2 drawings in a row of Wind taking care of an injured Captain??? Me doing that??? Yes😌
Ace’s whump aalllways just hits the spot!! Both boys are so brave and I love that wars is trying to stand but just full on passes out on his little brother 😭💔 lovely fic❤️
I like to imgine Spirit has one of those conductor lanterns, and probably all of the other train engineers do too lol. For signaling to others in the dark. But it’s also used for leading wandering spirits home.
when i draw him i design very slightly older version than in the game because i like to imagine he’s grown up comfortably as a train engineer.
Wind thinks about his place in the timeline. And he watches how Time treats Twilight. How Twilight gets the nickname “pup.” How Twilight gets to be a blood relation of Time and Malon, which even if it’s accidental gets him special conversations that no one can have. No one including Wind. Wind learns about how Time will one day die and wait hundreds of years to meet Twilight, to train him. How Twilight went on his adventures at the age of 16, not 12. And resentment begins to grow.
Twilight wasn’t compared to the Hero of Time every time he had to help a new area. He got a mentor who properly cared about him and taught him to fight and a companion who was there over his shoulder the whole adventure. He only had to go on one adventure. His father figure (less of a figure and more actual dad) didn’t resent him in the beginning. He didn’t lay impossible tasks at his door or had to be blackmailed into helping. Twilight had people in his village his age. He had little kids who he saw as siblings but didn’t have to be responsible for because they had actual parents without poor eyesight, arthritis, and low stamina.
Seemingly suddenly, Wind starts to pull away from Twilight. And not only Twilight, but Time too. They become hard for him to talk to civilly. To look at. To think about. Warriors tries to talk to him, but that lands him in the same category. It isn’t fair because Warriors understands a little. He gets being held to an impossible standard. To be responsible for other people. He didn’t have a proper father figure either. But he had Proxi. He had Impa. It wasn’t the same.
Wind starts hanging out exclusively with Legend and Hyrule. Because they aren’t part of the straightforward timeline either. They are from the other off-shoot. Time can have Twilight, and Twilight can have Wild and Warriors too. Would make things neat, easy. Sky to Four to Time to Twilight to Warriors to Wild. That can be the “right” timeline. And Legend, Hyrule, and Wind can be the odd ones out. It’s not like either Legend or Hyrule care. They didn’t have stable companions either. They didn’t have father figures at all. Sure, Hyrule came after Legend, so they had that connection while Wind was by himself in another off-shoot. But they didn’t mind. They didn’t.
And Legend shelters Wind from Warriors’s attempts to talk. Hyrule hangs out more with Legend and Wind and stops doing crazy antics with Wild. And slowly the one Chain becomes two separate ones. No one knows how to fix it. Warriors can’t talk to any of the three, Time can’t do more than command his two other successors and Hyrule in battle, and Twilight can’t get close to Wind even in Wolf form. Legend’s bunny form is discovered, and the pink bunny gets to sit in Wind’s lap. But Wolfie is no longer the recipient of hugs or attempted kisses.
The rift grows. Four tries to mend it by asking about Wind’s shield but gets shut down with “it couldn’t be yours because it’s not from the canon timeline.” Sky explains that he’s the one that cursed them all and should hold all the blame for their troubles but Wind reassures Sky that none of the off-shoot timelines are his fault with a sneer at Time.
Finally Wild snatches Wind when the two Chains are in his era and teleports them to the Chaas Qeta Shrine. On the small Tenoko island, Wind has nowhere to go, so Wild forces him to sit with him on the shrine platform or he wouldn’t teleport them back to the others. Grumpily Wind complies.
There Wild reveals a secret. He knows where he falls in the timeline, and it isn’t after Twilight. Every time Twilight appeared, his Sheikah slate made it clear Twilight came from another world. Which Wild now realized meant Twilight was from another timeline. The hero Wild had grown up hearing tales about hadn’t been the Hero of Twilight. It had been the Hero of Winds.
When Wind heard that, he exploded. Because of course Wild wouldn’t have pretended to be Twilight’s successor instead. Wind wasn’t good enough to be Wild’s predecessor. He was just a kid who defended Hyrulean Kings and didn’t matter even to those who came after him.
Wind threw himself into the ocean and began swimming towards shore to the best of his ability. Wild quickly swims after him and catches him. Wind can’t get out of Wild’s grip and to his shame bursts into tears. He’s done. He wants to go home. Or at least go hide behind Legend and Hyrule and never talk to any of the rest of the Chain again.
Hugging Wind tight, Wild takes him back to Tenoko Island. He holds Wind while the teen cries. And when Wind quiets down, Wild apologizes. Wild explains that he didn’t tell Wind the truth not because he thought Wind wasn’t worthy to be his predecessor or because he preferred Twilight. Twilight was different to Wild than Wind was. Twilight was a companion he grew to love and trust. But Wind was his hero. Wind defeated Ganondorf at age 12. Wind rescued an Ocean King’s kingdom. Wind established a Hyrule that had technology so advanced that the Sheikah learned from it. A Hyrule that moved back to its native lands once they had dried enough.
Wind was so impressive. He accomplished so much in his life that Wild couldn’t imagine letting Wind know that centuries later he would be followed by a guy who couldn’t do at 17 what Wind did at 12. A hero who failed to protect the Hyrule Wind had painstakingly raised from the depths. Wild didn’t want Wind to look at him and resent Wild for making a mess of the world Wind left behind.
Wind stuttered that he would never. That he thought Wild was so cool and his meals were the best and how could anyone not be proud to have Wild as their successor? Wild would smile wanly and say he would have loved to hear those words from his hero, but for the last few months he hadn’t seen his hero at all. He had seen a bratty child wearing his hero’s skin.
