alkturos

[alkturos]

two types of cat people

#zelda #link #totk #zelink #LOL

[alkturos]

The Legend of Zelda: Regency Style

For my talented friend @ghostgirl19posts and her fic A Most Difficult Decision, which I highly recommend.

(Yeah I watched Bridgerton for the costumes)

Prints available here!

#zelda #princess zelda #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #silent princess #tloz #loz #botw #Zelda fanart #HELLO???? #ZBROWS IM SPEECHLESS??????? #look at her DRESS #im so in love omg 😍😍😍

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Choices

#zelink #hylink #tloz #the legend of zelda #Skyward Sword #oot #ocarina of time #twilight princess #totk #botw #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #goddess hylia #hylia's chosen hero #princess zelda #link #artists on tumblr #Zelda fanart #zbrows i may actually cry #HOW DARE YOU 😭 #you should absolutely keep doing it #IN LOVE

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it’s gonna be (mer)may

little mermaid au with beloved @alkturos 👀👀👀

there’s gonna be more art like this if i ever finish them

#the legend of zelda #loz art #zelda art #mermay #mermaid!zelda #botw zelda #LOOK AT HER #its the FISH WIFE #i would die for her #LOOK #AT #HER #i love her so much #PASTELS I'LL NEVER GET OVER THIS #friend art!

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“You know…Link…There’s something I’ve been meaning to talk to you about…”

(Big thank you to @newtsnaturethings for the crash course on how to color wings!)

#skyward sword #skyward sword zelink #loz ss #loz #legend of zelda #zelink #loftwings #bahbahhhart #LOOK AT THEM #its so SO perfect omg i cant stop staring at this 😍 #and the way you painted the clouds in the bg!! 😍🤌

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Tears of The Happiness ✨️

#zelink #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #princess zelda #link #wildstar drawing #OBSESSED #they're so stinkin cute god #wild your art is oxygen to me

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On my way to save Zelda with my phallicopter

#totk #tears of the kingdom #totk spoilers #DJDKKDD #CHIMPU WHAT IS THIS 😭 #i love it LMAO

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They deserve a simple reunion party post-game 🍰

Happy 6th Anniversary BOTW!

#zelink #botw #breath of the wild #loz #legend of zelda #loz breath of the wild #botw zelink #zelda #link #omg #zelda precious baby #she deserves everything #i love them #chimpu this is breathtaking 😭💕

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Zelink as Romeo and Juliet by JC Leyendecker for @AtelierHylia’s second volume

#zelink #botw #mimimaru art #oh my god #i GASPED #😳😳😳 #i can't believe i see this for free #AMAZING art!! #loz

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DEE!! 🥹😭💕 Combining two of my favourite things in the world?? Zelink AND skincare???? 💯💯💯 Best thing i've gotten this year so far, 18/10 best way to propose and my answer is yes 😩😂💕

I'm gonna read this TODAY and post a comment on ao3, but know that I'm certain I'm in love with it already!!

Thank you so much!! 💕 I look forward to immersing myself in this 👀

Skin Care

zelink | Modern AU | 1.5k

Link and Zelda spend a loving Valentine's Day night in after a long workday, complete with a lot of tender touching.

This fic is for the wonderful and magnificent Alkturos, as part of the Loftwing Letters event held by the zelinkcommunity discord server!

Read it on AO3, FFN, or under the cut!

“Hold still, alright? This may feel a little funny at first,” Link whispers. 

“I know how this goes, silly. It’s not like this is our first time.” Zelda twines her fingers into her partner’s hair absentmindedly, and closes her eyes. Waits for his touch. 

“Yeah, but it’s our first time doing this to each other, rather than just doing it ourselves in the same space. I just…don’t want to mess up.”

She laughs, endeared, and opens her eyes to give him a comforting smile. “You won’t mess up. Worst case scenario, we’ll just make a mess, and we’ll have to clean it up later.”

