#lu headcanons

I've seen so many different hc's regarding the Chain's ages, I wanted to throw mine in the ring too!! I know JoJo has already picked out ages in the comic and these aren't exactly like those, more so just for fun!

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Time- "old man" this and "old man" that. this man is THIRTY AND THRIVING. I love the idea of him being really not that old, just older. get this man into the club. his mental age is a little screwy (or a lot screwy if you so desire) because of all the time meddling and definitely plays up the old man persona when he can bc he's a little shit.

Warriors-23, only a few years removed from the War. was the oldest on his adventure and the others all look up to him, including Time. (literally as well, man is taaaaaallll). they all consider him a perfect example of a True Hero™, he hates it bc in his opinion he's a failure. he's not the only one who thinks like this. probably the only one to have a real job. comes off very serious, but can be silly goofy when the situation calls.

Twilight- 22, because vibes. THE older brother of all time. definitely doesn't have a soft spot the younger links. no of course not. no, he is not compromised by Wild (and Four and Wind and Hyrule)'s puppy dog eyes, he just thought the kid should have everything he ever wanted and if anything happened to him, Twi would kill everyone and then himself. still living and working on the farm back home but started to feel that early 20s restlessness before joining the chain.

Sky- also 22 because vibes. very much a quiet leader. he may not be leading the group into battle, but he is a gentle presence and many of the Links gravitate towards him when they're having a bad day. the Chain sees glimpses of the king he is to become sandwiched between that 22-year-old dumbassery. a great teacher and always has some old wives' tale (in his time, they're just wives' tales) to fix that stubborn stain or mend your tools.

Legend-turns 20 with the Chain (pick your poison: fluff or angst) outsiders seem to think he's much older, and he carries himself like a war-hardened vet, because he is. when he's alone, and eventually with the Chain, he relaxes and shows little bits of the kid/young adult he actually is.

Wild-(1)18. I know some see him as a bit younger when he's with the Chain, but I think he is 17 turning 18 post-Shrine of Resurrection and joined the Chain a year later. weirdly swings between extremely mature and extremely childish depending on the situation. relearning how to be a person post-amnesia is much more difficult than it seems, especially with an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex. pulls the 118 card on Wars to piss him off. ("Being in a coma for 100 years does not make you old enough to be in charge, Champion!!")

Hyrule-18-ish. was like so so so young on his adventure(s). doesn't really feel adult-ish even after all that time, and that's not related to being on his own for so long at all nuh-uh. he’s not entirely sure when his birthday is, but 18 sounds mostly right. like Legend, once he's able to trust the Chain, he acts much younger. occasionally get's mistaken for Wind's age because something something fairy genetics make you baby faced so long.

Four- 16. i just think it's funny because its four 4s in that age. Four 4's for the Four guys inside one guy named Four. peak. absolutely gets mistaken for younger (is this in the comic or just a common hc??), but is much more reserved than the rest of the younger Links. is lowkey a child prodigy for blacksmithing, but it's a bit overshadowed by the whole Hero thing.

I wasn't sure if I had an exact age for each of them when I started thinking about the response, but apparently I do! Buckle up for my favorite big guy, I have a lot to say about him in particular heheh... And the not-so-big guy too. But most of them are just based on vibes, behavior and my own experiences

Time - 32

Obviously the oldest, but not old by any means. He's still quite young, but already an ADULT adult if you know what I mean. As for his mental age, he's not much older imo, he just likes messing with the others. I often see people just adding 7 years to his physical age because of the OoT time jump, but he wasn't a 16-17 year old returned to the body of a 9-10 year old by the end of the game. He was still mentally a kid, which is exactly what makes his story so fucked up. And as for Majora's mask, I don't think he's spent this much time stuck in the three day cycle, certainly not enough to make him a few years older. Now, it is possible that he had used the ocarina again afterwards which would also add to his age, but, well, we don't have any evidence to prove it (at least not yet.. or not that I'm aware of??), so I'm just going with his games. And his Old Man talk™? Great Deku Tree influence. As simple as that

Warriors - 27

Similar to Time, he's already an adult adult, but still young. Being in his late 20s just feels right for him, I don't have much to say here tbh

