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Ah yes Ravioli, our favourite ahh-hole <3, and Zelda our lovely princess <333
Gonna be honest our lovely bird boy’s FLIPPING bow n’ arrow gave me sm trouble like istg 😭😭
At least Zelda didn’t give me as much trouble </3 (But it was probably all that stored up motivation for that drawing lmao😭😭)
I played breath of the wild one time
Got the giant horse from the get-go, and took it up a cliff rather than around th lynels
when will i see you again?
This is my progress on my firsts Piece of Fanart ever, it‘s Zelda Fanart and I hope I‘ll be done soon
a little analysis of the small characterizations that are in just this cutscene. they make me ill
Wisdom: doing the apparatus shrines in BOTW the way they’re intended
Courage: going fuck it and shaking the Switch like my last brain cell in a soda can and praying for the best.
Power: using stasis on the stupid metal balls and yeeting them across the shrine in frustration after failing both methods listed above
Problem Solving: Courage Vs Wisdom - How would you get the Book of Mudora?
Click here for part 2
Me? Posting to the wrong blog? I would never. You saw nothing.
I can totally imagine Zelda giving Link the slip every time they go to Rito Village to vent about how utterly infuriatingly arrogant and insufferable her new chosen shadow is. So obviously Revali hates Link to begin with and his jealousy is only an extension of that. Because who is this random Hylian kid to treat Zelda like that and how is he worthy of wielding the Master Sword when Revali isn't?
Then imagine Revali's regret when it's a hundred years later and suddenly he gets to observe Link from Vah Medoh and whenever he uses Gale. Link was never actually dismissive of Zelda and he never thought he was any better than Revali or anyone else for that matter. Only in death does Revali realize that Link was silent because he was under so much pressure from literally everyone he met and Revali used to antagonize him for it.
Revali realizes that this is the real Link, the one using Revali's Gale to explore and experience the life that he never got to have for himself before he died. The silent knight from before the Calamity was a survival mechanism that people like Revali forced him to use when they told him he wasn't good enough or that he wasn't worthy. Link and Revali have a chance to start over when they both die but Revali is honestly so happy for Link when he also gets a second chance at life.
I headcanon that the ghosts of the Champions finally moved on after the Calamity was defeated so obviously there's potential for a lot of angst there but I'd like to think that Revali gets to leave Hyrule for the last time satisfied that he's made amends. Link will slowly remember more and more of the hostile and jealous Revali of the past but it's okay. He chooses to remember the person he met after waking up a hundred years in the future and Revali's memory lives on as a tragic but hopeful tale.
Personally I think Revali would be physically affectionate with Zelda. Seeing as he's a commoner (at least not nobility), he didn't grow up around the environment of "untouchable royals." so he's just throwing a wing around her shoulder or leaning in her. (one time he shoved her playfully and she about squealed with delight.) With Zelda, I think she'd appreciate a friend who wouldn't be afraid to be close to her or speak honestly with her. I think she'd find his attitude refreshing and he would likewise finding her interesting and accepting for his idea of how nobility acts. They just give me a very loving platonic relationship vibe
Ooh and this could be another reason why Revali doesn't like Link because he seems so apathetic towards Zelda in his memories.
Personally I think Revali would be physically affectionate with Zelda. Seeing as he's a commoner (at least not nobility), he didn't grow up around the environment of "untouchable royals." so he's just throwing a wing around her shoulder or leaning in her. (one time he shoved her playfully and she about squealed with delight.) With Zelda, I think she'd appreciate a friend who wouldn't be afraid to be close to her or speak honestly with her. I think she'd find his attitude refreshing and he would likewise finding her interesting and accepting for his idea of how nobility acts. They just give me a very loving platonic relationship vibe
thank you to @aaa-batteryy for convincing me to write qpr zelink yuri angst. reblog/like/scream at me via internet if you’d also be interested.
@aaa-batteryy It’s really simple. I see @blueskittlesart post and I tag you.
something something grabbing your boyfriend by the belt loops
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!!!