Link bites his lip, and Zelda’s eyes are drawn to the crescent moon indent his teeth leave in winter-chapped pink. She’ll do something with that mouth later—if he wants, of course. “Okay, I’m going in, then…!”

She feels him crouch closer over her body, and then: the first tentative touch. Cool and sweet and gentle. Sticky, but that’s to be expected. “That’s good,” she encourages, and feels his movements become more confident.

“How is it?” he asks. She smiles. He’s ever the conscientious lover. 

“Best Valentine’s Day idea ever,” she hums. “ So glad we decided to stay in and—oohh—” 

The place he caresses in that moment brings more blissful relief than any touch prior, and if her eyes weren’t closed she swears they might roll back in her head a little.

“Ahh, and do skincare. Honestly, we do our routines together every night, why haven’t we thought of doing it for each other before?”

Link’s fingers, coated in The Potion Shop’s newest enzyme exfoliator, continue to rub obligingly at the point where her jaw meets her temples. “You’ve got a lot of tension here,” he says disapprovingly. “They’re working you too hard again.”

She can hardly argue. With it being election season, half of the actual work in the mayoral office has been shoved squarely on her shoulders while her boss gets to frolic around campaigning. It’ll be me someday , she swears, not for the first time. Then she unclenches her fist and reminds herself: Link. Here. Now. Be in this moment, Zelda. 

This moment is absolutely stupendous. She’s heard of a ‘lavender haze’ before—a lovey-dovey, honeymoon delirium. Right now, she’s floating in a papaya haze; the scent of the exfoliator perfumes her senses even more with her eyes closed like this. Link’s hands worship her skin intimately, tracing carefully below her lower eyelids, working the gel across the expanses of her cheeks and forehead with loving care. The massage soothes the delicate muscles with just the right amount of pressure. 

After a few minutes, the indulgence of this little facial still hasn’t ceased, and Zelda realizes that Link would just keep touching her this soothingly forever if she—or a hand cramp—doesn’t stop him sooner. She opens her eyes a crack and taps at his wrist.

He stops immediately, hands lingering against her cheekbones. “Something wrong?”

“Yes.” His eyes widen in concern, but narrow into a half-moon smile when she continues. “I haven’t gotten to ease you yet.”

They trade positions. Link lies on their bed against the towel-covered pillows, and she straddles his thighs for better access to his face. He settles back and closes his eyes, but they blink open again after a moment. She cocks her head at his furrowed brow, and then laughs when he holds up his hands—still coated in papaya-enzyme gel—with a pout. One hand towel later, he’s decently clean and nods his readiness. 

“You still want the—” Zelda turns the surprisingly hefty little glass container around in her hand to reread the label. “—Dangoro Charcoal Mask?”

Link nods enthusiastically. “I want to try it out! And my t-zone has been really oily lately.”

“I’m aware,” Zelda teases, and Link makes a face at her. “Okay, going in!” 

She and Link both cleansed their skin with their preferred products—jelly cleanser for her, to remove her office-appropriate makeup, and micellar water for him—prior to this mask stage, so none of the aforementioned oils are present on his skin when she reaches out for a hesitant first touch. It’s odd; she and Link have been intimate many, many times, in both sexual and non-sexual contexts, but it’s still new and almost a little scary to purposefully handle his face. It takes a few more strokes of grey-black goo across his forehead for her to get in a groove, but once she does, she finds herself enjoying herself immensely. 

She paints large swathes of charcoal over his cheeks and forehead, massaging as she goes, and the mask blooms in loose swirls across his skin. She traces wide dark circles around his eyes, which he keeps peeking open to watch her instead of remaining closed. Every flash of steel blue is a thrill, even as she teases that he can’t keep his eyes off of her. The first time she goes around an eyebrow, she accidentally plasters the upper hairs with goo, and they both giggle. The second brow, she messes up on purpose, just to hear him laugh again. 