Twilight - 23

Also no comments here other than 1) he is a little older or "not too far off in age" than Four; 2) he reminds me of a friend of mine who is the same age, so I just assigned it to him subconsciously

Sky - 21

Logic makes me want to make him the same age as Twilight, but he just SEEMS younger than him, I'm not sure how to explain it. It might be because he seems a little less serious than him, but yeah, they're still close in age

Four - 20

I will die on this hill. It feels like a perfect age for Four - still young enough to be a little bit of an idiot, to not want to settle and just explore the world instead, but old enough to have this emotional maturity and (slight) sense of responsibility that he's got. I also like to think that he was at the peak of puberty (16-17) during the FSA events, because if going against everyone and constantly arguing with yourself isn't a perfect metaphor for that age - I don't know what is. Another thing I wanna mention is that I saw people saying him being offended by being called a kid is what makes him younger in their eyes, but as a young adult who's constantly mistaken for a 11-12 year old I want to say - it was really annoying at 16 and it doesn't stop being annoying in your early 20s

Wild - 19 (well, 119)

I agree with you about Wild's age, he just doesn't seem 17 to me at all, and tbh in my eyes he wasn't even 17 during the events of BotW. HOWEVER, the way I think about it is that he just... doesn't know/forgets how much time has passed since he woke up? I guess at some point he remembered or found out how old he was, and later he just couldn't be bothered to count

Legend and Hyrule - 17

The recent update. I rest my case

It'd be incredibly funny if the Chain got their consciousness swapped before they even met in person and suddenly found themselves living the life of a complete stranger Link, and struggling real bad. Like, holy goddesses, how is this guy living like this? And why is his Hyrule so weird?

Wind: He wakes up in Sky's body and finds himself flying above the clouds on a huge fucking bird the size of the Helmaroc King. Then, promptly flings himself off and plummets toward the earth (which traumatizes Sky's Loftwing). Wind can't believe this! This Link lives on a sky island, which is cool! He has a flying whale and Beedle too! Cool. Cool! But what kind of shitty civilization doesn't invent a flying boat!? Wind is absolutely going to engineer bird-free travel.

Legend: He wakes up in Warriors' body and immediately decides he's in hell. This guy's stupid career choice is the antithesis of Legend's ethos of living a good fucking life, and this Hyrule must have been designed specifically to torture his free spirit. Understandably, Legend attempts desertion and gets hunted down and dragged back into service by the scariest Impa. He wishes they'd just throw him in jail for the crime (at least that'd be entertaining). Instead, he gets chained to a desk, forced to do paperwork while wearing pants.

 Sky: He has an existential crisis when he wakes up in Time's body and is informed that he's a married adult with a full-time job. There's a wife, he's not in love with Zelda?? And this guy is adulty-adult, and Sky's expected to fill this guy's shoes without accidentally sabotaging his marriage? And what is a cow? And what is a horse? And what is a tax?? He has to do adult responsibilities? Miss Malon, may I wreck that rude man Ingo's house? Your husband would do the same, please.

Twilight: He's miserable because he wakes up in a world with no goats, and in the body of a Link who needs a power bracelet just to lift a pot (he wakes up in Legend's body). He doesn't have a great time investigating the Dark World (he goes there because he thinks it might be connected to the Twilight Realm. Don't blame a guy for having hope, will ya?), and ends up running for his life as a pink rabbit. This guy's body is weird, Twilight decides. He can't go anywhere without magic happening to him. Gets into the water? Fish tail activated. Ugh.

Hyrule: He's in Wind's world, in Wind's body, and realizes he really should've learned to swim ages ago. But in his defense, it never came up because he had his raft, and he could walk on water with his magic boots! None of which this boy has. Sad sigh. The goddesses gave this world far too much water, and Hyrule is dying to walk on his own two feet! He's drowned too many times after falling overboard and having to be fished out by the pirate girl, who charges him a ridiculous amount of rupees every time for being a landlubber.

Four: He gets Wild's body. At first, it's actually a pretty chill experience despite waking up in a stranger's body. He gets tall (not that he cares), but the moment he swings a sword and it breaks, his mind spirals, and he ends up bedridden with guilt because he's violating the smithing oath about doing no harm to a weapon. How could he ever face his grandpa? He's going to be excommunicated from his guild, his lineage forever tarnished, because no matter what he does-no matter how carefully he does it-this guy's body, or this guy's world, somehow finds a way for every weapon to break in his hands. It's driving him insane.

