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Chain Birthday and Zodiac thoughts!

In honor of the 39th anniversary of Zelda here are my theories for the chain’s birthdays!

I’m going in order of game release so first up is:

Hyrule: who’s birthday just passed, February 21st! What I’m mostly doing is going by their game release dates. Happy Birthday Hyrule!

Legend: Legend’s birthday going off of game release would be November 21st! 

Time: Now things get a little complicated because Ocarina of Time coincidentally was also released on the 21st of November. So, either it’s a weird coincidence that Time and Legend share a birthday oooorrrr… we could let Legend call dibs and have Time’s birthday be April 27th, Majora’s Mask’s release date.

Four: December 3rd!

Wind: December 13th!

Twilight: So Twi’s is November 19th which is super close to Time and Legend’s bday. I guess they’re sharing a birthday weekend.

Sky: omg 😭 Sky’s birthday is November 18th. I’m starting to get the idea that Nintendo was releasing games close to the holidays for holiday sales. At this point even if I changed Legend’s bday to a different one of his game’s release dates Sky and Twi are still sharing. 

Warriors: thank goodness. His bday is May 18th.

Wild: His is March 3rd!

Okay and now here’s MY personal thoughts. This is gonna be zodiac based. Like, holy cow, no way that half of them can be Scorpio Sagittarius cusps 😭 NIGHTMARE.

Sky: Sky was my most easy choice. I think he would be a Pisces. Total dreamer, metaphorically and realistically. He seems like a really subtle and calm dude, really in touch with his emotions until he is not. 

Four: My most difficult choice but I settled on Virgo. Super reliable, a bit bossy, pretty stable person. And like Sky, until they’re not 😭 

Legend: Either an Aquarius or Leo. Extremely stubborn but extremely reliable. A real go-getter even if he complains the whole time. Also main character energy just, emanating from him.

Hyrule: it would be perfect if I could also claim him as a Pisces bc his game’s birthday is one but I don’t think it fits him as well as Sky and if I can I want to assign a different zodiac to everyone (even if that’s not perfectly authentic.) I almost assigned him as Gemini, which I think could be a good fit for him being a very go with the flow sign but he’s not enough of a yapper 😮‍💨. I think Sagittarius fits him in a weird way that you wouldn’t quite expect. 

Time: Easily a Scorpio. Mysterious but has a lot underneath that. Dependable with a secret type of crazy.

Twilight: Easily a Taurus. Incredibly dependable in the way that makes him a safe space. Incredibly Stubborn. Sassy. 

Wind: A Cancer. Truely a summer sign! A water sign that is in touch with his emotions. He has tough skin but might be prone to mood swings. Leader material.

Warriors: Aries.

Wild: A Libra! Romantic, kinda whimsical, but a trendsetter at their finest. Don’t let him sweet talk you. 

lol feel free to ask for more reasonings on my sign choices or feel free to argue about them. I know any astrology babes probably have an opinion on this 😭

wind headcanon

lol this is barely a headcanon but I feel like Wind uses a hammock instead of a bedroll and everyone else is kind of jealous. It’s super lightweight, he doesn’t have to worry about dirt or the ground being wet, and it’s pretty cozy. It’s also water proof. He can also use it casually too, he’s super good at setting it up. Yeah, everyone is probably SUPER jealous and Wind knows that they are. He super smug about it but pretends to be nonchalant like: “Ehh this old thing? Just something we pirates use 🙄💅” but he knows it’s cool

Maze Runner AU Part 1

Sorry for the long wait to anybody who was anticipating this! Without further ado, here’s part 1!

Hyrule wakes up and honestly takes to things pretty well. He spends his first few days in the maze poking around the glade, (the safe center of the maze).

He doesn’t know yet, but the maze is shaped like the triforce. The center, empty, triangle a safe meadow free of any mazes. It’s cut through by a river and has a few clusters of trees. 

Hyrule, who doesn’t remember how he knows these things, is a good survivalist. He makes a small shelter in a small cave, really just a hole between some rocks. 

The maze has three entrances. He chooses one and finally enters the maze. Things are pretty simple at first. Eventually he runs into a few small monsters which he basically just bashes with a self made spear. 

After a week or so he finally runs into a ‘boss’. It’s a LARGE reptile that shoots projectiles at him. (It’s just Aquamentus for Zelda 1 fans) He manages to kill it relatively unharmed. The next day the elevator rises again. In it are some basic supplies, rope, a ration kit, and a small dagger. 

 Hyrule learns whenever he solves a particularly difficult puzzle or kills a particularly large monster he is rewarded. 