It’s all the childish joy of fingerpainting, combined with the adult desire to love, serve, and admire. She wants to touch as much of him as she can, for her own selfish sake. She wants to melt away all the worries he carries under his skin, for his. 

Eventually, she surrenders to the demands of the mask; it has to sit still to dry well and perform its purifying duty. With nothing to do now but wait, Zelda suggests that they finish off the chocolate-covered strawberries Link made earlier. They munch happily next to the bouquet she surprised him with after work, and chat about the video game they’ve been playing through together. 

When the alarm goes off, marking twenty minutes since Link finished applying her mask, they trundle back to the bathroom. He perches on the closed toilet lid while she rinses off the half-dried papaya goo, and when she goes to towel off, he rises and gently takes the soft cloth out of her hands. 

“Let me take care of you,” he murmurs, as the towel glides over the planes of her face. 

“I think you do enough of that already.” She can’t keep a smile off her face at his words. 

“You, too. We take care of each other.”

“That we do.” She proves it when his own alarm goes off a couple minutes later, and she dries his face in turn. Little flecks of product Link missed in the rinsing come off on the clean towel, but it should wash out alright. 

“I’m really happy we did this instead of going out,” Link admits, as they scavenge through a drawer for their nightly moisturizers. She finds his tried-and-true—The Potion Shop’s Water of Life—first and passes it over, just as he comes across some of her usuals. “Guardian Retinol Potion, or Heart Quenching Potion?” he asks.

“Mm, Heart Potion.” She snags the frosted red glass bottle and twists open the cap. “It is Valentine’s Day, after all. And also—I had a really good time staying in too, Link. Maybe we should make this an annual tradition,” she jokes. 

“Want me all to yourself, do you?” He throws her a teasing glance in the mirror. 

She finishes patting the moisturizer under her eyes before giving him an over-the-top smarmy smile. “Obviously.” 

“Can I do one more thing?” Link meets her gaze in the mirror again. It’s ironic that he works as a vet tech when he has such effective puppy-dog eyes.

“‘Course you can.”

Link plucks a tin of lip balm from their skincare drawer and untwists the lid. The scent of honey wafts into the air. A swirl of his finger into the product, and then he traces her lips again and again, massaging with a focused, softly desirous look in his eyes that makes her a little weak-kneed. By the time he finishes, her lips are soft, warm from his touch, and rather excessively doused in balm. 

“Can I do one more thing too?” Zelda asks, cupping his chin. She swipes her thumb across his own lips slowly, ardently. After all, she had wanted to do something with them back at the start of all this. Link nods twice, a galaxy in his eyes. 

Her mouth meets his in a deep, loving kiss: a wordless thank-you for the care they show one another, the intimacy of this night they shared, the pleasure she feels just from being around him. He returns it with absolutely spine-melting passion. By the time she pulls away, his lips have been thoroughly coated in lip balm as well.

“Now that’s the proper amount of product to use,” she says breathlessly. “We’ll have to put it on this way every time, just to be sure.”

“Maybe you should show me again,” Link suggests, innocently. Too innocently. “Just to be sure.”

She smirks, and takes him by the hand. “Bedroom.”

“Bedroom!”

The night is still young, after all.

#zelda #zelink #loftwing letters #tloz #loz #botw #totk #the legend of zelda #fanfic #friend's fic!!! #read it!! #amazing writer

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You

i know who you are

i didn't at first

but then i saw Her eyes

in Yours

when they smiled

i know who you are

but I don't think you

want me to recognize You

behind that disguise

i know who you are

but i see you sometimes grow

weary of being Him

being Him keeps You safe

i know who you are

and i know you're tired

i am too

but at least i know that

around me

you let Him rest

and you allow me

a glimpse of You again

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, and especially to @youwouldntbelievehowigothere who I was matched with for @zelinkcommunity 's Loftwing Letters event! Also a good double post for @zelinktines23 day 5: Secret! I hope you like it 🥹 I also apologise that I'm a little late 😭 Real life almost got in the way of OOT Zelink but I won in the end 😂

