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justanotherfanwriter · 2 years

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Ok ok ok, a male gerudo is born like every hundred years, right? And in botw they beat ganon, who I’m assuming was once the male gerudo. So, ignoring the dehydrated corpse in totk, wouldn’t it be funny if the reincarnation cycle for ganon kicked in almost immediately, and Link and Zelda are like “wait he’s a fking baby now?” shh, I know, it doesn’t make sense, just go with it.

Anyway, May can’t get here fast enough, so have a baby au! I have 3-ish more ideas for this au, so here’s to hoping I can kick my ass into writing them!! Per usual, I didn’t edit this as well as I should have.

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Zelda’s steps were light as she climbed down the stairs of the little cottage. She stuck close to the hand rail as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

“Good morning, Link,” She greeted through a yawn, walking past him at the dining table where he sat spooning something unidentifiable into the mouth of a baby.

“Good morning, Prinnncesssss,” He cooed back, exaggerating slightly for the baby’s entertainment as he flew a spoonful of mash playfully in the air before diving it into the baby’s open mouth.

Zelda smiled, rolling her eyes. Despite her pleas to stop, Link was adamant about using her old title. It was entirely unnecessary; the Kingdom was no more, but he insisted nonetheless. Supposedly, it helped his still fretful memory.

She continued onto the breakfast nook, following the scent of warm, fresh brewed coffee, and went through her normal motions. She filled the cup, added her sweeteners, and at long last, took a spirit-saving sip.

“Ahh,” She sighed in relief, smacking her lips, “it’s delicious today.”

“My best pot yet?” Link teased, looking up from the infant to smile at her. His smile was, per usual, picturesque, stopping her heart momentarily, but she kept that to herself.

Instead, she smiled back, “It just might—” Her brain came to a reeling halt, words instantly forgotten. She looked at Link, then down at her coffee. Back to Link. Her coffee. Finally, to the baby with a mouthful of puree. Back to her coffee. To Link. To the baby. To Link. To the baby. To Link, and again, the baby.

“Link?” She asked.

“Yes?” He answered, his attention again away from her. His face contorted into an “O” shape as he spooned more food into the baby’s mouth, and the baby mimicked him with round eyes keenly interested in Link’s antics.

“What is that?” She said calmly, pointing towards the baby. In most Hyrulian circles, this was a highly offensive gesture. To get someone’s attention or point another person’s attention elsewhere, Hylians often used signifiers like “HEY!” or “LISTEN!”, and then used their eyes to gesture where they wanted.

They did not point.

Zelda, being a former princess of Hyrule, was well aware of this informal social rule. In this specific instance, she chose to ignore it.

“Oh, this?” Link shook the container of mash, “Apple puree. I added a little cinnamon. It’s quite good.”

“No, not that—that!” She emphasized, jabbing her finger repeatedly at the baby.

Link’s eyebrows furrowed, “You mean the baby?”

“Bah?” The baby’s face twisted, and his little fist making grabby motions at spoon, angry his meal hovered too far from his mouth.

“Nooo, I mean the full-grown man right in front of you!” She threw up her arms, “Yes! Of course! I mean the random Gerudo baby. Who else would I be referring to!?”

“Ah,” Link’s eyes went wide with understanding, and he nodded, “yes, well, he was on the doorstep this morning. I almost stepped on his little basket when I went to feed the horses.”

She felt her eyes bulge out their sockets, “Do you know who that is?”

“Well, considering he’s a baby, no, we haven’t yet had the pleasure to meet until just this morning. Hungry little thing, though. Likes a good apple puree.” He paused, tilting his head as he examined the baby in full as if for the first time, “Well, Hylia, it seems we already have a lot in common.”

“Link!” Zelda stomped over, pointing another accusatory finger at the baby, “It’s Ganon!”

Link looked from her to the baby before slowly turning his attention back her.

“The baby,” He deadpanned.

“Yes!”

“You think the baby, this one right here,” He nodded his chin at the baby, and then gestured towards the door of the cottage, “is the castle sized monster I slayed in Hyrule Field?”

Zelda felt her face color, “Y-yes!”

“The monster that enslaved you for over one hundred years?”

