All the heroes, princesses and important characters are portraited as having straight to wavy hair, but that's kinda boring >:)

Hair headcanons before I sleep! 1 is straight, 2 is wavy, 3 is curly and 4 is coily!

Sky: 3A! Mostly because mine is 3A too XD

Four: 1B! Straight but still a bit voluminous

Time: 1C!

Twilight: 1C!

Warriors: 2A!

Wild: 2A!

Wind: 3C!

Tracks/Engie: 3A!

Legend: 1B!

Hyrule: 3C!

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Sun: 2B!

Dot: 2B before MC, but 1A after being turned to stone

Lullaby: 2B!

Dusk: 3B!

Artemis/Athena: 2C but straightens it and appears 1C

Flora: 2C!

Tetra: 4A!

Angel: 3C before ST, 2C after being turned to a ghost

Fable: 1C!

Dawn: 2C!

Aurora: 3A!

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Malon: 3A!

Ravio: 4B!

Linkle: 2A!

Marin: 3C!

Groose: 1B!

Hello people! As you might have read from my last post, I'm making a video game for university with a group of other students. We don't have to just make a game, but also make a research on what people would like to get in a new game, and opinions in general.

I made a form with some questions, it's anonymous and the only personal information we ask are age group, gender and spoken languages. I don't know how many people I will reach with this post, but it's really important, so please forgive me for adding many tags.

The form is in Italian, but I tried to translate it in English and other languages with Chrome and Edge, and they work quite well. Firefox instead makes some funny mistakes, but it's still readable. Of course, as this is a university form, I must ask you to not be a troll, thank u!

For linkeduniverse people, yes this is the same form I posted int he server there's no need to answer again!

The game we have in mind is an action-adventure (like Zelda) with some platformer elements: some boss fights look like those from Kirby or Smash Bros, and some are side scrolling fast sequences, like Sonic. You'll learn more about the idea in the form!

Thanks so much to anyone who fills it!

Hello and sorry for being late again. Here's round 12, we have 5 games left! I've been busy with uni stuff :"D Skyward Sword lost to botw and Majora, I could see how this was going since round 10, but honestly I'm really sad it went like this. SkSw is my favorite after all, followed by Majora, and I think Majora or botw are going to lose this round :( There's still wind waker I'd like to yeet, I played the gc version and left out of boredom tbh.

A little off topic: I and a group of friends are making a video game for an exam! It isn't related to Zelda but it's an action-adventure. I'd love to get some feedback on the idea, and I made a survey. It's anonymous so you won't be tracked in any way! I mostly need people from 12 to 18 years old but really anyone is fine. When we have a demo, we'll most likely share it to get more feedback. I'd be really glad if you take a moment to take the survey! Thanks in advance :D

So, about SkSw! I really feel like people need to play it, and with motion controls if they can (mostly because I played it on the wii). With the motion controls I felt like I was really in control of Link's actions, movements, and story, it felt way more "real" and personal than any other game. The music is the best imo, you can really hear the orchestra! Also Zelda isn't a princess but a knight academy student, she can fight! And we have character development with Groose and an unlikely enemy that's Ghirahim. Yes you go to the same area more times but each time it's a different zone. In OoT you visit each area 2 times, and nothing has changed in appearance. Also SkSw is one of the few games in which Zelink can be considered "canon", the others being Spirit Tracks, TotK, Hyrule Warriors.

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

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Rankings under the cut!

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity

Phantom Hourglass

Link's awakening/LANS

Spirit Tracks

Tears of the Kingdom

A link to the Past

A link between worlds

The Minish Cap

Skyward Sword

Hello and sorry again for being late! Here's round 11, with only 6 games left! We can say these are for sure the best Zelda games, they're all almost equally good and the choice depends on personal likings, for example Wind Waker vs Twilight princess for colors and art style! Or Breath of the Wild vs Skyward Sword for fighting style and story! Though Ghirahim is the best villain ever. Fight me.

