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LINKTOBER Day 16: Lanayru Wetlands

Rumors have it Zora’s Domain is besieged by caustic rains. As travelers leave Lanayru’s capital in troves, two plucky (or foolish) adventurers swim against the muddy tide in hopes to learn more about the unnatural phenomenon.

Anyways, it’s raining mud? What’s up with that.

(FAMILIAR FAMILIAR AU is a totk what if passion project where zelda does not get sent back in time. Here’s the masterpost!)

And my patreon, if you’d like to slide me some bucks to buy lunch;

[sheikfangirl]

Post-BotW - When Paya met Zelda 😅🤷‍♀️

She's hot for them BOTH! Paya is the ultimate Zelink shipper representation lol.

Cheers!

[zhuletta]

Totk hyperfixation making my brain go brrrr

[zellink]

cocoon

[linktheacehero]

"Let me stay"

Commissioned @aheavenscorner for this wonderful piece! You can read the fic I wrote for it right here!

[glitterbuns]

If they make a Zelda movie where the focus is on the fighting I'm going to be so mad

It could be so visually dreamy and nostalgic, with an emphasis on nature, AND colorful (NO grey medieval aesthetic, thanks)... It could explore how tragic it is that Zelda, Link and Ganondorf are doomed to repeat history over and over again and Zelda and Link must suffer for the greater good of the kingdom. The saga's lore has so many opportunities to explore religious trauma, the greys between good and evil, corruption, power, inequality...

I truly fear they might turn it into a grey pseudo-medieval action movie where the big baddie is bad because yes and there's no depth

[danceofthefirefliesfic]

The incredible room for creativity in TotK basically makes Link a self-taught engineer, and you bet your ass that nerdy scientist Zelda would think that's hot

[mistresslrigtar]

Writer Truth or Dare Ask Game

🎱 ⇢ post your AO3 total stats 

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love

🕯️ ⇢ on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?

🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

🎲 ⇢ what stops you from writing more in your free time? 

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

🍅 ⇢ give yourself some constructive criticism on your own writing

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

🐝 ⇢ tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

Everybody is probably too busy playing EoW (my preorder is delayed 😭😭😭) to respond to this, but here goes!

Tagging: @drsteggy @dubiiousfood @linktheacehero @spices28 @daemosdaen @pelicanpig @summonerluna @jdetan @wouldyoustilllovemeifiwasawyrm @bahbahhh @flutefemme @zeldaelmo @hyylia @louwhose and anyone else who cares to play

[looniez]

thinking about link going back to hateno after the upheaval and as soon as he’s through the door he’s so bothered by the incessant silence without zelda’s rambling and laughter and the table is still set for them for when they got home and there’s traces of her literally everywhere and he just lays in his and zelda’s bed and cries because he feels like he failed her again hahhahaaaa im so normal im so normal im so nor

[zeldaelmo]

Uh, last line tag... Thank you @mistresslrigtar!

Maybe he should give her a not so subtle reminder.

From Inspiration, Illusions, and other Inconveniences, coming to you in August!

I tag @louwhose @aegon-targaryen @jdetan @theangelicstoryteller @nocturnalfandomartist @deiliamedlini @kazraza @michpat6 @sparklyhyperbole @linktheacehero !

[merukins]

I defy anyone, mortals, gods or even darkness itself, to stop me from making my wish reality. But may it help, even a little, I’ll pour my hopes into these falling stars.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

For a writing prompt- skyward sword zelink but like older, middle aged parents

It was a well established fact that Link loved to sleep. However, when Zelda nudged him not-so-gently and told him that not one, but two of their adult children had dropped by to visit, it was a testament to his love for them that he immediately sprang out of bed to see them.

Link and Zelda had long come to terms with the fact that some of their children were fully grown and living their own lives, but it still made their hearts ache to see the empty rooms in their home. Any chance they could get to spend with them (and their grandchildren) was a blessing.

The fact that it was a special day today completely escaped Link's notice. He was just thrilled to see his two eldest, but he grew bemused as all his children arrived, some with their families.

"Dad... it's your birthday, remember?" His firstborn reminded him. "Did you think we wouldn't come for your big fiftieth?"

Link groaned. He didn't need a reminder that he was old.

Zelda came in at that point, laughing and cupping his cheeks with her hands. "Oh, love, it isn't that bad. I've been able to trial it a little for you, and I can guarantee nothing drastically changes."

