#linked through the centuries

[carelessapples]

some heroes for @linked-through-the-centuries!!

[crazylittlejester]

Hey 👁️👁️

If you read this series about Mask/Time and Wars and liked it:

I wrote that!! And I’m doing my own Links Meet AU that you might also like if you liked that series, and it starts off with Wars and Mask :)

👉👈 you should totally maybe check it out if you’ve liked my other writing, that would be really cool

and if you have any questions or comments about the au, throw me an ask on the @linked-through-the-centuries sideblog i have :)

i am new to this and this is the first time ive ever tried something like this but i hope people like it👍

[linked-through-the-centuries]

Here’s a bit of an intro to the Links in this au!!

Feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions or wanna know more about any of them :)

Warriors (Hero of Warriors)

- He/Him, Asexual Biromantic

- 27 years old

- Games: Hyrule Warriors

- Good friends with his Zelda

- Not a real blond, dyes his hair regularly to keep up the appearance that he is. He has no one fooled

- Absolutely fantastic at doing eyeliner, everyone’s jealous

- Knows Mask and Tune from the War of Eras

- Natural born leader, acts a bit over the top to cover up insecurities

- Bad food anxiety from being poisoned a lot but he’s doing his best

Tears (Hero of the Wild)

- He/They, Bisexual

- 24 years old (124 years old)

- Games: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom

- Married to their Zelda (recently)

- Rebuilding Hyrule slowly after everything that’s happened

- Missing an arm, wears a prosthetic. Has startled several of the others by just removing it at random because they forget it’s a prosthetic sometimes

- Very friendly, selectively mute so they use sign to talk sometimes

Wolf/Twilight (Hero of Twilight)

- Currently stuck in wolf form so Tears just calls him Wolf because no one knows he’s a hylian, they just think he’s a really odd wolf. Will eventually be called Twilight once he can turn back into a hylian

- He/Him, Bisexual

- 24 years old

- Games: Twilight Princess

- Assisted Tears on their first journey when Tears was 17-18 and Wolf/Twilight was 23. He has been stuck as a wolf ever since

- Lives with Rusl and Uli, but has been missing for a whole year

- Quiet and anxious, incredibly loyal

Sky (Hero of the Skies)

- He/Him, Bisexual

- 22 years old

- Games: Skyward Sword

- Chronic pain, lightning scars (look up lichtenberg figure), tattoo of wings that wrap around his wrist in honor of his loftwing

- Plays his harp as a way to relax

- Very friendly and talkative. Good person to go to if you need a chat

Tune (Hero of the Winds)

- He/Him, Pansexual

- 19 years old

- Games: Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass

- Didn’t loose his eye, he just wears and eyepatch “for the aesthetic” (that’s his answer when people ask him why he wears it) but also so one of his eyes is always adjusted to being able to see in the dark so if he has to go below deck quickly for an emergency one of his eyes is well adjusted and he isn’t disoriented. His right eye is also extremely sensitive to light and the patch protects it

- Wears dark eyeliner under his eyes

- Curly, shoulder length hair that he ties up and has several small braids weaved into

- Knows Warriors and Mask from the War of Eras

- Very talkative, misses his boat

Hyrule (Hero of Hyrule)

- He/Him, Aro/Ace

- 18 years old

- Games: The Legend of Zelda, Adventure of Link

- Pretends to be a lot more shy and quiet than he really is

- Loves people but is very cautious around them

- Looks a bit frail because his clothes are a bit big for him, but is actually quite strong. He is not someone who should be underestimated

Past (Hero of Legend?)

- He/They, Pansexual

- 18 years old

- Games: A Link to the Past, A Link Between Worlds, Link’s Awakening, Edit: And the Oracles games

- Dyed Pink hair, has the longest hair of the whole group

- Happily lives with Ravio

- Loves apples

- Has a rabbit form he can shift into to squeeze into tight spaces

- Friendly but cautious, isn’t the most trusting

Calamity (Hero of the Calamity)

- He/Him/They/Them (usually prefers He/Him), Bisexual

- 18 years old

- Game: Age of Calamity

- Mute, doesn’t speak at all, only uses sign

- Doesn’t trust Tears at all, in fact at first Tears makes him extremely uncomfortable. Calamity makes Tears sad because they’re reminded of all the trauma the both of them went through, but Tears recognizes they’re two different people

- Looks up to Warriors a lot

- Very facially expressive

Mask (Hero of Time Masks)

- He/Him, Bisexual

- 17 years old (physically)

- Games: Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask

- Refuses to tell anyone his mental age, that’s between him and Hylia

- No one knows he is the Hero of Time, he’s scared to admit it because the others hold the Hero of Time up on a pedestal and he’s scared they’ll be disappointed to realize it’s him

- Has the Fierce Deity markings on one side of his face and one of his eyes is completely white but he can see out of both of them.

