#wink waker link

[ladye-zelda]

Oooh fun! How about the word 'pearl'?

-Sky Floor

After so many months, Link had finally found it.

It was slimy to the touch, covered in deep green sea moss as he pulled it out of the pool. It’s size was perfect enough to be held in his hand comfortably enough, which made it even more special. He took out his special knife from his back sheath, scraping the slimy stuff off it’s shell, revealing the intricate patterns of deep blue and purples. An oyster.

Using his knife again, he cut along the ribbed edges of the oyster, trying to pry it’s mouth open. It was quite a stubborn bloke, but Link wasn’t about to give up either. It had been the first oyster he had seen in a long time, right when he had decided it. He couldn’t wait for the next opportunity, if there was one.

After much prying and praying, up until he thought his knife blade was going to break, the oyster relented. With a snap, the mouth was open.

And right hidden in it’s center was what he was looking for. A pearl.

Link took the pearl from its mouth, tossing the oyster aside. It was perfect. More than perfect. He saw his own reflection in the milky texture of the smooth object, colors of blue and pink shining off of it’s surface. It was a lot smaller than the pearl his grandmother had been buried with, but it would do it’s job just as well.

He curled his fingers around the sphere, holding it close to his chest. Only one more thing to do now.

———

“What is so important that you have to drag me out here for?” Tetra chuckled, allowing Link to guide her down the beach. “And what is with this blindfold?”

“You’ll see,” Link said, watching the sun slowly sink over the horizon. His heart was thumping inside of his throat, his brain yelling at him to turn back now and wait until another day to try this again. But when would be the next opportunity.

“Okay,:” Link said, stopping. He let go of Tetra’s hand, taking the blindfold off of his captain.

Tetra blinked a few times, before looking around. Her gaze caught the sunset, and she gasped slightly.

“This island has the most beautiful sunsets,” Link said. “I thought you would’ve liked to see it.”

An eruption of orange filled the sky. The sun hovered just above the ocean’s waters, sending glittering lights reflecting from the choppy surface. It’s waning light casted everything in a golden glow, sending off an explosion of magic and color before it was to disappear beyond the waves.

“There’s… something else.” Link began to lower himself to the glowing golden sand, swallowing down the nausea threatening to escape. Well, here goes nothing.

Tetra broke her contact with the sunset to look down at him confused, but her eyes widened when she saw what he was doing. He held out his hand, offering the pearl that he had gathered earlier that week. “Tetra, goddess of the ocean,” he said, “Pirate Queen of the Great Seas, captain of the Loreley, will you do me the honors and marry me?”

Tetra looked down at the pearl, her wide eyes glistening from tears that had begun to sprung up. “About time you asked, chu chu head!” Tetra tackled Link into the sand, both laughing and crying from joy.

[theeultimatelifeform]

Yippee!

[rockingthegraveyard]

I think Link should have been able to just throw hands in the Forsaken Fortress. If any any Link would have been down to slap the shit out monsters, it would be Wind Waker Link.

Look at him.

That’s the face of a child who's ready to tear down this fortress with his bare hands. 

Wind Waker Link is definitely a child whose first choice is always violence. 

[linkedspirit-fanartfunart]

[Image Description: A colored line-up of various Legend of Zelda characters for the Linked Spirit AU. The characters read left-to-right: "Marin, she/her, pre-Hyule Warriors" is a young redhead girl with a purple cloak and maroon and white dress. She has her hands politely held in front of her. "Groose, he/him, Skyward Sword" is a redheaded man with his hands on his hips, wearing a blue tunic and a green caplet. "Greg Moblin, he/him, LoZ 1" is a large gold bulldog like moblin holding a flower in his hands. He wears a red shirt and pants, with a green poncho. "Purah, she/her, Breath of the Wild" a young teenager wearing a black poofy skirt and a tan shirt and coat with red accents. She has a red streak in her white hair, posing with her hand next to her face. "Tulin, he/him, Breath of the Wild" is a pullet age white Rito with one arm as a wing and the other arm ends with a Wind Waker style hand and wing 'sleeve' "Aror, he/him, Twilight Princess, Crossbow Training" is a child Twili oc with red hair and wears a green over the shoulder wrap over a white tunic. "Midna, she/her, Twilight Princess" is a older Twili, with long fluffy ears wearing a black and teal collared cape, She wears a dark purple skirt with a grey fur trim and a wolf head belt clip on the side of her hip. "Medli, she/her, Wind Waker" is a teenaged white Rito, her red hair in a ponytail. She holds a hand to her chest. "Aryll, she/her, Wind Waker" is a young teen with her hand raised excitedly. She wears a purple skirt with a skull pattern, and a blue shirt with flower patterns. She has the Wind Waker's starter sail wrapped around her waist. "Ol' Niko, he/him, Wind Waker, Spirit Tracks" is an elderly man, smiling with his hands on his cane. He wears a red and white stripped shirt with a blue vest. "Gulley, he/him, A Link Between Worlds" is a blond child wearing Link's Cap and a matching green vest over his yellow tunic. He has his hands on his hips. "Ravio, he/him, A Link to the Past, A Link Between Worlds" is a teenager with dark hair that fades into light blue. He waves, winking, wearing a floor length purple robe and dark purple blue. "Grandpa Smith, he/him, Minish Cap, Four Swords Adventures" is a greying beared man, drying his hands on a cloth. He wears a long leather apron over his green tunic, and wears a green bandana. "Skull Kid, he/him, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask" is a Skull Kid wearing a orange hat and tunic, with green shorts, collar, and gloves. He has a v like mark on his forehead. He holds up a horned skull mask in front of him. "Lady Alma, she/her, Wand of Gamelon" is a young woman with short red hair and a tiara. She raises a hand to her chin dantily, wearing a teal shirt and darker teal skirt. End ID]

A few "NPCs"

I can't say ALL of them will make an appearance in the comic, actually, but these are NPCs that are important to the Links, in one way or another, while also having a few significant design differences from canon (thus why no Linebeck or spryte lol.)

[ganymedesclock]

What is your favorite incarnation of Princess Zelda in the whole franchise?

This is a little tricky to say, because I'll be honest; one thing I tend to do is take characters like Link and Zelda as kind of cumulative? Every version of Zelda has relevance and every version of Link has relevance to each other.

(this is why I can never get my brain around Linked Universe, though absolutely no ill will to those who create and enjoy it)

But all that said I'll stop waffling and point to Tetra from Wind Waker, and Breath of the Wild's Zelda, for very different reasons. I think this is in no small amount because for me, they are the First and Last Zeldas- at least, as of this writing. Wind Waker was the very first Zelda title I ever played, which makes it more formative for me than the deservedly iconic Ocarina of Time- I encountered OoT as an adult after having grown up with hours and hours of Wind Waker.

Tetra is, IMO, one of the most proactive Zeldas we get in the series. Even if she's a child, she seems more worldly and mature than even some of the young adult Zeldas. I love that cheeky wink that she has and I'd adore it to come back as a character quirk for Zelda, though I understand why not; ever since Twilight Princess we've had a run of Zeldas who pretty clearly haven't felt much like winking.

