Please understand Reader is Masc (he/him) unless stated otherwise.
GN = gender neutral (they/them)
Fem (she/her)
Mixed (any combo of pronouns)
Chronological order (ish). Check near the bottom of sections for newer posts.
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*= Art I made for the post!
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Humans are NOT hylians (Humans are Space Orcs AU):
The OG post, and a sorta intro to Humans are Space Orcs tumblr fandom/concept if ur unfamiliar - Humans aren't just round-eared Hylians??
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Piggyback rides and headcanons
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Snippet of More headcanons (check the reblogs!)
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Fighter!Reader and Even More headcanons
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An Ungodly Amount of More headcanons.
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...you won't believe it.
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You try some potions, as a human in Hyrule, and make some yourself!
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Human v. Hylian cultural differences, we cant be That different, right?
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Twilight had human neighbors, this did not prepare him For You.
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(Clearly divided SFW / NSFW PORTIONS) Humans show affection differently than Hylians...?
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TF u mean humans can just,,?? Grab their enemies sword??? Out of their hands???!! While Fighting Them??!!!!!
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You: Spirit Halloween, on the day of Halloween, could've given me a better disguise than that Yiga member.
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Guide! Reader who can fight?? (bonus: asker left art 🤩)
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Fem!Reader being taller than every Link (quick post) *
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GN Reader, you wear alternative jewelry! ...how do you feel about bananas btw? (quick post)
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Just some crumbs! (quick post)
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✨️ 🧝♂️ Ear culture 🧝♀️ ✨️
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Local group of hylians adjust to human levels of affection. Except they don't.
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Fem! Period having Reader suffers, hylians crash course on periods (emergency ask)
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The Classic Linked Universe:
Guide!Reader, Linked Universe Incorrect Quotes
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Soulmate Headcanons for Wild (BOTW Link)
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GN Guide!Reader, Random Headcanons abt Chain Part 1
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GN Guide!Reader, Random Headcanons abt Chain Part 2
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GN Guide!Reader, Random Headcanons abt Chain Part 3
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Guide!Reader, the Chain being Down Bad for your voice lmao
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A Language Barrier? Well, とくにか. (Encoded! Check the reblogs!)
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GN Reader, you're a real flirt, no GOT bitches?? You even got Zelda???
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Lang. AU fun ideas :] (quick post)
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Trans Masc! Reader has some insecurity and body dysmorphia </3 good thing theres some local hylian twinks around
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🎶 GUIDE READER / LINKS BIG OLE SONG RECS POST <3 + my own LU Guide Reader inspired Spotify Playlist!🎶
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A quick peek into Links putting u to bed (emergency ask)
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GN/Fem! Reader w/ vitiligo and curly hair!
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Anon List:
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thanks for reading!! I hope you enjoy my silly stuff!! :)
Idk if maybe I'm a little stupid but can you explain which link is which game? I'm new to the Zelda series so I'm having a little bit of a hard time telling who's who.
Hello!!
No stupid questions here dw - it can get confusing esp if ur new!
So this is all based in jojo's comic "Linked Universe" - just to make sure thats established, in case u didnt know (i wont @/ them bc pretty big blog by now and dont wanna unnecessarily blow up notifs, but if u just search Linked Universe and see a well done full color comic from a blog with the name jojo in it youll know its them!)
And while you can read and comic and know whats going on, Jojo did make a character guide (fairly old by now, so youd have to scroll or get lucky w/search button on blog)
But here is a really cool guide a fan made that i like!
💬 14 🔁 476 ❤️ 2186 · Linked Universe Character Guide · I made this LU character guide for my friends and I thought it might be useful for
Just to give you a run down or TLDR
If u see mentions of Fierce Deity, thats a bit self explanatory, but in terms of the LU (linked universe), the character Time would be the one wearing the mask that transforms him into Fierce Deity, its directly from the games, tho lots of fans play around with headcanons how it fits in LU, how different Fierce would be on Time versus his classic game counterpart, as Time is aged up in LU!
He also doesnt really have a personality in canon? He's just kinda a One Hit Wonder in the game, with vague lore stuff attached to the mask and as far as Im aware, theres not really a game canon explanation for: How did a deity get trapped in a mask? Why can Link (Ocarina of Time/Majora Mask's Link) wield it? What are the ramifications of it? Who is Fierce Deity? Deity of what? Etc.
So you get a lot of fanon for Fierce, headcanons, inferences, etc. Even in jojo's LU comic!
And you as you get deeper you may see "First" which refers to the First ever Link in the timeline, a guy you technically only ever see in the manga i believe? All you gotta know is that he's got very vague info about him, he's the first "hero" or reincanration of Link/Hero Spirit, and he has some minimal armor with a long red scarf which is how you know its fanart/fanfic of him!
He also is pretty vague canon wise so youll see Lots of fan stuff extrapolating or headcanons about him bc we dont have much to work with tbh, same as Fierce ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And one last essential vague Link! Dark or Shadow Link! You can google him for the appearance, literally just black and white basic Link look, with red eyes! Once again, not a lot to go off of in the games, no real personality, more of a concept that fans took and ran with for funsies! You could say that about all of them tbh lol
Feel free anyone else more Loz/LU educated in comments to help me out explaining as Im not sure i did a good job 😅
You can also pretty much browse tumblr tags/search tumblr and get a feel for these characters, or at least fan interpretations, also!
rereading your posts, and id LOVE to hear your thoughts about human curiousity vs hylian curiousity. like imagine guide eating smth chain specifically went "do NOT eat this" and theyre like "oo chocolate" and devoured that shit whole. meanwhile chain are like 😨 because maybe its poisonous yk (im dragging this example out my ass bcs idk if chocolate exists in loz or not)
I wanna say i did smth like this awhile back, but idk and im too lazy and tired to even try and find that one,
also idk if the games support hylians having diff curiosity than humans, like i rlly wnat there to be, but wild/wind/maybe even time's games are giving us a run for our money, i believe
so talking out my ass here too anon lol - i kinda got the impression from a few games that while hylian curiosity may be notorious among most other species on their planet, it isn't as Extreme as humans
like theyre the big fish of their pond for doing crazy shit, but humans are the Kings of Crazy Shit, rulers of the kingdom of Dumb Shit, on the planet of Fuck Around and Find Out type shit
whats that meme of aslan from narnia wait let me find it
ok found it, yeah Humans ^^^ @ hylians
for example, im thinking if a hylian hikes up a semi-dangerous hiking trail up a mountain, most of their planet races are like "goddess wtf is wrong with these tiny hylians" (who mind you, the hylians are typically kinda prepared for their curiosity, for this example, theyd have like food, clothes, a hiking stick, an emergency flare/tent etc.)
