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Working on my links meet au and if any of yall have questions about it or especially about the individual links ("who's most/least likely to..." type questions would be amazing) I'd love to answer em!!
#having to answer questions would definitely help me develop each of the boys <3#loz#tloz#links meet au#cradle aus#cradles links meet au#names you can use for my links (some of these will probably change over time):#Wings (sksw)#Picori (minish cap & four sword)#Mask (oot & mm)#Oracle (alttp & oox & la)#worlds (albw & oox)#fairy (loz & aol)#puppy (twilight princess)#light (fsa)#captain (hyrule warriors)#sea (ww & ph)#spirit (spirit tracks)#tears (botw & totk)
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MLP G4 LU Chain HCs!!!!
/inspired by @kenvamp 's (check the art out here)and @cheatsylu 's (check over here)
I had.. cutie mark head canons for Pony LU chain and I need to talk about them (these are my own HCs and you guys don't have to agree btw!!!!!!!)
So, how and when each pony gets their Cutie Marks:
Warriors: same time as his scarf. He was given the scarf and then the cutie mark appeared. He got it a bit later than his peers, but it's a very cool cutie mark. Fitting for a captain.
Time: can i be spicy? i want to be spicy, he got his cutie mark when he was 20. Not when he did OoT, not when he did MM. 7 year nap and woke up hoping for a cutie mark only to see a blank flank.
and during MM, Everyone comments on it! like he never gets the mark of adulthood ever!
okay not "ever" i want him to get it when he's 20 or sth and his cutie mark sucks,. and even twilight doesnt know what it looks like
like he got it during a battle
a battle when he was TWENTY and it looks like the FD
and like, yall know Trouble Shoes who HATES his CM,
yea Time loathesssss his
first he wishes he has one and now he wishes he didnt -
only person who knows what his CM looks like is his Wife btw
Wind: OHO OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM- Bro probably helped his sister and taught her how to swim or sth and get his CM at age 4
like by the time he does WW his cutie mark has been there for a While. He is a Big Boy. He deserves it
Four: Would it be funny if he has four different cutie marks and when he's merged they're like, blended together -
and his cutie mark gains another shape each time he upgrades the four sword -
but like, instead of the four elements for the four sword,.his cutie mark is the forge and it just becomes more detailed and has different colors - like a red fire, blue hammer, green anvil, purple tweezers
Twilight: Yall know Yaks and Cows exist in MLP as like... high sentient beings that also go to school and talk and stuff. What if Ordon Goats. like Twilight's Entire Village. Twilight stuck out like a sore thumb. And he's Very very disappointed that his cm isnt a goat.
he got his cm at age 14 when he was helping everyone on the farm, and it's some generic rancher stuff like a hay bale or sth.
Hyrule: is the triforce. id like to imagine that full triforce wielders gets a triforce as a cutie mark. He has a bunch of magic of his sleeves, and if you know anything about MLP G4 naming conventions, magic-adjacent ponies are named after light-emitting things. So, Triforce emits a BUNCHA LIGHT
Legend: Oh my god I imagine he hides his cutie mark because its something very soft (bnuuy) and people wont take him seriously -
he got it when he was very very young, before his adventures. But the rabbit cutie mark depicts a rabbit that's shaking an apple tree. (proof of courage. or sth. that's what im aiming for as a symbol of bravery, but I am no writer)
Sky: Got his CM at the same time as Sun!!!!! They have matching cutie marks. His is a sword and a Crimson Loftwing's feather, while hers is a pair of wings, one white (like the goddess, but she didn't know that before the adventure) and one blue like her loftwing.
Wild: He DID have a CM before the clammy, but one of the side effects of the Shrine of Ressurection is that it also erases that pony's cutie mark.
he woke up with a blank flank.
and my guy fought the clammy and found his own new cm that fits him.
honourable mentions: Spirits! He got it when he got on a train for the first time, it. was. magical
the train
the train was magical. i hc that he didnt thought much of his CM
#linkeduniverse#linked universe#pony lu chain#lu warriors#lu time#lu wind#lu four#lu twilight#lu legend#lu sky#lu spirit#lu wild#lu hyrule#/not friendship is magic#/but courage-wisdom-power is magic#/lmaoooo
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My precious babies, all grown up -- and quite different since the last time I did 'em!
Design notes under the cut:
Tetra's necklace and feather are referencing the treasures from Spirit Tracks; specifically, the necklace is said to belong to a pirate captain (the part about the evil aura is conveniently ignored).
The blue earrings are actually from Tetra's princess outfit. She left them as the only memento from the transformation, and later gave one as a gift to Link so they won't miss each other when they are apart (not in a shippy way).
No, Tetra doesn't wear a literal Triforce of Wisdom™ as her belt buckle. 'Tis but a replica.
The scar on her ear is from the events of Phantom Hourglass, when she was petrified and Linebeck acidentally dropped her; y'all know which cutscene I am talking about. One eartip was chipped off and promptly glued back on; it didn't hurt, but the scar remains.
Link's sash is a gift from the Rito. As the Waker of the Winds, he works very closely with the tribe, creating helpful wind currents and dissipating the unwanted storms.
Short king!
It is customary for any given Link to have a big shnoz, and WW Link is no exception, even if it wasn't prominent while he was a preteen. In fact, he takes it after his biological grandpa, Lenzo (boy, do I love that hc).
Prosthetic leg. Yup. Someone wasn't careful enough and got washed ashore during a particularly rough storm. In my AU, the prosthetic leg was actually made by Ganondorf, who is also the reason behind Link wearing the fancy eyeliner.
