#margin's links

[margindoodles2407]

Guys I want to draw actual references for all my Links and Zeldas (and also some other people). I've been meaning to do this for a while now... like literally since I joined tumblr over a year and a half ago... but hey. Life happens.

Anyway that being said. Nothing like a good ol' poll to sort things out. So here's a poll. Please reblog for larger sample size; the order of most popular in the poll is the order in which I'll draw them :)

It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Choose (thanks tumblr for having exactly twelve options cause i have exactly twelve game categorizations):

Forger, Goddess, and Groose (Skyward Sword)

Fractal + The Colors and Radiance (Minish Cap/Four Swords)

Orpheus and Sonata + Sheik (Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask)

Dawnbringer, Eos, and Midna + True Form (Twilight Princess)

Awakener, Tetra, Aryll, Medli, and Makar (Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass)

Engineer and Phantasma (Spirit Tracks)

Odysseus, Visionary, and Marin (A Link to the Past/Link's Awakening/Oracles)

Graffiti, Icon, Ravio, and Hilda (A Link Between Worlds/Triforce Heroes)

Genesis, Dawn, and Somnia (The Hyrule Fantasy/The Adventure of Link)

Heroine and Hush (Echoes of Wisdom)

Paladin, Valkyrie, Lana, and Linkle (Hyrule Warriors. I refuse to draw Cia)

Luminary, Sunshine, and the Champions (Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom)

Voting ended onNov 26, 2024

PLEASE REBLOG FOR LARGER SAMPLE SIZE I AM BEGGING YOU ON MY KNEES (this poll lasts for three days)

[margindoodles2407]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINISH CAP!!

Ft. Four, Fractal, and smol Ezlo:) *click for better quality*

Rambles under the cut!

I put Fractal in his Minish Cap outfit because... that's what we're celebrating! Blacksmith apron let's GOOOOOOOO

...and only now am I noticing I forgot to color Four's kinstones. 🥲 Oh well. If someone wants to fix that if it's bugging them too much I'd be okay with it.

Anyway, I've wanted to do a mashup of this kind for a while, and the occasion seemed a perfect time to actually follow through with it! I may in fact be doing this for every Zelda Birthday since A Link to the Past (Nov 21), Ocarina of Time (Nov 21), Twilight Princess (Nov 19), Skyward Sword (Nov 18) and A Link Between Worlds (Nov 22) ALSO have their birthdays this month, and I don't want to leave the other boys out! So stay tuned!

I hope you like my drawing :3

@whyoneartheven In case you're interested :3

[margindoodles2407]

I think my gretest achievement in my Legend of Zelda design process is leaning way hard into Spirit Tracks being steampunk. Like I'm not sure I've ever posted my new and improved Spirit Tracks designs but when I do it's over for you suckahs

[margindoodles2407]

ooof

i don't. i don't have an actual design for dawnbringer do i

i mean he's got heterochromia. and that's. that's as far as i got

OOOOOF

[margindoodles2407]

Drawing requests eh? :D

What about your favorite Link of your Links? XD

THE BOY. HERE HE IS. I AM SO SORRY THIS TOOK FOREVER

[margindoodles2407]

HEY IT'S ALTTP TIME!!!

I was actually shocked to remember how few characters A Link to the Past actually has, and thus how quickly I was done with this one! ...but the next one is Breath of the Wild so. that's gonna take me a hot second :'D

Anyway. Enjoy!

Odysseus

Visionary

Visionary (Princess Edition!)

Ganon

Aghanim

Sahasrahla

Uncle

Zelink let's GOOO (also known as: please help this blind girl you just met escape from her prison in the basement of her own home)

[margindoodles2407]

Rando Link Headcanons: ft BACKSTORIES!!!! WHAT???

Forger: When he and Goddess and Groose were 12, there was a horrible fire on Skyloft. Being a small island, and with all the houses being made of mostly wood, pretty much his entire block was ENGULFED with flames. It claimed the lives of both his parents, Zelda’s mom, and Groose’s grandmother and older sister (who had been raising him), and left all three of them with moderate, but not life-threatening, burn scars- Link’s on his left arm, Zelda’s on her back, and Groose’s along his legs. The lung damage caused by smoke inhalation also gave Link moderate to severe asthma, which is why he has to consume Stamina Fruit and Potion so frequently to replenish his gauge.

