sorry if you've answered this before but what are the relationships between the Zeldas in your au? (either with their Link or each other :3)
thank you :D
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I'm so sorry I made you wait this long, but here, what you've been waiting for ....
Some of them I had no idea what to put so I put an exposition on their plot-
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Not all the Links have Zelda's, but I also included some of the Links respective Maidens (maidens /gn bc some of them are nonbinary or male) but i will mark the zeldas with 🦋 and the non zeldas with 🐞 :3>c
🦋Ballad: her and Time are good friends, he appreciates the stuff Time did for his sake and they're still pretty close (like in the comic, Time still helps Ballad and even comes to the castle to hang out occasionally (he doesn't have to sneak in this time tho lol) feels really bad about what happened to his voice and does anything he can to help and make it easier for Time when Navi is away
🦋Lullaby: she occasionally pops up in Moon's head (aka the mindscape), mainly she showed up once to show him how to play the song of time but she still pops up every once in a while (she's also the sage of time so she can do that) She has to urge him a lot to go to sleep (he doesn't listen) Gives his relationship advice because BY HYLIA THAT MAN NEEDS IT BAAAAD
🦋Comet: she saw Seasons fight with the guy from the castle town and was intrigued by him, used magic to subvertly lead him to the triforce (not out of malice- she wanted to help her friend Din and knew Seasons could do it when she saw him) when he got back she personally thanked him (and also apologized for using her magic…bc shes a sweetie pie okay)
🦋Rarity: She immediately promoted Ages to her royal guard when he had finished saving Nayru, Ages usually follows them around during parties, Rarity most definitely knew he has a thing for Ralph and would allow him to take the night off when Ralph and Nayru showed up at parties. They also have tea with Nayru occasionally.
🐞Marin: when she first gains it's own conscious she had all the memories of all the time spent with Awakening but none of the romantic feelings, it didn't bother her, it is content just being Awakenings friend, she loves when he comes to visit especially on song night, talks to windfish often and relays messages to Awakening, very much aware it was a vessel at some point (even though its such an eldritch concept it didn't really mind
🐞Windfish: (wow awakening gets two, greedy smh) giant god of dreams has crush on hispanic hylian sailor /hj when Awakening got into that storm Windfish intervened to keep him safe, expresses most of his feelings of love through Marin but it kinda backfired when Awakening liked Marin more and thought Awakening wouldn't like him (he was wrong when Awakening found out the person who said they liked him was a literal god he was flattered) btw Windfish was two dads, cookie to whoever can guess who they are (they're canon zelda characters dw)
🦋Lamb: adores her little brother to bits, she has a stronger telepathic connection to Past than anyone else (which is why he heard her that night), her and Past were the same age when she was imprisoned and almost sacrificed to Ganon, feels bad that her little brother had to do all that work and always makes sure to tell him how grateful she is and sorry he had to go through that. Lamb is also very protective of Past
🦋Mural: they’re neutral on each other, they don't hate each other ofc but never interacted enough to consider each other friends. She will occasionally do favors for him and he’ll run errands for her because he likes going to the market. She’s more close with Empress because the two became close friends after Mural realized she just wanted something for her people to rely on
🦋Angel: her an minish were childhood friends who hung out all the time. She always admired his desire to be a knight so they could continue hanging out. She was quite an expressive person before Vaati turned her into stone but after that her face stuck to the last expression she made as a side effect. Her personality stayed the same though (she does in fact still guilt trip Minish into doing things with her)
🦋Pearl: oh my gosh they torment each other so much (/aff) shows up so late in the adventure she has no idea whats happening. Offended Wind doesn't care about her at first (HES A MAN ON A MISSION OKAY HE JUST WANTS HIS SISTER THATS IT) they warm up to each other at the end. Wind has this existential crisis moment where he grabs Pearl and asks her if he really was a fluke but she assures him he isn't (in my au he does POSSESS the heros spirit but it's so weak in his bloodline that it's almost unnoticeable)
🐞Pirate: At first He was just humoring Wind in helping this 12 year old (disregard how she's 13) save his sister but then when she realized he was being fr he was like “oh crap- okay” and spiraled into them going on the whole adventure to stop Ganon and save Pearl (BTW PIRATE AND PEARL ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE) anyway him and Wind grew a bit closer during that whole adventure and they also have a nice banter together (Pirate has thrown Wind off the ship on multiple occasions it's her form of humor)
🐞Tetra: they have a pretty strained relationship. She was pretty harsh to Phantom when he was first on her ship. She had him clean often and when he was done told him to clean the same thing again. Her intention was just to toughen him up but he ended up developing a constant need to clean everything and keep everything clean including himself which took a serious toll on his mental health. After Linebecks gave her an earful about this and she realized what she did wrong she didn't have Phantom clean as much. They chill sometimes but it is very awkward.
