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🏳️‍🌈 He/him, over 18 🏳️‍⚧️ Call me Wings or whatever else you want to I'm a LoZ fan who writes, draws, and makes music

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About This Blog:

Hello! I'm a fan of The Legend of Zelda series and Linked Universe who makes art, writes, and composes music. I am almost constantly working on something and experimenting with new techniques.

Feel free to use/share whatever is posted here as long as you include credit and don't use it to train AI. Asks are welcome.

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Ao3: BrodestWings

My Ravios meet AU: @a-band-of-merchants

⋆ . *. ʚ○ More About Me ○ɞ . *. ⋆

Part of the LGBTQ+ community, autistic, and 18+

I live under a rock, so I will likely not understand most non-Zelda references or more obscure text speak. Also, if I come off as too formal in interactions, just know that it is just how I naturally both speak and write.

Zelda games were an integral part in my childhood. Despite that, BOTW was the first one I actually beat, and that was several years after I started playing it (I have a bad habit of getting to the final dungeon or boss and just never picking up the game again).

Games I have beaten: Breath of the Wild, Skyward Sword, Minish Cap, Echoes of Wisdom, Tears of the Kingdom, A Link Between Worlds

Am in the final dungeon of: Twilight Princess, Link's Awakening DX, Ocarina of Time

Started: ALttP (am about half way through skull woods), Oracle of Ages (lead up to 6th dungeon), Phantom Hourglass (finished 2nd dungeon), Majora's mask (finished 1st dungeon)

Am very familiar with but have not played myself: Wind Waker, Zelda 1, Zelda 2: Adventure of Link

Favorite: Skyward Sword (Link’s Awakening is a close second)

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New one shot, this time for BotW:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

What looks calm and peaceful on the outside can be deceiving. A quiet night camping while keeping guard of the princess? Well, Link may be known as her silent knight, but his thoughts are anything but.

(A pre-calamity character study of Link)

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Legend Lorekeeper Art Gallery

Doodling Session Edition! Thank you everyone who joined me and participated in the magma o7 @broadestwings currently working on their Raviomeets AU

@blueinsunlight very adorable blorbos

@hyrulefantasyenjoyer I'm working on the server and artstuff

@lanayru-hyrule long time Skyward Sword

@echo-solar (we also do trad art while we magma hehe)

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hi. tell me something you find interesting. it can be literally anything

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Hmmm…

Well, cats are little weirdos, though that’s not anything new by itself. One part of their weirdo-ness is that actually have 3 eyelids.

There’s the top eyelid, the bottom eyelid, then also a 3rd that closes sideways across the from the innermost corner of the eye under the other 2. It’s hard to see a lot of the time, but you can sometimes catch a glimpse of it when a cat is just waking up!

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Quick-ish Ravio warm up drawing

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Finding tenderness amidst the horrors of war...

Hyrule Warriors Ravioli, drawn for my friend @eclipse-ofthe-sun

Lineart version below

...Forgot to include this at first. Oops

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Not Sheerow (One shot)

No. No, no no no. No…

Ravio spun in a slow circle, scanning his house for the umpteenth time.

“Sheerow?” he said again. Despite already having checked them, opened his cabinets and riffled through the various piles of junk shoved inside. Still, no sign of Sheerow.

She had to be somewhere. Right? And she should be able to hear him calling for her. She always came when she was called. Usually. That would be, unless she had died. Or was injured and left unconscious somewhere. Or stuck, trapped and scared where he could not reach or hear her.

But no, she could not be dead. Surely.

He didn’t know, not for sure… He couldn’t know. Not yet. But…

Images of what might be flashed through his mind. She could be somewhere dangerous all alone. He might stumble across her body bloody and broken. Maybe she was already dead. Maybe her body was already infested with wriggling things he could almost feel crawling under his own skin. Or maybe some wild animal found her lying there defenseless and all he would find would be…

“Stop,” he muttered, shaking his head in an attempt to dispel his thoughts. He willed his imagination to stop being so over-active. It was silly, really, wasn’t it? To immediately assume the worst?

He needed to keep looking. And hoping.

He shook his pouch of Sheerow’s favorite seed. Nothing. There was no sound of flapping wings or familiar chirps.

Oh dear. No, no, no. Not her. Not Sheerow. She can’t be…

Ravio tried to calm his breathing but his heart was too fast and his head was too light and the ringing in his ears was only getting louder and…

He tried to block out the images pounding at his mind. Just for a second, he closed his eyes. That only made it worse.

Outside. He still hadn’t checked outside. Ravio threw on his boots as fast as he could and made sure to grab his ice rod just in case. Despite the possibility of only confirming his fear, he was out the door in a matter of seconds.

His flurry of movement halted in an instant.

He stared at the weathervane in front of his house, at Sheerow.

She was fine. Perfectly fine, just sitting on the weathervane, pruning her feathers like she had not just scared him half to death. She was not dead. She…

Barely breathing, Ravio walked to her. Alive. Once he was close enough, he extended his hand. It trembled.

