#twilight-linkess

[uncleskyrule]

Words: 1,387 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms Rating: G Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hyrule & Legend & Wild, Legend & Wild  Characters: Wild, Legend, Hyrule Additional Tags: POV Wild, Legend-centric, Wild is a Little Shit, Banter, Humor, Brotherly Bonding, Slice of Life, Caves, Spelunking, Ikaishere's DTIYS Challenge, Linktober, Linktober 2023, LU Linktober, Linked Universe Discord Server's LUtober Prompt Challenge Series: Part 8 of nine heroes, one spirit, Part 35 of Linktober Summary: “If you’re looking for a torch, you’re not gonna need it,” Wild said.

Legend gestured to the void-like darkness ahead of them. “Contrary to popular belief, I don’t have night vision.”

Wild grinned. “You will soon.”

Linktober 2023 Day 28: Light/Sparkle/Bright & LUtober 2023 Day 11: Glowing

Welcome to my contribution to @ikaishere's DTIYS challenge! I didn't actually plan on doing something since I can't draw that well, but as soon as I saw @twilight-linkess's art of Legend, Wild, and Hyrule admiring a brightbloom, I was hit with inspiration and here we are.

[minty-mumbles]

Hello, I recently read through your Here There Be Monsters au and I enjoyed it a lot! Care to share anything else about it? Like the supernatural characteristics of the boys that haven't been described yet? Or how any of Links met each other?

I think you have a unique take on some of these 'monsters' and your writing is tons of fun! I hope to see more of it

!!! Hello! I got around to making the lore posts for Twilight and werewolves just for you 🥰

I haven't really expanded on Four in this AU, so I'll give you a break down on them :) For a while, I was pretty stumped on what to do with them. At first I was going to make them a shadow creature, like Shadow, but I changed my mind and made them a minish. They're just a little guy.

Minish who live inside cities or towns usually live inside the walls of hylian's homes. If all goes well, the hylians will never know they're there. They discreetly borrow anything they need, and in return they do little things to be helpful, like maybe cleaning up crumbs from the counters, or darn up a hole in a sock. Just little things that won't be noticed. Minish are a very secretive people. Even if the home they live in is occupied by a magical creature, they won't give any sign that they're there.

Minish are able to take on a more hylian-like form, although they're always remarkably short in said form. Most don't spend a lot of time as a hylian.

Four's family has been living in the wall of Time's mansion for several generations. Time knew the family was there, but he didn't want to scare them away, so he pretended he didn't know. It eventually became just Four and their grandpa living there, after Four's parents passed.

Four's grandpa got very sick for a couple of months, so Four had to go out themselves to collect food and things the two needed. They were still pretty young and inexperienced at the time, so they got "caught" by Time, who just helped them get the stuff they needed and let them go.

After that, Four started to show themselves to Time on purpose. Their grandpa didn't like that, but there wasn't really anything he could do. He was still too sick for the two of them to find a different place to stay. By the time Four's grandpa got better, it was clear that Time was fine with them living there.

He even gave Four a regular sized room for them to stay in if they wanted to. Four doesn't use it very much, and mostly keeps trinkets and their latest projects stashed away there. Since he's started hanging out around Time more often, Four's become very interested in metal smithing. Four's family already had a business in making weapons for other minish. Now Four has access to a forge, (after they asked Time very nicely, the god installed one on his property,) and they're is fascinated by hylian weaponry.

[twilight-linkess]

Teamwork makes the dream work

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Febuwhump Day 11 - Time Loop

Based on this art and idea from @twilight-linkess! Your art is always so great, I haven't had a chance to reblog it much lately but by heaven I will!

This new era was strange. Not because anything in particular really stuck out, but because it felt eerily familiar while also quite foreign. Both Time and Twilight observed similarities, the former sensing fairy magic as if he were in the Lost Woods while the latter recognized some architecture. Neither could pinpoint enough to really definitively say it was their era, and a nearby village had no recollection of anyone named Link.

So they were between heroes, then.

Despite this knowledge, Twilight felt... uneasy, for lack of a better word. He found himself looking over his shoulder often. Time hovered close to him, worry coating his features and setting his shoulders stiffly. It was still too close to Twilight's injury, and his elder was clearly letting his misgivings about the place channel into worry over his descendant.