- Shy, quiet, reserved and mistrustful. Extreme abandonment issues have left him to expect everyone will leave. He only trusts Warriors and Tune, it takes him quite a long time to warm up to the others

Spirit (Spirit Tracks Link)

- He/Him, bisexual

- 16 years old

- Games: Spirit Tracks

- Friend of the birds

- Sees spirits and talks with them occasionally

- Absolute gremlin

Minish (Hero of the Four Sword)

- He/Him, straight

- 15 years old

- Games: Four Swords, Minish Cap

- Selectively mute, uses sign sometimes to communicate

- Very sweet, a little shy at first but quickly warms up to the others

- Misses his grandpa very much

- He and his Zelda are childhood friends

[skittlebugart]

This is based on @crazylittlejester's links meet au! It's super good :)

[fever-project]

Hee hoo @linked-through-the-centuries fan art. Saw Past’s outfit and I knew what must be done. I did add a few flourishes, since Jes said that they had a lot of jewelry and a cane. I’m putting my thoughts on these things under the cut, as well as Past without the jewelry and extra little embroidery.

I got inspired by the Cane of Somaria and Byrna, which are red and blue respectively, so naturally I had to give him a green cane that resembles those canes. Although it’s much taller than those and has thorns(?) that can act as handholds. I think. Idk I just thought it looked cool tbh. I tried to make it fancy but stuff like that isn’t really my strong suit. I was able to match the crystals on the cane with Past’s earrings though, so that’s a win. I did try to make it look magical but not have any real magic, and adding a big ol’ Pendant of Courage fits well enough in my eyes, since although it helps unlock the Master Sword, it doesn’t seem to have any magic of its own.

Now onto the jewelry! The earrings are made to match the cane and such, and the triangle necklace looks like the triforce! It also has silver tassels(I think that’s the right word)on the chain because I like it. Lastly, the pink pendant! I based it on the gem that’s on the Tri Suit from Triforce Heroes, because I love that game. Also, it’s pink, it fits.

I also think I should’ve redrawn the hair, but it looks good enough.

[daguerreotyping]

Ambrotype of a cute militiaman next door whose hat is as wild as his hair, 1860

[phoenixcatch7]

Something I love about the implications of the new ‘elemental’ weapons in totk is the idea that link is powering these things himself.

Like, in the first game the weapons were always on - they powered up whether they were being held or sheathed or even dropped. Give a monster a smack, drop it on the ground and it’ll light back up in a few seconds. Generally, this meant that link didn’t have magic, unlike other games in the series. Even the champion’s abilities were just that - the champion’s! He just indicated when to light it up!

But in totk it’s very different. Now, he’s crafting and powering his own gear. The gems were long theorised to be the main ingredient creating magic items, like elemental arrows or enchanted jewellery and armour, and now we have proof!! He’s even learned how to do it himself! Combining gems, or even monster parts to his weapons and lighting them up whenever he wants! Turns them on and off at will! He’s learned to channel magic sometime between botw and totk, something not all heroes learn to do! In fics he’s long been one of the few to have no magic talent whatsoever, and now that’s changed! Wild can officially join the ranks of the magic users!

There’s also the issue of where he learned it and who taught him, but the answer is pretty obvious, and speaks volumes of how far Zelda has come on her own journey. 

[wdymthisistaken]

Just some finger drawn memes for @crazylittlejester ‘s Link Meets AU!! (Check it out it’s really good)

[sisters-sideblog]

Minish Cap design is complete! She/her. An absolute gremlin of a child. Impossible to keep out of places and knows things you really wish she didn't.

[fragmentedblade]

Not to be a jingfu on main, but it's so cute that Jing Yuan thought of Fu Xuan with those jelly beans

[unproduciblesmackdown]

today days old faun/fauna same etymology (equivalent to pan roman god faunus &/or fauna)

[carelessapples]

even more links! ty @linked-through-the-centuries for letting me draw the blorbos again <3

[crazylittlejester]

“but Jes!! Jesse, you just made your own Links Meet Au, you have a series you haven’t updated in like two weeks, and two other muti chapter fics!”

AND?? I was ✨enabled✨by four different people to make another au and no one decided to stop me. who’s to say I can’t do it all at once??

*slams a modern au down on the table* I have a duty to inflict my wars angst upon the world and NO ONE can stop me *evil laugh* *crashing sounds* *cat shriek*

[linked-through-the-centuries]

I’m adding Spirit Tracks Link to the main group of Links!

He’s 16, he’s going to start of with Tune and Minish, and his starting item is the Lokomo Sword

I’m working on updating the character lists and descriptions so he’s on all the lists. I probably won’t be able to edit all of them, but definitely at least the pinned ones

[mothheart]

Rito village and gerudo town themes hit so hard when I first got to each in totk combined with the sheer devastation you're met with in both of them

[bijoumikhawal]

Mmmmm writing this story has just made me repeatedly run around the fact that there's no such thing as a pre-colonization way of writing about Copts even in fantasy