#Zelda totk role-reveals au

[wild-dagon]

TOTK Role-reversal (part 2)

I know I’m late to the party but this idea has been floating around in my head for months. (Also spoilers for the game)

The classic role-reversal with Link and Zelda in TOTK.

Finally my last idea. Link gets the Spirit stone.

I don’t know about you but it bothered me at the end of the game that there wasn’t a new Spirit Sage. They brought Purah up there and then didn’t give it to her? (I was also expecting Paya to get it as all the other Sages were leaders (or the child of the leader) of their respective races. I really wanted to see Paya go from being unsure how to lead her village to an amazing warrior surrounded by other leaders for support but thats a rant for another post)

Anyhow Link.

Let’s tie this to BOTW. Link can see the Koroks (spirits of the forest) he can see the dragons (not everyone can) and in BOTW he talks to multiple ghosts. Heck even in TOTK he is able to interact with the ghosts of solders in the Depths to get weapons.

What if when Link goes back in time, his stone just won’t settle on a specific power. This is weird to Rauru and Sonia as they have never seen some one with so many different kinds of magic. Link is super confused as he doesn’t have magic. The other champions and Zelda have mystic abilities. He doesn’t.

You can stretch this confusion out to them going back to the castle and or you can make the next part happen on the way to the castle.

The one day they get attacked and Link goes to fight (he’s used to protecting people.) but he’s weak from the interaction with Ganondorf.

He’s about to get crushed when his stone turns red and a familiar crystal shield forms around him. “I gotta little buddy” He turns over his shoulder and sees Daruk. He’s in spirit form but he’s here, talking and fighting with Link.

Then the stone turns green. Air burst forth and Revali is up in the air shooting down the foe.

The stone turns orange and a bolt of lightning rains down on the remaining enemies as Urbosa steps forward.

Finally it turns blue as Mipha appears and heals Links wounds.

They are here. All of the champions are here. Link’s stone finally settles on purple.

Mineru explains that Link’s stone couldn’t settle on a color because it was sensing the remains of the champion abilities inside him. But now that the champions spirits have been released his stone has settled on his powers.

This leads to a lot of Mineru and Link bonding as she helps him master his powers. Maybe he can make the other champions corporeal if he focuses hard enough or if he masters his powers. Maybe he can give them a second chance at life. (Here’s where you could have some fun with shipping making it zelink, miphlink, or revalink)

Anyhow. Mineru is Link’s mentor. They both are a little crazy about building questionable contraptions. She starts to view him as her’s. Rauru was always going to have kids, she never expected to have one but Link is precious to her. As is he to Sonia and Rauru. They love hearing about their descendent Zelda.

Maybe Link and the champions are able to save Sonia from Gannon but he still gets his hands on a stone. Either stealing Sonia’s (without the murder) or by killing Rauru or Mineru. Or you could go super angst and have him get Link’s stone cutting him off from the champions (once again Ganon has taken them from Link)

In the final battle Rauru/Mineru/Sonia (who ever is alive) traps Gannon. Link either swallows his stone or stone give to him by another survivor.

Personally I like the idea that Gannon gets Links stone, Sonia seals him promising her descendant will come to stop him (I think Sonia’s faith in future Zelda could be super sweet) Rauru realizing his wife is gone and there is nothing he can do, gives Link his stone allowing Link to become the dragon and heal the sword. Mineru still builds her contraption knowing that Zelda will need a sage of spirit as Link will be preoccupied being a dragon.

Zelda gets guidance from Sonia and Rauru.

When it’s all said and done and Mineru is ready to leave, her stone goes to Zelda becoming the time/light stone. Meaning Link has a spirit stone Zelda covers time and light. The other sages are still around and the champions are back.

Zelda’s journey

You can also make this really fun by having the spirits of the champions guide the sages on their journey.

Maybe while spirit dragon Link is hanging out in the clouds that champion spirits hang out with him. When it’s time for the new sages to awaken they go to their home villages and appear to the new sages. So instead of just hearing a strange voice they see the champion of old.