This is pretty encouraging to him and he keeps traveling deeper and deeper into the maze, exploring it from different entrances as well. He does this for a little over a month becoming pretty adapted to the maze, getting stronger and smarter. Unfortunately he gets really hurt one day fighting a huge bird that shoots lightning strikes. He catches a strike to his left leg and retreats. 

He’s left with a severe 3rd degree burn. He doesn’t know how he knows, but somehow he knows that he needs herbs that grow deep in the maze to treat it. So, cue him making a mad attempt to go get said herbs but being unable to due to his injury slowing him down.

He stops trying and starts trying to treat it in the glade but he just doesn’t have what he needs. Infection and blood loss sets in and Hyrule starts getting very sick.

Meanwhile, . . On the outside everyone, namely Legend, are starting to freak out because it really looks like Hyrule is on the path to dying a slow, fevered death. 

Legend makes a huge fuss and he is next to enter the maze. It happens fast and unceremoniously. He doesn’t tell anybody or say goodbye, he urges HYLIA to get him in there as fast as they can. It’s not until he’s in the chair and going under amnesia that he starts to think about the implications of losing his memory. 

When Legend enters it’s obvious he doesn’t recognize or remember Hyrule because he fully ignores him and immediately runs into the maze trying to escape. 

He does this for a few more days before slowing down and talking to the other dude. He also quickly realizes that the other dude is SUPER sick. 

Hyrule vaguely answers some of Legend’s questions but he barely has energy to do anything but sleep. Guilt and panic engulfs Legend and he starts trying to help. Hyrule’s wound smells awful. 

Hyrule tells Legend about the herb he needs and Legend works tirelessly until he gets it. (It’s basically nature's antibiotic). 

Their friendship reblossoms as Legend starts nursing him back to health.

On the Zelda side:

HYLIA is surprised when Artemis doesn’t assimilate all too well. She panics upon awakening and spends her entire first week hiding in one spot. Eventually hunger drives her out and she calms down after foraging a meal. 

It takes her another week until she even considers going in the maze. She doesn’t explore it thoroughly. Her first monster sends her fleeing back to the safety of the glade.

Eventually she gets a little bit more courageous in the safer parts of the maze. Upon completing a semi difficult puzzle, HYLIA sends her a care package very similar to the one they sent Hyrule. Unlike Hyrule, this care package does not have the safe influence. 

Artemis quickly pieces it together that she’s here because of a greater power and that when she does tasks that it deems favorable she gets rewarded. So she refuses to reenter the maze in order to see how far she can push that force. She wants answers or nothing at all.

So Artemis starts chilling. She starts building herself a base. She starts seeing what food she can cultivate inside the glade itself. 

After a month of Artemis basically doing jackshit HYLIA gets frustrated. They send in Dawn.

Dawn and Artemis have never gotten along. They never actually had a real fight before, not like Legend and Wars, but it’s always been a known thing that they do NOT like each other. 

Dawn has also always been more aggressive and headstrong so they think she will shake things up. Dawn has also been causing issues since Hyrule, who she was close with, got sent in so it’ll be good to get her off their plates. 

Dawn adjusts well to being sent in and Artemis hesitantly greets her. It’s obvious that the memory erasure works well because they have no recollection of each other and begin to get along with each other well. 

Artemis settles in Dawn giving her a tour of the glade. When Dawn asks about the maze entrances Artemis tenses up and tells her about her theory. She shows her the gifts that were sent after she completed a puzzle. She asks Dawn not to go in…

And Dawn agrees. She thinks it’s a worthy theory to test and the glade provides enough. 

So for almost another month Dawn and Artemis live a happy, cottagecore, life in the glade. 

HYLIA unceremoniously sends in Aurora who’s always been stubborn. It works. 

Shortly after welcoming her in, Aurora points at the maze and asks about it. Artemis and Dawn explain about why their avoiding it and Aurora just basically goes: Okay well I’m not doing that. 

And they can’t stop her. After Aurora starts running the maze Dawn begins to follow bc it doesn’t really matter anymore and eventually Artemis is just: “fuk u guys.” And starts running it too.

As always pls lmk what you guys think!

Hyrule’s Cooking Headcanon

I really hope nobody has said this or I’ll look silly. This is for Dunmeshi fans

Here we go

Hyrule is not a bad cook, tbh not bad at all, BUT. But. Everyone thinks his cooking is nasty bc he’s like Senshi and Laois from Delicious in Dungeon. He cooks with MONSTERS. Not necessarily for potions, but as meals.

