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Master List

hello! ive been a part of tumblr for a while now, and i just want to acknowledge the fandoms that im a part of, just so that my page can be easier to understand!

Fandoms

Linked Universe - Sky

Thunderbirds are Go - Gordon

I was Born for This - Lister

Works

i also happen to be a major nerd, and i occasionally post fics about certain characters i like, so feel free to take a look at my ao3 account!

🪻 ao3 - gimliss 🪻

https://archiveofourown.org/users/Gimliss/pseuds/Gimliss

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sky being completely dead to the world and suffocating in the ground gives me a type of joy that i cannot describe

Old doodles #1

TheChain.exe stopped working

I think Legend is the type of person to zone out randomly in the mornings, Sky is self-explanatory and Wild... Wild's got a memory in the middle of cooking breakfast

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omg i love ur version of sky- angy sky is my spirit animal

Sky Sketches

Trying to get used to drawing this guy again. I'm not happy with all of them, but I think the bottom right one turned out really well.

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your honor, you ask... why i draw sky in a dress? we may never know

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CHEATSY HAS DONE IT AGAIN CHAT

Hi I love your art! I have a request! Sky flying with his sailcloth! 😁

Thanks! Here he is! And with his two fellow gliders 🍃

Close-up below

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i can just imagine him tearing down an army of monsters and then once it's all over and they're standing in the aftermath of #skysfinalform he just takes two steps toward the chain and says "night night" or something with a dreamy smile and faceplants

Headcanon that Sky is terrifying in crisis. He shuts down and throws himself at the problem from every possible angle until it's solved. He becomes scarily analytical and emotionless.

He's always been somewhat like this, relatively calm in the face of danger and uncertainty, but the straight up cold calculation is a product of his adventure. It's how he managed to kill Demise. It's how he survived.

Then the moment everything's over all of the panic and exhaustion crashes over him all at once. Whenever the Chain finds themselves in a fight Sky will be there tearing through entire hordes of enemies. He'll be there helping when they all patch each other up in the aftermath. But the moment it's done he's done. Whether it's sitting against a tree or a rock or unconscious on the ground the mind-numbing fatigue will take him out.

Sometimes he hates it and sometimes someone will grumble a bit about it but other times the entire group will just flop on the ground with him.

Sometimes he hates that the cost of his efficiency is the crash afterwards but sometimes he remembers that it's okay to rely on the others.

He doesn't need to push himself to the brink to survive anymore. He learns to let the emotions happen without pushing them down or letting them control him. And even on the bad days they remind him that it's progress.

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this makes me think of him and the episode where he's running from giant tomatoes 😭 i love this with all my heart

I was inspired by the work of a friend, so this is a redraw of the work they will never post online. shoutout to you dude. youre a real one.

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THE MOM HAS SUCH A SIMILAR FACE TO JOHN!!! AND GORDONS EYES!!! AND THE DAD HAS VIRGILS EYEBROWS!!!

Allow me to raise to you this meme, which I was inspired to try following a conversation with the lovely @cookidoughlilac

Lucille design roughly based on what I’ve seen @lenle-g do which is GORGEOUS

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my absolute favorite drawing of sky i think ive seen yet omg

casually going to make this my laptop lockscreen

[This is Chicken Wing AU fanart, wing AU concept credited to Rabid Kokiri on the official LU discord server! 🤍]

(Some of the pre-sketches to show y’all the process lmao)

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YIPPEE!!!! ty for the tag ^^

don't feel like u gotta >:)

@crimson-cur001 @majorproblems77 @parasitefloral @vaathnaos

hehe

Tag game!

Make your own sword!

@werewolfadmirer @whatonearthisgoingon @leoluvsgreenday @siriuslyobsessed394 @percyweasleyapologist @rey-just-here and anyone else!

