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I would read this fic. Yeah.

DONT GET ME WRONG- I am a huge advocate on the Wild and Hyrule being bffs front BUT I think it would be so so SO funny if they hated each other at first.

Wild and Hyrule

The similarities between Wild and Hyrule are genuinely poetic, I mean botw is literally a spiritual successor to Zelda 1. Their friendship was written in the stars.

But their differences… I think in the beginning Hyrule would envy the shit out of Wild. Both of their eras are in severe decline but Wild’s is green. Everyone in the chain knows that Wild’s memory is lacking. They know that one day Wild woke up with no memories and answered the call to be a hero, just like that. Everyone thinks it’s highly admirable to choose to be a hero without even knowing what you’re saving, just being innately good. But Hyrule doesn’t think so. If he woke up and saw a world so beautiful… There isn’t even a choice in defending that.

He’s also jealous that Wild can just… fuck off if something gets too dangerous. When they’re in Wild’s era they learn that he can use his slate to teleport anywhere he wants as much as he wants. If Wild accidentally disturbs a Lynel he can literally disappear to a sunny beach, get a drink, and lay out. He even has a map that updates as he moves. If he got lost, even with his slate not working, Hyrule has no doubt Wild would just run into an apple tree, a clean spring, and venison. He can scan an object to tell whether or not it’s poison. It didn’t matter how young, sick, or tired Hyrule was, if he stumbled upon a Lynel it was either him or it. He had to learn the hard way what he could or couldn’t eat. If Hyrule got lost there was no way his maps could save him. His era was mostly one huge bruise of dry grass and dying trees. Food and landmarks were scarce.

Because of that, Wild gets to goof off. He’s impulsive. He’s loud. He’s everything that should’ve gotten him killed years ago.

What he doesn’t know is that Wild is also jealous of Hyrule. Hyrule is just so… competent with so little. Hyrule never needed the master sword. In fact, Hyrule still uses the same sword he’s had since he was 10. Hyrule doesn’t break things. Hyrule doesn’t need people to find him when he’s lost, he doesn’t need maps. Hyrule doesn’t complain when all they have to eat is hard tack and water.

Hyrule could find a needle in a haystack without even burning it down. He’s just… everything that Wild can’t be. The shrine of resurrection healed as much of Wild as it could but the brain is a complicated thing. He wonders if he was always so impulsive, if he used to miss social cues, and if his memory had always been awful. Flora said something about damage to his frontal lobe but unless he looks up the definition in his slate, Wild can’t remember what that means.

Wild feels so embarrassed having had to use so many tools in his quest. Everyone calls Legend the hoarder but Wild quietly knows that it’s really him. Just standing next to Hyrule makes Wild look bad. It’s like the guy glows.

So they both resent each other at first, Hyrule for what Wild has and Wild for what Hyrule has.

I think if they were both teens, 17??, they would take this out on each other by being relentlessly petty. I think aside from Wind, they would be the youngest in the chain. At least in this scenario. Wild holds his breath praying that Hyrule will fuck up at some point. Hyrule “accidentally” keeps sabotaging Wild’s attempts to sneak off. Whenever the other gets lectured they get a sick feeling of accomplishment.

The chain picks up on the fact those two don’t like each other. Most of them don’t get it, two teenage kids, the same age, both heroes with a love for adventure and sneaking off. Why wouldn’t they get along? Wild and Hyrule never do actually fight though, until they do.

It starts with little things, Hyrule being annoyed after being asked to patch Wild up. Wild under or over seasoning Hyrule’s dinner portion just to test how far he can push him. Just little things to push at each other’s buttons.

And then they finally do fight, maybe after months of it brewing. And GOODNESS if it’s not a glorious fight. It doesn’t matter who started it. Hyrule has a fist of Wild’s hair. Wild throws sand into Hyrule’s eyes. The chain doesn’t even know what to do by the time they finally get them split up.

Well, Time does. Time makes the two of them start doing EVERYTHING together. Patrols, skirmishes, chores. The only way they’d be closer is if they were tied together. They hate it.

But it’s because of this they get captured together after a portal splits up the chain. Maybe they’re lost, arguing when cultists, a sick combination of both Yiga and the Eyes of Ganon scoop them up.

