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I needed this headcanon on a miserable Monday morning. Here, have your soul back. Your headcanons are now canon to me.

might be going crazy or something...

Warriors is sometimes depicted as a cocky flirt, which, as an aromantic person, I'm guilty of jokingly flirting with strangers on the internet, but ANYWAYS... I genuinely don't think he's like... a romantical if you catch my jist. Yes, he flirts, but as a way of empty flattery, and he doesn't seem to want anything to come out of it whatsoever.

In one of jojo's early sketches of the chain, he refers to marriage as "shackles" when Time shows off his wedding ring. In another sketch, he actively hides from a woman in a tavern. So what I'm getting at here is underneath all of that confident, flirtatious energy... he's scared. He doesn't want a relationship. He doesn't dream of settling down, like a lot of the chain, but he has different reasons for thinking that way.

Cia.

Warriors literally had a stalker. Straight up. She waged war to get in his pants. That's... eugh. She locked him in a room full of pictures that she took of him. Statues of him, everywhere. Just imagine the stress. He was like what? Seventeen? He was ALREADY a child soldier with hundreds of people counting on him. No wonder he refers to marriage as "shackles". Also, the guilt? A lot of victims blame themselves, I don't doubt Warriors was one of them, especially because she started a war over it that killed hundreds of soldiers. He would feel like that's his fault. You can see from how he treats the chain that he really does care about people. He's not just "haha cocky flirt boy". He probably had so many sleepless nights just blaming himself for the deaths of his soldiers.

WOULD ANYBODY WANT A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP AFTER EXPERIENCING THAT!?!?!

I'm aro, but I'm gonna go ahead and say no.

not me getting overly emotional over a fictional character. Cough.

o7

Cue the manic hyperfixation tomorrow after my fricking math test in which I write like 5k of madness in an hour. I fucking love the internet. Holy shit I am gonna show up to that math test sleep deprived as fuck.

Hear me out. What if at some point during the Chain's adventures they come across their past selves WHILE in the middle of their own quests. Like (example) they walk into Wild's era and he's there fighting his first lynel. And now you can either choose the angst or crack path.

Angst: This is Wild like two weeks after waking up in the Shrine of Resurrection. He is fighting this lynel with the same amount of finesse that I did. As in he is losing. Badly. So they either send in one or multiple or maybe they YOLO it and it's the entire gang. They get past Wild back up on his feet, maybe give him a weapon that won't break after like 5 hits, and help him out. Then they go back and present Wild is like 'yeah that happened but I'm better now' or something. Yeah.

Crack: On the other hand, you could also go full speedrunner Wild mode and write him absolutely destroying this lynel. Like this poor thing has no chance against the physics-defying and mindbogglingly unpredictable Wild. This kind of situation is the reason why you can't spell the word "bewildering" without 'Wild' and he fucking owns it. Fuck it, maybe past and present Wild even team up and briefly break the universe via accidental glitch. Yup.

So yeah, this would happen for the entire Chain, ideally. I'll probably write this at some point. Maybe. Who knows. I just thought this up while studying for a math test and it's way too late at night for me to be functioning properly so yeah.

HELP WHY ARE THE PICTURES SO ON POINT??? ESPECIALLY TWILIGHT AND LEGEND??? I'M DYING HELPPPPP

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I see Warriors' pic and all I think about is him going "yo girl on a scale of 1 to AMERICA how free are you tonight?" because that one short has been looping in my head for HOURS TODAY. PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME YOU'VE SEEN THIS YT SHORT.

I’m fully aware this blog only has an intro and one post so far but I already love it ngl (thanks for making me bust up laughing at weird times!🤣)

might I request what each of the Links would serve jail time for? It can be the normal “arson/being too cute/etc” format or something new, whatever strikes your fancy

We’re so glad you appreciate our chaos! Inopportune laughter is the spice of life.

As it happens, this was one of the next projects on our list! We’ll post it a bit early.

~ Mod Legend 🐰🌺

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Hear me out. What if at some point during the Chain's adventures they come across their past selves WHILE in the middle of their own quests. Like (example) they walk into Wild's era and he's there fighting his first lynel. And now you can either choose the angst or crack path.

Angst: This is Wild like two weeks after waking up in the Shrine of Resurrection. He is fighting this lynel with the same amount of finesse that I did. As in he is losing. Badly. So they either send in one or multiple or maybe they YOLO it and it's the entire gang. They get past Wild back up on his feet, maybe give him a weapon that won't break after like 5 hits, and help him out. Then they go back and present Wild is like 'yeah that happened but I'm better now' or something. Yeah.