but a human would come flying by the well-prepared "crazy" hylian hiking up this trail on a mountain bike, with only their keys/wallet strapped to their body somewhere and maybe, MAYBE a water bottle on the bike as they just yell "ON YOUR LEFT HOMIE!"
humans got the music blasting on the speaker, theyre like standing on teh bike too, maybe theyre scream/singing along to the music if they the real annoying type, probably actually a Red Bull to go with the water tbh, prob holding it while theyre holding on the handles, and they do like two laps on this dangerous hiking trail by the time the sensible hylian has even reached the top once💀
if anyone knows what i mean by the "theres a sports team, then there's Red Bull" like how Red Bull is known for making extreme challenges or sports or getting maybe guiness world records? for the crazy shit theyll hire people to do
hylian = basic sports team/company, wow already going pro damn
humans = whatever the fuck team Red Bull is doing, idk backflipping off Niagara Falls into a trampoline just to see if they could or smth
and i think thatd be pretty funny pretty constantly to see the Links react in real time to that lol
you dont even realize how different the curiosity boundaries are until you see it side by side, and like ivve said in other posts, i think the Chain officially counts as outliers already amongst hylians, in most everything lmao
i.e. most hylians drop food, "damn what a waste",
Links = "ok it wasn't like a soup or something and it fell on the table, I'm eating it"
You, their beloved but violently Human Guide irl now = "5 second rule, its not in a puddle or a pile of shit, blow it off and eat it like a man"
the Chain = 🤏close to scream laughing at you pulling ts in a restaurant
every other hylian in that restaurant =
5 stages of grief fr seeing you drop that apple on the floor, rub it off on your shirt, and chomp right into it LMAO
ok but the Links would become desensitized so quick after being arounf ur human self in person, like they still get caught off guard and pull that bratz reaction meme like above sometimes lol - but for the most part theyre not shocked about the "usual" curiosity you have
like, one time you asked Rulie if he could cast one spell on one hand and another similar one on the other, or if he could cast with his feet, or ears?? ...well, has he tried?
meanwhile the travaler makes eye contact with the vet and they just share this stunned look of understanding like "if he had magic, he would be trying that for himself right tf now, wouldnt he?"
i mean, while Wild was interested in experimenting with the slate, for sure, especially post-update (Totk), but YOU were to blame for the batshit crazy ideas he actually unfortunately brought into existence
(what! you are very persuasive!! and ur his guide, of course hes gonna listen to you, dont look at him like that Wars!!!)
you saw exactly 1 meme of someone making a flying cart in ttok and ever since you'd been on a roll of making the most heinous creations Wild's hyrule had ever seen
he's actually holding You back half the time, (goddess help them all if u have ADHD or something, esp if you were medicated before and are now Not bc of being in a diff world lmfao)
you once recreated giant bowling ball pins just to try and knock a stone talus downhill and alll bc you were just 'curious' to "see if i can get the biggest strike in all of hyrule, duh"
i have this habit of tilting my head a little if I'm confused or curious about something, and i like to think that any sort of habit the heroes visually see you do that they start to assoicate with u getting Ideas, ther's like a literal formation they get into lol, Wars secretly gathered them together early on to plan for it lmao
btw if ur curious (unintentional ironic joke), the formation/" Our Guide gets Curious" Protocol is like them all checking the nearest exits if any, making a loose circle around you, the nearest hylian hero tagging along with you as a Human Guide Minder, keeping an eye on any open flame or pyrotechnics in the area etc LMAO
lowkey lookin like medieval fantasy bodyguards but its those clips of kpop idols running around as their bodyguards desperately try to keep up and herd them away from mischief lol
never forget the faces all the Links made when they passed thru Wild's hyrule and saw some of you "creations"
Wind: "you mean cruel and unusual monstrosities"
meanwhile theres a flying green ship that looks suspicously liek the Black Pearl from Pirates of teh Caribbean flying in the distance, unmanned bc "well i didnt think about there not being an water, and also i forgot an anchor, so you just kinda have to run until you catch it, but dont worry, im in the middle of seeing if I cant turn this old stable no-ones using into a functional horse so we can ride and catch up with it👍"
when asked by a slightly nervous yet deadpan looking Twilight why you made the ship in teh first place, they dont even know what else they were expecting when you answer "i was curious if the slate could help me recreate the Black Pearl and if it the physics of this world would let me make it a literal ghost ship, like flying thru the air and stuff, yknow?"
no, they dont know.
but hey at least they find it infinitely funnier watching other hylians/races see ur shenanigans,
You, after getting the Triforce and turning some of the triangle upside down for the fuck of it: "hmm, how should I put this, I was just... goofing around?"
Everyone else: "... you built a whole time bomb just to goof?"
/ref
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i almost didnt add bullet points so ur welcome
for the girlies who like bullet points, i mean this was definitely a bullet point type rant but still
ok im tired ill leave this insane way too long ramble here good night
Oh also, additional for that snapping masc y/n drabble(?), you can also input one of those incorrect quote of urs, smth about y/n going "When I die, I want every Link here to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time." LMAO. This quote actually inspired that lil idea tbh.
the quote is in.
pls read further here bc it fit very well adn this is the one i assume anon originaly sent to addon to
Olaa, kinda new here and my brain just go brr with ur content hehe
Rambling here, ur humans r space orcs, hylian ver really made my endorphin lvls HIGH.
So, a thought. Perhaps some/all of the chain r really being reckless or self-sacrificial that it's become somewhat of a norm and has gotten to a ridiculous amount of times happening and the reader just simply S N A P S.
Like the stress lvls r high and is literally an inch away from pinching them lil twitchy hylian ears til the pain imprints on their brain and makes em remember said pain the moment they even think of another reckless plan or some self-sacrificing bs.But ofc, reader won't do that, unless.....(maybe after the scolding)
So, when they decided to stop somewhere to rest n all, and started to plan, this one plan being so reckless it made the reader's eyebrow simply twitch b4 clenching a hand into a fist and simply striking the conveniently placed huge ass boulder beside em.
