#The Soldiers of Hyrule

[anxioussailorsoldier]

captain link!! (introduced back in this comic but more info in tags)

#captain link #loz #oc #linksona #leeroy #so cap is a loz OC not a linksona like leeroy #he's captain of the hylian royal guard and trains up soldiers #I've rp'd as him for many AUs and tens of thousands of words #and im struggling with condensing how much love I have for this character into a short description #the love of HIS life is the most beautiful man in hyrule called nereus #and they're couple goals #hhhh cap..........CAP......... #ummmmm he is stern and behaves like a grumpy old man a lot of the time and has an old knee injury that still bothers him #but he is a huge softie and a great teacher and so so caring #also serves up bde and daddy vibes

[blueskittlesart]

can we talk about how rauru is literally like. just zelda’s dad. like in that one scene where zelda looks like she’s gravely contemplating turning into a dragon and then rauru goes “i believe the answer lies in more research and understanding your power!” and she looks at him with such shock and awe. zelda’s adventures in the past are literally like her life but with a better dad. the queen promises her to help her figure out her power but dies before they can figure out a way how to use that power to safely save everyone. zelda desperately wants to help everyone and is clearly feeling the pressure of it all and the king is the one to tell her “hey i understand how hard you’re trying and how much you want to save everyone and we’re thankful for what you’re doing”. rauru actually acknowledges zelda’s dedication and the importance of research and technology, he is kind to her and never blames her for any of the bad things happening. he also never pushes zelda to make sacrifices and is the one sacrificing himself in the end - in botw, all the champions and zelda have to choose to make sacrifices to save the kingdom, but in totk rauru doesn’t ask that of any of the sages, instead recognizing his own responsibility as king and basically dying to save his kingdom. he’s literally zelda’s better dad.

same anon as the one raving about rauru also the differences between how the two kings treat link. they’re both tutorial figures but the way they guide is SO different. pretty much the first thing rhoam does is lie and pretend to be a random old man, being quite annoying as he sends link to do a bunch of challenges for a paraglider. the framing is so fundamentally different, rauru freely offers the information he has to link upfront, he apologises for the body modification, acknowledging link’s potential distress. rhoam basically keeps link on the plateau arbitrarily, presenting giving items and teaching link about things as challenges for link to overcome. rauru on the other hand aids link as best he can, tells him what he needs to do from the beginning (tells him to open the door which is pretty much the last thing he’ll need to do in the tutorial, telling him about the ultimate goal from the beginning), proposes solutions when it doesn’t work out (directs him to the shrines as a way to help him gain the strength he needs, as opposed to making him complete challenges to get a paraglider that in the moment seems like literally arbitrary conditions). rhoam telling link how much responsibility and pressure he has on him all of a sudden and how much he needs to do vs rauru telling link that it was wonderful to meet him and zelda’s accounts of him were all true. like. the framing. the difference in character. the deterioration of knowledge within hyrule falls parallel to the deterioration of its king’s kindness and virtue.

the differences between rauru and roham are crazy to me because one of them was so fundamentally good and one was so fundamentally flawed and yet. neither of them were able to save their kingdom. no matter how good a king of hyrule is, no matter what he gets right or wrong, he is still doomed to die. rhoam tried to sacrifice his daughter to keep hyrule alive. rauru did everything in his power to make sure she DIDNT have to be sacrificed. and in the end the outcome was the same. but the KINGS were not the same, and that difference in framing you mentioned i think is fundamentally a difference in legacy. rhoams legacy is to forever be the king who sacrificed children to save himself and died anyway. rhoam died a loser through and through, a king atop a throne of nothing but failure. i think that’s partially why he appears as an old man at first, because he KNOWS what being the king of hyrule means and he’s EMBARRASSED that his legacy is what it is. but rauru. in complete contrast, rauru was so GOOD. rauru died with his sages and his DAUGHTER alive to see another day. rauru ENSURED they’d live no matter what. he wouldn’t LET them sacrifice themselves for him. rauru put everyone else before himself. he didn’t expect or even tolerate self-sacrifice and yet when the time came he sacrificed HIMSELF selflessly despite knowing that it wouldn’t even WORK. rauru’s legacy is something to be proud of. he’s open to link because he has nothing TO hide. no regrets or stupid decisions. and he is remembered so much more favorably because of it.

