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[linderosse]

✨By your side✨

I like to think Silent was watching over Echo, guiding her from afar and teaching her how to fight during her adventure in EoW.

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Wisdomverse Masterpost

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@mobgabriel It's done! Hope you like it <3

Lily of the Valley

CW: Main Character Death

EoW Zelink, Wisdomverse AU by @linderosse

Aurora was dying.

Death was near. She could feel it. She could see her vision darkening. Dawn's muffled sobs into the blanket grew fainter as she gripped the hand of her older sister. Hyrule's whispered comforts faded as she slipped away.

She was at peace. Many people don't make it to ninety after all. Aurora had lived a full, long, and happy life. Hyrule and Dawn's children and grandchildren visited her often, despite their busy schedules. It never failed to warm her heart. Though she never had children, she loved her nieces and nephews like her own.

The kingdom was flourishing, finally recovering from the Decline. Hyrule was a great king.

...

Aurora was dying, and here - surrounded by loved ones - she was content.

She wondered who would greet her on the other side.

Her father?

Impa?

Lueberry?

Maybe even Minister Lefte or General Wright?

Link?

...

Ba-dump

Her heartbeat slowed.

Ba-dump

Every breath was a struggle.

Ba-dump

She closed her eyes.

Ba-

Silence.

The Sleeping Princess had entered her eternal rest.

...

She didn't open her eyes right away. Wisdom's bearer kept her bright green eyes shut, taking a moment to just be, and savour being free of the aches and pains that had marked her at that point in life.

Eventually, Echo's eyes blinked open.

They were suddenly filled with tears.

What greeted her was a sight she never thought she would see again.

It was Suthorn Forest, lush, beautiful, and green as it had once been oh so many centuries ago. She could see Suthorn Village just ahead, as bright and vibrant and warm as she remembered. A breeze ruffled her strawberry blonde hair, carrying with it the flowery scent of spring.

When the princess looked to the right, she saw a large tree brimming with reddish pink flowers and heart-shaped leaves. A redbud. Their tree.

A wave of nostalgia crashed into her. In her mind's eye, she could see the carved heart surrounding their initials etched into the redbud's rough bark. She could feel the sunlight warming her face, and his calloused hand in hers.

Echo had just been about to turn away when she noticed a figure sitting at the tree's base. They were too far away for her to see them properly, but she couldn't help the sudden pang of familiarity.

The figure got up and started walking towards her. The Priestess stayed rooted to the spot. As they drew nearer, Echo could finally see their face.

Her heart skipped a beat.

He was a young man of about eighteen with sandy blond hair that covered one eye, framing his handsome face. He wore a blue tunic lined in pale yellow, stitched with blocky swirls. A shortsword with a hilt the same shade as his tunic clanked at his right side. His ocean eyes were filled with affection, and Echo felt like she was drowning in the blue.

Link stopped right in front of her, their faces mere inches away.

They stared at each other for a long moment, emerald gazing into sapphire.

Then Link smiled that little smile that always made her stomach fill with butterflies, leaned forward, and caught Zelda in a bone-crushing hug. Zelda held back him just as fiercely, basking in the feeling of his arms around her once again. He smelled of petrichor, of the parched land after a rainstorm. She melted into him, sobbing in relief and happiness. Link just kept holding her. He managed to drag them both under the tree at one point, and he leaned against the trunk, Zelda's head on his chest.

Zelda broke the silence, throat raw from crying. "I never thought I'd see you again. It feels so surreal to be with you right now. This honestly feels like a dream."

Link tilted her chin up so that they were eye to eye.

"Zelda," he started, voice rough. Zelda's eyes widened in surprise. He almost never spoke. "I promise, I'm real."

"Sounds like something a dream would say."

Link's visible eye sparkled with mischief.

"Oh, really?" He leaned in closer. "Well then, could a dream do this?"

He closed the gap between them. She didn't doubt him again.

Zelda was dead. She had never felt so alive.

[winedimples]

Flirting on the job

~*~

Other mer designs here!

Silent and Echo are from @linderosse's wisdomverse.

Yapping and design notes under the cut as usual!