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skys sidequest

this is how i imagine it if sky ever met me. a scary creature stalking him popping up behind him and sprinting towards him and him being like WTH and smiting me with divine power

he's got me in a choke hold

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HELP NOT SKY THINKING ITS CANNIBALISM

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64310068

Summary:

The food here is… strange. Obviously with the years spanning between them, it is understandable that dietary customs have changed. Vegetation adapts over time. It would be silly to presume that they all eat similar foods. Still, Sky had not expected something to be so unrecognisable. ----- (aka wild cooks meat and mushroom skewers for dinner. unfortunately, sky does not come from from a time where meat consumption is a regular practice)

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time for my monthly conspiracy theory

no bc who else would demise choose as his vessel to reincarnate as himself??? this is just my headcanon but

what if after sky and zelda built their kingdom on the surface groose started hearing demises voice in the back of his head and it slowly brainwashed him into turning against everyone? what if groose turned evil? became "ganon"?

skys the first link, suns the first zelda, groose is the first ganon?

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bro has broken character twice

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The Face in the Stone

(Sky Centric)

Sky finds a Ganon carving that looks way too much like Groose, and suddenly he's questioning everything. His friends remind him that Groose was his buddy, curse or not. Sky decides to remember him, because, well, what else can you do?

> --- <

It was just another dungeon, another ruin long since abandoned by time. The stone walls were cracked, ancient carvings worn by the ages, yet some etchings remained untouched, clear as if they'd been carved yesterday. The Chain moved cautiously through the space, wary of lingering traps or enemies, the flickering light of their lanterns casting eerie shadows over the walls.

Sky trailed behind slightly, his fingers absently brushing against the carvings as he walked. He’d always had a deep respect for history—especially the parts connected to Hylia—but something about these carvings unsettled him.

Then he saw it.

A massive engraving, larger than the rest, depicting a monstrous figure with piercing eyes and a mane of flowing hair. A battle was immortalized in stone—warriors clashing against this beast, swords raised high. It was unmistakably a depiction of Ganon.

That in itself wasn’t surprising. Ganon's legend stretched through countless generations, and many ancient dungeons carried his mark. But Sky’s breath hitched in his throat as his eyes traced the features of the monster.

No…

The shape of the jaw. The nose. The hair that, despite its wild and unkempt nature, still bore an uncanny resemblance to—

Sky took an unconscious step back, suddenly lightheaded. His chest tightened, his heartbeat pounding in his ears.

No. No, no, no. That didn’t make sense.

But he knew those features. He knew that face.

Groose.

The resemblance was uncanny. Too uncanny. And suddenly, pieces started clicking together in his mind, pieces he had never once considered, pieces he never wanted to.

Demise’s curse. The hatred that would follow him and Zelda forever.

Had Demise… chosen Groose to be that hatred?

A sharp gasp left Sky’s lips, a choked sound that made the others whip their heads toward him.

“Sky?” Time’s voice was firm, but there was a thread of concern woven into it. The others looked at him warily, noting his paled complexion, the way his breath had turned ragged.

Wild stepped forward, looking between Sky and the carving. “What is it?”

Sky’s fingers trembled as he lifted them to the stone, brushing over the engraved jawline as if the act alone could disprove what he was seeing. “This face…” he whispered.

Wind squinted at the carving. “What, Ganon? Yeah, we kinda figured he’d show up down here.”

“No,” Sky murmured, his voice nearly inaudible. “No, you don’t understand. He… I know him.”

The room went silent.

Hyrule frowned, stepping closer. “You know him?”

Sky swallowed, his throat dry. He tore his gaze from the stone and turned to face the others. “He looks just like someone I knew. Someone from my time. A friend.”

There was a pause.

“...Sky,” Legend said slowly, watching him carefully, “do you know what you’re saying?”

Sky laughed, but it was a hollow, breathless thing. “I think I do. And I hate it.” He ran a shaking hand through his hair, looking back at the carving. “Demise’s hatred was supposed to follow me and Zelda forever. But I thought— I thought it was just his spirit, not—” His voice caught. “Not someone I knew.”