#all rhoam had to do was not sacrifice child soldiers but that is apparently too high a bar for him #even in death rauru is like. apologetic to link about having to do all this shit too #which is crazy different from rhoam ‘go save my kid who i abused for years. fuck you no paraglider’ hyrule #LIKE. rauru and sonia are transparently the father and mother zelda never had. and then they both DIE. AGHHHHHH #totk liveblog #totk spoilers

[rawliverandgoronspice]

sssstop!!!!!! assuming ganondorf is a rapist random youtube videos I'm literally eating my own fingers and swallowing the bones whole like one of those weird birds aaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

#thoughts #ganondorf #cw rape mention #he NEVER showed interest in women in that way #to assume it's canon is so!!! aaaaaa!!!! #the gerudos would fucking destroy him if he was!!!!!!! #the gerudos by and large respect him until he fucks around and pulls a little invasion moment on everybody!!! #and if they don't it's because of a political divergence regarding how he sees hyrule!!!! #it's NEVER implied he takes advantage of them in that way!!! #(unless you assume a number of underlying orientalist tropes due to the way they look which --we talked about this enough in here) #there was a time where he was but a wee boy growing up among them #and unless they taught him it was something that was ok for him to do --why would he EVER even think of doing that??? #even nabooru's situation (which was mentioned) is mostly focused on making her a top soldier to maintain order within his ranks #the notion that he would take advantage of her is??? he's not even around when she's brainwashed????? #she's literally encased in a hugeass armor!!! #and it's his moms doing the back-end work of keeping the gerudos in line while he's handling stuff in Hyrule?? #nothing motivates me to keep working on Thralls more than Casual Ganondorf Slander u_u #like he did enough bad stuff as it is!!! can't we focus on the stuff he definitively did do instead of being weird???

[zeldadiscussions]

Been replaying TotK with an eye out for any suspicious indications that Rauru and Sonia’s Hyrule might not have been as on the level as the narrative lead us to believe, but as early as the beginning area you learn things like this

The soldier constructs were built to protect. Not destroy or conquer, to protect. From invaders specifically.

Even if you don’t take what these two say at face value, the behavior of soldier constructs and monsters is noticeably different.

Constructs do not attack to gain ground. They only ever use violence to defend where they were stationed from intruders.

Monsters, on the other hand, capture civilians and take them back to their camps, putting them in cages. They invaded Lurelin and chased out the locals.

So on a second glance, with criticisms in mind, so far it’s only seeming even more clear that ancient Hyrule was not the aggressor in the Imprisoning War.

#ganondorf #tears of the kingdom #totk #totk rauru #legend of zelda #imperialism #i once read someone ask why the soldier constructs even exist if ancient Hyrule was supposedly so peaceful #and like #Ganondorf bruh #they’re there bc Ganondorf #spoilers

[link-is-a-dork]

#legend of zelda series #hyrule warriors #hylian soldier #hw soldier #nintendo #koei tecmo #nintendo switch #liad post #screenshot #2023

[boysofhyrule]

Groose AU pt 9:I have to follow don’t I?

Impa and dave where standing in front of the portal in the garden

Impa: So your saying he went through this??

Dave: Yep

Impa: I have to go after him dont I?

Dave: Yep, but I’m going to go with you!

Impa: Dave you don’t have to-

Dave: It’s no worry just need to tell the wife *chirp chirp*

A few seconds later a large shadowy figure flys in

Impa: Dave who’s that?