The cracking noise gets the attention of most if not all of the chain and they just simply stare as the reader rips em a new one.All the stuff reader yells at em just simply enters one ear and leaves the other as their brains r just really bein like:
'oh.'
'that was hot.'
Masc/Male reader pls. Never knew I needed smth sm in my life tbh 😭
brOO FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE HAS HAD THIS SCENARIO IN THEIR MIND BESIDES ME OMG are u a mindreader or we might be the same person bc ive had this Exact same thought before <3
You when Link (any) tries to make stupid Tragic Protagonist Plans:
lmao ^
i used an excessive amount of meme photos in this, hope we're all ok with that, yeah? yeah, thanks.
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Moon: Masc!Reader (he/him/you)
Orbit: Headcanons and Scenario at end… ish, + Hanh AU! humans are Not hylians AU) + Player / Guide!Reader AU
Stars: a taste of everyone (except only a sprinkling of Wind at the end, I was focused on the romance mb🙏)
Comets & Meteors: CWs: display of violence (reader punching rock and breaking it, Not used as a threat) & TWs: explicit talk of self-sacrifice, mention of m*rder-su*cide, not explicit or actually happened, just a sarcastic question about Links tendency to self-sacrifice.
Please comment if I missed any. /gen
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ive deadass had this dream - like damn ig all this media of protagonists sacrificing themselves/being reckless with themselves has really taken its toll on us all lol
and you knowww every single one of these mfs are guilty of ts too
not a single innocent hero in any of the hyrules, in any of the timelines,
legit if ur a mf named Link (and ur usually blonde), ur making dumb as shit plans that probably involve u throwing yourself dramatically off or onto or over something or someone to make a some dumb save
No but when I say ur the rock, ur the right hand man, ur the male protagonists level headed male bestie that keeps that mf down to earth whenever he's losing his shit over the plot/villains/savior complex oop i mean what who said that
"I'm gonna throw myself after Princess Zelda because she just fell off a cliff!" No you're not Sherlock. Pull out the glider you've had this entire adventure, or even the grappling hook, and catch her that way.
Fav quotes of urs u yelled at the Links over the course of each of their respective adventures that they shared together after gossiping abt u over the campfire one (of many lol) nights:
"ok, let me hold your hand when I say this… if you dive in front of someone to block them from a Ganon blast, (or whatever the fuck i dont care what its called blondie) … and mind you, thats u being AWARE there's a prophecy about how ONLY you, yes You, LINK, can save us ALL, … and yet you still dive headfirst into the shot instead of pulling out your shield. … do you want to commit a reverse murder-suicide Link? Be honest. "
"Bro, this is too cliche. don't throw urself off a cliff after her, it's cringe Link"
"Yknow this is why my world invented test-dummies."
"hey.. so it's actually Not heroic to be a Loser. I thought that was the whole point of heroes, they're supposed to win. So why would you make plans where you lose "
"I dont know if you know this, but we have strategists. Like, hyrule has strategists. Hylians that make strategies and everything. That's their whole thing, shockingly. Dude, I'm serious, they get paid for this, and you Don't, let's just ask a professional what we should do-!"
"Please, I'm begging you, just get a scarecrow that would literally have the same effect"
"Strike 2. Do not let me get to Strike 3 or you're gonna have to find someone else to sacrifice themselves for you to protect urself from me."
"I will be finding a hylian therapist for you if this behavior continues. Stop."
"I love whatever is wrong with you… but also I'd love that wrongness even more if it wasn't trying to constantly take you out"
(^ that one did get a ditzy entirely oblivious lovestruck look out of Sky when he quoted you saying that)
its just a constant deja vu as every adventure theres the pan of Link looking determined, charging forward into absolute chaos when he doesnt rlly have to, and then cutting back to you standing in the background like:
ffs.
….
omfg
wait, not you suspecting some of them began to do it on purpose for increasingly ridiculous scenarios just to see how youd react/save them
(AND YOU BEING RIGHT, THO U NEVER KNEW FOR SURE LIKE)
You, after like a MONTH into every adventure: "… I know that mf is throwing himself into danger just to get me to save him, but I just can't prove it."
LMFAOO
ok so lets rate the worst to least offenders: LMAO
HARD TIE between Legend and … TIME. im being so deadass pls trust
these crazies be out here, even subconciously at times lol, wanting to be the damsel in distress for once (i mean its not like they dont have enough distress in their lives to count :'/🤷)
Legend moreso subconciously i would think, like not being as careful in a dungeon bc his first thought walking into a new chamber is "my guide is right there, he's watching my back, so i dont have to realllyyy check it all out, yup its fine, now where's the treasure??"
like he coulddddd do his usual routine (that you drilled into him after one too many times seeing initially try out dungeons and do a terrible job checking his surroundings) like the usual checking doorways for traps, keep shield and sword up, kick a rock into the first few feet of the room for traps, etc. But… ur right there…. and boom, he's on his ass and a giant swinging axe is coming right for him, and you've basically telelported with ur human legs running full sprint as they are to scoop him up, like an oddly shaped purse, to bolt across the room and bob and weave ur way around enemies/traps until yall are safe
(… he's glad the dungeon is dark bc then u cant see his red cheeks lol - legit that meme with Legend being: "…do i even weigh anything to you?" You: "No. It's like holding a couple of grapes." )
then there's… Time. Time is Conscious. Time is making the Choice to do this to you. Time is so aware he's giving u early gray hairs, this bitch. /affectionate
he's rlly out here like : ✨oh nooo my guide come savvve me, ur such a strong human helpppp ✨ (ik u will)✨
this little brat, it doesn't matter what age he is, this shameless mf is just sitting pretty in the middle of a boss battle room with flames everywhere like casually polishing his sword, badly stitching up a hole in his pant leg or smth, looking all pitiful, seeing u and smirking and looking around all "oh no! the boss is here! what ever will an unprepared hero like myself do?? Oh but my human companion, my guide is here! He is so reliable and kind and wonderful! My hero! A hero's hero!!" …
this bitch.