Sheerow hopped onto his hand and looked up at him curiously. As he focused on the very real feeling of Sheerow’s talons on his palm and her slight weight, he tried to feel relieved. She was safe, after all, clearly. He should have felt relieved.

“Don’t do that,” Ravio whispered, “Don’t scare me like that. I thought… Not you. I can’t lose you too.”

His words turned into a strangled sob. Hugging himself with his free arm, he looked around, alert, straining his ears for any noise and eyes for any movement.

Everything remained quiet and still. His exhale shook like the rest of his body. He was fine. Sheerow was fine. So why did it feel like everything was still wrong? Why was he still so filled with dread?

Ravio forced his legs to start moving back to his house.

He closed the door behind him, then collapsed more than sank to the floor.

Another sob racked his body as he sat there. Sheerow hopped down onto the floor next to him. He dared not take his eyes off her, like she’d somehow disappear from existence if he looked away, as ridiculous and impossible as that sounded.

He had already lost so much. He never knew his parents, at least from what he could remember. He was raised by his aunt for most of his life, but when he had been only nine, she disappeared into the night with little more than a word. He was taken in by the royal family after they discovered his talent with magic, but the king died a year after. Two more years later, Lady Prima, attendant to the royal family sacrificed herself for him when he had been stupid enough to go across the sea with her to the countries of Termina and Garoboe. And most recently, he was losing Hilda as well, this time to the leech that was Yuga. If he lost Sheerow too…

Sheerow nudged his knee.

“Am I worrying you now too, buddy?” Ravio forced a laugh at the show of concern through his tears, though it did not really sound like one. He sniffeled. “Sorry about that. Ha, I always jump to conclusions, huh?”

Sheerow just stared up at him and cocked her head. Alive.

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

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Character Analysis of Twilight (TP Link)

Wolves are pack animals. They commonly represent protection, loyalty, and instincts. These are all important aspects of Twilight’s character as can be seen in-game. 

Twilight is driven by protecting others, primarily his loved ones. He goes into a dangerous forest to save one of the village kids and initially becomes willing to help Midna because that’ll mean he can save the ones that went missing (along with being stuck as a wolf, but that’s not the core drive here. Protecting his village’s kids is, as is demonstrated by his reactions in cutscenes). 

He is loyal first and foremost to the people of Ordon village, who would act as his figurative pack in a sense. Over the course of his adventure, Twilight also becomes loyal to Midna. There’s a deep care at the core of his character for those close to him. His care for animals and the village children in particular point to protecting the innocent especially being an overall larger drive for him.

This protecting of those he is loyal to is done through strength. That’s not physical strength necessarily, as is stated by one of the kids from the village he grew up in, Colin, but by being brave. Of course, Twilight is still physically very strong (he can somehow throw an entire Goron for one), and courage is an important trait of all the Links, but this Link’s bravery is still especially notable. 

Twilight embodies courage on a more instinctual level. He leaps from a burning bridge high above water without a second of hesitation, practically immediately leaps onto Epona when she’s spooked to reign her in, and faces charging goats and Gorons head on and without flinching. 

His Twilight Realm form being a wolf then speaks a lot to these characteristics of his.

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Wild Character Analysis: 

To me, Wild is very much driven by survival and curiosity in a “there’s so many things to discover and who knows what those new possibilities may be of use” way. I see what people consider his “wilder” tendencies (ex. mining using swords, still eating dubious food, making elixirs out of insects/lizards/frogs, etc.), not as being due to stupidity or a love for chaos, but as creative adaptability for the sake of survival and (especially) his immediate goal. Also, while this is more headcanon-y, I think he'd have ADHD. ...And that's not just me projecting, I promise, lol.

Basically Wild’s thought process is (according to me): Something works? Maybe it’s not conventional, but if it means he’ll be able to accomplish what he needs to do, that’s great!

That’s not to say he doesn’t have a moral limit or feel social pressure to not do certain things, however. He definitely does, just not as much now compared to in the Before Times (100 years ago). Losing his memories probably would have alleviated a lot of that. Now he just feels A LOT of guilt and most likely has an identity crisis! …Yay? (Though I imagine a lot of this gets resolved by TotK, at least to some extent). 

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Lorule/Hyrule Situation Swap AU Notes

First post about this Situation Swap AU for Lorule and Hyrule: here

For a general run down of this AU, basically, Lorule is the world with a Triforce while Hyrule is without its Triforce. Hyrule is in ruin. When a fissure to Lorule is discovered, Zelda sends Link to ask Hilda for help to avoid the doom seemingly looming in Hyrule Kingdom's near future.

These are a few additional notes:

I’m making it so that the thing that allows Link and Ravio to freely travel between Lorule and Hyrule is actually a Mirror Pendant that functions like the Magic Mirror in ALttP. 

