Our Hydrangeas

Hello! My name is Flora, and this is my links-meet AU. Our Hydrangeas follows Marigold (from Minish Cap) and Sunflower (from A Link Between Worlds) as they're forced to travel through time together. While being haunted by ghosts and enduring the horrible experience of forced allyship, the two meet various heroes and learn more about each other. Cue the mortifying ordeal of being known.

You have my word that I will never use generative AI in any capacity. I harbor no respect for those who do.

Dedications

Character Guide

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Designs + Extra Content

Chapter Three: Finding Stable Ground

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Lost Track of Time, part ten

Forgot to post this earlier! Today (5/11) marks 2 years since I first designed this guy. Been having art block so all you get is a meme, though

Lost Track of Time, part nine

People are so quick to forget about lesbians — in queer history, in pride settings, in fandom, etcetera. That alone is disgusting, but in the setting of a linksmeet AU, this issue becomes even more apparent. We center our creations along a line-up of men and most never think to deviate.

Here's the thing: The reason Link is how he is, with an arguably androgynous appearance and little to no voice and personality of his own, is because that space is meant to be for the player to insert themselves in. Link is designed for you to be able to see yourself in him.

And yet most of the popular AUs I've seen have little to no good representation for queer women of color. And in AUs where there is a character that represents an often excluded group, they are ignored in favor of other characters — typically whiter, typically easier for the audience to see as a "man", regardless of if they are one or not.

What I am saying is that the queer community could not exist the way it does today without black trans women and lesbians. What I'm saying is that you owe your rights to people you don't know enough about to name. What I'm saying is there's a reason "Lesbian" is the first word in the LGBTQIA+ acronym, and most don't even know why.

Lost Track of Time, part eight

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Wanted to wish the most amazing girlie a happy birthday! <3 (My only regret is not having had enough time to color this)

This is a good question! Thank you for asking it :)

Sunflower definitely has his reservations about Hilda. She used him and wasn't honest with him, which absolutely doesn't sit right with him. But it's also easier for him to distance themself from her, because as you said, it's less personal. It's so much easier for Sunflower to direct all their anger and hurt feelings at Ravio, someone he got to know personally, someone he shared a home with, than it is for him to get angry at someone who has incredible distance from him.

And Sunflower is a caring person, no matter how much they may try to deny it. He understands why Hilda did what she did — and he understands why Ravio did what he did. And that makes it worse, I feel like? They refused to turn a blind eye to Lorule, and so they refused to not do everything they could to help it, including wishing on the Triforce. They wanted what was best for them, and he's glad they got it. But he's also not convinced manipulation and lying was the only way to do that.

Lost Track of Time, part seven

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