#hsfr scholar

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She’s known as the Reborn Queen of Light, the Savior Princess, the Sage of Time, Formerly, the Light Dragon. But she prefers Miss Zelda, or Doctor Zelda, or Professor Zelda, or simply a Scholar.

Alt versions and lore below the cut

Changes: dragon eyes, eyelashes, removal of wing ornamentation, tear effects.

MASTER SWORD SCAR REVEAL: yeah that left a mark lol

Fivehead reveal

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Okay, it’s dragon time

Scholar (BotW/TotK Zelda light dragon hybrid)

Role-Swap Link (still a dragon hybrid bc idk how to draw a full dragon)

Other? (Not really this is just for me, it’s illegal to touch if you are not me)

Voting ended onJul 21, 2023

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Some are consumed by the light, and some have it all burned out if them.

Separate and alternate versions below the cut

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I think that the entire concept of a goth botw Zelda should be a more popular idea. She should be allowed to rebel for the years she spent under the weight of everyone’s expectations and her perceived failures and her rocky relationship with religion. She finally can be and do whatever she wants, she can safely play with her appearance and is free to recontextualize the symbolism that was forced on her since she could remember. Gone are the royal blues and the sacred whites, no more triforce and loftwings, no more pure white wings of the goddess. She would wear the feathers of crows and wear the triforce upside down and cut her hair and she would pick and chose whatever would be considered religious sacrilege Before. She’s free now, like hell she would reinstate the monarchy and attempt to go back to the life she despised. 

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Also also for the ask game: asexual

"I'm glad you're like me," Sage muttered into their partner's ear while they both procrastinated leaving their large bedroll, the chill of the ice cave around them didn't feel inviting just yet.

"I know, I feel the same way," Scholar replied, refusing to even open her eyes. They'd had the conversation before, her champion had always been hesitant about relationships, knowing that they were sure to put another's momentary pleasure before their own comfort, but that wasn't a problem with her. Neither of them had ever thought they'd find someone who would've been able to compromise on such a seemingly fundamental part of life, but for once, fate was kind.

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HSFR Guardian and Sage: A Rant

Before I start listing their parallels, I wanna talk about Guardian for a second. Guardian is the product of both a long line of esteemed royal guards and a much longer line of a people who are religiously devout to serving the goddesses blood. Even without his fate being sealed as Hyrule's Hero (which he didn’t learn for a while), he never really had a choice in what he was going to be. He was raised to follow in both of his parents footsteps, each one carried a heavy weight of expectations, and that was long before he was revealed to be the hero. He was trained at a very young age both as a knight and as a sheikah warrior and he was expected to be nothing else. All he knows is to be a soldier, to follow orders and make them as needed of him. He can’t even consider being anything else because he doesn’t think that he’s able or allowed to be anything else. He’s both heavily religiously obligated and bound my a hereditary code of honor to serve the royal family and likely die for it. 

Then suddenly, after the most chaotic few days of his life (not including when the calamity was a thing), he’s set to be apart of the family he was sworn from two sides to protect with his life. His purpose is flipped, he can’t be the protector anymore because he’s going to be the king! Everything he was taught is turned on its head because he’s on the other side of his religious and knightly duty of guarding and guiding the royal family. So he’s dealing with that...

And while Guardian is dealing with pressure that’s only increasing after the Calamity, leaving him mostly mute (which he has to change bc public speaking as the king is going to be a thing), Sage is free from all that. When he was done fighting the calamity and mummy ganondorf, he’s released from all the duty and stress. He’s the freedom to Guardian’s captivity. He’s the free will to Guardian’s lack of choice. It took the complete destruction of the monarchy and his own death for Sage to escape the fate that Guardian is currently facing. He had to lose his memories of his family and entire life before the calamity to escape it. So it isn’t like Sage didn’t suffer for his freedom. 

Sage and Scholar escaped from their lives drenched in societal pressure and being constantly in the spotlight at all times. They’re happy to just be hermits in the wild who occasionally show up at random civilizations to visit their friends and sell astoundingly powerful potions. Scholar gets to indulge heavily in her research and experiment with her appearance and hobbies while Heir has to give them up to slowly take over her fathers responsibilities, though with Guardians partnership she might be able to have time to do things other than ruling. Also since the Yiga clan isn’t a problem and the kingdom is pretty stable and not on the verge of war, most problems she deals with are traditionalists not wanting her to change things and her trying to implement sheikah technology after the 10,000 year old decision to ban and fear it. 

Don’t get me wrong, Guardian and Heir aren’t like in the bad timeline where they’re completely trapped and unhappy forever, they saved the kingdom and defeated the calamity (but unlike in the botw timeline it didn’t give up on reincarnation so it will come back in 10,000 years or so), They learn to cope with their situations and deal with them without losing themselves to their duties. They still have their families and the champions and the kingdom is still standing.

But I’ve been focusing on their differences, Guardian and Sage are also surprisingly similar. They’re still the same person deep down. There are some things that even complete memory loss can’t take away. They act very similarly, though Sage is slightly more outspoken. They both eat rocks and are good with little kids and love to both cook and eat and they get very confused when people flirt with them and they really should be getting therapy and they love horses and they have the exact same soft laugh and they know the same songs and are friends with the Koroks. They’re always the first to try to sacrifice themselves which is kinda concerning, they both have the vai outfit and they like going to Gerudo Town, though Guardian’s hair and eyes are pretty recognizable but none of the Gerudo mind, their chief was the one to give him the outfit anyway and he deserves some semblance of anonymity. They both love animals and have a wild variety of weapons that they can use, and Mipha almost has a heart attack when she sees that there’s two of them. They often find each other saying the same thing at the same time, which is funny most of the time. Anyway I can probably think of more things to say but my cat wants to go outside and he needs to be supervised so I gtg. 

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So I have General bearding for Athena while Linkle secretly dates her and now I have come back with a new complicated relationship dynamic. Sage and Scholar. So, after all the bullshit they’re living together because they’re friends who care about each other (even though Scholar totally still has romantic feelings for Sage even after a hundred years but so far she can just... deal with it) and at this point Sage is pretty sure that they’re completely aroace and are building a very close relationship with Scholar that ends up becoming a QPR. It takes several months for Sage to realize that they’re developing romantic attraction because they’ve never experienced it before. It’s a little bit of a mindfuck for them because now they finally realize why there were so many people that crushed on him and why they acted so weirdly because now they catch themselves acting like a lovestruck idiot from a romance novel. They thought that stuff was all made up. Eventually one of them cracks and admits their feelings and the other one is relieved bc they thought it would be a dealbreaker and end their partnership. So they end up in an asexual romantic relationship and are very happy about it. 

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The children of the land

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Sage and Scholar being nomadic little gremlins, I mean, they're the hero and the princess of the wild for a reason. Would likely include hunting for elixir ingredients, like small animals and large monsters, hanging out with the guardian dragons, helping other travelers, cooking with limited resources, setting things on fire, and not having adult supervision aside from the spirits of the champions who couldn't stop them if they tried. Let the princess be covered in dirt, the hero isn't the only feral creature let loose on Hyrule.

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