#zelda and link

[lialivingart]

I know you love this couple. I love them too. What do you think made them so happy?

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[sehaniine]

and honestly, i can’t believe i get to call you mine

#sorry for using laufey lyrics again for the caption #live love laufey #my art #zelink #zelda #loz #legend of zelda #zelda and link #link #link totk #botw #totk #breathe of the wild #tears of the kingdom #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #princess Zelda

[abreca]

After a long long hiatus, Zelda sketches!

The one where Zelda is looking up to the ceiling is my fav, there is a special kind of longing that came out there.

This comeback was produced by the fact that today is my bday

#abreca #zelda and link #zelda totk #princess zelda #zelda tears of the kingdom #fanart #link #the legend of zelda #zelink #confy confy living

[dr-paint]

Wake up sleepy head

#Skyward Sword #zelink #zelda and link #zelda #Legend of zelda #a #fanart #artist on tumblr #artist of tumblr #illustration #nature

[truelovestorymb]

My Hero!

#Zelda #Zelda tears of the kingdom #zelda breath of the wild #link and zelda #zelda and link #video games #Nintendo switch #princess #knight

[jxsterr]

i just might not be in the right circles but i don’t think we realise just how fucked up puppet zelda was for link to have to encounter. like the one thing that stuck out to me SPECIFICALLY was the crisis at hyrule castle questline that has link hopelessly run around after something that looks like zelda and sounds enough like her but you know there’s something deeply wrong. it was enough to disturb me when i played through it, just how close her voice was to being correct but being too solemn, being just a little too wispy, too repetitive. there’s so many things about the way she speaks that’s only a little bit off, something that a man like link, blinded and delusional by grief, would miss. he’d know deep down in his gut something is wrong, it sounds so much like her but nothing like her at the same time. every time she beckons for him his chest tightens and he feels sick and he doesn’t know why, but he does deep down. he knows this isn’t her, can’t be her, or that if it is something is deeply wrong and both outcomes are less than desirable. it’s so fucked up because realistically he isn’t going to know if he’s ever going to see her again. for all he knows she could remain wandering the putrid soils of the depths for the rest of time, but here her corpse is, being paraded around as if she truly was zelda when she’s nothing but an imposter in the skin of his lover.

so he runs and runs and fights tooth and nail for her and continuously gets close enough to just about touch her but then she disappears and almost taunts him, tells him she’s waiting and he’s growing frustrated because goddess why won’t you just stay put and let me come to you?? i’m coming, i’m trying but you keep running from me. please stop running from me. his mind is begging, pleading for her, screaming i need you i need you like a lost child because he is without her. he’s lost and a shell of the man he used to be, she is his other half and without her he’s downright nonfunctional. and despite the heartbreak of her constantly disappearing he still keeps trying, keeps following her and grows more and more desperate because he’s so close and now they’re in the sanctum and she’s stopped and maybe this is his chance so he takes a step forward and she’s doing it again. she’s taunting him, dancing around him while all he can do is turn around aimlessly in an attempt to follow her. but even then he doesn’t stop for a moment to think if this is zelda, what she’s doing is cruel because he’s far too hung up on the possibility of her being with him again he doesn’t even stop to get upset at her, doesn’t question why she’s torturing him and keeps his focus on getting to her. it’s things like this that show you why zelda has so much trust that he will be able to defeat ganondorf because he’s never stopped chasing after her and saving the world for her and he never will. she could fall and he would catch her, she could die and he would save her, she could be a husk of who she once was and he would still love her. it’s undying loyalty, unwavering love and determination to make sure she’s okay because to him, zelda is everything.

but then she stops and gets so close he could walk over there and hold her again but it’s a lie. it all was. it’s nothing short of desvastating because even though he knew something was awry it still hurts to be proven right. to have scars so painfully ripped open again knowing that he’s back to square one. the emotional turmoil that that must have put him through had to have been insane, if not soul crushing. he’d be inconsolable, sobbing and cursing the very ground ganondorf stood upon to the point where the sages would have to escort him out of the sanctum only for him to fight them because they’re the only people he can take anything out on right now. but it’s not fair because it’s not their fault, and the way that riju hushes him and does her best to speak soothingly while sidon rubs his back makes him feel all the more guilty. so they all stay there, tulin and yunobo on high alert while link is sat on the ground, knees to his chest and weeping because he was so close. he cries and cries until his throat gives out and he’s dehydrated, until sidon has to scoop him up and take him back to lookout landing and he can’t even bear to tell purah what happened but she already knows. nothing breaks through that tough exterior but the dangled hope of zelda’s return being ripped from him. none of the sages want to leave him in this state, so they camp out in lookout landing. tulin does his best to chatter on about all the cool things he’s been doing to stop link from falling completely numb and shutting everything off and it does kind of work, link cracks the slightest of smiles when tulin tells him how he took out an entire monster hideout by himself. he’s lost his world but maybe he can figure out how to keep fighting for her with friends by his side. he’ll just have to see.