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oh i am so about to become an unskippable cutscene. ok so
my zeldaverse concept is that they all get stuck in the time AFTER the golden goddesses made hyrule but BEFORE hylias creation. each zelda has a varying amount of time since their adventure ended (i.e. totk zelda has been back home for a little less than a month. st zelda is in the MIDDLE of her adventure. sheik only sent link back to her time a week ago. its been 9 months since midna left tp zelda. zelda i zel's adventure ended 5 years ago and her great aunt from zelda ii ended one year ago. etc etc). the idea is that they all wanna get home, so they decide to try and use the triforce, but none of them know which one would be Worthy of it (as in having power wisdom courage). they go to termina [sksw zeldas idea. shes reaaaally trying not to let on shes hylia but still wants to be helpful] bc the fierce deity is their best shot at knowing which one can do it. FD (who appears as their links to each one of them respectively as to "present as something theyre more familiar with." ie botw zelda sees botw link, tp zel sees tp link, etc etc. they end up changing into malon for sheik bc hes still got baggage over link and impa and anyone else so FD chooses someone he barely knows instead.)
anyways FD tells them that all of them are capable of it if they focus in but their best bets are sheik, botw zelda, tetra, and hilda + albw zelda if they do it together (one from each branch of the timeline. kind of). so the gang splits off to find the triforce and erm yeah 🕺💃
also theres two oot zeldas. one for the adult timeline (sheik) and one for the child timeline, who never knew the horrors of war and got to know oot link unlike sheik. oops.
anyways herez my names wooooo (also they all chose them themselves hehe)
BOTW/TOTK - Coreulea (part of the scientific name of wild blueheart tulips which are the closest visually to silent princesses irl, so. shes named after her fav flower...)
OOT (ADULT) - Sheik (later Sage. this zelda awoke as the leader of the sages while the other oot zelda did not have to.)
OOT (CHILD) - Coda (the part of a song where you go back and repeat a portion you've already played before. get it. Coda says she wants something music related and Sheik is the one to suggest the name to her.)
MINISH CAP - Stonie/Quartzie (what her link calls her! used to think it was mean but shes rlly missing him so ..)
TP - Archer (bow of light. prefers to be called 'the archer' specifically if possible, lol)
ALBW - Hilda and Hue (like color. like painting. Hue liked the alliteration of their names hehe)
ALTTP - Maiden (describes herself as a maiden in game. theres more to it but ohhgh thatd require a lot of analysis and this is already so looong)
ZELDA I - Ura (in the og game u had another mode called ura zeruda after u beat the game which literally translated to "other zelda." its a little joke abt how many zeldas there are! she chose it bc its her real first name; zeldas only her middle name!)
ZELDA II - Somnia (from "insomnia." also the name her family uses to differentiate her from her great great niece. she thinks its pretty, if a little on the nose, but she cant blame her relatives for being that uncreative when shes been dead for 100 years, took the money they gave her to not claim the throne, and ran off with her boytoy lmaooo)
WW/PH - Tetra. she wanted a silly nickname too though so they will also respond to Captain
SPIRIT TRACKS - Spectra (like spectral! shes still a ghost here and has a good sense of humor abt it!)
SKSW - Lyre (another name for harp and sounds like "liar" because shes got a bit of a track record for not being entirely truthful about who she is ,,,,)
bonus zeldas who dont appear but i love them anyway:
80S CARTOON - Fresh/Freshie (MY DESIGN GIVES HER SCRUNCHIES AND LEGWARMERS💥) (AND SHE TALKS WITH 80S SLANG OK SORRY)
CDI GAMES - Gamelon
Mario Kart - Chassis [pronounced chass- ee] (Link's pitstop captain! no thats not how mk works. no i do not care <3)
SSBU - Hitbox
ok cutscene over. thank u 👍
YOOOOOOOOO your zeldaverse concept sounds so cool!! I've never even thought of the idea of time travelling to after the golden goddesses created everything but before Hylia's creation! :O that's such an interesting time period, I've never really thought about all that.....
Also them going to the fierce deity is so cool cause I have so many questions!! How does sksw Zelda know of the fierce deity? Does she have memories of him during her time as Hylia? Does fierce deity recognize her? If he does, does he willingly keep her secret from the rest of the Zelda's as he's correctly guessed that she's hiding it? How does the fierce deity correcting know of just who would be the most familiar to present as and does he know of all the Link's?
There's just so many questions and it's so funnnnnn to think about!! Also I like how he says that all of them are capable but Sheik, botw Zelda, Tetra, and Hilda are the most capable of wielding the full triforce... while sksw Zelda is right there... HMMMMMMMM........ sksw Zelda I have questions for you but I fear if I speak any of them out loud you'll combust <3333 love her though <333
The choices for all the Zelda's is so fun and cool to! I've never really thought about including both oot child and adult! I can most definitely see that being a major source of pain and angst for Sheik and I'm just super curious about Coda would react to that :o also I'm just a fan of such Zelda incarnations such as MARIO KART and SUPER SMASH BROS being involved in the middle of this.
idk that's just great to me, peak vibes, ideal even, CDi is also here SJSJJSJS
also?? These names are so so damn cute?? Genuine question, would you be okay with me using some of them? They're just that damn good but I totally understand if you would rather me not! I'm particularly in love with Coreulea for botw Zelda and Lyre for sksw Zelda <333 that's so so good and fits them so well, what da Hell.......
Also just to respond to your other ask here- I'd love to hear you talk about their personalities!! Lowkey I'm so happy that you decided to include spirit tracks Zelda, she's so underrated and amazing I love her a lot :((( and Spectra as her name?? That's so, so, I'm having a moment that's so damn CUTE
#this whole zeldaverse idea sounds so fun and I love the mix of Zelda's going on here!!#the inclusion of 80s cartoons zelda is GETTING ME!!!! SHE WEARS LEG WARMERS !! cultural ICON#captain is also such a good nickname for tetra. yeah she's most def Captain I've decided it now#I know you said that you doubt you'll do anything with this but just know that I think its vry cool <33 zeldaverse I lovvveeeee yoouuuuuu#thebleedingeffect talks
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"May we meet again, in another life..."
Another AU where legends cross. Read more under the break.
General Story Synopsis:
Somewhere outside of time, the golden goddesses fued. A cycle of no end plagues their souls after they have let it push on across time and space alike. One of hatred, blood, and spirit; one of light and shadow. The goddess Din plots to destroy it all, at odds with her sister, Farore, who wishes rather to destroy the evil. Nayru, who trusts in the balance of the eternal struggle, proposes a solution. She will allow Din to put the worlds created by different ripples of time to the test. Din shall choose to revive a single puppet, and they will set the determining factors of the universe's fate into motion. She makes her choice, and Nayru begins with her work.