When Tulin is out on his own he is struggling with a enemy that is suddenly shot from behind. When he tracks the shoot Revali is flying there. Their eyes lock before Revali flies off. Zelda arrives right after this moment, Tulin to tell her about the strange Rito that flew off. Tulin feels like they need to follow him and they do, all the way up to the sky arc. (Picture the Zelda chase scene in the castle but with Revali and sky boats.) Once Tulin gets his sacred stone Revali appears again (allowing for a sweet reunion scene between Zelda and Revali) and offers to stay near and train Tulin on how to use his powers as Revali had trained with the sage of old.

When Zelda arrives in Goron city it’s weird. Why are people talking about Link giving Yunobo a mask. Then she sees Link and chases after him only to find an enraged Yunobo. After getting the mask off of him the two talk about Link before seeing Daruk’s Spirit. Once again they chase him to the fire temple. Things play out much the same with Daruk as it did with Revali.

Arriving at the Zora domain Sidon doesn’t see Mipha until he fights the first sludge monster with Zelda. Mipha had tried to appear earlier but Sidon thought he was just seeing things from over working himself. It isn’t until he lets Yona help him and fights along side Zelda that he finally is open to seeing Mipha’s spirit. She leads them to the underwater cavern and to the water temple proper. Again always just out of reach never a word is spoken until after the sage is fully awaken and the boss is beaten. Once Sidon has his sacred stone Mipha is able to appear and have her reunion with her brother.

In the desert Urbosa is seen many times by other warriors but she cannot directly help them. Once Zelda arrives she appears to both Zelda and Ruji before disappearing. She appears again after they successfully defend the town. After they defend the bazar they see Link walking into the storm. Both girls go to chase after him but Urbosa appears and shakes her head No before disappearing without a word. Urbosa leads Zelda through the sand storm to the different light pillars, and lead them to the light temple. She doesn’t appear again until after they defeat queen gibdo and Riju awakens as a sage.

This build trust between the reader and Zelda and the spirits that are appearing. Which means when Zelda sees Link up on Hyrule castle she rushes to him. He’s leading her through the castle the same way the champions did. It’s unnerving as the champions moved like that because they were spirits and Link should be alive but Zelda is going to ignore that tidbit for now.

She follows Link to the throne room where it is revealed that he is Ganondorf’s puppet.

As they fight the sages and champions appear to help Zelda defeat the phantom Ganondorfs

After this they got to find the fifth sage. Mineru tells Zelda about the Dragon tears and how to view them using the purah pad. This is when Zelda does the dragon tear quest. Up until this point they were just weird geoglyphs but know she can view Link’s memories. She realizes that Link is the Spirit Dragon.

(You can also have a moment where she yells at the champions for not telling her. But how do you tell someone that new?)

She needs to find the Master Sword so she returns to the lost woods hoping Link returned it there in the past. She doesn’t know if the blade will let her pull it but she has to try.

After freeing the lost woods she realizes the sword is with Link. Maybe she goes to get it maybe she leaves it but either way she will be able to use it. It’s with Link and if he’s going to let anyone wield his sacred blade it would be Zelda.

[clowns0up-felix]

i’m OBSESSED with the way you characterize link in your reversal of fate AU…. i feel like people like to focus mostly on zelda’s pre-botw trauma (which is totally fair since it’s what the game mostly focuses on) but they forget that link has been training as a “sacred knight of the goddess”since he was 4,,,,, that cannot be healthy!!! (i like to give him both a superiority and an inferiority complex because of this,, like the kind of stuff you get growing up as a gifted kid)

also people tend to mostly excuse giving him a carefree demeanor because he’s an amnesiac but i feel that subconsciously he would still have some of the bias that comes with being such an important figure even though he’s not anymore,..