The more mers I design, the more complicated they get. The first designs (legend, hyrule and wind) were just some throwaway mer ideas with the idea that huh, underwater creatures probably don't have a lot of metallurgy so let's design them with stuff they can just scavenge. Also clothing would be probably inconvenient for them so let's just... not. But look at me now.

I would make mer designs for Phantom and Spirit too, but just like how I cannot image Tetra as anything but an awesome land dwelling pirate, I cannot imagine Spirit as anything but a train conductor that takes his job very very seriously.

Echo

The moment I wanted to draw echo and silent as mers, it was decided that Echo needed to have three tail fins. At first I wanted to give her a red tail, like how Legend has a pink tail, but then I stumbled upon it. The perfect fish (false, there is no such thing but still): the Yellowstriped Fairy Basselet (thank you pinterest).

Echo just strikes me as a girl that really really likes to accessorize (why else have that as a core mechanic of the game?). So she gets the heart ribbon and the wind sash because I always thought those were cure. If she weren't wearing gloves, I would have given her the froggy ring too.

I gave her pearl bracelets though, because I thought hey Legend is using a pearl necklace as utility belt and what if I gave all Zelda's pearls as way to indicate their royal status? Of course, pearls are probably easier to find for mers than landfolk and thus making pearls less rare for them then it is for humans but shhhh. I think it would be nice if I gave all royal mers something to match.

Echo gets called Priestess in eow, so that's what she is in the mermay au. She is still technically a princess in name, her royal duties are basically non-existent as she primarily serves as a Very Important Religious FigureTM that does Very Important Religious Figure Stuff like diving into unknown territories without warning with Silent and exorcising evil by stabbing it in the face with her trident.

Also thank you @mobgabriel for the trident idea it is perfect!

Three is an holy number for the merfolk. So most things come in threes. The tiara Echo is wearing has Nayru's symbol in the center, while her trident has Din's color in the middle. Depending on the function of the item, the appropriate goddess is referenced to symbolically call the blessing of said goddess. It's why weapons underwater often are decorated in red (think the red flag on Warriors' lance, I totally planned that in advance and this is totally not a coincidence at all).

The cloak. Ah the cloak. For a moment I thought about modifying it (like I did with Warriors' scarf), but nah the cloak is perfect the way it is. The silhouette you have is very important to either scare off or attract predators, I image what a godsend this cloak was for Echo when she was on the run. From a distance, she would appear like a big predator. Perhaps she even wore tail extensions during her time of hiding.

Okay so, Null. In canon Null is a primordial creature of some kind that was sealed away by the golden goddesses. I'm keeping that. The golden goddesses wanted a beautiful garden of life, but they couldn't do that with if their neighbor just kept eating their flowers so they created Tri and their friends to make World's Biggest Net to capture Null and bury them under the sea floor.

In my mind, Null is some of evasive species that has a hive-mind, characterized by their hunger. So throughout the thousands of years in which the world above slowly formed, Null was eating away at their prison. These little gaps and mistakes in the world created various opportunities for other villains to grasp for power. Like Hylia's seal weakening enough for Ghirahim to resurrect Demise or how Ganondorf got power hungry enough to try to grasp at the throne.

(I have no idea for Ganondorf's role in the mer au actually. Half of me wants him to be a mer, the other half of me wants him to be like a poacher or one of those assholes destroys the environment by fishing excessively and destructively.)

Null's main body was below Echo's colony, so when the cracks broke out everyone scratched their head at them before they got distracted by their own villains running around and causing havoc, leaving Echo and Silent alone to deal with Null. Turns out that destroying the main body was enough.

I did not draw it, but Tri is a jelly fish. Or a jelly fish like creature, but magical. I need to think more about the specifics.

Incidentally, Dawn is also based on a jellyfish. This further strengthens the cuteness aggression Echo feels towards Dawn.

Honorary member of the seagull mafia, but more involved than Hyrule is. She plays with the gulls and is friends with Marin as well. They get up to all kinds of mischief and drag poor Legend along.

Silent:

Okay, it ended up looking pretty different, but I based Silent off the short-nosed Chimaera fish (also called a rabbitfish which-- missed opportunity for Legend but alas I wanted him to have frilly fins), but blue. Oh so blue. If I think of Silent, I think of blue.

