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cryiling · 1 year

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what do we think about kpop idol au revalink where revali is from a big 3 company (i feel like he gives sm or yg but idk) and link is from a smaller company, but they get into a dating scandal because of dispatch's stupid dating dump at the end of the year or whatever

revali is appalled to have dating rumors with this little runt from a nugu group (he's lying, link is totally his type), meanwhile link is losing his shit bc it's his idol it's THE revali 🫣

im gonna use this ask as an excuse to talk about idols!link and revali bc I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS

first of all revali is def giving agust d vibes, that fuck capitalism and the government sorta songs, and he definitely writes his own music (he thinks that artists who don't write their own music aren't real artists). no wait like genuinely. have u guys seen the lyrics for all the songs on d-day?? and like the mv for amygdala?? totally breaking kpop industry norms and I can totally see revali doing that, like yes babes talk abt your mental health and traumatic experiences, pop off king !

I bet revali prefers doing hip hop style dances, like you're never gonna catch him doing those rlly simple trendy dances. nah he out here doing flips and bboying and stuff 😭 hmm like think back down or halazia level dances (bye not me finding a way to bring halazia into any conversation SJDHSJF)

also he definitely only sings live, no lip syncing for him. one day he gets sick and loses his voice but he still has a performance that day, and his manager is like PLS just lipsync to the track, literally no one will get mad I promise, and he's like bitch no and just has his fans sing the whole song (he goes viral for this, his fans bragging abt how revali would never stoop to the level of lip syncing while his antis are calling him lazy for having his fans do all the singing, then revali's fans clap back at those ppl and pull up the receipts of all the times their faves lip synced)

ok we need stage name and fandom for revali. hm tbh I feel like he would just keep his name as his stage name, like he probably thinks the idea of stage names is cringy 💀 help I need fandom name ideas. like, vale or something BYE. his company probably came up with a whole list of possible fandom names and he said no to all of them, atp his manager just picked one for him 😭

u mentioned revali is from a big 3 company, hmm yeah I'm getting sm vibes from him. how long do u think he trained for? probably a couple years, like 6? so he's very insistent that all his accomplishments are from his hard work

OK let's talk abt link! idk many small companies but ummm let's say like, gf or something (they have kingdom, slay!). do u guys know that one idol from loona I think? and she was a trainee for only one day? yeah that's link 😭 he auditioned for the company and they're like you're great! debut asap pls

link is just here to have a good time honestly, like he's going live at 3am to do drunk karaoke like jungkook fr 😭 he really has a passion for singing and performing, and at the end of the day he's just doing this for funsies, he doesn't let the stress get to his head too much, which, king behavior honestly

ik u said he's from a nugu group but honestly I'm seriously loving the soloist vibe from him, like if he was in a group he'd probably end up as the wonyoung of the group bc he just has that main character energy 😭

I can see link doing more upbeat/poppy songs, but he does the occasional ballad + contemporary dance combo that his fans go FERAL for. or,, omg. imagine him doing criminal by taeyang... 😊

his stage name.. L!NK bc he's quirky and not like other girls 😧 I bet his song titles are either in all caps or all lowercase too, he insists "it's for the aesthetic 🥺"

hm what sort of situation are they in where dispatch makes a dating scandal for them? OUHH MAYBE theyre both mcs for a music show (ignore that it's usually one guy and one girl) and they do one of those performances together and ppl are like 🤨⁉️ like imagine them doing the iconic dolphin dance together ✋ fans go CRAYZEEE the fancams hit like 20m views because their chemistry together really shines, even with such a simple song

their companies see how good they are for each other's publicities, so they really push for more of their schedules to be together.. which ofc comes at the cost of the dating scandal. they're hanging out together at some cafe idk, their managers told them to go hang out in the hopes that they would get some more publicity. what they WEREN'T expecting is for dispatch to declare that they're dating??? (that's a lie, link's manager (zelda) definitely knew smth like that would happen and she's the biggest revalink supporter 🤞)

when revali hears about this, he has a freaking meltdown to his manager teba, like 😭 lying facedown on the couch screaming into a pillow, "they think we're DATING?$:$;&2!;@/@ they really think a senior idol would go out with a rookie!!???!: SHUT UP TEBA HE IS NOT MY TYPE-"

meanwhile link has the BIGGEST celebrity crush on revali, like you know how jungkook is with namjoon? yeah 😭 so when the dating scandal comes out, link is just so flattered that people would think that he's worthy to be with revali- he's going around to anyone who will listen and is like "people think I'm with revali 😦🥰🥰" zelda is like girl calm down you're not actually together