I think that while the Eyes are hyper competent they’re not necessarily cruel. This is a means to an end for them, they believe the death of the hero will save their families. For that, the hero doesn’t need to suffer. Slitting his throat will do. The Yiga are cruel but not very competent. They want to string the hero up, humiliate him. Torture him if they can get their hands on him… These two forces combined make something both competent and cruel.

So Wild and Hyrule are united in their shared terror. Hyrule and Wild finally start talking, trying to collaborate when they realize the cult wants to toy with them both before ritualistically sacrificing them. Through this, they finally understand each other.

Hyrule learns how insecure Wild is and why. How Wild’s era failed him and pushed him into something when he literally didn’t even have the mind to do so. That Wild is struggling to cope in a world that he barely understands.

Wild learns that Hyrule never got to cope, that his entire life has been one big chase. That Hyrule also didn’t choose to be a hero but had to be. Hyrule never catches a break. Hyrule never had the chance to get to break something.

Through their impromptu sleepover and some light torture, they grow close in the span of 72 hours before they escape their captors hand in hand.

They reunite with the chain who are shocked to see them arms around each other’s shoulders like brothers. Laughing, and more concerningly bleeding, at new inside jokes.

From then on they become a dangerous force. Time almost wishes they didn’t get along so well bc the new trouble they’re getting into is much more stressful than the old isolated incidents. They learn each others anxieties and weaknesses and do their best to uplift each other. They’re besties 💕💕💕

Hehehe sorry for the long ramble but I think about these two a lot. I think it’s so cool how their games are related but they’re also kind of opposites in some ways? This is probably ooc but I had a lot of fun writing. Lmk any thoughts!!

HOLY FUCK!!! I remember reading this fic at like 2am!!! IDC WHO YOU ARE YOU HAVE TO READ THIS FIC!!! PLEASE!!!!!

For some unfathomable reason, Link liked this champion. Enough to be hurt by his actions and carry that pain with him for days on end. “What would you have me do? If I could bring back the dead, I would do so in a heartbeat. There is no part of me that does not mourn what happened—” “You killed my best friend!” Revali screeches. Zelda’s breath catches in her throat. How dare he— How dare he insinuate that she— “He’s my best friend too!” she screams. She is no longer Princess Zelda, or the Incarnation of the Goddess, but just Zelda, and one of the few people who knew her is dead in front of her, and now this champion dare accuse her of having killed him? “Do you think I wanted this? It was never like this, Ganon never acted like this! This wasn’t the plan!”

Moonlight (every single night) chapter 11

One of my favorite scenes I wrote for Moonlight, commissioned from the amazingly talented @blueskittlesart! This came out phenomenally and I'm so happy with it!!!

HEARTS IN HIS EYES HE’S SO CUTE

the way you drew link's big ole eyes in that last art is everything to me. he's so adorable. that's a baby.....

this is what eow link looks like to me

As someone with randomly shit breathing and a penchant for making bad life decisions, I will headcanon both of these.

I see your 'Sky has asthma and that's why he can't run', and I raise you: Sky has Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, and that's why he can't run.

Now, before you run away because you've never even heard of IST, hear me out. (If you don't know the condition, it's a dysautonomic heart condition vaguely similar to POTS, just without the low blood pressure.)

We all know Sky's lived above the clouds with minimal oxygen levels his entire life, as have most of his decedents, so it wouldn't make sense for him to have shitty lungs, right? That's where IST comes in. See, it's not related in the slightest to physical health or upbringing, it's just a genetic thing that is due to your sinus being a bit funky. It's also not life threatening, so that takes away from Skyloft needing to have non-canonical advanced medical procedures. IST's main symptom is that it severely decreases your stamina by making your heart race and you become extremely out of breath, often meaning you have to stop and wait for a bit for your heart to calm down.

Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so too.

However, and here's the real seller- unlike asthma, you can just power through and not die. It really, really sucks, but this ability is quite the gamebreaker for me when you think about all of the extreme physical tasks Sky has completed in game, not to mention his swordplay, that if he had exercise induced asthma would've very likely set off an attack. With IST tho, yes it would feel like you were dying, but it is absolutely be possible to just power through your symptoms and have no adverse effects except from your extreme discomfort and fatigue afterwards.

