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Call me Mina! Zelda fandom blog. LU, FS, and brand-new Links with brand-new trauma! 💜🌻🦇 (slow to answer asks sometimes, but I do!) (soul count: 3)

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(last updated 4/18/26)

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Treasure Hunters

Couldn’t let Mermay pass me by without a contribution ✨

And these two wouldn’t leave me be anyway! I’m more confident in how I want Legend’s merform to ultimately look, a few more tweaks will happen here and there as usual but I really like where it’s going. Rulie’s is, of course, perfection ✨

I do have plans for the other guys, they’ll just have to wait their turn!

[zarvasace]

A set of emojis based on Hero's Vessel characters, mostly readable on emoji scale! (Alby as HW!Link, Beast as TP!Link, Clay as Z1/2!Link, Doll as LttP+!Link, Oak as OoT Link, Sheik as BotW!Link)

[zarvasace]

CONGRATS 🎉

I absolutely loved reading your LN fic! It was awesome!! What was your favorite part of writing it?

(Your art is awesome btw :D)

THANK VERY MUCH :) it was a fun one to write!! (Referencing It's Not Enough to Pretend)

My favorite part? Hmm. Must've been when I was starting to write the action sequence with Four and Tassle reminded me that the Dead Hand is at the bottom of the Well in OoT. >:3c

[batrogers]

Me: Look this sequence gives you Fun With Four Hours Mina, half done: you're right, it IS fun Me: Man imagine if we put Dead Hand in there Mina: ....yes we should. Me: I think I owe our readers an apology now...

[zarvasace]

You bring the trauma, I'll bring the freaky underwater monster <3

[zarvasace]

Not sure I posted this one either

[zarvasace]

I've been thinking about LN Reverb and the purple patches that you added to him and his purple eyes and I have to ask what exactly the purple-ness is? Because it looks like it could just be a simple color change but it could also be, IDK, gooey or something..? And I know eye color can be influenced by the color of your blood in very specific cases.

I am asking for totally non-suspicious fic-related reasons.

Also just realized I should've marked that fic about Reverb as "inspired by Linked Nexus" and will fix that but IDK which fic to link it to since I can't link to the series, you know?

(referencing this art!) hey gryphon! Hope your life has settled a bit and that things are going well overall! :)

Oh gosh, I honestly haven't thought exactly about what the Depths stuff is!! I know what it DOES, though. I think it's like... a slow infection in his body. A discoloration, a replacement of matter. It might give him some special powers, actually, due to the nature of the stuff. I'll have to muse on that. His blood might be turning purple, that sounds fun!! (The black blood is not a Depths infection, oddly enough, it's something a bit different.)

I have a Reverb fic to post I think, let me go see...

Yeah! Here!

Portals

G | LN | 463 words

AO3 link

Link had, once upon a time, been used to feeling solid. --- This is Echoes of Wisdom Link, named Reverb in this AU! He's lost. Guess you can't guess where.

[zarvasace]

CONGRATS 🎉

I absolutely loved reading your LN fic! It was awesome!! What was your favorite part of writing it?

(Your art is awesome btw :D)

THANK VERY MUCH :) it was a fun one to write!! (Referencing It's Not Enough to Pretend)

My favorite part? Hmm. Must've been when I was starting to write the action sequence with Four and Tassle reminded me that the Dead Hand is at the bottom of the Well in OoT. >:3c

[zarvasace]

LN!Ravio with fantasy eds??? 👀

Whoops, I forgot my inbox existed for a bit there. Sorry everyone!

This ask is referencing this post I made, which discusses the possibility of doppelganger Sheikah having fantasy EDS, and also references Ravio with a cute little "huh! Wonder why we haven't seen him in LN before!"

I proclaim that LN!Ravio is not actually Sheikah. I have some specific ideas for what he's doing in this AU! He's not slated to show up for a bit but he is on the pipeline. :)

[zarvasace]

i have to add on to that white walls ask you got even tho it was like a week ago hecause YAYAYAYYY I LOVE WHITE WALLS ❤️❤️❤️💖💖💖❤️💖🧡💘❤️💛❤️🧡

ok i have some actual questions about it: would any of them think not to have kids after everything? in case like any edit stuff gets passed on? and WOULD that stuff get passed onto kids?

and also... if spirit tracks link and echoes wisdom link were in it, what edits do you think they’d get?

