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@wjdjptmgagj That’s fair, I can totally see that too!

I based my reasoning on the appearance of Link himself not changing, just the outfit. The inklings definitely look like different people when their outfit changes, and the baby Mario characters have their own separate unit slots. But upon closer inspection, Link does look a little different there. Maybe it is Wild!

And this makes sense from a release perspective as well— Link was originally added to MK8 with just the Skyward Sword outfit. Only in Deluxe did they add the BotW outfit and paraglider/bike etc.

So maybe Wild dropped in at a certain point and was happy to share his items with Sky. I imagine Sky going, “Ah, more ancient tech,” and totally mastering the stuff he’s given. After all, Sky is quite familiar with robots and carts himself from the Lanayru Mining Facility.

Besides, I think it would be cool if Sky and Wild got to hang out together and go kart riding— like how Wild and Sun go skydiving together every now and then 😆.

I’m changing my mind here; Wild should get to be in MK8!

So Mario kart 8 has Hyrule circuit. So I ask, who do you think which Link's Hyrule it is? Personally, I think It's Spirit's, based on the guard's uniform. But it could be Warrior's or Four's.

Great question!

Despite near 100%-ing Mario Kart DS and Wii, I actually… never played Mario Kart 8 until literally last week, where I tried it out at a friend’s house. It was so cool! And I can now finally answer this!

Firstly, the Link in MK8 is clearly based on Wild and Sky, but I feel like his appearance is closer to Sky, so I’m inclined to think it’s Sky all the way through, and he just wears Wild’s outfit sometimes. This is like how Brawl’s Link is based on Time and Twilight, but his appearance is closer to Twi, so I’m inclined to think he’s Twilight all the way through, just also using some scenes from Time’s past.

The track… it’s a mishmash of eras from what I remember, and I liked it a lot. The track features Hyrule Castle in its prime, which funnily enough rules out both Wild’s and Sky’s era since neither has an active Hyrule Castle. I guess the devs thought Skyloft wouldn’t pander to the old fans enough lol.

I’m inclined to think it’s Wars’ era. The “mishmash of eras” vibe is uniquely Warriors. The uniforms are a good point, but I feel like since the track prominently features the Master Sword, it should rule out both Spirit and Four, as neither of them use that particular blade. Warriors is a good fit— there are even some Spirit Tracks folks in Hyrule Warriors, including Phantom herself.

In conclusion: I think it’s Sky, with Wild’s uniform and bike/paraglider sometimes, and they’re in a version of Wars’ Hyrule Castle.

(No Zelda in MK8, sadly. Sky is out there cart-riding all on his lonesome 🥲.)

(Also no Zelda or Link at all so far in MK World, but who knows? DLC exists— maybe there’ll be a Hyrule Island someday!)

Masterpost

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Linebeck <3

Wind & Linebeck! Because that man is part of the reason I love phantom hourglass so much. If he ever showed up in LU I'm sure it would be chaotic lmaoo

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please wait while he travels across your dash, he's on a very important mission

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I genuinely chuckled aloud at this hahaha 😆

A gripping Linked Nexus comic about brotherhood and betrayal—

Linked Nexus Masterpost

I asked recently for doodle ideas. this is the finished product. Thank you all for supporting my mental health :)

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Dungeon depths

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<3

Three more of the same series :

Legend

Hyrule

Twilight

It will take some time before I post the three last, they are still rough WIPs at best

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ryoko kui: bet

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Three more of the same series :

Legend

Hyrule

Twilight

It will take some time before I post the three last, they are still rough WIPs at best

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Hi Ray!! Hope you're doing fine ^^

Kinda random question, but I guess Wind is your favourite Link so, do you have headcanons for him?!

And if not, who's your favourite blorbo? >:·3

(no pressure to answer this ask tho hehe!)

Hiya Perry!

My favorites go like this! >:D

(Hyrule and Wild are fighting for 4th with Hyrule at a lead lol. He's grown on me since getting to know Zola! xD )

I can share some headcanons for the top three! (I got excited getting an ask from you so I drew a couple things and wrote a lot ashgfjsdfs. The post got long so I'll thrown in a read more somewhere.)

Four

Reading buddies with Twi. They tell each other about what they're reading. Sky and Wind like to listen and ask questions.

Pegasus boots + Roc's cape = some pretty impressive jumps (eight-foot vertical leap Griffin McElroy meme.) He's only outmatched by Rulie. Four and Legend should compete to see who has the greater horizonal distance.

Four loves purple sweet potatoes! It's sweet, umami, filling, and how often do you get to eat something that's purple? It's kind of an expansion of/inspired by a hc + art by w1lmutt. (imo Four's a fan of purple food in general. Four and that one girl from Tarrey Town are the biggest fans of Wild's monster cake recipe.) Set Four up with a purple potato right off of the fire and he's doing great. (Do you think he could have a potato cooking on the side while working at the forge? in like a dutch oven? put the potato in the forge!!!)