I loved how thorough and detailed you were with the description of what you would like for this event, and all your ideas are awesome for fanfic! It would've taken me even longer to actually write a fanfic but I hope you enjoy the little sketches and poem! I did what I could given the little time I had, Happy Valentine's Day again! 🥰

#legend of zelda #loz #zelink #link #zelda #sheik #shink #legend of zelda ocarina of time #ocarina of time #tloz oot #oot #loftwing letters #zelinktines #zelinktines23 #day 5 #alkturos #alkturos art #alkturos doodles #secret #valentines #i love them #so much #his ears perk up 🥺 #and his pupils dilate when he looks at sheik 🥹

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Hi there, @zeldaelmo here!

Zelinktines is a casual zelink event in February.

Choose a prompt of your liking and get creative with it and post it on the prompt date! Art, stories, music, whatever you feel inspired to!

Everyone can participate. We have a form where you can choose up to three prompts (you can do more prompts outside the form but don't burn yourself out). It's not required to fill out the form but it helps to see which prompts are still free. (Double entries are fine! But maybe you're inspired by several things and prefer to cover a free day/prompt)

Collaborations are encouraged! Keep an eye out on the common zelink/loz discord servers to find a partner or here on Tumblr! Consider your own post that you want to collab, too.

To make it easier for us, add @zelinktines23 and tag us when you post! There will also be an Ao3 collection in February.

NSFW content is allowed. Please blur NSFW art with the 'mature' feature and hide explicit writing under the cut here on Tumblr. Don't get too crazy with the NSFW content, this is an event with the focus on the romantic relationship of Zelda and Link and not kinktober.

Big thanks at the team @aquaticpal, @deiliamedlini, @Farore-or-less, and @itcantbe! Also a huge ❤️ @between-star for letting us use the art!

#Zelinktines23 #zelink #legend of zelda #Zelinktines #YURRRR

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KEI 😭💕

No bc??! How is he so cute??? 🥹💕 Link doing his absolute best trying to make the perfect gift for Zelda and he's KNITTING it for her 🤚😭💕 17/10 I loved this piece so much and it put a smile on my face, thank you thank you thank you!! 😍😍😍

Cross Stitch

 Oh look Kei remembered how to write.. ANYWAYS.. this is a piece as part of Hetsu’s Gift Exchange!

Ship: BOTW!Link and BOTW!Zelda

Warnings; none really? Mute!Link - he communicates via sign, Zelda might be a bit OOC with the swearing. The format is a little janky

Words: 710.. quite short and sweet

Anyways.. enough out of me! Enjoy!

‘Ok, ok.. Over, under tie the knot and - AAGH’ The knitting needles fell out of Link’s normally dexterous hands with a clatter against the wood of his porch, accompanying the sound of his inner monologue for what felt like a lifetime. In reality it had been at most a couple of hours. 

Link crouched over in his seat with a tense inhale as he reached for the needles and blue wool which had fallen moments earlier and his brain whirred to life yet again…

‘Over, under.. Loop-the-loop and pull..? No! Agh! That’s shoelaces!” They threw the work into their lap with a huff.

To an outsider this would be incredibly decent progress; it was clear that the soft item he was working on was a scarf with yellow,sage and blue wool interwoven intricately to create an almost spring-blossom meadow illusion. However to an impatient perfectionist like Link - it was about as useful as a skeletal Bokoblin arm.. Which to be fair he had found to be pretty useful! OK.. so bad example but you get the picture.

The point is - if it wasn’t perfect immediately - then it was worthless. Given this is a gift for Zelda, it has to be absolutely beyond the realm of perfection and when you’re an adventurer who sacrificed fashion for survival - that was quite the quest.

