First of all - you are amazing and talented!!! I envy so much your ability to generate so many ideas. So a small question about LU for your Q&A: How many AUs for LU, heck for LoZ in general, you had came up with/participated in creation of?
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*TAKES A DEEP BREATH*
My dear friend... i have soooooooooooooooooooo many AUs and ideas for LU and the LoZ in general that they basically created their own multiverse.
If I had to explain it all in...detail....it’ll be like this
And all of my friends on Discord who have heard of the stories and ideas would know what it’s like to deal with me and my galaxy braincells. lol
But in summaries, these are the AUs and worldbuilding ideas that I have been working on so far. And they all have very in-depth worldbuilding and story details:
Warning: long post about several AUs I have in mind
LEGEND of ZELDA
BotW Family and Legacy
A series of stories that follows the life, journey and deaths of Wild’s Family, both Pre-Calamity and Post-Calamity. And beyond.
Story of Twilight
Follows the journey of the Hero of Twilight before the events of Twilight Princess, his origins and upbringing, growing up as the sole Hylian in Ordon Village.
And after the events of Twilight Princess and his search for answers about his mysterious ancestor and his true fate for him to become the Hero’s Shade.
Bapy Legend’s Past
Explores the upbringing of the Hero of Legend before the events of ALttP and who was his Uncle before becoming his primary guardian.
Linked Universe AUs
Sky High AU
(In collaboration of the wonderful @cy-the-angst-maker, @pulveremcomedesligulas and Judai, along with many other contributors. )
It’s the LU Boys but they all have superpowers and live in the Modern Day setting of the Sky High universe. And then things turn for the deep end.
SH AU of AU, Linking the Links AU
(in collaboration of the wonderful @cy-the-angst-maker, @pulveremcomedesligulas and Judai, along with many other contributors.)
A crossover AU that happens after the end of SH’s Main Story where the original LU Heroes got sucked into the SU AH world and have to team up with their SH counterparts to figure out the mystery of their circumstances and the wave of monsters that were beginning to reek havoc in this strange new world.
GOD KING AU
( In collaboration with @cy-the-angst-maker )
Takes place after the events of Linked Universe. To break the eternal curse of reincarnation and to destroy any chance of the Demon King’s return, what if Wild takes in the Ancient Darkness within his own soul and upon his passing, he ascends to become the new God King of Darkness, Noctis. (Comes in Prequel and multiple parts of the Main Story and Post Story). There is so much more in this story, I promise.
LABRAT AU
This one was inspired by @jinmukangwrites‘s Labrat AU but it since exploded into becoming its own fully fledged world and story.
In a modern day AU of Hyrule, a secret Rebellion is taking place under the normalcy of society after the sudden Disappearance of Princess Zelda, the Holder of Wisdom. A bond forms between the Child of Power and the Rebel of Courage as they navigated through the chaotic political landscape as secret government agents hunt them down. And uncover the conspiracy centuries ago that led to where they are now. (features, a Bapy, a Dad and Noodle Dragons)
POKEMON AU
Titles: Pokemon Power, Power Wisdom and their sequel, Pokemon Courage
This one is super simple. It’s the LU Boys but they are all Gym Leaders and one Champion of the Hyrule Region. With a Pokemon style storyline, worldbuilding and shenanigans. As if this were its own games. (I swear it’s far more in-depth than this).
CUCCOS AU
Simple. It’s the Boys but they’re all different breeds of Cuccos. And more!!
LORD OF THE RINGS AU
This one is more of a crack idea in collab with River in the LU Discord some time ago where, it’s the LU Boys and friends / family but they’re all roleplaying as characters in the Lord of the Rings.....AND it’s a DnD campaign. :D
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And these are just the TIP of the iceberg. I could go on and on and on about the worlds and stories I have created and told. But that needs to be its own post...and series. One of these days, I’ll be able to unpack all of them into writing and drawing.
Hi @jinmukangwrites okie so...yeah I redrew it. I looked at it and went ‘Oh there are so many things I want to improve on that piece.’ In the end, it kinda ended up being just a different picture instead of a redraw, but whatever. Err, please don’t take this as something to force you to continue writing it, you’re allowed to write whatever you want! I just wanted to draw this again :3
Warnings: death, experimentation, dark themes, mentions of blood, suffocation.
Summary: In a modern version of Hyrule, a young man finds himself in a world filled with nothing but white walls, studying faces, and tests after tests. Something is different about him, and the world seems very interested is seeing what makes him tick. (A modern, BOTW/LOZ “Labrat” AU)
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Sometimes, when he's delirious from pain and fear, there is a Zora girl who comforts him. Strapped down, aching and helpless, sometimes he'll feel a gentle hand card through his hair and a soft voice whispering encouragements. None of the scientists see her, but he can. She says her name is Mipha, and that she'll always take care of him.
That's a comfort, it helps him get through, but as the experiments continue he wants to beg her to go. They're hurting her too despite not being able to see her. When he dies and wakes up again her eyes look tired, and when the process is repeated a drip of blood streams down from her nose and her blue glow is fainter. Yet, she still sticks around, not caring about the pain she's in, the pain she's taking away from him.