Thank you!!! I really do think he has some deep issues because of his upbringing (as well as the whole calamity stuff ofc haha),,, Though I think he does gets way more carefree and silly in botw without his memories but I couldn’t imagine that his body doesn’t remember! I think his body tenses every time he’s in the castle, he gets stiff when the ghost of the king is revealed, and stuff like that,,, My post botw pre totk Link Design is wearing the leg piece from the hylian armor set. I think this is because he desperately tries to tie himself to the person he was pre botw, like he’s still fulfilling his duty, even a hundred years after his role stopped existing basically. That part isn’t too though through yet so I might revamp it but rn it’s kinda what I think! I like to make him complex in a way where he clings onto someone he’s not, but someone he (in his eyes) should’ve been (also same thing with the triforce scar!) ((I also love exploring Zelda’s trauma and experience, both of them have such great characterization potential!!!))

Him having both a superior and inferior complex is really interesting! The inferior complex is something I also see but the superior one is new to me,,, personally I think he prefers to be a nobody but I love that hc it’s so cool!! Maybe I could see him sometimes falling into a stoic superiority around people? I’ll think on it

Sorry for the ramble, this might be a little non-sensical, I don’t keep good track of my thoughts

Thanks for the ask!

[sciencelings-writes]

My tLoZ and LU Masterlist

UPDATED 11/19/2023

Of Dubious Sophistication: 6/? posted chapters, Wild meets the chain on a day when he has to act like an important person and decides to fuck with their initial misconceptions of him. Mostly formatted to give each of the Links to come to their own conclusions about Wild, a Compilation of oneshots with a vague overarching plot.

Another Second Chance: 2/? classic Wild gets pulled into the AOC timeline and is tasked to help prevent the calamity. But he looks different enough from his counterpart that he doesn’t reveal his true identity. He accidentally parallels Astor in the whole mysterious sorcerer/ seer vibes as he both knows the future and popped out of nowhere in a dramatic cape and ancient technology. Lots of interaction between Wild and the champions and there is both angst and hijinks. There’s also stuff about the new champions as most of it follows the plot of AOC. Also Wolfie is there because I thought it would be funny for him to bop around the baby egg guardian.

The Silence of the Knight: BOTW pre-calamity fic that’s mostly an introspective fic about why Link went silent and how everyone around him reacts to his lack of outward emotions. I just saw the concept of people seeing him as not quite human because of his refusal to show any emotions and wanting to catch a glimpse of how/ if he reacts when tragedy strikes, just to see if he has the ability to feel anything at all.

Heavy in Your Arms: Wild hated getting his memories back. They could be triggered by seemingly anything, they forced the entire group to stop or have someone stay with him until he got over it, which mostly ended up being Twilight, and he tended to end up feeling terrible. Even the good ones were bittersweet, when he saw glimpses of a family that was long gone or a fleeting moment when his life wasn’t destined to be a nightmare, only to open his eyes a century later having lost everything.He knew it was starting to become a hindrance on their quest and the last thing he wanted to be was a burden. (part of a series focused on the Wolf Trio)

I’ve Seen Hell (But This is a Bit More My Style): BOTW Fem!Link fic focused on how being the first female incarnation of the Heroes Spirit would be treated with a little bit of Zelink as a forbidden relationship. Link is angry and all of her past lives are just as pissed as she is. She’s seen as a harbinger of the calamity rather than the hero sent to stop it. And she’s seen as a mistake of the goddess and proof that the 10,000 years of peace was now at an end. General woman problems you know? (Sequel incorporating LU in progress) also please mind the tags.

Swordcrossed Lovers: Fluffy oneshot of the above au, Link and Zelda go to Gerudo Town and flirt while sword fighting. Zelink Week 2022 prompt: Sparring. 

Champions Possessing Wild Oneshot Collection: The champions possess Wild sometimes, it leads to some shenanigans 

The Unironic Magical Properties of True Love: totk role swap, Zelda find where Link has been hiding since being stuck in the past.

*NEW* Forever Changed: post totk zelink, where they both come back a little differently and have to deal with the immediate aftermath of... everything.

Requests/ short oneshots:

The Idiots of the Wind: Wind makes friends with the spirit of Revali and they team up to mess with Wild, mildly traumatizing him in the process. 

A Waste of Pretty Faces: Wild and Warriors bond over something they didn’t expect (mind the warnings and tags)

To Kill What’s Already Dead: Set after sunset pt.7, Wild deals with not being allowed to see Twilight and with the very real possibility that his mentor is dying.