In a world still set in the era of A Link Between Worlds, a fabric is once more torn between realities. However, this is one far greater than anything before. It tears through time itself; a power only previously carried to the mortal world by Hylia herself. At the same time, an evil sealed away in this realm returns to life. The fused beast from light and dark worlds alike attempts to take control of the head-start the goddesses have given it; but there is no telling what the crack in reality may cause for existence now.
Premise:
The general idea for the AU is to focus on the narrative themes of The Legend of Zelda games, as well as Demise's Curse. It will heavily focus on the bond between Link and Zelda across lifetimes, and how their loyalty to one another affects the fate of Hyrule and those who live there.
Link Nicknames:
The Hero of the Skies (SkSw) - Chosen Hero, stink (affectionate), sleepyhead (affectionate), Skies.
The Hero of Men (MC Prologue) - Min
The Hero of the Minish (MC) - Pico
The Old Hero of the Four Sword (FS Backstory) - Fourest (get it because forest + four haha I'll see myself out). Kidding. Just Forest.
The New Hero of the Four Sword (FS) - Four
The Hero of Time (Oot Child) - Mask, Deku, fairy boy (affectionate)
The Hero of Time (OoT Adult(Alt)) - Time, Kiri
The Hero of Time (OoT Fallen) - Shade (given by TP Link despite being the wrong one)
The Hero of Legend (AlttP/LA) - Pink, rabbit, hare
The Hero of Ages and Seasons (OoA/S) - Oracle
The Hero of Worlds (ALBW) - Bear, Little Rabbit (given by ALttP/LA Link), Leaf (teasing nickname from Gulley when he died his hair green for a while)
One Who Learned Courage (Lorule) - Ravio, merchant (not affectionate)
The Hero of Hyrule (LoZ/AoL) - Hero
The Hero of Twilight (TP) - Twilight, wolf (given to him by TotK Link), Gray, Ordon (affectionate, given to him by TP Zelda)
The Hero of Light (FSA) - Divide, Mirror
The Hero of Winds - Wind, Gale (given to him by AoC Link), sailor
The Hero of Spirits (ST) - Conductor
The Hero of Warriors (HW) - Captain, Warrior
The Hero of Calamity (BotW Backstory) - Aspect, Dracozu (as he grew up along this river)
The Hero of the Wild (AoC) - Blade, Knight, Champion (gets confusing)
The Hero of the Wild (BotW/TotK) - Wild, Champion, Spirit (also gets confusing),
Zelda Nicknames:
Hylia Reborn (SkSw) - Grace (or Your Grace), Hylia/Hyli (not preferred), Ether? (Link definitely has nicknames for her, but they're all a bit too sweet for everyone else to call her by...)
Princess of the Light Force (MC Prologue) - Radiance, Harmony
Bright Princess (MC) - Bloom
Princess of the Elements (FS Backstory) - Prism, Monarch
Princess of the Four Sword Shrine (FS) - Adora
The Princess of Destiny (OoT Child) - Tulip
The Sage of Light (OoT Adult(Alt)) - Destiny, Sage
The Master of Disguise (OoT Fallen) - Sheik
Triforce Guide (ALttP) - Guide, Marin (what?!?! Whoa?!?! more on that later)
Hope of her People (OoS/A) - Hope
Princess like a Painting (ALBW) - Chroma
One Who Learned Wisdom (Lorule) - Hilda
Princess of Legend (LoZ/AoL) - Princess, Tale
The "Twlight Princess" (TP) - Dusk
Light of the Kingdom (FSA) - Light
Leader to a New Hyrule - Tetra, Captain (given by WW Link affectionately)
Spirit Princess (ST) - Phantom
Commander and Princess (HW) - Commander
Ancient Sealer - Guardian, Sonia (her middle name (her mother's name)), Sealer
Burgeoning Scholar (AoC) - Scholar
Sage of Light and Time (BotW/TotK) - Zel (given by her Link), Petal (also given by her Link once as a joke, but it stuck), Scale (usually isn't taken well)
(The nicknames above are WIPs, may be changed if I change my mind).
Extra Notes:
I intend to focus on the Links and Zeldas equally, as a big part of the story refers to their relationship in the grand scheme of like... the entire universe. This falls under the idea that every incarnation is a reincarnated form of a singular spirit and goddess.
Certain unnamed heroes from the games are given proper backstory and titles.
The two Zeldas in LoZ and AoL are combined into one Zelda; more on how the Hero of Hyrule's story goes later.
Some events in the games may be slightly dramatacized or combined with elements from their respective manga. More on this later.
While I will be using headcanons for post-game, I am making it my goal not to do so excessively. I like my canon compliancy, sometimes. I will mostly only use headcanons to fill in plot/character gaps or make sense of timeline.
A lot of posts will just be designs and ideas dumping early on. Comics are hard, I'm afraid. :')
@loz-untold-myths will be prioritized over work on this! Please keep this in mind!! (So if you like my stuff, maybe check that out).
I'm designing way too many outfits, I'm hoping to be able to share some of them soon!
Info Posts
Din, Nayru, and Farore
Tags
#loz ial
#loz in another life
#ial main story
#ial vignettes
#ial info post
#ial update
#ial doodles
#ial character peek
I made the name too long, I am aware of this, but A Link Between Links was apparently taken. Curse the fandom hivemind!!!!
One more note: This AU now has its own section of the Untold Myths (@loz-untold-myths) Discord server! If you want an invite, please DM me.
#links meet au#zeldas meet au#zelink#zelink au#link#princess zelda#loz#tloz#legend of zelda#the legend of zelda#zelda#info#info post#au info#au idea#telink#tloz link#zelda x link#link x zelda#golden goddesses#au art#wip#my wips#current wip#work in progress#fan designs#post game
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Happy El WooWoo to everyone. Thank you @blackberrysummerblog, @aroace-genderfluid-sheep, @confused-bi-queer, @shrekgogurt and @artsyunderstudy for the tags. Welcome back @whogaveyoupermission.
