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Prologue: Meet & Greet, Chapter One

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Febuwhump Day One: Touch Starved

His skin prickled and burned, and nothing he did helped. He shoved his hands in opposite sleeves, burrowing further into his thick sweater as he hugged himself, but the action seemed to only make him more tense. He glanced around the camp briefly, taking note of where everyone was, shooting a glare at one he caught staring at him. 

No one was allowed near him. No one could touch him. Except his brothers.

But they still hadn’t rendezvoused outside the dungeon. Four glanced back at the entrance in worry, drawing his shoulders up as the prickling feeling returned. 

Brief background on Four below the cut:

Four is one of the Links from Four Swords. He’s the purple one, and within their “team” is a quick-footed fighter. His main items are the Four Sword, an Armor Seed that boosts his defenses, and the Pegasus Boots. Fast, nimble, willing to throw himself into battle.

In general, these four Links were brought up in nobility. Hence they were close enough with Zelda to accompany her to the Four Sword Shrine. They’re all a bit uppity, but their adventure humbled them somewhat. Of course it also made them extra paranoid about each other’s well-being, and they became near inseparable since. It’s only on the adventure with the myriad of other heroes that they (slowly) begin to find their footing as individuals again.

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Prologue: Meet & Greet, Chapter Two

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Introducing: Four

Based on the purple Link from the original Four Swords Game, Four is the odd one out of their brothers. Not bothering to play along with the social games of the court, he has earned a reputation of disrespect among the nobles, and is frequently the subject of their gossip. This disregard for the norm leads to Four being the brother with the biggest ideas, and most willing to take action, but they don't always consider the consequences of their plans.

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Four

Hero of the Four Sword

He/They

Mid-teens

Youngest brother

Action over consequences

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Prologue: Meet & Greet, Chapter Three

Tea, assassination, and consequences. Read now!

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Rules: Make a new post and share the latest line from your WIP and tag as many people as there are words.

Tagged by @ahrva <3

“Win his favor?” Four snorted a laugh. “Please, I said pretend to care. There is nothing in that man but a love for his status, his money, and his legacy."

I physically cannot tag that many people kfgsgjs how about @ammo-never-runs-out-of-knives I know you've got a few WIPs going kfhdgsj

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I know nothing so tell me about your Four Swords Link if you got him and/or Shadow please and thank you

Oh boy do I have some guys for you! >:) the Four Swords Links account for 8/33 of the Links in my au, so here's an info dump of what I have for them so far:

Four Swords:

So, the Four Swords game is going to be one set of FS wielders. These Links were actually quadruplets and so, when one of them pulled the sword, it was just the sword that split into four, because it recognized four heroes already existing. In this au, their nicknames are One, Two, Three, and Four, which sounds kinda strange but I have a Reason for it.

I'm taking these four guys and giving them the upper class background. They're from a noble family, been childhood friends with Zelda but in a semi-diplomatic way, etc etc. But they're all named Link. So they got numbered, I guess, when they were born because blah blah father worried about inheritance claims so Link the First, Link the Second, etc etc so they have known birth order and known placement in the political family hierarchy. Now, this used to go to One's head as the "I'm the first born so I'm the most important" and the whole group squabbled all the time about it because that's just how they were treated growing up. But they had some rough times during their quest and definitely said some things in the heat of the moment that had to be talked over at some point so now they're mostly chill. And they're now very attached to each other, because they went through hell and back and figured out they were all miserable because of the family issues and they're making amends now and looking out for each other.

Four Swords Adventures:

These guys. These are the Colors that might be more familiar to most people. I'm not basing their entire vibes on the Manga, but if I do pull ideas from the Manga it'd be for this quad. They're Green, Blue, Red, Vio, and they did know a Shadow Link, but I'm still on the fence on what Shadow's role will be here.

Their story follows the plot line of the game: rescue the six maidens, find the four stones, save the brainwashed knights, climb the Tower of the Winds and save Zelda. And then they fight Ganon. I'm thinking their backstory would be, again, kind of like the Manga. He was one Link, the son of a knight who was one of Zelda's personal guards. The sword splits him into the four, and doesn't revert him back to one ever. So now his dad is kinda like "damn okay ive got four sons now" and Zelda's like "sick more friends" and the four are generally unbothered. It was a shaky start, but they're generally a lot more in sync than the Numbers are.

And for funsies, here's some more tidbits about the individual fighting styles of the Numbers and the Colors

One: ranged support, big fan of bombs

Two: Uses the bow mostly, also the one with the Gnat Hat, so pretty good with stealth too

Three: Puzzle solver, sword wielder, really good with the boomerang

Four: the best in the group with hand to hand and general melee combat. prefers the sword for sure

Green: Fire rod fire rod fire rod fire-- It's the only magic item they have that he's not terrible at. But recognizes that not every solution is fire, so mostly uses the sword

Red: Mostly sword-based combat, really good eye for details and clues and puzzles

Blue: Magic! Holding on to both the bombos medallion and the quake medallion. Very big and powerful magic, definitely prefers that over the sword

Vio: ranged support with the bow, but he also has a hammer that he is not afraid to use

I still have more to figure out about them, but this is the basic rundown of what I have so far <3