#merged shadows

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[Image Description: 5 panels for the Merged Shadows AU in grey scale, set on Death Mountain at night. Panel 1: A woman’s silhouette in gold, stretches a hand out to Newt. "Take up your sword-" she says. Newt has his tongue sticking out, posed to pounce. "One more try..." he says. Panel 2: A lizard lays on the rock. Panel 3: Newt raises the Lizard up with a cheer "Ah HA!" Panel 4: A close up of the Lizard. "You shall be... Bob." Panel 5: A view of Death Mountain, lava and Newt both spot colored in red. A "Riiinnnng" emanates from the mountain. Newt holds the lizard on his head, "I guess I should go figure out what's up with that magic stuff huh Bob?" Newt says. End ID]

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Newt will take other Lizard Name options if you wish to provide them. Bob is a placeholder. In the meantime, shall Newt- Ask his Dad about it, Look for the ringing in the Mine, Look for someone who might know in the Village at the base of the mountain?

Shall Newt

Ask Dad

Look in the Mine

Ask people in the Village

Voting ended onOct 24, 2024

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[Image Description: 3 flat colored drawings in the Four Swords Toon style for a LoZ au “Merged Shadows” the first drawing is Zelda and Costa standing next to each other. Zelda is a short haired redhead with a tiara. She wears a pink short sleeved dress with a white long sleeved undershirt. Zelda smiles widely, eyes closed, while Costa stands beside her with a small smile and a quirked eyebrow. In the second image Zelda stands in front of Shadow Link with wide eyes, surprised, pointing lightly at him. Shadow Link smiles nervously, standing in front of her, hands clasped in front of him. The third drawing is Midna, a long haired redheaded Twili with light blue and dark purple patterns in her fur with teal patterns in the purple fur. Her hair is in a ponytail that floats and has teal fire-like ends. She has rounded ears and a catlike nose. She is has pawed feet. She wears a black skirt and cloak. The cloak has a teal inside with gear-like patterns. She has a wolf-head necklace. She’s standing, smiling, her chin against her hands. End ID]

More Merged Shadows stuff. It’s lowkey become a fsa-tp-botw combo world. ...-you can learn more about that when I properly turn it into a ask blog ;)

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[Image description: a 4 panel line art comic from the Merged Shadows LoZ AU. Panel 1: Fin grabs the sword behind his back with a worried expression. Panel 2: A close up of Fin raising the sword, with a thought bubble "I just want out of here" Panel 3: Fin yells "Aaahh" as gold teleportation "ping" has him falling over Costa. Costa looks up with wide eyes. Panel 4: Fin, dripping water, lands on top of Costa's back. Costa screams "Who ARE you and why are you WET?" Fin looks nervously at him. End ID]

Costa and Fin have discovered the Four Sword can teleport to it's other wielders! This ability is dubbed Recollect. This ability can be called upon in the notes, but only works when the Four Sword is in the hands of at least 2 wielders, and can not collect any wielders who are not holding their sword. Wielders can reject this effect.

The Sword in the Ocean: Complete Enemies Defeated: 3 out of 8 Side Quests: 3 out of 4 Fin's Total Rupees: 5 Collected Items: Boomerang, Small Shield, Bubble Seed, Zora Flippers, Blue Four Sword (you can finish more of these later if you return to the Ocean Region)

[Gif: a character selection pixel art with Zelda (greyed out), Jay, Newt, Fin and Costa, who each highlight in color and do brief movements when the cursor hovers over them. End ID]

Character Selection: who would you like to follow now? Jay [In The Forest], Newt [On Death Mountain], Fin [The Castle], or Costa [The Castle]?

Note: Fin & Costa can not proceed outside of The Castle without Jay and Newt.

Character Selection

Jay

Newt

Fin

Costa

Voting ended onOct 17, 2024

Character Selections will determine who is the Player Character for the next segment. The other characters will be Paused. A Paused character will have no major plot points/votes occur, and unless they need travel time, when you return to them next it will be assumed that little to no time has passed. But you can still (and are encouraged to lol) ask them questions!