Tetra manages to be a spitfire without hitting too many "stereotypical girlboss" type qualities; she doesn't feel like she's proving anything about how a girl can fight or whatever. She's a powerful, authoritative leader; we watch her quickly and decisively make plans, and I feel like she sort of sets the prototype for the canny, calculating ally we get in Twilight Princess in Midna (who is, to this day, my all-time favorite Buddy Character)

The scene in the bomb shop where Tetra spots Link but pretends she didn't is a standout favorite, as is the conversation she has with him right before Helmaroc drops in- specifically, when she says, "don't you have something else to worry about?" and points upward. Tetra's casual relationship with danger, and her obvious astuteness and intensity is great. I like that she doesn't really feel like our friend until we've earned it- the same qualities that make her a good leader also make her kind of scary and aloof. Again, she feels like the prototype for Midna in a lot of ways and Midna's the only helper who has an unapologetically selfish agenda.

I don't think it's a good thing to just, bully Link (because he takes a lot of crap from his co-stars) but it's nice to feel like someone is actively setting standards with Link that he has to live up to.

Tetra feels like she's using that aspect of Wisdom for her own designs, and until Link earns her trust, it'll actually work against him. Even if their goals are similar enough they don't really compete, if not for the curse Tetra would absolutely have made good on her word and blasted the back off Outset Island and demanded Nayru's Pearl for herself.

Which makes it brutal when Tetra absolutely gets the knees kicked out from under her by the revelation of- almost literally- the one piece of wisdom she couldn't have. The smart, seafaring tough girl is completely laid low by the revelation she "is Zelda" and has to be "as Zelda" and it takes the entire second act of the game and a kidnapping for her to rebuild that confidence.

It's why I always felt deeply disturbed by Spirit Tracks Zelda and how she's scared of rats and so obviously sheltered, has been led to believe that it's "a family tradition" for Zelda to wait passively for the hero as if her own grandmother only waited because she was forced to, and regretted it the second she got her feet back under her. It feels like Cole's manipulations, or, worse, that Tetra's children betrayed what she stood for and things only even worked out as well as they could because despite everything, Cole couldn't completely crush Zelda's spirit.

And speaking of crushed spirits...

BotW Zelda is just about the opposite in every way. While she's no less intelligent than Tetra, she's running in survival mode. And that, I think, is the kicker- I don't think any version of Zelda is stupid. I think many of them are just doing the best they can with a horrible situation.

BotW Zelda lived most of her life in futility. The brilliance that makes Tetra a shrewd, calculating person is reflected here in the most destructive way possible. I'm endlessly haunted by the cutscene of her standing at one of the shrines, musing in frustration that there has to be some kind of backdoor, there always is- a cutscene we only see after we know that Ganondorf was able to level Hyrule in this game because of the existence of that exact backdoor.

Zelda reached out and knocked on the walls of Ganon's prison long before he ever moved to attack, and thought nothing of it, because she is just a stupid girl who can't do anything right.

Where Skyward Sword Zelda is broken by the memory of Hylia, and how Hylia does not appear to have perceived any meaningful distinction in where she ended and Zelda began, BotW Zelda yearns for that cruelty. She begs the statue of Hylia to at least "tell [her] what's wrong with [her]", while being brutally cut down by her father at every single turn.

(Sorry, Rhoam. Whatever your intentions or fears, what you did to your daughter was abuse, flat-out)

If Tetra knows exactly who she is until the floor is dropped out from underneath her, BotW Zelda is the opposite; she spends so long mired in doubts and misery that the ultimate culmination of her power is the saddest possible epiphany- it's just being in so much of a crisis that nothing she does matters anymore. It's the soul equivalent of hysteric strength and I cannot begin to imagine the muscles she tore within herself to maintain that for a hundred years.

And even then, it's clear in her telepathic communications to Link she is still so sorry, still feeling so pathetic and helpless. Swimming in the Malaise, seemingly largely without lucidity, she might as well still be kneeling in a shrine begging a stone to talk to her; just instead of a statue, she's across from a screaming, wrathful, self-ascended god not speaking any language she understands.

But when I say "I think Zelda is cumulative" it's with the fact of, no matter how different Tetra and Zelda seem from each other... Tetra would make so much sense to BotW's Zelda. Everything Zelda wishes she was- such a badass you don't even take a lack of power for granted. There IS a backdoor, and it's called having a fuck-off galleon with big old fuck-off guns and a bunch of burly men who will heed your word. Despite being "a nobody" who forgot her royal lineage entirely to survive, Tetra rules like a queen on the high seas- besides the ghost ship and a few sunken wrecks we don't see a boat anywhere near the size of Tetra's pirate vessel and a portrait in Hyrule Castle unsubtly paints her crew as directly analogous to the retainers and court that her ancient ancestor commanded. She fearlessly requisitions one of the most expensive shops on Windfall Island and faces no consequences.

If Ganondorf pities her, it's that she's the queen of such a small, empty world- subtextually threaded into his comments to Link, how much he sees himself in both of them at that point, as he was also once the highly-skilled sovereign of a wasteland that hampered his ambitions like a tiger in a cage.

BotW and Wind Waker are both apocalypses, but they seem to reflect different forms of apocalypse. Wind Waker is an apocalypse of clarity, arguably; Tetra is nearly a fully-actualized Wisdom Bearer and one of the most bold and powerful Zeldas despite a lack of holy magic- she quite frankly doesn't need it, and uses the light arrows Link himself acquired elsewhere. The sacred regalia is just another treasure to plunder from a blind ocean. More than in any other game, Ganondorf speaks to Link and Tetra, and explains who he is- and wonders who they are, even in anger. Before the final fight, he even expresses a willingness to leave them alone if he's able to restore Hyrule- a pretty strong statement considering his curse voiced in OoT and echoed (preempted?) by Demise in Skyward Sword. There was so much clarity at the antediluvian end that the cycle very nearly stopped there, with the end of Ganondorf's anger.

BotW, despite being a fuller, more 'flourishing' world in all ways- the bounty of Hyrule's landscape even in decline is a direct contrast to the fishless Great Sea- is an apocalypse of amnesia. Zelda doesn't know who she is. She has no foundation to operate with confidence on. It's not a lack of intelligence, and it's not a lack of skill, and it's not a lack of craftsmanship. It's some intangible thing that she grapples furiously with and even at the end of the game she tiredly communicates that she has no control over it, and calling it once in a blind panic that somehow lasted a century without aging her means nothing- that power vanished and left her just where she started.

She remains a flower that can't be saved, such that the only thing that can be done for it is abandon it and hope, which is exactly what happened during the calamity. And yes, that flower was strong enough... but at what cost? It came with no understanding. Ganondorf is absent for BotW, acting by proxy from somewhere deep underground. We are faced with distorted, faceless echoes of Ganondorf, the Calamity and Blights, shadows in the water, and his thinking and his motives are completely ambiguous. With the name of the triforce being seemingly forgotten entirely in BotW, all of its bearers are lost in different ways:

The identity, autonomy, personality, of the bearer of Power has been buried and subsumed such that his blood boils out of cracks in the rock screaming that it will not be subjugated but the contents of his words are lost.