Fractal: During his Hyrule's era, it was customary for children training to become knights to apprentice for 5 years under a Blacksmith, because it was considered honorable to wield a sword of one's own forging (and it was practical and more cost-effective to know how to repair your own sword in case it got damaged). That's why he is living with his Grandfather in Minish Cap, even though his father (and his mom okay i want there to be at least ONE link with a healthy intact family) is alive and well. During Minish Cap, he is on his 4th year of apprenticeship and is 15 (alrighty look i know he's a toon link but it's MY headcanons and I can age him up if i need to. which i do.)

Orpheus: Say what you want about "chosen heroes" and "destiny", you can't tell me that out of the blue one day his big sister hands him a flute and he's IMMEDIATELY amazing at it. In fact, he's actually quite terrible at the Ocarina until about right around the time he finishes the Shadow Temple, and until then he has to play every song he tries at LEAST three times before he gets it right because he keeps forgetting proper fingering. (by the time Majora's Mask rolls around though he is quite good at it because he's practiced so much)

Dawnbringer: HETEROCHROMIA. BOY'S GOT A BLUE EYE AND A BROWN EYE. YOU CAN RIP THIS HEADCANON FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

Awakener: He is actually quite good at singing. Aryll is terrified of storms of any kind (which is reasonable, considering hurricane season affects Outset the HARDEST of all the islands), and she would only calm down if he sang to her, especially when she was little. He can also belt shanties like nobody's business. It has earned him considerable respect from Tetra.

Engineer: First of all, like what I said for Fractal: he may be a Toon Link, but these are my headcanons and if I feel the need to age him up then I reserve that right. He is 18- because you can't tell me that they're SERIOUSLY going to let a 12-year-old graduate from Train School; this may be a Hyrule but I'd like to think that Tetra would have had more common sense than that when she wrote the New Hyrulian Constitution- however, he is quite short and has a BABY. FACE. and people consistently think he's younger than he is, aging him at around 14. Which I think is hilarious because this technically makes him the physically oldest Link and yet people would assume that he's one of the younger ones. (Phantasma suffers from this plight too, though to a lesser extent).

Odysseus: After the events of his games- and after he has moved into the palace to be Visionary's personal guard- he keeps a small garden where he grows plants that hold symbolic meanings from his adventures: Apples to commemorate his uncle, Hibiscus bushes to remind him of Marin, Mystery Seed Plants from Holodrum, and a cutting from the plant Roperi was growing in Labrynna's distant past.

Graffiti: He and Ravio look identical, except for the colors of their hair and skin and eyes. In most incarnations, people would tend to portray them as hating this fact, however, MY versions of them find it HILARIOUS and will sometimes dye each others' hair and wear contacts and try to pass off as the other. Hilda and Icon see right through it, of course, but several castle attendants in both Hyrule and Lorule have been completely fooled by it until the boys can't hide their laughter anymore.

Genesis: My man is quite the survivalist and can and will go DAYS without eating because his body is just used to it (due to his childhood years of living in the wild on his own in a cave). It drives Dawn MAD. She has to force him to eat sometimes (but he adores her so all she has to do is ask nicely). However, he is an AVID tea drinker (and ind of a tea snob) so, though he might miss meals regularly, make him late for TEA TIME and he will END YOU.

Luminary: During his last stand 100 years ago, he was WRECKED by the guardians- much more than would have been appropriate to show in-game. In fact, his left eye was COMPLETELY destroyed. During his century-long nap, it had to be totally repaired by Sheikah Tech, and so it has these threads of orange Ichor intertwined with the blue of his iris. This is what allows his encyclopedic knowledge of the things in the game- like how the Champion's tunic lets him see enemy health gauges, the identification of item names and weapon stats after he's interacted with them once, and the names of locations when he enters them.

[margindoodles2407]

ummmm

dropping by with a Christmas ask hehe

perhaps

Lu Warriors or your Paladin? I love them both so much XD

How did this get buried in my notes. Anyway this is from like. June. I hope you enjoy him :D