I know it's not happening with the current story, but if you did one day decide to put botw Link in Dimensional Links, what would you make him like? The same wild animal that everyone portrays him as, or would you want to do something a little different? Also the Tri Force Heroes and Hyrule Warriors Link, would you want to put them in too?
ABSOLUTELY YES. I already have their names and personality traits picked out, I cannot wait to have an excuse to start my sequel/spin-off idea for real and add them to the group dynamic. In order, my head canons are as follows:
He can cook like nobody’s business. He gets Grandma’s Soup recipe perfectly on his very first try and Gen spends the rest of the day in a vague sort of funk because he never did manage it himself.
He’s quiet. Like, really quiet. You all think Speck doesn’t say much, he’s nothing compared to this guy. Amnesia combined with excruciatingly long periods of time spend in the wilderness with nobody else around means that Rune has the social skills of an unripe tomato, and he has no idea how to interact with a group the size of the DL crew. They’re all so loud. Like, silence in BotW is the most important thing. The soundtrack is quiet, you have a freaking noise meter, and the Guardian stalkers can and will murder you for drawing their attention.
The universe music freaks him out. He’s from a Hyrule where the background soundtrack is all but nonexistent save for a few specific places, and the first time he ends up in OoT Hyrule Field he just about has a stroke. How are you supposed to hear your enemies coming if all this music is in the way? It takes him the longest time to figure out that the universe music will actually warn him about the incoming enemies, but he still thinks it’s weird. I headcanon that this is actually a side effect of the Malice in his home Hyrule - the universe music got eaten away, and it’s only recently that the world is starting to heal enough that it can play again, hence the little trills and things we get out in the wilds, and why towns and stables still have a theme, albeit muted and a bit subdued. The presence of people helps the process along
He’ll turn into the group pack mule, eventually, because it is ridiculous how much stuff he can carry.
He’ll never be very vocal, but once he gets used to the DL crew and gets absorbed into the dynamic, he’s promptly going to adopt them all as family. This boy is so starved for social interaction it’s almost painful to watch. And all that trauma from 100 years ago? Watching all his friends and family die? Not being able to remember them all? Yeah, he needs therapy, and I will gladly throw it at him in the form of eighteen loving siblings.
By color, their names are Emerald, Ruby, and Sapphire. Yes, this might be a reference to Pokemon. No, I don’t actually care how that comes across. It fits them and I’m sticking to it.
They are, technically, all Sketch, but I’ve got an idea in mind that will differentiate them. Basically, they’re alternate dimensional Sketches running adjacent to the universe of Sketch’s Hyrule. I really did try to push Sketch into the TriForce mold, but he just wouldn’t fit. So this happened instead.
They’re pranksters. Shadow gets along with them like a house on fire, most specifically Ruby.
Of course they still do their stacking thing, and naturally they’ve got all their outfits. And the hair - I can make so many jokes about blue and green hair, how could I not?
Emerald is the leader, so to speak. He won’t step up to it most of the time, because the TriLinks prefer to have a group huddle and come to their decisions that way, but if either of the other two need reining in, he’ll be the one to do it.
Sapphire is a bit timid, in that he’s much more likely to stay quiet about his own wants in favor of letting his teammates have their way. He and Red get along very well, mostly because of how similar they are. Both Emerald and Ruby are working on getting him to actually say his opinions out loud - it’s very slow going.
Ruby is sarcastic and easily annoyed. Of the three of them, he’s the one who puts the most effort into their pranks, and he’s probably the one most likely to pick a fight. He’ll get angry to cover up the fact that he might not know what’s going on, which was a pretty big point of tension between him and his two teammates in the beginning. It took a very long time for him to get along with Sapphire, because Sapphire automatically assumed that Ruby hated him. It’s still a work in progress, but ever since Ruby took to violently insulting (and sometimes assaulting) anyone who made Sapphire upset, it’s gotten much better.
Like literally, he can’t talk. I want him to be mute. Link is the silent protagonist, right? I gotta have one somewhere ;)
My reasoning for this is that, in a game where inter-character communication is literally woven into the gameplay, Link never says a word. It’s all his companion fairy, Proxi. My theory for this is that Proxi, as a fairy, is naturally attuned to Link’s emotions, and based on what he’s feeling, she’ll put it into words and say it out loud.
Lux is nowhere near as polite as Proxi makes him seem
He does know Sign, and conveniently so does Lore. This of course means that the entire group eventually will too.
All his life, he’s had to deal with people assuming what he’s saying, and usually twisting that around to suit their own needs. If Lux had a voice of his own, the first thing he would do is tell off absolutely everybody. He’s got insults for days.
His whole personality is a low simmering annoyance.
He’s the brawler. Nobody can deal out damage like he can, literally nobody. In exchange though, he can’t really take a hit. A glass cannon, if you will.
Once the group learns his Sign Language, all bets are off. Screw this ‘being polite’ business, Lux has people who can understand him for the first time in ages, and he’s going to take advantage of it.
Shadow loves him. Lux doesn't quite return the favor. He gets along pretty well with Ruby though, and ends up gravitating towards Rune on the basis of “Lore is way too loud for us to handle sometimes”.
I have so many more ideas for these boys but this is getting long enough as is. Thank you so much for giving me the excuse to gush about them!