Imagine: The chain is in Wild’s Hyrule. They kill a simple red bokoblin. Wild gathers his regular ingredients, teeth, claws, etc. Hyrule walks up to the corpse after Wild. Points at it. “Anybody gonna eat that?” The chain watches in horror as Hyrule surgically chops it open and cracks apart its chest. He smiles at the chain. “We can have ribs tonite. I think this is gonna go really well with the apples we picked earlier.” Cue gagging and general horror. Hyrule is not longer allowed to cook. They all thought it was fish in the soup he made last week. It was RIVER ZORA.

Wild comes around to the idea pretty fast (he’s not forgiving Hyrule for the Zora incident though) and they start cooking monsters together to the genuine fright and disgust to the rest of the chain.

Maze AU: Beginning

I’m not sure how to communicate the next parts very well bc as of up to this point a lot of this AU was more concept and less story but it’s kind of been evolving into a story. I don’t think I have enough plot, or energy, to write an actual fic so I hope this will suffice. I’m gonna try and do this thru bullet points. 

I also wanna say that I’m super open to suggestions. If there’s ever stuff you’d rather hear about lmk. I’m always SUPER happy to talk

So here we go:

The beginning:

The maze is announced and almost everybody protests it. Very simply, this is inhumane. Like obviously so. People who aren’t immediately against it are relieved. They’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop for years.

Warriors is probably the only person who isn’t against it from the get go. He’s one of the only people, Artemis being the only other, that’s been raised in HYLIA since birth. He thinks that he understands what they do, that the maze is for the greater good of humanity. He agrees that there is no better way to study their bodies and brain waves than in a raw experiment that strips everything from its participants. That isn’t to say that he isn’t empathetic to his fellow participants (probably not a great term to call them). He understands the fear they must be feeling, but he knows that they’ll forget everything. The maze will soon be all they know. Maybe… it can actually become home.

Little Warriors characterization: He doesn’t know it here but he’s starting to resent being used as the golden boy, being pushed into a “captain” role, by HYLIA. He sees the easy friendship the others have with each other that he will never have due to the role HYLIA has put him in. They’ll never feel safe around Wars. He pines for a home that he’s never known.

Some of them also believe HYLIA when they’re told this is for the best of society. That being said, just because they believe that the ends will justify the means BUT they question why they don’t have a choice in this. 

Legend is the first, and loudest, to object to this project completely. He questions how watching a bunch of amnesiacs will create vaccinations against the gloom and genetic resistance to mind controlling frequencies. No matter how much they explain he gets louder and angrier. It doesn’t help that his sister, Fable, is also protesting albeit a lot more clinically, picking it apart with her questions. This creates quite the stir in the group. 

Things get worse when HYLIA explains that there’s not just 1 maze, but 2 and that they’ll be separated by sex. Girls on one side, boys on the other. This feels like a way to divide and conquer.

HYLIA lets the groups sit on this for a little under a week before they announce who’s going in the maze first. On the girls side Artemis will be going first.

Artemis was not originally selected to go first. She managed to figure out that HYLIA initially selected Fable to go first. Artemis is like Warriors in the sense that HYLIA used her as the golden child but for the girls wing. Unlike Warriors, Artemis is really good at being a bit manipulative back at HYLIA without repercussions. She manages to convince them to let her go first. This seems to everyone like her taking charge, being a good leader, etc. She’s the only one who knows that she’s doing this because she’s terrified. She doesn’t want to lay in wait, watching as her friends lose their memories, get hurt, possibly die. 

As for the boys… it’s announced that Hyrule will be going first (in less than 24 hours mind you). Legend reacts to this more poorly than Hyrule does. Honestly, Hyrule doesn’t even get a chance to process before Legend is up out of his seat yelling. He’s desperate to defend his best friend.

This incites a small riot as Dawn and Aurora step in too. Dawn has been itching for a fight for months so this is easy. Soon half the entire group is trying to wrestle HYLIA operatives while the rest just watch, half heartedly try and stop the others, or sit in dread. 

The riot is stopped before it can really get started when the main offenders get sedated. 

Artemis and Hyrule are separated from the rest. HYLIA decides to send them in right away to avoid more confrontation.

Artemis is sent in alone and she’s glad for that. (She’s really not but she wouldn’t admit that to the others). That way nobody will see how scared she is.

Hyrule is also scared. They have him on a table and are getting ready to sedate him before they wipe his memory. They allow one visitor to come in. It’s Wild. Hyrule is relieved to have somebody with him but it’s obvious that he wishes Legend were there, his brother. Wild isn’t offended and does his best to be there for him. Even after Hyrule is unconscious he stays. He wonders if this is what it was like for Twilight. He vows to be with Hyrule soon. He kisses his forehead before he’s forced to leave.

