#luwild

credit to @loz-chainsofcorruption! I loved your “chain as things my friends have said” post!!

You can find the fic on tumblr and on AO3

Character Breakdowns:

Wind: 8 (Pup) - Tropical Mer

Adult coloring will be Orange with light blue splotches, like a koi fish’s pattern

Fun fact: He and Warriors are, in fact, very distantly related.

Hyrule: 13/14 (Juvenile) - Octopus Mer

Adult coloring: Green with golden freckles all over him

Fun fact: His healing magic is not as strong in this fic, or at least not as developed. Most of his magic

Wild: 15/16 (Juvenile) - Deepsea Mer - Adult coloring: Dark blue with teal lines. The markings on one of his arms are strangely more of a green color, for some reason

Fun facts: His fins are bioluminescent (and his markings as well, when he gets older.) He has giant fins that are good for threat displays but are very delicate. He’s a better fighter then Hyrule, but being in more fights leads to him having a lot of torn fins. Due to being a deepsea Mer, who would naturally have less opportunities to eat, he metabolizes his food well and doesn’t need to feed as often.

Four: 16 (Juvenile)  - Tropical Mer (Based off a beta fish)

Adult coloring: On one side is green fading to red on the fins, the other is blue fading to purple. As a juvenile, he only has the split green and blue

Fun fact: Four absorbed his twin in the egg, which is why his colors are split down the middle. He is the most territorial in the pod. When he and Wild get to know each other, they like to flare their fins at each other to show off and get rid of territorial aggression. Four bites

Legend: 19 (Almost an adult) - Tropical Mer (Based off a Sea bunny, which is a kind of sea slug)

Adult coloring: Light Pink with red markings

Fun facts: He is courting Ravio (A purple sea bunny.) His tail ring functions the same as his pegasus boots, which is why he could catch Hyrule

Sky: 21 (Adult) - Tropical Mer (Based off the flying fish)

Coloring: Red with silver fins and small yellow marks

Fun facts: He is courting Sun. He has a giant pet Grouper called Crimson. (Sky: Crimson is friend, not food!) Crimson is nine feet long and can pull him along faster than most mers can swim. (Groupers really can get that big. They probably aren’t really that fast though.)

Twilight: 23-25 (Adult) - Tropical/Freshwater hybrid

Coloring: Dark green with gray underbelly and thick black marks

Fun fact: His colors are so much duller because of his freshwater ancestry. He can survive in freshwater for a lot longer than others can. Sometimes goes and hunts in nearby rivers. He has an orca tooth necklace that can turn him into an orca. Yes, the Orca is called “Orcie.”

Warriors: 25-27 (Adult) - Tropical Mer

Coloring: Royal blue with orange marks on the ends of his fins. HE has a kind of iridescence to his scales that most Mer consider very pretty

Fun fact: Warriors has a twin, Linkle, who is currently very lost, wandering around in deep sea Mer territory.

Time: Very old (Adult) - Tropical Mer

Coloring: White/silver with thin red and blue line markings

Fun fact: He is mates with Malon, who is a deepsea Mer. Malon prefers to live in the deep, but they visit each other often. Yes, it is weird that a deepsea Mer would take a permanent mate but Malon does what she wants. She thinks it’s very funny that her husband adopted so many kids, and dots on them when she visits.

Worldbuilding:

Why have a sad Wild when you can have a chaos child? 

I like this chaos child :)

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It was normal to wake early at the ranch, but instead of waking to the horses or cuccos, it was to badly hushed voices fiercely debating something outside. Time groaned and forced himself to open his eye, glaring at the barest touch of light on the horizon outside the window.

"They're sure lively this morning," Malon giggled sleepily against his back as her arm wrapped around him, laughing louder as he let out an over exaggerated huff and sat up.

"Lively enough to start chores I'd say," the hero grumbled to himself, pressing a kiss to his wife's forehead as she smiled,

"Go easy on ‘em, they're excited for the festival." Time sighed but nodded, dressing quickly and heading down to the main level of the home where Twilight was already standing by the door putting boots on. He gave the older hero a fanged smile and headed out toward the stable, leaving Time to pull on his own boots and head out the back toward the garden.

