ok i want to preface this by saying i am so so sorry for bringing this up again but xx-dark-dart-xx tagged me and the bastard wheels in my brain started working, so.
Before I start, the main point I’m ultimately going to be getting at is that the same event (more or less) occurred twice on different platforms, about a month apart. Obviously the first incident (LU discord onceler day) would have affected the second incident (the tumblr one) to some degree, seeing as there are users on both platforms who happened to witness both events, but I digress.
Anyhow. I’m going to start first with the Link is a tumblr sexyman in the same way the Onceler was/is because that’s where it all started on your blog. While it started on the discord because of a few people just going feral over the onceler alone, we did have this:
It took Gabee about a week to come to the full conclusion afterwards, but the conclusion was reached nonetheless.
(I believe Gabee was discord jailed for saying it.)
So we have our two situations of Link being equated to the Onceler, both on Tumblr and on Discord.
Then we have the Onceler x Link fusions. On the discord, it was Warriors x Onceler (or Warceler), and was first brought up by Buck (Nebulapaws) as far as I’m aware.
(Side note, Buck, Gabee and I are a Trio™️ on the server and I regret to inform you that the three of us have a tendency to be caught in the middle of stuff like this a lot)
Keep in mind, Warceler was not initially intended as a ship! What was intended as the LU Discord ship was this:
And so we get into shipping, in true Onceler-esque fashion. (I would like to make it very clear that never on the Discord did we ship together any of the Links (Warceler Link included) with one another. It’s strictly prohibited there!)
And anyways I went to draw it because I enjoy creating bastard things, but went on autopilot and ended up with Wars instead. Which brings us to the Wars x Onceler art. I’m not going to post it because you’ve already had to see it once and that’s enough.
Coming back to Tumblr, on June 30th anon asked if you had seen the Wars x Onceler art. Prior to that date, I could find no other art of that besides my own (regrettably) and so i once again apologize for that aspect.
My final point is Shringler, or Shrek x Tingle x Onceler (thank you Chel), was more or less the discord’s version of Sans x Linkceler x Onceler on the basis of the following criteria:
1.) Was born of Link and Onceler chaos
2.) Includes three characters who have no business being near eachother
3.)The characters are ones with a reputation in the respective communities that is typically negative leaning and chaotic.
Now that I’m done I very much regret to say that there is basis to the “Link is the new Onceler” claim based on the fact that these two events occurred at least decently independent of one another and both came to similar conclusions. Anyways I was meant to be writing an essay for AP Lang but instead I’ve typed up this historical record of the Onceler Link incidents. I sincerely hope there isn’t a third one that’ll have to be added to this but so far our track record doesn’t look very good.
i've only just caught up on the onceler asks on your page and while i am utterly horrified and confused, i feel like i need to make the correction that, in fact, linked universe is closer to the rise of the brave tangled dragons crossover than the onceler tumblr sexyman
The oncelers weirdness was not in that he was a tumblr sexyman, it was in the unique fandom behavior around him. They created multiple versions of the same character, and then wrote them interacting. And then proceeded to ship them whether ethical or not. Ethics isnt part of the discussion here anyway, the fact is that it happens
And so i give you
We have fans more invested in our au creations than the source material,
We have crossover aus,
We have aus of aus,
Hell we even have the iconic ask blog aus
The only other character I can think of anything similar happening to is Sans from Undertale and the Undertale fandom has been slowly dying for a few years. But the Legend of Zelda fandom is very much not.
And thus the holy trinity of uniquely What The Fuck characters is
Hey there can I kindly ruin your day Link is the closest thing to the new onceler even without being a tumblr sexyman and i can explain would you like me to explain
i. hav eno idea how to react to that. i. s- sure??????????????????
Well, it was Nintendo who made all the Link's canonically different people making multiple versions of the same person they write stories about, and making alternate timelines for their games making them "Alternate Universes," so this onceler fandom is being driven by the big red plumber himself.
ASKDJFASDFH??? THE- THE ONE RESPONSIBLE OF THIS CHAOS-