#lu artemis

HERE ARE THE PRINCESSES!!!

And the original sketches (Dot's design inspired by wishyoudwell's design)

I also made for the Links and some extras!!!

Original sketches under the cut

Where like Wars is trained to only follow orders in the army without question, or he's a sword spirit specifically made for certain war related things? And he finds his own sentience and has to learn that he can in fact make his own choices?

What if

That, but Warriors is like a magical construct made to serve the Royal Family? He starts to gain his sentience during the War of Eras when Tune and Mask are left alone with him one too many times. The kids help him to say "no" to things that aren't fair, and to choose his favorite color and the commanding officers hate it!!

Their perfect soldier is "defecting" and there's nothing they can do about it because the Princess is missing and magic users are busy fighting in the war to fix such a small thing.

Only when Zelda comes back, she's already seen all the progress made by Wars and Tune and Mask as Sheik! Heck- as Sheik, she had encouraged it, pushed the limits of how far Warriors could go without direct orders or by finding loopholes or even outright breaking rules!

Zelda is all for it.

Option to make it angsty because why not: It all gets temporarily undone whenever Wars is aware that there is royalty in the room with him.

He could be sentient with Sheik, but not Zelda. They think it's because his primary directive was to protect the royal family. That directive is stronger than any other order or whim or want because it was the thing he was made to do!

Mayhaps they figure this out before the "Zelda and Sheik are the same person" reveal. Maybe Wars knows Sheik as their own person too much to ever see Sheik as Zelda, so it's harder to be himself around Sheik, but not nearly as impossible as it is around Zelda.

He thought it would be fine on the LU quest...

Like- sure, there would be the occasional visit to someone or another's castle and they meet the Zelda that lives there. But Time and Wind are right there with him to distract the others from seeing the stiff posture and blank face. It helps that the Zeldas of other Eras don't typically give out direct orders to the Chain, much less specifically to Warriors!

Until they reach Legend's time.

Maybe Legend spills the secret on his own. Maybe Fable calls him her brother. Maybe a knight or servant calls him "prince."

It doesn't matter. Wars now knows for a fact that Legend is of the Royal Family. And. He can't. Do anything. Nothing without Legend explicitly saying he 'has to.' Legend can't even say "if you want, you can do this" it has to be a direct order to get Wars to do anything, from take care of himself to battle an enemy.

Legend hates it.

Warriors hates it.

They all hate it!

Wars wants to tease Legend the way he did 2 hours ago. He wants to call him stupid for blaming himself for being born royalty. Wars knows that if he had mentioned this tidbit about himself that Legend would have done everything in his power to keep his lineage a secret.

Legend wants to be able to tell Wars to "Get lost" without him listening to him! (That specific instance cause high panic amongst the Chain as it took hours for Twilight, Wild, and Hyrule to finally find the Captain! But don't blame Legend too much for saying such a thing- he had temporarily forgotten the situation, and felt the presence of a knight looming over his shoulder after a long day [worrying about his friend].)

Wars knows that it isn't likely for him to be able to act normal around Legend again.

But Wind won't take that.

Wind was there when the Captain had started to gain sentience. He knew all the buttons to push to get a real reaction from his brother. Time did too. He just needed a push of his own to get his Old Man brain to remember.

So Wind takes it upon himself to find every loophole in everything Legend says to or around Wars.

Example:

Legend: Wild made breakfast, eat some.

Wind, holding a cookie Wild made the night before: He didn't say what counted as brekfast!

Legend of course catches on, and starts forming his sentences to Warriors to have as much wiggle room as possible while still being considered coherent.

Wars is slowly coming back to himself.

Maybe it ends with Wars being able to say "no" directly to something Legend says. Maybe the Chain go to Wars' castle to see Artemis and she tells him to rise from his bowed/kneeling position after he greets her. Only for him to look up at her with a smile and say "No."

Warriors is a Penelope emulating an Odysseus.

Or Sun/Sky

Or Wild/Flora (honestly, I think those two are just as much fun QPR as they are romantic)

What happened moments afterward

"Who let him in."

Masterpost about Dark!

If you think it’d be fun and are ready to share, I’d love to hear what you have for the others — Lullaby, Artemis, Dot, and Aurora and/or Dawn!

Do Lullaby and Time have history? Does Artemis know what a vampire is? Does Dot have family ties to supernatural agencies, like Four? Does Hyrule even know his Zelda(s)?

I have ideas for quite a few of them but they aren’t all fleshed out sadly but here’s what I got so far

Lullaby- goes by age 32

Is the eldest sister of Artemis and Flora. She isn’t very close with them due to the very large age difference.

She were once on a Time and Ganon while working for the family business ( Knights ). But during the battle against Major she was critically injured and fell into a coma.

After she woke up her whole life was thrown out of whack. Her team had been disbanded and she was no longer allowed to do field work.

That doesn’t stop her tho , she goes out anyways under the name Sheik to do the things she’s good at , she hasn’t been caught yet. It probably helps that most people assume she’s a man while as Sheik. Which she doesn’t mind at all

Dawn age 11

Dawn is part of a coven of witches deep in the mountains. Her mother is the head witch and one day she’ll be the head witch too. So she works really hard at her studies. Her and Hyrule are - were best friends.

Since Hyrule was taken she’s been working really hard at her studies hoping to make a spell that can bring him back home. But it’s hard to stay hopeful when the grown ups always look so sad when she brings it up. What’s mourning ? She’ll have to look it up later.

Dot age 10

Not got much on Dot , no big lore sadly. But I do know that she is Fours rival at school. Their both little smart ass trouble makes who see each other as competition both in academics and in messing with each other

Artemis age 16

Artemis is the middle child and it shows , all her dad attention either on Flora or work , it leaves Artemis with nothing

So she throws herself into both her education and her social life. She’s the prettiest most likeable little lady in town and for good reason.

And everything was fine until she got a part time job at the fairy fountain cafe and now she has to deal with a winy vampire that’s sadly growing on her

Fable age 17

Fable doesn’t know much if anything about her bio family. All she does know is that her parents were too young when they had her and so she was given up for adoption. But that’s fine because she’s got 3 of the best aunties in the world , Din , Nayru and Farora are the best even if their kinda weird. But In a family was witches everyones a little odd.

um i fucked up his hand but we ignore that ok? i forgot how to draw hands

we all love bunny boy here