole of wood to the middle to put a Zonaite wing onto it. 

With the zonaite wing placed on top, Link collected planks of wood and put them together to make a larger plank of wood. The way he glued them together, made the plank look glued together off center…almost like a child was playing Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Which…lets face it: Arin is a giant child. 

With that, he set up a ramp on the end of the cliff. His plan was to activate the zonaite vehicle and make it jump the ramp and glide itself down to the ground below. It was risky and a little stupid even for Arin…but god dammit, he was gonna try it. 

Due to having no more room in the vehicle, Arin decided to add a battery to the top of the zonaite wing in an attempt to give him an endless battery. Though he knew this was stupid and it was going to make his vehicle fall as a result of gravity, he needed the battery to make sure it keeps flying and doesn’t fall like the rest of his contraptions have up until this point. He needed this vehicle to last him a bit longer than 10 minutes. 

With that figured out, it would seem that the vehicle was ready. Arin turned the vehicle around and dropped it to the ground to test it out. He summoned a steering stick and added the stick to the front, before hopping onto the car. It looked like a toddler’s rendition of a golf cart…only this ‘golf cart’ was equipped with monster wheels. 

He pulled out a weapon and hit the zonaite fans, causing the zonaite parts to turn on. Soon, the vehicle started moving really fast really quickly. 

“Oh shit oh shit oh shit-” He steered the vehicle around a boulder, nearly scraping the side of the vehicle against the boulder. “Come on.” He straightened out Link’s driving, and attempted to maneuver himself through the forest. But the steering was too slow compared to the speed it was going at. As a result, he kept bumping into trees and rocks, before finally parking the vehicle against a boulder. 

Despite the lack of steering options, the vehicle he had coupled together in 5 minutes, was working surprisingly well. With this test run successful, he decided the vehicle was ready for co-host viewing. 

As much as he wanted to drive his vehicle back to the right area, Arin feared he may end up breaking the vehicle or sending it flying, breaking it in the process. And he didn’t want to break his precious vehicle before Dan got to feast his eyes on it! So, Arin hopped out of the car and grabbed the vehicle with Link’s magical hand ability. Despite it taking longer, Arin made Link carry it all the way back to the plank of wood he had set up earlier before placing it down to the ground. 

While he waited for Dan to come back, Arin added more Zonai batteries, so he didn’t have to worry about the vehicle running out of Zonai energy while he’s up in the air. Cause let’s face it: Dan and the entire audience are well aware of how quick Arin’s plans will fail solely based on the contraptions’ lack of Zonai energy. So filling up on them was very much needed. 

“Bah!” Someone said breathlessly, grabbing his shoulders. 

“FAHCK-?!” Arin jumped, dropping the controller in the process. 

Dan bursted out laughing as he went around the couch, picking up Arin’s controller off the floor and pausing the game. “Did I really get ya?!” Dan asked. 

“Yeah, you-...Wha-” Arin looked at Dan as he sat down, confused as to why he paused the game. But his confusion vanished the moment he felt fingers against his sides and ribs. “HeheHAHAHAHA- WHOHO-” 

“Surprise!” Suzy declared beside him, tickling up and down his sides. 

“SUHUHUZYHY?!” Arin reacted. He felt his arm be pulled back so he was laying back down again. “WHAHA-” 

“What’s so funny, Arin?” Dan asked, trying to tickle his armpits. 

“YOU AHAHASSHOHOHOLE!” Arin yelled. 

“Suzy, do you know why Arin’s laughing?” Dan asked curiously. 

“Sorry, I’m as in the dark as you are.” Suzy replied. 

“IHIHI’M GOHONNA KIHIHIHILL YOHOHOHOU TWOOHOHOHOOO!” Arin yelled at them. 

“Kill us?!” Dan gasped. “Arin!” He looked at Suzy. “Can you believe this guy?!” 

“He wants to kill us! And I am offended!” She reacted, squishing his belly playfully. 

“Do you think the lovelies know why he’s laughing? Maybe they can provide some clues.” Dan asked. 

“By the time we find out from the viewers, Arin will be over his laughing fit.” Suzy replied. 

“FAHAHAHAHAHACK!” Arin shouted, wiggling around helplessly on the couch. 

“Hey editor, do you know why Arin’s laughing?” Dan asked. 

A little commentary from the editor showed up on the screen. 

[No, I have no idea.] 

“Thanks editor.” Dan said next. 

Suzy waved for Dan to stop tickling Arin. “Okay, you stop.” She said. She gave Dan both of Arin’s wrists, and made him grip them. “Grab these.” She told him. 

“Okay. What are you-” 

She gasped. “PPPPFFFFBBBBBFFFBBBFBFBFBBBFFBTTT!” She blew a large raspberry onto her husband’s belly. 

Arin squealed and squeezed his eyes shut. “NAHAHAHAHAHA! SUHUZYHY! YOUBAHAHAHAHA-” 

“Now now, choose your words carefully.” Suzy warned with a smirk. 

Arin’s laughter lessened to giggles somewhat slowly. “Yohou…You…Two suhuhuhuck.” He told them. “Like a vacuum?” Dan asked. “Or like a black hole?” He asked next. 

“Oh! Maybe like a straw!” Suzy exclaimed with excitement. 

“Or a leaf blower put on suction mode!” Dan joked. 

