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The Twang of a Bowstring and the Spark of Swords

Teen, has a fight(no real blood, just to be safe) all HHAU people make an appearance, Dusk has pov rights this time.

“We’re coming up on some unsavory company,” Dot warned, holding up a hand. Dusk laid a hand on her rapier, glancing around at the others. She knew Artemis and Dot could fight, but what about the others? The three of them, well, four with Shadow, couldn’t protect the six others. 

“Alright. How many of you know how to use a weapon. Show of hands.” Artemis instructed, raising her own hand. Dusk raised her hand, as did Sun, Dot, Shadow, Sheik, and Tetra. 

“Does a magic rod count?” Fable asked, one hand falling to the fire rod at her hip. “Otherwise, I can use magic to fight.” 

“I’ll count it. Who can use magic to fight?” 

Somewhat unsurprisingly, almost everyone had their hand up at that, excluding Dawn, Aurora, as well as Sheik and Tetra, who put their hands down sheepishly. 

“Alright. Dawn, Aurora, remind one of us to teach you how to defend yourselves at the very least. Tetra, your inability to use magic to defend yourself concerns me, so we’ll handle that later as well.” 

“Concerns you, why?” Tetra asked, visibly offended. 

Dusk could answer that one. “Because you haven’t used magic once, and haven’t shown any indication of knowing how to. Not using magic at all can have consequences and be risky for yourself and Shadow and I.” 

Tetra settled for pouting about it. Fortunate she didn’t chose to continue to dispute it, Dusk would prefer if they got rid of the unsavory company as quickly as possible. 

“Alright. Aurora, Dawn, Flora, stay here. Anyone less confident fighting monsters and willing to stay back?” 

“I’ll stay back,” Fable volunteered, stepping back to stand near the two. “I can show them kind of the basics of offensive light magic anyway. Plus if I’m using light magic it might get risky.” 

“I’ll stay back as well,” Sun said, pulling a sheathed sword out of one of her bags. Dusk still wasn’t sure why she didn’t keep it on her, it seemed unsafe to have it so hard to access. Although she supposed that between everyone here with sensing skill they had plenty of warning. As evidenced by the fact that they had the time to stand here and plan this out. 

“Alright. Who has long-distance capabilities?” Artemis was good at this, although Dusk supposed it made sense, she had led in wartime. Maybe if she spent enough time around the older woman she’d pick some of it up. Maybe it’d just rub off. 

“I have my bow, although I use light magic with it,” Dot said, slinging the bow in question around to hold it out. 

“I also have a light bow, although mine isn’t physical,” Dusk admitted, remembering the bow she used the arrows the light spirits had given her with. Although now that she thought about it, it hadn’t really been fully light magic, even then. 

“I suspect most of us have used some variety of light bow,” Artemis mused. “Just out of curiosity this time, who’s used a light bow of some variety?”

Dusk raised her hand, as did Dot, although somewhat hesitantly, Tetra, Fable, Flora, and Artemis did as well. That was the majority. 

“I think they noticed us,” Shadow warned after a second, tilting his head. “Coming closer. We’d better move out or they’re getting the advantage.” 

“Alright. Dot, Dusk, stay back if you can to snipe, everyone else, try and stay out of each other’s ways, Shadow, we’ll try and warn you if there are any big light magic displays so you can hide.” 

“Sounds good to me,” he agreed, what looked like a sword made of pure shadow forming in his hand. “Let’s go, I’ve wanted to have a good fight for a while.” 

Dusk concentrated, forming the bow she had used in that decisive final fight. The arrows wouldn’t be as powerful, but that was probably good. Her hands had been burned badly after that fight, just drawing them back. 

The monsters weren’t that far ahead, which wasn’t surprising, and Dusk did as ordered with Dot, hanging back and calling on every ounce of calm she could to concentrate and wish she had a way to practice on moving targets before this. 

Dot took shot after shot, some missing, but some also hitting home in monsters, be it their arms or head. A couple of arrows did incidentally hit one of the other Zeldas, but it always dissipated harmlessly against them. Dusk wasn’t sure her arrows would do it, so she didn’t fire off nearly as many arrows, worried about hitting someone she didn’t want to. 

Artemis finished off the last of about twenty bokoblins, marking an end of the battle. 

“That everything?” She asked to no one in particular. Dusk had no great skill with sensing, so she wasn’t the ultimate authority, but she couldn’t sense anything besides themselves nearby. After a second, both Dot and Shadow glanced at each other, then nodded. 

