#ancient zelink

[nocturnalfandomdoodles]

oh no! sick day! (ooc concepts part 7)

[cookie-nom-nom]

Their entire relationship

[snickerduu]

are you hurt anywhere?

2021.01.12

[michoodles]

Ancient Hero Au

I just read the fanfiction and i'm crazy with the plot of this Au ¡We need more cat things for Wild! i love how the chain described him as a big lion man and i wanned to draw him in that way ( I know that the zonai looks more like goats but let me cook ) HES A SILLY WILD CAT !!!

This Au belong to @tashacee in Ao3

[redundantz]

Ancient Loz AU Story

10,000 years before the events of BOTW the Princess of Hyrule and the Hero who wields the sword that seals the Darkness first fought off the Calamity. With the help of the Sheikah, Guardians, Champions and the Divine Beasts. However, the hero and her best friend; the Prince of the Gerudo, were now missing. The only one to return from the fight was the Princess… Bloodied and bruised. She emerged from the castle alone. No longer the energetic, and free spirited person she used to be. Now, she is filled with a sole dedication to her Kingdom. But cold, and filled with deep sorrow. She orders the Sheikah to create shrines to train the next hero.They prepare the towers, store the Guardians under the castle till they are needed. Research started on the slate where it can be used for building infrastructure and even battle. Anything to help prepare for another Calamity.

The Gerudo Prince wasn't seen again and the heroes identity was forgotten But, the Royal blood of Hylia lives on….

Link is from a traveling caravan. His family has blood from the ancient Zonai tribe. He travels with a decent size troupe along with his sister, father and grandmother.

He meets Zelda during a festival where he was entering an archery contest in castletown. Zelda, who was disguised as Sheik, was also entering. She beat him at the contest(barely), but was extremely bothered by how good he was.

The festival goes on for about 3 days and at the end there is the sword ceremony where all the people coming of age(18) can attempt to pull the sword. She was presiding over it and witnessed him pull the sword and his whole life change. Not long after they meet officially and Link is appointed as her Knight; She introduces him to Ganondorf, her best friend from childhood.

And the chaos and comrade-ere ensues~

Over 3 years they travel, train, fall in love and wait for the day when the evil is supposed to show itself. With no sign of the great evil, they start to relax a bit. But that is when it strikes. Ganon travelling by himself at this time. Explores a cave in the Gerudo desert and encounters something ominous. Whispers in the dark speak to him and his fears and wants and his distaste for the King of Hyrule…. The voice is familiar, much too familiar, and before he can fight back it consumes him. When he awakes he is alone. He isn't instantly ‘evil’ but over time it twists his thoughts and actions. His closest friends and mother grow concerned. He becomes harsher and radical. Cruel. During a secret meeting with the King, Ganon assassinates him. Zelda happens upon Ganon covered in blood. She thinks he's hurt and is concerned by his behavior the past year. He snaps. He tells her every dark thing he has been thinking, and that he killed her father. In shock, and devastated, she can’t move as Ganon is about to strike her. But Link manages to get to her in time because the master sword was glowing, something he has never seen before but an instinct so old took over him. He races to escape with her. Ganon takes over the castle. But only as a steward because the King and the Princess are nowhere to be found. No one is the wiser to his malevolent plots. Yet. He knows she has to act fast since Zelda and Link escaped.

Zelda and Link make it all the way to Kakariko Village and Impa and they are all Informed that the Calamity is upon them. No one can believe it is their Ganondorf who is doing this but it is undeniable. They grieve, but they must act fast. With the help of the Sheikah they gather the guardians, monks and send word to the Races and Champions to prepare for battle. Zelda listens as Link hums an old Zonai Lullaby his mother used to sing to him. And it makes her remember something she read about. A story about there being an ancient Zonai device below the castle that would help defeat the Demon King.

Impa knows the tunnels She can help them sneak in. So they prepare to infiltrate the castle.

Under the castle they find the Zonai Artifacts that were left behind for sealing the great evil.

Ganon's followers saw them enter however and informed him. Knowing this is his chance he stops all pretenses and releases his power. Unleashing a mob of monsters and a cloud of malace into the castle and across Hyrule. But the Champions and Shekah are prepared to meet them.

Looking around for any clue. Trying to think of anything they read or that Link heard from his family that could be used to turn on the sealing jewelry. They don’t know how to activate it, but Ganon is going to be upon them soon as they had to fight through hordes of monsters beforehand.

Out of the dark behind them he emerges.

Zelda and Link manage to avoid the surprise attack. They both go on the defensive. They fight and try to reason with him. They can’t believe this is their friend, their lover. The fight is tough, because they all know each other's moves after training together for years along with the emotional turmoil. Zelda tells Link he needs to figure out how to activate the artifact if they are to succeed. She will hold him off. But by this point they are both exhausted.

Ganon manages to cut Link, spraying blood over the floor and the statue. Link falls to the floor and Ganon towers over him ready to strike him down, but Zelda blasts him away. Ganon turns his attention to her. Annoyed with her meddling and manages to land a blow on her also. Cutting the tip of her right ear off.