Before I go to the whole fic thing, I want to ask non-Glee fans to vote on my silly “Which glee plotline is fake” poll. This show is absolutely wild and I love to see how people vote, so also put in the tags which one you voted. (Gleeks should also vote, just to relive the wacky shit.)
Because I am going to talk about Glee some more! Ljubim te is coming to an end and I have finished the Quinn companion piece. I loved writing the companion piece, because I liked writing Quinn’s perspective and I loved showing how [REDACTED] evolves. But one thing I really liked is that I get to show how Quinn has become the kind and caring woman she is now, since she wasn’t always like that in canon.
It is a long snippet and maybe a bit too spoilery for these WW posts, but I really like it:
“You should’ve seen me in high school,” Quinn laments. Then she proceeds to tell Denise the truth about what kind of petty girl she was. Quinn was mean-spirited and manipulative. She would do anything to be the head bitch in charge at her private all-girls school. She would be fake towards any other girl in order to get what she wanted. Quinn was cold, jealous and catty.
Quinn does feel genuine shame when she thinks of her actions, but she takes pride in knowing that she’s grown.
Granted, part of it was to cover up the fact that she had a baby. It’s not as if people didn’t know. It was hard to miss when her belly started growing exponentially. But once she came back to school after giving birth, she knew that she didn’t want people to know her as the sinful Christian girl who got knocked up. She would much rather be the person you wouldn’t fucking cross and it worked. No one ever dared to bring up Beth and by the time she graduated, the younger students didn’t even know. Beth was forgotten, which is what Quinn had wanted, no, needed.
She doesn’t tell Denise that part. No one from her new life knows about Beth, except for Blaine.
Still, thank you to @thnxforknowingme for finding a way to add Beth to the this AU. I was going to make an awful joke about us co-parenting this version of Quinn.
And now, the stormy weather: @quizasvivamos @blurglesmurfklaine @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @takitalks @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @bookish-bogwitch @ionlydrinkhotwater @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @larkral @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @cutestkilla @nausikaaa/@wellbelesbian @martsonmars @facewithoutheart @boyinjeans @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites @whatevertheweather
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I’m making a links meet au, here’s just some info I have in general, might change later
Skyward sword, he and his Zelda are married and have been for nearly 6 years (they are 26 and 25), they don’t have children and it’s a bit of a sore subject for them
Ocarina of Time, he is captain of the royal guard, a widowed father of a 7 year old daughter who lives in castle town, he is 29 at the time of the start
ALTTP,ALBW,LA- he’s 17 and just a few months past links awakening, he’s still caught up with Marin and mourning her even though he’s not even sure if she was ever real,
Loz 1 and Loz 2, he’s 35, he is currently on the run from assassins and always assuming a new identity to avoid them, he’s gotten weirdly good about faking his death
Tp, he is a 28 year old farmer in ordon, he has a on off relationship with a girl there but they arnt serious, he was offered a noble title for his service by the queen but refused because he prefers the simple life
WW/PH- he’s 21, a pirate, and admiral of the newly founded new hyrule
Spirit tracks- he is 15 and really just wants to go home, he is hating every second of this adventure because his first one ended just a few weeks prior
First calamity- she (the rest don’t know she’s a woman) is a half gerudo- half hylain noble woman who pulled the master sword when she was 14, disguised herself as a man, and became the hero, killing calamity Gannon when she was 17, she’s currently 19
BotW/TotK- he is 21 and Janet gone on his journey in TotK yet (because I haven’t beaten the game and don’t know how it plays out yet), so he is just the hero of the wild now, he currently lives with his Zelda
#legend of Zelda au#links meet au#skyward sword#ocarina of time#a link between worlds#a link to the past#links awakening#windwaker#phantom hourglass#spirit tracks#twilight princess#adventure of link#breath of the wild#first calamity#au
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Hey Toon! What’s the homework for Angst 101 this week? It doesn’t say on the syllabus and I haven’t seen Manon around enough lately to ask them either
Pulls out schedule, well since October just finished I didn't want you to go to hard on your homework. This is technically mental health week, meaning no homework is required.
However, if you like bonus points for the finally exam, your prompt is choice.
In class I gave the example of, if Wind where to choose between the chain, or the WW crew, (Tetra, Aryll, Linebeck). Who would he choose? Someone, just one has to die, who would it be. Some of your classmates said, the chain, others said WW crew. Both could be right, however to maximize angst, you would want it to be Wind. To emphasize this.
"Have you made your choice little hero of the winds?" The dark figures voice was like venom, laughing at the boy. The young hero's eyes cast in shadow, he was ashamed that he couldn't save them all.
"Sailor! Sailor! Listen to me!" Warrior barked trying to get through to his younger brother. "It's okay, it's okay, you can kill me! He only needs the blood of one!" The captains proposal was drowned out by the protest of the rest of the spirit bound brothers. They wouldn't let one of them fall.
Wind's heart cried, lifting his eyes just a bit to look at his family...all of his family. Linebeck held Aryll, she was desperately trying to escape his grasp. "BIG BROTHER!" her voice echoed through the chamber. Everyone was trying to get the young hero's attention, everyone was trying to tell him what to do.
All accept Tetra, his Captain. She just stared, and he stared back.
"Have you made your choice boy!" The figure was aggravated now.
Wind didn't break his gaze with Tetra, only offering a little nod to her. She nodded back, eyes becoming glassy.
"I...have...." Wind drew his sword.
A wicked smile spread across the villains face. "And who shall it be?"
Aryll let out a soul shattering screech. As the phantom sword pieced the stomach of the youngest hero.
"Me..." Wind let out, followed by the eruption of blood in his mouth.
So you can do something like this for extra credit. If not don't worry.
#Angst 101#linkeduniverse#lu wind#linkeduniverse wind#lu warrior#linkeduniverse warrior#Silver my beloved#Teacher Toon
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QUICK SOMEBODY GIVE ME A LINK TO DRAW
#Sunny Asks#I HAD JUST ENOUGH SLOTS#LOOK AT ME GO#OH WAIT#NVM#I DONT HAVE ONE FOR ME#SHIT#SORRY ROGUE I DRAW YOU ENOUGH
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Hello! I am a (semi) recent follower, tell me about your AUs? :D
What I'm so fascinated by in my HSFR au is how all the Links change after their adventures, but not like how most people assume they do. Like, they're still plausible but not what most links meeting au's portray.