TLDR: Sky has Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia because it fits him so much better than asthma, as someone who has both asthma and IST. And no, this isn't just me projecting my hyper specific heart condition onto one of my favourite characters, what do you mean....

There would be none of that flurry-rushing-of-flurry-rushing-of-flurry-rushing. No. Ganondorf would be obliterated in the fastest, most cold and efficient manner possible.

I think we as the LU fandom need to stop the whole "Sky gets mad at Wild for the Master Sword breaking in TOTK" and start going "Sky is going to throw hands with TOTK Ganondorf no matter what laws of magic he has to break to do so".

Bc let's be real here, if Sky ever found out that Ganondorf tried to kill Wild and literally destroyed Fi while attempting to do so bc she was protecting Wild the best she could, he really would just go and kill Ganondorf himself.

He would manifest himself into Tears of the Kingdom in any way he possibly could (as a ghost, via possession, literally forming a physical body out of pure spite and rage, fistfighting the Shadow to open a portal) and he would jump into the Hyrule Castle rift and murder Ganondorf single-handedly.

And Wild would 100% be on board with this bc 1. now he has the best back-up he could possibly ask for; and 2. he knows that Sky murdering Ganondorf would be glorious to watch

Screaming but no one can hear. Maybe it’s because of distance. Maybe it’s because there’s loud stuff in the background. Maybe it’s to do with the character’s voice. But either way, the whumpiest thing I can think of right now is that crushing feeling of suffering alone.

I'm gonna take the first 3 whump prompts that are sent to me! Then I'm deleting this post lol

I'm gonna sketch them tonight to get my art juices flowing after months of barely drawing❤️❤️

my life is slowly turning into a badly written wattpad ‘book’ please send help

I just wanna point out that Sky has one frame of screentime here. And he OWNS IT.

based on >These< guys It wouldn’t be as fun if I just outright told you guys everything now, would it? yes, you all will meet her.

I will never attack a wolf in BOTW again. Even if that means I die because stamina upgrades are always better than hearts (I got max stamina before 4 hearts LMAO).

[About #linkeduniverse] I had a bit of inspiration from service animals plus Wild has a lot of messed up baggage from his adventures (amnesia, failure, dead friends etc.) (btw this is the full version of a sketch that I showed a while back [X]

Bro it took me like 3 days to realize I misspelled the title of my own fic. Clarification: the fic is titled ‘Skydiving Safety 101’ lol.

Skydiving Safety 101

Summary: The Chain comes across a monster camp in Wild's era. Through no fault of their own, the ensuing fight does not go as planned. Sky is the one that pays the price.

Word Count: 3,013

Main Characters: Sky, Warriors, Wild

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64306954#main

hell yeah legend showing he cares by screaming in ravio's face and then both of them immediately breaking down I LOVE IT THIS IS SO IN CHARACTER YES *screams cries throws up yeets self to pluto*

Requests? Not sure if that was old or recent but just in case, Ravio and Legend??

If not, no worries at all!

Hey!

Thanks so much again for the request. Sorry it took so long... But I'm finally here to show it off!

Here it is!

I hope you like it. Thanks again!

Bye

heh. i found this on the ravioli tag. now im craving ravioli the food and the 'i wanna fucking kill you' besties of all time

I miss albw tails, I miss it a lot…

anyway, I saw this meme and it’s them I fear

RAVIO DOING BUNNY EARS TO LEGEND THIS IS SO FUNNY

They grew

@i-love-zelda-16 thank you so much for the tag!!!

Getting to know my mutuals

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Last Song: Points of Authority by Linkin Park

Favorite Color: blue (like DARK navy)

Last Book: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Numb by Skye_the_Lofty_Nutcase (@skyloftian-nutcase)

Last Movie: Moana 2

Last Show: Dragons Rising (season 2)

Latest Obsession: Legend of Zelda (and Linked Universe)

Looking Forward To: watching the Minecraft movie with friends, working on BOTW 100% run, writing some stuff, reading some stuff

Tagging (no pressure) @aaa-batteryy @palmolli @anicomicqueen

The floor is open to anyone else who wants to join, too!!!

get to know my mutuals

i saw another account do this and thought it would be fun

last song: Dancing On My Own by Robyn

favorite color: pink and green

last book: currently reading The Once and Future Sex by Dr. Eleanor Janega (it’s a reframing of medieval women in society)

last movie: The Thin Man (1934)

last show: currently watching The White Lotus and The Nanny

latest obsession: ancient greece, arthurian legend and alexander the great

looking forward to: the weekend

tagging: @adriennejosephines @princesscatherinemiddleton @estelletargaryen @leonisandmurex @dreamofstarlight @world-of-wales @foreverinthepagesofhistoryy

*please don’t feel pressured to do this if you’re not comfortable sharing, but these are the first blogs i thought of.

