#zelda 1

unique noses are so fun :)

yeah it's definitely because the game is a play on sleeping beauty

idk i've read fics where link and zelda are cute together in either of the games

She is known as Zelda the first in the Japanese manual and all guides, her backstory has her put to sleep for generations by her brother’s magician friend!

yep! i'm also planning on making two different zeldas in my links meet au for zelda 1 and 2

they're just both such bare bones characters that i generalized my opinion to both

I'm having a lot of fun playing Zelda 1 :)

So the Link from Pre OOT games had a long button nose with the Link from the NES games having the longest nose of all. The designer of the OOT’s new Link was originally going to have a similar nose, until his wife said she liked guys with small noses, no joke!

Dawn, as you portray her, is an absurdly charismatic person. it might not be the stereotypical "rousing speech" kind of charisma, but it's charisma nonetheless. she has the kind of personal magnetism that comes with being nice. people just... want to help her. she's very easy to like and extremely difficult to hate.

it's not a kind of charisma that can be weaponized or used intentionally, and I'm almost certain that Dawn has no idea that she has any kind of charisma at all, but it's very powerful and is probably one of the biggest reasons why she's still alive.

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Oh, absolutely!

There are, imo, many types of charisma— just as there are many types of wisdom and intelligence. Dawn certainly has a lot of her particular brand of charm, and it certainly helped save her. In WV, the friendly moblins, literal servants of Ganon who have gained their own consciousness after centuries of Ganon’s rule, were moved to pity by Dawn’s plight and worked to help her and Hyrule instead.

Dawn’s charm also works on most of the Zeldas. They can’t help but want to keep her safe, and the older ones respect her for keeping her optimism and sense of wonder despite everything she’s been through. It would have been so much easier for her to end up jaded and cynical after the events of Zelda 1, but Dawn is neither jaded nor naive— instead, she’s aware of the reality of the world but actively chooses to be kind. She’s very strong in her own way.

(Fun fact: Tetra is, perhaps, the most unaffected by Dawn’s charm, because of the traits that Tetra values, and her own personality.)

I imagine Zelda1 Zelda to be a very brave and strong willed person. She made the decision on her own to split the triforce and put it above her own safety. She was put in this difficult situation but she handled both this and being captured by Ganon with grace and courage rather than letting it all crush her. I think she comes out of it all thinking of it as something she has overcome rather than something she was a victim of, because she has this strong willpower that drove her decision making in the first place.

And when I think about AoL Zelda it always comes back around to how she deals with adjusting to change. I imagine she was put to sleep when she was still growing, and she wakes up in a grown body in a brand new world with a new princess and new people and everything she’s ever known is transformed including herself… feeling as out of place in her own body as she does in this future world and learning how to adjust to both.