And then, the first people are released in the maze. 

I have issues with articulation so if anything is confusing pls lmk 🙏 Also if there’s plot holes or anything stupid, or if something could’ve just been better LMK. I will not get offended

ty for reading 💕💕💕 More to come

Something something Dapper and Leo being the first ones to comfort each other when they first got cracked and then Dapper was one of the first ones to comfort Leo when she met up with Bad.

Something about Leo and Dapper constantly spending time with each other in the early days because how much Foolish and Bad spent time together. So much that I believe Bad said they were family and thats how Foolish and Bad became Tios.

Something about how Bad took a photo of Leo saying “Te quiero mucho” to Bad and how Bad said that she is precious and has a heart too big for her body. How Bad always makes sure to try to repeat any keywords in spanish for Leo and is always very soft and gentle with her.

Something about how Foolish and Dapper always pick on each other and fight, but Foolish never uses a weapon and only uses his fist. Something how when Bad was in the cage, Foolish was 100% down to do Dapper’s quest and knows that if anything happened to Bad, Foolish would take care of Dapper.

Something about how Bad and Dapper waited with Foolish when Leo died from a whale for almost two hours to try to get Foolish relax.

Something about how much Foolish, Leo, Dapper, and Bad all care for each other and consider each other family. How they always gravitate to each other any time they are near each other.

Chain as Mitski Songs

Mitski Chain

I have a really bad habit that I’m trying to break 😭 Mitski is one of my all time favorite artists but… I made a really bad habit over time of listening to her music when I have felt my absolute worst 😮‍💨 Even thought I love her music so much I struggle to listen to it when I’m in a good mood because it tends to launch me back to the REALLY bad times I let myself listen to her. Like, in sake of my mental health I’ve had to lowkey ban her for myself 

Soooo… I’m trying to slowly ease myself back into her music by trying to associate her with other things than my own struggles 😤

So here’s the chain as Mitski songs! And a lyric from the song that particularly stood out to me for the guy

(Honestly, I think any Mitski song can kind of be applied to any of the chain but this is just my mood for tonite)

Legend - My Love Mine All Mine

‘Nothing in the world belongs to me

But my love, mine, all mine, all mine’

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine (Official Lyric Video)YouTube · MitskiVEVOSep 15, 2023

Twilight - Happy

‘And if you're going, take the moon

Then, maybe I will see you; in the night, I'll see you

And when you go, take this heart

I'll make no more use of it when there's no more you’

(I was tempted to do Losing Dogs sorry twi)

Mitski - Happy (Official Video)YouTube · MitskiVEVOMay 23, 2016

Sky - Star

‘That love is like a star, it's gone

We just see it shining

It's traveled very far, I'll

Keep a leftover light burning

So you can keep looking up’

Mitski - Star (Official Lyric Video)YouTube · MitskiAug 23, 2023

Wild - Goodbye my Danish Sweetheart

‘And I don't blame you

If you want to bury me in your memory

I'm not the girl I ought to be, but

Maybe when you tell your friends

You can tell them what you saw in me

And not the way I am’

Mitski - Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart (Official Video)YouTube · MitskiJun 24, 2013

Hyrule - The Frost

‘The frost, it looks

Like dust settled on the world

After everyone's long been gone

But me, I was hidin'

Or forgotten, the only one left

Now the world is mine alone’

Mitski - The Frost (Official Lyric Video)YouTube · MitskiVEVOSep 15, 2023

Time - A Pearl

‘You’re growing tired of me

And all the things I don’t talk about’

Mitski - A Pearl (Official Video)YouTube · MitskiJan 31, 2019

Wind - Bug Like an Angel

‘When I'm bent over, wishin' it was over

Makin' all variety of vows I'll never keep

I try to remember the wrath of the devil

Was also given him by God’

Mitski - Bug Like an Angel (Official Lyric Video)YouTube · MitskiAug 3, 2023

Wars - Burning Hill

‘And I am the fire and I am the forest

And I am a witness watching it’

Mitski - A Burning Hill (Official Video)YouTube · MitskiVEVOOct 11, 2016

Four - Francis Forever 

‘I don't need the world to see 

That I've been the best I can be, but 

I don't think I could stand to be 

Where you don't see me’

Mitski - Francis Forever (Official Audio)YouTube · MitskiJun 17, 2023

Anywho, pls lmk what you think if you have any thoughts or arguments! (ughhh I’m sorry the layout is janky 😭 I wrote this in my notes app and it did not copy over well and won’t let itself be fixed)