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.
I've thought about this way too much so I think I'll just dump every single intelligent thought I've had in my life here. There's three main ideas that I have regarding this and you could really just pick and choose the ones you agree with most, choose one that makes the most sense, or say that they all happen at the same time. I'm just a rando on the internet. You don't have to pick up what I'm putting down.
Okay, first things first, the most obvious answer is that there's probably just been a whole lot of chaos going on since the Calamity first emerged 100 years before the events of BOTW and far beyond TOTK. The entire kingdom was decimated by the Calamity and most of Hyrule wasn't able to properly rebuild until the end of BOTW when Calamity Ganon's influence was sealed/destroyed. During this time, I'm pretty sure most people either thought Zelda was dead (don't trust me on this, I don't really remember for sure) or knew that she'd sealed herself inside Hyrule Castle but at that point, there isn't much they can do to recover her. Formalizing her title as a queen probably wasn't their priority or even much of a possibility until she returned. And that brings me to my second point.
So not only was it kind of impossible or at least not worth it to change Zelda's title during the Calamity but I also think there would have been bigger priorities after she returned. This is probably the closest to your theory, in which there's just been so much going on between BOTW and TOTK that no one's really been that concerned with Zelda becoming the official queen. In this new post-Calamity Hyrule, it's very likely that people just accept Zelda as some sort of a leader figure regardless of her title not only because she's the last of the living royal bloodline but she also basically saved them all by sealing Ganon. Between that level of respect and the fact that there's so much rebuilding and healing to do across Hyrule, I think it makes sense that everyone's got enough on their plates right now without dealing with authority figure dilemmas.
The last point is probably the most important one to me and it's that Zelda probably doesn't want to be so tied up in royalty and titles anymore. We can see in the flashbacks in BOTW that she clearly grew up her entire life not being given a choice in accepting her predestined fate. This fate essentially had two facets: being the next Princess Zelda in a long, long, long, line of descendants of the goddess, and being able to seal the Calamity Ganon. It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that she sees those two things as very tightly connected traumas. And after sealing Ganon, she's free. She is heavily implied in TOTK to be living as normal of a life as possible in Hateno. For the first time in her life, she has the freedom to be whoever she wants to be and do whatever she wants to do.
So yeah, I'd like to think that Zelda chooses to keep her old title not out of fear of responsibility but simply out of respect for the past and also chooses not to be Hyrule's queen because she knows that Hyrule is different now. She's changed and grown as a character and her role in leading Hyrule has also grown as the people she leads have changed over the 100 years she was stuck in Hyrule Castle. She will forever be 'Princess Zelda' to some people and 'just Zelda' to others and I think it's beautiful that she gets that second choice to live her life the way she wants to live it.
can anyone who knows the lore better tell me why (at least in the botw/totk era) princess zelda is still princess when technically she should be queen since king rhoam's death or does the ascension of royalty in this universe's monarchy different i'm genuinely curious
(i mean, i suppose, the events of botw and then totk might have been the reason why she isn't queen yet)
(also, on a completely different note, tell me why i saw someone on twt say that, and i quote, "link canon wise is christian")
o7
Cue the manic hyperfixation tomorrow after my fricking math test in which I write like 5k of madness in an hour. I fucking love the internet. Holy shit I am gonna show up to that math test sleep deprived as fuck.
Hear me out. What if at some point during the Chain's adventures they come across their past selves WHILE in the middle of their own quests. Like (example) they walk into Wild's era and he's there fighting his first lynel. And now you can either choose the angst or crack path.
Angst: This is Wild like two weeks after waking up in the Shrine of Resurrection. He is fighting this lynel with the same amount of finesse that I did. As in he is losing. Badly. So they either send in one or multiple or maybe they YOLO it and it's the entire gang. They get past Wild back up on his feet, maybe give him a weapon that won't break after like 5 hits, and help him out. Then they go back and present Wild is like 'yeah that happened but I'm better now' or something. Yeah.