A Mosaic of Broken Glass: Link has a lot of scars, they don’t like them very much. Zelda is determined to help them work on loving themself. Non-Binary BOTW Link and I accidentally made Zelda asexual.

On Top Of The World: Day 1 prompt for Zelink week 2022- One Last Look, Link and Zelda reunite after the final battle with the calamity. Idk what to say it’s just pure fluff. 

Frightful & Delightful: Wintery LU fic that is Hyrule-centric for a secret santa. Hurt/comfort, but mostly fluff. 

3 Sentence Fics: Lots of short fics in one place, including LU, botw Zelink, and my own AUs!

The Many Duties of the Princesses Appointed Knight: Fluffy pre-calamity zelink hair braiding, not me basing a whole fic off of a vague idea... 

The Caretaker of Holy Things: OC fic made for a zelda creators collab, the Priestess of the Temple of Time remains at the great plateau while the calamity rages around her, unfortunately, she’s due to have visitors. 

Whumptober 2022:

Prompt 2: Nowhere to Run: Aryll from my priestesses AU meets the Fierce Deity for the first time.

Prompt 5: Hypothermia: Link and Zelda from my Golden Priestesses AU journey up to the Temple of Nayru to the spring of wisdom.

Prompt 9: Caught in the Storm: Zelda spends one hundred years fighting the calamity, even though he’s slumbering in the shrine of resurrection, Link still finds a way to help her keep her head above water.

Prompt 10: Whipping: Wild from my Fem!Wild AU has to reveal some things about her past after having a panic attack post-battle. Kind of a rewrite of part of the comic where Wild throws himself in front of Wind during a fight, you know the one. 

Prompt 15: Emotional Damage/ New Scars: Wild visits the forgotten temple after the events of LU, he mourns. 

Zelink Week 2023: 

Day 1: Yearning: All In Good Time: Fem! Zelink AU during the events of LU, Wild misses her Princess. 

Day 2: Forbidden: The Ballad of Frost and Flames: Fem!Zelink AU, pre-calamity while Link is still in hiding, they meet at a masquerade ball. 

Day 4: Hand in Hand: The Fable of the Dragon and the Phoenix: MAJOR TOTK SPOILERS, Zelda makes and eternal choice and Link learns to rise from the ashes.

[bravelink]

VERSES

Main Verses

v. a strange sadness as dusk falls

Post game. My most common verse as this can take place just about anywhere. Link can be in the kingdom of Hyrule or find himself somewhere far away. A side note Link can no longer transform into a wolf in this verse as no ho longer has the shadow shard.

v. the green tunic that is your garb

In game. This takes place at any time during the course of the game. Link will be for the most part limited to traveling in Hyrule but there us a little wiggle room for other locations if need be.

v. our little village

Pre game. In this verse Link has never left his home village or the forest nearby. Link will be 16 or younger in this verse.

v. go and do not falter

This verse is mostly with botw in mind but can work for other zelda games if requested. I do take an almost hero's shade approach with this verse as in Link has lived his life and passed on. He takes on the form he did while on his journey and usually takes the form of his cursed wolf form. He can appear as a human too.

Alternate Universes

v. holds a serene beauty

This will be my twili au! In this verse I am changing Link's name to something more related to Twilight as I think that will be very fitting. His name is Emery. This verse is very flexible in what can be done it. I can either make it he just accidentally ends up in Hyrule maybe while exploring or something happens like the totk castle upheaval. Either way he ends up in Hyrule and it's likely very difficult to get back to his home. This can also be a role reveal where he is the hero but a twili. Which can be fun! So lots of plotting potential if anyone is interested just hop in my dms c:

here is concept art i did of what i imagine he looks like!

v. o hero chosen by the goddesses... beware!

CORRUPTED AU - tba

v. our courage will pull us through

Much like in Link's main verse he is a rancher. He watches and care for mostly skiddos and gogoats but has a handful of miltanks. His town is small but very close to larger cities which he often makes trips for supplies of fresh ingredients. His town also has a farm and plenty of vegetation along with berries and apricorn that are sought after. Link doesn't have any interest in the Pokemon League himself but does watch it be televised. He can battle but only if his pokemon want too.

