"Now you can carry around a piece of me, too"

For the ask game, AK 9 and and 17 + Saria/Silence 9, 16, and 18? I really love your art, so I'm curious which of your own art and fics are your favourites :D

This is from an ANCIENT ask game, I just straight up had this in my drafts and forgot about it LMAO I'll just reply to the two last asks about it, so don't ask more questions on this ask game so it's not confusing!

woaah many questions, and thank you a lot!!

9. Which character of Arknights should have interacted more in canon.

WELL! I already replied to both 9 and 17 in this post in fact, BUT I will use this as an excuse to talk about other blorbos with the question 9. how about mmm, every Catastrophe Messengers? Eyjafjalla did got a whole event about her, but I don't think we ever saw her doing her job as a Catastrophe Messenger, but more as a geologist. Provence and Skyfire really didn't shine a lot in Heart of Surging Flame, Leonhardt is pretty much absent, and Earthspirit and Tsukinogi, who? well to be fair Earthspirit did a good job in Vigilo. but the rest, well, huge shrug. I'm personally weak towards Leonhardt, because I enjoy Ayerscape a lot, and I think it would be really nice to have more of them in canon! Catastrophes are a huge part of Arknights, and yet we rarely get to experience them in the game. I'd love an event that is all about escaping a Catastrophe, with the Catastrophe Messengers involved! and Leon and Ayers relationship is pretty interesting, they're both huge dumbasses but they can't be without the other and trust each other a lot. I'd love to see a situation where Leon is a weak point and Ayers has to come to face that both need each other... my bad that's literally Ayers's Operator Record. well I don't care!! I need more of them anyway. give love to my bunnies!!

9. What is my ideal endgame for Saria and Silence.

in all honesty, Lone Trail was quite enough what I wanted. it's really bittersweet, but it did a good job with their dynamic and Silence alter's files give away what happened after the story. BUT, the only thing I'd love more is a conclusion, about just the two of them - where Saria is now weak and exposing her feelings, how much she has to carry, and Silence showing her that she's here for Saria, and that she's loved... ah, yes, the question, right

I can hardly imagine what could happen beyond what happened. they're reunited, and try to balance their professional and personal lives, trying to see Ifrit while having to get regularly absent... if I'm being a dumby lovey dovey, I'd say that my ideal is them being together and happy and free from their responsibilities and a family and yada yada. but I'm not, so something bittersweet and where they are bound to continue to fight, but all together and with each other, is perfect to me. all I ask is to give them a temporary break from time to time, but it's good enough to me!

16. Three of my fanfictions involving Saria/Silence, and which one I'm the most proud of.

mmmm I'll name Divorced lesbians and a creature for the first - and you will very much notice it's my first fanfiction with them... well my first Arknights fanfiction at all. my first fanfiction actually!! I wrote it in the plane and the writing is... probably bad! but it's not too annoying to reread it again, so I guess that's a win. I mostly picked this one, because, well, first work, and because it was made before Lone Trail. I think I did well in making it interesting, with the Musbeast echoing Ifrit, and how both are brought together and able to collaborate and communicate when it comes to saving a life. I don't remember if I went for the headcanon "they are exes" in this one, but it's a headcanon I no longer have honestly.

another one would be the chapter Nightmare, in my collection of one shots Grass and Rock. I love to write Saria's weaker side, and the idea that she's the one who is more affected by the past events is more interesting than if it was Silence. and most of all, the discussion they share is really sweet, I like how I explored Saria's feeling that she has to protect and be of use, or else she thinks she's not worth of being loved, and how Silence asks nothing from her but to know that she loves her and Ifrit. it's a nice story about insecurity and self love, and it's something that is deeply needed in Saria's character

and finally, the one I'll pick up as my favorite, Remission, which is a fanfiction I had the idea to write for MONTHS. I knew that Saria would be hurt after the events of Lone Trail (I got spoiled :( ), so I waited for so long for the event to drop so I could get the context and everything. it's my longest fanfiction, and even tho I was trying to not make it too much of a ship work, it's very much about Saria and Silence, so teehee I failed. but otherwise, I really am proud of the way I wrote it, the way Saria keeps looking at the sky, because she refuses to accept that Kristen is gone, and this line Silence tells her, "Look down Saria, there are still beautiful things to be seen on Terra." in reference to herself and Ifrit, and how she wishes for Saria to move on and stay at their side, where she could be loved back and heal. I rarely am proud of my own fanfictions, because I am not a huge writer and my difficulties with English make them not written very well, but I am proud of this one, yep!

18. Three of my artworks involving Saria/Silence, and which one I'm the most proud of.

aw hell nah, complimenting my art!! /silly

if I have to pick up three artworks, I'd say mmm this one, I had it in mind for a long while and I love to put bird headcanons into bird characters!! it's really important to me and precious.

this artwork is really good too, it's less a ship art, but family is important, and I'd love to do more pieces like this!

but if I have to pick the one I'm the most proud of, it'd be this one. not necessarily in terms of ideas but purely in terms of art. I rarely draw fullpieces nowadays, and even less full painted fullpieces, so it was nice to do one again, and it turned out good! I still have a lot to go to be frank, I'd love to achieve a level close to some artists I admire, but recently I've been extremely focused on human anatomy rather art techniques, I'm getting better at it!!

SO REPLAYING HYRULE WARRIORS BECAUSE SWITCH EDITION has reminded me a lot of all of my little headcanons about Link and the various characters in the Legend of Zelda series. So I’m gonna just spam things here and now because why the hell not? I’m a bit exhausted, feeling sick, my headache has been going off the rails between nice and making me nasueated enough to throw up, so yeah. This is how I feel better.

