ss Beedle was kicked out of the bazaar and is not allowed to sell anything on the skyloft island, which is why he's made a store that flies above the island.
Okay okay so I’m sure this had been said before, but the glowy stuff in the botw2 trailers thats green is about the same color as luminous stone, which glows due to like dead souls or whatever. So I’m saying links arm is now haunted
The widespreadness of the horse stables is a relatively recent development in BotW. There were a handful before the calamity, but afterwards the need for a stable (no pun intended) system as well as the increased need for horses allowed them to really flourish
While in the past, Link didn’t talk due to the pressure of his duty, after he woke up 100 years later, his voice was so rough with disuse that it became far easier simply not to speak than to try and use it.
During Breath of the Wild, Zelda could see everything you were doing but actually enjoyed watching Link do dumb stuff. After all, it’d been over a hundred years since she’d last had something to laugh about.
One of the reasons the Royal Family has persisted generation after generation is the fear that when Ganon strikes again (and he always does), the Royal bloodline lost will mean that neither a Zelda nor a Link will be known of or prepared enough to defend Hyrule
YES ❤💕♥💘💖💞💝♥❤💟💕 but i 1. get way too much joy out of analyzing completely inconsequential pieces of media and 2. cannot for the life of me write concisely so im sorry if u actually try to read it <3
Zelda was one of the first people to see link as more than his destiny. (hear me out on this one.)
Link had been training with the master sword since he was twelve years old. He was quiet before the training began, and almost completely mute afterwards. Aside from that, there had to be the general feeling that you can’t just walk up to the kid with the sword that seals the darkness and start a conversation.
His status and his trauma surrounding it made him unapproachable, so most people in hyrule saw him not as a person, but as a martyr, a supersoldier trained with the sole purpose of defeating ganon when the time came. (there are exceptions to this rule, namely mipha and, in my mind, aryll, but both were people he had known from birth or very soon after. If you knew link before the sword, of course he would be more than the sword to you.)
Zelda, at first, is exactly the same as every other person he’s ever met. She assumes his facade of perfection is genuine and even berates him for not being more than perfect (”can you hear it yet, hero?” (the fact that she calls him ‘hero’ in that cutscene is SO significant to their relationship but i wont get into that here)) She sees him as punishment (and perhaps he is. Why put the two of them so close together after keeping them apart so long, king hyrule? was it, perhaps, to guilt trip your daughter for not being able to activate her sealing power by placing the perfect specimen next to her at all times?) But if he was punishment, he backfired. Link got through to zelda, and Zelda got through to link.
Zelda saw that Link was more than what she had been led to believe. she began to make a conscious effort to learn about him beyond the hero facade he displayed, to see him as a person and to care about his well-being. and that was new to link. No one who had ever met link, hero of hyrule, preferred link of hateno village. No one who had met link, hero of hyrule even wanted to know link of hateno village. But zelda did.
post calamity, link is zelda’s wilderness survival teacher. (My girl is very smart and very strong but also very rich and has never had to kill an animal and cook it in her life. Im fairly certain she does not know how to start a fire.)
zelda knows how much link enjoys cooking and food and makes a real effort to learn his favorite dishes so she can make them for him. Her first few attempts are barely edible but he appreciates them anyway.
they become known at the local stables as that couple who hog the cooking pot every time they stay, but the stable hands don’t mind because they always share whatever they’ve made when it’s done, and it’s almost always delicious. unless zelda tries to get creative.
Link knows how interested zelda is in the plants and animals of hyrule, and so for a while he takes her to every place he can remember that has pretty scenery or animals and plants for her to study. One night, he manages to get her to satori mountain in time to watch the lord of the mountain’s appearance. she nearly cries. He also tries teaching her how to ride a bear. She nearly cries again, for very different reasons.
after everything is over, they move into the house in hateno village together.
Hyrule has survived without a royal family for 100 years, zelda figures, what’s the point in declaring herself queen and causing chaos all over again? After traveling hyrule with link, she sees that the kingdom is growing, ever so slowly, over the ruins of her family’s old empire, and why destroy that progress for the sake of an old regime hardly anyone remembers anymore? She is known as Miss Zelda in the village, and no one calls her “princess” and bows as she walks past or whispers behind her back that she is heir to a throne of nothing. She likes it better that way.
they adopt a dog, A black and brown hylian retriever. Her name is Epona, after Link’s first horse. She’s known throughout the village for being a menace to the local livestock, but they refuse to get rid of her and she refuses to be trained.
Link finds work collecting meat and mushrooms for the local general store. He still travels occasionally, he has friends all over hyrule, after all, and there’s the occasional stray monster that wanders into the village, but it’s a generally peaceful life. it’s what he needs, after all the excitement of his last 17 (117?) years. Zelda finds happiness and fulfillment as a scientist at the hateno lab. For once in their lives, Link and Zelda are able to feel like people instead of symbols.
for the first time since link claimed the sword, for the first time since zelda’s mother’s death, the two are free to build their lives together as people, not heroes or legends or anything else. And that’s what drew them to each other in the first place; two people, barely people at all in the eyes of the kingdom that they were destined to defend, chose to love each other not as heroes or failures or weapons or gods, but as humans. And so with their magical destinies fulfilled, or at least abated for the next hundred years or so, they choose to live and heal together.
and then botw 2 comes out and they get to go on another traumatizing adventure for my entertainment :)
headcanon: this is a good guardian that did not get turned and they’re probably gonna kill it in the prequel but Robbie finds it and has kept it since then working on it, so in the sequel it makes a return but in a even more grown advance guardian (like it “hatched” from its egg) BUT ITS STILL A GOOD BOI
In Hyrule, most races believe that names have a strong connection to the spirit. Naming somebody the same name of an ancestor is usually seen as both a social and spiritual faux pas as many seen it as someone claiming their child and the relative to share the same spirit.
Some people get around this by putting the name as a middle name, even if the person in questions goes by their middle name.
However, names that use many of the same letters from that of an ancestor or famous person are considered to carry their blessing or strength with them.
Most Links have had Link as their middle name. On some rare occassions, Heros have had not had the name Link at all, or had something like Knil, but upon their destiny being discovered were quickly renamed.
Nearly all Zelda’s have had Zelda as their first name, divine inspiration after they were born directing so. A few have had Zelda as their middle with a more masculine first name that proved to be incorrect. The children born who do not receive ‘Zelda’ often struggle with their assumed lack of spirtual connection
Personally I think the real loz Zelda-is-the-Hero au we need is one where Zelda gets tired of waiting for link and dons the hero uniform herself and tells everybody she is Link in his way to save a recently-disappears-must-be-kidnapped Zelda
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