“Yes!”

“This baby?”

“Who else!”

“Did you sleep well last night, Princess? You usually have more wit about you.”

“Don’t take that tone with me!” She stomped, propping her hands on her hips, “I know it’s Ganon because I was stuck with Ganon! A Gerudo prince is born every one hundred years after the last one passes—”

“It hasn’t even been fou—”

“—I know it’s only been four months! But we put his spirit to rest—”

“Well—” He interrupted again, amending her statement, “—I put his spirit to rest.”

Zelda stopped raving, slowly lowering her arms to stare at her former knight. He met her stare evenly with a Hylia-forsaken smirk.

“Sort-of just popped in at the end, didn’t you?” He mused, turning back to the baby.

She swore she felt a blood vessel pop as she glared at him. Through gritted teeth she spoke, “We.”

“That’s not what everyone else says,” he teased back, and then cooed at the baby, “huh, Ganon, what do you think? Did the Princess put your spirit to rest?”

The baby gurgled around a spoonful of food, much more interested in the glittering guardian shield hanging up behind Link then the two adults bickering.

Flushed and embarrassed, she turned away from the both of them and stomped her way back up the stairs.

“Fine!” She scowled, “If you want to play house with Demise itself, by all mean, be my guest! Can’t say I’m surprised! No one ever listens to me!” She started throwing her meager belongings into her knapsack, “Don’t know why I bother! Don’t know why I stay!”

“I thought it was because you have nowhere else to go,” Link supplied from the table; the amusement in his voice floating up to the loft.

She placed a finger kiss on Urbosa’s brow, and then, stomped back down the stairs with her things in tow, “I’m leaving!”, and when she got no suitable response, she spoke again, barely able to contain her rage, “For good this time! I’m staying with Purah, and tomorrow I’ll have Symin take me back to Impa! This is it!”

She kicked open the door, and before she slammed it shut, she hissed, “And no following me! I mean it! I can’t stand you!”

“I’ll see you at dinner then?” Link’s voice sang out after her, and to give credit where credit was due, not even Bolson batted an eye when she screamed.

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“Ah,” Link smiled when the door was, once again, kicked open (thank Hylia for sturdy oak); he didn’t bother to look at who was behind him. He knew well enough already. Spooning out her plate of dinner, he hummed, “you’re back just in time.”

“I’m not back!” Zelda argued as she threw down her knapsack, “I’ve come to say my final peace!”

Finally, Link turned to face her. The look on his face was soft with affection, “over food, at least?”

He looked stupidly cute with the baby gurgling over his shoulder, strapped to his back where his sword usually belonged. It surprised her enough that the dark look on her face momentarily relaxed, and she stared at the bowl of stemming pumpkin stew he was holding out to her before she remembered herself.

Despite her grumbling stomach, her pretty sneer was back in its proper place, and she huffed, “What? Let me guess, you put a ton of meat in it as punishment? You want to poke more fun at me?”

Link laughed. It sounded as it always did, airy and calm. Link had never been a loud laugher. The sound of it reminded her more of an old wise librarian, and not a reckless adrenaline junkie fond of swords and mud.

“I wouldn’t do that,” He placed her stew down at her normal spot. He pointed to her bowl, “no meat,” then he pointed to his, “meat,” finally, he pointed to a smaller dish next to his own, “baby food.” His eyes crinkled in amusement, “I was tempted to serve you that, but—”

“I’m leaving!” She turned back to the door, “Farewell forever! Don’t ask after me!”

“I said, but,” Link laughed again, pulling her back into the cottage, and plopping her down at the table. “Ganon and I both decided you’ve been teased enough for today.”

A worried look passed over her face, and she pressed her lips into a thin line, looking towards Link, the baby, and her bowl of stew. She chewed on her cheeks for a moment, considering what he had said, when, accidentally, she blurted out, “You were very mean!”

If at all possible, the look on Link’s face softened even more as he put the bowl down in front of her, “I was.”

“It hurt my feelings,” She whined, but the crease of her forehead signaled she was worrying over something much bigger then hurt feelings.

“I’m sorry,” He hummed, kneeling down next to her seat.