I need the dimension-hopping postal service to continue after the Chain inevitably disbands to go to their separate timelines. Like imagine Wild letter-spamming everyone at the beginning of TOTK complaining about how his stamina and health have been reset again. Because HOLY SHIT I KEEP DYING TO BOKOBLINS AND FALL DAMAGE RAHHHHH!!!!!

*sobs*

pumpkin soup stories

I went crazy with a prompt by @palmolli so now there's another 1k worth of fic sitting on the internet under my name.

Words: 1,083

Characters: Wild, Sun, the Chain

Summary: The Chain find themselves in Skyloft for the first time and Wild realizes he might have a lot more in common with Sun than anyone could have imagined.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64352950

pumpkin soup stories

I went crazy with a prompt by @palmolli so now there's another 1k worth of fic sitting on the internet under my name.

Words: 1,083

Characters: Wild, Sun, the Chain

Summary: The Chain find themselves in Skyloft for the first time and Wild realizes he might have a lot more in common with Sun than anyone could have imagined.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64352950

Passing out and getting my 5 hours is probably the right call here but I WILL have it up tomorrow! I promise those extra 300 words are WORTH IT (I made it angstier. Because angst. SO MUCH ANGST)!!!

Yall, I just realized a thing...

WILD AND SUN WOULD BE BEST FRIENDS.

hear me out here.

Both of them died, came back, and had to restore their memories. They both deal with feeling like an intruder in their own body, feeling like they can't live up to who they used to be in their past life. WAR PTSD!! FLASHBACKS!!! They're both knights (sort of? This is a bit of a stretch lmao) Sun went to a knight school, Wild used to be a knight before he kicked the bucket.

I need more content of them interacting and just relating to each other. Because they really would relate. Their experience of dying and coming back is not a very common one, and having someone else to relate to would probably make them overjoyed. Also, Wild has already spoken to her. Mostly just as a business exchange and she's Hylia then, but STILL. Pls someone write a fic abt them, I will marry you. This is my official proposal. Compete for my aroace hand right now. GET WRITING PLEASE YOU'LL HAVE MY SOUL. (because I'm too lazy to)

Okay this fic actually consumed my brain and I ended up adding a bit to make it like a proper 1k-ish fic (something in me just hates the idea of posting something on ao3 shorter than 1k lmao) and I’m thinking about actually posting it to ao3.

1. How would you like to be credited for the idea because holy shit I never would have thought of it but it’s SO GOOD

2. Should the title just be something like ‘pumpkin soup stories’ or a pun like ‘wildly sunny days’ (that’s a work in progress) or something completely different because titles are hard

Yall, I just realized a thing...

WILD AND SUN WOULD BE BEST FRIENDS.

hear me out here.

Both of them died, came back, and had to restore their memories. They both deal with feeling like an intruder in their own body, feeling like they can't live up to who they used to be in their past life. WAR PTSD!! FLASHBACKS!!! They're both knights (sort of? This is a bit of a stretch lmao) Sun went to a knight school, Wild used to be a knight before he kicked the bucket.

I need more content of them interacting and just relating to each other. Because they really would relate. Their experience of dying and coming back is not a very common one, and having someone else to relate to would probably make them overjoyed. Also, Wild has already spoken to her. Mostly just as a business exchange and she's Hylia then, but STILL. Pls someone write a fic abt them, I will marry you. This is my official proposal. Compete for my aroace hand right now. GET WRITING PLEASE YOU'LL HAVE MY SOUL. (because I'm too lazy to)

Stalk them, duh.