The bearer of Courage fatally overtaxes himself, because in a do-or-die moment he dies anyway, and cannot accept it, surviving at the cost of almost everything else that matters. At the end of it all, the person he spent everything to save timidly asks him if he even remembers who she is.

And the bearer of Wisdom, thwarted by an inability to put the pieces together, not because she's any stupider or weaker than her predecessors but because so much of the puzzle has been destroyed she can't know what's missing. Who knows, Zelda! Maybe, like Tetra, you have only half of the triforce of wisdom and should be tearing all over creation looking for small golden triangles! You can't know that, because you don't seem to know what the triforce is anymore or what that light in your hand means!

[skyward-floored]

Febuwhump day 14 - captivity

THIS IS REALLY DUMB I don’t think it even counts as whump it’s just silly but my brain is just fried so anjfdfhddghjk

Spirit is spirit tracks Link, Windy is wind waker/phantom hourglass, and Hue is a link between worlds/Tri force heroes

Minor blood warning, but it’s really not much :)

Courage of ages explanation

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“Sir?”

“Spirit for the love of Jabun quit calling me that.”

Spirit let out a nervous laugh. “Sorry si— um, Windy. Do you... know what they’re going to do to us?”

Windy sighed, and rested his head against the cold stone behind him, chain rattling where it was hooked around his wrist.

“No, I don’t know. Nothing good though I’m betting.”

Spirit frowned, and looked down at his own wrist, an identical chain locked around it. He tugged it a little, a thoughtful look on his face, and Windy looked down at his own, wishing he’d managed to hold onto the lock pick he kept in his sleeve.

The Yiga had been thorough though, stripping him and Spirit of all of their possessions before throwing them in the cold stone cell. Windy had heard them muttering something about “moving them to base”, but he hadn’t caught any more before they’d left, and he knew he and Spirit needed to get out before they were moved.

Or they likely wouldn’t be able to get out.

“Got any ideas?” he asked the younger boy next to him, and Spirit shrugged, shivering a little. The Yiga had taken his bandana, and he looked somewhat cold without it.

“Well... we need to get these off obviously,” Spirit said, jingling his manacle. “They don’t look too well made, but I don’t if we can break them without any tools. And there’s nothing here to pick the locks either,” he sighed, and Windy groaned.

“Tell me about it. They took my good lock pick too, that thing was hard to get my hands on,” he huffed. “And going to be a pain in the butt to replace.”

“Well then... how are we gonna get out, sir?” Spirit asked, and Windy gave him a flat look.

“What did I say about the sirs?”

“Sorry.”

“Anyway, I don’t know how we’re gonna get out, but we’ll think of something,” Windy reassured, fiddling with his chain again. “Maybe some of the links are weaker than the others, and we can just break them?”

Spirit shrugged and began to mess with his chain, thumbing along the metal links before letting out a small snicker.

Windy raised an eyebrow, and Spirit cleared his throat.

“Uh, just um... Links.”

He snickered again, and Windy laughed along with him as they continued to fiddle with the chains, a somewhat comfortable silence falling between them.

Time crawled by, neither of them sure of how long it had been since they’d landed in here. Windy couldn’t help wishing Sprite was here; he didn’t want him captured obviously, but he’d at least be able to tell them how long it had been. The cell was windowless, and no natural light shone down the hall either, so they had no way of knowing.

The uncertainty of their situation was setting in again the longer they sat there, and Windy fidgeted endlessly with the manacle clamped around his wrist, worry gnawing at his stomach. He didn’t know what would happen to them, and though he was well aware Spirit could handle himself, he couldn’t help but worry how he was going to keep him safe.

He was mulling all of this over for the third time when Spirit’s voice interrupted his thoughts, and he looked up at the younger boy.

“Sorry, what did you say?”

“Oh, I was wondering if... do you think the others’ll find us?” Spirit asked, his voice quiet.

Windy immediately nodded, nudging his side and giving him a reassuring grin.

“For sure. We’ve got like, three trackers in our group, they’ll find us. I mean, if we don’t get out of here first anyway,” he said with a wink. “I bet Gloam is already on our trail.”

“And worried out of his mind,” Spirit added with a little smile, looking better as he leaned against the wall.

Windy grinned back and was about to reply, but the door suddenly rattled, and they both froze and looked over at it.

The door rattled again, and opened to reveal two Yiga standing in the doorway, which Windy promptly glared at. They completely ignored him though, and instead threw something inside the cell without further ado.

Except it wasn’t a thing at all, it was Hue, and Windy lurched forward as his fellow hero hit the ground with a small grunt.

“Hue!” Spirit said in shock, but he didn’t seem to hear him, barely moving even when the yiga that had thrown him in laughed and slammed the door behind them.

Windy pulled himself as far forwards as he could to where Hue had landed, giving him a nudge with his toe. The green-haired hero groaned, then raised his head after a few more pokes from Windy, looking around in confusion for a couple moments.

“Hue are you okay?!” Spirit frantically asked, and Hue merely blinked at him.

“Hue, hey Link, are you okay?” Windy asked as well, worry tightening around his throat. Hue stared at him for a few seconds, blood trickling down his temple and confusion in his eyes.

Then he startled and sat up, wincing a bit at the abrupt movement.

“Windy! Spirit! I found you!” he exclaimed, and Spirit frowned.

“Well yeah, but now you’re stuck in here,” he pointed out, and Hue drooped a little.

“Oh. Yeah. Well, the others were close by, they’ll notice I’m gone soon I bet,” he said brightly, then winced and put a hand to his forehead. “Ow.”

“What did they do to you?” Windy asked, and Hue slid next to him when he motioned him over.

“Ah... they kinda snuck up on me while I was looking for you guys. Think they tried to knock me unconscious, but they sort of missed and just nicked me a little, enough that they were able to grab me,” he mumbled, sounding a little embarrassed. “It’s not that ba— ow!”

Windy had prodded the side of his head where the blood was thickest, and Hue lurched backwards, giving him an annoyed look.

“What was that for? I said it wasn’t that bad!”

“The blood all over the side of your head kinda makes me want to disagree with you on that,” Windy drawled, giving him a poke. “Plus the fact that you got thrown in here and didn’t move or recognize us for a solid thirty seconds.”

“Does he have a concussion?” Spirit said worriedly, and Hue let out a huff.

“Peu importe I’m fine,” he grumbled, and Windy ignored him, pulling his head down so it was resting on his lap.

“Well whether you’re fine or not, I think you should take it easy just in case,” he said amicably. “Even if it’s not a concussion, you were obviously bleeding a fair amount.”

Hue let out a long sigh. “Fiiiiine.”