(a clothing repair btw that obv wont hold up, until later he weaponize incompetence tricks you (in a cute way) into actually repairing it, in a big ole blue eye looking up at you type way, even when he's older and his other eye is closed then he'll open it just for Extra-Kitten-Sitting-In-the-Rain-Effect, like literally sitting down all lip pushed out to pout, arms limply holding a needle all "confused" why his "earlier stitches" didnt work?? sad tall ass, completely armored up badass looking blonde elf man actually looking at you like: pls🥺ur an even better man than me, u can sew And stab, help poor little old me, pretty pls guide?? 🥺👉👈 pathetic.)
GUILTY AS SINN ^^^
coming in third is Wars, also just as guilty, but he's less likely to make it Big Self-sabotages like the previous two, he's guilty for the crime of frequent smaller self-sabotage plans lol
Like youre holding the map, telling him which way to go and even tho he's right beside you, you just told him to take the right path, the left path has brambles and dramatic fog and everything, and u still have to just, grab his scarf just in time to keep him from taking it 💀
aint no way theyre all accidents, its like 3-5 times a week whenever ur on his adventure with him
(he's got enough pride to not look like a complete fool in front of his soldiers, but not enough to not trip right in front of you and trick u into catching him like a swooning maiden. also yes, the knights know this. their Captain is the definition of strong, tall and capable to everyone, always the reliable one, an ideal leader, until you're within his line of sight, then he's getting all clumsy and shit, acting like he dont even know how to sharpen his own sword or "missed" a few buckles on his armor. Down Bad.)
Also looks all kicked puppy apologetic and like a little blonde himbo man abt it, then you go to fix his scarf that's wrapped all around his helmet on the back, and he just 🥰💕😍💘🧚♂️💑🌈
(his knights seeing this their Captains face do this in real time as they were all lined up for his speech before you walked by like: )
(…we know what you are. ashdkfsllLMAO save them fr)
(truly the Opposite of wingmen they can never get you to be aware enoughof it lol)
unsurprisingly, Sky is fourth as bad abt swooning into ur arms, but the worst part with him is that he so genuinely thought his plan to somewhat/completely self-sacrifice himself was a Good Idea. 💀
its the way things to throw himself off of are too easy access for him, like cliffsides, mounting his Loftwing, etc.
menace, ur constantly using ur buffed up only-human-in-hyrule abilities to hella jump to catch him or just divert whatever the threat was and do ur own non-Link-sacrifice plan instead
the first Link that you scold out of actual anxiety, bro set the precedent LMAO
ur out here like "No. they will Not be writing the legend of the Hero of the Sky ending it with 'and the hero sacrificed himself for the greater good', I will not allow u to be a bad influence on the others" lol u knew them being protagonists itd already be a problem, so ur not gonna let them encourage each other, even before u reach the LU part of the timeline lmao
bro does not have good risk assessment skills bc of Skyloft, i blame them
(u may or may not have let Ghirahim get enough time/words in to creep him out of some dumb ideas he was abt to to like throwing himself in head-first lol)
(you definitely caught him one time and heard a forlorn, wistful smitten sigh out of him, only to turn and Sky's just "AhHaHA thanks so much bRo! Yup, yeah, u can put me down now, yeP, super StrOng- ahem- thank yoU!!" )
Twilight and Wild tied also for 5th place of worst to endanger themselves when there are definitely Other Options
In different but similar ways, they just be passionate and feel like the thing needs to be done right then and there and wont take even a second to remember they have a grappling hook/glider they definitely can pull out of their magic storage very easily
it mostly amounts to you panic snatching Twi up like a kitten, him dangling in shock, and you immediately finding said useful items and putting it in his hands and then pushing him back into the run he originally broke out into
(omfg omfg but actually. so twi's not consciously trying to throw himself at stuff, like some of the others so far, but u bet ur ass he IS Conscious and Guilty of doing it on purpose as Wolfie. This also did result in you retaliating with: "Bad Dog!! Bad boy!!! >:( !!" frequently so he did reel it in some out of shame after joining the Chain bc they eventually all knew it was actually him lol )
the worst bc he'll Actually do puppy dog eyes, UNINTENTIALLY TOO, after sitting and being scolded by u and just bc he has to look up at u lolol
Wild is tied bc he also be throwing his body like a ragdoll at things like Twi, except he's actually the worst so far bc bro is Not sorry 💀
You: "You could've died!!"
Wild: " 🧍. It was all I could think of tho"
You: "WELL LET'S GET YOU IN THE HABIT OF THINKING OF THROWING SOMETHING ELSE FIRST AT THE PROBLEM INSTEAD OF YOURSELF."
ur actually like this @ Wild the most:
bc he has all these gadgets/Sheikah Slate functions on hand in comparison to the others who admittedly have like most reliably bombs at their disposal at any given moment lol
bro has like, arguably THE most options at his disposal and he still chooses to throw himself like a dead fish in the middle of it
Wild will also like, overestimate how bad the conditions are sometimes, and with anyone else i think he'd be a little embarrassed/would rather let himself get swept downstream of the river he didn't realize was raging, rather than ask for their help, like dude wouldnt make a peep, King of the bit of silent chaos happening in the background as he tries to get himself out as quietly as possible lol
but with you, you're just like, cooking beside the river, Link says he's going for a swim upstream, and 5 min later u just see the bright blonde speck of his little head bobbing in the water passing by, looking at u like: 😐 my guide. 😐 help me. 😐🙋♂️🌊
the type to make a chaotic vehicle thing like ppl be making in Ttok, just so he can reach a boss or something, meanwhile u leap on it as it starts flying away instead of driving lolol - like this classic vine lmao
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ihgaopaSfb0
bro doesnt even have to make a self-sacrifice plan, u love him, but he just be doing dumb shit sometimes 😭🫶 lmao
(Wild is also the most okay after a rescue from you to just, stay being carried bridal style in ur arms for a bit, like straight chilling - he gets on his slate while you walk like modern day scrolling😭 LMFAO )
ok at 6 technically now, Frankly, Hyrule's here bc he's just a little worser than Four at self-sacrificing, bc he gets sad LOL
poor guy just gets tired, maybe feeling a little rough after hearing all those comments during his adventure from the ungrateful bastard villagers at times, not alll of them but enough, so he be slowing down or more willing to make like self-sacrifice plans to use himself as bait or smth
anytime he pulls a bait plan, just in time for the snatch, whether or not Hyrule actually plans to dive away or let them capture him, depends on the context, but either way at the climatic moment u just come charging like the absolute unit of a human linebacker u are to this world and grab Rulie like:
(or Poor Hyrule is tucked like a foot ball or smth under ur arm as u skedaddle away, and ur fast af too bc ur human and outpace any other monster/hylian lmao)
bro gave up on bait plans for the most part tho so at least SOMELINK learned their lesson early on in their adventure with you
(dont get me wrong, they're all good-hearted little hylian heroes so they all will still give you a heart attack to this day, but at least some of them are not as bad as they used to be? ..well, at least they only do it on purpose now to have you save them? ok maybe its not any better.)
