#tears of the kingdom role swap au

[scenicphoenix]

Totk roleswap because of course I am doing that

(might add on to this when I completely finish the game. I have only mentioned stuff i am absolutely certain about currently)

Link and Zelda finding Ganondorf is different, instead of Rarus hand imprisoning him, its fragments of Sonia and her Time magic. Raru was killed instead of Sonia, his Stone stolen by Ganondorf. Sonia using her stone and time magic to seal herself and Ganondorf in a bubble of frozen time.

Link gets sent to the past instead of Zelda, he was the one to end up falling instead. The Sonias Zonai stone ending up on his person during the chaos of the fall. Zelda while trying to catch Link and ends up grabbing the master sword instead, this is the moment Link teleports to the past and Zelda to the Sky islands

Links arm was still infected with gloom and needed to be amputated when he arrived in the past. The Zonai stone he arrived with helped keep the gloom at bay. Raru takes him under his wing due to his remarkable abilities in serving the light, and to help with the gloom infecting him. Sonia is impressed by his abilities in time magic as well, his flurry rush has a unique use of time magic.

Link doesn't immediately connect the dots of Ganondorf being the corpse that attacked him and Zelda. He does know he absolutely doesn't trust him. Ganondorf doesn't like Link either, mutual hatred for the other.

Before officially meeting Ganondorf, where he tries to brute force his way into taking over Hyrule, the battle goes differently. Instead of a beam of pure magic that nukes the Moldugas, due to not having Zelda around, with Links Zonai stone combined with a boost from Raru and Sonai. Link is able to destroy the Moldugas one by one at a fast pace, a super powered version of his flurry rush. This battle was much more close and Link was a last resort that Sonia suggested last second as a desperate measure. Her hope of powering up his flurry rush worked, she just wished she didn't have to put him in such harms way, however.

Raru is dead, the sages have fallen, Ganondorf is sealed away thanks to Sonia but that's only temporary. Link is at the temple of time, a tale as old as time, he's hoping for an answer, he gets one. Through the sands of time he and Zelda unknowingly briefly connect, Zelda sending not only the master sword but a large portion of her powers of light to him. He briefly remembers that the master sword can heal any damage done to it over time if the holy power is strong enough. He remembers what he was told about Zonai stones and the sacred dragons.

Link turns into a sacred dragon so he can heal the master sword and arrive in the future. Although he isn't a dragon of light like Zelda would have been. He's the dragon of time. A large green dragon that can be seen entering and exiting portals from different eras of time ever since his ascension into the dragon of time. Is the one you're approaching the correct version of him? Will it be the one where the sword is healed or still healing? His golden mane seems to be made of sand. His tears leave behind Sundilions instead of silent princesses. He has one less legs than the other dragons. Zelda feels safer around this dragon and he wonders why. She figures out why when he finds all the dragons tears.

Zelda wakes up at the sky islands, and is led by Sonia. Much like how Link was led by Raru. With Zelda being the mortal goddess and not infected by gloom, he is not restricted by the door of the temple of time like link would have been. Giving the sword and a portion of her powers to link through a hole in time. Now being weaker due to him sacrificing most of his powers to heal the master sword, Sonia guides her to shrines on the islands to help rebuild her strength.

Due to Zelda being distantly related to Sonia and his status as mortal goddess even if she has been weakened, she is able to open the shrines and use anything with the Zonai symbols on them. His reason for going to shrines is to strengthen her powers over light again after giving most of it to Link through time for the purpose of healing the master sword.

I don't think Zelda would fight with a sword or similar weapons. I think he would like bows and magic based weapons and attacks. Distance is her friend, although I doubt you want to be hit full force at close range by his powers even when she's weakened. He's a force to be reckoned with. He's the descendant of a goddess for Pete's sake.

Zelda would love exploring the skies and the depths.