Link  leaned all the way back in the seat he had brought out to his porch to knit in the crisp winter air and brought his arms up to sign one simple word:

‘Shit’ He dropped his hands with a sigh.“LINK! Watch your fucking language people can see you!” Link almost fell backwards out of seat in shock- thankfully Zelda rushed to help him stay upright, the knitting fell to the floor once again. “Wah! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” Zelda fussed, pulling him out of the seat and dusting him off. Link pulled her away at arms length and signed ‘I’m ok’ with a half-hearted grin. 

“Good! Well I was at the market just now and I got you some more glass bottles,some fresh herbs and some - OH! And I ran into Mrs. Itho, you know over on the hill, and she-” As Zelda brushed past Link rambling about her day Link’s eyes fell to the once again discarded knitting and he was just contemplating kicking it off the side of the porch to be swallowed by the trench he dug to funnel rainwater when-

“Link?” He was brought out of his daze by Zelda. “Are you alright, my love?” 

The tips of his ears tinted themselves a warm shade of red as always with any pet name from Zelda, as he looked away signing ‘I’m fine’ once again. Given he’d turned his head he missed Zelda briskly moving around their counter towards where he stood… beelining for his line of sight.

“No you’re not! You’re usually quite daydream-y but you always listen to me talk about my da- What’s this?” Link’s head shot up as he clocked Zelda carefully holding his unfinished…. Whatever it is in her hands delicately, her thumbs grazing the material. “Link? Are you.. Knitting?”

Link's hands frantically began to sign excuses.

‘No! It’s um..’

‘It’s not what you think!’

‘It;s something for my travels in the colder terrain.’

‘I can.. .start it again.’

Zelda just stood staring at her beloved doofus and moved forward to grasp his wrist and lower his hands to clasp together in front of him. Link watched on carefully as she tied off the last stitch with unbelievable grace, set the needles down on the chair and carefully extended the length of the scarf in her hands.

“There we go.” She mumbled softly to herself as she moved her hands to wrap the garment around her neck. “Oh Link! It’s lovely!” She brought one end to her cheek and rubbed it against her cheek. “Thank you!”

Link looked on with the most lovesick expression on his face as he slowly brought his  hands up to sign ‘You’re welcome, beloved.’. Zelda smiled softly and gently held his hands again - only to pull him to her, this time, into a gentle kiss.

As she pulled back and slowly let go of his hands to make her way inside, Link decided he could learn that maybe things don’t need to be immediately perfect - as long as someone else could appreciate his efforts perhaps he could as well.

#zelink #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #link #zelda #botw link #botw zelda #botw zelink #botw #hestus gift exchange #SO MF CUTE #gift giving love language >>>>> #KNITTING #i love them 💓 #thank you kei 🥹💕

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I just finished reading this now and omg 😳 Manx I am in LOVE with this au, I'm so lucky to have gotten a gift from you in this exchange 😭💕

And just??? Masseur!Link?? Hello???? 👀👀👀👀 💯 GOOD 👍 Shit 🫰 right 🫵 there 😤🫶💕

Thank you thank you thank you!!

I know it's been way, waaaay too long since I released some writing, but BAM, here we go! @alkturos the art wizard and I are on the same discord and we're part of a gift exchange. Alkie was my secret gift guppy this year, so here we go, Modern-Hyrule AU goodness with a healthy dose of Zelink! Grow strong on these nibbles, you sweet Sidon-simp! >U<;!! Summary: Zelda is nearing her wit's end as she prepares for the coronation in modern Hyrule. Her dearest friend and grandmother has sent her for relaxation therapy to help handle the stress, but it's a delicate balance to find someone to work out the knots in her shoulders without adding the stress of being a princess in the conversation. Note: The current rating for the fic is M for mature, and may change rating. FairWarningHmmmmmkay.

----- Hold My Hand on AO3 ------

(preview for chap 1)

For the third time in just as many minutes, Link blew the corner of his bangs up out of his face.  His eyes were focused on the curve of her spine and how her flesh was dimpling under his thumbs; the sweat had threaded a line down over his brow, clinging in an increasing droplet that he just couldn’t let fall for professional pride. The sudden shift of his weight pushed a breath of surprise from her when he brushed his forehead against his shoulder - he could feel her sides flex to bear the small heave. 