“Okay, okay, I get it!” Arin yelled as he sat up and rolled himself forward again. “For context, Dan and Suzy had pulled a fuckin’ sneaky tickle attack on me. And I vow to get them both back for that eventually.” Arin told the soon-to-be audience. “But for now:” Arin unpaused the game and pointed to the vehicle. “I wanna show you the vehicle.” Arin said. “Suzy, do you wanna see it too?” Arin asked. 

“Sure!” She replied, sitting beside Arin. 

“Show me the goods.” Dan said. 

Arin made Link hit the fans, causing all the Zonai parts to work together at the same time. “Here we GOOO!” Arin shouted. 

“Oh god that’s fast-” Dan reacted, widening his eyes as the Zonai vehicle flew off the ramp and started to fly. 

Suzy threw her fists in the air and clapped her hands. “YES! Go Link!” 

“Wow! Arin, I’m impressed!” Dan reacted, smiling brightly. 

Arin smiled and began to bow in-person. “Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.” He said. “Except for Wednesday, because that’s my ‘eat-taco-bell-and-scream-with-pain-from-explosive-diarrhea’ day.” Arin replied. 

“Arin…” Dan sighed. “Don’t ruin it.” 

“Soar off into the sun, Link!” Suzy declared. 

“And then BURN to a crisp on the surface of the sun.” Dan replied. “And then respawn in the same spot you had started at.” Dan added with a laugh. 

“Shut up, shut up.” Arin told them. “Listen…” 

Dan and Suzy went silent as they listened. The only sounds they could hear was the in-game wind and the Zonai energy usage overtop of the breathtaking soundtrack. It was quite beautiful, actually. Really soothing to the average ear. 

“Okay, you can talk.” Arin said. 

“Well now I don’t want to.” Dan admitted. “I’m just enjoying the ride.” 

“How many batteries did you add?” Suzy asked. 

“6 batteries.” Arin said. “We’ve got energy for days.” He said. 

Dan smiled and patted Arin’s shoulder. “Gotta hand it to you, you made a great vehicle.” Dan said. “What’s its name?” Dan asked.

“Well…I think I’m gonna call it…The Butt Chugger 9000.” Arin giggled. “Or, Butt Chugger for short.” 

Dan bursted out laughing. 

“Wanna know how I came up with it?” Arin asks. 

Dan nodded. “Suhure, tell me.” Dan replied. 

“Well…” Arin looks at Dan with pure confidence on his face…before dropping the facade and whispering. “I…actually didn’t really know what I-” 

Dan laughed again. “Ohohoho my god…” He slowly calmed himself down. “Ihi love it. But I have to know if this puppy can glide.” Dan mentioned. 

“Oh, it can glide alright.” Arin replied proudly. “Show me, Arin.” Dan said, sounding unconvinced. “Show me it can fly.” Dan said. 

“Alright, I will.” Arin made Link hit the Zonai fans, to turn off the Zonai equipment. “See? It’s a beautiful, gliding machi-” “It’s falling, Arin.” Dan said quickly. “It’s falling fahahAHAHAHAST! OHOHO SHIT!” Arin cackled. 

Dan covered his mouth. “FULL SPEED AHEAD!” 

“BUHUTT CHUGGER NO!” Arin yelled through his laughter. 

They screamed and freaked out all the way up until the vehicle bounced against the ground, knocking Link off the vehicle and killing him instantly from both the impact and the ejection. The [GAME OVER] screen showed up as the trio laughed their heads off at the stupid death. 

This was SO worth it. 

[resonantcrimson]

The End of Dreams

A post Tears of the Kingdom story. Contains spoilers for the game, so read at your own discretion!

Features my Zelda polycule, Sidon / Link / Elise (OC). Also contains Sidon / Elise, Link / Sidon, & Link / Elise.

It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better. Literally. This is a pretty dark tale and deals with heavy topics. Tread carefully.

Pay attention to the tags, please. <3

The summary & link (lol) to the fic is under the cut.

“I have one final gift for you, as the Sage of Spirit. She waits for you at Lookout Landing.” Neither Link nor Sidon expected to be granted the right to see the woman they love after everything that's happened. But she's here, she's alive, breathing, right in front of them... except she's not. With soulless, lifeless eyes, a dagger in her hand, she's not the woman they remember. How can they bring her back to them? Or: Elise has been through some major trauma after being brainwashed and killing in the Demon King's name. It's up to Link and Sidon to coax her back to herself, but it won't be without hardship.

You can find this story on Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47807563/chapters/120521782

Comments & feedback are welcome! Flames & needlessly negative comments will be removed and deleted.

Enjoy (or... try to with the dark nature of the story aha).

[verflares]

just how long is forever? // not long enough, with you

pssst. check this out on inprnt :]

[solarwreathe]

let’s not talk about this, ever

[koobiie]

yeah sorry your princess came back wrong :(

[orphetoon]

(roleswap au) stop staring at him with those big ol eyes

[cathianemelian]

Unwavering resolve.

[wreniriis]

Dragon Princess 🐉🗡️

[galacticgoldfishart]

Getting all the sages in TOTK

[proxycrit]

LINKTOBER DAY 17– Zora River

The duo meet a new… friend? She has quite the melancholy air to her. Though maybe it has something to do with moving into Zora’s Domain while it’s actively falling apart.

(This is a totk reimagined au where zelda doesn’t get sent back in time! Crimes are to be had. Check out the master post here:

And if you want to support me and my cats, here’s my patreon!)

[serain]

As above so below

[alaynnah]

Can't believe it worked

[criiitter]

find me in the future.