Hyrule Parents (and birth) Headcanon

One of my most favorite headcanons in the Lu community is Hyrule being part fairy bc it makes sense with his magical aptitude, his fairy, spell, and bc it’s just plain fun. Another reason I like this headcanon so much tho is bc it opens up a lot of world building

I couldn’t find it for the life of me but a while back I saw a theory that great fairies are made up of several smaller fairies that kind of puppet as her (if you made this post or know who did pls lmk so I can give credit 😭) I thought that was pretty cool and it got me to thinking about fairy reproduction

That sounds so messy pls let me explain 😮‍💨 I don’t think fairies would use sexual reproduction to reproduce, I personally headcanon that Zelda fairies don’t even have biological sexes or are all female, or resembling females to hylians. (Gender identity for them would be a different conversation) 

I think it drew my mind to Steven Universe (I won’t apologize for being on tumblr in the 2010s). I don’t think fairies would come from rocks but maybe from fusion. Now I can finally get to my headcanon 😩 

I think fairies could potentially reproduce through fusion. Two fairies who match a really high frequency of the same energy, like their souls are nearing the same likeness, fuse to form a slightly larger, slightly stronger fairy. The leftover energy of this fusion creates another fairy in the wake of their fusion. As terms for energy it can be supplanted with magic, but I think this event would be so intense that it would leave enough magic and energy behind to leave another fairy bc I think fairies are made of magic. 

Sometimes the fused fairies eventually separate which slowly grows the population. Some of them don’t separate however and slowly fuse with more fairies creating a larger and larger and more and more powerful fairy. Eventually a great mother forms out of hundreds of other fairies. This is also why she’s called a great mother, her fusions have probably created many of the fairies around her. I imagine it would take years if not centuries for a great mother to form. 

I think Hyrule’s mother would be a great fairy and his father (or other mother 👀 sperm and eggs are not required in fairy reproduction) would fall in love. They love each other so hard that a being of blood and bones and one of pure magic fuse in a way that’s half hylian and half fairy. And then Hyrule spawns. This unfortunately takes out both of his parents, Hylians can go through the amount of magic it takes to make a fairy and there wasn’t enough energy left to sustain the great mother, so Hyrule is left alone in their wake. 

I think he’d spend his first few years being brought up by fairies, but they’d transfer him to a Hylian village when he was very young bc they thought it would be better for him. (It probably wasn’t but they meant well 😭) 

I feel like this is so messy but I hope somebody enjoys it. Pls lmk your thoughts! Hopefully I’ll come back and clean this up

I was really gonna try to write my bbh fic after all that talk and barking I did over complaining about the lack of bbh content on ao3 😭

like I have a rough draft for a one shot in my notes app and everything 🥺

BUT NOW 🥲

it feels so personal

OMG DIVING RIGHT IN!!! I’m so honored you got inspired by my headcanon 💕💕💕

“Um…what’s a pumpkin?” Hyrule asked

It was safe to say that all hell broke loose.

“You don’t know what a pumpkin is? ” Sky and Twilight demanded at the exact same time, both completely horrified and in despair at this revelation. 

“The orange vegetable that grows like—” Wind said, using his hands to gesture a round, lopsided object.

“Everyone else knows what a pumpkin is, Wind, you don’t need to clarify,” Four said, shockingly unfazed compared to the other companions.

“You’ve never eaten a pumpkin…” Twilight muttered, holding his head in his hands as he mourned.

Legend gawked at him, midway through sharpening his sword as he exclaimed, “At all??”

No, not you too! Legend was the veteran—and more specifically, the hero before him! That implied that Legend’s era had pumpkins, but not Hyrule’s—it was another testament to how dead and wasted his land was…

Legend must be ashamed of how I cared for his land…

Hyrule buried his face into his knees, wondering if his face was burning alive. This was humiliating! He didn’t think it was that big of a deal, yet everyone was looking at him as if he’d been the one to say “Who’s Ganon?”

Why is this such a big deal?? 

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Hyrule realizes that he doesn't know a lot of things that the other members of the chain do. Pumpkins, apples, animals...but then Hyrule also realizes that maybe he can use this to his advantage to cause some chaos.

inspired by @livmightlive!!

Part 5 of my series, Basically, I Select "shuffle" on the LU Boy's Canon-ish Ages. General Rating, fluff and crack and brotherly bonding. 1/2 chapters completed, with 3126 words.

link here (tumblr is being mean :((( )