Wind, Four, Hyrule, and Legend were crouched in a circle beside the vegetable bed, Wild's curious eyes watching them from his perch on the edge of the roof. The teen smiled when he noticed him but didn't say a word as the older walked up to the unsuspecting group with careful steps.

"Boys." Four startled shrieks only made the man regret getting out of bed that much more as he glowered down at where they had thrown themself away from him or tripped over each other. Wild's badly muffled laughter from behind had Time rolling his eye before focusing back on the group now glaring up at him halfheartedly,

"Geez! I thought Twilight was supposed to be the dark and silent one!" Wind scolded, dusting dirt from his tunic as he picked himself up, Four close behind him while Hyrule and Legend seemed to have given up on standing and were staring into the dawn sky from the ground. Time looked over them, a touch amused by their reaction now, and paused at the bundle of straw and sticks that was visible between them.

"What's all this?" The two standing boys looked away from him and around the yard, and before the older hero could even start to question them, Legend raised a hand to catch his attention,

"It was Four's fault."

The multicolored smith snapped to the red clad adventurer with a sputter,

"It was your idea!" He accused back once he managed to pull the words together.

"My idea was to make a corn maze, not turn a defenseless scarecrow into twigs." Time pinched the bridge of his nose as he took a deep breath, letting out a long sigh as the arguing continued.

"Alright enough," he ordered sternly, "So what are you fighting over?"

"They agreed to fix the scarecrow but Legend wanted to give it a pumpkin head, Wind wanted to dress it up like a pirate, and Four wanted to give it a sword and hammer. Verbal battle ensued." Hyrule reported from his place beside Legend.

"So why didn't you just get more hay from the barn and sticks from the field and each make your own?" Four pairs of eyes looked at Time in dawning realization for a few moments before they scrambled in different directions excitedly. The man was left standing before the sad bundle of sticks and fabric alone, watching random darts of movement across the farm.

“I feel like I’ve made some kind of mistake…” he muttered to himself only to shrug a moment later and head back toward the house, shooting a pointed glare to Wild who threw his hands up innocently, as innocently as one sitting on a roof could anyway. The bustle outside had died out with the four sent on their quest for materials, so Time headed to the stables, helping Twilight finish cleaning the stalls and replacing the hay and water for the horses. After a tidy brushing, the pair led the animals into the corral to graze in the open space, idle talk increasing as Sky joined them on the way back from the cucco hutch -the older still had no idea how he got along so well with the demon spawn his wife called feathered puppies.  

After a simple but still incredibly delicious breakfast courtesy of Wild and Malon, the couple headed to the barn to work on milking the cows and cleaning stalls, still no sign of the four younger heroes as the sun rose completely above the horizon and higher into the sky. Happy to have the morning chores completed already, they set to work on their next order of business, which would be stocking a cart to take to the Harvest Festival that was set to begin later that afternoon. Time settled the fourth large crate inside the wagon and looked around, noticing a distinct quiet underneath the usual noise from the animals.

Heart rate picking up just the slightest, the man started back toward the house only to stop as Malon rushed around the corner, looking around quickly until she spotted him and hurried over,

“Link! You have to come see what the boys did!” His stomach dropped for a second, memories of a flaming stalchild running around one night being pursued by a gaggle of panicking heroes rushing to the front of his mind , but pushed it aside when he saw the excitement in her eyes. Without a word, he let her pull him around the house by the hand until they were standing in front of the garden. Time blinked in surprised at finding not the four new scarecrows he had anticipated, but ten. Ten straw figures were scattered through the area, nine styled after each hero, and one with orange flowers woven together to form an elegant likeness of hair. He didn’t realize he was staring in silence until a weight collided with his hip and his hand immediately went to Wind’s back to steady him as the youngest grinning up at him,

“Do you like it?!” He looked up to Hyrule, Four, and Wild, standing a ways back also grinning with a smug Legend beside them, and then to the slightly embarrassed but proud smiles from Sky, Twilight, and Warriors, who had no doubt been roped into helping. Finally he looked back to the garden and smiled softly,