Hue was obviously annoyed he’d been caught, so Windy simply began to braid a bit of his hair, the other boy slowly relaxing but as he worked. Spirit slid closer to the two of them, and they sat together in silence again for a bit, Windy worrying at the blood caked in Hue’s hair.

“How’s everyone else?” Spirit piped up eventually. “Are they coming?”

Hue waved his hand in a so-so manner. “I mean... yes? We’ve been looking for you guys all day, but I guess I’m the only one who went in the right direction since I’m the only one the Yiga grabbed. Unless... they’re about to toss someone else in here!”

They all turned to look at the door, and several moments of silence went by.

“...okay never mind.”

“All right, so we can’t necessarily count on the others,” Windy said thoughtfully, rubbing a hand on his chin. “They’re close though at least. We’ll just have to get out ourselves.”

“But we’ve tried everything, there’s no way out of here except the door,” Spirit frowned, then jingled the chain around his wrist. “And these aren’t coming loose so we can’t even get there to try and get it open.”

Windy sighed, resigning himself to another several uncertain hours stuck in here, but Hue abruptly sat up, startling him as he excitedly held out his wrists.

That didn’t have any chains clamped around them.

Windy stared, hope returning in his chest as a grin stretched across his face. If Hue wasn’t chained up, he might be able to get them out of their chains, and the next time the Yiga came in the cell...

“They forget to chain me up,” Hue said with no small amount of glee, and Spirit’s face lit up. Hue flashed the both of them a bright smile, and Windy returned it.

“We’re getting out of here guys.”

[risingsouls]

[I don't have any more lizards in my inbox (but feel free to send more with a topic WINK), but, since some LoZ frands have found this shit show and I've been doing a few more strictly LoZ threads, I've just been thinking about Nabooru's roots again. So I'm going to take the time to gush about the thoughts I've been having about her of late.

As a disclaimer, this all is based in canon with a sprinkling of my own hcs, but I will never not be slightly disappointed about how little they do with Nabooru. Not necessarily in just like not giving her screen time or what have you (which IS a shame but I get it; minor/secondary(?) character), but like with the very unique position she's in during the events of OoT. Unlike the others who are awakened as Sages, Nabooru absolutely has ties to Ganondorf, the man they're meant to help Zelda and Link defeat. Even on just the very basic level of they're both Gerudo and he's the king of their tribe. As a Gerudo herself, there HAS to be some inner conflict there, even if she hated him from the moment she laid eyes on him for whatever reason (which I don't think is the case and I'll get into in a minute), and she never comes off as power hungry or particularly self-serving herself, which puts a fork in ideas of her happily opposing Ganondorf to take over the tribe herself imo. I would have loved to see that play out in more than just a small, uncertain comment about how she never expected someone like her to become a Sage which can MAYBE be interpreted as her status as a Gerudo with any perceived loyalty, whether truly there in any degree or not, could awaken as someone meant to help destroy the king of her people. It's an ambiguous line which I can appreciate to some degree, but I would have loved even a few lines of hard cut dialogue that showed the unique position she was in compared to the other Sages (which I'll probably discuss a little more in depth, too. Maybe).

Honestly, everything canon about Nabooru is fascinating, but there's so little to go on it's almost maddening. One thing that I really find interesting and is one of the reasons I feel Nabooru and Ganondorf DID have at least a mutual trust in each other is simply this: Nabooru was the second in command of the Gerudo. The next in charge behind Ganondorf. Now, I personally don't see Ganondorf as the type to allow his second to be someone he can't trust, and I'm more inclined to believe that the king (or leader) chooses their second in command. I could be wrong, but it makes the most sense to me and, therefore, Ganondorf wouldn't choose someone he didn't trust to stand in his stead when he was absent or be anywhere near a position to make decisions for the tribe. And the same idea can be extended to Nabooru: I don't see her accepting a position standing as someone's second if she didn't trust or believe in them. We see that she is principled and has a sense of honor, almost a code, it seems. I mean, when you first meet her, she talks about Ganondorf killing people and how she doesn't agree with it. So it's hard for me to believe that she would agree to such a position no matter how it was decided if she didn't have faith in Ganondorf as king.

Which brings me to my next point: perceptions. What characters say, what we see and don't, etc. As a whole, thr Gerudo seem to support Ganondorf. As in, it does not seem he's disliked in the tribe. I don't think it goes as far as "worshipping him like a god" as I think it's a gossip stone claims, but I think he is well-respected as their king. Maybe that's indoctrination and fear. Maybe it's they just really don't know what he's been up to outside of the desert (initially, at least; i have ideas on how maybe they were kept in the dark post pulling the master sword when shit went bad BUT its nothing im settled on), which is more what I lean toward considering what Wind Waker suggests concerning his initial motives at least. But I don't think any Gerudo you speak with says an ill word about him. They don't express any concern for what's happening outside of Hyrule, suggesting either complacency with it or, again, ignorance of the scope, perhaps. It's really hard to say for sure, but they definitely don't seem to hate it or Ganondorf (even if, after taking over Hyrule, it doesn't look like he's used his position to help his people which is ANOTHER fascinating conversation I think but).

But then we get to Nabooru and where things with not only the overall situation with the Gerudo gets interesting but for Nabooru herself it's intriguing. When you first meet Nabooru, she vehemently claims to hate Ganondorf and has vowed to disrupt his plans (and take all the treasure in the temple which is...weird but I guess they wanted to play up the thief part more). But what might be even more interesting is that she calls herself a lone wolf thief. This comes just after we learned that she's the second in command of the Gerudo, a position that shoud presumably be VERY tied to the Gerudo tribe as a whole which feels really incompatible by definition? Like maybe when it comes to thieving she's a lone wolf but I don't know. That feels weird and flimsy? But either way, when you think about it, it has you wondering what the truth is and has you questioning the reliability of our "narrator" so to speak. Why would Aveil (for lack of a canon name I think I just use her MM counterparts name) call Nabooru the second in command when Nabooru claims herself a lone wolf? What does this conflicting information mean?

For me, it shows just how complicated Nabooru's character and position is. It also reveals that it's very likely Nabooru didn't ALWAYS hold the same, vitriolic stance on Ganondorf as she does when we meet her in-game as in the past. Or even if she does so passionately despise Ganondorf as much as she claims to. Since Aveil, who I believe is said to be acting as Nabooru's second in command since SHE was also gone, calls Nabooru the second in command to Ganondorf, I'm more willing to give this credence over Nabooru's claim first because Aveil has no reason to say that unless it was the truth. She gains nothing from giving Nabooru's rank (or lack thereof, perhaps), let alone lying about it. So, we're left with option one which is Nabooru "lied" about being a lone wolf. I can see her doing this since she is trying to get Link to help her, and when she asks if Link is a spy or whatever, iirc to continue the conversation you have to say you hate Ganondorf. Thus, it would make sense that she might want to distance herself from Ganondorf and even the Gerudo, considering how they're viewed in Hyrule as a whole and she even outright SAYS shes not like Ganondorf, to help convince him to help her.