The name of the forge is the Four Element Forge (which I first read in blueskullcandy's fics! ("Alone Together" I think?))

Four has a cat! Tongs the Benevolent has my whole heart. (Tongs is also the creation of blueskullcandy @fuckit-hero-of-trains. Hi Train! Here's a little fic of them meeting x. here's art I made of her x. here's Train's tag for her x! More!)

Four with headaches / migraines. There has to be some trope about inflicting the clever/thinker character with head hurty and I'm here for it with Four. Any pain can make it difficult to think, but having that pain be concentrated to the head is more poignant, idk xD something to impede a strength of his. I also think that Four having migraines that are worsened by light is poetic, as being hurt by light gives him something in common with Shadow.

(Four with a headache with Tongs and Twi helping <3 )

Thoughts on the Four Sword's abilities: Can the elemental magic infused into the sword be tapped into and does it still have the ability to make ghost / prism refraction copies?

(img from IGN)

cont. In Minish Cap, as you power up the White Sword with the elemental stones, you're able to summon copies of Link. However, Link can only do this over specific tiles, the prisms run on a timed meter, and if they're hit they vanish. It's like a magic meter! I headcanon that Four isn't great with magic himself. However, if the prisms are summoned by magic, then what if it's Four channeling his magic into the White Sword to get that to happen. (also, maybe he's been relying on help from the tiles or Ezlo.) At the end of Minish Cap, he put the sword back and that was that. At the start of FS/FSA however, something changed when he pulled the sword, causing him to split fully. Maybe the sword needed something different from him. Maybe he was so frantic about Zelda being kidnapped and needing to defend himself from Shadow that he poured too much magic into the sword and it changed him. Maybe the sword's power upgraded. Whatever happened, he no longer has access to the prism ability of the Four Sword and instead splits, with splitting not being a drain on his magic. Four has just assumed that the prisms is an ability the Four Sword no longer has. Put the Four Sword into the hands of someone else with magic, though, and this isn't the case! (or maybe it's a scenario with an earlier iteration of the sword.) I have a scenario in my head where Four is separated from it in battle and Wind picks it up. Wind channels some magic into it on reflex for a spin attack or something and the prism copies pop up much to EVERYONE'S SURPRISE. Wind would think it's So Cool. Why haven't you shown us this before??!! Meanwhile Four just, honestly didn't know it could do that anymore. Cue Four Sword show-and-tell because what could be the harm (Four doesn't have to tell about the splitting thing and maybe the chain can help him learn about the copies) Wind, Legend, Time, and Hyrule can pull them up with ease. Put the sword into the hands of Hyrule or Legend who are more familiar with magic, however, and I think they could tap into the elements infused into the blade. Each of the copies channel a different element: being wind, fire, ice, and stone (with the Four Sword itself being Light.) Hyrule's able to move the copies around independently of each other but it takes a lot of focus. Legend on the other hand is better with the elemental stuff but he can feel there's something more to the Four Sword. Like, "Four, the magic well in this item is pretty deep / unstable. I don't want to tell you how to use your items, but careful not to put too much into this." Four: *wtf wtf wtf.* Or Legend would try pushing the boundaries of the sword, start going weird and flickery, and would be hastily stopped by Four.

Wind

He and Aryll meow at each other! >:3c He meows during a side-quest and I want an excuse for him to do it more often. I think he and Aryll are very much the type to make weird noises in greeting.

Cartography and navigation buff! Phantom Hourglass has you marking up the map so I think it's something Wind's good at and enjoys. Celestial navigation is in there too. Beyond using the stars to navigate, I think he's into star stories. Each constellation has a story that Wind is happy to retell. He wants to collect as many and their variations between eras as possible.

Wind has to admit that Twi, Sky, and Wild's pumpkin soup is pretty good (not as good as Grandma's, but still pretty dang good.) He got a pumpkin sprout in Sky's era and it lives in one of his bottles. Its name is Soup!

Fandom headcanons I've picked up that I'm fond of: Wind can see ghosts, Wind needs new shoes and isn't super jazzed about all this walking, Wind's family shield is passed down from Four, Wind is scared of / intimidated by large birds which opens up storytelling opportunities with Sky's loftwing, (honorable mention to the WW headcanon that Link's nearsighted due to him squinting in cutscenes. I don't hc it for LU Wind but it's neat to see it picked up! (ex: Wind from Linked Maze!))

Legend

I love Sister_Dear's writing (@sister-dear hi Sister 😳) and my interpretation of Legend reflects that. (here's Sister's list of Legend headcanons lol) (Keso's art is a big influence as well.)

Legend with arthritis / chronic pain in his hands/knees. It's just nice to see nods to it. Legend massaging his hands, or using a cane (louieeeee!), or grumbling about the weather. There's a headcanon that goes along with it that he has rings which lessen the symptoms.

Legend as poly and bi for Marin and Ravio. Courtesy of Wolfy (@wolfy1298) and this comic.