As for Twilight... well. He'd been having disturbing dreams and visions lately. He swore it was just because he wasn't really sleeping well, because this place made him feel off. But some days, when he was laughing with Time, the way his armo glinted would dull, like it was rusting over before his very eyes. Or, worse, his armor would shine too bright, reflecting a red eye glowing in a skull that wasn't--couldn't be there.

By the time a week had passed, Twilight was ready to lose his mind. Every time he looked at his elder he had to do a double take to make sure he was real. Every time he saw the man's reflection it looked ghostly.

It's fine, he tried to reassure himself. You're just sleep deprived. It's not like he's going to vanish into thin air. He's fine.

But every night he shivered, no matter how many blankets he wrapped himself in. Every night he saw bony fingers reach out to him. Every night Time lay dead on the ground.

When he finally found he'd had enough, he patrolled the woods in his wolf form. A golden light caught his attention, heartbreakingly familiar but impossibly so. He followed it with haste, heart racing, but no matter how fast he ran, it always moved faster.

High, high above the Hero of Twilight, the Hero's Shade watched, sadness hanging over him. He ached to see his pup and talk to him, to almost have a conversation where both would have equal knowledge of the other for once, but... no. He couldn't interfere with the timeline any more than he already had.

Go on, little pup, he bade with all the love his aching heart could muster. Stay safe with your brothers.

[rrainydaydreams]

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The old one was long (and it bugged me a bit sorry) so I hope you don't mind me making a new one here! ^u^

I was tagged by @p0patochisps so thank you!!

Tagging @slumberland-dreams @fonkdonkisreallycool @twilight-linkess @chaosfantasmic @kommandantpinks @snailtaco @pricklythepear @needfantasticstories @shadownightstar @flufallo and also some of my other mutuals. <3 You guys are all wonderful and I love seeing you pop up on my dash!

[raycatz]

WIP ask game, artist edition! (writing welcome too)

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

It's been really fun reading about what everyone's working on! Let's get the artists involved, too! I want to see everyone's aaa.fileextention and aaaa.fileextention pieces hehe.

I have so many LU comic ideas! For most of them I have the dialogue, visuals, and acting written out. Some have art! Everything from initial concepts to multi-chapter fic.

Here's the .csp wips I have atm! Some of them are tied to comic ideas and some are stand alone.

shunk

haha tanlines

apple tree

chores

wind_maya_19_simpleRig_pose.mb

smack_audio_shorter

theblorbos

pixels2

om nom

nehneh

sleeps

full sprint

headache

ico

uuuuuhhhhh

mftrainsbro

huhwha & hhhwa

beetleeeee

Non LU writing & art wips

lizard

whee

wobbles

corn

sleepy ocs

Moe the Moblin (the idea lives on the LU ideas google doc but it's gen loz. could be LU if you wanted it to be, though! Open to interpretation.)

SSBU Links - Chateau Romani

SSBU Links - Get Out Of The Water!

Mina's Linkverse - Goat Plushie

Team Ico AU

Major & Minor Beats & Shot Types: Dragon Tower

While tagging as many people as I have wips might be possible, maybe, it would definitely be excessive! I'm tagging: @zolanort, @liccy, @luwyv, @mizaruwu, @theegh0st,

@bluevaractyl, @grenapple0547, @starrysorry, @twilight-linkess, @genderfluid-puddle-of-soup,

@awkwardpossum0, @ghostlykidplaidbanana, @jellydragons, @off-mozzarella, @kikker-oma (Oma, do you have any projects outside of Fan Joy July you want to share? :D ) and anyone who wants to play!

(also feel free to ignore the @. This is for fun and only if you want to!)

[anicomicqueen]

Zelda Theory: Fi the Fairy Queen

Okay, so this post by @twilight-linkess inspired me to move forward with a theory I had. This got way too long. Ye who travel onward beware. Here there be theories.

The gist of my theory is that Fi is a fully matured Fairy Queen and that Fairy Queen is a specific species of fairy. I also think Fi and all fairies (Fairy Queens, Great Fairies, Fairies, etc.) are  raised to help heroes with their magic.  With Fi, I think she excelled as a fairy which ended with her earning the title of “Sword Spirit.” And maybe was specially chosen for her particular set of skills to be the Fairy that would inhabit the Master Sword for thousands of years.

