#lfrt q&a

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Hello roadtrip team,

do you have a design for what Sprite looked like in oot after the seven year time skip! Would be really interesting to know if she looks much different ,, smiles

With love, Felix

Hello Felix Clowns0up-Felix,

I have conjured this up from my beautiful mind just for you. I call it "Puberty 2 by Mitski"

With love,

Pea of Roadtrip Team fame

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Does Sprite use any pronouns (it, ze, fae, etc) or just he/she/they?

We would specify if it was just he/she/they! Sprite uses Any Pronouns. Just doesn't care #childoftheforest

A little peek behind the curtains moment, but while the Links (as of right now) would be using he/him by default, we tend to gravitate to using she/her for Sprite ^.^

Masculinity is associated with being The Hero for Sprite, a conflicting feeling. However, a lot of people that were in her life that she looked up to were more feminine, so she has a fondness for she/her. But at the end of the day she again . does not caaare

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Link's Fun Commentary - Prologue!

+ sailor design commentary. link's fun extra

Twilight Field, War of Eras...

Sailor starting in Hyrule Warriors and being dropped immediately into Shepherd's era is actually the second pitch for the beginning of the comic, the very First pitch being the first two pages of chapter 1.

More than anything we just wanted to get it done, but we didn't really know what we were doing . We cobbled together a custom font and got right to it. My Fun Facts: All the grass is the same image reused over and over except for when it isn't . Literally all of the smoke was just repeated/moved around. We didn't even really know how to use gradients effectively...

... Which can be seen in these next two panels. LOL.

The work split on this batch set a precedent for sure. @islandlobster took up lining and flat colors, and had the Hard Job of harmonizing our styles, processes, and experiments. Do you see a lot of small, long-form comics with grainy, textured line-art? Maybe no? Well we found out why.

These panels also feature the Only Two Triforces we remembered to draw !!! Oh My God!!!

As much as we struggled, things moved pretty quick from the get-go. Since the prologue is only a handful of pages we didn't really run into the issues we would with chapter 1, especially regarding our complete and utter lack of script. This went straight from thumbnailing to the final result!! (NOT A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO DO A GROUP PROJECT...!)

I wanted to mention though that when I wrote the line above, I wasn't sure if this was how you would spell it for like . a Soldier Troop or a Performance Troupe. Which I just looked up now and found out I Absolutely got them mixed up. so umm. Sorry. Sailor is not in the circus yet.

Cia was just defeated in the main campaign! I felt like such a smart cookie for this one.

She doesn't even know she wont be going home yet‼️ laughing and pointing ‼️

It was an Early idea that Sailor would conveniently miss the time portal transporting the field (with her in it!) back to its era. This was supposed to be a reoccurring bit, but we didn't commit to it too hard going forward, so who's to say if that'll be realized.

The pirate charm plays a big role in the prologue. A little funny because we were absolutely sick to death of drawing it by the end, as well as the fact that it is there in lieu of her red-gem necklace that we forgot to draw. it is Welcome and Unfortunate that it doesn't work anymore, especially because having the chance to name drop like this was very indulgent.

The era of twilight ! Including the locations and times was in the original sketches, but when we found out that our inexperience with backgrounds wasn't lending itself to establishing Where we were, it came in handy. We Agonized over placing the castle and argued* for like a week about how forested the area should be. Luckily we use noclip now, so things have improved as we've moved into chapter 2 :]

Either way, hopefully it wasn't too confusing, and as we introduce new characters the picture will be clearer. We've talked a little bit about returning to the prologue to spiff it up a bit, but we feel we aren't far enough into the comic to make it worthwhile.

and now over to Pea with the weather:

my name is pea islandlobster and you can't tell that it's me because we are writing on the same post but trust okay 🤞 I am here to talk about SAILOR!!!

Sailor has been my baby brainchild before LFRT was even a blip in our minds eye (my proof) and it has been a beautiful indulgence for me to both put her in AND have her be the first Link we meet. YAY!

I have two designs for her, for which I have helpfully made a diagram just for you..! Labeled and everything..!