and in last place, the winner is Four!!
oh Four, ur best boy, he's not throwing himself off nearly as many cliffs or dragons or whatever else as the others are <3
mostly bc u have this incredible tactic called ✨ getting Four to overthink his bad plans ✨
he has good ones!! to be fair to all the Links, they have good ideas! ones that actually, mostly, dont involve sacrificing themselves!! (and to clarify, its usually not like, death, i mean even just taking a hit or getting thrown back or something)
But they're still prone to it occasionally. or do it w/o thinking. so, yipee ig.
yeah u absolutely can get just Four by himself to begin to overthink his plan and basically either talk him out of it or he'll talk himself out of it lol
but its even better when its the Colors <3 (surprise, surprise, violets actually at the bottom of this list to be so real bc he actually listens to you and hasn't had a self-sacrifice moment longer than any other Link, definitely has the highest "300 days since last Self-Sacrifice incident")
u do convince Violet to gang up on the others to stop them at times, Blue probably only doubles down bc he wants to win the argument, even after youve convinced him not to go thru w/it 💀
ok radically changing over to when these hot messes of heroic protagonists get all slammed together to be in one big group
oh u bet its hell.
absolute chaos, for you that is.
but admittedly, u luckily managed to kinda finesse the situation often enough, like with the Colors, and divide and conquer them out of the dumb ideas lmao
just this back and forth like anon said of "no, im the Captain, ill go first into the dark ominous room!" "no, traveler, ur an amazing healer, I will!!" "what the hell, IM the most experienced with dungeons, quit it, let me through!"
You, meanwhile as none of them end up going in first, letting ur much more robust human self slip by: 😈 "ive done it, ive hacked the system."
but the worst is whenever the 1st time, and only one so far, where several of them began to plan something absolutely reckless, involving Mulitple Links by now, and None of them saw the issue with it-
what with supplies being low at the time and overall energy of the group due to previous battles to track the shadow this deep into monster territory,
and instead of saying, 'hey lets wait a day' or 'lets just scout it out for now' or anything else other than planning the groups to break up in to just barge right into the next dungeon-
u hit ur breaking point, youd already worked so hard to train these heroic fools individually, and now theyre rebelling, theyre unionizing. LMAO
theyre all just yapping away at the plans, half of the blonde heads here bent over a map while the rest chimed in tiredly from where they sat around that group, clearly all too absorbed to realize everyones their own energy levels or health-
and u just, jaw clenching from the annoyance of them all doubling down, unable to get a word in edgewise, even as their respected guide,
make a tightly balled fist and aim it for the much bigger boulder next to the smaller one youve sat down on
CRACK!-CRASH!-BOOOMM!
the ear-splitting noise of the boulder getting smited by your much smaller human fist, which is only covered in gray dust and no bruises or cuts whatsoever, the very definition of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object
immediately all voices are cut off, several of the hylian men pulling their swords or knives or even their wooden forks from a quick more like bare bones, u irrritably think dinner, startled by the sudden basically explosion of rock
the previously determined and adrenaline battle ready faces give way to many wide blue eyes, and dropped jaws as all of your heroes finally take you in next to it, a human man completely unmoved by his own violent lash out, your body barely budged from the seat youd taken on the rock next to the, now shattered, boulder.
only your arm swung out to the side in the finish of a punch, covered in thick dust and pebbles. You sighed heavily, your other hand braced on the rock you sat on, glaring at the group and slowly panning it around to look them all in the shocked eyes
not a word has been said yet, as teh weapons are lowered or put down, and you cut in before any of them can act
"Bad plan. Take a look at yourselves! You're tired! And y'know what, just for that martyr nonsense, When I die, I want every Link here to lower me into my grave so you can let me down one last time." LMFAO
This actually snaps most of them out of it, an eruption of protests comning from the rowdier links, as it gives them all a break to stop staring at you like you're a god descended that just proved he really was a god to a group of ignorant mortals
(the quieter ones after that, Time, Wars, Sky, Hyrule, coughing and turning pinkened cheeks away to start packing up more to go find camp for the night, they dont even need to be told thats what you want to do, bc its the better idea anyway right now, after seeing the state of each other and their own selves after u drew attention to it)
But the others, Twi, Wild, Legend, Four + Wind, are all hovering closer to you now, wide fascinated (wind), adoring (twi, wild, legend, four) eyes on you as they all talk at once, some excited and asking how u did that, some defending themselves lol, etc.
ur pleasantly surprised to find that the evening is more quiet and restful than it has been all week, the guys finally winding down after hiking and traveling quickly all week, even urging you to go at your brisk walk speed for a human, which ends up nearly leaving all of them behind, as they attempted to keep up at one point
you dont even have to nag them into not taking shifts and letting you keep watch tonight, as the days in hyrule are shorter than earths, and ur on a completely diff sleep schedule than them,
and if u smile all happily go abt ur business the next few days with particularly obedient heroes, and maybe a few gazes at your back at all times,
hey maybe you should break more stuff to stop them from getting those stupid protagonist cliche ideas in their heads!!