*** more info can be found here !

v. a wonderous sight that nutcracker

Nutcracker AU. This verse Link was once a prince now cursed into a nutcracker. Many details are thanks to @sapientiiae. This tale has zelda influences such as instead of rats its bulblins and great fairies in place of sugar plum. Can be changed for each person that wants to interact in this verse just hop in my dms and we can iron out the details.

[science-lings]

LU & BOTW Fic/ WIP List

UPDATED 11/5/2022

Of Dubious Sophistication: 6/? posted chapters, Wild meets the chain on a day where he has to act like a person and decides to fuck with their misconceptions of him.

Another Second Chance: 2/? classic Wild gets pulled into the AOC timeline and is tasked to help prevent the calamity. But he looks different enough from his counterpart that he doesn’t reveal his true identity. He accidentally parallels Astor in the whole mysterious sorcerer/ seer vibes as he both knows the future and popped out of nowhere in a dramatic cape and ancient technology. Lots of interaction between Wild and the champions and there is both angst and hijinks. There’s also stuff about the new champions as most of it follows the plot of AOC. Also Wolfie is there because I thought it would be funny for him to bop around the baby egg guardian.

The Silence of the Knight: BOTW pre-calamity fic that’s mostly an introspective fic about why Link went silent and how everyone around him reacts to his lack of outward emotions. I just saw the concept of people seeing him as not quite human because of his refusal to show any emotions and wanting to catch a glimpse of how/ if he reacts when tragedy strikes, just to see if he has the ability to feel anything at all.

Heavy in Your Arms: Wild hated getting his memories back. They could be triggered by seemingly anything, they forced the entire group to stop or have someone stay with him until he got over it, which mostly ended up being Twilight, and he tended to end up feeling terrible. Even the good ones were bittersweet, when he saw glimpses of a family that was long gone or a fleeting moment when his life wasn’t destined to be a nightmare, only to open his eyes a century later having lost everything.He knew it was starting to become a hindrance on their quest and the last thing he wanted to be was a burden. (part of a series focused on the Wolf Trio)

I’ve Seen Hell (But This is a Bit More My Style): BOTW Fem!Link fic focused on how being the first female incarnation of the Heroes Spirit would be treated with a little bit of Zelink as a forbidden relationship. Link is angry and all of her past lives are just as pissed as she is. She’s seen as a harbinger of the calamity rather than the hero sent to stop it. And she’s seen as a mistake of the goddess and proof that the 10,000 years of peace was now at an end. General woman problems you know? (Sequel incorporating LU in progress) also please mind the tags.

Swordcrossed Lovers: Fluffy oneshot of the above au, Link and Zelda go to Gerudo Town and flirt while sword fighting. Zelink Week 2022 prompt: Sparring. 

Champions Possessing Wild Oneshot Collection: The champions possess Wild sometimes, it leads to some shenanigans 

The Unironic Magical Properties of True Love: totk role swap, Zelda find where Link has been hiding since being stuck in the past.

Requests/ short oneshots:

The Idiots of the Wind: Wind makes friends with the spirit of Revali and they team up to mess with Wild, mildly traumatizing him in the process. 

A Waste of Pretty Faces: Wild and Warriors bond over something they didn’t expect (mind the warnings and tags)

To Kill What’s Already Dead: Set after sunset pt.7, Wild deals with not being allowed to see Twilight and with the very real possibility that his mentor is dying.

A Mosaic of Broken Glass: Link has a lot of scars, they don’t like them very much. Zelda is determined to help them work on loving themself. Non-Binary BOTW Link and I accidentally made Zelda asexual.

On Top Of The World: Day 1 prompt for Zelink week 2022- One Last Look, Link and Zelda reunite after the final battle with the calamity. Idk what to say it’s just pure fluff. 

Frightful & Delightful: Wintery LU fic that is Hyrule-centric for a secret santa. Hurt/comfort, but mostly fluff. 