Why does this one ao3 author i would give my life to NOT HAVE ANY LINKS TO ANY SOCIALS THEY HAVE

yo that's crazy we might actually end up making a chain

yo i got a crazy idea, bro, like, what if. what if we linked the universes together bro 👀

SKY IS A FLYING FISH!!! LIKE THAT ONE OCTONAUTS EPISODE WITH FLYING FISH!!! ALL I NEED NOW IS FOR ONE OF THE LINKS TO BE A MUDSKIPPER!!!

"Poisson d'Avril !", as we say here 😄

Have some fish-related things

Wind being a menace :

The Chain as various fishes :

(Species and why I chose them under the cut)

I am not a fish specialist at all so everything is wikipedia and vibe based x)

Sky : exocetus volitans (a fish that flies)

Twilight : dicentrarchus labrax (in southern France it's sometimes named "sea wolf")

Wild : tylosurus crocodilus (idk the vibes worked)

Warriors : a fancy Betta species (vibes again)

Four : cirrhilabrus scottorum (small and colorful)

Legend : scyliorhinus canicula (a small shark species)

Ravio : echeneis naucrates (lives in symbiosis with sharks)

Hyrule : electrophorus electricus (electric fish of course)

Time : xiphias gladius (it's the nose)

Wind : caesio teres (little fish with bright blue and yellow colors)

WHAT THE HECK TYSM @i-love-zelda-16 I'VE NEVER DONE ONE OF THESE BEFORE I FRICKING LOVE THE INTERNET

My username is penguinly! It's actually not that deep but my long-term special interest since forever has been penguins and I hop between fandoms too often to choose a fandom-specific name. I chose penguinly because 'penguin' was taken on ao3 and it sounds really similar to Penguini which is the name of the penguin in my pfp. I probably chose to make it an adjective because it was like 2am and I thought it was really funny to have bad grammar. So yeah, I am now forever penguinly on the internet!

No pressure tags: @aaa-batteryy @palmolli @anicomicqueen

Floor's also open for anyone else who wants to share!

Tag Game!

Tag your moots and ask them where they got the idea for their tumblr accounts name! Thanks for the tag @hurricane105!

I’m a (genderflux) demiboy and I wanted something similar to my Wattpad username, NonbinaryNightmare, which was taken on tumblr. And I thought, hey, demiboydemon is pretty similar but accurate to my current gender identity.

No-pressure tagging some of my mutuals! @metro-mtp @hyruleairbnb @chimpukampu @livhatesbeans @beardedlink

Also the part where I have to explain it in increasingly stupid ways because some people just cannot understand aromanticism. Or choose not to. I honestly don’t know which one is more depressing. Like no, (friend’s name), this doesn’t mean I don’t think you’re good enough or that I just haven’t met the perfect nameless person yet. That ain’t how it works, buddy.

I dislike being aro. Kinda feels like I'm missing out. Like I love the idea of a relationship, but I'd HATE being in one, and that is HELL.

Mood

I lowkey want to explode rn

You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person

I woke up with a slightly sore throat and 5 COMMENT NOTIFICATIONS ON MY FIC I POSTED YESTERDAY????? TYSM TO EVERYONE WHO LEFT KUDOS AND COMMENTS!!!!!

Holy fuck this is incredible. I read a fic by liketolaugh on ao3 (either Coloring Inside the Lines or Honey Nut) that also headcanoned Link as having gone to the Spring of Wisdom when he was still 16. Regardless, I have so much respect for the amount of sheer number crunching you did here. o7

ANI'S (POORLY WRITTEN AND POORLY SOURCED) ARGUMENT FOR WHY SHE THINKS BOTW LINK IS YOUNGER THAN SEVENTEEN

You're honor, I know that almost everyone in the world seems to think that BOTW Link is at least seventeen because of this line in game:

Lanayru's Decree is very specific. It says: "No one is allowed under the age of seventeen... For only the wise are permitted a place on the mountain."

Now, I can read but I feel like it really, truly is up in the air whether Link actually joined her at the summit or not. I'd like to acknowledge that in the memory right before disaster strikes, we do see Zelda and Link walking toward the Champions. However, I'd also like to point out that there are some key possibilities that most are not considering.

First being, it is entirely possible that Link waited at the bottom of the mountain for her and there was a hand off with someone like Impa, another trusted adviser, a Sheikah body guard, or older Hylian knight, etc., that could have followed her up the mountain in Link's place.

