#mer wind

Hyrule:

almost wanted to give him fins on his back to mimic is fairy form, but then I thought about his character. He is a survivalist and I wanted to reflect that. So I loosely based him off a common river fish: muted colors great for camouflage + small, unassuming and sturdy fins.

I still wanted some of that fairy pizzazz though. Hence I tried to give him pretty glittery scales.

No metal accessories for him. He stole those leather bracers for their coziness. Still brings cool things back for Legend tho.

Got stuck in a net once. Ripped himself out of there and then decided that it his now. He uses it as DIY utility belt by tangling the things he wants to carry with him in the rope.

Stole a raft once because he thought it was cool. Turns it over and sleeps underneath it in a pinch.

Local sea witch except not evil and doesn't know what he is doing. Everything just seems to always works out. Don't ask him how.

Very territorial, but completely harmless to his friends.

Legend:

Pink.

I was thinking of my goldfish when I drew him: frilly fins which are borderline see through at the ends.

Decked in accessories because, duh, this is legend we are talking about. I had even more jewelry in the sketch, but I had to cut them out because I was starting to lose the underlying figure, but believe me this guy can and will wear nine necklaces at once and think that it is a totally normal thing to do.

Found most of his jewelry while going through sunken cruise ship where a wedding party had taken place. The long pearl necklace was found there too and legend is currently using it like hyrule is using his net.

Will not hesitate to stab or strangle you with his jewelry.

I have no story for the hat, I just think its incredibly neat and i want it in the design.

Yanked the dagger from a guy who wanted to poach him and stabbed the douche with it. Uses it primarily to cut tangled up sea creatures free. Helped a few seagulls this way and is thus exempt from being assaulted by the seagull mafia.

Curious about land dwellers, mostly for their knowledge tho. Keeps away.

Wind

Tropical fish!!! Or well, the tropical vibes. I was thinking of a guppy when I drew him.

He had the most Disney little mermaid vibes to me: curious, explorative, fascinated with humans. But instead of falling in love with them he just greatly enjoys pranking them.

Often shows himself to children at the shore to trade. It is how he got that leather satchel.

Aryl in particular spends hours looking at land dwellers for fun and as certified Best Older BrotherTM wind keeps her company a lot.

Aryl also has accidentally trained the seagulls to steal for her in exchange for fish. This was the beginning of the seagull mafia.

Always volunteers to be scout and is very good at it! Unlike Hyrule, who just gets lost.

Legend stepped through the portal. Sheerow immediately set to describing their surroundings — sand, water, trees of the same type as had been at Wind’s house — but Legend didn’t need that to smell the salt on the breeze or hear the crashing of the waves.

“This one yours, Wind?” Wild asked as the magic of the portal winked out behind them.

There was a rustle as Wind moved, probably shaking his head, as he said, “No, it doesn’t look like any islands I recognise. The air smells wrong, too.”

“Well, it doesn’t look like any of the coasts of my Hyrule,” Wild said, “though I guess it could be an island I’ve never been to.”

“Sheerow?” Legend asked quietly, though not quietly enough to not be heard by the rest. They were used to him doing this by now. “You sense Rav?” He doubted it — the magic in the air didn’t feel right to him — but occasionally he was wrong.

Sheerow stretched out her magic, looking for Ravio the same way she’d done when she was stealing his items during his quest. This time, though, nothing came of it. Sorry, sorry. She nestled back down in his hair, getting comfortable.

“Not my era,” Legend announced for everyone else’s sake, since they couldn’t understand Sheerow — something that still felt weird to him, as he’d been under the impression that it was the triforce that allowed him to understand her, and they’d all held that too.

“Between eras?” Four posited.

Something changed, though Legend couldn’t tell what it was.

“What, already?” Wind asked.

At Legend’s confused look, Twilight said, “It’s a portal. Right in front of us. I… thought you could sense them?” He asked the last part hesitantly, like he was worried about offending Legend.

“It’s not pulling at us like usual.”

“Another new Link?” Warriors asked. Legend shrugged.

@legomonkiekidfan514 thank you for asking about this au because it made me think about grandma for more than five minutes and it proceeded to drive myself to tears. Hence: comic.

This au is definitely still in the vague-vibes-that-haunts-your-every-waking-moment stage so I hadn't thought about who is taking care of Wind and Aryll. I did, however, start thinking about Grandma I recently started playing wind waker and the way Link refused to tell his grandma what happened to Aryll in order to not worry her to death but also she clearly saw something was wrong anyways and was fretting at him I THINK I CRIED so for the people interested here ya go:

She had a lot of siblings growing up that all drifted away as they got older, pursuing ambition in the mainland and leaving her behind

She always loved the sea and all the life associated with it. This interest united her with her husband and this love was passed down to her son who became a sailor when he became of age.

Despite the sea taking her son from her, she never stopped loving it.

Her husband stayed as long as he could with her, but succumbed to illness a few years after her son's death.

She gave her son the telescope, which her son in turn gave to Aryll when he met the siblings on one of his voyages

Aryll tried to return the telescope to Grandma when they met, but Grandma refused. Telling her it would be much happier being with someone who could actually use it.

I have three ideas regarding the relationship between Grandma's son and Wind and Aryll:

First: Grandma's son met a mermaid on his travels and fell in love with her. This mermaid was Aryll's and Wind's mother, so that made him their step dad. They didn't haven much time together, as soon after the both of them perished during a storm (the mom tried to save him but got crushed instead). Wind remembers their mom vaguely, Aryll doesn't.

Second: the mom is completely out of the picture and Grandma's son was just a Random GuyTM that Aryll and Wind kept bumping into. At one point the both of them got attached enough to seek him out but they only had his telescope to find him with. This is how they met Grandma, from whom they learned that the Swell Guy They Sometimes Hanged With died at sea.

Third: I'm mixing mermaid lore here, but you know the idea that mermaids are people who died at sea? So my brain gave me the following terrible thought: what if Aryll and Wind actually were Grandma's biological grandkids but they were the only ones that survived the storm by some kind of stupid divine miracle and turned into mers? Altering them permanently, but also granting them the ability to return to their grieving grandmother even if they might not remember her?

This third idea made me incredibly sad, so I am sticking the the first and second ideas for now.

As for who is taking care of them when they aren't with Grandma? For now I've put down that the mers are into raising their children communally, but also letting them have much more freedom than land dwelling children have. So everyone takes care of them. Also Linebeck is there too I guess. Wind likes pestering him.