She turned slightly to face him, doe eyes impossibly large and grief stricken, “I helped you a little bit, didn’t I?”

This pulled another smile out of Link, large enough to even show his teeth, which was an incredible rarity, “More than a little bit, every single day. You protected Hyrule for so long, Princess, I could never forget that.”

“But everyone—” She started to argue.

“—Hyruleans aren’t always…very intelligent, are they?”

Zelda pondered this for a moment before visibly relaxing. “Literacy rates have gone down in the last one hundred years,” she conceded.

The corners of Link’s eyes crinkled with amusement, and he sat back on his hunches, mindful of the baby, to push the bowl of stew on the table closer to her.

“Eat?” He asked.

“Oh, yes,” She often had to be reminded to do so, “I’m—I’m sorry, Link, I didn’t—”

“Just eat,” He hummed, and then, opened his mouth to say something more—maybe something just a little too charming to be considered friendly banter—when his head suddenly tugged to the side. He hissed, one of his eyes shutting reflexively in pain, and reached behind him, “Ah, no, lil Ganon, no pulling.” Carefully, Link extracted a chunk of his hair from a small, chubby hand, and explained, “He’s fond of hair, anything sparkly, and apple puree. That’s all you’ve missed.”

There was a long beat, as if Zelda was purposefully trying to forget the baby existed in real time before she let out an uneasy breath and asked, “You’re calling the baby Ganon?”

“It’s funny,” Link shrugged with another one of his infamous airy laughs as he wrestled fistfuls of hair away from the baby strapped to his back.

“He almost destroyed all of Hyrule.” Zelda commented, trying her hardest to keep her voice as neutral as possible, but she was sure he could still hear the twinge of hysteria.

“Almost.” Link echoed, “Besides, wasn’t it actually Demise? There are too many names to remember.”

“It was both of them!”

And, ah, yes, now, there was the hysteria.

“Only the most virtuous of people can hold the triforce of power. It’s plagued by Demise itself, who craves power like no other. Only the strongest-willed are successful at overcoming its temptations, and when they cannot, well—” She gestured around, “—we all suffer for it.”

“And I can sense it,” She explained, clutching at the fabric of her shirt over her chest; panic seeping into her features. “That child holds the triforce of power. Demise is already in him, with his malice and evil, trying to corrupt him. He may be a baby now, but it is only a matter of time before he dooms us all.”

Link stopped wrestling little hands away from his hair and earrings to stare at her. He mulled over what she had said with a sullen, almost disgusted look. Finally, he spoke, “Ah, so, I’m underestimated, you’re never listened to, and lil Ganon’s will simply cannot break. Very fair.”

“I never said it was fair.”

Link let a deep breath out through his nose, “Princess—” She cringed; sometimes she liked when he called her that, sometimes it felt like a knife to her heart, and it was one of those times where it felt like a knife to her heart, “—what makes you think this time Ganon will fail?”

She said simply, “History.”

Link rolled his eyes, “Well, excuse me, your highness, but the last time someone accused my charge of failing, it was only because of the people around her, not her lack of trying.”

Zelda sucked in a rapid breath, seemingly taken back by the admission despite Link saying something similar many times before. This time it was different. This time she heard it, the way she spoke to herself of herself, and how she was now placing that doubt on a child. It was like a slap to the face, and she felt she was no better then her father’s Court, who had treated her so poorly during her own childhood. She didn’t want to be like that—like them.

Tears pricked her eyes, but she had no words. Instead, she stared at Link, who continued to speak.

“I will not let another one of us do it on our own. If what your saying is true—and I’ve never known you to be a liar—and this child, no, this infant,” he corrected, “has to face what we faced within himself, I will be by his side when that time comes.”

“It’s not up to us. It’s up to him. We can’t do anything.”

“For Hyrule, we have to try.” He looked up at her seriously from his knees as if he was swearing allegiance once more to the crown, and something in her fluttered, “I will not lose this world again. I will not lose you again. We have to try. It’s what Hylia would want, you know that, and you would be the best person to teach him that, to teach him Her light.”

“Our time is done. She no longer speaks to me,” She whispered, “how could I teach him anything useful?”