🦋Scholar: their relationship started off incredibly rocky. Scholar wasn't the nicest to Wild when they were first introduced to each other and she would try to overwork him to get him to quit but he has the craziest dedication and tenacity (also he likes having a JOB) she gets used to him being there and thinks “huh…maybe he's not bad company” and then the Great Cataclysm (botw version of Calamity….bc aoc is already a thing and they can't both be called Calamity that's confusing) happened and yk wild lost his memories yadayada. But as he slowly gain then back he only starts to remember how rude she was to his so he's kinda mixed about his feelings for her when he saves her but they figure it out
🦋Sage: her and Tears are closer to friends or acquaintances than anything. When they first met each other it was in the past when she was still hylian (the Zelda arc of her being sent to the past) then when Tears gets back to the present he finds her again and she was struggling with her amnesia and not being able to remember anything so he offered to go find her memories for her or help her remember (which is my version of that one side quests with the tear/memories) then at some point she gives him the restored sword. They're still friends now and she's happy to have her brother back.
🦋Journey: Journey is convinced Calamity and them are friends if not more but Calamity it too wrapped up in his imposter syndrome to notice that they actually are friends. Journey really depends on Calamity for a lot especially after their father died, Calamity was the one thing that kept Journey upright and to keep going. When Journey finally got it into Calamity’s head that they were in fact close they were so relieved because of my gosh this man is so OBLIVIOUS poor thing had to deal with that-
🦋Cloudy: Them and Sky are SUPER close friends. Since they were really young they've both hung out with each other. During the adventure their relationship might have strained a little bit due to “zelda = hylia and hylia = using link” and Cloudy really struggled with their own identity so Sky was a huge encouragement during that. He had to reassure them many times that “no I'm not mad. Yes I promise I'm not mad” Cloudy never wanted to be called or considered Hylia and Sky made sure people respected their wishes
🦋Dusk: they've only recently became friends but for the entirety of Twilight's adventure they remained acquaintances. She feels awful about the state of the kingdom. And was so torn about asking Twilight to help. He didn't want to force a task that was supposed to be his on someone else. And she also felt bad about her getting possessed even if it was out of her control. She's glad Twilight wasn't upset with him in anyway and even accepted his help in the final battle.
🦋Evening: Eepiest princess EVER. Adventure had quite the struggle waking her up even after he broke the curse. Most people didn't even believe she was cursed at first because she slept in so often. But when she woke up she was quite disoriented and Adventure helped her get situated again and filled her in on her situation. She was distraught. Obviously. But Adventure is a nice guy to talk to even if he seems disinterested (he's really not.)
🦋Princess: He was….so surprised to hear that Hero completed his adventure in A DAY what?? You did all that in a day ….FOR FUN?? hero had no idea he was saving someone he was just doing stuff. Princess and him became travel partners and Hero would take him out to explore and stuff. Mainly bc he wanted to get out of the house from his brother. And Hero is a really funny person to be around.
🦋Bow: her and four are like interlinked (pun not intended) conjoined at the hip if you will. They've been childhood friends since forever but after her parents untimely deaths she was forced onto the throne at a young age. But four would bring her stuff and talk to her constantly. She knew about his incredibly strained relationship with his father and spent most of her time defending him from his dad. It really helped with her roles and queen she often had to put the captain of the guard in his place (especially when it came to the mirror that shadow was in or about his sons poor mental health)
🦋Athena: casual friendship between you and your employee ig. He saw Warriors and straight up said “hmm I want that one” After what happened with Cia he tries his best to comfort Warriors and support him. He can't exactly relate but Warriors is someone he cares about. They make friendly jabs/quips at each other and spar often. He's happy to see Warriors more happy than he was during the battles.
🦋Mirror: they're just acquaintances- not even friends lmao- she only really decided to help Faces when he got trapped as a repayment for how he helped her is all. They rarely talk to each other and frankly Faces talks more to her dad than anyone. He's kind of annoying to her, not even in an endearing way, just straight up annoying. Teetering on pissing her off lol
🦋Queen: at first they thought Legend was a pervert and a piece of shit (because he was) so he was always avoiding Legend and annoyed out of her mind by him. Especially when he was trying to kiss her. But when he realized what he was doing was wrong and also weird he went and formally apologized to Queen. Which threw them off and they genuinely thought he was being fake or something but when he noticed Legend had actually changed his behavior she forgave him. He still teases him about his past behavior but now they're close friends.
🐞Styla: They have no strong opinions on their three Links (which btw those three are not related they are three guys who happened to be named Link- ) Ofc they are incredibly grateful the boys saved them and broke the curse and all that. (Also that curse works differently in my au I just haven't figured out how yet-) Either way occasionally the boys will come over and ask to borrow Styla's clothes and they always say yes bc they honestly don't care they have so much clothes. And they find three guys trying on their clothes funny and cute.
🦋Spirit: she's literally his daughter (not biologically but eh) when she was cast out of her body and met Tracks in the graveyard he felt bad that she was a 12 y/o and dead but when he found out the whole situation he was determined to help her get his body back. Before he met her he didn't really have much to live for and would have been okay if he died. But after meeting her and being around her for a while she became his one thing to live for bc he HAD to help this little girl okay he really loved her shes his daughter guys. Sometimes a family is a ghost daughter and two train dads yk?