(u dont hear the whispers in the evening at the end of the day after they've talked abt everything else, Winds knocked out somewhere, finally voicing the unacknowledged amongst themselves now, "…we all saw that right? he actually…? and it was…?" "Yeah." x8 in unison)
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ALSO, here's the other ask this is connected to bc i kinda combined it
also, also, i got carried away and i didnt spellcheck a thing after writing it, flowstate at its most ideal, the lion does not concern himself with grammar or spelling mistakes, he simply writes ✨
I live!! and Happy new Year guys!!! wtf!!! :D
ill be 25 on Jan 20th!! what the shit!!!!
how old is this blog now!!!!! scared
hope yall are having a good new year and its treating you well, and god speed to all my fellow Americans out there, we could use a better year my countrymen 🙏
thx if u read this garbage fire, i almost went even more romantic swooning but i feel like i need to reread the entire LU comic and actually make time to start playing the source materials as much as i can (or at least watch all the cutscenes on yt) bc i got real anxious everyone was as out of character as that play from ATLA 💔
out here just making the written version of Toph being depicted as a grown man and screaming at the enviornment to "sense" it, feels like
anyway, apologies, and gratitude for you reading it if u did
Ngl, when I stumbled onto your account and saw your pfp, I immediately tensed up. You see, when I was younger I played Majora’s Mask and I shat my pants when I saw the moon for the first time, and that left a mark on me to the point that I would try to avoid anything showing that moon like it was the plague
But now, I’m doing better. 🎉
LMAO SAME
I didnt even play when i was younger but that moon also scared me lol
It just fit the vibes tbh bc i named this blog before i ever started LU yapping over here
Glad to see we're exposure therapying you every time my pfp pops up <33 /lh
I hope yall are having good holidays if u celebrate anything btw!!
We unfortunately didnt plan much for winter solstice and christmas i am roped into by relatives so im hella busy running around the southern states
I did admittedly trace the official art so its a little more subtle!! In my defense lol i dont think its nearly as devious looking as the og
Thanks for the asks gardener!! Its good to hear from regulars regardless of lu mention or not :)
Also, did you just change your pfp to the majora's mask moon?
Please don't tell me I missed it all this time please ahsjajwj
LMFAO ITS ALWAYS BEEN THERE
Well not always, i think i actually had just a regular moon years ago? It was actually a screenshot cropped from demon slayer bc the moon was drawn rlly pretty there, but then i had the Genius™️ idea (not really its so obvious) to make is Majora Masks moon bc thats one recognizable moon in Loz lore/story/games
Im actually trying to draw a new pfp at some point, but i havent made anything thats like,, as subtle as my pfp rn - like how u and hppwfully some others still get jumpscared by it actually being creepy moon lol
I just traced over and edited the colors of original majora mask moon screenshot from the game!
So yeah, uh origin and bts of this blogs pfp ig lol
Thanks for sending an ask in and caring im alive over here lol !! 🫶
Peace out,
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P.S.
I actually commissioned someone awhile ago (i didnt trust my own art skills lol) to make a different/alternate version of my pfp/persona i might use!
I might also still edit it, like extend the background around it or play around with black and white, idk
I also kimda wanna see if i can still come up woth somethimg as subtle as current pfp
(Lowkey despite how friendly he looks, he still also kept the creepy factor of the original moon, props to the artist lol @vick-shimmer <33)
Hey!! Tumblrs been eating a ton of my asks lately so I'm not sure if this one will go through buut I'm glad you are here! Hope the holidays are treating you well Moon :)
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✒️ ANON!!
Hi thank you for sending an ask omg!! I hope ur holidays are going good too if u celebrate any this time of year
I think ive still got one of urs at least floating in my inbox if not my drafts so dont worry any youve sent me are still over here!!
I am a slow replier so, understandable it seems like they get eaten </3
🫂🫂🫂🫂 I'm so sorry about the Notion thing, that's awful 🫂🫂🫂 here's to keeping your wonderful works safe from theft, I hope the holidays have been treating you kindly
Thank you for that!!
Nice to see someone read it, yeah Notion embracing Ai has sucked bc i really liked it for organizing my posts and writings and being able to put icons and cute banners,
Obsidian is the closest thing ive found to it but its not very intuitive, its almost like too coding heavy for my arts brain to understand how to get stuff to work even similar to notion lol
Took me forever to figure out like bullet points and toggling like hiding content, i usually paste all the asks ive ever done and put my answers over there as a toggle/hidden part since i dont trust tumblr drafts after its eaten my asks and entire replies before lol
Yes holidays are messy bc i live like 2 states away from my parents/extended family but hopefully i wont be too busy goofing off with my presents to not write some lol
Ive got some new keycaps i know my mom got me so im excited (one of them looks like a bunch of toasted little breads as keys hehe)
Ill have to show yall the pic when i get them if i remember lol
Hi!! Love your works, always have a feel good vibe that’s pretty comforting. Especially with your fairness in letting each elf boy shine at least once.
But anywho, I was curious to know if you’ve read any LU or LU/Reader stories on here or Ao3 and if so, do you have any favorites? I’ve been looking for some more stories to consume.
GASP!! Someone asking my ass for fic recs??? This is so exciting no ones ever asked me before :D !!
Ive actually spent less time with lu x reader fics on ao3, simply bc my experience over there has been a lot more.. uh, sparse? Lacking? Not in a mean way, but like, there just arent a lot of cool long, completed, long even UNcompleted, Link/reader fics over there, let alone Linked Universe 😞
I havent fully read all of these, and i dont have a lot actually, so lmk if some of em are kinda Not It, but heres what ive compiled so far!
Also, sadly, keep in mind a lot of these, if not all of them, are Fem!Reader (she/her) 💔 :(
* I say that sadly bc ik my blog in particular i prefer to post he/him, they/them readers to boost that side of the neglected fandom, not bc i hate Fem!Reader or Fem ppl (bc i am also fem ppl 😅 he/they/She yknow) but bc ur quickly scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Legend of Zelda queer stuff (like BOTW kinda helped boost some trans/queerness in Loz/Loz-adjacent fandoms like LU but,, its kinda a desert out here still ive found, with oasises few and far between </3)
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General Link/Reader Fics:
Sick by suniix
~1k word count, one shot quick fic
Cute fluffy, Gender-Neutral Reader gets sick and BOTW Link takes care of you.
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Small Bite by suniix (again)
~600 word count, one shot quick fic
Cute fluffy, Gender-Neutral Reader gets cute aggression towards BOTW Link and he suffers for it lol (no links were harmed in the making of this fic)
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Head First by ManiasNotebook
~1k word count, one shot quick fic
Cute, fluffy, and HanH AU!