“You’re the only one who knows what he’ll be going through, and how hard it will be, and how much is at stake, and what sits on his shoulders if he doesn’t succeed.”

“You do too,” She argued feebly.

“Not in same way. I was never stuck in his head.”

“It’s—I—Link, it was very hard being trapped with him.” She admitted softly, refusing to look at either him or the baby, “I saw things that I—” She swallowed and stayed silent.

“Zel,” He took one of her hands in his, and spoke quietly, “Skyward bound, adrift in time, or something-something embers of Twilight—”

“—that’s not how it starts,” Zelda snorted, she couldn’t help herself, and he winked, glad she had fallen for it, “eh, I may have forgotten a line or two, but the point is, I’ll be right here with you.”

She smiled, placing her other hand over his, and he had to fight back a flare of ear-warming affection.

“I know,” She assured him, “thank you.”

The baby squealed and gurgled over Link’s shoulder, finding for the first time, the joy of making spit bubbles, and they both jumped at the noise. It broke the odd, depressing atmosphere they had found themselves in, and the two of them shared a startled look. With a smile, Link pulled the little Gerudo prince out of his carrier. He was adorable, there was no doubt about that. Large, golden eyes, lined with the thickest red lashes Zelda had ever seen batted up at her. His cheeks were rosy, chubby, and round, and a sprout of soft red hair was curling down his forehead.

Zelda wiggled a finger in front of the infant cautiously, and it caught his attention instantly. With a toothless giggle, the baby latched onto her hand, and Zelda frowned.

“Just because you’re cute right now, doesn’t mean I forgive you,” She sniffed, “but as a show of good faith, I will allow you to be in my acquaintance.” She leaned forward, their noses almost touching, which also interested the baby as he made grabs at her face, holding her nose and patting her cheeks, “Be warned, child, I’m watching you like a hawk. Your age is no excuse, your lessons start now.”

“And!” She leaned back up, “We’re not calling him Ganon!”

#zelink #baby au #triforce trio #spoilers Link keeps calling him ganon #when I think of these two in domestic situations my brain goes brrrrr #the pointing thing I added b/c I feel like that’s just how the games are #if you caught the 80s easter egg just know im kissing u on the forehead

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skyward-floored · 2 months

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“Triforce Heroes Doppel stuff” ? :))

Ahhh yep. Haven’t touched this one in a while.

I have this silly theory that the doppels are actually somehow the original tri force heroes that were cursed into doppels (or had their souls sealed somehow, or... something. I’m still figuring out the details) so Hytopia would always have protectors or something like that.

But the wip is basically their backstories (I have many headcanons lol), and them somehow being freed, and dealing with the fact that they were stuck as doppels for a... really long time. It’s rough. But they do adjust, it just takes a while.

“Hey, it’s your turn to talk about yourself, I don’t know a thing about you,” Link said with a quirked brow. “Who are you? Who’s your friend? And how’d this happen?”

The former red doppel straightened, and a glint of pride appeared in his eyes. “My name is Redmond, knight of Hytopia and one of the Tri Force Heroes. This is Cobalt, my brother, he’s a knight as well.”

His eyes narrowed. “And we were cursed into doppels against our will.”

Link stared at him in disbelief.

“Y-you’re one of the Tri Force Heroes? Like, the originals?” he squeaked.

Redmond frowned. “What do you mean ‘originals’?”

Link was about to answer when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and met the gazes of Blue and Red, who were standing in the doorway looking at Redmond and Cobalt in shock.

“Green...” Blue said slowly. “...what did you do.”

Link scratched the back of his head. “Um... read a bunch of books and realized there’s more to the doppels then just being empty husks so I found this other book and I freed the doppels because it turns out they’re actually the original Tri Force Heroes who were cursed against their wills?”

“Oh, okay,” Red said while yawning.