As for Minish Cap, I'm so glad it reached this poit. I loved it. As I said, maybe not as much as albw but the art style is really gorgeous! And we have one of the few games in which Link and Zelda are childhood friends and close! It gets better in the italian translation because they're not only friends but also related, Smith there is both the uncle of Link and Zelda! Of course worldwide Smith is known as Link's grandpa so maybe he's Zelda's great-uncle!

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

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Rankings under the cut!

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity

Phantom Hourglass

Link's awakening/LANS

Spirit Tracks

Tears of the Kingdom

A link to the Past

A link between worlds

The Minish Cap

Hey people! Do you perhaps know LU fics with any of these features? I've already read something but I'd like to know your favorites!

- Legend and Fable as siblings (or better twins?)

- Time and Twilight are actually father and son, bonus if there's Malon too for family moments

- Sky isn't always sleeping and the slowest, but the best at fighting (the most agile? motion controls?) and he sleeps at unlikely times because of insomnia or other reasons

- Linkle is Warriors's (little) sister

- Twilight and Dusk interact

- Hyrule is a trans man

- Legend acts strange around Four for a reason :)

There's something funny with Sky.

I think he fully understands the hard work behind the creation of every object, because he carves wood. In his era almost everything must be handmade and unique, so are his creations, the chandelier at Lumpy Pumpkin, the vases in the academy... He would try to be as careful as possible with all these creations, If someone ever destroyed one of his statuettes for fun he would go mad!

But he's also a Link, and the first moreover... so he also loves to destroy things! His mind is constantly fighting between "let's preserve this work of art" and "DESTROY!!!" and sometimes the latter wins and here's Sky destroying the chandelier, the vases, or the statuettes with (even minor) mistakes. Of course this doesn't apply to the monsters' stuff, with these Sky is directly in "destroy" mode. The others, aside from Legend, aren't as artsy as him so they're constantly in destroy mode >:)

Also he's the calmest and most forgiving of the group but he's also the best at fighting and the scariest while furious. He's either calm and quiet or totally furious and loud and there's no in between.

Again, a game lost to another for one single vote! 30 people voted for A link between worlds and 29 people voted for the minish cap!

We can say Minish Cap wins the "best 2d Zelda game" award!

I love both these 2 games. I have to say I didn't vote for neither of them! Actually, albw is in my top 3! In albw, I love the 2 words, and the main mechanic is cool and interesting, I'd say innovative! I also really like Ravio, how he saved Link at the beginning (and I believe Ravio saves him every time too, Sheerow takes his tools and Ravio brings him back to the dungeon entrance or to his house, and heals him enough to continue!). I like to think Ravio has another bracelet and he and Link can meet again through the sacred realm or a single passage they left open (maybe behind Link's home?).

Anyway I really loved it and wish it ranked higher, but I gotta remove it from this round! Congrats to minish cap for winning over albw for one vote! Funny how alttp and albw are next to each other.

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

<< Previous round

Rankings under the cut!

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity

Phantom Hourglass

Link's awakening/LANS

Spirit Tracks

Tears of the Kingdom

A link to the Past

A link between worlds

People. 50.6% of 87 votes are exactly 44 votes. And 49.4% is 43 votes. Tears of the Kingdom lost to Alttp for ONE VOTE

Anyway, I decided to yeet both off the poll! Let the 9th round begin! There are 8 games left, and these are really the best. I still have one game I want to vote but then the choice will be harder!

As I've written many things about totk but I don't want to give unwanted spoilers, this time the rankings are here and my opinions on the games are under the cut!

<< Previous round

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity

Phantom Hourglass

Link's awakening/LANS

Spirit Tracks

Tears of the Kingdom

A link to the Past

Soo! TotK and AlttP. I played AlttP shortly after BotW on nso, when TotK still wasn't out. I liked it a lot at first, but I have to say I didn't complete it. It was technologically advanced for that time for sure, but I don't think it aged well. The dungeons didn't leave me anything valuable to remember, like other games did, the items weren't equipped easily and the story was too simple and banal.

