And here is the concept artwork I was talking about! I almost forgot about these — really happy to dig them out again.
These doodles were among the very first serious attempts at brainstorming this AU, all the way back in 2021. It's interesting how I used this artstyle that's somewhere halfway between my own stuff and WW's key artwork; something about it is really compelling to me to this day.
The first one is mostly... a noble attempt at a ref sheet, but even so you can see I was set on giving Tetra a better dress from the start, and here it's even closer to the concept artworks I referenced. The outfit next to it is going to have an appearence very soon. Also Ganondorf looks so sad :^(.
The second sheet contains a ton of pretty significant spoilers (hence the tag), but they're so out of context I doubt anyone can deduce what's going on. Really curious what I had in mind for the bottom right one — it was meant to be that moment where Tetra reassures Link to go on with the plan, but why is her arm bleeding instead? And on the bottom left you can see Link signing "Triumph Fork Squad", which makes for a much cooler team name than "Triforce Trio". I always liked this gag, so I think Link deserves to be a little silly about it, too.