I wanted Hunter (TP Link) to be an older hero who's so traumatized by his adventure that he refuses to settle down and avoids Ordon. He can't go back to a normal life, he can't just pretend that nothing happened, he can't be the person everyone in his home wants him to be, he can't look at their faces without remembering what had happened to all of them. He has to stay on the move, he has to keep fighting monsters, He can't keep the secret of his wolf form. He becomes something of a rumor everywhere he goes, the monster killer who is a monster himself, the hero in the shadows.
I'm obsessed with making Sage (BotW Link) into a version of the character that really leans into how they're not quite alive and not quite dead and how dying made them more than Hylian and gave them control over the realm beyond. They're simultaneously a friendly person and a reclusive potion maker who travels with the one person who is just as young and just as old as they are. They're the combined might of spirits and warriors and they're free from the chains that held them down a hundred years ago. They tame the wild because they are the wild, they love their world that's so full of life and so full of death. Their story is one of rebirth and not just the literal kind.
I could also ramble about Guardian (AoC Link) and Hero (OoT Link) -and the fierce deity- and King (SkSw Link) and Captain (WW Link) and General (HW Link) is giving me trouble and Linkle (Linkle) and UGGGGGGHHHH I can't find what I want to say but I want to say it...
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HM you know what. any tropes YOU like/dislike in zelda games...?
OUGH HM..!!
so. ffull disclaimer here ichave. not played many zelda games. ive Started some (alttp got to the first dark world dungeon, oot got to the forest temple, majoras mask got to ikana canyon/stone tower, ww got to getting triforce pieces, albw got to the first lorule dungeon, twilight princess i. barely got through due to wanting to finish a game . i got to wolf and midna moment or the second ish act?, and i started triforce heroes.) but ive only finished. 2 games (botw and the minish cap). so my information may be limited here
starting with ones i dislike!
1. crystallizing zelda/keeping her damseled. when shes not in a “disguise” alla tetra and sheik she will be Immediately cast off to the side or trapped. like. i know the usual point of the games is to save zelda (except when. it isnt in the first half of the game) but please let her Do Something…!!! i love sheik and tetra theyre great, its just. as soon as they transform into zelda suddenly their characters and roles are discarded- sheik frame perfectly gets captured by ganondorf when theyre in their princess. state? tetra is a bit better but she and zelda really arent the same person- fuzz punch arcade put it better than i could saying “tetra is a pirate captain, the epitome of free-spirited career nut. zelda, is demure, takes the blame for things she cant control, and drops everything for link and the king.” this is probably a larger issue but. i dunno having zelda be . less of a concept would be nice? or like in games like botw, itd be nice if she wasnt a cutscene character but rather an npc who you can directly talk to. they almost did this in totk. with botw i understand it doesnt really work with the story, only working for post game . if. if there was one. but yeah. also this doesnt mean everyone has to like her or even put her in like. fanworks if they dont want to. some zelda games dont even have zelda in them like majoras mask its just if youre Going to do her please do her better
2. the monsters being Directly tied to ganon. like in oot its fine, great even, because those are boss monsters in specific circumstances (and also have the general theme of being parasites in the first half, the second half they just guard the sages). im talking about Every monster being tied to ganon in some way (like botw or totk). it makes him less of a guy who does things and more not a guy but the devil incarnate whos so so So evil trust me guys look hes even the source of monsters. how. hes That Evil. this is taking some liberties as monsters may have existed before ganon or at least the calamity in botw they were just docile, and in totk the shrines took care of the monsters but where they came from is up to debate, with the memory of ganon getting the stone i believe showing the. creation????? respawning of monsters it really does feel like they Come From Him though.
3. villages having one race exclusively. ive said this before but id like there to be villages where hylians and zora and gorons and rito and sheikah and gerudo live Together would be nice. especially in botw theres. ruins of settlements near places like rito village that have hylian esque designs. so rito and hylians could have lived in the same village. they technically do this in minish cap? the humans cant. See Them though except for kids
4. love interests in general or characters exclusively made to be love interests. whether its zelda or not im just not a fan though its more a personal thing.
5. i dont hate this more dislike it but bosses having one really easy tell. its just either not fun but you know what you need to go for or its fun but you know what you need to go for. i kind of wish they were done like lynels in botw- theyre Hard if you dont know what youre doing, but you Can after enough practice. also the great plateau lynel is great you cant do what you normally do with it you have to get headshots to stun it then go on its back to not take damage. figuring that out is not complex but shows you Know the game. i do understand bosses mimicking lynels in how they test the player is very hard to do especially how they can Keep testing the player
6. hyrule always being the best/greatest or just being. The Main Place or the main narrative being to defend hyrule. half of this is from the imperialism but half of the time im just tired of hyrule as a thing honestly. i dont serve any country not mine nor hyrule i simply game. i also dont know how prevalent this is in most games either so i may be biased here
i do wish i could think of. more lighthearted?? tropes for the above like neutral things like sages frequently appearing or certain items popping up but usually i dont care unless its done badly. totk is like that but the whole game is like that too so its an outlier to me, otherwise its just There.
onto things i like!
1. LENS OF TRUTH LENS OF TRUTH LENS OF TRUTH. i think its so neat :]
2. mail the concept of mail mailboxes and the no longer working tingle mail bottle feature in the ww
3. SONGS. MUSIC. the ocarina songs and them opening up places + certain songs being important generally like the ballad of the windfish
4. milk bars. im adding one to pre cal botw but i just like them !! especially the little songs that can play in there in albw
5. kakariko having graves for some reason. i do like graves in general but kakariko Specifically being the one to have them is interesting
6. dark worlds or other worlds. i especially like lorule!! termina is very cool too
id probably put more but i am. getting distracted by outside things. so for now that is it.