When he straightened, he began to pull and slide the sides of his thumbs soothingly into the depth of the firm muscles hidden under her softness. The modesty-towel he had draped over the line of her backside had begun to shift under the course of the massage, but for the moment Link ignored the migration, working along the small of her back, towards her strongest vertebrae.

Sometimes in the lighter moments of their increasingly cozy sessions Link would fill the air with light banter, but today the sashay of bossa nova from his radio set the rhythm for his rolling pushes and pulls. Perhaps, if he had taken a different path and followed some of his more realistic ambitions he would have this morning been patting and pressing a fine roll of dough, but Zelda’s svelte form was… certainly much more intriguing than a loaf of bread in the works.

She shifted, thighs tensing and knees squeezing closer together further down on the padded table; Link pulled a deep breath. In another year he could boast of being a masseur for a full decade if one added in the first year of working during his studies. There had certainly been several points at which the squirms and sounds of his clients were hiding notes of arousal. Perhaps for just this one exception, he had begun to have issues steering his mind straight. 

She wore her hair long; after the second session she had chosen to simply let the strands spill over the edge of the head of the white-leather table. On the third visit she had, with several flushed glances, called him in without the troublesome straps of her bra under her shoulder blades. Later he had chosen to tug tufts of hair forwards from his normal ponytail in the mirror before she had arrived. A well-coiffed appearance went miles for building a good clientele of course, but she was quickly becoming the one client he added that little extra for.

The track on the radio shifted to a more up-tempo number, and Link straightened, his hands lifting away for a small break. Zelda looked up from resting her head on the table, turning a gaze over her shoulder in the relaxing warmth of the office. Link was wiping his face and neck with a small towel, so she snuck a drink from her mug at his sidetable. She had suggested turning the radiator up several degrees since the morning’s window panes had been frosted at dawn with fine patterns.

She could not find a way to thank her grandmother nearly enough for suggesting the visits. Her responsibilities in the past few years had begun to ramp up while her father’s mental acuity was waning; life in the public eye had been troubling enough during college, but her graduation had lost some of its vibrancy when dear Impa had drawn her aside to discuss the likelihood of a coronation. The wizened shekiah had birthed her son at a shockingly early age when Hyrule was shedding the nobility-governed monarchy, and Zelda suspected that her grandmother had played a more important role in the transitions of power than she let on.

Of course when Link had asked if perhaps Zelda was referring to the Impa who had visited his office a few weeks before her arrival, she’d hesitated before risking an answer. Her handsome masseuse had proved pleasantly ignorant of her social standing and very public family life, so it caught her by surprise that Impa had not given him a pseudonym. His easy going nature was part of his charm; if she had been forced to give up her secrets early, her massage sessions wouldn’t have gone from half-hour to two-hour slots on the calendar.

----- Read more on AO3 ----

#legend of zelda #botw #fanfiction #zelink #zelda #IM IN LOVE WITH IT #masseur Link?? #masseuer Link 👍👍👍 #Read it!!! #Gift exchange

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The realest Vibes 😭💕

#if this aint me #fav blondes = healing potion #great to think about after a long day #the cure #love your art wild 💕💕💕 #but pls do rest 🥺 #especially if you're burnt out

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To Hold The Sun Chapter 22 Illustration

by amazing writers @hyperphonic, @obsidiangst, @softpromise !!

Illustration by me

Read from first chapter here: To Hold The Sun

#zelink #to hold the sun #breath of the wild #princess zelda #link #WILD 😭💕 #Your art seriously gives me life #blesses my day #and makes the world a better place #i love the atmosphere in this piece so much 🥺 #theyre so beautiful ❤️ #foaming at the mouth at ur art #your hand is magic

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arm sleeve tattoo o_O

#tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #link #legend of zelda #hanabelink!! <3 #tattoo sleeves #my weakness #look at him 😍