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[Image Description: 5 panel lineart comic for the Merged Shadows AU. Panel 1: Fin looks down at the stunned Eel, which lays in a heap. Panel 2: a close-up of Fin's face, expression uneasy and worried. Panel 3: Fin swims away, sword and shield on his back. Panel 4: The Eel rises screaming a "Shrieekk". Panel 5: Fin looks over his shoulder, sword and eye colored blue. The sword emanates a gold "Shinng" End ID]

Fear Swimming Away won! The Eel is Awakens and is following! And the Sword is being Weird Again... Should Fin Take up the Sword or Find a Hiding Place?

Should Fin

Take up the Sword

Find a Hiding Place

Voting ended onOct 15, 2024

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[Image description: a 4 panel line art comic from the Merged Shadows LoZ AU. Panel 1: Newt walks down into the Village by the base of the mountain. He has the lizard on his head still and calls "Hellooo" with one hand raised to his mouth. Panel 2: a Goron style house built into the rock, with crystals at the top of the frame archway and a door with beads and Goron symbol. Panel 3: A wood and brick house with a covered porch. Panel 4: a young person with braided hair and bangs that fall over their face. They wear similar style clothes to Newt with a shirt instead of a full tunic. They play an ocarina sitting on the ground next to a rock-blocked cave entrance. End ID]

Welcome to Kakariko!

Time to talk to some villagers... seems most of them are retired to their house, though.

Newt knows the most mountain and magic knowledgeable people here are Goron Jeweler and armor craftsman who resides here, Gyruna, and the leader of the village, Impa. But he also sees some mystery kid!

Should Newt talk to Gyruna, Impa, or The Kid first?

Who should Newt talk to?

Gyruna

Impa

The Kid

Voting ended onNov 5, 2024

In other news! The Lizard is now Bob Donovan!

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[Image Description: 2 panel lineart comic for the Merged Shadows AU. Panel 1: Fin throws a boomerang at the Eel with a grimace. Panel 2: the Eel sinks to the sea floor with stars around it's head. Fin looks down at it with wide eyes. End ID]

The Eel is Stunned! Should Fin Swim Away, or Attack with the Sword?

Should Fin

Swim Away

Attack with Sword

Voting ended onOct 14, 2024

also thanks for waiting for this one yall lolol

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Can Fin breathe underwater while the flippers are equipped?

Just hoping we don't accidentally drown him while fighting or something lol

[Image Description: A drawing of Merged Shadows Fin grinning and holding up a thumbs up. "Ha!" he says. End ID]

He can breathe underwater with the Flippers yes!

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[Image Description: 5 panel lineart comic for the Merged Shadows AU. Panel 1: Fin swims in a loop cheering "haha!" A sunken statue is settled in the bottom of the seabed. Panel 2: Fin cries "Eek!" while looking at a Octorok, hiding behind his shield, boomerang in one hand. The Octorok is wide-eyed, rock heading toward it, with a "poof" surrounding it. A recovery heart flies back toward Fin. Panel 3: The Eel cave is shown with two slightly closed eyes glowing in the darkness. Ahead of it, the four sword stuck in the sand. Panel 4: The sword glows, indicated by a gold "Shing!" Panel 5: The sea is colored in black. Fin has 3 red hearts in the left corner. Fin swims idly in front of the cave and glowing sword. Their shadow, choppy on the sea floor, looks wide-eyed. The Eel cave has one wide eye visible. End ID]

Having swam all the way back to the cave, Fin destroyed another Octorok, regaining a Heart (3 total), and arrived at Night.

Should Fin: try to sneak around and grab the sword, or try to stun the eel with the Boomerang

BOTH options will Initiate the Boss Battle: Characters can not Rest in Boss Battles. If the Player Character looses all their hearts, we will reset to the Last Save. Additionally, Boss Battle poll events will only last 1 day, instead of a week.

Should Fin

sneak up and grab the sword

stun the eel

Voting ended onJan 30, 2024