If this is of interest to you, I have some more to say...A lot more to say. 

So first things first.

Here is a Fairy Queen from The Wind Waker:

And here is an image of Fi from Skyward Sword:

These two look so so so so similar. Everything from base color palette to hair and nearly unreadable facial expression, with solid color eyes. The biggest difference being that the Fairy Queen from Wind Waker looks like a child but is apparently “much older,” according to the ZeldaWiki.

But if Fairy Queens were a specific subspecies of fairies, they could potentially have a lifespan of tens of thousands of years, meaning even if she is “old” by Hylian standards or Zora standards, or what have you, she could theoretically still be a child by Fairy standards.

The Fairy Queen and Fi also have similar powers.

The Fairy Queen in Wind Waker has weapon based abilities. I have yet to play WW, but according to the wiki, her specific ability is she imbues arrows with ice or fire powers.

Maybe each type of fairy has their special magic category. Fairy Queens are weapon/item related. Great Fairies are health or armor related, depending on the refinement of their ability. Regular Fairies are healing powers only. Etc.

And going off that, maybe at a young age, Fairy Queens would still have elemental or weapon-based magic, but would only be able to supply a smaller bit of magic to weapons and items such as adding elemental attacks.

Then as Fairy Queens age, they refine their subset of powers and undergo some form of coming of age ceremony where they are finally able to adopt a weapon form or are able to more powerfully perform elemental attacks. Like I dunno, harnessing the wind perhaps? Which takes us to the Gale Boomerang.

First, take a look at some details on the Gale Boomerang:

And some details on the Master Sword:

And some details on Fi’s body:

These inlaid gems are notably missing from the child-like Fairy Queen from Wind Waker, supporting the theory that she has yet to undergo her coming of age to become an item or weapon meant to aid the hero.

Fi on the other hand would have already undergone her coming of age, and based on her very terrible social skills and obsession with percentages, she was probably a prodigy even among Fairy Queens, resulting in her being specially chosen by Hylia to be a Sword Spirit. Tasked with assisting Hylia in creating one of the most powerful type of weapons heroes will use: A blade that seals darkness.

In Fi’s case, she was to become the Goddess Sword/Master Sword. But maybe the Four Sword, Lokomo Sword, Phantom Hourglass Sword, Great Fairy Sword, and Fierce Diety Sword are also Sword Spirit weapons crafted by a god and a Fairy Queen.

Anywho, that was a bit of a tangent, so what about the Fairy of Winds? What do they have to do with this again?

Well, Fi is a spirit that inhabits the Master Sword, which can talk to Link (and Zelda).

And the Gale Boomerang is another weapon with a spirit that can also talk to Link (and probably Zelda).

If both of these items are weapons with spirits bound to help the hero and they can both talk to the hero who wields them, (given that they still have enough strength and energy to do so), isn’t it possible that the Fairy of Winds and Fi are the same type of being? In this case, Fairy Queens?

If so, the Fairy of Winds may have at one point been able to manifest a physical body like Fi’s does in Skyward Sword after they inhabited the Gale Boomerang. Which I think is a pretty neat idea.

And I like to think that if the Fairy of Winds were able to manifest, she would have similar diamonds on her chest and head, she would probably be dressed slightly different, and she would probably have different base colors.

And—

Wait...

There is another weapon that can do all these things as well now that I think about it.

I’ll be right back.

Okay.

Look ye upon Ghirahim:

Did you notice he also has those diamonds? And the hair? And the eyes? And he can turn into a weapon? And he can talk to the hero as well as the person who wields him?

Because he can!

Which means...

That’s right! 

Ghirahim would ALSO have to be a Fairy Queen. Or a Fairy King, perhaps? 

Ahhh! 

((Okay, future Ani here. This all starts to devolve into pure insanity and  headcanon from here on so like, if you’re anybody is still around and still reading, feel free to stop reading now. Or carry on. Thanks for reading this far. 😅 ))

Okay hear me out. But like, what if Fairy Queens/Kings are all inherently good from the beginning? Because their purpose is to help heroes. That would mean there is a chance that Ghirahim was at one point good. Possibly really good at performing Fairy Queen/King magic even. Maybe even a contender for being chosen as the spirit for the Master Sword. Maybe he resented the fact that Fi was chosen over him and Demise saw the opportunity to act, corrupting Ghirahim forever.