Ahhh thank you I'm still kind of baffled that WW is so beloved! XD also baffled that I managed so many words in it....

Anyway! Yeah any of the boys that end up in relationships where biological kids are possible are definitely thinking about the chance that these things could be passed on. I don't know exactly what relationships they'd each end up in, but only a few are ready to think about it in the next few years. Considering that there's a new building doing research about it, by the time ant of the boys want to think about it, there are probably some answers courtesy of Flora's scientists.

(Are edits inheritable? Not sure! I haven't thought that far! I think it's a possibility, though, since the idea of edits is directly editing the genetic code in a nucleus and forcing a change through all the body's cells. Some of that may even have made some of them infertile, or given them side effects like autoimmune diseases, who knows?)

Hmmm ST and EoW Links... Let me think... What if ST Link got magnetized? Completely at first, but then he learns to control it and essentially has the Force for metal objects. :P He'd also be able to seriously mess up any electronics—something he'd have to keep a hold on, but something that could have been a boon in the escape sequence. That doesn't quite line up with most of the edits' goals of military or cosmetic advantages, but.... Hm....

Ooh and what if EoW Link was an experiment in reducing a human's need for oxygen? End goal would be not needing to breathe, or breathing in awful conditions like low pressure or underwater. Screwed up his air tract enough, though, that speaking is nigh impossible now. He might have needed to be on oxygen sometimes, and is likely not unfamiliar with some severe symptoms similar to POTS or asthma.

Dang you're going to want to make me write these and I don't have TIME this month...... (... Whumptober idea? 👀)

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Fan Joy July Day 12

I'm coming in, Legend says to him mentally, kind enough to give a warning but determined enough to not let Hyrule try to pretend everything is okay. He can probably read Hyrule’s very buried desire for company. 

Legend comes into the bathroom and crouches down near Hyrule, out of the water but probably getting sprayed anyway. He takes a second to evaluate the situation. Hyrule doesn't look up. “Oh, Rule.”

That feels like permission to break down. Legend’s here, he has it under control. Hyrule can let go a little. 

So he does, sinking back down into his knees and sobbing harder. “Th—they’re gonna—break my legs, Ledge.” 

From White Walls by @zarvasace

This fic broke my heart into pieces but I love it so much!!!!! Mind the tags but the whump and angst is so delightful and I especially love how it wraps up.

[zarvasace]

OH MY GOODNESS LOOK AT THEM!! All the details of the bathroom and how sad Rulie loooooks aahhhhh <3 thank you I need to go reread this scene!

[batrogers]

I continue to torment my friends with art and terrible ideas.

Hebra, and the Heroine of the Sands from the Father of Time series, a moment in the past long, long ago.

My thanks to @zarvasace for a little help finishing it off with a nice flourish, and to @mrsmusica for letting me play with your dolls no matter how often I put teeth marks in them <3

[zarvasace]

These are very silly. Please enjoy Sky, Warriors, and Hyrule as Monster High girls. I enjoyed doing these more than I thought I would, ha. Should I do more?

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Debrief

G | Linked Nexus au | 5.3k | everybody and Lullaby

AO3 Link, co-created with @batrogers :D

“I brought lunch!” Lullaby called from the front door, and Link rose from the sofa with a groan of relief. --- A recap of what happened in the last fic—and what all that means for some of the greater lore.

Deity lore? Time lore? Lots of interesting things? 👀

[zarvasace]

Messing around with Linked Nexus’s version of the first hero. He’s extremely special and extremely dead (lived like 300 years ago). But he’s prettyyyyy. If he looks a bit like Warriors that’s very much on purpose. Warriors is 90%+ Hylian, after all, and this guy appears to be the same. Relevant fic!

[zarvasace]

@echoes-of-courage I adore them and I’m very excited to see them in comic :D

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Happy 3rd anniversary to the Four Swords Breath of the Wild AU! Goodness gracious. 3 years. Aren’t they cute!!