#revalink #revali #link #breath of the wild #botw #legend of zelda #loz #KPOP REVALINK MY LOVE #this was so much fun to write #but AJDBAKNF honestly amihan hit most of the same points in their idol revalink post 😭😭#so sorry for reiterating some of the same things #can you imagine them on a variety show together or smth #OR like revali hosts a show like suchwita and he hosts link 🥺#and then at the end they do a dance challenge together to promote link's comeback #ofc link's dance is very sexy and so fans are freaking out that link got revali to do a sexy dance 🙈#crow's revalinkverse #me being So Normal about this game

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solbadguy-whaleale · 1 year

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i am BEGGING the breath of the wild community PLEASE make more fanart of Gaddison PLEASE I NEED IT I NEED IT SO BAD PLEASE

#gaddison botw #botw #breath of the wild #legend of zelda #gaddison #I LOVE HER PLEASE MAKE SOME MORE FAN ART OF HER I AM BEGGING ON MY KNEES PLEASE

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guinea-pig-enthusiast · 1 year

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What I say: Breath of the Wild just wasn’t my thing! I generally like open world stuff, but it wasn’t my cup of tea this time. It still looks like a really cool game, and I bet the sequel is super fun for its fans! Just not for me specifically. :)

What I mean: The first thing I did when I started Breath of the Wild was jump off the high tower to find out if the game had fall damage. I was not pleased with the answer.

#legend of zelda #loz breath of the wild #it’s more complicated because I wasn’t a huge fan of some of the mechanics (they aren’t bad just not for me!)#but broadly this was not a good start lol

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linksthoughtbrambles · 2 years

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Why Fi Started Talking in Link's Thought Brambles

In Link's Thought Brambles (my whopper of a 56-chapter, 200,000-word BotW AU fanfic), Fi is silent until chapter 48. Some have asked why - here's the answer, and also the answer as to why it has not been explained explicitly in the fic.

This is why I'd started making all those On Awakenings posts in the first place!

WARNING: Spoilers for my fic Link's Thought Brambles and the entire Adventure Log+ AU.

Conclusions from the On Awakenings posts I take as canon in that fic:

(From the analysis posts I put up--links at the end of this post).

a.) Fi can't talk to anyone on her own anymore after Skyward Sword. The person she's talking to... ......... must have their own magical power ......... must be fully aligned with the Triforce of Courage

b.) To be fully aligned with the Triforce of Courage, a person must have demonstrated the courage of a true hero by selflessly sacrificing their own life for someone else. Clarification: ......... The person doesn't have to actually die, but they must believe, at the time they make their sacrifice, that it's very likely they're about to die. It's that willingness to give their life entirely for the sake of the other person that makes them a true hero. ......... Recklessness and bravery are not the same as the courage of a true hero. Recklessness is selfish. Bravery is wonderful but you don't have to believe you're about to die to be brave. The courage of a true hero is a level up from that--the final, most significant form of bravery.

c.) Until that memory on the Blatchery Plain, neither Link nor Zelda in BotW could hear the voice of Fi (and couldn't hear Hylia's voice, either).

d.) There is a difference between Link and Zelda being able to wield magical artifacts (the Master Sword and the Triforce) and being able to use their own innate abilities. Artifacts have their own rules determining when and if someone can access them.

Magical artifacts have rules determining who can use them, when, and how. Above, Link appears to commune with the fully powered Master Sword after completing the entire Trial of the Sword.