Dave: My wife Tasha

standing in front of them stands a 8 foot tall bird woman

Tasha: Look you better bring souvenirs back for the children and you better not get hurt, no need to relive your glory days!

Dave: Of course honey

Impa: Alright then, I guess here we go

With Dave on her shoulder Impa steps into the portal

——Meanwhile with Groose——

Groose: Soooo basically your telling me that Link and Zelda appear repeatedly throughout time and that there are separate time lines but some lady who was simping on this eras Link became evil in the hopes to what? Get with Link?

Lana: Basically yeah

Groose: That’s dumb

Randall: FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE AGREES!

#linked universe #loz #incorrect quotes #legend of zelda #link #zelda #hyrule warriors #impa #randall the hyrule soldier #groose #groose x impa #groose au #Dave #Dave’s wife #grimpa or improose? #impoose #lana loz #cia x link? #Dave lore? #Dave the bird the myth the legend #Dave is a oc bird from skyward sword #loz skyward sword #hyrule soldiers #skyward sword

[osierrasoulo]

Ok, here is our soldier boy, the one and the only captian, Warriors! Inspired by linkeduniverse

#linkeduniverse #warriors linked universe #art #soldier boy #lu chain #i love this fandom #hyrule warriors #proud of this tbh #legend of zelda #look at his face #that fucking smirk #osierrasoulo art

[revali-is-a-narc]

#the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #age of calamity #hyrule warriors: age of calamity #link #aoc link #mipha #champion mipha #princess mipha #zelda #princess zelda #aoc zelda #revali #champion revali #daruk #champion daruk #hylian soldiers #original post

[summertimemusician]

Linktober Day 8

Constructs

Way too late if ya ask me because Nayru and Hylia have decided to forsake me but it's done. *Collapses* This one did NOT want to write itself no matter how hard I tried even if I have so many feelings about constructs, in the end Hozier, the SS and TOTK soundtrack carried this to the final stretch even if it's just a small drabble lol.

Mostly referenced this time though, something soft and nice about Sky and Reader and Constructs, can be interpreted as platonic or romantic. Day 9 and 10 prompts will be released on the same day if it all possible though depending if I actually get some darn rest and have the time (because Legend is being a bit difficult on the Linktober Shadow one in contrast to how deity is going and I have irl stuff to get done, hopefully this is good enough until then.).

Wild’s Sky Archipelagos couldn’t be different from Skyloft, though no less breathtaking. The eternal beauty of the sky ringing true and everlasting over the cloud barrier enforced by Hylia, though if the sky found in your favorite Godslayer’s was beautiful due to the life that thrived in the loneliness in spite of it all, of creating a community that would outlast the wish for entropy Demise attempted to enforce into the world with the black hole heart of his greed, then Wild’s was because of the echoes of what once was there, that it was lovely and beautiful even in ruin as nature reclaimed what belonged to it by right. That even if the people were gone they existed, they thrived and lived and loved and even in tragedy, that mattered.

And nothing reflected that better than the Constructs which of outlasted the civilization. Made out of now decayed copper and sturdy ceramic, made cute, so the people would remember to treat their new helpers kindly, and made sturdy so they’d remember the people who loved adored them and their built in sense of duty and kindness to aid any guest of friend in need and given voices so they could listen to them speak, to make them just a little closer to humanity.

‘Many of them are deactivated now,’ Wild had told you, the first time you’d all stepped foot onto the main island, it was disorienting for you and most of the Chain (except for Sky, because of course your heavenly, cloud trailblazing boy would have taken to the abandoned, atmosphere cold and echoing sun gold clear beauty of the sky island the quickest like a fish whom was questioned on their ability to swim or a falcon on their ability to hunt, you were almost jealous if not for the fact you or Four always made lunges for his collar – Crimson didn’t come with through the portal after all, nor First’s Russet’- when he attempted to follow Wild’s lead and in consequence give you heart attacks), the little beings of ceramic and old bronze completely non hostile, going about tending to the islands with their faint whirs of gears and whistles of self sustaining magic batteries, voices cold but calm, almost comforting and the first pieces of technology far away from Sky’s them that weren’t immediately hostile towards your boys, ‘Mostly the soldier ones, the Stewards have remained though. Carrying on with their duty, making the place homey even if the people are gone.’