Crack: On the other hand, you could also go full speedrunner Wild mode and write him absolutely destroying this lynel. Like this poor thing has no chance against the physics-defying and mindbogglingly unpredictable Wild. This kind of situation is the reason why you can't spell the word "bewildering" without 'Wild' and he fucking owns it. Fuck it, maybe past and present Wild even team up and briefly break the universe via accidental glitch. Yup.

So yeah, this would happen for the entire Chain, ideally. I'll probably write this at some point. Maybe. Who knows. I just thought this up while studying for a math test and it's way too late at night for me to be functioning properly so yeah.

I will cry.

WAIT—

What happens when we get to the end of LU? What if we actually have to see them say goodbye to each other 🥺

Me, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and then an hour into the 20 minute nap. The idea of getting up and getting my shit together is scary. Wake me up in another hour.

Fanart from Linked Universe

@aaa-batteryy this was me when I showed up to school that day with NEON RED hair lmao

Erm, actually I should be locking in for the weekend “get my shit together again grind”

“Urm actually 🤓☝️” ahh

Do fairy wings have nerves? Also, this is SO DETAILED. DANGGG!!!

As I’ve said before, I miss torturing Hyrule.

I drew him being captured by a fairy hunters, they believe that fairy blood can cure all diseases. They tore off his wings so he couldn’t fly away and escape.

Warning: blood

ngl I thought he was half-buried lmao

Tfw a goofy guy pops out of your shadow

There's 10 Links in the Linked Universe Chain. Here count with me.

Sky

Time

Legend

let's save Four for later

Hyrule

Twilight

Wind

Warriors

Wild

and finally, Four!

So uh... I got randomly really motivated and wrote 752 words of madness in like an hour? I am a really yappy wall. Enjoy!!!

PUMPKIN SOUP STORIES

The pumpkins on Skyloft looked like actual pumpkins. Which was weird because Wild knew that Sky was supposedly the furthest removed from him in time so theoretically they should’ve had the most differences in their food. But no, the pumpkins were definitely the same as the ones Wild bought in Kakariko, just slightly less fortified. 

Wild put the last of the butter into the pot. He was following the same recipe he used with his own era’s pumpkins but the results were looking good so far. He picked up the new ladle Four had gifted him last week (the old one had shattered against a bokoblin’s head a month ago) and stirred the soup. 

Maybe it was the altitude or the very stressful week he’d had in Hyrule’s Hyrule but Wild didn’t notice someone approaching until they were already standing right next to him. He craned his neck back to glance at them before turning back to the stew. 

“Do you need any help with the stew?” Hylia – no, Zelda – no, Sun asked. 

“No. I’m basically done.” Wild said. 

“Okay. Has the altitude sickness gotten any better?”

“Yeah, the green potion worked. I could probably sleep for a week, though.”

Sun smiled at this. “I get what you mean. I took a thousand year nap after my first time on the surface. Well, I suppose that was a little different – but still.”

“Oh, I was only out for a century,” Wild replied, picking up the ladle again.

“What?”

“Huh?”

Wild looked up again at Sun when she didn’t respond. He stirred the soup and set down the ladle. “So… why were you asleep for a millenia?”

Sun didn’t answer right away, instead choosing to sit down next to Wild with her gaze fixed on the pumpkin soup. She told him about growing up with Link on Skyloft and the knighting ceremony. She told him about falling to the surface for the first time, alone and afraid. She’d led her best friend through the unknown and dangerous new world. Then she’d sacrificed herself for a thousand years to seal the inevitable darkness away until she awoke. 

She told him about The Imprisoned and Demise and even though Wild knew how Sky’s story went, he still listened. So when she reached the end of that story he told his own, or what little he knew of what came before and the life he’d lived in the aftermath. 

He told her about his family, the one he knew not in his own memories but from the little pieces that Mipha remembered. He had a sister, once upon a time. There was no knowing if they’d died during the Calamity. He told her about becoming a knight when he was twelve and a royal guard just two years later. 

Then he told her about the Calamity and the guardians and waking up alone and free a hundred years later. She listened when he told her about the months of preparation and happiness he lived before fighting Ganon once more in a fight both far harder and far easier than he could ever have imagined. 

The pumpkin soup was done by then so Wild split it into ten portions and called over the rest of the group to join them. The stories went forgotten as Wind burned his tongue and Sky finally got around to properly introducing everyone to Sun. 