3 Sentence Fics: Lots of short fics in one place, including LU, botw Zelink, and my own AUs!

The Many Duties of the Princesses Appointed Knight: Fluffy pre-calamity zelink hair braiding, not me basing a whole fic off of a vague idea... 

The Caretaker of Holy Things: OC fic made for a zelda creators collab, the Priestess of the Temple of Time remains at the great plateau while the calamity rages around her, unfortunately, she’s due to have visitors. 

Whumptober 2022:

Prompt 2: Nowhere to Run: Aryll from my priestesses AU meets the Fierce Deity for the first time.

Prompt 5: Hypothermia: Link and Zelda from my Golden Priestesses AU journey up to the Temple of Nayru to the spring of wisdom.

Prompt 9: Caught in the Storm: Zelda spends one hundred years fighting the calamity, even though he’s slumbering in the shrine of resurrection, Link still finds a way to help her keep her head above water.

Prompt 10: Whipping: Wild from my Fem!Wild AU has to reveal some things about her past after having a panic attack post-battle. Kind of a rewrite of part of the comic where Wild throws himself in front of Wind during a fight, you know the one. 

Prompt 15: Emotional Damage/ New Scars: Wild visits the forgotten temple after the events of LU, he mourns. 

Zelink Week 2023: 

Day 1: Yearning: All In Good Time: Fem! Zelink AU during the events of LU, Wild misses her Princess. 

Day 2: Forbidden: The Ballad of Frost and Flames: Fem!Zelink AU, pre-calamity while Link is still in hiding, they meet at a masquerade ball. 

Day 4: Hand in Hand: The Fable of the Dragon and the Phoenix: MAJOR TOTK SPOILERS, Zelda makes and eternal choice and Link learns to rise from the ashes.

Unpublished fics under the cut, please let me know if any of them interest you so I can prioritize what I should focus on writing!

Free to Hide: Zelda and Link attend a festival in disguises unbeknownst to each other and they end up spending the whole time together without knowing that there are eyes in the darkness watching them. Spy thriller/ romcom vibes. Also there’s gender stuff because Link wears a dress and Zelda is almost exclusively referred to with neutral pronouns.

The Last Champion: Wild gets all the champions abilities after their spirits move on, but in a more similar way to how they used them, mostly just Hyrule and him becoming magic buddies and Wild learns how to use his new magic abilities.

Between the Doors of Death: A mix of both LU and BOTW as it takes place while Wild is dead and he hangs out with his ghostly incarnations and dead family members. Lot’s of family headcanons and an appearance from the 10k hero.

No Goodbye is Forever: How the last day with the chain happens and everything after. Meeting up in the afterlife and a little bit of keeping Wild company during BOTW2.

Tainted Blood: Time, Twilight, and Wild are related. How they find out and how the magic that they used affects the bloodline. Malon as Malanya because I love the idea that she just turns into an eccentric horse god and was waiting for a child she had already met.

Son of the Storm: BOTW fic centered around Urbosa and Link because I love her and her mom energy is perfect. Definitely some gender stuff and found family vibes. Link deserves a mom and Urbosa saw this short blond child and didn’t even ask if anyone else was going to adopt him she just did it.

Hylia’s Chosen Children: BOTW Link and Zelda catch up on being shitty kids after the Calamity and preparing for it stole their childhoods from them. Pure fluff, let them be kids please. Lots of pranks and sleepovers with Riju and stuff like that. They’re both trying to learn how to be regular people without absolutely massive responsibilities.

The Bloodline of the Wolf: Similar to the one before as it’s focused on Time, Twilight, and Wild and how they’re biologically related but this one is more about their canon relationships and answering questions that the comic gave me. Like why only Twilight and Time know about Wild’s memories despite how we are to assume that the entire chain kind of came together at once, why them and all that.

When You Can’t Die: Wild and his strange relationship with death, as someone who has been resurrected countless times and literally cannot die. He still has the champions abilities and kind of forgets that it is very much not normal to die as much as he does.