Bioluminescence can be used in various way by deep sea creatures two of which is camouflage and communication. When used for the first, it appears on the underside of the fish, when used for the second it is used on the side of the fish. So! I gave Silent pretty blue spots that can light up to communicate! Imagine Wild and Silent just flashing their bio luminescence tails at each other. As the two links who gotten an in-game reason for not being able to speak, I thought it would be fun to give them an alternative means of communicating specifically tailored to their biology. (Yes the ends of his side fins also glow!)

Also to the anon that suggested fish that use echolocation as inspiration for Silent and Echo: i did not forget you! I unfortunately did not find any that were satisfactory for me, but Silent does indeed have echolocation. He is also uncannily good at finding Echo herself. So he has both echolocation and Echo-location abilities :3

Silent may have survived Null, but Null leaves their mark on their victims anyways. Silent got his voice taken so I gave him a bright purple scar on his throat. He got it back after Null died of course, but he ended up permanently sacrificing it (just the complete ability to make sound at all) to wake Echo from her sleeping curse with Hyrule's help. Hyrule has faerie blood, so he needs sacrifices to perform feats beyond his natural scope of magic (perhaps all sea witches do, maybe that's why they've got such a controversial rep).

(Hyrule still got smooched by Echo on accident, but it's more of a funny thing now than a sad one. (Yes Echo, after the initial embarrassment just immediately moved onto Silent while Hyrule was still in the room. Talk about awkwarddd.))

I know I said that Purah is a mer and that wild got his slate from her but I'm retconning that now because @hylianscribe (thank youuu) gave me a better idea: Purah is a scientist at a lighthouse (shiekah tower) that dropped the slate on accident.

How is that relevant here? Well, I started thinking of it more and since Purah is of landfolk, the Sheikah can't be merfolk themselves. So I thought of this: Sheikah are a clan of people sworn to Hylia's service. During Hylia's days, she was resentful of the landfolk and true in a true Siren-fashion, she ended up luring lots of landfolk to their death (it's where the siren myth came from in the first place), but she ended up sparing the Shiekah who were also abandoned by the landfolk.

The Shiekah are in mostly found in small remote islands and on lighthouses. They do serve the landdwellers, but they do it more in interest for the mers who Hylia loved very very much. Shiekah are not strictly landfolk, anyone can join their ranks. And perhaps some of them had ancestors that got turned into mers themselves during Hylia's days to keep close to her. Silent is one of the mers that aligned himself with Sheikah, he basically got adopted into the clan and can be often found playing messenger between various Sheikah clans.

Cadence:

I played Cadence of Hyrule a few months ago and I adored it (rhythm games my beloved <3) and I recently bought Crypt of the Necrodancer (the game Cadence is originally from) because it was on sale and I really wanted to get to know her more. I already knew that coh was made a lot easier in comparison to cotnd, but man nothing could prepare me to how hard cotnd is. The music is amazing tho, so I don't mind dying so much.

Cadence is a landdweller, scuba diver that was sent down after the nearby merfolk colony suddenly went radio silent in their communications with her island. There she found everyone asleep and ensnared with the same curse that she is, unfortunately, very very familiar with.

In case you're not familiar with cotnd lore (which I am also not since I am not very far in the game and only skimmed the TVtropes page): Cadence went to search for her Dad who one day disappeared in search for a golden lute in order to resurrect her mother who died of plague. While doing so, Cadence ended up in the Necrodancer's dungeon and got cursed to move to the music. The Necrodancer was a bard that stumbled upon the golden lute, but was driven crazy because of it. It turns out the lute was a sentient monster and gets destroyed (I think) at the very very end of the game.

In the mer au, it instead got swept away to sea and landed in the lands of Octavo, who was already a drama queen, but he got even WorseTM once he got in possession of the lute. Cue the events of CoH.

Octavo is cousins with Vaati, and as mentioned in this post, they cannot stand each other.

I really really like Cadence man. The way she got introduced in her game, by telling the people who told that that she couldn't save her dad to shove it? I love her, she gives me older sister that takes no shit vibes. She definitely goes "I've known Echo and Silent for a day, but if anything were to happen to them I will kill everyone in this room and then myself." Those are her emotional support mers, your honor.