Or there's option two: something happened in private that got her demoted, but the rest of the tribe wasn't privy to the change in her rank for whatever reason, whether that be because it was VERY recent or they were intentionally kept in the dark about it. Or maybe exile, considering it very likely was related to Ganondorf's plans concerning Hyrule. I have more heacanons about this, and that it was actually Nabooru presenting Ganondorf with an ultimatum of basically "You either cut the shit with Hyrule or I walk" sort of thing and it ends up a self-exile sort of thing that, again, no one had been told about yet for whatever reason. And tbh I think these two ideas are both true to some degree: I personally think Nabooru does do a little fast talking with Link to ensure he does what she wants as well as something did happen between her and Ganondorf that had her making the final decision to stop him him VERY close to when Link meets her in the Spirit Temple. My guess is there was likely a breakdown of trust between them and, when Nabooru learned the scope of what he was up to, she decided she couldn't stand by him any longer.

Which now brings us to the feels part. A second in command of any kind of group should be passionate about their mission and the people they help lead. Nabooru is no exception to this. I hc that, though she never particularly strived for a high rank or political position, she always wanted to help her people work toward bettering their lives. To get them to a point of prosperity where they didn't have to do whatever it took just to survive. Being a warrior and then becoming part of the Elite helped her do that, and she was content there, but she took her position as second in command seriously because she knew she was in a prime position to really try and make things happen for the Gerudo. As I said, I feel she had to have trusted Ganondorf, but I take as far as she admired him and his ambition, passion, and drive toward achieving their like goals of helping the Gerudo (which I do think he had initially going off of what he says in WW). She wanted to help Ganondorf, she wanted to trust him and help lead the Gerudo to the best life they could have. And I think she knew about his quest for the Triforce fairly early on, and probably protested him chasing what she saw as mere myth for, at first, more practical reasons like needing to focus on the there and then, the concrete things they could manage and fix and better rather than on fairytales that might lead to nothing. She also felt that something sacred to the HYLIANS from THEIR gods wasn't meant for them, anyway, if it existed at all. This is where things probably started to break down between them, but they still managed to work together because it was demanded of them both abroad and at home, and until Nabooru learned of just how far he was going to obtain the Triforce, she didn't do much more than argue with him about it, her biggest concern being how the Gerudo as a whole could get pulled into his plots no matter how he tried to keep them uninvolved. She knew the animosity toward the Gerudo in Hyrule, how plenty were likely looking for the smallest excuse to declare war on them again, and she didn't feel the myth was worth the risk. That they should better the lives of their people through their own power, resilience, and creativity (especially if Hyrule wasn't keen on helping them in even the smallest ways) than through some magic relic that might not exist. However, once she heard the rumors of what he had done to the Deku Tree and Jabu Jabu and his attack on the Gorons to get the spiritual stones, she couldn't stand by him any longer. She could not support someone not only willing to threaten and kill innocent people for his own gain, but also that he completely disregarded how it could potentially harm their people, successful or not. She basically then has to make the decision to commit treason, to betray not only her king and a man she trusted, but also the people she loved and would do anything to save. In her mind, stopping Ganondorf saved them and, when every effort she made all the way up to an ultimatum didn't sway him, she felt she had no choice but to act.

Not to mention I imagine she also saw him change significantly as the draw to power became all the more encompassing which would also break her heart and HURT. But yeah. I could go on but I'm about to leave work SO. Basically, I think exploring this even a little would have made for an interesting side narrative in OoT and would give more umph to the sort of standing up for what's right theme they had going there because internal conflict. Nabooru is slept on and it's a crime.]

[thelinkconvention]

an introductory post to the mods and our cast

hey! mod kiwi here, and welcome the link convention! every week, the links from different timelines meet up at one spot to hang out and cause chaos for a day. this idea sparked one day from a convo i had with mod xy about how the links would simply be silent if they ever met up, and now we’ve got a whole crack au going!

but anyway, here is the cast (subject to modification):

(*not yet included in the refs: spirit! he’ll come soon i swear... after school ends... and totk comes out the gang to get a fresh coat of paint)

folk and lank are actually two ocs of ours, so we decided to add them into the chaos as well. as of this post’s publish date, im actually working on the cover art for folk’s au but i got distracted with another project. you can probably guess what lmao

and a disclaimer: not every single hero in the zelda series will be present here! we are only working with the ones we know best, but the cast can change based on the games that i decide to watch in the future.

this blog is just here to store any funny comics or ideas that we potentially come up with. (asks are open as well, if this account happens to gain any traction)

this is NOT linked universe, so please do not tag it as such!

[chemmerson]

was adorable wind waker plush link from target an impulsive decision? yes. was it a good decision nonetheless? absolutely.

[telemna-hyelle]

A Happy Birthday Fic for Wind Waker: “If Boats Could Talk”

--they would give love advice, apparently. 

“What should I write for WW’s birthday?” I asked

“Zelink fics are your go-to, so that’s always a good bet,” said Kiwi. 

And so I did

and then angst happened whoops

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Wind Waker! Here’s to many more!

Link let out a heaving sigh, face twisting up into a scowl.

The prow of his boat twisted around a little to get a good look at him. “What is the matter, young Link?”

Link felt his scowl deepen. “I don’t understand Tetra.”

The King of Red Lions gave the hero a long look, before rumbling out a chuckle. “And what is so hard to understand about her?”

Link sent his boat a disbelieving look. “She shoots people through the air with catapults. Who does that?”

The King let out a louder, barking laugh. “I remember a story of an ancient hero who traveled through the air with catapults.”

Link made a face. “What kinda weirdo would do that willingly?”

The King laughed again. “Well, putting catapults—”

“AND INNOCENT VICTIMS-“

“And innocent victims aside,” The boat said, “Is there anything else confusing about Tetra?”

“Yeah!” Link adjusted the sails and frowned as he thought. “She acts all tough, but she’s actually-you know, not bad on the inside? Like she was worried and stuff about Outset, and I could swear she keeps trying to help me but she just won’t do it outright!” He flung his hands in the air, warming to his subject. “Like she let me take those bombs, and let me get a head start! And she keeps winking at me, and it makes my chest feel all funn—”

He slapped a hand over his mouth. Crapbaskets. I didn’t mean to say that bit!

The King twisted his head back to give Link another slow, long look. “Do other things Tetra does make you feel funny, as well?”

If Link were honest, yes. When she smiled (any of her smiles, really, but particularly her nicest ones, where she’s just happy and not all smirky and the like), or her voice coming through the communication stone, or when the sun made her hair extra shiny and pretty—

But Link wasn’t going to tell the King of Red Lions any of that, not for a silver rupee.

The King of Red Lions seemed to be able to read his thoughts, anyway, and let out a final amused huff. “Somehow, I’m not too surprised—” and what was that supposed to mean, Link wondered sourly, “But you’re a bit young yet to make much of it. If you still feel this way when you’re older, come back and we’ll talk about it then.”

“What does being older have to do with it?” Link made a face, sticking out his tongue. “And I don’t want to talk about it!”