It certainly felt like something drastic was going to happen. Turning fifty was terrifying. Link had noticed the subtle changes as he'd aged, how he didn't heal as quickly, how he couldn't bounce back from a two hour nap like he used to. Nothing was debilitating, though his old wounds bothered him far more now, but...

"My back hurts," he grumbled just to elicit laughter from his family. It wasn't exactly a lie, anyway.

Dinner was wonderful, but the greatest blessing of all was just to have his family there, together. Link basked in the warmth of it, and he noticed the gentle smile Zelda directed at him as she watched everything unfold. As everyone started to settle around a warm fire in the den, Link slinked into the kitchen where his beloved was cleaning up (one of their daughters had helped with the majority of it, but she’d eventually shooed her out).

“This was your doing, wasn’t it?” He asked quietly.

Zelda remained silent, which was the most telling thing of all. It was rare for his beloved to be quiet in a conversation. Link couldn’t hide the loving smile, the way his head tilted, and Zelda giggled at the sight of it.

“I love you, Dove,” she finally said, pulling him into a hug, hands soaking wet and saturating his shirt as she held him.

Link laughed, nuzzling her forehead with his cheek as he hugged her in return. “I love you too.”

[zellink]

home.

[zelinkdragons]

Here are two pics I commissioned recently, since I wanted to see how Link might look as an immortal dragon 💖 Thank you so much @eethok and @smugcomputer!

This is an AU where Link got his arm back, but Zelda stayed as a dragon at the end. So she wouldn't be alone, Link became a dragon too using Mineru's Secret Stone.

As the Light/Demon Dragons are called the White/Black Dragons in other languages like Japanese, I decided Link should be the Silver Dragon. Maybe his English name could be something like Knight Dragon, because he’s silver like a sword blade, or the Hyrule knight armour he sometimes wore in the past, and due to him mostly flying at the Light Dragon’s side.

I was more involved in brainstorming aspects of the left pic because I only printed one set of refs. Design info under the cut.

Dragon Link AU | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

Dragon Link retains his hair and eye colour like the Light and Demon Dragons do.

Like Farosh he only has one horn, with ‘damage’ resembling the decayed Master Sword.

He has eight eyelashes like the Demon Dragon (the elemental dragons only have six and the Light Dragon has seven), but with some lashes longer to resemble the Sheikah slate symbol. @eethok suggested the eyelashes be blue like Link’s hair tie, and that’s where the Sheikah slate symbol came in. This symbol is also used on the Purah Pad's screen.

He has a canine-like snout to reference Link’s wolf form from Twilight Princess, and the pink patches are vaguely referencing his pink rabbit form from Link to the Past.

His spikes and other accents are green to represent the Triforce of Courage, since the Light Dragon has blue spikes and the Demon Dragon has red ones. Even though this Link wears blue more, he still gotta be green! I tried to choose a shade like the Tunic of the Wild.

His inner eye colour and sclera might change because I haven't fully decided what they should be yet. The Light Dragon's inner eye colour is green and she has purple sclera

I'm not sure if his spine scales would be blue or silver, since the Light Dragon's are gold like her eyelashes, but the Demon Dragon's are black like his scales.

[mmelete]

so I keep seeing fics where Legend and Fable are twins. That’s cool, yk with Legend getting relentlessly teased about being a prince, yada yada.

but even if Legend and Fable AREN’T siblings and are dating each other, Legend can STILL be teased about being a prince. Or, future prince.

Basically, Legend ain’t beating the prince allegations with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[dilfmansion]

once Link finds out that Zelda is still up there, a seemingly permanent fixture in the sky, he visits her often.

during the first few visits he can’t bring himself to do anything more than simply sit with her and cry, tears wetting her mane as Link presses his face into golden locks. he missed her so much, doesn’t honestly know if he will ever get to see her again the way he could before.

gradually, it gets easier. Link visits Zelda more often, brushes fingers through her hair and tells her about his progress towards defeating ganodorf. towards bringing her home. he tells her about their new house, the one he’s building for them in tarrey town. the study he set aside for her, with the nice windows and a big desk. the stable in the back where her horse, Catherine, stays. he promises to feed her lots of apples.

sometimes, when he can gather the courage, link reads to zelda. he brings the scientific journals and textbooks from her workshop, the ones with words he doesn’t understand. he sounds them out to her carefully, tripping over syllables, practicing speech to ensure he doesn’t lose the gift while she’s gone.

she never responds. doesn’t talk back or give so much as a hum. link doesn’t hold it against her. he can still feel her there. the deep rhythm of her breath, the tears that have welled in her eyes and never seem to ebb.

she’s still there. he has to believe she is.