The statue lights up from the blood. The blood of a zonai. That  was another part of the Lullaby from Links family Zelda realizes. The Jewelry glows and expands before flying off the wrists of the statue to Link. He is surrounded by a green glowing light that blasts Ganon and Zelda back. The bands constrict around his arms and legs disintegrating the clothing underneath. He screams. Zelda watches on in horror as Link transforms before her. His skin is turning black and his bones and skin stretch until he is 6 ft tall. What did she get him into? This was supposed to help them what was happening… She is living in a nightmare. What else will she have to give up. She cries as she looks at him, feeling his pain and fear. His hair band she had given him falls from his hair. Rolling across the floor towards her. “..Zelda….” He says 

She picks up the hair band and goes to him! But he is not really responding. He is restrained and struggling within himself. His head is filled with the spirits of the Zonai he knows what he must do…he knows this is the last time he will see Zelda and Ganon. To seal the Demon King he must sacrifice himself. He says the last part of the Lullaby to Zelda and she knows. This is it. She kisses him. Though a bit strange now that he's so tall and his lips are cold. Ganon is getting up across the cavern from them, laughing. He mocks them and their weak attempts at thwarting him. One last clash. Zelda manages to get his weapon from him and Link plunges his arm into Ganons chest activating the sealing power. Glowing green. They both freeze in place and all is quiet. Entombed under the castle. The malice and monsters disappear. Zelda cautiously goes up to them. She doesn't touch them lest she break the spell somehow. The only thing she does is grab the hair bangle that fell to the floor in the final fight. It was the one from Ganon’s hair. And she left for the surface.

Alone.

Thanks for Reading! <3

[ness-illustration]

I think I’ve seen this film before…

[colgeras]

i wonder if zelda brought back little pieces of ancient hyrule with her. her cadence shifting slightly to that of sonia’s or mineru’s. her looking up when someone speaks to her, almost expecting her gaze to be met by the towering figure of a zonai. small behavioural shifts subtle enough to only be recognised by her appointed knight, slight changes in wardrobe and quiet hums of songs link cant quite recognise. how quickly did they accept zelda into their culture, and how much of it lives on through her?

[writingnocturne]

From This Life to the Next

Ancient words tell me we were destined to meet.

For eternity, our souls are bound; yet this life feels as though it is the only world.

I know not what fate I have set for myself, but the sacrifice must be made.

It is my mission for your tears to fade.

Recalling something you once said to me, I promise we shall meet again.

In another life, our hands shall touch.

If battle awaits, even still, I will accept it.

Just as you protect them all, I will fight for you.

This is one of my contributions to @zelinkcommunity's Zelink Week 2023! Day Six: In Another Life

I did something a bit different for today! I figured every memory that for the prompt was a little too spoiler-y, so I did whatever this is instead. Remember to check out all the other great work posted for today!

{ For this week, I have been posting a little peek at art/writing for memories in Call of the Forgotten, a TotK rewrite I am working on (there will obviously be direct and indirect spoilers for TotK). They follow the Ancient Hero and Princess during the time of the First Great Calamity. If you haven't given them a look yet, I recommend doing so! }

Art Information: (Check out my art blog @nocturnalfandomartist!)

Thank you for reading! Check out the first concept doodles of the First Calamity here! Obviously, this is all very incomplete; but most is planned out thoroughly! If you have questions, just ask!

Program: Ibis Paint X

Time Elapsed: 3 hours, 33 minutes

[nocturnalfandomartist]

Ancient Zelda and Link

Sooo TotK was great and I loved it and then I got to thinking... What if the Ancient Zelda who faced the Calamity 10k years ago was the daughter or Rauru and Sonia, facing the aftershock of The Imprisoning War? I have a whole Ao3 work in progress about this... But here's some doodles of what I mean! Sneak peek!! These are all from the past month.

Time Elapsed: 3 hours, 21 minutes; 43 minutes; 1 hour; 2 hours, 28 minutes

Program: Ibis Paint X

If you clicked Read More, I guess that means you're interested! These designs and their storylines will be used for Call of the Forgotten (A TotK rewrite that follows if Zelda hadn't been sent back in time) on Ao3 (linked below). However, I will be posting sneak peeks of their Memories here for @zelinkcommunity's Zelink Week this year, in ONLY A COUPLE OF WEEKS! Everyone has great stuff in progress, be sure to check it out!!!

Edit: Find the exerpts at @writingnocturne!

Call of the Forgotten on Ao3:

Reblogging is fine, but please don't post this anywhere else without linking the original post. Thanks!

[hyruleairbnb]

I’m all heading into Zora may but how could I never have drawn this little fella

[zeldaseyebrows]

Some ancient princess and hero designs based on the botw tapestry 

(In that pose from botw because I apparently like pain)

[nocturnalfandomdoodles]

and what if she had short hair (ooc concepts part 8)

[montydragon]

I think Zonai possibly had different features across different individuals (like Zora or Rito) and the ancient hero's lineage was leonine, with him being a hylian/zonai hybrid. basically:

Hylia's specialest little kitty cat

[cookie-nom-nom]

It is Link’s sworn duty to locate ancient awe-inspiring relics from thousands of years ago brimming with history and potential, and then to break these ancient potteries so that Zelda can put them back together like little jigsaw puzzles. It’s enrichment for her archeology hyperfixation.

[okaytokay369]

link and zelda are the quintessential "fuck around and find out" power couple bc link will fuck around with any device he can and zelda will happily record the consequences of his actions for science

[mudwisard]

zelink shippers are so boring when they look at the text and go 'they are in love with each other'. like, yes but we knew that already. the fact that they are in love is not even close to the top of the list of reasons why their relationship is so cool. get a grip