Realization dawned across the group, horror settling in.

“He was cursed into being Ganon,” Warriors muttered. “Or at least, into being his reincarnation.”

Time stepped forward, his expression unreadable, but his eyes betrayed his concern. “Are you sure?”

Sky let out a bitter, almost hysterical laugh. “He had red hair. His jaw, his nose— It’s him, Time. I know it’s him.” He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, but his chest felt tight, his lungs unwilling to expand properly. “Every time we—” He stopped, swallowed. “Every time a Link has killed Ganon, they were killing him. Killimg a version of Groose.”

A heavy silence filled the room.

Sky’s hands clenched into fists, his breath shuddering. “Does that mean that in the future, he betrays me? That he turns into that?” He gestured sharply at the carving, his voice cracking. “Is that what happens to him?”

His vision blurred for a second, and he realized his eyes were burning. He quickly wiped at them, pressing his palms into his face. This wasn’t happening. This couldn’t be happening.

Twilight was the first to move, stepping up and placing a hand on Sky’s shoulder. “Sky,” he said softly. “We don’t know if that’s what happened.”

Sky let out a sharp exhale, shaking his head. “But what if it is? What if Demise’s curse twisted him into—” He gestured to the carving again, unable to even finish the sentence.

Twilight crossed his arms, his face grim. “If that’s true, then it means he never had a choice.”

“And neither did we,” Hyrule murmured.

The weight of the realization hit them all at once. Every Link here had fought Ganon in some form. Every Link had killed him. If what Sky was saying was true, then every single one of them had played a part in this curse.

Legend, the first to snap out of his shock, immediately put a hand on Sky’s other shoulder, squeezing firmly. “Look at me,” he said.

Sky didn’t move.

“Sky.”

Slowly, Sky met his gaze.

“We don’t know the whole story,” Legend said. “Even if this is true, even if Groose ended up being tied to the curse somehow… that doesn’t mean he betrayed you. And it doesn’t mean you betrayed him.”

Sky took a shaky breath, but he still looked lost.

Time finally stepped in, placing a firm hand on Sky’s back. “You said he was a friend,” he stated.

Sky nodded weakly.

“Then remember that,” Time said. “No matter what Demise did, no matyer what fate may have forced upon him, Groose was your friend. That is not something that can be erased by a curse.”

Sky’s breath hitched, but he nodded again, a bit more firmly this time.

There was a long moment of silence before Warriors spoke. “And…” he said carefully, “even if Demise did set this up, even if Groose was tied into this—” He looked at the carving, then back to Sky. “We can’t change it.”

Sky flinched.

Warriors hesitated, then pressed on. “I’m not saying that to be cruel. I wish there was a way. But we all know better than to think curses that old—curses from a god—can just be undone.”

The words settled over them, heavy and suffocating.

Sky inhaled sharply, his fingers curling at his sides. “So that’s it, then?” he whispered. “Groose is just… doomed? Every cycle?”

No one answered.

And maybe that was the answer in itself.

Sky felt like he couldn’t breathe.

Legend was the first to step in again, his grip on Sky’s shoulder tightening. “Listen,” he said, voice firm. “You may not be able to change the curse. But you can still remember him. You still have him. You can still make sure that he and his name, isn’t lost. You can still be there.”

Sky swallowed hard.

“We can’t fix this. We don't know how,” Wild admitted, voice soft. “But you don’t have to bear it alone.”

Sky took another breath, deeper this time, though it still felt like there was a weight pressing on his chest. Slowly, he nodded.

Legend gave his shoulder a final squeeze before stepping back. “Alright,” he said, clearing his throat. “I think we’ve had enough horrifying revelations for one dungeon. Let’s get out of here before something else decides to shatter our worldviews.”

Twilight snorted. “Agreed.”

The group slowly gathered themselves, but the air still hung heavy.

Sky lingered near the back, looking at the carving one last time.

He couldn’t fix it.

But he wouldn’t forget.

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