Glider's Doodles

GBoH: Golden Blood on His Hands, a Breath of the Wild AU/reimagining

pre-calamity GBoH: general tag for anything before the Great Calamity in the AU

funny little guys: tag for minor characters and canon BotW NPCs

gaffen: GBoH!Link and the protagonist of the main fic. He's got problems.

her birdliness: GBoH!Hylia, Gaffen's constant companion and menace

chalkane: GBoH!First Hero, who is very very dead. also he's hylia's boyfriend or something

cecile/impa: GBoH!Impa, a depressed old lady who also has problems

widget: GBoH!Zelda, who is a weirdo

kishu: the current leader of the Yiga Clan after Master Kohga was "killed"

moya/travy: scrawny little Yiga assassin that follows Gaffen around

farmahna: a forgotten god of trade sealed into a statue

purah, paya, mipha, king rhoam, robbie, cherry, sidon, revali

Alternate Triforce, a Zelda AU set in its own version of Hyrule

minor ALT characters

ALT concepts and lore

jo/link: ALT!Link, who is awful and also a tween

gan: ALT!Ganon, the local cryptid. I'm jealous of his looks tbh

lancelett: Jo's longsuffering companion and genuine Just Some Guy

sola: A wizzrobe who is part of some weird cult thing

zelda diosia: ALT!Zelda. She's kinda edgy and standoffish

ciless: local girlboss

clavius: sola's dad (runs weird cult thing)

fen: ALT!Link's dad. I like him

blasse: Lance's dad but he denies it

pike, mack, erith, ruber: soldiers in the Hyrulean Army

Other AUs and Characters

Random Zelda AUs

Modern AU

Leylines (Panka, Asim, Sarracenyth, Theodora)

Shalus, Styx, Nadess, Mir

Anila, Eyegore

Pho

Sonja, Athos

Calycanthus, Gypsoa, Lamia, Mellifer

Roleplay Characters

Zelda (Crystal) : Several generations ago, to keep the Machine powered, the royal family gave up a piece of the Triforce they had. This came with a slight caveat. Previously, the Heart Engine, the source of power for the Machine, was maintained by a group of skilled engineers delegated by the people as trustworthy, but the royal family wanted to make sure their piece of the Triforce was well-guarded, so over time, they gained complete control of the Heart Engine, putting shrine maidens in the place of the engineers, and keeping the engineers outside. Zelda was chosen shortly after her birth to be a shrine maiden.

Shrine maidens have a difficult job, and once they're officially in the Central Engine, they can't leave. Giving up everything they knew before is pretty rough, so future shrine maidens usually try and live as full of a life as they can before they make their journey into the Heart Engine.

Zelda...well, she's trying her best. She's tried to pick up every single hobby under the sun, devours books, and when she can, she explores dilapidated areas of the Machine, but she still isn't content. Everyone's happy to make friends with her, and she's friendly back, but she doesn't really connect with anyone, masking her true desires and the overwhelming fear she has of her fate.

Link (Sprocket): A commoner boy that wants to become an engineer someday. He lives in the crowded community of Left Leg, but recently took up a job apprenticing with an engineer. Now that monsters live in most parts of the Machine, it's a dangerous job. Link loves to explore, and really admires the work of the original builders. He'd do anything to learn more about them and uncover the mysteries of his home.

Tusk: A monster that somehow gained sentience after being exposed to a mysterious blue crystal. He's the leader of a group of bokoblins that inhabit the Bowels, a long-forgotten part of the Machine filled with dangers. Slowly, he began to gain an awareness of his own senses, and took control of his own body. Monsters have an organ that can "see" certain types of magic, allowing him to navigate the Machine much more easily than a human can, read strange old messages left behind, and uncover little pocket dimensions. Now that he's broken free, he's started to get dreams where a fairy tells him to seek out a hero.