Something about that gave you pause, lagging behind your group in a long abandoned garden, the scent of Sundelions and lavender tickling your nose and a deactivate Soldier Construct coiled up in slumber. Remembering the ancient robots in Sky’s Era, carrying on in their little pockets of time, unaware that the people they were created to aid have long since gone, that their time had long gone, of Fi, everlasting, ever sleeping Fi, bound to duty, always remembering the one’s who created her, of Sky who treated her as a friend, and always watching as people so very unlike him but achingly similar came and went, unable to do anything. Loving like a ghost.

“Guest?”, came a little mechanical chirp, you blink yourself back into awareness, a Steward floating over with a tilted head, jade ceramic earrings clinking, “If I may, you look troubled. May I offer unsolicited aid?”

You can’t help but chuckle, shaking your head gently, an idea stitching yourself in your mind like threads of silk upon a gown, “No no, sorry, I’m alright, I was just wondering. Is it alright if I come on by to pick some flowers? They’re lovely, you did a great job caring for them.”

It inclines their head, chiming, something close to delight, as much as it can express as a machine, “Ah, I see you were admiring them. If I may offer a bit of trivia, Sundelions were the queen's favorite, you may. Will you take care of them?”

You smile, gently reaching a hand to pat it’s head with a nod, it clicks and whistles, surprised, but doesn’t pull away, “Of course, may I ask you a few questions as well? I’d like to know how many Soldier Constructs are resting now.”

You should also ask Sky what Fi’s opinion is on flowers, as well.

It might be a bit silly, but they deserve it after so long.

(Later, much later, when the Chain notices you’re gone after talking to Zelda in the Temple of Time high up in the. Sky finds you in the garden, gently weaving blossoms into a crown, the construct from before amicably chatting with you as it tends to the Sundelions with a ring of flowers around it's long, long neck.

He joins you, and when asked what his and Fi’s opinion is on flowers, he tells you she won’t mind, much less him.

Later that day, Fi’s gains a crown of yarrow, bluebells and morning glories

It’s not much, but it makes Sky smile, you hope she likes them.)

#linked universe x reader #technically #lu sky x reader #drabble this time because irl stuff and me needing a nap because I'm cutting close to the mark where humans have hallucinations lmao #Yes I call First's Loftwing Russet what of it? Gotta keep with the theme #I think Sky would absolutely be the type to forget Loftwings don't exist in TOTK Hyrule and just instinctively leap off high places #The Sky Islands would be so uncanny for the guy #The Chain ain't used to non hostile machinery but they think constructs are neat #Fi technically counts as a construct even if she's a sword now just saying. She deserves a gift for all her hard work and everything else #Next time they go to the Sky Islands Reader and Sky find out all the constructs wear flower crowns and collars and are delighted lol #Including the sleeping soldier constructs now #sure they're hostile but they were just doing their jobs alright? I say they deserve some too #summer writes linktober 2023 #summer writes #after I rest next one up is Deity and I am having way too much fun writing it *cackles like a maniac*

[guideoftime]

If there's something strange In your neighborhood Who you gonna call? (The Sheikah) If there's something weird And it don't look good Who you gonna call? (The Sheikah)

#( //throws myself out the door ) #( okay but tell me I'm wrong ) #( Hyrule in trouble: ) #( The King: SOMEONE GET THE SHEIKAH ) #( a soldier: sir you killed them all? ) #( the king: FIND THEIR CHILDREN SOMEONE REPRODUCED ) #( ooc ) the mun.