Warriors: He ends up in Hyrule's world, with lots and lots of dungeons that apparently expect him to clear them. Alone. He doesn't understand how this world expects a barely-adult man to wander into caves and dungeons by himself. Warriors demands a troop and a salary. He gets denied a troop and a salary because the kingdom's budget is tight. Warriors unlocks an impressive number of achievements for all the trauma he's accumulated in dungeons. "Why dungeons?" he sometimes sobs. "Why do so many weirdos live in dungeons too?"

Wild: He's already short by his Hyrule's standards, but holy Hylia, the guy (Four) he's possessing(?) is short-short. And whenever Wild pokes things carelessly, he somehow gets even shorter. Getting chased by a "cat" and every woodland critter is no fun. Also, Wild wants to wander and dilly-dally; he wasn't born and bred to work a 9-to-5 in a smithing shop (which he has absolutely no idea how to run), not to mention all the chores this guy's grandpa still expects him to do! Why is a kid this age already a professional smith, anyway? Child labor is wrong, Wild's Zelda used to say. Free him.

Time: has a treehouse in the middle of a dark oak forest somewhere. no type of pathing whatsover but somehow always finds his way home w no issue. is fully decked out in diamond enchanted armor but spends most of his time collecting different plants for his garden. loves the lush caves it’s the only reason he goes mining and he somehow always lucks out w finding ores. has every mob head and wears them all the time. keeps an allay as a pet that follows him everywhere

Wars: spends most of his time fighting mobs, has every type of armor and weapon, all fully enchanted (though not very good enchantments), hates going mining cuz he always gets lost, but he loves finding spawners. depends on trading to get most of his items. house is made completely of stone, he’s trying to upgrade it into a castle but he’s on thin ice w his stone brick dealer (legend) bc he called him a hoarder. gets trolled constantly

Legend: has been to every single biome and has hella resources from each one, def wanna stay in his good graces cuz if you need something, he’s got like fifty stacks of it. his chest and map room are truly something legendary. pretty fair w trading unless ravios online, he will hijack the exchange and somehow leave you with nothing. has the best luck with enchanting and a personal vendetta against chickens. is trying to get all the achievements done but keeps getting dragged into shenanigans

Wild: no one wants his ass anywhere near their base he is a creeper MAGNET and he sucks at killing them. also doesn’t help that he prioritizes making tnt over everything. he won’t blow people’s stuff up on purpose but everyone is still wary. lives in a beautifully built home, like he genuinely put a ridiculous amount of effort into it but then he’ll try to do something stupid like make a lava trash can and winds up either burning down all his stuff or accidentally falling into it. always has food on him and shares it liberally. will fight mobs w anything but a sword and is always getting lost

Twilight: finds the most beautiful location to build with mountains and trees all around him. his house is small but he has a huge farm w so many crops. name tags every animal he sees but lets them roam free, the others keep finding them all over the map. has a horse stable and welcomes people to borrow them but will hold a grudge if one dies. has several wolves guarding his nether portal and has banned wild from using it bc he’s always bringing in mobs.

Four: sets up camp in the first village he sees, has all the villagers trade levels unlocked and has built a whole wall around to protect them. prefers to strip mine over going to caves cuz he just finds it relaxing. he has plenty of diamonds but prefers to use iron tools. usually the one to be called when someone dies and loses their stuff. really good with red stone, he has an automatic farm for everything

Wind: built a pirate ship in the ocean and uses it as his home. has raided all the shipwrecks and ocean monuments. has a pet pig he keeps in front of the ‘steering wheel’ of the ship. finds the stronghold completely accident and is determined to kill the ender dragon w no help. will eventually succeed. always has a boat on him. gets really excited about treasure maps, will tag along if someone else finds one.

Sky: built his home in the sky and is always falling off the side. is the first to find an elytra for this reason and is really good at flying. he uses one diamond sword that he keeps mending over and over again. has several pet parrots and they always startle him but he refuses to leave his home w out one. feels really bad about killing any animals and will apologize to them every time he does.