#HI#this was actually kind of hard to think of all things considered#sorry if i got things blatantly wrong here
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according to an old Famitsu interview with Sakurai about Ganondorf:
"Ah, yes. I've gotten many complaints about Ganondorf. Why doesn't he use his sword more? Why isn't he as powerful as he is in Zelda? Well, when I decided to add him in Super Smash Brothers, of course he was a late addition included only because his physical appearance was easy enough to model swap over Captain Falcon. So I couldn't do as much justice as I wanted with him, but I worried people would be upset if I left out such an important and striking character.
Ganondorf is somewhat of a contradiction---in Smash Brothers, he's both powerful, yet sometimes comes across as a little worn down, a little tired. In a way, he was greatly influenced by my late father who passed away shortly beforehand. As a child, I viewed my father as a strict-disciplinarian, a man I both feared and respected. But when I grew up, I realized my father, that man I was saw as a powerful figure---a king---was often out of breath, and limped along. I wondered why I feared him so much? And in a way, that's how I've developed Ganondorf as a character. Personally I'm quite close to the character, and thus I find it difficult to bring myself to change him too much."
What the fuck? This literally slots right into my headcanon of Smash as taking place in an ultimate super-afterlife. Of COURSE Ganondorf is a tired old man, he has the entire weight of BOTH his timelines on his shoulders! Imagine your universe finally fizzling out such that your spirit can rest, and then the instant you wake you realize you have two sets of contradictory memories, and both of them suck. He was ALREADY a tired old man in WW, of course those memories carry over!
He tried getting back into his conniving scheming habits in order to maybe seize some semblance of power but Tabuu's betrayal broke him. He just kinda Chilled during 4. especially since it was TP Link and Zelda who offered him that grace in Brawl.
The reason he switches back to his OoT design in Ultimate is because it's the youngest he's ever felt since Melee; maybe even better! Which design he's using corresponds directly to how Tired Old Man he is during which era of Smash. Beard = Tired. The reason we can't play as WW Ganon is because he only slips into that form when he's too tired to give a shit even about Smash.
The man loves a good spar, though, of course he'd love to try out fighting both his old enemies and total strangers on a fair battlefield. You know who else likes a good spar? Kirby. Samus. Every Pokémon ever. Super Fucking Mario.
(Headcanon context notes: Smashers and their pals can just do that in my headcanon btw. they're dead, they can present as any age from their history.
The Smashers have existed in the Eternal Nexus for a handful of centuries of paradise and/or healing before establishing Smash, so Ganondorf has had some time to recover from the Everything that is his canon experiences.)
#xerx's smash headcanon#xerx's zelda headcanon#the post I originally wanted to reblog this from had reblogs turned off but I HAD to say it#punctuation may be a bit jank since these were originally tags and you can't use commas in tags
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A First Look at Captain Spirit: The War Within (Powered by Unreal Engine)
A few months ago, I released the first “episode” of Captain Spirit: The War Within. The original release was comprised of still renders and audio, a medium that I found to be rather limiting. So after much thought, I decided (perhaps foolishly) to attempt to bring the story to life on the same platform in which the original Life is Strange was presented.
Having no prior experience with game development and Unreal Engine, I essentially had to learn everything on the fly. Thankfully, there were an abundance of tutorials and courses online that allowed me to hit the ground running. Using a combination of both existing and custom assets, I was able to start to piece together a faithful rendition of my original vision.
While I don’t expect to ever have a product equal in scope or caliber as the original game, it has been a rewarding and education experience nonetheless. This months-long endeavor has given me not only knowledge and insight but also a newfound appreciation for all the work that goes into the smallest part of a game.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this project thus far, look forward to more in the weeks and months to come!
#life is strange#life is strange 2#captain spirit#chris eriksen#daniel diaz#captain spirit ww#unreal engine#demo#WIP
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I know you’re a great spirit tracks fan (biggest I know of actually) and I was wondering if you have any good fic recs about Them? If not that’s cool, have a nice day :)
IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED BECAUSE I GOTCHU
Gen fic:
A Quieter Kind of Courage: Zelda and Link are caught in a snowstorm. Light angst! Completed
The Apprentice: the new recruit reminds Captain Russell of his old mentor. One shot, but part of a miniseries connecting ww/ph to st!
Implicit: Zelda trusts Link. One shot
Force Gems and the Trouble They Arrive With: Link finds a new force gem, and with it, new Spirit Tracks. Ongoing
The Gauntlet Tracks: post spirit tracks, next generation. I haven't finished reading it yet but it's REALLY good!! Engineer Zelda meets the ghost of Ganondorf just in time for an evil to stir under the spirit tracks. Mulichapter and completed
Zelink:
A Hero of Her Own: baby Zelda listens to the stories of how her grandfather fell in love with her grandmother. One shot
A Level Crossing: a very good collection of connected one shots, post spirit tracks!! Slow burn zelink! Multichapter and ongoing
Public House: Zelda works up the courage to ask Link an important question. One shot
Linked Universe Adjacent
Flash a Light: Spirit's technology is a little more advanced than the others'. One shot
The Hero of Spirits: features a slightly older and sassier ST Link!! Multichapter and ongoing
These are just the few I could compile, but if anyone has any more fic to add (regular or lu-adjacent) feel MORE THAN FREE to add!!! I always welcome more st fic to read!!
#SPIRIT TRACKS MY BELOVEDDDDDD#st#ask#the legend of zelda#loz#fic rec#lu fic#lu spirit#lu spirits#spirit tracks
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Zelink for the ship bingo? :0 any game!
OH GOD, THIS IS?? Gonna be a doozy. Buckle in.
SkSw:
WW-PH: Link/Tetra:
Spirit Tracks(in theory! I haven't seen the game yet, can't speak personally):
Nearly all other instances:
RIGHT! getting onto individual analysis,
1, SkSw: By far my favourite of the bunch, and a longtime delight. Whether you construe their relationship as romantic or not, doesn't matter-- They've got such a wonderful arc of trust and unbreakable love. Zelda starts off incredibly worried for Link, constantly fretting and deeply unsure of his abilities. She steps in to defend him, willing to go up against Big Boys like Groose to do so. As the game progresses, however, and Link grows, in strength and in character, Zelda, and everyone else for the matter, put more trust in him-- By the end of the game, they're on equal footing, and, oh god, oh man, I'm gonna crybhfgjfhdgkjdjd--
2, WW-PH: Nothing to say except, tough girl, sweet boy? Phuck yeah!