“Nothing left,” Dot confirmed, nodding again. “We’re in the clear. I’m a little surprised there was even this big of a group, the Links were here relatively recently.” 

“They are fallible, they could’ve missed some,” Tetra pointed out, sheathing her sword and gun. “So does Flora want some of these parts?” 

“Yeah probably,” Artemis said, crouching down and starting to collect them. Dusk wrinkled her nose at the guts, horns, and teeth strewn about the ground. She was not touching those. She didn’t care if Flora wanted them, she was not touching those. 

To her utter horror, Shadow picked a gut up, sniffed it curiously, then bit into it. 

“Shadow!” Dot scolded, and his ears tilted back guiltily as he hid the gut behind his back and swallowed quickly. “No eating monster parts.” 

“It tastes good, like those fizzy things you let me have the one time,” Shadow said, decidedly not relinquishing what was left of the gut. Utterly disgusting. At least everyone else there was making similarly disgusted faces, excluding Sheik, who, in the quarter of their face visible, looked almost morbidly curious. 

Dusk elected to ignore the rest of that argument and start striding back to where they had left the others. She was not going to watch Shadow do more stupid things. Honestly, eating monster parts, that was appalling. What had she done to deserve this. 

#hhau #hope of hyrule au #zeldas meet au #march of the zeldas 2023 #hhau dusk #hhau sun #hhau artemis #hhau aurora #hhau flora #hhau dawn #hhau shadow #hhau sheik #hhau dot #hhau fable

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Eager Smiles and Joyous Laughter

Gen, Tetra pov, Features Shadow and Aryll!

“Oh hey, I recognize where we are!” Tetra said, inhaling deeply and relishing the scent of salt on the wind. “We’re on Outset!” She’d actually crash-landed on the island right over there, she recognized that tree. 

“Outset, the hero’s home?” Flora guessed, lighting up. “I want samples of every plant here.” 

“You do that,” Artemis said, smiling indulgently. “Just be mindful of the plants. We’ll be in the town, I’m sure you’ll be able to find it eventually.” 

“The bonuses of an island!” Tetra added, grinning. “Super hard to get lost! There aren’t really any monsters in these woods normally, and the Links have probably been through recently enough to clear them out.” 

“Not that they’d dare attack me anyway,” Flora said wistfully, sighing mournfully as she crouched down to start stealing leaves from innocent foliage. Tetra could understand the lust for battle. Even if it was probably for different reasons. 

“This way!” Tetra said cheerfully, leading the rest off. Flora could manage on her own just fine. 

Outset was just as small and quiet as ever, although that was quickly shattered when Aryll screeched from somewhere out of sight and probably started running toward them. 

“What was that?” Shadow asked warily, shielding his face from the bright sun. His skin looked even darker in the bright sunlight, and his eyes were almost glowing. Aryll was so going to blow a gasket when she saw him. “Do I need to hide?” 

“Nah, that’s just Wind’s little sister. Don’t worry, she’ll think you’re the coolest. After me, of course. No one is cooler than me.” Not even Wind. “Her name is Aryll, she’s pretty cute.” 

“TETRA!” Aryll screeched, finally coming into view, sprinting full tilt towards them. “YOU’RE BACK!” 

“HECK YEAH I AM PIPSQUEAK!” Tetra shouted back, shooting a vaguely apologetic glance at Shadow when he winced. 

“Your crew got here and were moping about without you for a while! Then Grandma whipped them into shape and sent them out with the fishermen. So now they’re helping out around town!” 

“That’ll be good for them,” Tetra decided, nodding. They could use a reminder of what island life was like. And could probably use the break. “We won’t head out again now, did Wind come through recently?” 

“Yeah, like a week ago. He and his friends spent a day clearing out the forest of anything, then had to leave again. He didn’t even have any time to spend with me!” Aryll clearly felt very strongly about this, based on the pout. 

“Well, we don’t have anything we’re really doing, so we’ve got all the time in the world to play with you, at least until we have to leave again.” Tetra glanced at Shadow again, and grinned. “Hey Aryll, that’s Shadow, he’s like Link, but cooler.” 

Aryll lit up, her ears standing straight up. It was hilarious, like an excited pig. Or as she had discovered on last visit to Flora’s world, an excited dog. “He is?” 

“Yep. I was designed to be cooler than Link,” Shadow agreed, inadvertently ensuring Aryll would be stuck to his side like glue for the time they were here. Excellent, now Tetra could do other things like check in with her crew. And check in with Grandma, and maybe get soup for Flora to stick in her slate so they could have it later. 