OR

It's probably that even if Link was under the age of seventeen, a duty-driven youth like him would likely have no problem disobeying some "rule" of antiquity in order to protect that which he had been ordered by the King of Hyrule to protect.

I mean, think about it for a second. If you were tasked with guarding something precious and there was a sign in the wilderness that said, "Sorry only adults past this point," would you abandon the person/thing you'd been told to guard with your life?

I wouldn't. What is the sign going to do? Trap me? No way. Screw the rules, Link's got priorities. He's literally willing to throw his life away to save this princess. Some rule is not stopping him.

Not to mention most teenagers go through a rebellious phase. Name a teenager in the entirety of humanity that ALWAYS listened to everything they were told to or not to do.

Alternatively, there is also the possibility that Link, being the Hero Chosen by the Sword possesses the wisdom necessary to be upon the summit.

In previous games it is implied that the traits tend to coexist in the Hero.

In Skyward Sword Zelda only blesses the Master Sword after Link has gained wisdom, power, and courage:

Along your travels you have found wisdom, power, and courage, and for this I shall bless your sword with the goddess's power.

And in Wind Waker there is a collectible item Link can acquire from Dark Nuts that has a conditional:

The Knight's Crest... It is the symbol of a courageous knight... But not just anyone can gather them... No! It takes a soul who possesses not only power, but wisdom and courage as well! Any courageous soul who gathers ten of these crests can learn a powerful new sword technique!

Even the child Link in Ocarina of Time is acknowledged as having at the very least wisdom when his courage is tested by the Great Deku Tree:

I need you to break the curse with your wisdom and courage. Dost thou have courage enough to undertake this task?

In this question asked right from the first trial the thing in question is not Link's wisdom, but his courage, and with him being a child, of course he does not have power, which is later proven when he is knocked to the ground by Ganondorf.

Anywho, I'm not saying it is definite that Link is under seventeen, or that it is impossible for him to be older than seventeen in BOTW. I'm just saying that it is POSSIBLE and probable that he is younger than seventeen.

Other reasons that I think he tends toward being younger in BOTW is due to the dialogue I experienced while playing. I think I ran into every instance of "boy," "kid," "kiddo," "youth," and "young man" I could during my play through.

After looking at the text dump from the game and taking into consideration the context when each word was used I came up with the following guesstimates on number of times they were used in reference to Link:

"Boy": ~30 times

"Kid": ~37 times

"Kiddo": ~9 times

"Youth": ~6 times

"Kiddums": ~12 times

"Little Vai/Voe": ~13 times**

"Young man": ~24 times*

"Little Hylian": ~8 times**

"Child": ~1 time***

Some quick notes on three of the above.

(*) "Young man" is used in reference to two characters. One of them being Link and the other being Nebb. If you don't remember Nebb it's the kid from Hateno Village that wants to see the weapons from across Hyrule. Not for nothin' but does this kid look like a young man to anybody?

Because he doesn't too me. Which makes me believe that the characters using "young man" to describe Link are not doing so because they think Link is a young adult man, but because they are trying to endear him to them. I mostly think this because it is either older Hylians that call him this or Hylians that are selling Link something.

Here are some quotes from BOTW Text Dump and the ways "young man" is used:

Unless I've gone mad, you seem to be a young man dressed in some fabulous Gerudo clothes.

(This instance seems to be trying to endear Link to the speaker.)

Much obliged, young man. I guarantee my drills are worth twice what you pay.

(This instance is literally someone who is selling a good/service to Link.)

Young man... A straight shooter checks his wallet before he antes up, not after. Sort yourself out, and come back later.

(Here is an instance where the "young man" seems sarcastic or is meant as a rebuke because Link didn't think to see if he had enough money before trying to gamble. It's still someone using a customer service style voice though to get money from Link.)

Mmmm, I thought I detected the fragrance of a young man nearby...

In case this creepy one is confusing this one is one of the Great Fairies. I can't remember which one, but they also call Link "boy" from time to time. Again, they get rupees from Link so he is a customer to them.

You look like you could use a good meal, young man...

Yet again, we have someone trying to sell Link something and they go for using "young man" over any other term.

Let's move on to the next term.