🦋Harmony: so yk how Cadence cannot dance to save his life but he can sing? Okay well she is tone deaf and cant sing for crap BUT SHE SURE CAN DANCE. SO they cancel each other out its perfect! Together they are a pair of musical idiots!!! I actually dont have much to say, they’re friends :) (i say for the upteenth time LOOK MOST OF THEM ARE GENUINELY JUST FRIENDS BRO IM SORRY)
🦋Echo: her and Link did not know each other personally when her adventure started, and the only information she had on them was the stuff she heard while adventuring. but nowadays they are good friends (who are both even and are both thankful the other had helped them) rift moves back to his home town because they missed it BAD when they were trapped by Null and needed to see someone they cared about again (AHEM- cough, uh guess cough) but every once in a while Echo will steal rift away for a hang out and a few smoothies
(Skipping ranger’s bc he technically doesnt have a zelda/maiden, but i will say he does really love his Epona okay? <33)
🐞Great Fairy of Spring: She's Pink’s mom lol, she wasn't expecting to have a fae son but she loves her boy, whenever he would come back covered in blood she was always so concerned her him (as she should that's her baby boy)
🐞Hylia: uh so she really likes first (not romantically) she love love loves her fun doll who fights evil spirits in her name! Oh no he died!!! Oh well she’ll just put him back together! She loves him so much hes so fun she’ll stitch him back together forever and ever!! (yea thats the dynamic all summed up, basically when First dies Hylia will bring him back and restore his life force and if he loses a limb she reattached it as if he were a doll and he lost one, she doesnt mean any malice she just really likes her fun guy but it take a huge toll on First for many reasons especially when it first happened)
🦋Specter: “wait whos he??” Toon Zelda from HW :) “Why-” HES A BOY BECAUSE I SAID SO ANYWAYYYY (also to note he’s HW King Daphne's biological son who died before he was able to take the throne, which is why Daphnes was still the king at his age despite having an heir) He chills with Bass a lot and they tend to make light hearted digs at each other. Hes also a fan of Treble who likes to make him jewelry and flower crowns and such. Has this dope suit of armor he can possess separately from from himself and sometimes does it for the funny
🐞Captain: (SO BASS GETS TWO AS WELL SMH) anywayy for extra info captain is hw tetra. Him and Bass are literally Captain and First Mate (literally lmao) and also in love. They are really silly because they were yuri before they were yaoi and their dynamic has not changed one bit. They both have this constant affectionate banter (not like PDA, its literally them making jabs at each other insultingly) another sold together do not separate duo.
🦋Wraith: pre-shades adventure: Shade was enamored by Wraith, wraith was the reason he didnt have to get drafted and didnt have to go to the impending massive war. He was incredibly grateful for their help and how considerate they were and he didnt mind having to do tasks for her because she literally saved him from war so it felt fair. Post adventure/post pulling the sword of great trials: THERE IS LITERALLY NO ONE SHADE HATES MORE THAN WRAITH, she manipulated him into getting the sword and bearing the curse, forced him to be an overworked gladiator and kill his own friends, and was a tyrant on top of that. So he put the sword of great trials back (nevermind wraith was on top of the pedestal when that happened) but he really did not appreciate her using him as a weapon to her advantage against the opposing side in the war SHE STARTED SHM so yea it started as adoration and turned into resentment
🦋Divine: They’re the one that put Blight together, imagine that a literal angel making a robot anf then they’re super close to eachother. They are a DO NOT SEPARATE pair okay!! Dont do it!! Divine cared for Blight and made sure he wasn't unkempt and Blight was a companion to Divine when people treated him as this deity instead of an equal. From a technical standpoint, Divine “died” but before that she put Blight in a sleeping state to awake when threats of the calamity were coming back or their assistance was needed and Blight did NOT wanna do that and leave Divine.
🦋Ranger: YEP RANGER IS HOUNDS ZELDA BECAUSE GUESS WHAT THEY WERE MARRIED YEA THEMS THE HUSBANDS (they're whole adventure is so sweet) I love them so much their story is so fun I love them. Ranger was worried his husband wouldnt want to be married to a man and Hound was worried his wife wouldnt want to be married to someone who liked men. And then it kinda worked out in the end so theres that
🐞Ancient/Zephyr: (Tears) They didnt speak often when Tears was in the past but Ancient wasn't rude by any means. He was the one who gave tears the recall blessing (as the sage of time) Even after several centuries of self-isolation after he lost his whole family he still remembered Tears and was glad to help him (and Tears helped him with grief and coming to terms with stuff and also reuniting with his sister) || (Construct) Zephyr thinks Construct is the cutest most interesting thing ever. He fascinates him to no end (blame his aunt for his love of zonai tech) When the master sword shard shattered he used massive amounts of recall power to put it back together at the same time his dad had just died so he has no one left for himself he knew what would happen to be him going in a dormant state for millenias (also he LOVES his sisters lady-in-waiting they're gossip besties)
🦋“Bo”: (I'm gonna wait until I've seen the movie before I do anything with her)