#*Red and Blue are placeholder names for the regular tfh lol #I have another tfh-related wip I realized I forgot to put on the list actually #that one is just game moments (and me adding in some extra plot for funsies)#answers from the floor #lovely isasan347 #wip folder game #tri force heroes #triforce heroes

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pocketramblr · 1 year

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Thing is it's got to be about equality- if you add the fs dungeon to Legend's story you gotta add the realm of memory to Four's, which would actually mean he's previously time traveled to two other eras- and would thus recognize the downfall duo's worlds

#explanation: the palace of the four sword was not in the original link to the past game but added in the later release of #'a link to the past and the four sword'#meanwhile the gates of memory were not in the original four sword in the aforementioned combo pack #but were added in the anniversary edition later released #so if Leg has fought corrupted Four then Four has also visited his era‚ koholint‚ and 'Rule's era #*i said gates of memory in the tags but it's properly called the realm of memory. but you go through gates to time travel so #anyway that's if you think it was corrupted four #i think it was actually Shadow #simply wielding the four sword #and since Shadow shape shifts he mimics legends appearance instead of fours #and once legend defeats him he's free from the fs location #and can then go on to work with the Great King later to protect the Triforce of courage-#but i already wrote that fic so i don't need to rehash it #i do need to add Four who's just been around the downfall timeline though #like i think this puts him above time sky and wild for eras he's gone to in his own adventures #second only to wars (who in the actual comic canon hadn't gone to any unlike in the games btw)#but anyway. not important

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skelly-bean · 10 months

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I got distracted at work by the sudden need to be try and draw the triforce perfectly, quickly, and in one go, no measurements or being particular about anything.

I only got three in before I stopped myself - I would have probably used up a whole sticky note pad for this otherwise and been it all day lol

So not great, but not too bad?? I just really want to be able to draw a perfect triforce fast like some people can draw perfect circles freehand

#drawing a perfect circle quickly by hand is also something I want to work on now that I’m thinking about it haha #I feel like drawing a freehand amazing trigorce quickly is more important to me than circles though #circles would probably be more useful somehow though haha #share the beans #I hesitate to tag this as legend of zelda since it’s just three sticky notes of me trying to draw the triforce by hand haha #wonky triforce #oh! this made me think of: ‘I want the triforce!’ ‘we have the triforce at home!’ The triforce at home: wonky triforce #anyone have a favorite wonky triforce? I think mine is number 2 #wonky triforce number two just has some sass I think #I’m loving these wonky triforces more than I thought haha #maybe I’ll just keep adding to this post when the urge to draw a freehand triforce overtakes me

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lize-the-prophet · 2 years

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zelda with c1 for the art ask game? I think she’d look really cute in it

Here she is @marshiestars !

I kinda like the way it turned out, so I hope you’ll like it as well.:D

Ask meme, if you want to request a character.

#also yeah #short-haired zelda for y’all because i love her like that #i... added the three ‘’triangles’’ of the triforce because it felt empty without it #the anatomy isn’t too fucked up for once i’m happy #lize-art #fanart #traditional art #asks meme #outfit meme #asks #marshiestars #the legend of zelda #tloz #hyrule warriors #loz hwaoc #breath of the wild #loz botw #princess zelda

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thebleedingeffect · 6 months

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Started thinking about how totk doesn't have the triforce anywhere and I got mad again. Like where's my fucking babygirl the triforce- WHERE IS SHE !!!!!

#ngl if I had the reigns I would've added a whole parallel between link and rauru #or aka zelda awakens to her time powers and link awakens to his light powers #LISTEN. ZELDA HAD HER MOMENT WITH THE TRIFORCE. NOW LINK DESERVES HIS MOMENT !!!!#the way I would've fucking killed for link to have any sort of light power. I would've actually murdered someone for that

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triforcepaintingsolution · 2 years

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megumibara · 11 months

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#let me reblog ads #smoke weed and fuck #loz #triforce #legend of zelda #tumblr ads

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arecaceae175 · 15 days

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Hello! I noticed that some of your fics on Ao3 are tagged "Screen Reader Friendly," and I wondered what makes a fic screen reader friendly. Is it just about formatting, or does content matter too?

Hi, thank you so much for asking this question!!! Disclaimer I am not visually impaired so all of this information I have learned by seeing blind or visually impaired people talk about this issue.

It’s primarily formatting! I’ll list everything I do to try to make my fics accessible here.