[fagdyk]

I mightve accidentally stumbled upon the endgame area lmao

#totk spoilers #maybe but im in the sewers under hyrule castle #just foumd 2/3 of the soldier armor and a knights shield (40 power) #im gonna see how far I can get #totk liveblog #tears of the kingdom #loz

[blueskittlesart]

saw your latest aoc ask and i know u usually talk more about story than gameplay (totally fair) but i adore aoc’s gameplay and i’ve been re-playing it and i just. can’t stop laughing doing missions after zelda unlocks her power and she’s way overleveled for everything it’s so funny. like this is a power given to her by the goddess of the world to seal away the greatest incarnation of evil and malice and she’s just like hehe :) i will use this in every combat from now on :) just mowing down bokoblins and shit with it :) it’s so overkill agahsgdjdjf she’s just a girlboss like that ig and i love it for her

tbh if i was granted the power of a literal goddess at age 17 i would also use it for the most mundane shit possible. like if i had the bow of light i wouldnt even fight people with it i would like use it to shoot open white claws or something

#asks #i WOULD 100% use it in training exercises also. ok soldiers of hyrule u want to fight me? feel the wrath of fucking hylia then

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Honestly for all the "am I pushing this too far? should I pull back?" moments I have working on Thralls' outline, I am often reminded that this is actually a pretty charitable interpretation of what may have happened between OoT and TP....

#thoughts #oot #tp #thralls of power #animated project #there's a version that is 100% arguable where ganondorf got arrested immediately and the gerudos revolted guided by twinrova #and were crushed or pushed away #and that was that #and link leaving for termina only where this “issue” was “solved” #and then he died in the lost woods with zelda ruling hyrule as she grew #it doesn't feel implausible at all #of course there's the opposite take of #oh yeah the gerudos were immediately cool with the murder of their king they apparently partially worshiped and twinrova?? who cares #and they co-built a weird monument/gifted their monument to the hylians to build a prison in which to imprison and execute their own king?? #and to do a weird coliseum thing about it too??? where soldiers and prisoners were apparently sent to die?? #and then they just left. for no reason. #and nobody remembers them and calls them “a pack of thieves” including people who were there at the time of the execution #and the last person with seemingly traces of gerudo heritage 100% identify as hylian #anyway #it's hard to give a “nice” explanation to what happened that doesn't feel incredibly contrived unfortunately

[tigirl-and-co]

I can't post about my Zelda OCs bc the government would deem me unsafe to be amongst the general public and squirrel me away in an underground lab to dissect my brain

#titi talks #Larking about with Link #spin a big roulette wheel like 'this character is a [X] and is link's [Y]' and you'll get somewhere close #except of course 'Hyrule's most neurodivergent Zonai 3 years running' #it has a shirt and everything. #Din gives her most soul crushing battles to her most confused and hyperactive soldiers

[boysofhyrule]

The lads are back in warriors time

Twilight: MIDNA YOU GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT SO WE CAN TSLK ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP!

midna in her true form floating out of reach

Midna: No, look I love you and admit what I did was rash but every time we try to talk it out we get noise complaints!

Randall opening a window

Randall: WILL YOU TWO SHUT THE HYILA UP ITS 3 IN THE MORNING! SOME OF US HAVE TO ACTUALLY CARRY OUR PRINCESSES AROUND!

#linked universe #loz #incorrect quotes #legend of zelda #hyrule warriors #hyrule soldiers #Randall the hyrule solder #loz midna #zelda #link #randall the hyrule soldier

[almiarangers]

A mod for Hyrule Warriors DE that makes allied captains just marginally more durable than wet tissue paper would be great, actually

#Cockatoo txt #hyrule warriors definitive edition #hwde #the amount of times I’m told a Hylian Captain is in danger #only for them to die before I can even *react* let alone cross the entire map to save their useless ass #good lord #I really freaking hate their distressed wailing when they’re forced to retreat #I have to hear it so often because these soldiers are so pathetic #half the time there’s not even an enemy captain nearby! #they’re killed by the *cannon fodder*