Feel free to send an ask for any of the characters in my Linked Seas (mer au of Linked Universe) or Eternal Empire (LoZ au with good guy Ganondorf, female Link, and evil Zelda) AUs to answer!
If you’re not current (hehe, current) with the latest Linked Seas fics, please let me know where you’re at/where you don’t want spoilers from and the characters will answer accordingly.
Same for Eternal Empire, but I’ll generally assume your asks are from when Lin is older, right before her adventure starts unless you specify.
I'm always so obsessed with Good Guy Ganondorf, pls tell us more about at that AU
Eeep! Thanks for the ask! Eternal Empire’s a lot of fun for me.
The premise is that EE Zelda is *very* aware of the Cycle with the Hero, Princess, and Ganon. She started out wanting to find a way to stop it once and for all, but it twisted into a desire/need for control. If she can just get the entire Triforce, she can erase Hyrule—and by extension, Demise’s Curse—from existence and remake a perfect world where everyone does exactly what she wants. No war, no suffering, no thought, no choice. Perfect, right?😁😈
Except that she was only born with the Wisdom piece of the Triforce. And the Gerudo have been very tight-lipped about any males that may or may not have been born to them—even when she surprise visits. And literally no one can find the Hero. For decades.
Ganondorf, meanwhile, would LOVE to get rid of his Triforce of Power. It clouds his judgement and makes him aggressive. He’s terrified he’ll be just like his predecessors, which is only made worse by the fact that he has some of their memories (mostly ones involving previous Heroes). The Hyrulean army has been encroaching on Gerudo lands and skirmishing with his forces. It’s only getting worse, and war is inevitable. To save his people, Ganondorf goes out of hiding and faces Zelda, offering his life in exchange for peace and freedom for the Gerudo. Zelda straight-up yanks the Triforce of Power out of him, and assumes he died. (He nearly did.)
Ganondorf escapes the castle, but not before discovering a little girl in the dungeons with the Triforce of Courage on her hand. She looks like she’s been there a while. Zelda has been trying to steal Courage from the little hero through any means necessary, but Courage (and the Hero) are stubborn. But with two thirds of the Triforce, Zelda has accidentally killed the Hero in her bid to steal Courage. For Reasons That Will Be Revealed and Cause Problems Later, the Hero comes back to life. Ganondorf takes the kid and saves her newly-restored life.
… And now he’s got a kid. Who may or may not be destined to destroy him someday no matter what he does.
Ganondorf feels unprepared and unqualified for any of this.🤣
And that’s kind of a summary of the prologue/setup for the rest of the story!
needed a good writing warmup today, so I thought I’d ramble/make the official announcement for my first ao3 series
Eternal Empire is my loz au where the 3 main players in Demise’s curse go “off script” and do the opposite of what they’re supposed to. Enjoy the dust jacket description for the first story, coming to ao3 in the next several days!
Ganondorf hates how the Triforce of Power twists his mind. He only wants peace for the Gerudo. He’s hid most of his life in the desert in case his existence starts another war with Hyrule. But when Hylian troops assemble a full-scale assault on his people despite his best efforts, he races to broker a treaty with Queen Zelda. If he must sacrifice his life to save those he loves, so be it …
Zelda will stop at nothing to prevent another Curse Cycle, even if it means taking the entire Triforce for herself. If she becomes an immortal queen and rewrites the world to her whims in the process, well, who’s to stop her? Hyrule will prosper as never before under her guiding hand. She gained the Triforce of Wisdom at birth. Power rides toward her. It will soon be hers, she can feel it. The one sticking spot is Courage …
The Hero has never known anything but a cell, the only light shining from a triangle on the back of her hand. Sometimes the Scary Lady with a matching mark comes, screams for a while, and hurts the Hero. It’s getting worse. The Hero’s felt her body less and less the past few weeks, and now she hears voices from the blue-fire people who float through walls. She’s glad to finally understand the nice one who sits by her—a big man with a crown like Scary Lady’s—but he cries even more than before. What does he mean about something coming she must hold on for …
Three souls, bound by curse and destiny, set themselves on a collision course with each other. The fallout will change the course of Hyrule’s future and doom her people to an Eternal Empire.