As for TotK. Oh TotK. I got to play botw another bit before returning it (I had borrowed it from a friend), after quitting alttp. And I still liked it! Then I bought TotK and at the beginning I was extremely surprised, it looked so great. I thought Rauru was the same first sage from OoT and he had a "goat disguise" to not be recognized, like his owl form. Of course I was wrong and then I was so disappointed, i left it almost one year ago and don't have any urge to play it again, I probably will though and give it another chance because something was really good like seeing grown up characters or finding those "Zeldas" or building things or finding amiibo costumes. - the story is great for a standalone game, but for zelda? The zonai make no sense to me and contradicted everything we knew. In the past right after sksw the gerudo weren't known, the zora and rito didn't exist, the gorons weren't on death mountain. They should have made another antagonist and not Ganondorf. Zelda's sacrifice was honestly a so great part, but the ending was awful. - the "dungeons" were copies of each other. And short and banal as heck, and the dialogues after each one were always the same. - People didn't remember Link. Only some of the major characters did but the majority of the npcs didn't know him. And Link didn't have the majority of his clothes. I know the outfits weren't mandatory to get in botw (nothing was mandatory tho) but at least the most known could have been left. The gerudo outfit, the climber set, the hylian set, the luminous stone set! They made up a story for the zora tunic and that's a good thing. - The depths were empty and too dark, even after the light roots were lighted. It was too easy to get lost. - the ultrahand and fuse mechanics are amazing as well as the ascend, but they should have made them mandatory at least for some parts of the game, to give them more spotlight. - I would have loved to have way more sksw references, this isn't a flaw of course but a personal preference! Also I would have loved to have Wolf Link as an ally again, instead of the spirits of the sages. - personal experience: the game crashed after I defeated Ganondorf for the last time. I was about to see the final cutscene when the screen went black and it never played (I saw it on youtube). Everything else on the swotch worked perfectly so it was just the game. Of course it doesn't autosave or let people save the game after entering the zone before the first fight with Ganondorf so I'm back there. I hated it.

I'M NOT DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, ZELDA FANDOM

Welp there's this situation here 👀

I'll let these two games fight u_u

Let the duel begin!

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I didn't notice I wrote "A link between worlds" 2 times instead albw and botw. Here's the new poll, the other is gettiong deleted rn!

Anyway 10 games left!

Round 8!! It's getting difficult, isn't it?

During the last round we lost Spirit Tracks. If I were to remove 2 games, I should have picked TotK too, as it's the second most voted, but I prefer to just yeet only the most voted out.

Spirit Tracks... I like it. The story should have been better, I don't really like the Lokomos, but Byrne's arc is great! Also the pan flute was kinda hard to play but satisfying nonetheless! And playable Zelda was the best mechanics in the game (the worst were the evil trains)! It was also the third best Zelink after SkSw and TotK!

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

<< Previous round

Rankings under the cut!

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity

Phantom Hourglass

Link's awakening/LANS

Spirit Tracks

@bradicalguy I had another thought...

I think this one is sadder than the other one so I'll leave it under the cut :)

Time is reading the letter Sky gave him. Malon wrote it, a three page letter. First, the general info, the ranch is ok, there's still that one stake that needs to be fixed but it won't break for now. The pregnant cow finally gave birth! Talon is fine, he's getting some rest. Then, the usual questions. How's the journey going? Is everyone alright, Epona included? And our Twilight?

In the second page she described how Twilight made them happy for the future again. She wrote how she felt like they couldn’t create a family after their failed tries, and then Twilight’s existence changed everything. She was so happy and she hoped nothing had happened to him.

The third page was the news. Malon's last tries failed after one month or two at most. This time she was telling Time she was pregnant and already at the third month! She hadn't told Time before because she imagined she'd lose it again and didn't want him to suffer while on a journey, but that was a new milestone, maybe thanks to Twilight? She was happier than ever and she hoped they'd visit her soon.

And the dialogue between Time and Twilight happened, with Time finding out he had gotten way more worried about him than ever. Maybe now he was really realizing he was a dad.

