Linked Brotherhood

Hello hello, and welcome to Linked Brotherhood’s official tumblr!

This AU is all about The Boys™ from Linked Universe, except they’re assassins. Watch as they go through their individual adventures in a three-part story that leads up to the boys taking down their greatest target!

Key Differences:

There won't be any time travel involved. All of them live in one Hyrule that's separated into nine or more "states."

Each Link's name is still Link. They change their names accordingly once they join the field.

Items! There is magic, but some of the boys have guns and similar technology.

The clothes! They are based off Jojo's style yet uniquely our own. There will be references to the LB boys and other key characters posted in the future. What’s more shocking? The fact that Legend has a gun or the fact that he has pants?

The creators of this AU: Destructokat (Kat), Gpow, and Tide!

Kat | Hi! I’m destructokat and sometimes I draw and write. I do all of the art on this blog because I like drawing various characters in assassin hoods, hence the AU of an AU.

Gpow | Hiya, I’m Gpow, your resident gremlin! I’m a writer because I cannot draw to save my life. The fic for this AU will be posted under my name on AO3!

Tide | Hello! I’m Tide, the co-writer/editor of the fic! I write in my free time and I’m glad to be working on such an amazing AU!

Linked Universe (@ LinkedUniverse) is owned by Jojo. We don't own the original characters.

A general content warning: This is an assassin AU. There will be lots of blood, guns, blades, graphic violence, severe injuries, and murder. The fic and Tumblr posts will have specific warnings in the tags, but you should expect these in most of our posts.

The last boy! Somebody had to lose their finger!

I think this one is one my favourite designs. I want to go with an early pilot look with him and it was a lot of fun! The heterochromia was kind of accidental (I started by trying brown eyes and then tried to switch blue and then I liked it). -Kat

Don’t you love keeping your severed finger on a chain as a nice little charm? Anyway, I think my favorite part has to be the crest, but the heterochromia looks great too! -Gpow

I had no idea what I wanted to do for Four going in and look at him now!

I wanted to a) move the colours away from the tunic (and it was pretty fun trying to find new places to put the colours instead) and b) make him more safety orientated. The black leggings and long gloves are fire resistant and the boots obviously protect most of his legs.

Anyway, it's been fun!

My favorite boy!!!!!! I love Four so much. His design is really cool too, I just love how the colors are on the inside of the hood. Plus the multi-colored choker is a nice touch! -Gpow

Four braincells walk into a bar in an assassin’s cloak. That’s it. That’s just Four. Gpow loves him. His cloak is wonderful <3 -Tide

I Only Love Him A Normal Amount. 🫣

Wild is half-Sheikah because the Sheikah rebuilt half his body -

I didn't intend to make a cyborg, it just happened because I went to far with Wild's inherent duality.

He also has his slate, I just could not be bothered.

This boy is gonna go through a lot in this AU, and he’ll be terrifying to go up against ;)

Wind’s my favorite so of course I love this design, but I think Kat did a really good job on this one!! I love my boy.

Warriors! My boy!

He’s had one of the bigger changes from the first time I’ve designed him. I really liked the idea of Warriors having a waistcoat later on and reducing his armour in favour of stealth.

I would say more but... spoilers.

Hyrule ended up turning into a kickboxing, dual sword-wielding, knife throwing badass and nobody should complain. Honestly, imagine the jump spell with hidden foot blades.

Imagine.

The rapier-like sword isn't random but I'll leave that to you to figure out.

Yes, you’re reading that correctly—the boy has an emotional support knife.

My original design for Time was basically Jojo's design with a hood and cape. This time I decided to lean more into the Fierce Deity because that's the guy you really don't want to see in a dark alley. Overall, I'm much happier with with it and he colours ended up being surprisingly alright!

Introducing Linked Brotherhood Twilight!

Twilight can still transform into his wolf form but he doesn't keep it from the others, as it is much more obvious. Look at the puppy ears.

Twilight has his regular hidden blades on both hands but he also his hidden claws! Flicking the wrist activates the regular hidden blades that below the wrist and clenching his fist activates the hidden claws above the wrist.

One of the best parts of all these designs:

Anyone: “I have a—”