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Stuff I’m proud of:

Wisdomverse: (Masterpost!) A duo of Zelda AUs, containing:

Wielders of Wisdom: a Zeldas-meet AU comic (start here), and

The Secrets We Keep: a tale of mysteries and misconceptions starring the Links (start here)!

#lin draws (<- My art! Though I work in generative AI, all my art is drawn by hand and completely my own!)

#lin thinks (<- Theories and analyses galore :)

Redbubble (Stickers and other stuff!!)

Zelda Let’s Plays! (vids | EoW | ALttP | Zelda2 | Zelda1 | TotK | Oracles)

Tactical RPG Challenge Runs! (TriStrat | Engage | TO:R | FFT:WotL | XCOM | FE4)

Currently streaming: Art (Mondays) | FE4 (Tues/Sun) | Hades 2 (Wed/Fri)

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Thanks for all the support, folks! Y’all are great <3.

Blue!

Fun fact: there’s a panel of TFC where I messed up and accidentally colored Lullaby’s eyes blue instead of red.

This was just a mistake on my part, but I’ve decided to pretend that every time I make a mistake on Lullaby’s design, it’s really just Lullaby using her Sheikah disguise magic to subtly mess with the rest of the girls 😆.

[^the logo in question. You’ll find it either hidden or in plain sight on every piece of art I draw!]

I’ve always had a fascination with time and time manipulation! Love a good time travel theory, love historical accounts both real and fake, and in my stream backstory on Twitch, I’m a former clockwork automaton who escaped a time bubble and chose to become human. If I were a fantasy character, I’d be a time mage. Hence the hourglass :)

On a note more relevant to WV, the first ever proper video game I owned was Phantom Hourglass, and it was the only game I owned for two whole years. Despite nearly two decades having passed since then, I still have a fondness for it: in the ZD interview a few months ago, I still chose Phantom Hourglass as one of my top three Zelda games, and the hourglass is obviously a core mechanic of the game. The “sands of time” concept is also brought up once again in the Zelda series in Skyward Sword’s Lanayru Desert, which is perhaps my favorite region across the Zelda series. Love the idea that the sands of the present could be a fertile grassland or vast ocean in the past. It represents possibility and imagination, both played straight and in reverse!

(These references are perhaps why I chose the Wielders of Wisdom invocation to include the line, “from across the sands of time.” The whole Zelda timeline is a vast, ever-changing metaphorical hourglass haha, constantly being flipped and rerun in a never-ending cycle.)

In short, I sign my posts with an hourglass because I like time manipulation, and want to pay homage to the game that got me into gaming 😇.

And to remind myself to enjoy life, because time flies when you’re having fun! :)

Dawn, as you portray her, is an absurdly charismatic person. it might not be the stereotypical "rousing speech" kind of charisma, but it's charisma nonetheless. she has the kind of personal magnetism that comes with being nice. people just... want to help her. she's very easy to like and extremely difficult to hate.

it's not a kind of charisma that can be weaponized or used intentionally, and I'm almost certain that Dawn has no idea that she has any kind of charisma at all, but it's very powerful and is probably one of the biggest reasons why she's still alive.

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Oh, absolutely!

There are, imo, many types of charisma— just as there are many types of wisdom and intelligence. Dawn certainly has a lot of her particular brand of charm, and it certainly helped save her. In WV, the friendly moblins, literal servants of Ganon who have gained their own consciousness after centuries of Ganon’s rule, were moved to pity by Dawn’s plight and worked to help her and Hyrule instead.

Dawn’s charm also works on most of the Zeldas. They can’t help but want to keep her safe, and the older ones respect her for keeping her optimism and sense of wonder despite everything she’s been through. It would have been so much easier for her to end up jaded and cynical after the events of Zelda 1, but Dawn is neither jaded nor naive— instead, she’s aware of the reality of the world but actively chooses to be kind. She’s very strong in her own way.

(Fun fact: Tetra is, perhaps, the most unaffected by Dawn’s charm, because of the traits that Tetra values, and her own personality.)

Hope you're also having a great day/night!

Good question!

After the events of EoW, Tri (who I like to believe is the Voice of the Triforce) essentially merged back with the Triforce and went to sleep again, in the same way Fi does in the Master Sword after SS.

But the Trirod still kept its abilities, and the little power triangles are essentially hosted within the Trirod itself, instead of belonging to Tri. So yup, as you said: Echo was still able to use the Trirod in her original era before the Wizard hit her with the isolation curse. The Wizard knew what she was capable of and came prepared with a spell meant specifically to disable her preferred style of combat.

Anyways, to answer your actual question: there’s a few different things going on there. However, I can confirm that if Dawn tried to use the Trirod, she would not be able to. None of the other Zeldas can use the Trirod except Echo, because no one else has collected enemy dolls. And Echo hasn’t been able to use it Post-Decline.

Funnily enough, there is one other character who has been collecting dolls— Hyrule!

My theory is that Wisdomverse Hyrule could use the Trirod, but he can only summon clones of himself with it, and each clone costs quite a number of triangles.

To be clear, Hyrule wouldn’t be able to use it now either. At the moment in the story, the Trirod works for no one.

(Previous q&a at #lin responds. More theories at #lin thinks)

Nope! Gotta be a Wielder of Wisdom to use the summoning invocation.

No Links allowed so far!

I did it.

12 years later, and despite my aversion to hack and slash games, I was finally able to bring myself to finish Hyrule Warriors 😎

Specifically, I completed all four story paths (Wars&Artemis, Cia, Linkle, Tetra), and unlocked all additional characters that I consider important (Mask, Wind, Medli, Marin, Phantom, and Ravio). I might still continue on through the adventure maps to get some of the extra weapons— and honestly, it’s taken me so long to play this that I might rewatch the cutscenes on stream for fun at some point as well. But this is what I wanted to accomplish in HW when I started out, so I’m glad!

Anyways, here’s a quick Artemis sketch to celebrate.

Game was actually pretty fun! :)

Wisdomverse Masterpost

Sure!

Fandom is best when we all build off of each others’ work, imo. Have fun, and feel free to tag it wisdomverse so I can see it!

My question is about Wild’s new arm. Does it have the same abilities as the one he got from Rauru?

Thank you!!

It’s been a while since folks asked these, but just in case anyone missed it:

Yup— as is now shown in WV Interlude: As I Recall, Wild’s Construct Arm has the usual TotK abilities. Flora re-installed them for him!

I haven’t made a proper reference sheet for WV Post-TotK Flora yet, but I did end up drawing her full body in the As I Recall comic linked above. I’ll make a design page eventually! So many things on my tasklist hahaha.

Until then, just for fun, here’s the rough design exploration page I made while brainstorming for this back in the day :)

(This sketch isn’t perfectly accurate, but it’s got most of the important stuff. The version in this print artwork is the previous version, which is pretty close. The version in Interlude: As I Recall is the most up-to-date.)

Wisdomverse Masterpost

Hahaha good question!

As you noted, Post-Decline Echo currently wields the second level sword from Zelda 1 (the White Sword), which she borrowed from Hyrule. Hyrule himself uses the third level sword (the Magic Sword), so he doesn’t mind lending his previous one to Echo. Echo gave the Sword of Might back to Silent before the final fight of EoW, and didn’t have it when she woke after her curse.

They sure do look similar though, don’t they? :)

As for what Echo thinks about that, for now…

Sure, go ahead!

As long as each post reblogs or links directly back to the original, and each artwork is credited properly, etc. Basically all the stuff you said, haha :).

Feel free to send me a link as well!