Or maybe Ghirahim was the first Sword Spirit, but was eventually forgotten after Fi came into being centuries later. The new and improved Ghirahim. And then Ghirahim and Demise both fell to the darkness of envy, corrupting both of them forever as Fi and Hylia took center stage among the gods.

Man, I have many new headcanons about an entire race of Fairy Queens and Kings that I need to make more notes about now. 

All I can think is that they train for millennia to hone their skills as children, then as they get older they must undergo their own trials, just as Link must in the various games. This is turning into an anime in my head now...I have a problem. 

But seriously! 

Maybe the better they perform in their trials, the more glorious the weapon they turn into. 

So for the Fairy of Winds, they weren’t the top of their class like Fi or Ghirahim who earned the Sword Spirit title, rather they earned the opportunity to be a magic item that would forever be passed down among heroes to aid them in their quest. Maybe they couldn’t be a Sword Spirit because their elemental magic was too good to be anything but an item tied to their area of expertise. 

And like, what if as the years go by, the magic drains the fairy of their vitality?

Everything gets more difficult with age. 

Even for fairies. 

That’s why the Gale Boomerang speaks only once to Link in TP. She is old and tired, but still willing to help, even if this is the last of her magic. 

The same problem can be seen with Fi in BOTW. It’s why Fi can no longer manifest a physical body and can rarely speak anymore. 10,000 years was a long time, even my Fairy Queen standards. She finds herself resting more frequently and for longer intervals, but she has a duty. What if she feels like Link falling was her fault in her old age? (I’ve seen fics on this and they have been great, btw.)

Maybe in the next game, Link will have to put Fi to rest and transfer a new Fairy soul into the Master Sword. Or maybe another sword will need to be forged with a new Sword Spirit. 

Ya know....just some thoughts I’ve had. Definitely revamped after that comic. 

I’m hyped. 

Thanks for reading!

[osierrasoulo]

Alright, here is the next loftwing Shep for the lovely @twilight-linkess

I have had a lot of fun doing these! Hope you like it.

[sraksha]

Thanks @twilight-linkess for the tag!

WIP ask game, artist edition! (writing welcome too)

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

bunny hood

campfire

chaos

cheer legend

legend

mask + wars

midlink

private oasis

twi + sky

twi + wild comfort

wind + hyrule

wind + wars

beautiful liar

flu

give that wolf (a banana)

leg + ravi + fluffle

lord fluffle puff the first

lu doodles 2

lu doodles 3

lu doodles 4

lu doodles 6

lu doodles 7

meet the blupee

mer!four

pillar race

winx club 2

waltz vs macarena

I think that's all my LU wips?? I don't actually have a wip folder, and i have multiple sketches and finished drawings on the same canvas, so i might have missed some lol

My problem with tag games is that i have absolutely no idea who to tag, sooooo... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[twilight-linkess]

I finished @somer-writes fic Burial Rites yesterday. Out of the many wonderful things about this fic, the one that delighted me the most was Sky and Twi's relationship. Here is my artistic interpretation.

[twilight-linkess]

Was scrolling through old files and came across one of the first pieces of LU fanart I ever made, before I even had this blog I think. In some ways I've improved a lot. In others ways, not so much.

May Warriors continue to make fun of Twilight for being part canine long into the future.

[twilight-linkess]

Epona I love you

[twilight-linkess]

Taking in the forest

This was originally meant to be a quick sketch with no background, but things quickly got out of hand. I'm happy with how it turned out, though.

[twilight-linkess]

Wild is me.

Every time I remember there are enemies called stalchildren I can't help but think this.

Also, it turns out that stalchildren are taller than I remember them being, but I only realized that after I was finished. They would definitely just stab Warriors in the face.

[twilight-linkess]

Twilight has never been on the ocean before. He's having a good time.

And one without speech bubbles just because

[twilight-linkess]

What's Four trying to do? Start an avalanche? (They both would have been fine)