(**) "Little Hylian" is crossed out in the list because it is used almost exclusively by the Gorons. Them being giant rock eating beings who live far and away from Hylians and not having that many dealings with them it is no surprise that to them all Hylians would be little so them calling Link "Little Hylian" does not indicate one way or another how old Link might be.

(**) "Little Vai/Voe" on the other hand is a different story. The Gerudo, being an almost exclusively female race, regularly seek out and procreate with Hylians. They also have a trading post and city where Hylian vai are welcome to enter and trade amongst them. With so much more exposure to Hylian males and females, it is more likely that they are familiar with the general age and size of most Hylians. Therefore, what the Gerudo say about Link's stature and age is relevant to deciding how old he could be.

Overall, they don't use the term "little vai/voe" all that often, only thirteen(ish) times, but the context they use it in is very informative and open to interpretation.

These drinks are for adults, got it?

Regarding the Noble Pursuit there are a few more like this that imply Link is not an adult:

You see, we mix special drinks here. Drinks that are definitely for adults...

Little Hylian Vai. Be sure to come back when you're all grown up.

Milk?! We don't carry anything as childish as milk here!

It's a really strong drink. Even if I could make it, I wouldn't sell it to a little vai like you.

All of these are in reference to Link trying to get a Noble Pursuit (heavily implied to be an alcoholic beverage), and even though they let the young Hylian woman, Jules, drink Noble Pursuits, they refuse to serve Link.

Jules is interesting for my study because when Link meets her she clocks him as a "boy" specifically and her using "boy" in context reads as her knowing that she is older than this kid wearing Gerudo Vai clothes.

The game does use the term "guy" quite a bit, which I'll get to down below, so if he were just being called out as being a dude and was around her age, she would probably have opted for "Aren't you...well, aren't you a guy?" rather than saying, "Might you be...a boy?"

And if having a young Hylian woman clock Link as a "boy" isn't enough, then all the times the Gerudo call him a "vai" at all is very telling.

Link is quite androgynous which was done on purpose to help players better relate to him, but seriously almost ALL the Gerudo ladies believe Link is not only a Vai, but a "little" vai at that.

Like, I know Link is short, but to be mistaken for a Hylian Vai by a tribe of buff women? This makes me think one of three things. Link either doesn't have many muscles, most Hylian females are muscular, OR, Link is young and doesn't have well-developed muscle mass yet.

Just for kicks, I'm gonna put my favorite quote from the text dump:

Oh look at this cute little vai...I be you would absolutely love what we have to offer, little one.

That one is a double dose of "little" that just tells me Link is adorable and furthers my agenda that he's just a lil guy.

Now. Speaking of lil guys. I said I'd touch on the number of times the game uses "guy" in reference to Link. And that number is around ~82 times. You could argue, "See? The game acknowledges that Link isn't a boy or a kid. They call him a guy and guys are older than kids." However, over one third of these instances are "Little Guy" where Daruk is talking to or about Link, or where other Gorons are referencing Link.

The other ones uses vary from the girl in Hateno that Link collects crickets for, to Bozu and few guys in Gerudo Desert that meet Link. In Bozu's case, is uses guy in the context of "just a guy," because he was hoping Link was a girl. In the case of another character, he checks while Link is in the Vai outfit and asks something along the lines of, "Are you actually a guy?" It's implied that he has met the man Link bought the Vai clothes from on top of the inn in Kara Kara Bazaar.

For comparison the number of times Link is implied to be young versus the times Link is implied to be older turned out to be 138 - 49, with the implication that Link is young being far more likely in my eyes.

Far and above though, the main reason I can't see Link as seventeen is because of the Hero of the Wilds outfit. Just....He looks like a lil kid going on safari y'all. I love it to death and he looks adorable and I just can't unsee it.

Skydiving Safety 101

Summary: The Chain comes across a monster camp in Wild's era. Through no fault of their own, the ensuing fight does not go as planned. Sky is the one that pays the price.

Word Count: 3,013

Main Characters: Sky, Warriors, Wild

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64306954#main

hell yeah. the 'botw/totk link eats rocks headcanon' lezgooooooooo.

@probablypurple made this joke, and I had to draw it. Can you imagine this feral man losing it every time his missing wife rings him to drop more devastating historical fun facts?