She still occasionally visits and every time she does, Echo and Silent take her to see some beautiful fish and point her to secret locations no other scuba diver can reach or is allowed to go. Her peers are extremely jealous of her.

I think that's it? (Writing this took two hours alasdfkjalsdf) I hope you guys like it and also, this au is very incompletely and prone to morphing so any ideas and suggestions are always welcome. Now that I have some more worldbuilding I can maybe start looking at incorporating more elements from the games.

Next up in the mer au is probably designing the other Zelda's taking inspiration from linderosse's wisdomverse, though I might take a different direction for some of the girls.

[interlink-au]

Here comes a lot of GBA-style pixel Links! (and a couple of Zeldas.) Ignore their heights. I usually try to keep height differences in mind, but I prioritized appearance this time, so we've ended up with weird situations like LU Four looking too tall and HP Four looking comparatively tiny.

See below for the original artists. See if you can guess who they are!

Row 1:

Sky (SS) from @tethered-in-myth

Picori (the Hero of Men) from @flm-linkedfissures

Minish (TMC) from @minas-linkverse

Four (Four Swords trilogy) from @linkeduniverse

Four Swords Link from @cokoakeostuff's Hero's Paradox

Row 2

Leaf (pre-OoT) from @marenwithanm's Little Links

Time (OoT/MM) from @linkeduniverse

Reaper (TP) from @chained-spirits

Wind (WW) from @heroesspirit

Tracks (ST) from @the-phantom-peach's Rift in Time

Row 3

Mage (ALttP) from @bonus-links (my followers might have seen this one already)

Totem (ALBW/TFH) from @linkbetweenlinksau

Ravio (ALBW) from @minas-linkverse

Silent and Echo (EoW) from @linderosse's Wisdomverse (my followers might have seen them, too)

Row 4

Hope (The NES games and the cartoon) from @linkedspirit-fanartfunart

War (HW) from @bonus-links

Aspect (the Ancient Hero) from @chained-spirits

Tears of the Kingdom Link and Zelda from @proxycrit's Familiar Familiar (Not a Links Meet like the others, but it was a big request from my sis, and I'm a huge fan of the always messy hair. Great series.)

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I told myself I wouldn't do this but here are some design notes:

Pixel art this small can only handle so many details, but I tried to fit whatever I could.

If you look closely, you'll see a tiny reference to Sky's feathers on his hip.

I went back and forth on whether to include the red ties Picori has. In the end, they looked too much like hoodie strings, and the strap wanted to blend in with his face, so I had to chop the strings off and swap out the leather strap for his undershirt.

With Minish: I tried really hard to nail that stare of his. I'm a big fan. There was a ton of trial and error - and I almost gave up several times - but I'm satisfied with the result. His pockets are represented by a single light-green dot. :)

JoJo doesn't color eyes, so I had to decide if I would go with the blue of his games or the grey that fans tend to use. I went with grey. It was a fun challenge to incorporate that eye color into his deadpan expression. I drew his before Minish, which helped me figure out some tricks that made Minish's eyes more achievable. I also had to figure out how to give the bottom of Four's tunic the right shape. Every other tunic I had drawn up to that point was straight across in the center. The GBA sprite doesn't even include legs (those are my own additions wherever you see them), so it took some messing around to find something that worked. I think the result added to his accidental tall appearance. That, and his hair kept getting taller so it wouldn't look like a frying pan hit him. Hm... I wonder if I...? But then his arms would be too long...

I had a really hard time placing Hero's Paradox Four's earring. It kept wanting to blend in. Unacceptable! I ended up saturating the color quite a bit compared to the original to make sure the colors stood out. With a few exceptions like this, try to stick with the artist's art style as far as palette choices go. It also killed me to leave out the design on his tabard. It looked like a checkerboard.

I just realized I didn't put any greenery in Leaf's braids! For shame! Maybe I'll do a separate post with the fix. The tiny braids were fun to figure out how to draw with the little pixels. I wonder if it would have been easier or harder to figure out if I remembered the plants. I guess I'll find out when I fix it.