What was Killed for Good: Wild and his struggle to be human, the shrine took more from him than his memories and replaced them with something else. He’s just very odd and the people around him notice more than he does. He doesn’t know what’s normal and he feels alienated because of how people react to him. He just wants to vibe in the woods and ride bears.

Breaking, Broken: You know how all the weapons in BOTW break and it’s super annoying? What if that was a curse and also applied to people? Anyway, Wild is touch starved and desperate not to accidentally hurt his friends. Fortunately, magic has loopholes.

A Strange Kind of Self Reflection: Wild has identity issues and gets stuck in beast form after catching Twilight’s Shadow crystal. I have the perfect idea for what animal he would be and you guys are not ready.

The Heroes Before: Pre-Calamity Link learns about his predecessors through artifacts and very old records in his attempt to prepare for Ganon’s return.

Damaged: Literally every Link is a little fucked up and this fic is an exploration about how it manifests.

Some Kind of Sauce: Wild Genderfluid fic featuring Lullaby/Sheik and sexism.

Age of Heroes: AOC but with the entire chain, idk, I don’t have much for this one other than wanting to have my own take on the trope.

Untitled fics ideas:

Kid!Wild series- Giving the child champions powers and accidentally touching the shadow crystal

Modern with magic AU

Wild gets sick and mistakes Four to be his long forgotten little sister

Pride fic

Gerudo Town fic

Masquerade Ball fic

Soulmate/ Soulmark fic

Cursed Animal fic

Superhero AU

Once Upon a Time AU (mostly in the way that it’s a mixture of a modern au and a fantasy world kind of thing)

Indiana Jones/ the Mummy AU: Zelink but Zelda is an archeologist and Link is an Adventurer/ Explorer type and they need each other but go from reluctant allies to lovers due to plot

BOTW roleswap AU: Prince Link and Champion Zelda, maybe I’ll add some trans vibes but who knows, not me

[wild-dagon]

Wild-dragon, some story ideas I'm writing about your au are as follows:

-Zelda will be the one who uses the master sword, because she wants to be the one who wields the weapon with which she kills the demon king, for all the damage he has done to her (destroying her kingdom, killing her people, the champions and her father and forcing his best friend Link to become a dragon), something the others understand. She can wield the sword because in Skyward Sword it is said that the goddess Hylia wielded the heavenly sword, since Zelda is a descendant of the mortal reincarnation of the goddess and her powers flow through her veins and the master sword is the improved heavenly sword, she can use it (plus in both games he has held the sword without any problem)

-When Link in the temple of time gives Zelda her oath (as Zelda did in canon), Zelda gains the ability to see spirits such as koloks, dragons, underground knights who give her weapons, poes, and the spirit. from Sonia who appears before her at that moment to help her control her time management powers.

-The chain can see the spirit dragon due to its connection to it, just like champions.

-Due to Ganondorf's attack in the final fight, Mineru's Golem is destroyed, so Mineru abandons the construction and gives Zelda his secret stone to use.

-Because Link is the spirit dragon, when Rauru, Sonia, and Mineru (who had joined in to help) combine their powers and channel them through Zelda's arm, the dragon causes a spiritual explosion that accidentally brought them back to life. the three of them (dressed of course).

-Link returned, but his body irreversibly changed to that of a dragon, similar to this image of Zelda looking like a dragon but being Link.

Okay first I love everything here.

My spirit dragon au and the Lu au are kinda separate in my head just because I’m trying not to overwhelm my brain with characters.

In the spirit dragon au Zelda is defiantly the one pulling the sword and fighting Ganondorf.

As far as the powers link gives her she can already see the Koroks according to AOC. But I love the idea of the solder spirits being part of the gift. Maybe it allows her to interact with spirits from the past. Maybe she doesn’t hear Sonia’s voice until after Link share his powers with her.

I do like that Sonia would then train her in her time magic so Zelda would still have the recall ability. But maybe Links gift spirit talk allowing her to see different spirits around the world who guided her and that she could call for aid.

Like not only are the soldiers in the depths able to provide her with weapons but they can direct her to places (like asking for hints in the game) or they can join her in her adventure. There cause some damage to enemies but dissipate after a hit or two.