He misses her when he lies in his cot, doing nothing but breathe and hurt. She leaves when they hurt him too much, she leaves sobbing and bleeding when the machines tell the scientists to stop. He wishes she was always with him, selfishly he wants her to never go. She's the only one who's ever shown him true kindness. He wants her to talk him through working up energy to get under the sheets, he wants her to comfort him when they take him and take off his gray shirt and sweatpants and force him down. He wants her to always be with him, but sometimes… he gets the feeling that it's her that they're experimenting on, not him.
And that makes him want to scream at her to stay away.
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There are a limited amount of situations where he will be rewarded. Doing as he's told is usually rewarded with kinder treatment. Not struggling is rewarded with looser restraints. Simple things like that. It's just behaving, he's been doing that for years.
Though, there is one thing where he's greatly rewarded if he manages to do it correctly. He has no control over it, but when it happens, he's given actual food, deserts, maybe a new book, a shirt colored to his choosing, a week or two with nothing to hurt him, things like that. It's only happened five times in his life. However, as much as he likes the rewards, sometimes, when he manages to complete that certain task, it doesn't really ever seen worth it.
He's cold, he's tired; aching. The darkness is fading and he blearily opens his eyes to excitement around him. The mask is still on his face, his hands and legs laying limply against the table as fingers press against his neck and check different straps and monitors connected to him. There's chatter, loud, fast, hurried, and so incredibly happy.
The machines are quiet. He… he hears sobbing?
He blinks and tries to adjust his eyes, it takes a couple blinks, but out the corner of his eyes, he can see a faint blue figure on the ground, shoulder shaking with heaving cries. He blinks again and uses all of his strength to slightly turn his head.
Mipha…
He's only seen her so sad and bloodied a handful of times.
How many... How many times have they killed him?
The scientists and nurses continue to talk and check over him and look at the machines as Mipha slowly looks up at him, her eyes half lidded and incredibly sad. Her hand weakly comes up and wraps around his restrained one.
"It's okay," she says, voice breathy, through gasps because she hasn't quite stopped crying, "you'll be okay."
He doesn't… he doesn't feel okay…
"We can't risk a seventh cycle, Marras," says a woman, it sounds muffled in his ears, he almost can't hear it.
"He's in the green," a voice replies… the head scientist… Marras. It's from the other side of him and he has no energy to move to see what he means by that. "We're going to do another cycle."
"He's not in the green," the same woman replies, snarling, "he's a hair's breadth from bordering red. This could kill him, for good."
"Every time we succeed in an added cycle, we learn more. We're doing it."
Back on the table, slowly becoming numb to most everything, he blinks slowly and twitches his hand under Mipha's as they readjust the mask on his face. A few moments pass with all the people above him checking over things a second time, but before he knows it, he can't breathe, and Mipha is screaming.
The blackness comes slowly this time, but the cold doesn't. It's like he's been dumped into a pool of ice water, except here in the darkness he doesn't have a body, no sight, no hearing, nothing. He floats here for a few seconds, and a few seconds more, and he slowly gets used to the cold, or maybe the cold warms up.
This is nice, he thinks. Or… he thinks he thought that. It's kind of hard to have thought in a place where he's completely one with.
Then, far away, a bright light appears, small as a pin prick but resembling the brightest of stars.
Come, it seems to say, but he doesn't hear it. Come, everything is better, you'll be done. You can rest. Join us. We miss you. You can forget about everything done to you.
He goes forward, but something holds him back very suddenly. He turns, and there's a blue light trying to reach out to him. It's saying something else. Sorry, it says, I'm sorry. He feels it latch onto him and begin to drag him. He wants to scream, the light seems to want to scream too, as if it didn't have a choice that it's taking him away from that other light.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, you'll get through this, I promise, you're still needed, I don't know why, I'm so sorry-
Both of their struggles are ultimately useless as the dim light takes him over and his world erupts into chaos.
He can hardly think, let alone open his eyes and try to move. There's yelling above him, hands touching him, loud alarms, and a terrible coldness that's seeping through his bones and into his very core. His eye is forced open and he would flinch if he had any strength when a flashlight is shone into it. Long words he doesn't understand are screamed out and he can feel them moving around him with so many tools he doesn't recognize. Tools for saving lives.
For a horrifying second, he realizes he's dying again, just this time it's his own body shutting down on itself. This has happened a small amount of times, it's very rare for the scientists to actually try to save his life.
It's all too much, when his eyelids are released he lets them slip closed. The chaos dissolves with his consciousness.
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Seven times. He's capable of coming back seven times from the dead. They reward him with a new book and a week's worth of rest after they take every kind of possible sample from him. They chatter excitedly, congratulate him, saying he's earned the rest, but he feels empty.
Okay these asks are really old, and I never found time to finish this lil project, but finally!!
This is not an original AU, and it’s highly based on the LabRats AU by @mysterysmiley (the one the first ask is talking about).
Max: Pyrokinesis
Neil: Electrokinesis
Nikki: Enhanced Speed
(For more information, check the wikipage! :) )
I really love the idea of superpowers based on each character’s personality :D
And I kinda suck at imagining costumes, I’m sorry :’’)
I saw a photo somewhere and i just realized I havent drawn anything for that Labrat AU yet So yeah. I absolutely love that fic, its amazing and got some heavy angst right there. Go read it Labrat AU is by @jinmukangwrites