The truth of how he was behaving would slap Wind in the face. He would think about how he would have felt if Time had started treating Warriors or Legend or Hyrule the way he had been treating Twilight. How he would have felt if Time had caused a rift between the people he loved, had made them choose sides because he felt left out. And his heart sunk.
Wild admitted that he knew his hero was still in there. That he knew the boy who grew to be the man that established his Hyrule existed behind the bratty child who had treated his older brothers horribly. Wild knew that that hero could fix the tear he made. Wind agreed.
They returned to the others, apologies were said, and Wolfie slept in Wind’s arms that night.
[Image Description: a 10 panel page of Legend of Zelda au Linked Spirit comic. Panel 1: Purah shouts "Click!", holding the Purah Pad out. Panel 2: Rinku stands next to Bloom, with a small smile and a v hand pose. Bloom smiles brightly and gasps "Oh! You finished the Camera feature?" A note on the bottom reads "*Rinku understands none of this, they're speaking Modern Hylian.*" Panel 3: Purah holds up a hand sign to her eye, saying "And your new friend knows how to pose!" Panel 4: Bloom holds the Purah Pad, smiling. Rinku looks over her shoulder, curious. "It's missing some things the Slate has. But until Link comes back with it, The Purah Pad's ready for you to explore with!" Purah explains. Panel 5: "Now who's this? Are you from another tribe?" Purah waves, looking up at Rinku. She looks nervous. Panel 6: Bloom leans in excitedly to Rinku, hand on her shoulders. "She's Ancient!" Panel 7: She covers Rinku's ears, apologetic, "I mean. Time Travel." Smaller, whispered text reads, "She only speaks Ancient Sheikah." Panel 8: Rinku holds out her hand, "I'm Rinku... Hero of Legend." a note reads "*now we're in Ancient Sheikah.*" Panel 9: Purah looks at her wide eyed, "Hero of Legend. Decendent of the First Sheikah Knights?" Rinku smiles uneasily, hand still outstretched, "Yes?" Bloom watches in the background. Panel 10: Purah takes Rinku's hand. Bloom holds up the Purah Pad with wide sparkling eyes and an "eeeeeeeee" End ID]
So, I'm gonna trial not coloring, because I've been busy and one way to like, actually get things done is to not do as much lol. I may or may not come back and color stuff when I have time, but until then, this is the new method ig
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Timeline 1- Era of the Wild: Previous (53) - 54^ - (55)
[Image Description: a 10 panel page of Legend of Zelda au Linked Spirit comic. Panel 1: Purah shouts "Click!", holding the Purah Pad out. Panel 2: Rinku stands next to Bloom, with a small smile and a v hand pose. Bloom smiles brightly and gasps "Oh! You finished the Camera feature?" A note on the bottom reads "*Rinku understands none of this, they're speaking Modern Hylian.*" Panel 3: Purah holds up a hand sign to her eye, saying "And your new friend knows how to pose!" Panel 4: Bloom holds the Purah Pad, smiling. Rinku looks over her shoulder, curious. "It's missing some things the Slate has. But until Link comes back with it, The Purah Pad's ready for you to explore with!" Purah explains. Panel 5: "Now who's this? Are you from another tribe?" Purah waves, looking up at Rinku. She looks nervous. Panel 6: Bloom leans in excitedly to Rinku, hand on her shoulders. "She's Ancient!" Panel 7: She covers Rinku's ears, apologetic, "I mean. Time Travel." Smaller, whispered text reads, "She only speaks Ancient Sheikah." Panel 8: Rinku holds out her hand, "I'm Rinku... Hero of Legend." a note reads "*now we're in Ancient Sheikah.*" Panel 9: Purah looks at her wide eyed, "Hero of Legend. Decendent of the First Sheikah Knights?" Rinku smiles uneasily, hand still outstretched, "Yes?" Bloom watches in the background. Panel 10: Purah takes Rinku's hand. Bloom holds up the Purah Pad with wide sparkling eyes and an "eeeeeeeee" End ID]
So, I'm gonna trial not coloring, because I've been busy and one way to like, actually get things done is to not do as much lol. I may or may not come back and color stuff when I have time, but until then, this is the new method ig
masterpost
First-
Timeline 1- Era of the Wild: Previous (53) - 54^ - (55)
NEXT (coming eventually) - PREVIOUS (N/A) - MASTERPOST
bit of a ramble under cut i think
okay okay so i decided to remake the intro part a bit because i wanted to have it progress quicker into the actual main story and also because i find cleaning up the sketch and using it as makeshift lineart is a lot easier on me than drawing over the sketch on another layer with a brush thats pixelated to the point where if i rotate parts of the lines it makes it blurry against everything else being super sharp and so on and so forth.
in addition i also completely forgot when making the old version to make the rain animated; parts of this webcomic i want to have in gif format to give a sense of life to the panels and rain is definitely something i want to be part of that, i just forgot lmao
but yeah hopefully this isnt too much of a setback, the plot is basically the same but i just wanted to get into the main story faster because having a huge hold up was kinda demotivating and stuff
NEXT (coming eventually) - PREVIOUS (N/A) - MASTERPOST
bit of a ramble under cut i think
okay okay so i decided to remake the intro part a bit because i wanted to have it progress quicker into the actual main story and also because i find cleaning up the sketch and using it as makeshift lineart is a lot easier on me than drawing over the sketch on another layer with a brush thats pixelated to the point where if i rotate parts of the lines it makes it blurry against everything else being super sharp and so on and so forth.
in addition i also completely forgot when making the old version to make the rain animated; parts of this webcomic i want to have in gif format to give a sense of life to the panels and rain is definitely something i want to be part of that, i just forgot lmao
but yeah hopefully this isnt too much of a setback, the plot is basically the same but i just wanted to get into the main story faster because having a huge hold up was kinda demotivating and stuff
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