Not directly based off my silly works obv, but BOTW Link struggling in his adventure in his own POV and admiring Gender Neutral (possiblyyyy Masc Reader, its tagged that way but i dont remember if he/him or masc desc is ever used) Reader as they take care of business 💪
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sharing my heart (it's tearing me apart) by mysafeplaceishere
~35k word count, multi-chapter Unfinished fic 6/?, Last Updated: 10/22/2023
Little angsty, little fluffy/comedic/romantic bonding, Fem!Reader (dont remember how explicit that is, like if she/her is used frequently), OOT!Link (adult, post adventures) AND Fierce Deity! - the god mask is acting up, he wants to live life, as inspired by You, but Link isnt one for sharing. 👀
(Tried my best to summarize the summary lol - but its a good read so far, esp since its bone dry out here for any Link that isnt BOTW)
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Eclipse of the Heart by CookieCutter100813
~85k, multi-chaptered Unfinished fic, 18/30 chapters, Last Updated: 5/5/2025
Little angsty, mostly romantic/fluff/cute as far as i remember, i havent reread these in awhile, BOTW Link is mid-adventure/beginning out and saves Medic!Reader (Fem Reader, she/her, but couldnt tell u how much that crops up), who in return patches him up, and thus the friendship/romance begins u keep exchanging favors back and forth.
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Please put any good LU x Reader fics in the comments/reblogs tho if anyone has any!! <3
I couldnt find any decent LU x Reader ones on ao3, the few i liked they were like a bunch of one shots as chapters or smth </3
Godspeed, fellow readers, esp if ur non-Fem, its rough out there fo us gay masc Link lovers 💔
Humans are eldritch creatures sent from hell to... hug us??
cant talk, muse possessed, later
fully: Hozier, Cosmo Sheldrake, Florence and the Machine, others
you dont come crashing down, you come to them different everytime
You come out of the earth below, up to meet Sky just like all the surface has, just as unknown and yet alluring as this vast ground surrounding him for miles
you come out of the depths for Wind, swimming up from where only whale bones lay, in the midst of the hylian equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle
you come to Legend crawling out of lava, yawning like you’ve woken from a good nap
you come as whispers in the dark to Twilight, something Midna mumbles about in the beginning of his adventure, a dark reflection that steps out of a mirror that never reflected him in the first place
you come out of the corner of Time’s eye, the only person who he finally began to notice hints of you Remembering things, almost too many things, things you weren’t supposed to know, the past, the future, yet you come to Time as the only god he isn’t afraid of
you come to Wild as dreams, as the only blurred face left in flashbacks, even if you’re the subject of the memory, a voice that is as familiar as the sun on his face, but he can never seem to find anyone in all of Hyrule who’s voice or face fits just right after the adventure
You are grinning, you are laughing, you seem to have no care for the fright you pose to them when you first appeared, only fascinated or impressed at your own entrance, but never scary or evil, mischievous at most
(unfortunately for the rest of the world, the heroes are the only ones who seem to be capable for the most part of not judging you for your looks/eldritch actions)
it quickly becomes each link’s duty to calm the masses or any immediate companions at the sight of you lifting wagons over your head, or tanking a hit of lightning with only goosebumps to show for it
its a constant battle of “…is this at the point that I should be worried?” and it never is, only to say that to themselves again and again and again
with every new flash of god-like awe you inspire in them
You dive into storm choppy waters, and Wind hangs onto the railings for dear life as the ship is pushed, not by waves, instead in the opposite direction as you simply steer it from underneath them, left both gaping and stuttering himself along with the crewmates as he stumbles through a half-hearted explanation to the rest of Tetra’s crew as they nearly cower after you sling yourself aboard once more
a teasing grin shot at Wild as you chase down spirits, laughing with mischief as he begins to call out for you to come back between his own giggles, only to gape speechless as you actually catch the bunnies and come trotting up to the Lord of the Mountain grinning before releasing the bunnies and petting the odd spirit horse (that you should’ve never been able to touch)
a pat to Time’s head as you gently take off Fierce Deity’s mask and he stumbles, only to be steadied by you, as he blinks and tries to realize that a mask has never come off so painlessly. the mask doesn’t yearn to be back to controlling his body, he swears to himself, deep in his mind where not even Majora memories are stored away, that the mask’s carved eyes flutter lower, as if content in your hands. He has never heard a mask, even the Fierce Deity’s or Majora’s, whisper to you to put it on. every single one has gone silent in your hands.
Hyrule swears up and down and recounts it to anyone who’ll listen about how you could simply “what did you call it? gaslight gatekeep,, girl..boss??” your way out of any unfavorable situation you found yourselves in. anytime villagers would get all up in arms about Hyrule being in their town, attracting monsters and wanting to run him out after he’d just collapsed from exhaustion at the edge of town, he watched half-asleep as you gaslit the Entire Mob outside your tents for the night. The townspeople insisting that they saw monsters screaming about rituals and sacrifices and the hero behind you in the tent, and you just. Said they didn’t. You outright made up other sentences they “could’ve heard as that awful message, but it was probably something like ‘that hylian has my satchel!’ or ‘we’ll beat his ass tonight!’” you didn’t even stop there, you gaslit an entire angry mob into a confused mob as you made them even doubt it was even Hyrule they saw getting clearly chased by monsters, doubt that the hero was even sleeping in the tent right behind you. And it worked.
even the traveler’s fae sisters said they didn’t have charms strong enough to cast on hylians to convince them of that, needless to say Hyrule’s reputation as a hero was much more,, vague by the end of his adventure instead of outright dislike or distrust, he’d even say it got better with time as rumors about you two circulated and got embellished
At the end of every battle, the Captain knew to come to you to see who you’d ended up with. You had this uncanny, entirely undetectable quirk for saving soldiers who went missing on the battlefield. Ever since he’d found you (emphasis on found), there hadn’t been a single casualty on their side, to the point of no one getting worse than a broken bone on the field when you were there. Sure enough by the end of every battle, there would be a group of confused and lost looking unharmed soldiers that weren’t quite sure how they ended up, what you called “side-questing” with you, usually something not even related to fighting. it would always be the ones who thought they were on the wrong side of a sword swing, only to next then remember you handing them a thread to hold onto as you “bedazzled” one of Wars’ scarves
it wasn’t until all of the 9 of them ended up slowly coming together to start this new dark adventure, and they began to relax around one another, share stories, only to realize you had been in every adventure of every hero.
and it oddly was surprising, but after the group of blondes visibly sat for a second to realize, no,, no, maybe it wasn’t actually.
it wasn’t a well kept secret amongst them that no matter how odd (or incomprehensible) you got, they still missed you. for most of the heroes, in opposition to the majority of hylians/others who met you, you were the only sigh of relief they got at times. Maybe it was precisely because the rest of their lives got so weird and fast and difficult that you managing to pull out a fruity cold drink in the middle of the dessert was a welcome reprieve and a laugh much needed
At least, thats what they thought until, deep in a cave under a ruined Triple Goddess temple on the Surface (Sky’s hyrule), where they’d followed the Shadow into after wounding it badly for once-
was a full altar, and statue of you.
