Dear people who keep showing up and liking/reblogging my “put spirit tracks link in linked universe” posts
May I direct you to the magnificent
Dimensional Links
By the incredible Changelingrin here on tumblr and fanfiction.net and AO3!
It’s another “all the Links team up” story but with more Links! Nobody gets combined with each other and the four sword heroes all count as individual heroes and there’s time shenanigans with two heroes of time and shadow link and the fierce deity which means EIGHTEEN WHOLE LINKS IN ONE ROOM THIS CAN ONLY GO WELL SURELY. Also do you get the name pun yet do you do yo-
Featuring Links that are decently different from the Linked Universe bois, and most importantly, HAS A HERO OF TRAINS/SPIRITS PRESENT HIS NAME IS STEAM AND HE’S A PRECIOUS MECHANIC BOI we love him and all the others such as the othe most important thing, LORE who is the hero of legend and instead of doing Legend’s whole cynical and jaded thing just decided to become the local lovable crazy guy who’s like if Bean the Dynamite Duck was a Link and argghhhhh
Look it’s just a really good fic go read dimensional links and check out Changelingrin’s tumblr blog and support them they’re cool
why the fuck does shadow ever seem even slightly okay with working with GUN. his backstory is literally GUN showed up and killed everyone he knew including a sick child. why the fuck would shadow EVER drop his guard in the company of GUN unless rouge and omega prompted it
what was dmk even thinking in Kirby and the Amazing Mirror?
he really was just like "hmm yes ill go out of the mirror world to split kirby into four individually sentient kirbies all with no loss in power and specifically give them a reason to fight me as opposed to just leaving kirby alone! this is a good idea!"
how did it not occur to him that he could just. not provoke the alternate version of his kirby and instead just deal with meta knight and then chill out in the mirror
And also, he got out of the mirror world. He could have done literally anything else in kirby's world but nope gotta antagonize this one puffball who might be this world's hero! what a good idea!
Ghirahim yelling LOOK AT THESE OLD DRAWINGS at the top of his lungs with a flourish and dramatic camera pan and fanfare and all is honestly such a mood
why isn’t there more spirit tracks link in linked universe content when we’ve got perfectly good designs official and unofficial just sittin there
just because the creator said wind was the spirit tracks link as well doesn’t mean he actually is like come on have you seen a single engineer trait in that guy
I’m so damn happy that dogs is getting localized but everyone going all “oh it doesn’t matter they could’ve made a Twitter/blog post to announce it and it would’ve been the same” pisses me off like guys this is the mother 3 of visual novels getting localized rn lol
KEPT YA WAITING HUH? WELL BOY HOWDY DO I HAVE A RAMBLE FOR YOU
behold, my AU where i decided that Snatcher has too much trauma and I should give some to someone else except the trauma has very little to do with Snatcher for like 65% of the AU! Also known as the AU where Bow Kid gets a very special friend who is actually a precious little sunshine child who does not deserve this!
gonna put the actual plot below to the cut bc it got long
To set things up, Bow kid gets kicked out of her body randomly one day, and the person now in her body has amnesia with no clue how they got there. The person now in Bow’s body ends up being called “Ribbon” and is an innocent bean who deserves the world except the world keeps punching their face in the face. AU starts a bit before the game.
Highlights of the AU include:
Bow and Ribbon’s only experience with Mafia town is She Came From Outerspace when it was raining and they slipped in mud a few times so neither of them have the best opinion of the place
Battle of the Birds is actually important to this AU, didn't see that coming did you
Picture Perfect is the perfect place for some body dysphoria for both the person in someone else’s body and the person who is currently a spirit
Oh right, Bow is a spirit tied to her body when Ribbon is in the body, that’s fun
The Big Parade results in Hat Kid hurt and Ribbon having too much fun to notice and uh-oh Bow’s body is now the site of a petty argument whoops
Ribbon does Train Rush on their own with Hat and regrets it. SO MUCH. But when they yelled at the Conductor about it he actually apologized and the two had a nice conversation, that was fun
Grooves’ fight is a bit of a turning point bc Bow and Ribbon actually work together to fight him after Hat goes down, also Bow gets a bit distracted when the Conductor shows up with the pecking scissors by which I mean she had a laughing fit in the middle of the boss fight while Ribbon had a bomb on their back; the bomb on ‘Bow’s back scared Hat really bad btw
Subcon Forest’s tagline in this AU is “the place where shit hits the fan”
So Snatcher’s soul contracts are really weird and I don’t know the rules, so I say that the soul taken is whoever signs it (and it has to be the signer's name). This means that since Ribbon doesn’t know Bow’s ‘real name’ (i don’t so neither do they) they sign with their name, Ribbon, while trying to hide it from Hat bc they spent this whole time doing hidden identities shenanigans. Bit hard to hide your body swapping control though! Hat has no clue what happened, but Bow gets her body back! Yay! Except...now Ribbon is out of the body, and instead of being tied to Bow’s body like Bow was, they’re forced to stay with Snatcher because of the sou contract. And to top things off, Snatcher doesn’t know (or care) whether or not Bow completing Ribbon’s contract will count, so he just catches her again at a later date and makes her sign another contract. *Snatcher voice* ‘Oh boy, two for the price of one! What a deal! How kind of you to offer!’ the angst part of the AU ensues
Like I said, Subcon’s where shit hits the fan
I feel like Ribbon would befriend Snatcher they’re just Like That, they’re a good kid, he would probably be an even bigger tsundere around them than the fandom makes Snatcher act with Hat
The real conflict here comes from Bow not sure if she wants to get Ribbon back or not bc then she’d probably lose her body again and she’s forgotten how nice it is to be in her own body, and she was finally getting along with Ribbon decently but she really really wants to stay in her body this time and she promised Ribbon she wouldn’t tell Hat but like maybe she should tell Hat? Maybe Hat can help? And it’s just aaaaaaaaaaa
Hat is honestly just vibin in this AU it’s great
Also I have no clue what to do for anything past subcon lol
Anyways yeah that's all i have right now! I really like this AU because of the secret identities stuff and also identity crises. I chose Bow Kid instead of Hat bc Bow is better and also because I feel like Hat and Bow's fandom dynamic of 'Hat is the gung-ho adventurer and Bow is the mechanic hanging back" works really well for this. I didn't want to do much with Subcon bc literally everyone focuses almost exclusively or mainly on snatcher/subcon AUs and I wanted some variation, so gramps Conductor was born, but then i remembered Snatcher takes souls but it's not clear how it would work if there were 2 souls in 1 body and that is absolutely ripe for angst