Line breaks!!! Use the ao3 line break code instead of adding a bunch of symbols. This is the biggest thing I had to change once I realized my fics were not screen reader friendly.

HOWEVER some screen readers won’t pick up on the horizontal line, either. Another good option is to use a short series of symbols, for example: “~~” or “- - -“

Basically, just don’t use more than three symbols in a row. I used to use “~~~/\~~~” with a delta symbol in the middle to look like the triforce, but a screen reader would see that and say “asterisk asterisk asterisk delta asterisk asterisk asterisk” which is pretty annoying lol

Most screen readers don’t differentiate between regular text and bold/italics. It’s fine to have those in your story, but if the bold/italics significantly changes the plot or the implications of a sentence then it is not screen reader friendly

Screen readers can’t describe a line break that is just an empty space. For example, in one of my fics I have a character reading a note, and I have an extra ‘return button’ space before and after the note to make the note distinct from the rest of the text. To make that fic more screen reader friendly, instead of just an empty space, I wrote “[Line Break]”. That way, a screen reader can say “line break”, and readers still recognize it as a line break

If you have any sort of chat fic (AND this goes for hashtags on tumblr too!) with screen names, be sure to distinguish the separate words in the screen name. You can do this with by capitalizing the first letter of each word like this “ScreenNameHere” or with dashes in between each word “screen-name-here”. That helps screen readers and also people with things like dyslexia who have trouble distinguishing words if they aren’t capitalized or separated in some way.

Screen readers can read image emojis like this smiley face 😁 because they have embedded alt text, but they can’t read text emojis as an emoji, like this one “:D”. If you use any of those in your fic, add a description like this: “ :D [Image description: text emoji of a smiley face with a big, open mouthed smile. End description].”

Also, this one doesn’t have to do with a screen reader, but if you have an image embedded in your story, keep these things in mind:

Be sure to describe the image so anyone who is blind or visually impaired can still experience the image. I don’t think it’s possible to add alt text to the actual image, so I usually put this below the image: “[Image ID: description of the image. Note the important details, but be as concise as you can. /End ID]”. Including the image description instead of some sort of alt text is good for DeafBlind people who can’t see the image well enough but don’t use a screen reader.

Some blind or visually impaired people don’t use a screen reader and instead zoom in on the text. If an image is embedded in the story, be sure it is sized correctly. If it isn’t, it can make scrolling sideways to read zoomed in text more difficult because it makes the webpage much wider than the text itself.

Not all my fics have the screen reader friendly tag because 1. There might be a few I haven’t updated yet, and 2. I didn’t include the tag on fics that have weird formatting or are accent heavy. For example, in Kinship I wrote Twilight’s dialogue to represent his strong accent, and those kinds of things with apostrophes and half-words don’t come through well with a screen reader.

I personally don’t think it’s good practice to include a ton of apostrophes or shortened words to distinguish an accent. Even for people not using screen readers, it’s hard to read. For me, if I see a fic with things like that, I won’t read it. Maybe try having a few words that the character’s accent comes through on, or write something about their heavy accent outside of the dialogue.

The “Screen Reader Friendly” tag isn’t an officially recognized AO3 tag yet, but the more people who use it, the sooner it will be!

Those are all the things I can think of right now. If anyone has any other tips to add, please do so!!

#:D #WOOHOO ACCESSIBILITY #fic writing #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #writing #fanfic #accessibility #screen reader

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gay-jesus-probably · 5 months

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I like the general fandom trend to just take the plot of Hyrule Warriors as a loose guideline at best and just use the whole concept as a good excuse to get blorbos to interact across timelines, BUT I'm very disappointed that everyone is missing the comedic potential of a very specific squad of characters:

Young Link (aka Mask), who walks out of the nightmare of Majora's Mask and immediately gets portal kidnapped into a temporal war, takes one look at the whole mess and decides that you could not fucking pay him to admit to being the resident expert on Time Shenanigans. He introduces himself with the title of Hero of Termina, and definitely doesn't have any other ones, that would be crazy. Hero of Time? Never heard of him.