Time is the most obvious example of how GBA sprites don't have a center. They use an even number of pixels on both sides, so any center parts or markings had to choose a side (like in this case) or become two pixels wide (like in Reaper's case). I wanted to challenge myself with a heavily armored character. I didn't think about how many details his armor had before I made that decision. ( ; >_<) I'm sure someone with more experience could have done better, but I'm satisfied.

If you look closely, you'll see that Reaper has his nose scar.

I thought about including Wind's sword and Wind Waker, but I didn't want to complicate such a cute sprite.

I tried to give Tracks all four of his buttons. I don't think I succeeded, but I tried. It was fun to figure out his poncho-style coat.

Mage: Glasses are hard. I don't want to do it again. I had fun fitting as many details in as I could. He has a lot of details in his design, so almost all of them are dropped for clarity, but I enjoyed playing around with it.

Totem: I adore his hair. It's my favorite thing about him. But boy was it an experience to make sure the green section of his hair didn't look like it was meant to be the bottom of his cap. I ended up having to make it a lot lighter than the original.

I was excited for Hope because I have zero experience with tight curls. It wasn't as hard as I imagined in pixel form, though that might have been due to the great highlights and lowlights I could pull from the original art. Trying to make sure all the browns didn't blend together was another story.

Aspect's main difficulty was finding a good curl on his tail that didn't interfere with his long hair. And his arm jewelry. And his shirt. For some reason I really struggled with his shirt. It's such a simple shirt, too. I also struggled with the placement of his teardrop makeup. I'm still not satisfied with that.

Familiar Familiar Link also has his nose scar. It looks like stylistic shading if you don't know the original design, but I think it's cute with either interpretation. ^_^

Some of these AUs are probably going to see some more sprites from me. It was hard to choose which Links to prioritize for this set. Everyone had such fun designs! If there's a character or au you were hoping to see, please shoot me a request. I love making these little guys. OCs are welcome, too!

Artists, feel free to request a separate version of your character. Tumblr wouldn't have liked so many individual pictures in one post, so I grouped them together, but I can definitely send you singles if you feel like causing mayhem with a little transparent pixel guy.

Or if you want your character removed from this post, I can do that, too. 👍

[laugoscos]

Quick doodles of Silent and Echo, lost into the Abyss

Masterpost

[mobthoughts]

Hyrule:so wich one of you guys was going to tell me that tea tastes differently in hot water?

Sky:y- you were putting it in cold water?????

Wild:Hyrule answer the question Hyrulee

Hyrule:yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

Wild:you dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

Warriors:why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it?!

Wild:Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the campfire?!

Warriors:Its takes less than a minute

Wild:Bestie are your campfires powered by the fucking sun!?!

Warriors:How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the campfire?!

Wild:like 7 minutes

Warriors:just stick the the mug on top of the campfire and use your fire rod, it boils in 2 minutes less than that if you use a saucepan

Wild(crying):you are using your fire rod on your mug?! your mug is enchanted

Legend:every single person in this camp is a fucking lunatic

Silent:DO NONE OF YOU OWN A FUCKING KETTLE?!?!

[blank-sg]

The Silent Hero is a Beast

If you actually take the time to review everything that this guy does he ends up being one of the strongest links in the entire series.

And thats without even completing a single adventure on his own. He has always had help. And he is still a beast.

Lets go by everything this guy has in his possesion, including his skills, going game by game.

Echoes of wisdom:

One would assume that with him not being the main character, he wouldnt have main character strength. But he does. In echoes of wisdom we learn two things about the silent hero:

1. By the end of the game, he is in possesion of the level 3 sword, bow and bombs of might.

Aswell as having the energy gloves and belt, the stone anklet, and the spin brace(which might not really do much for him as you'll eventually see) as pointed out by linderrose.

2. He can stave off a literal primordial entity with a club and nothing else aswell as having a lot of stamina and skill.

To elaborate, the way in which you atain the green tunic aswell as the scrolls is by completing the enemy-boss rush mode. Which is heavy indication that Link is capable of doing so aswell. Of course we also have a cutscene with link literally whacking Null off screen with a wooden club. He is surprisingly strong. And not all Links have a Boss rush mode. Only a handful of them do, and they end up being the best swordsmen in the chain.