They didn't have the chance to visit Lon Lon or Time's era for a long period. They had the chance to meet the postman again one time after 3 other months and Time got 3 letters, one for each month, telling him it was going well, she for sure wasn't going to lose it this time, and on the last letter there was a pictograph of her looking so happy and with a visible baby bump, and a note: if it's a boy I'm calling him Wolfie, you've been warned!

The heroes finally got the chance to go to Lon Lon after other 3 months. Time was soooo anxious and happy and scared and he didn't know what, but mostly excited and happy. They hadn’t gotten other letters then, as their last travels were short and the portals disappeared quickly. But here they were!

Time ran to the door so fast, calling Malon from the street already, way before reaching the door. But she didn't answer. When he got to the door, he listened closely and heard a baby crying and someone singing a lullaby. That was the reason she didn't answer! The baby was there and Malon was singing a lullaby!

He opened the door, and found Talon sleeping on the couch. He took a blanket and put it over him, the others arrived and Legend made him notice Talon wasn't just sleeping, he had most likely fainted. That was strange. So strange.

Time and the others ran upstairs, to the bedroom.

Malon was there, fainted like Talon. And a cradle with a blue ribbon and "Wolfie" written on. But no baby. They could hear him cry though! And someone singing a lullaby!

The bedroom door was slammed shut with them all in. The crying stopped. When they reopened it, they saw Dink in front of them, shapeshifted into a dark Malon, singing and holding Time's now lifeless son. You've been too slow, fairy boy! Said Dink in Malon's voice, then disappeared.

:)

I noticed one thing

Sky gets 4 letters from the postman, yet we only see Time, Twilight and Four reading them. Who got the fourth?

In Dawn part 4 Sky clearly gets 4 letters, 2 in a sky blue envelope, and 2 in a beige one, then chases the postman with them in hand.

He probably put them in his bag in part 7, as they aren't visible

In part 8 Sky gets takes the letters (probably from his bag). Aside from the change of color (probably due to the different lighting? the first and last envelopes should be blue while the middle ones are beige) Sky looks like he's holding 4 envelopes.

Are we really sure Sun didn't write him anything? What if he got a letter but for some reasons he's pretending he didn't? Maybe he could "feel" Sun's letter wasn't lighthearted and happy and he didn't want to ruin the joyful moment the others were having? Maybe he read it and quickly put it away before the others could notice?

Sky where's the damn fourth chaos emerald letter???

All the pics are from @linkeduniverse

Finally, all the remaining games fit in one poll!

During the last round we lost Link's awakening/LANS in the first half and Phantom hourglass in the second half! Phantom hourglass got more votes so it's one position behind.

Phantom hourglass was an interesting game. Honestly I remember Spirit Tracks more vivdly, it left something more than PH. But Linebeck is a cool character and I clearly remember the final battle and the ending! As for Link's awakening, I played the DX version on NSO and got bored after the third dungeon. Yes the story is great, but I played already knowing the ending and the gameplay wasn't really worth continuing in my experience, also knowing nothing really happened. Well, in PH technically nothing happens either, but only from the others' perspective, Wind and Tetra did have the adventure and Linebeck is the proof! Though it's funny how the 2 games based on a dream got yeeted out together :)

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

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Rankings under the cut!

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity

Phantom Hourglass

Link's awakening/LANS

What if...

What if Sun didn't write Sky a letter because she knows they'll be visiting Skyloft or the Surface soon??

👀

Ok hear me out

Malon is pregnant

And Time can die without changing the timeline

:)

During the last round We lost the oracle games (first poll) and Age of calamity (second poll)! Starting from the next round, there won't be the need to split it in two sections! But please tumblr add more option slots :( Age of Calamity got less votes than the oracles.

The rankings we got are really different compared to those I got on reddit. I didn't expect Hyrule Warriors to be yeeted out so soon, before Cadence, and Four Swords to beat FSA (by one position, but still...). The major Zelda titles are all still here though! My favorite 5 are all still in game :D

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

LINK TO THE OTHER HALF OF THE POLL

<< Previous round first half - second half

Rankings under the cut!

The CDIs

Triforce Heroes

Zelda 2

Hyrule Warriors / Legends / Definitive

Cadence of Hyrule

Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Age of Calamity