Jokes aside, Link and Tetra's arc is also one of trust and vulnerability, but from a different angle. Tetra's a hard-as-nails, independent, morally dubious young girl who's landed herself as captain of a ship full of Big Boys, and sees Link as little more than a useful, if rather weak coincidence she can use to her advantage. However, as the pair grow,(really as Link grows and Tetra is thrown out onto the sidelines as her royal heritage is revealed and she's forced to take on a 'princess' role, one that notably feminises her and lightens her skin), again there's that theme of growth of trust! They take down Ganondorf together, build a new Hyrule together, and isn't that just what dreams are made of?
3, Spirit Tracks: Nothing much to say, other than the dynamic looks super sweet, and there's an interesting play with gender and presentation on Zelda's end? Love it to bits, 12/10.
Now... Onto the potatoes of this, I think. Get your gravy.
This... There's going to be more objective analysis and criticism, obviously, but alot of this is also going to be deeply coloured by my own personal experiences of heteronormativity and alienation. This isn't a commentary on anyone else's enjoyment of the dynamic-- I hope I've made that clear --But, just... I guess I should get to it.
Link and Zelda,
Zelink.
As one anon put it, the vanilla icecream of shipping.
Mild, sweet,
And incredibly heteronormative.
The Golden Relationship; the one toted by fans and Nintendo alike as "the ship".
Everything else, anyone else, is a deviation. It slots neatly into the expected hero-damsel dynamic that we've had, since, well, the beginning of time, almost. It's almost as dust of the earth as it gets. The issue for me being... They don't spend time much, really. Link is barely characterised half the time as little more than a slightly lackadaisical vessel for the player, and Zelda is a sort of guiding light; a dignified keeper of the plot, Righteous Guardian of Hyrule--
The culmination of all Hyrule presents itself as: wise, smart, beautiful, dainty but compitent, ready to lead a charge should need be... but rarely unruly. Rarely ever. Always right.
Obviously, it goes without saying how Breath of the Wild's iteration of this duo changes it up immensely. Zelda is a far more flawed, and in her attempt to put on a strong face, a far more emotionally vulnerable character than any of her gentle predecessors could ever hope to be. While this pairing and her character fail to hit that particular sweet spot in me, it's deeply intriguing, and I hope, perhaps vainly, that they'll develop her and her relationship with Link even more in the sequel-- Honestly, when it comes to this? An equality between her and Link is, I think, what would be best. A mutual understanding; vulnerability.
I think that's what puts me off from Zelink, on the whole. Link is bound to her, by destiny, by guidance, ever-performing his knightly duties, and Zelda is bound to him for strength, for protection. There's little emotional substance, half the time, save for small, precious moments, many with another face, because it's a dynamic inherently dependent on the war-- On danger.
It's all impartial, situational. There's nothing personal here.
And if that were it, if this were truly explored from that angle(as it is, to an extent, in BotW), then I think I'd like that-- Especially if it weren't romantic, I feel.
But that's not the vibe we're told to get: not from the fans... not from Nintendo.
Nintendo tends to be largely neutral on certain matters, such as pairings-- Honest to god, for the best, in my opinion-- But Zelink is that one blind spot where that ethos falls away. Here, Nintendo expects us to see it as some grand, destiny-bound romance, I feel,
And the pre-Skyward Sword manga, from what I know, cements this best.
It's why, quite frankly, I don't care for the idea of it being canon. Genuinely.
It undermines what little weight Ganondorf via Demise had on all of this, this horrific cycle of blood, pain and despair, always bracing for the next wave, of the sisyphian climb of this civilisation, and turns it all into a grand goddess' love for a boy bound to her by fate and destiny manifest.
I hate that.
For something like this, something where no one has any choice, where greatness is thrusted upon them, this endless state of being used that Skyward Sword even condemned, to be seen as good.
To get onto personal experience, before this blog, and this "persona," as it were, I used to have an art account where I largely posted TLoZ, frequented by my family. My very Christian, somewhat socially-conservative family. I would perform straightness, in the form of either pushing aside or pursuing M/F romance, because I was extremely uneasy about the types of conversations anything otherwise would arouse.
This was at a time where I wasn't even sure if I was bisexual, let alone divergent in my gender, so I felt a constant pressure to tamp it down and keep it out of the spotlight, relegating my explorations via art to DMs with the friends I'd make.
Here, on Tumblr, where peppy-queerness is the status quo, there's this tendency to gloss over unpleasant things and make them soft; sweet.
I think I've talked enough at length why that alienates me.
So, yeah... I guess, Zelink on a wider scale kinda just, sums up my unease about the often hegemonic status-quo of shipping, and on the whole I'm just kinda eh about it all.
Again, I think it should be very clear that this is not a reflection on my opinions of people who create Zelink content, who are attached to these characters. That sort of weirdly-tribalistic thinking is awful, and only brings about needless conflict-- Early 2000s-2010s kinda shit, y'feel me?
I hope this all made sense, kinda. I've just got... alot of feelings.
#tloz#zelink#scrawny rambles#scrawny speaks#sksw#skyward sword#wind waker#scrawny answers#ask meme#wrote part of this late at night and finished it now in the afternoon#hope you can forgive the time gap#analysis#thoughts#do give yours forreal#i'm not a fan of the opposite of this where zelda is demonised either#to be v e r y clear#sick of that shit uuuauaaauhggfjkhgkjgjkhfdkgjfdkgfd#feels so forced and contrived#link#zelda#tetra
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I did this Tier Ranking the other day of Zelda’s with the most to least amount of agency in their games, and I’m going to be honest... I’m still thinking about it. I was getting so annoyed when I played SS the other day because of something that happens that made me mad. So now, I’m going to rant about every single Zelda because she deserves better.
This is my short essay on which Zelda’s have agency in their games and why. Omg if only I could have done that topic in grad school.
So this was my list.
Before you keep going, this is just spoiler central. So, if you haven’t played, say SS yet, heads up.