I’m also changing it so that, when Link and Zelda reunite (and Ravio meets Zelda for the first time), she explains that, “Sheerow is alive and well, but cannot be returned with Agahnim still here in Hyrule Castle.” This then leads to Link and Ravio going to get the Master Sword, which instead requires something at the end of 3 dungeons in Hyrule. That gives Ravio more motivation to continue helping and a chance to see the state that Hyrule is in without its Triforce. That (in addition to Ravio not wanting Hilda to go through with this war anymore than she has when he knows she’ll regret it later, and possibly cause her own destruction in the process) then leads to him actually agreeing to help Link request aid from Lorule for Hyrule. 

Also, Ravio gets the Bow of Light in this AU for a few reasons. First of all, in Hyrule Warriors, although it's not officially canonical, Ravio is the only non-Zelda to have Light arrows as a part of his permanent move-set. The bow is also a good fit for Ravio's personality in terms of weapons as it is long range and is often shown to stun Ganon in the Zelda games rather than outright kill him. Besides that, Ravio in general is more magically inclined, so him using this magical bow and its magically powered arrows makes sense to me.

Lastly, the Bow of Light is a staple of Zelda games, especially when paired with the Master Sword, and I wanted to give Ravio his own weapon like the Master Sword. The Bow of Light therefore fit well, even if Lorule seems to be more aligned with shadow than light elementally. It could always be replaced with a Bow of Shadow or something like that, though.

Dungeons if this were to be a game:

Introductory mini dungeon: Lorule Castle dungeons

Full dungeons 1, 2, and 3: temples in Lorule 

Full dungeons 4, 5, and 6: temples in Hyrule

Mini dungeon: Hyrule Castle (has surprisingly easy boss battle against Agahnim)

Dungeon 7: Lorule (possibly Skull Woods or a temple in the Skull Woods)

Final dungeon: Lorule Castle (Ravio stops Link from slaying the guards, something which he does throughout their journey. They can instead just be knocked out) 

In this AU, Link, Zelda, Ravio, and Hilda are all in their older teens (Link and Ravio: around 17-18, Zelda and Hilda: around 20-21). 

I took a lot of inspiration for the plot itself from Twilight Princess. Ravio takes on a similar role to Midna and he and Link have a somewhat similar reason for working together initially. This was not initially on purpose, but once I realized the similarity, I leaned into it a little more. Overall though, I wanted to stick fairly close to the events of ALBW and general Zelda conventions, but it is of course still different.

There were probably other things I was going to talk about…but I can’t remember what they were anymore, lol.

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Peach Is Malon's Mom Fic

So...I wrote a thing and now this exists.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Malon’s father, Talon, shared his appearance with a certain jump man from another universe.

It was from that other universe that Princess Peach, tired of being kidnapped, fled to Hyrule. She fell in love and started a family with a man there, one so much like her jump man back home in the Mushroom Kingdom. But Talon could never truly be her Mario...

Or: the (true) story of who Malon’s mother really was, the reason for her absence during Ocarina of Time, and the jump men she met along the way. Because Peach is Malon's Mom.

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Techy, Wild's Lolian counterpart. This is a design concept for the Lorulean version of Breath of the Wild.

Thank you @maareyas for the The Legend of Hilda: Still of the City logo design! The original post of this logo can be viewed here.

▽ AU Master Post

Version without logo + a few notes below.

The flowers in this are symbolic. First of all, red was historically the Lorule Royal Family's color until yellow (or gold like the Triforce) became more prominent. Red then connects to the kingdom’s past. As for their placements, the flower behind Techy then represents him, with him being distant from everyone else due to various aspects of his backstory. The rest of the flowers are then in front of him as part of the more overgrown vines and moss, representing the later state of his era of Lorule and its people.

Techy's pose in general is also symbolic, with him looking back/down at his arm prosthetic instead of forward, towards the light (this is related to his backstory and relationship with his past, but I won't explain that here because of spoilers). And despite looking back, away from this light in front of him, the spotlight is still on him.

Where is he? Probably somewhere within the Sanctified City (Lorulean counterpart to the Divine Beasts) or his Lorule's underground tunnel system. I was going to add gears in the background to make this more clearly part of the Sanctified City, but they took too much focus (and I need to continue working on my perspective painting abilities).

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I’m making a linksmeet involving Null, and I really like your idea of Hyrule and Lorule being like a tube imprisoning it. Can I use that in my linksmeet? With credit, of course.

I don’t even know if it’ll become relevant to the linksmeet, but I love the idea and I wanted to ask if I could use it. If you don’t want me to use it, I won’t

Of course! You’re more than welcome to use that idea! Feel free to use any of my ideas, whether to build off of them or as inspiration for something entirely different. And while I’d appreciate a small mention of you do, even that’s not really necessary, honestly.

I’m honored that you’d want to make that idea a part of your Linksmeet!

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The reflection of greed

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Hyrule Warriors Link + Proxi sketch