A new brainworm! What if Zelink met as kids first 🥺?!
It'd be so cute if little Link was temporarily assigned to guard & watch over little Zelda ahhh
And then they meet again 7 years later when Link gets re-stationed at the castle!!
Height difference reversal yipeee
No calamity in this AU I think!
Link is slightly older than Zelda, but not by much. I just imagined little Link trying to mother hen little Zelda and it's so cute! He tries to get her to stick to her proper bed time and prayer time, but Zelda is too good at sneaking around😂
Link is probably a bit of a stick in the mud in this AU, but tbf he is responsible for the safety of the kingdom's darling little princess. He takes his job very seriously (as seriously as a 12 year old can lmao)
They become besties eventually, Zelda dragging him around all over the castle causing mischief and shenanigans!!
But then Link pulls the Master Sword after a few months, so he's relieved from duty of being Zelda's guard & gets sent out to train / eradicate monsters all over Hyrule. Zelda loses her friend :(
And then the reunion happens 7 years later!!! Zelda remembers Link being so much taller than her back then, always nagging her like a mother hen, chasing her around the castle court whenever she skipped prayers, etc. He got riled up so easily it was kinda cute. She looks forward to meeting her childhood bestie again...!!
But the Link she reunites with is quite different. For one, he's smaller than her now (cute). But he's also gotten so serious and quiet. When Zelda suggests mischief to get a rise out of him, he just quietly nods and follows behind her silently, like a guard that he should be... How boring! He must've gone through quite a lot to have changed this much.
Now Zelda is on a mission to get past Link's serious mask and befriend him again!
And ofc they eventually get together! Don't mind the alpha/omega assignment in the 2nd pic hehe I just thought younger Zelda topping older Link would be sooo cute, ok I'm done rambling thank you for coming to my tedtalk
Hear me out here... Imagine Totk Link fresh off the Sky Island, who finds the wrong Zelda near the castle. The angst is so scrumptious mmM
Link probably takes care of her while they try to figure out a way to get her back to her own time. But this Zelda is so curious, anxious and DYING to know how things pan out in the future (Link is tight-lipped, as per Purah's advice). Imagine her surprise when she is taken to the Hateno house and she realizes thEY ARE LIVING TOGETHER?? With only onE BED? O_O
Anyway if I wasn't in the middle of a long multichapter fic, this would be a fun smaller fic to work on :P Maybe one day!! For now, I'll be happy just drawing mini comics like this
I drew for the role swap AU designed by Dine (@DIDI_en_ilu on twitter)!! I couldn't get her Zelink designs out of my head, so please have guard Zelda accidentally kabedonning twinky prince Link🥳
I like that Dine's knight Zelda's hair style reminds me of Zelda from Echoes of Wisdom 🥺
I've been seeing a lot of different iterations of role swap AU's and I love them all!!
a small zelink story; they get snowed in, blush a lot, and kiss 💖
The backstory is that zelink went on a trip to Hebra (Zelda wanted to see the leviathan bones) but they got snowed in & found shelter in a hot springs cave. AND THEN THEY KISSED-
This comic is intended to be post-hearth AU main story (feel free to check out my art tag for this AU here) but it can also be read as post-Age of Calamity!
I'd like to imagine that Zelink get to travel around Hyrule for funsies together after defeating Ganon/Calamity cus they deserve it man🥺 (basically a honeymoon lmao)
Anyway that is all, thank you for reading this comic!!
I drew more pages! AU in which Link was raised as Ganon's right hand man and is sent after Zelda & the Champions.
Link's armor is inspired by Gerudo voe set & TOTK Ganon outfit.
He wields the gloom sword but it drains him. (He's also not very good at being the bad guy lol)
Zelda keeps hearing about this dangerous gloom swordsman after her life, except he completely flubs the chance to kill her cus he was caught off guard😂
The Champions are very guarded around amnesiac Link. Revali HATES him so much (this bastard doesn't deserve to be the chosen hero after everything he's done) but eventually they kind of warm up to him... slowly...
Link without memories kind of latches onto Zelda like an imprinted chick. She's DYING to ask him why he spared her back then but woops he doesn't remember anything.
Which is the perfect timing for Link to regain his memories yay
(Cue Link pretending he doesn't remember anything yet just so he can stay a little longer with Zelda.)
This AU brainworm bit me so bad I am thinking of writing it!! I need a name for this au