I’m going to start by saying I’ve never played the Four Swords games nor watched a playthrough. IDK why there are 4 of her, but maybe it’s just ironic to have 4 of them? But that’s my ‘don’t know’ pile. Maybe she’s epic, but I remember her being captured by Vaati in an intro to the GBA game, so I doubt it.
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Most Agency: Wind Waker Tetra, Sheik, and Spirit Tracks Zelda
I almost feel like this part of the list goes without saying. Tetra (WW) is a queen. She’s a captain, has a crew, goes where she wants, helps Link, hurts Link, literally, queen.
Sheik should also go without saying. We don’t see a lot of Sheik actually doing things, but we know she’s doing them. She’s been all over Hyrule for 7 years training, and keeping the world spinning. During the game alone, we know she’s out there rescuing Ruto, trying to fight the spirits in the well, etc. So we don’t see it, but we know it.
And Spirit Tracks Zelda! SHE’S YOUR LITERAL COMPANION!!! SHE’S WITH YOU THE WHOLE GAME, FINDS A WAY TO FIGHT, HELPS, IS FUNNY, IS ACTIVE IN THE KINGDOM, AND IS AN ALL AROUND UNDERATED ZELDA. She lost a little agency because she has no body, but she didn’t let it stop her.
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Good Agency: OOT Zelda, BOTW Zelda, TP Zelda
This is the “I’m in danger of being smited for including these three here” pile. OOT Zelda isn’t in it for long as adult Zelda, and she does get trapped in a crystal almost immediately, but you know she was training for years and managed to stay out of sight of Ganon. And at the end, she holds up an entire castle for you to escape. I want her on my team, but I’d prefer Sheik. Plus, this Zelda is one in SSB sooo does that count? I don’t think so but whatever. I wanted to put her lower, but I was thinking of her off screen and she managed to make it up into the ‘good’ agency pile.
BOTW Zelda. She’s got a lot more agency in AOC than BOTW because she just runs around and basically commands the whole kingdom's army after a while, but in BOTW, she’s held back by everyone! She had the potential! She wasn’t a damsel, she was a smart cookie, she had character, but everyone was like nah girl. Go wander Hyrule doing stuff. And she did! Not because she had agency, but because everyone told her to. She wanted to work with the tech! Let her work with the tech!
And TP Zelda, my girl, I love the thought of this Zelda SO MUCH!! SHE HAS A SWORD!! SHE COULD HAVE USED IT IN THE GAME!! THE CUTSCENE WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!! But you know she defended Hyrule off screen anyway, literally fought with her soldiers to protect her people. Gave her literal life of her own accord, took full blame for things, like, no one told this girl no. She was full blown agency... except that she was locked in a tower for the whole game, then went poof, then got turned into a puppet, then only managed to show off her battle badassery in ONE SCENE aka one of the best multi-stage final boss battles. Just could have pushed her further.
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Okay Agency: Child OOT Zelda, SS Zelda, ALBW Zelda
Child Zelda. She’s a child. She gave Link an instrument and was forcibly (but thankfully) spirited away on horseback. She doesn’t really DO much at this point. But she WILL! So she’s cool, but she’s just a wee sprout still!
SS Zelda: Don’t hit me! I love her, her general plot, and her relationship with Link. But she isn’t even allowed to hug him. She is dragged everywhere, captured MULTIPLE times, stuck in a big old amber crystal thing FOR I DON’T REMEMBER HOW LONG, nearly sacrificed, and is bombarded with memories of a life that wasn’t technically hers and she has to sort through being Hylia and not just Zelda. Poor bean. She’s not at the bottom because you can tell that before the game, she was top tier agency queen.
ALBW Zelda is just... meh. She’s not as bad as ALTTP Zelda, but she doesn’t really do much and then gets stuck in a painting for most of the game. Points if we’re counting Smash Bros again though!
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NO AGENCY: ALTTP Zelda, Oracle Zelda, OG Zelda, Minish Cap Zelda, WW Zelda, PH Tetra, Zelda II Zelda.
ALTTP Zelda is just a sad, sad tale of ‘can you be more damsel in distress if you tried’? She: starts the game in a cell, hides in a sanctuary, is kidnapped again, is sacrificed, is stuck in a crystal, and finally, is chilling in the end credits. Girl. I’m so sorry for you.
Oracle Zelda is apparently the same Zelda as ALTTP and it shows. She hangs out in a house and tells you the weather and then (you guessed it) is kidnapped and nearly sacrificed. This poor bean has gone through too much.
OG Zelda literally pops up at the end of the game and is like HEY you’ve been trying to save me this whole time, in case you didn’t know. And Link’s like omg I have?? Because I don’t even remember her being mentioned outside the info pamphlet and the ending.
Out of order, but Zelda II, she’s the most relatable, because she sleeps the whole game. She’s under a curse, wakes up, sees Link and is like damn you’re cute, and kisses him. If we use the info booklet, it gets worse and her brother used a spell to blah blah. She sleeps. That’s all she does.
Minish Cap Zelda is so precious at the beginning of the game and you can tell her and Link are besties and I wanted more of that! AND THEN SHE’S TURNED TO STONE THE WHOLE GAME. But no, wait, she’s...... almost sacrificed in the process. Deja vu.
Wind Waker Zelda was cool in the final scene, but she spent her entire portion of the game trapped in a basement against her will for her protection. No agency. That’s really all the poor thing gets to do as Zelda.
THEN THE DIRTIEST OF ALL DONE DIRTY CHARACTER MOVES IS PHANTOM HOURGLASS TETRA! ONE OF THE BEST ZELDA’S REDUCED TO NOTHING! SHE IS CAPTURED IMMEDIATELY AND SPENDS THE ENTIRE GAME AS A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS WHO HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED AND TURNED TO STONE. I’m still salty and will hate Phantom Hourglass forever for many reasons, and Tetra being done dirty is one of them.
I feel better now. If anyone actually read all this and has other thoughts on this, I’m fired up and ready to talk because who needs to sleep at 1:30am? Not me!!
#legend of zelda#zelda#princess zelda#ranking things#rant#Zelda's agency#why do some of these games just HATE her#I was not recovered after ranking these Zelda's the other day#agency#zelda series#gaming
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