“Perhaps you could show us around?” Artemis said, bending down so she could actually talk somewhat face to face with Aryll, who was a bit shorter than Shadow. “So Tetra can get on whatever else she wanted to do.” 

“Sure!” Aryll grinned, eyes scrunched closed in delight. “I can do that! I’ll be the best tour guide!” 

“Of that I have no doubt,” Artemis agreed, smiling. 

Tetra and Shadow ended up staying in Wind’s Grandma’s house with Aryll, while the others crashed in Tetra’s ship, since the house couldn’t fit them all. The house couldn’t fit the links, who were generally smaller in size than everyone they traveled with now, there was no way it was fitting all of them. 

“Hey Tetra?” Shadow whispered into the dark, after Aryll had gone to sleep using Shadow as a living teddy bear. 

“What.” 

“Is this what having a little sister feels like?” He sounded almost distressed, and that was so funny to Tetra for some reason, maybe it was just how late it was, but that was hilarious. Also, little sister? He thought she was the little sister when she spent the afternoon leading him around and showing him everything and telling him how things worked? She obviously thought she was the older sibling here.

She tried to stifle her snickers best she could so she didn’t wake anyone, but it was far too funny to fully shut down the laughter. “Yeah probably, she’s good at that, sticking to people like a tiny barnacle and then never coming loose. She’s too cute to say no to.” 

“Her army of seagulls is borderline terrifying, she could rule the world with those.” 

Tetra snorted again. “Yeah probably, but she could also rule with her cuteness, so I know which one I’d prefer.” Those seagulls could be a bit weirdly intelligent sometimes, she didn’t feel like crossing them. And Aryll would probably cry if she attacked one. Tetra and Wind had accidentally killed a seagull once and would take that secret to their graves. 

“Yeah I don’t feel like crossing the seagulls. They’d probably manage to kill me again.” 

“Again?” Tetra asked, a bit incredulous she hadn’t heard of this before. They all knew the vague basic that he was some sort of shadow being, at least partially, but never the background behind that, since Dot had just said it was her Link’s business, since it was his adventure. 

“Oh yeah, never told you guys about that…” Shadow sighed into the dark, his faintly glowing eyes turning to her. “Yeah I died for a bit, then Dot and Vio brought me back to life. That’s why I’m only sort of a shadow being. I was Link’s shadow given life, then stuff happened.” 

“Wow, your name is literal.” And stupid. You’d think someone would have given him a more creative name then Shadow. 

“Red, Blue, Green, and Vio. We’re all united in stupid names. Too late to bother caring. I like Shadow, it works for me.” 

“I’ll take your word for it, I still think it’s a stupid name.” 

“You don’t have to think it’s a good name since it isn’t yours.” 

Aryll grumbled just loud enough for them both to hear it, shifting and burrowing deeper into Shadow’s side. 

“Whoops, sorry, got too loud,” Shadow whispered, much more quietly. “Sorry, I’ll let you both sleep. Can’t have two grouchy ladies in the morning.”

#hhau shadow #hhau #zeldas meet au #hope of hyrule au #hhau tetra #hhau artemis #hhau flora #neither is the older sibling here #the older sibling is wind #aryll also believes she is older #but she and shadow are both wrong

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Vivid Flowers and Crisp Spring Air Chapter 2

Still Gen, still mostly Aurora and Flora, some Artemis, Rhondson and Karson show up briefly

After their picnic, which Aurora had, indeed enjoyed quite a bit, they started heading down the path to Tarry Town, Flora in the lead. 

“Huh, that’s new,” Flora said as they rounded a bend to find construction being done on some things in front of a long narrow bridge that led to an elevated island. Aurora admittedly hadn’t thought the island would be so far off the ground, or that the bridge would be so thin and flimsy looking. 

“Are you sure that’s safe?” She asked Flora anxiously. “It looks a bit…thin.” 

“Yeah it’s totally fine, it’s sturdier than you think. It’ll hold anything. Not sure what they’re building though.” 

“Might be fortifications,” Artemis contributed, studying the in-process structure. Aurora supposed she would know, she was the one that had been in a war. “It looks like it could be a guard tower. You mentioned monsters were fairly common in your world? It would make sense to guard the bridge.” 

“I guess that’d make sense. We won’t know unitl we get closer though.” 

When they did get closer, to no one’s suprise, Artemis was right. It did look like a guard tower, and that was confirmed when Flora approached and asked about it. 