I took the following things to be true in the fic, though they aren't necessarily canon:

e.) Pre-Calamity BotW Link is less aligned with the Triforce of Courage than any Link who came before him because of immense social pressure, pushing him toward conformity and recklessness. Clarification: ......... He couldn't hear Fi even if other incarnations of him after SS could hear her because of this. He has to re-awaken. He's been pushed out of alignment even though he had already met the courage of a true hero requirement in previous lives.

f.) Link has access to all of his own innate magical abilities regardless of how aligned he is with the Triiforce of Courage. (So does Zelda!). Those abilities are simply due to his unique soul.

g.) Link has subconscious access to his experiences/memories from previous incarnations of himself. He doesn't remember clearly, but he does, for example, naturally know how to be a total badass with a longsword, and he's a fantastic archer. He requires little training to be an excellent fighter (though training means improvement).

h.) "Alignment" with the Triforce of Courage is on a spectrum. Full alignment comes with all the abilities of the Master Sword, including hearing Fi. Someone courageous but not fully aligned could still interact with the sword a little. (I mostly decided this because I liked it, but there's evidence for it in BotW: Zelda's dream in which she interacts with Hylia but can't hear her).

Why is Fi slient at the beginning of the fic?

Fi is silent at the start of Link's Thought Brambles for the same reason she's silent in pre-Calamity BotW: Fi cannot simply choose to speak to whoever she pleases on her own, and Link is not fully aligned with the Triforce of Courage.

Why can Link do other cool stuff like the flurry rush and spin attack?

Because those abilities have nothing to do with Fi or the Master Sword! That's simply magic Link has by being his awesome self.

When in mid-air or after a well-timed dodge, Link can move so fast he effectively slows time around him. (I like to think of this power as 'time-dilation' because of the lengthening effect we see here and because of the slate's physics-themed runes).

What makes Fi "start talking" in Chapter 48?

I'm putting a huge WARNING sign here because below this is a major spoiler for the fic.

The idea that Fi "starts talking" isn't quite right even though it's how Link himself sees it/phrases it in the fic (he doesn't know exactly what's going on). To him, it seems like she suddenly starts talking, but she's actually been talking to him the entire time (being very snarky about it in the background, too), but he couldn't hear her.

In Short: The moment Fi "starts talking" to Link in the fic is the moment when Link demonstrates the courage of a true hero (just like he and Zelda both did at the Blatchery Plain in BotW). But she doesn't start talking. He suddenly is able to hear.

It was easy for readers to think Fi suddenly started talking because it was an "emergency situation" like she had no choice but to speak (kind of like on Blatchery Plain, where her speaking to Zelda has a chance of saving Link's life), but that wasn't it.

Fi speaks to Zelda for the first time right after her awakening in BotW.

The fic's text provides a clue that Fi didn't simply choose to talk to Link at that moment because of the emergency:

[Link screams because he just saved someone else by choosing to take a potentially mortal blow in their stead.]

-STER CEASE YOUR MOTION, REMAIN STILL-

That 2nd line in all italicized caps is Fi, shouting at Link immediately after he's severely wounded. The clue? Fi's already mid-word when he first hears her.

She was already shouting at him before he could hear--that's why that first word--"MASTER"--is cut in half.

She'd been shouting at him a good deal of that day, trying to warn him about magic she sensed, and while he could feel something was off and she even managed to communicate a direction to him (Fi's dowsing ability), he couldn't hear her words at all.

She'd tried shouting at Zelda, too, but to no avail.

After the first time Link hears Fi, he can always hear her when she speaks, but Zelda still cannot (because she is not yet fully aligned with the Triforce of Courage).

Wait a minute. What about the Melee in Chapter 19?!

Something similar happens in Chapter 19, in which Link is fighting to defend the Princess' honor. It's very brave of him, and noble, and all that, but it does not demonstrate the courage of a true hero for two reasons:

Link didn't believe his fellow soldiers in the melee were intending to kill him. (Beat the snot out of him, yes--though later he comes to think some did try to do him in).

Link wasn't saving someone's life. Sorry, Zelda. Your honor's great, but it's not life itself.