Sky, Time, Twilight, and Wild fit in this category. Wild technically doesnt have a boss rush mode but he does have something that might resemble it in the bitw dlc. The same dlc which has wolf link, which is the inspiration that Jojo took for Wild's relationship with Wolfie.

3. (What? Three? I thought you just said two!) Well, this isn't really something that he does, but I do want to point out that Zelda in her Swordfighter form(Which is clearly based off of link) can do a lot of crazy stuff. Now. Of course. Link cant actually have infinite arrows or spam spin attacks or anything else that Zelda can do in this form. But i do want to point out the outstanding speed in which she can perform a spin attack, this will be important later.

Cadence of Hyrule:

In this game, Link, attains a lot of the classic Link gear, but keep in mind that all of the gear attained in this game must be split between the heroes. Mainly Link and Zelda.

Let's review what we know he absolutely should have and be capable of:

1. 1. The longshot. Being the only one other than Time to have it.

2. Power gloves. He notably can't upgrade this to their known upgrade: the Titans Mitt. But given his surprising strength thats fine.

3. A Magic boomerang. He becomes one of the now four links to be have one alongside his downfall brothers and Four.

4. A Fire rod. Since Echo already has Din's fire im sure she doesnt need it.

5. A Mirror shield. One of now 5 links that have one.

6. He has lightning arrows, being the only one other than Wild to have them aswell as being the ONLY Link to have Poison. Arrows. Holy shit this guy does not fuck around.

7. Caladbolg. A two-handed, undegradable powerful longsword. Given that Silent has spent a lot of time in the still world, and all Links have shown some after effects to the magic affecting them. Its not impossible that any non sufficiently magical gear that he uses is magically degraded because of nulls power. This would explain why the weapons in CoH degrade except the fragile glass weapons which cant really degrade, much like his bismuth (crystal of might) gear, even titanium infusions degrade. Of course that might just be me thinking a little too much about things so feel free to forget about that.

2. Link is one of only 3 links (7 if you include smash (twilight, time, wind, wild)) that can perform the down thrust. Alongside the hero of Hyrule and Four.

3. In cadence of hyrule you can use various weapons, with Link being able to use all three types of swords: shortswords, broadswords, and longswords.

4. Perhaps the craziest thing this link can do is the spin attack. Its not just a normal spin attack, its the. Fastest. Spin attack. In. The. Series.

In the original crypt of the necrodancer, Cadence's heartbeat is what ties her to the beat. While the logic in CoH is a little different, with it instead being literally the beat of the music which ties your movement, the timing between both is still pretty much the same.

It takes one beat to set up and one beat to finish the spin attack. Anybody that knows music can tell you that two beats is the same as an off-beat. That means that the Silent hero can perform his spin attack literally in a heart beat. Even if you speed up the beat he can still perform it. And its not like in wind waker where link is winded either. No. This guy can do his spin attack and immediately go back to boxing. Maybe his balance is helped by the stone anklet.

Anyway he is a good swordsman.

TriForce Heroes

Linderrose had already pointed out that this adventure was mainly Legend's. But there is one outfit that piques my interest. The Sword outfit. Its Blue. He actually wears it in promo art. It doesnt even have to change color to match his color scheme.

I know thats not much, but the fact that it just fits is an incredible thing to point out given that this link has never been a 3d link, yet all his games always make an effort to point out that he is a very very skilled swordsman.

This Sword Suit also gives him the ability to shoot sword beams at max health much like the sword of might also allows him to do. This ability is normally ties to the master sword, although the four sword can do it aswell.

There is also a very familiar looking ruby in his neck.

Anyways I just wanted to point out that even tho this guy has never gotten full credit for any of his adventures(As a matter of fact he keeps getting increasingly more help in each adventure), he is still very much a force to be reconned with.

ALSO HE IS ONE OF THREE LINKS TO FIGHT A GOD.

[deeeeeeeer3]

Since we are getting close to EOW's birthday may i suggest Echo and Silent getting smoothies together?

Cheers for their encounter🥂

Today(September 26th) is exactly an anniversary since EoW sales in Japan. Thank you for giving idea!