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as promised: flicker!!!

HOLY SHIT THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!

-Kio & Mizu

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Flicker? 👉👈

Here's the boy!! Plus an added Time. Honestly we can't wait to get to Flicker's introduction, he's going to make so many people viscerally uncomfortable 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Flicker and Time are from ASAU, please don't tag any other AUs!! 🪲🌱

Bonus little guy:

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Happy Halloween from ASAU's resident ghosties, First and Flicker!! Carving a dragon was a little too ambitious for Flicker so he just drew it lol 🎃

Characters belong to ASAU, pls don't tag any other AUs :3

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courtesy of the ASAU discord server, we bring to you the mcdonald's triforce

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Mizu's lines and Kio's colors!! It'd be cool if the ghosty baby could pop out of walls, huh?

Flicker belongs to ASAU, please don't tag any other AUs 💚

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Just chilling in your inbox

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Hi there!

-Mizu

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HIHIHI OKAY. i absolutely love flicker. do you accept fanart (might be a silly question but im 16 and want to make sure before i actually draw/send in anything. im here for my boy /lighthearted)

but besides that. ive never seen anyone else actually hc that downfall hero of time DIED AS A KID and i am SO GLAD other people feel the same. like dont get me wrong everyone has their own opinions and none are wrong but. I LOVE FLICKER. i love that the gods didnt quite catch him in time to put him to sleep and he took the sword to ganon and held his own until beast ganon. it makes me do a little happy wiggle.

he was not a "valiant, noble man, tragically lost to evil" he was a misguided child told the world rested on his shoulders and because of that, he was killed. and i LOVE that kind of tragedy

so. flicker supremacy, thank you very much.

Hi hello!!!! Omg you had so many great points, thank you for the enthusiasm!!

Mostly for the 18+ warning, we're trying to keep minors away from the main fics bc there are heavy, potentially triggering topics and NSFW-ish things there. As long as you have your community labels set up right on the blog tho, it should be safe to browse/interact with (though main blogs are different, Kio's is strictly 18+). I'm not your dad etc etc, practice caution online, we really only ask that minors don't read the fic or view the NSFW. We'll still probably be writing ASAU by the time you turn 18 tho so maybe see u on ao3 then?? XD

TLDR, it's up to you if you wanna make art of the lil guy. We appreciate everything that comes our way!

The decision to keep Flicker 9 years old came from a discussion on why the hero failed in the downfall timeline. Bc if things progressed like they had in OoT, then Link would have still won! So what needed to change in order for him not to win? It wasn't bc the player just went out to play basketball instead of beating the game /ref

The sages put Link to sleep bc he wasn't ready to wield the sword. But nothing changed except his size. He was in a 17 year old's body, but his mind hadn't matured any. Somehow he was able to pull it off tho, and everything turned out fine (or... It depends on your definition of fine).

So the sword didn't put Flicker to sleep. He didn't get stronger. And he's a tough kid, but that only goes so far. He also rushed to get to the final boss, which Time didn't do, so Flicker got there underprepared in his haste. He died, then the goddesses went "oh shit, that shouldn't have happened!!" and reset the timeline. And as we know, a reset doesn't mean that the original timeline goes away, now there's just two versions of the story.

Poor lil guy... His Zelda (Aria) and the sages managed to pull it together, but the timeline was still pretty fucked. I can't wait for when we get to what happened to it in the fics, but that won't be for a while. Flicker is still out there tho... In the forest... Doing his little guy things....

Thank u for ur interest! Maybe we'll have gotten to Flicker's point in the story by the time you're 18 hchdhdj

-Kio & Mizu

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I dunno if this has already been asked, but what do Time and Flicker think about eachother?

So we have a bad habit of changing our opinions of things when we actually get to writing it, so take this with a grain of salt bc it will b a WHILE before flicker is introduced, but!!!!!

Time is a little freaked out by Flicker, understandably, like it's very uncanny valley/existential horror-y to see a younger version of yourself be fucked up like Flicker is and see what could have happened. But at the same time, that's a baby version of him and he wants to take care of him so maybe he won't be so fucked up eventually. Flicker is dead, so there's only so much he could do for a spirit, but he's hoping to provide some closure.

Flicker looks at Time and he sees that Time wants to reach out and he wants that. He's been alone for so long, he wants company and love where he can find it, and what better place to look than yourself? Flicker looks other places too, but... Idk there's a lot of complicated stuff going on in Time's head, and Flicker is 9, not stupid, so he sees that too. He's hesitant too, and he's wary like a wild animal is, so they both kind of stand off and assess each other. Flicker knows he scares Time. He doesn't like it, but he's used to people being scared of him— even looking at himself is scary, so he covers up. He understands, but he wants to help like that hero instinct tells him to and he wants more. (Also he's jealous of Time because his adventure actually worked out and Time got to grow up and his friends don't leave him or die like Flicker's did soooo yknowww...)

It's... complicated.

-Kio

Way flicker sees it, time got to grow up big enough to do whatever he wants, he has friends, his friends didn't leave him alone, not completely, etc etc

Like, Flicker will likely pick up on the fact that Time is a lonely person, but he also understands that it's not bc of Time being alone

Which is irritating to him bc he doesnt understand why Time has such a hard time reaching out to ppl— baby has wanted to do that more than anything for forever. And Time just.... won't, for the most part

-Mizu