What about before then? Doesn't Link go monster hunting?

Yes, he does, but he doesn't believe he's going to die and he's not doing it to directly sacrifice himself for someone else.

Also... it's a bit reckless and vengeful, both things that fall into that selfishness category. It's reckless because he starts out as a kid going after bokoblins that have killed adults. It's vengeful because he starts doing it because the bokoblins killed people he knows.

Neither of those things is aligned with the courage of a true hero requirement.

Why doesn't Fi explain this to Link in the fic?

Fi absolutely under no circumstances can explain this to Link yet. It could ruin everything if she did.

Why?

I'm putting another blaring WARNING in here because it spoils something that hasn't happened in the ongoing fic Adventure Log+ yet.

Fi can't tell Link why he was able to start hearing her... because....

It would tell Link how to awaken Zelda's power.

Yes, you read that right.

Link absolutely must not know how to awaken Zelda's power.

And if you've been reading the fic, you may now be confused for two reasons: 1.) Wait, isn't Zelda's power already awake in the fic?! 2.) Why wouldn't Link be allowed to know how to wake it up?!

Hoooo boy. Here we go.

1.) No, Zelda's power is not already awake in the fic.

If you've read it, you know they've discovered some things about BotW Zelda in this AU: - She's unnaturally strong. - She has unnaturally high stamina. - She's essentially a perfect archer. Things in the environment can mess with her shot, but her aim is always perfect.

In the fic, once they discover these things, they assume Zelda's had her "sealing power" all along and they simply had misunderstood its nature. They have a whole festival and stuff to celebrate.

Oops.

What they're seeing are Zelda's innate magical abilities (and they haven't even discovered them all, yet). These are like Link' spin attack and flurry rush--they're things Zelda has access to simply because of her unique soul.

But just like she cannot yet hear Fi, she also cannot yet wield the complete Triforce (which is what shows up on her hand in the Blatchery Plain memory).

The power Zelda seeks to awaken in BotW is access to the complete Triforce. Only a person with a balanced heart who has awakened the hero within themselves is able to wield it.

2.) Link can't know how to awaken Zelda's power, because if he finds out, Zelda's pretty much guaranteed to find out.

But... wouldn't that be a good thing? Isn't the whole issue in those BotW memories the fact that they didn't know how to awaken Zelda's power? Isn't the problem that Zelda's mother died before she told anyone how to awaken it?

NO.

Because even sacrificing yourself to save someone else becomes a selfish act if you do so in order to awaken your own power. The courage of a true hero must be selfless. It mustn't be done with some additional goal in mind.

Zelda MUST NOT know how to awaken her power. If she knows how, she won't be able to awaken it.

I strongly believe that's why her mother never told anyone how.

[Note: SS Zelda doesn't tell Link that he had to awaken the hero inside him until he already had, either, for the same reason.]

The issue with Zelda's mother dying so early isn't that she never told anyone. It's that she didn't live long enough to make sure her daughter was exposed to situations in which she had the option to display such courage. King Rhoam and all the Champions play it safe with Zelda's life. They don't allow her to put herself in physical danger to protect anyone else.

Zelda's mother would have.

I can imagine a tradition of royal Hylian mothers and grandmothers taking their young princesses on grand tours of Hyrule, or perhaps to regions where they know help is desperately needed, to grow their princess' characters and give them ample opportunity to awaken the heroes within themselves.

As Princess of Hyrule, BotW Zelda should have discovered her power through connection to her people--and demonstrating willingness to give her life for them. On Blatchery Plain, she finally does thanks to her connection with Link.

That did not happen in BotW, so she fails to awaken it until Link is at death's door.

Back to the fic--okay, so Zelda can't know how to awaken her own power. Why isn't Link allowed to know?

Link can't know because if he does, Zelda will know very soon afterward. Either she'll read it on the Slate, or he'll tell her because now that he's talking to her, it's hard for him to keep his trap shut around her. 😂

Poor Fi. She has to keep this close to her metaphorical chest.

Thanks for reading!