The dragons of times portal ls only work for him. Although you can look through them and see the different eras he's traveling from or to. There are three noticeably different dragons of time, all based on how much the master sword has healed. The first one where he's basically just turned into a dragon and the sword is still heavily damaged. The second one where he's right in the middle of the past and present, the master sword is noticeably still damaged but on its way to being healed. And the third one where it's the most recent version of himself, the master sword is completely healed. But all three can travel through time, and you won't know which version of him it is until you check the master sword. If you try and pull one of the still damaged swords you will be flung into the nearby skies. A good way to get to higher sky islands.

I wouldn't be surprised if Zelda disquises herself, feeling like he can't completely be there for her kingdom without Link. Plus i think Ganon and the Yiga would be more aggressive at hunting him down. Zelda's also never got to try out fully being a him before being a princess and all. Sheik time. I like gender fluid Zelda. Why not both gender? Also Sheik gets to be included, everybody loves Sheik

Some things I haven't added because I would need time to figure it out and write it down. Like Links growing relationships with Raru and Sonai, Mineru, how the final battle goes before and when Sonai seals Ganon, ect. The more dialog heavy story bits mostly.

[loan0u]

Roleswap

[3vilbard]

he’s so pretty O///O

[sokkas-first-fangirl]

“What can I do?” Zelda asked, running a shaking hand through her tangled hair. It was still damp from her great dive from the island above. “If even you and your friends could not stop him for good…King Rauru, my magic has been greatly weakened, the Master Sword is shattered and you say Link is still ill from the gloom.” 

She thought of the painted chamber, the gigantic murals, full of bold colours and gems. She remembered the titanic form of the Demon King and his army of monsters (and people! People had sided with him!) sweeping across Hyrule, the mural coloured with so much red. He’d been grinning. He’d looked excited, like it was all tremendous fun. And the mural of Rauru and his team…The Sage of Light, the Sage of Spirit, the Sage of Wind, the Sage of Lightning, the Sage of Fire, the Sage of Water, the Sage of Time. A whole team had not been enough to kill the Demon King. Rauru had to seal him. The seal was broken. What could she do? 

“You have the Triforce of Wisdom,” Rauru said. “As well as Hylia’s Golden Power. I have been informed the Master Sword can heal itself? That was what my dear Sonia told me, when she first told me tales of the sword. When I asked Link he confirmed it. Do you have a team of your own?” He asked the question as if he already knew the answer. Perhaps he did. 

The Big Bad Bazz Brigade. Kaneli once called them The Champions Reborn. Mayor Reede called them all living legends. 

Link, Sidon, Bazz, Rivan, Yuki. Fi. Yona, Gaddison, Kayden, Kodah, Torefeau. Dorephan and Muzu. Impa, Paya, Purah, Robbie, Josha, Jerrin, Granté. Dorian and Cado. Riju, Buliara, Barta, Vilia. Hudson, Bolson, Karson, Rhondson. Teba, Saki, Harth, Kaneli, Tulin, Molli. Yunobo, Bludo. Beedle. Cece, Sophie. The Deku Tree, Hestu, Ivy and Skull Kid. 

They were not all warriors. Tulin and Molli were not even teenagers yet. But they were family. They were all dear, brave, amazing friends. 

Yes, Zelda had quite the team indeed.

*

Joined by Rauru, her ghostly ancestor, Zelda explores the Great Sky Island and visits its shrines. Gifted mysterious Lights of Blessing and Zonai abilities, her magic grows for the first time in years. Finally, she can enter the Temple of Time.

Unfortunately, the temple leaves her with more questions and fears. The chief among them: where, exactly, is Link?

[keywiitree]

Frostbite set!! I think this is probably one of my favorite outfits<33 I’m gonna do the ember set next>:)

[science-lings]

another totk role swap au but this time it's Rauru who has the time powers and gets fridged and Sonia who has the light powers (bc she descended from Hylia and sksw Zelink) who seals Ganondorf away and guides Link on the great sky islands and gets to be a boss ass bitch

[crowwitch]

Illustration // CSP+PS // XP-Pen Artist 12

TOTK Roleswap AU.

[mostlybuddingthoughts]

Biiiig TOTK spoilers ahead folks. Don't read unless you've finished the game.