I’m going to start with the earliest of Link’s and just go down my list....this won’t include ALL Link’s because I really have to think of them and remind myself of them, but more of the Link’s I like and loved playing with.

Proto-Link we don’t know much about this sad man aside from the fact that Hylia is a creepy stalker who tortured him to make him malleable to her cause. Before all of that I figure he was fairly talkative to the people he felt close to--not quite to the stage of later Link’s that grow selectively more and more mute as the stress hammers down on them. I also believe this Link really loved his people. He accepted his fate and still desired to get them to safety. He’s also one of the tiredest of Link’s because of it.

Post Hylia-induced trauma I feel like Proto-Link became more quiet to almost ceasing to speak altogether. This is also one of the few Link’s I headcanon as grey-ace.

Skyward Sword Link is a little shit. Like this boy will talk a mean talk and give as good as he gets. He doesn’t start to reach that Link stoicism until his long journey by his lonesome. I think he really thinks he’s in love with Zelda, but that he doesn’t quite know what that means at the same time. Honestly I see this Link as more a biromantic young man with gay leanings. Like have you SEEN how he reacts to Ghirahim? Boy’s not straight. Not completely. But yeah he’s attached to Zelda at the hip.

I actually feel like this out of all of the Link’s gets very political in helping Zelda build up Hyrule as a Kingdom and less a few islands in the sky. I feel like he travels around a lot, eventually opening up to people, but he get’s pretty tired easily because he doesn’t like fighting. He also suffers major nightmares.

Ocarina of Time Link. This boy. THIS BOY. This little forest manchild that skipped puberty is the most, the biggest child I see as primarily selectively mute. I also headcanon him as in some ways as either abused by the Kokiri (accidental because he’s Hylian and their Kokiri so they just don’t know, or on puporse because they are Farore’s people and Link has A Destiny for the Goddesses that he needs to be a specific way for) He’s the quietest of the Link’s but really grows into himself as time goes on. I honestly see this Link as pseudo-masochistic, heavily sarcastic when he does start to speak, and a sass-master galore. He’s also like straight up just bisexual (Malon, Zelda, Ganondorf, Shiek...all these people should stop being attractive, especially when Link later learns that ZELDA IS HIS SISTER THIS IS NOT COOL) and definitely has some development issues he has to deal with because of how he was raised.

Navi helps pull him out of his shell, but she’s not exactly the greatest being to be doing so. I mean...I kind of see Navi is almost straight up insane so, there’s that. He did have a kid crush on Saria but he grew out of that eventually. He’s also scarily codependent about Navi down the road given all they went through.

This Link also...well, Zelda accidentally erased him from history when she ‘sent him back’ so there’s that.

Wind Waker Link to me is not Link. This feels more like Collin from Twilight Princess given the mantle of Link and fits a little nicely with the whole ‘when Ganondorf broke free Link wasn’t there to save the day’ shit, since, y’know--there’s precedent for Link saving the day. Plus the Triforce is broken which to me can only happen between a mix of things. Either it was removed from Link forcefully, which he can see is possible in later iterations, or Link was removed from time (hence my whole idea about Link being accidentally erased by Zelda)

Twilight Princess Link / Majora’s Mask Link I feel are both the same Link and post Ocarina of Time Link. Like Link’s search for Navi and eventual ended up in Ordona is all tied together. He’s quieter in Twilight Princess and post Majora because Majora broke something in him. He lost Navi. Not only did he lose Navi he was forced to relive three days over and over until he fixed what was broken. Majora Link was aged weirdly because of this, then there’s the masks and--yeah. Is it any wonder he decided to forget?

The old skeleton thing I feel like is actually Link and Zelda’s dad from OoT who searched for baby Link after the Queen vanished into the forest and--there’s a whole reason why that is. Ask and I’ll be happy to go more in depth. I don’t feel like that guy is a prior Link. Doesn’t feel right.

Also totally in love with Midna.

Hyrule Warriors Link is gay as all hell. He pegged Shiek as secretly Zelda from the get go, doesn’t understand why all these girls are after him, is mostly very soft spoken, and finds himself weirdly attracted to all of his enemies somehow (Ganondorf, Ghiarhim, Zant...he doesn’t get it)

Breath of the Wild Link is canonically selectively mute and we have an explanation for why--the stress of it all. He’s also, to me, irrevocably in love with Midna and sees Zelda as a maybe-friend post everything. I don’t see this Link getting it on with anyone else. He also tends to be a bit flexible about his gender which is why he has no issues with the whole Gerudo-styled-clothes thing. I also feel like this Link is way post Hyrule Warriors primarily because the Triforce isn’t a thing that’s like stressed anymore? It’s not important, it doesn’t tie him and Calamity Ganon together--it just isn’t a THING. Instead Zelda’s connection to her Goddess blood is, and the sword that speaks to the chosen hero--and then there’s Calamity Ganon himself and just--the whole thing screams far, far future.

Far enough that the Shiekah grew to be technologically advanced AGAIN, and then lost it all, AGAIN. That’s pretty fucking far, ok?! Plus there are other reasons why I see this and why I view this Link in this manner.

Those are all the Link’s I feel like discussing right now. If you’re interested in my convoluted Legend of Zelda headcanons--beyond even Link! I have plenty!--ask away. I always like to share, but I prefer to know I’m not shouting into the void with it.