Late, but have some art for Trans Day! These are the characters I have that are explicitly trans in-text. (Others in different AUs may be, but I don't generally make firm decisions about gender or sexuality. I did for all the pathfinder AU though, which is why there are so many there.)
Because I want to, descriptions of each character below the cut. Left to right, top to bottom:
Linked Nexus Time: Time: ftm trans. grew up on a planet that didn't really care about gender expression and just generally landed in an ambiguous he/him space.
Linked Nexus Wild: intersex, doesn't remember his childhood but does prefer a masculine presentation.
Pathfinder Chain Sky: afab intersex! Chose a masculine presentation partly because his culture is woman-led and he didn't feel up to the task of leading like that
Pathfinder Chain Four: amab nonbinary but goes with he/him pronouns partly because he jist doesn't care. Specific colors might be different genders but I didn't get into that.
Pathfinder Chain Twilight: ftm trans, actually a sentient wolf. Figured out shapeshifting into a half-elf partially for trans reasons.
Pathfinder Chain Wild: ftm, not physically transitioned at all
Pathfinder Chain Warriors: ftm trans, joined the military of his country partially to gain access to and earn money for a sex change potion, of which he's taken several as he settles into himself.
Percy Jackson AU Twilight: ftm trans, spent decades in the Hunters of Artemis before leaving peacefully.
Hero's Vessel Doll: genderfluid. Had to replace his pelvis with a porcelain recreation, chose something sexless. Masculine most days, feminine sometimes.
Hero's Vessel Alby: uh. Carved as a male statue, never saw himself as anything other than male, but he did get his clothes carved off at some point and had to pick what was going on, picked female.
Hero's Vessel Oak: ftm, similar to LN Time just in the "didn't grow up with gender, settled into mostly masculine eventually."
Bad End Links Aconite: very intentional ftm, enchanted a series of gems that acted as puberty blockers from a preteen age.
Bad End Links Acon's Zelda: mtf, Aconite gave her the same sort of enchantments a little while after making his own when she decided she wanted them.
ive started reading the linked nexus au by @zarvasace last night. and im obsessed. especially with time and his species. i love the way they write and ive found out that theres like three deity!time fanarts. so i took matters into my own hands :3
…yeah, well, mina, this is for you. i love your work.
have this raging deity time because this man has consumed my brain. hes a little bloody, which is why im placing it under the cut. tw blood.
i’m very proud of this. like. it’s almost stupid but i really love how the lighting turned out in the end (even though i did struggle a lot)
also i started with drawing the eyes with highlights but i think it fits better if they don’t have them. he looks so dead inside and probably is
the deity markings are half copied from minas baby!time art and half made up. because i wanted them to be dramatic. the ones on the back of his hand originally don’t exist but only part of his forehead is visible and i didn’t want it to be boring.
well, i was having fun after all.
i’m not the best with expressions, especially since i couldn’t draw irises and pupils, so he looks a little more dead inside than angry but i like it.
and i like how the blood turned out, i added it in the end and it really brings the whole thing together, so no version without it.
his armor was directly copied from the lineup so i think i did pretty well with that :D
This is fanart for Please Handle Your Sheikah Slate With Care by @janazzaa, which I reread every so often and quite enjoy!
My one problem with it was the art provided for Wild’s death in chapter 4, ‘Grace to Hateno’. The art is super well done, especially with the fact the author didn’t NEED to draw it and should be applauded for the extra effort! The problem? The entire time I was reading, I pictured Time and Wild as the painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son”
@zarvasace lets me play with her dolls soooo much and it's very fun <3 Poked around helping design Linked Nexus Time from the past few decades before the story kicks off, from when he left the Kokiri through becoming the Kingdom Deity to now.
Kind-of, sort-of a spoiler for details more properly described in the fic Ungrateful but I doubt it'll make any sense until you've read it.
Was very fun! I will not commit any further crimes based on this knowledge <3 Don't worry about it.
I think I was arguing with this art and its background for ages which is why I never posted it, but here's Linked Nexus Cia's design, from the Zelda Sci Fi AU by @zarvasace. Height comparison with LN Time under the cut.
Right side is how tall he was when he was the Kingdom Deity and fighting her in the War of Eras. Left side is how tall he is during the actual story-telling period. IIRC Warriors is somewhere in between the two.