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[henryhina]

HC that Link actually is more sensitive to temperature than Zelda. He always has to wear appropriate clothes because it becomes downright distracting if he's too cold or too hot. He can't focus at all. The tunic was perfect, it felt like he could go anywhere and be comfortable. But Zelda has that goddess blood in her, she can stand on the perch of Rito Village and read a book while snow piles on either side of her. Something about it just doesn't disturb her, it's even comforting in a way. Snow is soft and heat feels natural. Link will be shivering and sweating loyally next to her.

#loz #tloz #zelink #totk #legend of zelda #Zelda #Link #tears of the kingdom #botw #breath of the wild #zelda and link

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Game parodies:

Grand Theft Auto

Mass Effect

Silent Hill

Danganronpa

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Bayonetta

Devil May Cry

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me

Ghost of Tsushima

Guitar Hero

Detroit: Become Human

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[sun-aries]

are you normal or do you find niche places in Hyrule and think Link and Zelda would totally make out here?

#I’m just telling on myself #zelink #link #zelda #princess zelda #legend of zelda #loz #the legend of Zelda #tloz #zelda and link #ss zelink #tp zelink #oot zelink #botw zelink #totk zelink

[linkcities]

do you think about how totk link was probably just standing there speechless and unmoving and basically just. Reeling. because of the realization that when he opens the front door he won't see zelda inside (he'll see traces of their old life, the table settings and the bed they made before they went to hyrule castle and the photographs they hung up together, but he won't see her, no, not really, not for a while) the first time he visited their house in hateno village or are you normal

#god i just think link would have been absolutely frozen in place #because he'll be coming home to an empty house again for the first time in years #with the quiet realization that zelda's missing again #and the stakes are higher for him this time because he's known her personally for years post-botw so he Knows the gravity of what exactly #he'll be losing forever if he ends up not being able to find her #and anyway ultimately i think he wouldn't be able to stay inside the house for a long period of time #because he'll jsut end up missing her more SHUT UP #totk zelink #zelink #zelda and link #tears of the kingdom #minor totk spoilers #vilhelmine.txt

[lialivingart]

Zelda worries about Link and lecture him for his recklessness

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[yourfriendf1nn3g4n]

oh shes in LOVE what the hell

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[syllleblossom]

∞ begin again ∞

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[carmennzz]

A warm hug

This is actually a sketch that's been waiting to be finished for like... 2 years? Just decided that's gonna remain a cute sketch ❤️

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[theicarusconstellation]

zelink hanahaki disease set in botw canon, but get this: they both have it.

link because he wakes up knowing he loves someone but cannot remember who it is, making him unable to know whether or not this person loves him back.

zelda because, with link’s memories gone, he doesn’t remember who he loves, so therefore, he technically doesn’t love her.

link coughs up silent princesses. zelda coughs up blue nightshade.

it’s pushing the boundaries of hanahaki a bit, but then again it is a made-up disease so.

#zelda #zelink #zelda and link #legend of zelda #botw #totk

[jxsterr]

hey. what if link was so consumed by grief he was angry. cuz a tired link is brilliant, a riddled-with-illness-and-depressed link is even better, but what about a link that is so sick of all of this happening to both zelda and him that he's just FURIOUS.