A: pheww my big one that I have been sitting on forever. Sailor's necklace was constructed over the course of her adventure, initially only having her red gem (given to her by King Daphnes, from his own crown). Four pearls were later added, parting gifts from Oshus and the three spirits. Also intended to mirror the three Goddess pearls from Wind Waker..! and an extra yellow one i guess. triforce? idk

B: Sailor's chipped tooth is a funny one that I will have to make a small comic about at some point. It's not even anything from her adventure. A couple years before WW, Aryll was pretty upset about losing her first tooth, and in typical Link fashion she thought the best way of comforting her was to ALSO lose a tooth. Grandma was not happy.

C: Most Links have a triforce mark, and each one we are giving a reason towards ^.^ Sailor's mark is entirely scar tissue, specifically it is hypertrophic. She held her triforce for only a few days and got it (maybe quite literally) ripped from her by Ganondorf, so take that as you will. Tetra and her are matching yayyy..!

D: Giving her hero outfit it's own section so I can tuck it out of the way lol. A modified version of her original hero outfit, courtesy of shipmate Nudge (guy in the top left). She was a little upset over having to alter Grandma's hard work, but she preserved it where she could. Like her seashell belt! ^_^

E: SIDEBURNS! Not present in the prologue because it has been a recent development but I figured it was worth bringing up. During WoE, as she grows her hair, her sideburns resemble little lobster claws. Cute! In LFRT as grown out as it is, I thought making them swirly as a reference to pretty much every cloud/wind effect used in WW lol.

From a combination of outgrowing stuff and missing home, Sailor was christened with Lobster Shirt 2.0 as we know and love today. Who made it for her? I dunnooo..... let's sit and think about this one.

Phewww. This was a long one - and no doubt the next will be longer - but this is all for now! Feel free to send any questions you might have ^.^ Thank you for all the support! Chapter 2 part 2 soon!

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hi roadtrippers! ^_^ the love on the recent update after the long break we had means soooo much to all of us & we wanted to say thank you!!!

just having a little check to see how many would be interested if we did some behind the scenes/directors commentary type posts? or anything else of that sort, let us know <3

what do you think...

oh yes linksfunroadtrip we love you and want a directors commentary!!!

linksfunroadtrip we hate you go die in a hole

Voting ended onFeb 27, 2025

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This is an existential horror (joke! probably!) comedy comic about “The Legend of Zelda” Links! Meeting up! One might even call it a “links” “meet” "alternate universe".

You can probably infer some of the content based on the url. While this is a linear story with a beginning and an end, expect something closer to a series of character-motivated short stories. We’re here to have fun! And put them in situations!

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Some gentle reminders.

There will be no link shipping featured in this au, please follow by example when it comes to these versions of these characters (including vidow!)

We are keeping it PG over here and You Should Too! small warning for potential depictions of blood/violence and non-sexual nudity

There are LOTS of trans and otherwise queer characters in this comic 👍 While it isn’t the main focus, be cool okay?

Please remember that fat is not a bad word

This is not Linked Universe and tagging it as such would be strange and peculiar ‼️

This is a passion project! We can’t expect to stick to any particular posting schedule.

If you are not sure about anything or have any other questions (in character questions included!), the ask box is open! Unless it isn’t. BUT IT SHOULD BE!!

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I know you said you don't really want to discuss it, but what are Shepperd's pronouns? I just want to be able to refer to them.

he/she !

we don't mind the questions, it was just getting way off topic from the comic lol

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Does the words behind Sheperd's head actually say stuff???

they do !!

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hellooo roadtrip nation ^.^ we have gotten several inquiries now about Shepherd (our TP Link) and his gender & figured we should make a blanket statement about it !

we are all personally in agreeance that transmasc ≠ transman . a quick google search will exhibit much the same . we said before that gender can be nuanced, and there is an incredibly rich history of queer identities not necessarily fitting into modern day labels that we like to exhibit . however it is not really our job, as a loz fancomic, to educate the masses about it. if you're interested in doing any research, transmascbian.carrd.co explains it much better than me!

we want to say that we weren't incredibly keen on labelling her in the first place; this is a fantasy comic where the specific labels we have today would be so unlikely to ever actually come up or be identified with in universe.

all that to say, it is not majorly relevant to Shepherd's character or what we have going on in the comic! if this isn't something you're okay with, we'd prefer to just be blocked and have everyone move on ^.^ thank you for taking the time to read this very wordy post!