If you stuck with me this far on a meta post about my own fic, WOW! Thank you!

Here are links to the On Awakenings posts drawing conclusions about how Link and Zelda's powers awaken (or fail to) in BotW and other Zelda games: - On Awakenings in The Legend of Zelda - On Awakenings... Part 2: BotW Link - On Awakenings... Part 3: Can't Fi Just Talk? - On Awakenings... Part 4: Why Can't Fi Just Talk?

They're more general Zelda lore, not just for Link's Thought Brambles.

If you like this stuff, check out my fic masterlist. The lore's interwoven in a lot of it (though some of it is pure comedy, which I love).

#fanfic notes #fan theory stuff too #zelda fanfic notes #loz #botw #adventure log+ au #linksthoughtbrambles #breath of the wild #zelda #legend of zelda #there's lore in here but the focus is on my own fanfic #this time #there'll be more plain old lore at some point #spoilers #there are spoilers #so many spoilers #did i mention the spoilers?

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imorphemi · 2 years

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my blorbo now i love him

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sickly-stitches · 1 year

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i am not built to play video games. i Am built to sit on my boyfriends lap and kiss him, etc. while he plays video games tho

#g.#'just play the video game if you like it'#No.#i am a hater i hate playing video games so much #rainbow rambles #i am a much bigger fan of murder for reals then killing the bad guys in video games #i Sucked at zelda breath of wild cuz i just outright refused to go near the bad guys #theres some things ill play!!#ill happily play minecraft or beat saber or superhot or pokemon (any of them on a game boy) but thats like. It.

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twilightangel83 · 2 months

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Hello and good day to all my fellow Legend of Zelda fans!

As you may or may not be aware we in the Legend of Zelda fandom have been having some troubles when it comes to tagging on A03. Mostly that the only tags that seem to be available to tag various Links with was the Linked Universe specific tags. Which led to writers either trying to make their own tags (which no one knew how to find) or inaccurately using Linked Universe Tags. Neither of which were fair to creators writing outside of Linked Universe, or fair to the Linked Universe community (let alone JoJo herself!).

People trying to tag their non-Linked Universe fics were either scrambling to be found or blending their words in with Linked Universe works. And Linked Universe fans who were searching for Linked Universe fics ended up stumbling across fics they weren’t looking for.

So, with that in mind, I reached out to the A03 team in search of a solution. And they have gotten back to me! I am going to post a picture of their reply under the cut, but I will summarize it first.

There (now? I’m not clear if they’ve all existed before) are tags we can use for most of our various Links that aren't Linked Universe. They’re just not tags that go in the “Character” box. Instead, you put Link (Legend of Zelda) in the character box and then one (or more) of these tags into the “Additional Tags” box. The tags are ‘Link from X game’. So, for example: Link from Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom (Legend of Zelda) or Link from Twilight Princess (Legend of Zelda). If you try to put a specific Link in and they don’t exist already you’ll just have to fill it in unfortunately. And the more people use that tag the sooner it will be made into one that’s canonized.

Mind you! These tags should NOT be used for Linked Universe fanfictions. JoJo has explicitly asked that Linked Universe fanworks NOT be tagged with general Legend of Zelda tags. And that is what these are. So please leave these tags for those of us writing outside of Linked Universe.

I did a little experimenting and there seems to be a tag for every game EXCEPT;

“Link from Four Swords Adventures (Legend of Zelda)”,

"Link from Triforce Heroes (Legend of Zelda)",

“Link from The Legend of Zelda (Legend of Zelda)”,

“Link from The Adventures of Link (Legend of Zelda)”, and

“Link from Age of Calamity (Legend of Zelda)”.

There is also no tag for:

“The Hero of Men (Legend of Zelda)” (or whatever title could be used for the hero before Link from The Minish Cap)

But there are Character tags for “Ancient Hero (Legend of Zelda)” and “Hylia’s Chosen Hero (Legend of Zelda)” (who I believe is the First Hero).

The more we, as a fandom, use these tags (especially the ones that aren’t currently searchable) the more readily usable they will be.

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