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ok im unposessed now, and also very tired
i got a cute new little green keyboard for my laptop thats all aesthetic, along with a little seperate number keypad so I can just use keyboard and carry easy, and use “full” one when needed (think im gonna bring to work bc i hate the keyboard they have there)
but the space bar is super loud, so ill see if i can figure out how to muffle it :/
pls dont judeg this too much it was a brain vomit, legitamately, i had to convince my brain to turn back and click the auto correct options all over the place (i didnt click them all)
ok goodnight, have a good tuesday/wednesday im tireed
LU x reader peeps, do we think Guide/Player! Reader’s body would have to adjust to being in Hyrule? You’d think that going from a world where magic doesn’t exist to one where it’s in literally every single atom of matter would affect one’s body.
Like, could they get sick from it? That makes me think of the magic kind of like the immune system, how it attacks stuff that it thinks shouldn’t be there.
Could it heal them? Would they have better physical abilities? Or would it hinder them? Maybe they’d be super sensitive to magic in general and get overwhelmed at first? A sensitivity to magic could be useful, but would probably suck at first.
Hey so I think you'll like a big chunk of this person's reader insert stuff -> @the-moon-files
JCHSKHXKDBXKEB BUT YES DONT GET ME STARTED!!! It is SO fun to think about the possibilities <333333
Like. What about illnesses. Are the sicknesses Worse in Hyrule? The reader having a Bad Time™ is just a given, but like, would potions work at all to help alleviate pain/sickness like modern medicine? Would fairies be able to help? Would Hyrule, precious precious guy that he is, be able to help even a smidgen with his own fairy healing magic???? I think he'd be really sad about not being able to help if he isn't able to heal us
Would being in Hyrule for reader just be like being in a completely new country???? Like. Idk. Let's say you travel from small somewhat cold european country to hot as shit Asian country. Of course the environment is completely different you're probably going to get sick for a small few days.
Would magic be able to affect reader in any way? Or is reader just Built Different? Like they just deflect any and all magic sent their way LMAO???? LIKE JUST IMAGINE WITH ME NOW, the Chain is fighting some monsters and there's a wizzrobe, and Uh Oh there's panic with the boys because the bastard is aiming towards reader with some magic intending to Kill Us. But then. Nothing. It just. Doesn't work?????? It bounces off harmlessly and reader is perfectly fine afterwards LOL
Oh BUT IVE BEEN COMPLETELY TALKING ABOUT THE "what if magic has no effect on the reader?" WHAT ABOUT "what if magic has too much effect on the reader?"
I vaguely remember reading smth where a stamina potion from Hyrule is like a small barely effective shot of espresso for reader and then they proceed to make a stamina potion that is the equivalent of a Monster energy drink. Just. That still simmers in the back of my head.
What if humans in our world do have magic but we just don't use it then reader goes to hyrule and our magic goes haywire because magic is almost everywhere and we have a conversation with the Chain where they're like "hey reader why TF can't you control your magic????" "I didn't know I could do that???? I didn't know I HAD magic in the first place??????????" And shenanigans ensues from there :))))))
Idk what happened to my reply so im putting it again dammit
HI. YES. ITS ME. IVE THOUGHT A LOT ABT THIS.
Tysm Violet for the mention omg :') <333
Me anytime some in the LU x reader talks abt Hyrule lore/worldbuilding/reader AUs:
Aka the shit that would rise me from the dead to brainrot over for hours
I call a version of this the HANH AU (or Hanh, HaNH, HaNh, whatever floats ur lion boat)
= Humans are Not Hylians AU :> !!
Violets so real for that, my fav version is like this fanfic premise ive yet to write about the reader being both the Guide/hanh au/reader is trapped inside Master sword au
(Tho ig u could give or take the sword whatever, i just think its ✨️neat✨️)
Kinda like Reincarnated as a Sword (anime/manga) that i saw once, as i have binged way too many isekai animes, aLSO I SWEAR I HAD THIS IDEA BEFORE THE SWORD ANIME INTRODUCED THIS PREMISE I SWEAR GUYS, RIGHT HAND ON THE BIBLE!! /lh
Anyway, just misadventures of reader going thru different Links adventures one at a time with them as a sword-can-turn-powerful-person (bc youre human, get it?) Like the basic form and the OP is you turning human for a situation, also yes Soul Eater inspo is also happening here (body parts can turn into blade etc)
I also like to think that in my little messed up head of this crazy trenchcoat of AUs that the reason Master Sword is so strong/unbreakable is bc theres a ✨️Human🤌✨️ stuck inside/IS the sword/etc.
Human body = stronger than any Hylian metal on the planet, so ofc, Strongest Sword™️
You could almost call it the, Master of Swords.
Ok ill see myself out, thanks for having me guys
(meanwhile yall Didnt ask, and i rambled abt my fuckass au for 10 mins LMAO)
Also irrelvant to this but i just got a new laptop keyboard thats super cute, cant wait to write all the posts on it <3
Um, hi hello, im just gonna... leave this here.. take care of him for me thx <3
an extra gift for @captaincreative from the LU gift exchange this year 🫶 (pls lmk if this is you on here)
Hopefully these are higher quality than what ended up in the discord </3
This is what happens when you draw Fierce while listening to Lana Del Rey apparantly..
The inpsiration to just make him truly look like a divine man took me over for literal hours 💀 bitch would NOT let me go
(ngl it still might take over again today 😃 having Lana songs stuck in my head is not helping)
I did redraw 2 BOTW screenshots, (*not traced or just colored over, i just put it beside my drawing and stole the palettes)
but the hooded Fierce is actually based on a statue of two lovers, specifically the man looking down at his lover while holding them, and the knight Fierce is inspired by a lady knight photo i saw on pinterest <3
and with that im leaving before i get called a simp on main-