Genderfluid Legend. I like Sister's bullet-point, "Goes by ‘he’ but feels fairly ambivalent about the pronoun. Doesn't like to present as overly masculine. (Either a case of Legend being all ‘fuck gender roles’ or his Hyrule just having different gender norms.) Likes putting on dresses and makeup when the opportunity arises, doesn't like to do his hair." That! But I like to add that Legend will swap pronouns as well on what feels best. Hand-Me-Downs by That_G3_Obsessive (@that-g3-artist 👋) is a favorite of mine and has beautiful representation of genderfluid/queer Legend. Legend figures Wind could use some better fitting clothes, and shifting through Legend's wardrobe leads Wind to ask about the dresses there.

(has Taako from The Adventure Zone vibes going on in presentation and snark. Love me a bunny toothed GNC gay elf wizard twin who has a secret they don't want anyone to know and who's done with this shit. Please appreciate Taako thank you yippee yahoo!)

(Tried drawing Taako to mixed results but I think Legend would dig his vibe!)

I tried to throw in a number of hcs~ideas that are more personal / that I haven't had the opportunity to show through fanwork yet. To be fair, sooo many of the headcanons I have for the chain though are an amalgamation of things picked up from the fandom (I could go on with Legend and bunny mannerisms or Four with portal sickness xD ). There's a lot of really great work put together by so many people. It's wonderful to get to be a part of it!

Thank you for the ask Perry!!! >:D

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i haven't posted one of these in a while, so here's some of the process work from this update! I put a little more effort than usual into planning lighting in the second phase which I think helped lol

(i post WIP pages like these as I finish to patreon before updates come out!)

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I found this shirt online and I need it so bad

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i have a super self-indulgent fire emblem modern au that brings me comfort during hard times and I suppose I could share it with u guys, maybe even draw it if I ever have the time...

But like, as you know, in canon marth marries caeda and chrom+lucina & lissa+owain & emmeryn are their descendants and their great great great great great great (add more greats) grandkids right

Anyway i just love the idea of a modern au where marth&caeda are chrom+lissa+emmeryn’s parents (lissa and emm can be adopted or the blonde gene is recessive idk) and like, lucina is grandpa marth’s fave and owain is grandma caeda’s fave and idk I just love the idea of all of them as a fam lmao

marth & caeda being like, super famous and also well known, marth is like a huge celebrity everywhere, like maybe an a-list actor with like 10 oscars and 20 nominations lmao caeda is like an actress too and they met on the set of a movie and everyone's obsessed with them lmao

emmeryn followed in their footsteps and is also a mega celebrity but went into politics, like she even becomes president at some point, while chrom+lissa try to keep a low profile for their kids’ sakes

I think chrom suffering from the tony hawk syndrome would be absolutely hilarious lmao like he is a nepotism baby cause his parents are MARTH and caeda and is like idk a famous actor and yet no one recognizes him ever lmao he marries robin who is his manager and people recognize robin more than him

meanwhile lissa is like the only one of the marth×caeda kids who isn't an actor or into politics and yet SHE is recognized everywhere unlike chrom lmao

LMAO OK BUT

lucina bringing severa to meet her grandparents for the holidays and she’s like “honey pls don’t freak out” and severa’s like “why would I—OHMYGOD IS THAT MARTH LOWELL?!?!”

marth signing an autograph on a napkin for severa during dinner, though

Also severa awkwardly meeting chrom (her father-in-law lmao) and telling him he is her mom's celebrity crush kdbdjd

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YOU OCTOPATHED LU!!!

Love this 8/8 <3.

I chose Octopath classes for the Zeldas a while ago, this is really making me want to draw those out :)

octopath traveler (1/2)

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Mwahahahahhaha Vidow Vidow Vidow

Okay okay but Vio’s hair is in front, indicating that despite the situation, he’s actually the one in control. Vio has a darker undershirt, Shadow’s is lighter, perhaps belying some of their innermost inclinations. Vio’s belt buckle and jewelry is silver, Shadow’s is gold, showing which one of them is actually warmer. Vio isn't wearing any visible armor, giving the impression of vulnerability, but those are likely expensive fabrics that nevertheless flaunt his confidence. In contrast, Shadow's gambeson is a little more practical and protects his heart (and other organs but I'm being poetic). Vio is wearing a visible sword belt, though no weapons are in frame, perhaps symbolizing that he's the aggressor, the only one thinking about fighting through the scene, at least up until this moment.

(am I doing this interpreting thing correctly)

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.*･ﾟ⟡.·𝑊𝑖𝑠𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒.*･ﾟ⟡.·

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Tetra: "Wow, that's a decrepit old shield... Are you sure you can still use that thing? Are you going to get splinters and cry?"

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That time of the decade where I throw a bunch of old drawings together and post em. Here's an LU doodle dump/character study/ animation test. Some of these are actually quite old, others pretty recent. Anyways! Enjoy the look into my mind (Not much in there TBH)