like he's angry as fuck at how, despite everything they have done to protect hyrule, they're right back where they started. all that effort they put into sealing the calamity, those a hundred years link spent asleep just to be able to live again and those a hundred years zelda spent tearing herself apart just to hold that beast back, all for it to be for nothing. all that effort to dispel the ganon from their time only for ganondorf to appear from another time. it's borderline comical. link has to laugh or he'll cry. he's so tired of this constant fight but he's only tired for himself, when it comes to thinking about how much zelda has suffered and continues to suffer it conjures anger so vivid he feels it in his chest. he's so angry at how much the world continues to punish someone who has done nothing to deserve it, someone who has given her all for the people of this world and more and yet she cannot even feel the grace of peace for longer than a few years. she of all people deserves a break more than anything and he finds himself wishing he'd fallen instead of her.

link finds it hard to process or even care about the goings on in lookout landing after he finally wakes up (again). purah is babbling in his ear about something to do with increasing monster attacks but it's impossible to remain present when his mind is so torn up over zelda, his zelda. gods. she really is gone, isn't she? he doesn't know where she is, doesn't know if she's still breathing, or if he'll ever see those emerald eyes again. it's so much harder this time because last time he didn't even know her—at least not as much as he knows her now. her face was blurry back then and her voice was something so familiar yet so distant, but now he loves her. he knows her inside out, knows her favourite tea to drink in the early mornings and what books she'll pull from the bookcase based on her mood. the sun died that day and so has a part of him.

the air beside him feels so thick with emptiness that he finds himself getting lost in helping the local folks just to fill it, taking up a few errands and joining in with the monster control forces just for someone by his side. weeks pass since her fall and link finds himself stuck in the anger phase of grief. it feels like a disease, he doesn't like how angry he feels but goddess he can't stop feeling this way. it's just so fucking unfair. more often than not link finds himself venturing out of lookout landing deep in the night just to kill. not defeat, not vanquish, but to draw blood in a feeble attempt to quench the burning rage inside his soul. he tears his pathetic excuse of a sword mercilessly through the flesh of unsuspecting bokoblins, slices through the tendons of gloom hands and unleashes the full extent of his fury onto the phantoms of ganondorf's shrivelled form. he yells as he plummets the tip of his sword through the phantom's chest until it disperses into thin wisps of gloom, but it's still not enough. it's never going to be enough. he repeats the same useless task every night yet it does nothing to change anything. he's still angry.

purah's told him about the phenomenas pestering the four corners of hyrule but he can't bring himself to focus on the world just yet, so he goes to mount lanayru. he's waist deep in frozen water with hands clasped around one another when he begins his plea to the goddess. he asks her why zelda was served a fate as cruel as this, and why he seems forever cursed to walk hyrule alone. she doesn't answer. it irritates link, so he repeats himself louder. she still doesn't answer. he's yelling at her now, using the full extent of vocal cords that have barely moved since he awoke, and driving his fists through the spring water in an act of overwhelming frustration. answer me! tell me why we have to endure this! he cries, but the goddess is evermore silent. he chokes out a sob, and then, in a moment of fury, unleashes words undeserving of anyone to hear, not even ganondorf himself. he needs something that will just sit there and take it and right now he's beginning to understand the frustration zelda felt all those years ago when all her efforts went under appreciated. he decides this act is some sort of revenge for how the goddess has ignored them, even if it really isn't her fault; he just needs to feel like he's done anything of use when he's been rendered so powerless. his bitterness only continues to grow the longer she ignores him, until he's exhausted himself from the outburst and stands in the water until his limbs go numb. pathetically quiet, he curses the goddess.

when link learns of zelda's fate after the final tear, he goes missing for weeks. the only noticeable trace of him in the world is the sudden lack of monsters in some areas of hyrule, namely the lynels. the tears had acted as a sort of comfort to know that at least wherever zelda was, she was able to find some sort of comfort or happiness there. the memory of zelda and sonia made him cry hysterically afterwards, of course she still finds a way to speak of him even when they're separated by a millennia or more—but the final tear makes him feel like the air was knocked out of him. he can't even think about it, he tried to ignore zelda's dragon floating aimlessly about the skies for the first few days but the grief became too much. he finds himself cross legged on her snout, braiding blue nightshades amongst silent princesses in her mane, taking comfort in talking to her about the weight of everything on his shoulders. purah's search party is useless when he spends the first week or so constantly by zelda's side, sleeping in amongst the warmth of her locks and offering her buttered apples whenever she perched. "hey, old girl."

seeing zelda this way, knowing she has destroyed herself just so that he may prevail in the fight against the enemy who caused all this suffering.. link vows to become his worst nightmare.

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