I don't know if something like this has been posted yet (it probably has), but there's actually a huge role reversal going on in Tears of the Kingdom that I find absolutely fascinating, especially given all the role reversal fics we've seen come out of Breath of the Wild.

In BOTW, Link was locked in a box for 100 years because he needed to recover, then spent his days wandering as an amnesiac as he gradually recovered his memories. As he did, Zelda was holding Ganon off until he could break the tie between them. Zelda lands the final blow.

In TOTK, Zelda spends a few thousand years (badass queen) stuck as a mindless beast without any memories to recover the Master Sword. She, Rauru, and the other Sages were not able to defeat Ganondorf, only hold him off and then imprison him until Link could land the final blow.

At the end, they finally greet each other on a field, the more lucid one being able to check up on the one who has recently had their magically-induced memory crisis.

I just find it really interesting how the game, despite being fairly narratively light, can fit such a clever reversal into it so subtly.

[goblinotw]

First post original post here, have TOTK AU brainrot

[flutefemme]

"The Minstrel and the Prince"

A Zelink Week Fanfiction for @zelinkcommunity

“What if this was the real me?” He began to move their dancing closer to the edge of the large open area. “Would it make you happier?” He spun her out, stretching their arms taught, fingers clinging to the others so as not to separate, and then whirled her back in, spinning, until she was coiled up inside his arms, her face so close he could feel her breath on his lips. She let out a keening sort of sigh as her chest hit his, and a switch flipped in his mind. His eyes grew wide, and he walked them backward until his back hit a tree, and he stopped with a grunt.

“I–I was happy with who you were when I met you,” her eyes searched his. “This side of you is not unwelcome, and I rather cherished you for who you were before,” she confessed, still a breath away from his lips.

 

The fic is now complete and available on Ao3! I had so much fun writing this!

Start from the beginning here!

[klaraclara17]

Zelda and Link roleswitch au. She looks gorgeous with Link's hairstyle 🥺

[choilproductions]

Role swap

[multifr0g]

Have you seen this!?!? @clowns0up-felix

he ate the fruit gummy :(

roleswap totk comic commission. eat the fruit gummy

[sokkas-first-fangirl]

“Can I ask where you got this?” Rauru asked him, holding out the sacred stone. Link took it hesitantly and she saw a flash of him picking it up off the ground after it rolled across the floor to him. That dark floor, that dark room…A throne room? The old Dweller’s palace? She didn’t get a good look- and in any case, with all that smoke, it clouded Link’s view, never mind her view of what Link saw. 

Link turned paler. He nearly dropped the stone and jerked away.

“Link, dear,” Sonia said, reaching for his hand again, trying to anchor him. “I…I know this sounds impossible, but-”

I’m not where I’m supposed to be, Link interrupted, his voice shaking slightly.

No, I really don’t think you are, dear, Sonia agreed.

*

When Queen Sonia and King Rauru take a walk on the Great Plateau, the last thing they expect to find is a badly injured young man, appearing in a flash of light.

A young man in possession of the Triforce of Courage, no less.

When Link wakes up, he's surrounded by the impossible: a totally changed landscape, a Zonai, an unfamiliar Queen. No Zelda. No Fi. The insane truth soon dawns: he's been thrown back to the age of legends, to Hyrule's founding.

[starrieisdelusional]

Morgana-Arthur Role swap au

foaming at the mouth at evil arthur because of that one fanart sebehdndbgs obsessed:

morgana and arthur swap roles. Morgana ruled as queen with gwen at her side to honor uther’s legacy and arthur doing absolutely everything to tear the kingdom apart.

arthur went rogue for all the hypocrisy and lies of uther reign. He was furious about his mother, the final straw when his father drives a sword into his lover’s heart.

Morgana keeping everything in order so the kingdom wont fall apart in the lost of their two kings. because this will be the kingdom that brings the golden age.

arthur despises it. Every single person who spouts about destiny and prophecies. a child cruelly treated just because he’s the one who’ll bring arthur’s end. His heart ache. He made an oath to bring ruin to camelot with excalibur on his side.

**more ramblings