They didn’t stay on Skyloft long, stories of unnaturally strong monsters across Hyrule calling them down to the surface for another week before they stepped through another portal and were gone. 

The next time they returned, Wild let Sun scoop the seeds out of the pumpkins (he would never trust anyone with the cooking pot again after Hyrule managed to light his ladle on fire). They laughed as they worked, scars that had been too raw the last time they met now healed enough to make light of. 

They talked about their lives between their own adventures and the first portal. Sun told Wild about her childhood misadventures with Sky and Wild in turn told her about Flora and her fascination for frogs. 

Wild took a small pouch of Skyloftian pumpkin seeds to try growing in Hateno that visit. He smiled faintly to himself when he noticed it was missing one day. He turned in the direction of a familiar castle that would soon become the ruins he’d woken up to two years ago. 

The pumpkins on Skyloft looked remarkably similar to the ones in Wild’s Kakariko.

Yall, I just realized a thing...

WILD AND SUN WOULD BE BEST FRIENDS.

hear me out here.

Both of them died, came back, and had to restore their memories. They both deal with feeling like an intruder in their own body, feeling like they can't live up to who they used to be in their past life. WAR PTSD!! FLASHBACKS!!! They're both knights (sort of? This is a bit of a stretch lmao) Sun went to a knight school, Wild used to be a knight before he kicked the bucket.

I need more content of them interacting and just relating to each other. Because they really would relate. Their experience of dying and coming back is not a very common one, and having someone else to relate to would probably make them overjoyed. Also, Wild has already spoken to her. Mostly just as a business exchange and she's Hylia then, but STILL. Pls someone write a fic abt them, I will marry you. This is my official proposal. Compete for my aroace hand right now. GET WRITING PLEASE YOU'LL HAVE MY SOUL. (because I'm too lazy to)

@palmolli uh how crazy would it be if I looked at this and went yoink mine and my brain exploded everywhere and now I have a fic idea for this??? Thank you to future me for agreeing to write it at some point.

Okay so it goes something like this:

Wild is trying to cook dinner on Skyloft. Note the 'trying' bit cuz I may randomly decide that it's funny to make him high as fuck on altitude or something just for shits and giggles.

Sun passes by and offers to help cook because she is less likely than any of the Links (including Wild btw) to burn the sun out of the sky (pun absolutely intended).

Wild makes some offhand comment about how he could "sleep for a day" and Sun's like "oh I've already been out for a couple millennia" (I've never actually been able to play SS so not sure if it's a thousand years actually T_T)

Wild says (0 hesitation, this is just pure unfiltered Wild energy here) "oh cool I was only ever dead for 100 years. A thousand is crazy."

Cue the pikachu shock meme except they're two-way spider-man multiverse pointing meme-ing at each other and then that brain explosion emoji. (Holy shit I sound insane. Never mind this is Tumblr. With all due respect, I'm assuming you understand at least some of this.)

And then there's the trauma dumping sesh with Wild being like "I got lasered and burnt to a crisp by a bunch of ancient metal eyeballs and died" and Sun's like "I got my soul eaten by this big-ass evil monster that turned out to be a fricking god."

Then they just look at each other and start cackling. Because obviously Trauma Funny™.

Holy shit what the fuck have I done. Actually never mind this is absolutely worth it.

Yall, I just realized a thing...

WILD AND SUN WOULD BE BEST FRIENDS.

hear me out here.

Both of them died, came back, and had to restore their memories. They both deal with feeling like an intruder in their own body, feeling like they can't live up to who they used to be in their past life. WAR PTSD!! FLASHBACKS!!! They're both knights (sort of? This is a bit of a stretch lmao) Sun went to a knight school, Wild used to be a knight before he kicked the bucket.

I need more content of them interacting and just relating to each other. Because they really would relate. Their experience of dying and coming back is not a very common one, and having someone else to relate to would probably make them overjoyed. Also, Wild has already spoken to her. Mostly just as a business exchange and she's Hylia then, but STILL. Pls someone write a fic abt them, I will marry you. This is my official proposal. Compete for my aroace hand right now. GET WRITING PLEASE YOU'LL HAVE MY SOUL. (because I'm too lazy to)

headcanon that wild can always tell where in time they are based on how edible everything looks. like imagine the chain walks through a portal and the first thing wild does is taste a pebble and he’ll know down to the century when they are.

headcanon that sometimes sky will just hide under his sailcloth and fall asleep curled up on the ground and whenever the chain ends up in a snowy field they just have to spend a couple minutes looking for him

headcanon that when sky finds out about everyone’s fucked up childhoods he falls deep down the imposter syndrome rabbit hole

when you realize those 2 seconds of "checking your notifications" turned into 2 hours of doomscrolling and you still have 2 weeks of homework to get done and counting. oh yeah and it's only a monday.