Tetra, who is a kickass pirate captain with zero patience for people trying to shove her into the Designated Princess role, and realizes immediately that Oh Fuck, this Hyrule has a lot of Ideas about how the Hero and the Princess are supposed to properly play their parts, the second they realize she's technically a Zelda they're gonna shove her in a goddamn dress and damsel her again, that's not happening. So she's definitely just a really cool pirate captain, nothing else going on here at all, definitely not the heir of the Hylian royal family in her time, that'd be crazy.

Ravio, who is literally just a palette swapped Link, meaning that the second his hood comes off, things are gonna get Awkward. There's no way in hell he's dealing with all that Hero baggage, that's Link work, so that giant bunny hood/mask is practically superglued to his head, and he's not taking it off for love or money.

Spirit Tracks Zelda, who is just in the Phantom Armour the whole time, and passing herself off as just a friendly ghost posessing a suit of armour to help the Hero of Spirits. Of course she isn't Princess Zelda, that's ridiculous, if she were a Zelda then people would start getting really weird about her technically being dead, and boy does that ever sound like a whole Thing she doesn't want to deal with, so she can't possibly be Zelda, she's just a nice ghost knight. Also, her teenage grandma is here, and that's kinda weird, so it's easier to just not admit to being royalty and avoid that awkward conversation.

Finally there's Sheik, who is not the Princess Zelda of the era straight up abandoning her war torn country for months at a time so she can risk her life in extreme cosplay for no clear reason, but is instead the actual Sheik from Ocarina of Time, who just beat Ganondorf like a month ago and is still trying to process what the fuck to do now. Also, he's been pretending to be a boy since he was ten, and is realizing there's a pretty good chance that he isn't pretending anymore, so that's a whole other can of worms. But for the last seven years of his life, being Princess Zelda meant certain death, so he's not really inclined to introduce himself like when in a new and stressful situation (not to mention he might actually just not be a girl named Zelda anymore), so he automatically introduces himself as just Sheik the spooky ninja man, and fuck he's in too deep to back out now, looks like he's committing to the bit. If you think you sense the Triforce of Wisdom on him, no you don't.

Cue shenanigans as the five of them attempt to hide that they're all actually kind of A Big Deal. The group motto is "Nobody says shit", which is usually delivered as a frantic hiss whenever someone slips up. Just the reunion between Sheik and Mask alone would be absolutely buckwild given how they parted, and how they're both frantically pretending to Not be involved with each other. For added hilarity and/or drama, Sheik gives his semi-bullshit cover story of having just been a friend of the Hero of Time, then runs into said Hero of Time and they both have to desperately pretend not to know each other, because if anyone picks up on the mountain of baggage between them then Mask is busted, and he won't hesitate to drag Sheik down with him out of sheer spite. Not to mention the weird balance of Sheik being used to this Link being a teenager that's actually a small child, and now has to adjust to Link who is a small child that's actually a teenager.

Also, i really feel like we're all missing out on the comedy potential of Ganondorf recognizing Young Link on sight and the two of them immediately launching into a grudge match with some extremely personal and specific insults on both sides. Meanwhile literally everybody else is just standing there watching, trying to process the fact that out of every single person that's been pulled out of time, Ganondorf only has personal beef with a literal nine year old.

I just feel like we're all really sleeping on the potential for Shenanigans here. The whole thing is an absurd mess, why not have some fun with it?

#legend of zelda #hyrule warriors #for the record im picturing the sheik-mask reunion as being the spiderman pointing meme for like five minutes #also my mental image of sheik is extremely Bad haircut (he does it himself with a knife and doesnt care about making it even)#and a ridiculous tanline across his face from wearing a mask all day #OOT magiaclly growing out zelda's hair and manifesting a Royal Gown was some top tier bullshit and i'm always angry about it #like dude. literally all of princess zelda's finery was made for a ten year old #she's like eighteen now. nobody's making royal finery for teenage zelda. where was she supposed to get that dress.#i am eternally on my agenda to let zelda wear some goddamn pants without an immediate magic makeover to *fix* it #anyways nintendo's sexism aside i like sheik being trans its very fun and sexy of him #tfw you go into hiding to escape political assassination and accidentally trans your gender in the process

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