✨Stella✨

Leona and her brother (I will post his design another time!) are adopted. In this AU of mine, a couple of years after the events of AoC and Link and Mipha’s wedding, Link and Mipha decided they wanted kids. My headcanon is that the chances of them being able to have biological kids is very unlikely. So they prayed to Hylia asking if she’d help them.

And then Hylia sent Mipha and Link Leona and her brother (probably via a stork blue-winged heron or something because why not?? I think I’m so funny for this)

And something neat about Leona~ even though she is Hylian, she has zora eyes! (really there’s not much difference between the eyes that I’ve noticed except for the fact that zora irises and pupils are taller than hylians’ but still)

Not only that, but they’re her mom’s eyes :)

same kind of thing happened with her brother, even though he’s a Zora, he’s got Hylian eyes that look exactly like his dad’s

And a little more about her ~

She is very adventurous and wants to explore all of Hyrule someday, but her parents don’t let her go out on her own so most of the time she just hangs out in Zora’s Domain.

She studies maps in her free time and probably has all of Hyrule’s geography memorized.

She reeeeeally loves wildberry crepes, and she often cooks meals with her dad :)

She has a cool weapon (that I am struggling to draw correctly so I unfortunately don’t have a picture!) and it’s like a sword and a spear combined, so she learns to fight from both of her parents in both of their styles!

She also has a blupee companion!! He has a little bandana that he wears and he is very cute

Over her pink dress, she wears a tunic that looks a lot like Link’s tunic that was made by Zelda. This is because Zelda also made Leona her tunic! Leona has looked up to all of the champions and the princess ever since she was really young, and wanted to be one of them, so Zelda made the tunic for her as a gift and it’s Leona’s favorite thing to wear!!

She typically likes to wear more casual Hylian clothing, but she does wear some Zora made jewelry as well!

For Mipha I made her fins and her head tail longer (kind of like how Rapunzel’s hair is long but also it’s to show how she grew a bit during the 100 years that Waterblight held her captive). And I modified the Rapunzel dress to something that would fit Mipha’s Zora body~ so the corset is longer for her long torso and has cuts in it for her gills! And her skirt is shorter for her shorter legs, and I made her fins on her hips longer so they’re like a part of her skirt.

So I’ve more or less decided who all the characters will be

Rapunzel = Mipha

Eugene = Link

Pascal = a hot footed frog :)

Mother Gothel = Waterblight Ganon

Hook Hand = Master Kohga (I gave him a vicious sickle as his hook hand!! I was so proud of myself for coming up with that)

Rapunzel’s parents = King Dorephan and Sidon (because as far as I’m aware they’re the only living family that Mipha has in BotW)

Maximus = prolly just gonna be Epona (I haven’t fully decided yet)

And that’s my idea for the characters as of now!!

And yes Link will absolutely be using the smolder on Mipha :D (it won’t work on her tho)

And story wise, basically Waterblight Ganon is keeping Mipha hostage in Vah Ruta to use her healing powers (like Mother Gothel did with Rapunzel), probably to heal monster armies or something, maybe it could somehow explain monster resurrection during the blood moon, I haven’t fully decided. And Waterblight erased Mipha’s memories and took on a different form that looks kinda like Mother Gothel but made of malice and with red hair!

So Mipha is basically just living life in Vah Ruta for 100 years. But once a year when looking out of a window she notices a strange blue light shining from some place (likely somewhere in the mountains near the Domain) and she wants to go there to check it out but Waterblight says the world is dangerous and she can’t. (Like Rapunzel wanting to see the lanterns and Mother Gothel scaring her into staying)

But then Link wakes up from the shrine of resurrection, makes his way to Zora’s Domain, and is asked to retrieve something important from Vah Ruta. I’m thinking it might be her tiara (so unlike how in Tangled, Eugene is stealing Rapunzel’s tiara from the royal family, Link would be retrieving Mipha’s tiara for the Zora royal family). So he goes to do that, finds it hidden somewhere (Waterblight would have hidden it from Mipha because it might’ve triggered her memories) and Mipha is freaked out because she sees him and has no idea who he is, so she knocks him out. Link wakes up, she makes a deal with him to take her to see the lights, in exchange she will give him the tiara.

And since both Mipha and Link lost their memories from before the calamity, they’re both sillier, more lighthearted versions of themselves (which is shown for Link in BotW by some of Link’s goofy dialogue options). Because of this, their personalities are very similar to Rapunzel and Eugene’s. So Mipha is more energetic and outgoing, and Link is sarcastic and extra goofy.

And through their little adventure together they recover some of their memories of each other little by little.

And eventually they will get to the place the strange blue light is from. And that place is the location of a festival! (Possibly the Champion Festival mentioned in BotW?) And the blue light is light from luminous stones that people have brought with them for the festival (haven’t decided what they all do with the stones yet). And then the story takes some inspiration from the side quest in HWAoC where Link thinks Mipha looks more beautiful than ever under the light of the luminous stones, because then they have a whole beaUTIFUL MOMENT LIKE THE LANTERN SCENE IN TANGLED BUT WITH LUMINOUS STONES AAAAAAAAAAA

I’m so normal about miphlink AND Tangled :)