(image from linked universe)

Time: Okay, let's stop here for the night. Sky *trips/faceplants on the ground*: fuckkkkk

cue the entire chain whirling around to stare at him and bonus points if he's already dead asleep

i think jojo should let one of the links say fuck at some point in LU, and i think it’d be incredibly funny if it was sky

No, Time, bring your dog to work day was next week. Huh? What did you say?

Time: Hear me out. This is Twilight. It's a long story.

twilight being the goodest boy

hey guys im back! survived my exams (barely), and am now home for the semester break. so expect some more posts soon!

idk if im happy with how this turned out, it was sitting unfinished for quite some time so i lowkey just wanted to get this over with lmao

but yeah its here now and i still hope yall like it! and also THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the absolute insane support on my last post, i honestly got a bit emotional seeing how many people liked it😭

the boys once again are from linked universe by the amazing jojo!

Heyo. Keep living because it always just might get better.

Don't lose hope, my friends!

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do not reblog to communities, thank you <3

@aaa-batteryy the sunday night homework grind is on. as the kids say, i am not locked in.

Hang in there buddy

(I’m shit at this but uh art creds to @linkeduniverse 😭😭)

Legend being so real with the “if I don’t acknowledge the situation then it never happened” mentality.

"It's ok to cry"

it’s okay wild. the backpack koroks can’t hurt you here.

Here’s a redraw of an amazing and cute drawing from @hetacon

I meant for it to just be a sketch but I got carried away and ended up spending 19 hours on it 😂

Time protecting Wild is just alsnsjdhekd! I love it so much 🥹

They’re father and son your honor

Hope yall like it and be sure to check out @hetacon ❤️

That feeling when it’s Sunday and you already know the week’s going to be an absolute shitfest.

Captain, it’s Wednesday

reference under the cut

This is a work of art. A masterpiece, if you will.

*skids across the floor* my modern au Twi and Warriors doing that “a boy who’s jacked and kind” tiktok trend (for people without tiktok: those are lyrics to a sabrina carpenter song and in the videos, usually a boyfriend will pick up his partner and stick them up on their shoulder, however ive seen it mainly with friends and also wlw couples, but i think the trend originated with straight couples) because they thought it would be fun and also neither of them have a partner to do it with, so a best friend/roommate will have to do

EXCEPT. Twilight misjudges how much Warriors weighs and assumes he’s going to be heavier than he is, and Warriors is used to dance lifts (both as the person lifting someone AND the one being lifted) so he jumps much higher than Twi was anticipating him to to help Twi lift him up to his shoulder, and what ends up happening is Twilight basically fucking throws him backwards over his shoulder and he falls, and the recording camera really just gets a beautiful shot of Warriors getting thrown away and once Twi realizes what’s happened he just stands there frozen facing the camera like 🧍‍♂️ with his hands over his mouth because he’s struggling to process what the fuck just happened and Sky is sitting there choking and dying because he’s laughing to hard because War really just did go flying

does anyone see my vision

His eye’s glowing red in the last panel. His eye is glowing red in the last panel?! HIS EYe IS GLoWInG REd IN THE LAST PANel!!!

Cautionary tale

Quality screenshots right here. I will do all of the above if any of them die lmao.

pov the humor being such a great coping mechanism you forget it’s a trauma response???

What if- what if Wind’s trauma doesn’t register with him until he’s older. What if as a teenager he thinks he’s super cool for going on adventures and fighting and stuff but then the trauma slams into him when he’s older. One day he’ll realise just how fucked up his life was and all the things he disregarded or made a joke about before come back to haunt him. What if…

Warriors is the only one smiling. Just an FYI.

Hello again! I want to say thank you all for the really kind words and notes, I can’t recall a time where my art has been complimented this much!

So take these doodles I did of my 4 favorites!

I do want to say I am very new to the LU, I’ve only learned about it around a month or so ago, believe it or not! I live under a rock!

Also, side note: this is all digital, I haven’t touched a pencil in about ten years 😅 I appreciate your faith in me, though!