Recall is helpful in both combat and world exploring and I’d want Link’s ability to be the same. This could also mean Zelda would see soldiers who served during the calamity. Which is a whole other level of trauma and closure.

In the LU version I know Twilight won the poll. Someone commented that it was a trick question and all nine hero’s pulled the blade together. But I had another thought about it that I didn’t share. When Twilight rushes up to be with Wild maybe it’s not just the chain that follows him maybe Flora does as well. Maybe she and Twilight draw the sword together. The two people closest to Wild. Maybe Flora just needed the support of someone who lost just as much as she did when learning the Wild became a dragon.

As far as Mineru, Sonia, and Rauru coming back to life. It would be very easy to spin it in the Spirit dragon au. (Honestly I still see Link as the Spirit dragon in both I just would spend less time with the champions in a LU take if that makes sense)

But back to the ancient royals. In the Spirit dragon Au. Maybe after the help Zelda bring Link back by increasing Zelda’s recall ability. After the land, after Link wakes up. Maybe he sense there Spirits near by and reaches out to them. The same way Zelda could reach out to spirit with his power. They think he’s trying to say good by so Rauru grabs his hand, and Link just yanks him back into the world of the living. He then turns away from his startled princess and the ancient king currently laying face down in the grass and hold his hand out with a cheeky smile asking the two ladies which would go next.

As for Link/Wild coming back with dragon autonomy. While the art is beautiful and I love when people talk about it. It’s not my cup of tea. But that’s okay.

Honestly I’m just putting ideas out into the world and I’m so glad people are latching onto them and playing with them.

This is free permission for anyone to take these ideas and run with them. Just let me know what you create so I can enjoy it to!!!

Thank you so much for telling all your ideas they are so fun and wonderful!!

[wild-dagon]

Wild-dragon, I realized that you have not released an official design of the spirit dragon Link, could you release a drawing or design of what it would look like?

I haven’t had a chance to draw it yet I have a few ideas. Maybe I’ll sit down allen work on it this weekend.

See I know a lot of people give dragon Link on big horn in front to match Farosh.

Which is great! I love the theming. However this can be a problem.

As when you ride Farosh his horn blocks you from getting to his head easily.

So there are some fixes to this. You can have the horn go more up then out if you want to do one horn but that not super aerodynamic.

If I was going to go with one horn I would model it after the horn on the front of the master cycle zero

Other solutions are doing more then one horn.

I know people like to link the Light dragon design to Naydra because of Zelda’s connection to the goddess of wisdom and the fact both horns are blue

But I think the light dragon is stylized enough that the two are very different and I want the Spirit dragon to be different from them.

Naydra, Dinraal, and the light dragon do have a good thing going for them though in that their foreheads are open.

I need the Spirit dragon’s forehead to be open

See who high up the master sword sits on the light dragons head. One big horn might get in the way.

So my other solutions are

1. Model the horns after the master sword cross guard.

Have them come out like wings and get thinker instead of thinner.

Or 2. my favorite idea

Ordon goat horns. Look how perfect they are.

I think these are my winner.

I’m not sure about color scheme. I will have to play with them.

I’m thinking about purple as that is the color of the spirit stone. Maybe dark purple scales with a light champion blue under belly. People would expect green for Link and the purple would be a way to disguise who the dragon was.

Also it give him the same color scheme as the master sword.

I could also do a green with a blue under belly

Or blue with a purple underbelly.

The crystals on the back I want to play with. Part of me is like “make it uniformed only do one color” and the other part is saying “alternate between red, yellow, green, and blue to represent the champions spirits being carried with Link.

Like I said I got a lot of ideas but no one design. Maybe I’ll draw some up this weekend. I’m not the best artist but I like trying my hand every now and then.

(I would also probable do a different design for the linked universe dragon wild idea I have going on)

[wild-dagon]

Well here he is colored

Pleas ignore my color testing at the top of the first page.

It’s not perfect but I’m happy with it.

Spirit Dragon Link

This follows the idea that Link went back in time and the sacred stone he record was the spirit stone.

I’m really proud of how the water colors turned out