Too many fandoms

First up, Ocean! Our boy has been through the ringer a little bit, such is the pirate life. It, like, physically pained me to give him the mustache-goatee combo but it must be done 🤣 now its kind of grown on me. I mostly want to point out his pirates charm earring and his cool tatoo :D (and his extremely messed up nose boy can you even breath 😭). He was fun to design, definitely one of the easier ones out of the bunch.

Rock! I don't really know if I can necessarily say that he's grown so much (still a shortie lol) but here he is, 6 years later! He certainly hasn't had it easy, but out of everyone he's the happiest to hang up the hero mantle and go back to his normal life. As such, I mostly wanted to keep his design fairly simple. He's not kitted out for battle, or carrying around a bunch of crazy items. He's just living life. He's got the physical scars of his adventure but mostly he's moved on from it.

Leaf, my sweet sweet boy who was by far the HARDEST to design and generally figure out post timeskip. Cuz hes not the bubbly child he once was, but making him too stoic and serious just rendered him unrecognizable as a character, which I didn't want. Honestly I'm still trying to figure him out, but under a thin layer of him pretending to be ~an adult~ he's still the same guy we know and love. He's been busy looking for Navi and falling into random worlds Termina style. Meaning he's probably got a mask or item from your favorite fictional property which is just so much fun crossover potential. In terms of design notes, I tried to put in a couple key blue areas to show he's still looking for Navi. He still puts braids into his hair, but stopped braiding plants into it. Lense of truth eye is bc I had a thought that maybe the hero's shade's red eye is actually the weird one because he's a skeleton ghost maybe he's not supposed to have eyes. So the one we see is a magical eye that shows up even when you're a skeleton ghost. Anyways that's cool because his hair over his face to cover it is very reminiscent of Sheik who he misses a lot and tries to emulate because they are the example of a ~functioning adult~ lol

Pinkie!!!!!!! My sweet sweet boy! Like Ocean, he acts pretty similar to how he did as a kid most of the time. The difference here is its not quite as genuine. He is happy to be adventuring and exploring and meeting new people, that's genuine, but he's running from his problems a little too hard in the process. Quick explanation of two Zeldas: Oracle Games Zelda doesn't recognize you during that game so what if she's actually Alttp Zelda's little sister whos lowkey an oracle (in the sees vision of future way). Pinkie hasn't seen Alttp Zelda in 4 years, but he's seen oracle games Zelda much more recently since she traveled out to Holodrum and Labrynna. No sibling theory, I decided, Pinkie's not related to either of them. Which makes oracle games zelda kissing him at the end of a linked game make a little more sense lol. Design notes: his embroidery designs are each inspired by the symbols of the three goddesses/oracles. His bag has Farore's symbols because she enchants it bag of holding style (and helps him get his items back aftering getting triforce teleported without them). Boots have Nayru's symbols, which is what allows him to run fast with them. Tunic has Din's symbols which grant protection. Speaking of his tunic, he never got the 3rd tunic upgrade in A Link to the Past. I did this partially because I never found it and partially because I wanted to find some ways to keep my design distinct from ones I've seen in other very cool and awesome links meet aus.

Ok so one Zelda: Whats up with that? Mostly, I just liked how it worked for the story I wanted to tell with Wood better tbh. He leaves for a long time in order to protect himself and Zelda cuz of the whole blood curse thing, but even so she still gets cursed. Running away doesn't keep the people he loves safe like he'd hoped, so now he's decided to stay. I'm starting to regret such a big deviation from the canon of the games now, but its a bit too late to go back so it is what it is. PInkie can have 2 Zeldas instead because I'm silly like that :P Fairly simple design, he likes to travel light with only the essentials.

Oh, also, height chart! Featuring Tetra and Aryll cuz why not:

These aren’t canon to the story, meaning there won’t be any references to them in the main comic, but they should all be consistent with characters backstory and such. You can ask the links stuff directly, you can ask me stuff if you want, basically go wild

Everyone ok?

Telescope

Best Friend

Birthday Tunic

Hobbies

Fairy?

Do you like the others Leaf?

Mysterious Boot

Birthday rating

Rock’s Crafting

Leaf’s hair

Leaf ♥️

Nature documentary

Fanart allowed

Aryll alarm clock

Get squished

Crossover allowed!

The boys will be sad 😔

Og zelda

What animals would they be?

Little Links is before the boys adventures

Hero of time implications 😭

A key?!

Wood's family and Links design notes

Favorite Game and Proudest of creating?

Link you wish you could include?

Recap of prev asks

Ice cream break!

Scaring Mido

Height and ages

Age, Picori and braiding

Rock tries to figure out the kokiri language

Pinkies brother

Pinkies uncle will be worried

When did Rock meet Zelda?

Cookie for wood

Scaring Mido part 2

Leaf is cool

Quill the mailman

Land boat..?

Ocean and Quill

Pinkie and bunnies

How old is Carver?

Wood and fairies

Boot noticing the fourth wall

Picori festival

How are you Zelda?

How boot hit his head

Pumpkin soup!

Sailcloth

Return of the talking boot

How are you doing Boot?

Leaf and the butterfly

Leaf and the butterfly part 2

Butterfly wisdom

Pinkie vs the crushing weight of ✨destiny✨

Groose and Zelda's dress

Zelda's earrings

Post timeskip ages and Leaf speaking Hylian

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The mermaid suit hat is so cute! (I wouldn't be surprised if more than one shovel was his.)

Leaf has finally spent enough time out of the forest to be understood. That's almost hard to get used to now.

How old is everyone now?

Wood has been given a job and by Hylia he's going to Get It Done

I'm glad you like the hat, I thought it was a fun idea, and the mermaid suit is one of my favorite items so I knew I had to include it on his design. The shovels probably are his, yeah, especially since he's got a bag of holding situation 🤣

Leaf had a very confusing Ocarina of Time experience consisting of Navi translating for him the entire time. Made it a little extra hard when she suddenly left because he had only grasped a little bit of Hylian by then. Luckily Zelda taught him while they figured out a plan to reveal Ganondorf's true motives. It really is weird to get used to him speaking in english dialogue though. Who are you and what have you done with my confused child?!

Little Links epilogue part 8! One more page to go and then we are done 🥺 Well, with the main story at least. I still have plenty of things I want to explore in this world. In some ways, the typical Links meet au has just begun ;)

Little Links epilogue part 7! Brief Wings and his daughter, Star :]

I’ve been on a MerMay kick and wanted to mer one of the lil Links, so here’s Pinky! Normally I try to pick a real fish species, but Pinky having a special fish in his life was too good to pass up. I love Pinky’s older design and wanted to complete the set since he already did the pose based on the OoA game art ;)

Little Links epilogue part 6! The boys are back :)))))

Little Links epilogue part 5! Friends? Who could they be 🤔 also Tetra the pirate queen, number one best influence on children lol.

Little Links epilogue part 4! Sorry its late, consistency isn't my strong suit. But Aryll!!!!

Little Links epilogue part 3! Hi Aryll!!!