Crack: On the other hand, you could also go full speedrunner Wild mode and write him absolutely destroying this lynel. Like this poor thing has no chance against the physics-defying and mindbogglingly unpredictable Wild. This kind of situation is the reason why you can't spell the word "bewildering" without 'Wild' and he fucking owns it. Fuck it, maybe past and present Wild even team up and briefly break the universe via accidental glitch. Yup.
So yeah, this would happen for the entire Chain, ideally. I'll probably write this at some point. Maybe. Who knows. I just thought this up while studying for a math test and it's way too late at night for me to be functioning properly so yeah.
Hear me out. What if at some point during the Chain's adventures they come across their past selves WHILE in the middle of their own quests. Like (example) they walk into Wild's era and he's there fighting his first lynel. And now you can either choose the angst or crack path.
Angst: This is Wild like two weeks after waking up in the Shrine of Resurrection. He is fighting this lynel with the same amount of finesse that I did. As in he is losing. Badly. So they either send in one or multiple or maybe they YOLO it and it's the entire gang. They get past Wild back up on his feet, maybe give him a weapon that won't break after like 5 hits, and help him out. Then they go back and present Wild is like 'yeah that happened but I'm better now' or something. Yeah.
Crack: On the other hand, you could also go full speedrunner Wild mode and write him absolutely destroying this lynel. Like this poor thing has no chance against the physics-defying and mindbogglingly unpredictable Wild. This kind of situation is the reason why you can't spell the word "bewildering" without 'Wild' and he fucking owns it. Fuck it, maybe past and present Wild even team up and briefly break the universe via accidental glitch. Yup.
So yeah, this would happen for the entire Chain, ideally. I'll probably write this at some point. Maybe. Who knows. I just thought this up while studying for a math test and it's way too late at night for me to be functioning properly so yeah.
Final update! I probably won’t finish this after all but holy shit this is cool.
cookie for anyone who can tell who this is. yes this is what i was doing in my ap computer science class.
Update: I’m absolutely fucked for my AP Biology test tomorrow but LOOK AT THE MASTER SWORD!!!!! OH MY FUCKING GODS THAT TOOK LIKE 20 TRIES HOLY SHIT!!!!!
cookie for anyone who can tell who this is. yes this is what i was doing in my ap computer science class.
cookie for anyone who can tell who this is. yes this is what i was doing in my ap computer science class.
if anyone asks why link and zelda are qpr im shoving this in their face. qpr zelink fucking fight me on it. i can and will go down with this ship.
TOTK: Failure
Life goals right here.
botw/totk zelink has grown on me in time but personally i think the funniest interpretation of their relationship is that link, having absolutely no memories apart from muscle memory, has zero concept of dating or romantic relationships. it doesnt help that hes aroace because he thinks his very queerplatonic relationship with zelda is just them being "ultra best friends." if you asked him if he was dating the princess link would be like Dating? does it really look like that? like yea we're roommates we sleep on the same bed sometimes i make her breakfast every morning we cuddle while watching horror movies on the ipad but isnt that just what ultra best friends do?? and if you ask zelda the same question she just shrugs and says can't tell but im happy with this
YES LEZGO THE ZELINK QPR HEADCANON
I need them to hug so bad you don't understand TwT
Zelink my beloved they're the qpr ever🥺
SO CUTE AND WHOLESOME AHHHHHHH
*gently holds*
The leftovers on the floor are what really sell this.
Well it was working fine for him!
@aaa-batteryy I saw you like the last one I reposted. I’M WATCHING YOU!!!!!
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FROM EVERYONES FAVORITE TRANSGENDER VIDEO GAME COUPLE
I don’t even ship zelink romantically but this? This I agree with.
as is tradition, happy pride from everyone's favorite transgender video game couple!!!
Link with that true older sibling dead stare. 10/10 accuracy.
Can... Can we have more Aryll? Please? Cuddling her big brother because she finally understood the weight her brother carries with the Master Sword?
it’s tough to be a kid sometimes