“As you please,” The Boat rumbled. “But I shall always be ready to listen, no matter the subject.”

“Well, it’s not gonna happen.” Link retorted, and slouched down into a pout against the side. “Tetra’s confusing, and that’s that. No more talk needed.”

The King of Red Lions chuckled and turned his head forward again, letting his young captain stew in silence.

(He hadn’t always been a boat, after all, and he remembered what he had been like back then. What’s more, he remembered the ancient stories, and had a firm suspicion just as to how this particular tale would be told)

~~~

“Well, I’m older now.” Link said, folding his long legs up so he’d fit better on the bench. “And I still feel the same way. So I’m here for our talk.”

He leaned back, propping his elbows on the gunwale. “I’d be put out about how easily she affects me, but she complains all the time about how unfair the affect I have on her is, so I guess we’re even.” He snickered.

The King of Red Lions bobbed gently on the waves.

“I got her a ring. Well. I stole it. From an enemy pirate ship, cause I thought she’d appreciate that the most.” He tipped his head back, letting the sun warm his face and the familiar sea breezes tug playfully at his hair. “Nothing but the best for Her Majesty, Queen Tetra Zelda Nohansen Hyrule I.”

He nudged the gunwale with his elbow and winked. “She stole the Nohansen from you, and said she was a Pirate Queen, after all. But I know you wouldn’t mind, anyway.”

He carefully adjusted the sails, making sure they didn’t stray off course. It was only the work of a moment, however, and when it was done he let his hands emptily fall to his lap.

“I wish…”

He gulped, hard, and told himself the salt stinging his eyes was from the wind. “I wish I could hear you say ‘I told you so’.”

The waves hushed softly against the hull, and the eyes of the lion’s head stared off into nothing.

Link stood up, and carefully moved to the front of the ship, laying his hand gently across the old, weathered wood of the prow.

“You promised you’d always be ready to listen, and I’m holding you to that,” He said, and grinned. It was a little sharp and forced at first, but as the seconds slipped by it settled, growing firmer and lighter and more real. “So listen up. I asked her to marry me yesterday.”

By this time, his smile was shining like the sun. “And she said yes. So I guess I’m going to be a King, just like you.”

He patted the wood fondly, his mind back on a voyage in the past, the voyage of a boy and his boat. “I never would have expected this—but I bet you did, didn’t you?”

A sudden buffet of wind struck the prow, causing it to creak and groan a little with age—and if Link closed his eyes and listened closely, it was almost like he could hear the King of Red Lions laughing again.

So Link laughed with him, and lifted his head, and joined the King in his stare straight ahead, towards a wide, welcoming horizon.

[chill-zelda-person]

in ur signing hc i saw that wind is not actually apart of the reincarnation cycle and u said that there was a lot to back this up so i was wondering on what the evidence u have were

ALRIGHT HERE WE GO:

Evidence 1: In Wind’s timeline, the Hero of Time was removed from the timeline.

Zelda sends Link into Child Timeline at the end of OoT, after this Wink Waker takes place. In sending Link back to the Child Timeline, Zelda creates a timeline (the Adult Timeline) in which Link, the spirit of courage, does not exist. As evidence to support this, Ganondorf actually returns in between OoT and WW, and as Wind Waker says: “The Hero did not appear.” SINCE WHEN?? Since when did Ganondorf revive/reincarnate without Link reincarnating along side him to combat him? That’s because there is no spirit of courage in the Adult Timeline to reincarnate. (Thanks Zelda)

Evidence 2: Wind’s situation as "Link" is very different.

Like, Link has a sister. Again, SINCE WHEN? Any time Link has any relatives, it’s always either only a grandfather or uncle, always. One older male relative. In Wink Waker his Grandmother and Sister are still present. Also, Link is not trying to save Zelda or even bring peace to the Great Sea. He just wants to rescue his sister. Very peculiar.

Evidence 3: The Master sword is… wonky?

It looks strange to say the least. Go look it up! The end of the handle is very large and there is a strange symbol in the middle.

If that’s not enough for you, this is what the “Master Sword” from WW looks like when Link first draws it from the pedestal.

??? You learn later that it needs to be powered up in order for it to obtain it's darkness repeling power. And how to do you power up your blade? The blessings of two sages. …*ahem* SINCE WHEN?? I know you can to power it up in Breath of the Wild but that's not necessary, doesn’t change what it looks like and doesn't require the prayers of sages! But here’s the real kicker. You wanna know who tells you the Master Sword is powerless? It’s Ganondorf, right? He says: “Go back to the world below, and tell that to the pathetic fools who made this blade!” And um… which group of people made the Master Sword? The Master Sword was forged from the goddess sword which the goddesses created. Now I highly doubt Ganondorf, who has been shown to respect Hyrule’s deities, would call the goddesses pathetic fools. Now these points raise a very plausible idea that this Master Sword could be a new one, a recreation. And that would be why Link is 12 years old when he successfully pulls the sword, not 16, like everyone else.

Evidence 4: He had to find each and every bit of the Triforce of Courage himself.

The Triforce of Courage was split into pieces following Time's departure, and it didn't come to rest in Wind after he did some great feat or when he needed it most. No it didn't recognize him. He had to really prove himself worthy of the relic by finding it by his own hand. ...SINCE WHEN??

I really think this is strong evidence that Wind was not directly a reincarnation of the spirit of the hero. He was just some kid on an island who happened to be named Link.

If you want a video, this guy makes a pretty good and similar case in his video (he's actually the reason I believe this theory!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qco3aBhSaJA

[sreyesm]

LoZ: 35º Aniversario

Por el 35º cumpleaños de la saga The Legend Of Zelda, quiero contar cómo conocí esta hermosa saga y cómo consiguió ser una de mis favoritas.

Cuando tenía unos 11-12 años (años 1998-1999), mis padres conocieron a una búlgara a la que ayudaron en todos los sentidos. El verano de ese año, me sentía algo triste y vagaba por la calle sola y de noche (*). ¿Por qué estaba triste? Porque estaba en un momento muy sensible, en que mis padres estaban muy mal y ya pensando en separarse. En algún momento de mi paseo, vi a esta mujer con la Game Boy Color, viciándose a un juego. Le pregunté por éste y ella me dijo que era Zelda y que lo probase, que estaba muy bien. 

Me lo llevé a casa y me lo quedé durante unos días. La primera vez que lo encendí, vi el título y era LoZ Link’s Awakening Dx.

Me pareció super interesante y empecé a jugar. Sinceramente no entendía nada de los textos ya que estaban completamente en inglés y prácticamente tenía que tener diccionario en mano y traducir palabra por palabra para enterarme de algo. Además, tengo que reconocer que al principio fui la típica que pensó que Link se llamaba Zelda... aunque después descubrí que estaba equivocada al saber que el prota se llamaba precisamente así: Link. Me quedé toa loca xD

Avancé hasta el tercer o cuarto instrumento, conocí algún que otro personaje de Mario como Chain Chomp y me acostumbré a perder el miedo a juegos a que se debe “luchar” con un arma (acostumbrada a Pokémon y a Sonic, pues manejar espada y escudo era algo más atrevido y desconocido para mí). También pude ver, por primera vez, el rostro de Link.

Lo vi tan, pero tan tierno... Qué lástima que no tenía la GB Print, que sino hubiera imprimido todas las fotos que conseguí en ese momento.

En el año 2001, cuando Sonic iba a aparecer, por primera vez, en una consola de Nintendo (Sonic Adventure 2 para Gamecube), compré la revista Nintendo Acción donde salía Sonic y creo que fue en esa revista dónde vi noticias de los nuevos juegos de Zelda: Oracle of Ages y Seasons.

Ahí, por primera vez, conocí a Zelda (y me pareció preciosa, aparte ya entendí porqué Link la nombra al principio de Awakening) y vi otros art de Link en esos próximos juegos de Game Boy Color. Obviamente quería los juegos pero en ese entonces no pude tenerlos. 

Al tener 17-18 años (2004-2005), conocí la existencia del emulador de Nintendo 64 gracias a mi hermano (que también tenía el de PlayStation y se descargó, por aquel entonces, Final Fantasy IX por Emule y tardó una semana) y de algún modo conocí Zelda Ocarina of Time; seguramente fue por Nintendo Acción o viendo los juegos por descarga de alguna web. 

Obviamente empecé a jugar y me enamoré: me enamoré del juego, del argumento y cómo no, de Link. Cuando vi a Link adulto... OMG. Qué preciosidad de hombre y cuánta sensualidad junta. Me terminé el juego completamente y, sinceramente, nunca quise que se acabara. Creo que en el mismo día, vi el ending como 3-4 veces. En este juego también empecé a notar cierto romance entre Link y Zelda (que luego confirmé cuando conseguí el manga oficial en el 2008), por lo que me hice fan de este shipping.

Después de Ocarina, me pasé Majora’s Mask en el mismo emulador. Desde entonces, me volví fan, no he perdido el ojo a esta gran saga y conforme fui consiguiendo emuladores y consolas de Nintendo, iba jugando más juegos. De momento sólo he jugado al 100%: Link Awakening (emulador), Minish Cap (consola), Ocarina of Time (emulador), Majora’s Mask (emulador), Twilight Princess (emulador) y Breath of the Wild (consola). Aún me faltan, mínimamente: Wink Waker, Skyward Sword, A Link between Worlds (lo tengo para consola, me falta pasármelo) y A Link to the Past.

Tampoco me pierdo los mangas, obviamente xD y gracias a éstos, puedo creer que Zelink existe, es oficial y sutilmente aceptado por Nintendo, aunque todavía no sea canon ni haya sido confirmado por éste. 

Y bueno, así es como pasó todo. 

Siento el retraso de esta publicación, pero mejor tarde que nunca ;D

Esta publicación estará también estará en mi blog.

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*No te alarmes, era principios de Septiembre y en plena fiestas de mi pueblo (ex pueblo, actualmente) y cualquier niño de mi edad podía ir solo sin problema alguno en esos años aunque fuera de noche, ya que tanto los padres como los hijos sabían dónde reencontrarse. 

[scatterpatter]

I have not played LoZ in the longest of times BUT I can tell you Windwaker and Majora’s Mask will always be in my heart. I played that on the GameCube as a kid. Never finished it because I was like 6 but damn if I could play it again I could make 6 year old me scream in joy

OOOOOOGH WIND WAKER AND MAJORAS MASK ARE SOO GOOD... Wink Waker Link is honestly one of my fav Links because he's just got so much personality

[linkedspirit-fanartfunart]

[Image Description: 4 panels of lineart drawings of the Linked Spirit AU. Panel 1: Wind is close to how he appears in Hyrule Warriors, rasing the Wind Waker dramatically, summoning a strong wind. Panel 2: HW Link raises their sword, hair and scarf flying in the wind dramatically. Wind his seen hiding behind a tree, leaning to look at them. A group of soldiers look on. Panel 3: Link looks over their shoulder with a wink and a thumbs up behind their back, while Wind gives a thumbs up back. The onlooking group raises their arms. Panel 4: Link's scarf smacks them in the face with a "SLAP" as the wind seems to change direction. "Ahahaha" Wind laughs, crossing his arms over his chest. End ID]

HWinks and those dang scarves huh?

[islamicbiotic]

I’m almost done with Wind Waker, and my only true gripe is Tetra getting her Zelda-memories back.

Tetra was fun! She had the exact level of douche as a good Pokémon rival. She had that weird anime wink where she closes one eye but her face doesn’t scrunch up down pat, and it would totally be a her move to tell Link “Smell ya later!”

Plus, if WW Link is the long-lost descendant of Ocarina-Link, then... wouldn’t it also make sense that Tetra would be the descendant of Zelda instead of being the real McCoy?

[gottagobuycheese]

Tag Thingy

Thanks @silent--sonata for indulging my terrible sleeping habits XD

(fyi this will probably be unnecessarily long and rambly, so it’s going under a cut (EDIT: whelp the song list got a little out of hand, I’d apologize if I were even remotely sorry)) 

Rules: Answer 17 questions & tag 17 people you want to get to know better  

Nickname: Cheese (or Lactose Wedge, or Dairy Product of Unspecified Origin and Purpose)

Zodiac Sign: Gemini! 

Height: 160.5 cm/5′3″ (Bubbles I refuse to believe you’re actually that much taller than me) 

Hogwarts house: Somewhere between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff allegedly, both of which I’d be honored to get sorted into, but honestly I’d just be stoked to get sorted at all 

Last thing I googled: I think it was something along the lines of “how to speed up audio playback in GarageBand,” but but my train of thought was derailed before I actually looked at any of the results so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (and on a related note, thanks again for the magical audio editing @imperiousheiress!)

Song stuck in my head: The end credits to Legacy of the Wizard (which is SUCH a jam, thank you for enlightening me @jessicafish) Following and followers: 227 (goodness just looking at that number is stress-inducing) and...104?! When the HECK did you all get here??? I think just last summer I was happily floating about in the 50′s. Anyways, to anyone I have not said hello, hello! Hope you enjoy your stay, and I am sincerely sorry if you expected Quality Original Content, or even just regularly scheduled other people’s content. Sadly, neither of these things tend to happen here. 

Amount I sleep: During the school year it’s usually anywhere between 30 minutes and 6 hours (DON’T EVEN START BUBBLES YOU HAVE NO RIGHT), usually landing in the 3/4 hour ranges if I’m smart about it, but now that I am on Unofficial Break, it’s usually at least around 6 hours (except today was 3 because Avatar is an excellent show and the weirdos in this house have regularly scheduled breakfast at 9-something every morning). Sadly my sleep schedule can only be forced to tolerate normalcy for so long before careening back in the other direction, so we’ll see if this is just a blip or if we’re back to normal mid-Atlantic Ocean hours!

Lucky number(s): I wouldn’t say these are necessarily favorite numbers, but I do like 2 and 9. But come to think of it, second attempts at Official Things do tend to go better for me than first attempts, so maybe there’s some merit there after all! Dream Job: Don’t think I’m really cut out for dreaming anymore, haha (unless you are a theoretical future employer in which case I am Extremely Full of Ambition and Passion). The bed-adjacent metaphor has been made, and not to brag, but I can sleep on pretty much any surface. Currently studying my Not Favorite aspect of STEM (was there ever a favorite or did I just like being good at things sometimes) and learning how to People™ properly (and also learning a gazillion convoluted drug names like what the heck dude, did you just fall asleep on your typewriter coming up with these), so I’ll take whatever place hires me and pays me enough not to depend on my parents for everything, I suppose. In an ideal world, that would entail a job where I could make friends, and even more importantly, a job where my shortcomings would not cause Massive and Irreparable Harm, but I don’t think this line of work really meshes with that last one, so I guess I’ll either have to get my shit together™ extremely soon or fake my death, adopt an alias, and flee to a completely new place with no ties whatsoever before trying to get another, less high stakes job. 

(Though I guess, less cynically, I like helping people well enough? And stories are fun! Maybe there could’ve been something with that. Not that there still can’t be, mind, but there’s still a long way to go between Here and There)

Wearing: Black shorts. Navy t-shirt. Brown some-specific-kind-of-jacket-I-forgot-the-name-of jacket. Is it summer? Is it fall? Am I in middle school? Who can say, but they are COMFY so sadly I have no cares to give

Favourite song(s): way way WAY too many to list here, and I do not have them all organized in a handy playlist separately, but to name a few (and these are not necessarily the MOST favorite okay, it doesn’t mean I don’t love stuff not on this list, it means you can’t force me to pick between my children and I am going to find at least one quick thing from a few things I like before I need to hit post and go back to looking like I’m being studious, and also things I think you should listen to right now, but for everything I’ve linked assuming I mean the whole OST), here’s a spam of links in no particular order: 

LoZ Wind Waker - The Great Sea (aka the epitome of optimism) 

Undertale - NGAHHH!! (I was about to link more but then I realized it’d be the whole soundtrack lol) 

LoZ Breath of the Wild - Hateno Village (Night) 

A:tLA - Peace (bad call BAD CALL NOW I HAVE EMOTIONS) 

Legend of Korra - Final Scene/Ending Theme (MISTAKES WERE MADE MISTAKES WERE MADE) 

Kung Fu Panda - Oogway Ascends (I feel like I’m taking you on a whole little album journey now XD) 

PMD: Explorers of Sky - Dialga’s Fight to the Finish (aka the Gotta Shower Fast song) 

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Pursuit ~ Cornered (aka the HURRY UP AND PACK UR SHIT YOUR FLIGHT LEAVES IN THREE HOURS song) 

Apollo Justice: A New Trial Is In Session (very underrated soundtrack imo) and also Apollo Justice: Telling the Truth (because these two are very closely associated in my head and it’s getting harder and harder to narrow things down so maybe I should stop lol) 

Your Name: Katawaredoki (in which I am forcibly thrown heart first into the bedroom of my second apartment at approximately 12-something A.M.) 

Digimon Adventure 01: Butterfly (MASSIVE 90′s childhood anime feels, and also Last Summer Before Everything Went to Shit feels (on a general scale I mean, not personal)) 

Pokémon: Lugia’s Song multitrack cover by Jordan Moore (would that I could have a talent of that musical talent) 

Pokémon the First Movie: Tears of Life (great now I’m on a Pokémon music spiral GUESS IT’S CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA HOURS NOW) 

PMD: Blue Rescue Team - Farewell and Run Away/Fugitives (you CANNOT make me choose between these guys okay, my brain WILL explode, and whoops now I want to link the whole ost) 

Palette by A Dear Friend (wink wonk) 

Pokémon: Alpha Sapphire - Fortree City (wow talk about mood whiplash)

Detective Conan: Main Theme (I can’t find the specific version since there are so many, but it’s a Good Theme) 

Super Smash Bros.: Brawl - Opening Theme 

Pokémon Colosseum - Relic Forest 

Song for Lindsay by Andrew Boysen Jr. (oh great now it’s time for marching band feelings I guess)

Mt. Everest by Rossano Galante 

Deltarune - Field of Hopes and Dreams and A Town Called Hometown (orchestrated) (aka the Lots of Work To Do song) and You Can Always Come Home and Don’t Forget (hey guess what I wrote a bunch of fake extra verses for) (also it looks my pathetic attempts at narrowing things down are getting even more pathetic so I’ll wrap up soon XD) 

 Guild Wars 2 - Fear Not This Night (never actually played this myself but my friend got me addicted to the music) 

Lord of the Rings - May It Be (Enya) (aaaand now I miss choir, THANKS BUBBLES) 

Lion King - Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Multilingual) by Travys Kim (aka how I remembered how fun these things are) 

Original Song by Anonymous  

(The urge to add all the other songs I’m not adding is so strong but I’ve got so much work to do so just assume I mean all Nintendo music from any game I’ve played, all Ghibli movie music, every musical I’ve ever heard, and even more) 

Random fact:

Apparently as early as the 17th century, you could guess that a child would have a shortened life span if their foreheads tasted salty. Yes, there is a specific reason, and yes, you may already know what it is, and thankfully no, that life span projection no longer holds true, assuming access to Modern Medicine! 

Favourite Authors: Okay I have not read enough various books of enough various authors to be able to answer this, so I’m just gonna go with a few books instead. They are not necessarily all-time favorites, but I enjoyed reading them very much at the time and more often than not go back to them for comfort reads: The Martian, any of first three Harry Potter books, and The Rise of Kiyoshi. (That last one’s not really a comfort read but I am drowning in Loving Kiyoshi juice so here we are)

Favourite Animal Noises: Certain kinds of birds (UNLESS it’s some ungodly hour of the morning and you’re trying to sleep)? Ooh, and crickets! 

Aesthetic: A slob, but like...a comfy slob. An incredibly disorganized hermit who is happy to mill about in the uncontrolled entropy. (Are we talking about what aesthetic I give off, or what I like to look at, visually? Because I like space, and water, and mountains, and forests, and forests ON mountains, OOH and forests on mountains at night where you can see space, perhaps reflected in a body of water. Or just water, idk. Different things are pretty to look at at different times)

WELL THAT ONLY TOOK FOREVER SORRY FOR THE OBSCENE LENGTH 

@pachelbelsheadcanon @averybritishbumblebee @shingeki-no-korra @sailorlock @yeswevegotavideo @soultheta @queenerdloser @ifeelbetterer @rogueofdragons @peppervl @amadness2method @mutalune and anybody else who wants to do this! This isn’t seventeen, and I don’t know if any of you have already done it/been tagged, but I hear people moving around upstairs so that means this break is over XD. And ABSOLUTELY no pressure to actually do this, this is pretty much just me wishing you well! (and YOU of course, my dear reader! I hope everything’s going all right, or if it’s not, that it does soon)