“Link came by recently with his friends and the one in the scarf suggested having one, he was woried about the town with how many monsters lived in the area. We’ve only really got one person t staff it, so we’re really just building a gate across the bridge, so it can be open and staffed during the day, but at night we can close it and sleep easy.” That did sound smart. Aurora admired the structure. Even though it was still in progress it looked very sturdy. 

“That is a god idea,” Artemis mused.”Figures Warriors was the oneto suggest it.” 

“Odd name for a boy, but yeah it was a good idea. He helped us draw up plans too, although we improved them obviously.” 

“You are expert builders Karson,” Flora agreed, butting in. “How’s Bolson been doing?” 

“Doing well as always, still waiting for you to ask him to build you a house fit for a princess.” 

Flora gave a rather pained smile, evidently this had been an argument for a while. “Yep I’m sure. I’m still good just living with Link, thanks.” 

Flora was quick to herd them past the man after that. 

“What was that about a house?” Aurora asked delicately, not wanting to upset Flora, but she was very curious. 

“Well, Link and I sort of share his house, neither of us really lives there for very long though. Bolson has kinda gotten it into his head that it’s not right for a young woman and a young man to be sharing a house when they’re not involved, even if neither of us stay there for long. We’re rarely even in the house at the same time, even if we’re incidentally both in town at the same time.” Flora sighed, ears dropping. “And I’ve had enough of being a princess for a lifetime. I just want to be Flora, random hylian girl who just travels around and never stays in one place for very long.” 

“I can understand that sentiment,” Aurora sighed, remembering all the times she’d cried after a fight with her brother and desperately wished she could just be a regular hylian girl and could run off to hide from him outside of the castle. And more recently, having fights with Dawn and just wishing she could leave and not have to deal with any of this. 

Boy did she often wish she could travel and see the world with Hyrule, but he’d never let her come along. He always said it was too dangerous, and he was probably right. Aurora didn’t know how to fight, even if Fable was teaching her how to use her magic offensively, it was slow going since Fable basically had to start from the beginning, since her, Dawn, and Tetra had basically no magical background. 

“Anyway, guys, this is Tarry Town. The town Wild basically half founded. Karson back there built it from the ground up, Wild contributed materials and collected a bunch of people for him.” 

“Flora, it’s good to see you,” a beautiful and very tall red-headed woman approached them, bending down to give Flora a quick hug. Oddly enough she looked a bit like Dot. Mostly in the coloring and height, but also a bit in face shape. “How have you been? I see you’ve collected some friends.” 

“It’s good to see you Rhondson,” Flora replied, smiling. “And yeah, got some friends. This is Aurora, Fable, Dot, Shadow, Dawn, Dusk, Artemis, Sheik, Tetra, and Sun. Guys, this is Rhondson, she’s Karson’s wife.” 

“Interesting names,” Rhondson noted, smiling. “It’s good to meet you all.” 

“They’re all nicknames,” Artemis admitted, offering her hand. “You have a nice town here. Easily defensible.” 

Rhondson laughed, taking Artemis’ hand and shaking it. “The guy in the blue scarf, Warriors I believe it was, said the same thing.” 

“We are aquainted, so I’m not surprised,” Artemis said, and Aurora thought she looked a bit embaressed. That was kind of a weird thing to say. 

“Is where Link usually stays open?” Flora asked, steering the conversation back on track. “We’d like somewhere to stay for the night.” 

“Of course it’s open, Link isn’t here. You’re always free to use it. You may not have done as much as Link, but you’ve helped our village plenty in other ways.” 

“Right. Oh! Rhondson, I wanted to ask, are there any gerudo who know how to make paint? Aurora wants to learn how to make paint, but we’re kind of low on options for people who know how.” 

“Hm, I’m not sure. I can send a letter to ask if you’d like.” 

“That’d be great, thank you.” 

Aurora smiled at the thoughtfullness of her friend. Whether or not it panned out, she appreciated the thought. It was a cute village, small, but homey, and clearly very new. She remembered Flora once talking about the calamity and loosely what had happened, and it was very inspiring how the world and the people were managing to recover. A new village, one where there could be people of all species living together and working together. 

She hoped that one day her world could recover like this. The land beautiful and green, and new villages able to thrive. Hopefully they would be able to manage it one day.

#hhau aurora #hhau flora #hhau artemis #rhondson #Karson #Tarry Town

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Coronation

Gen, Fable centered, Artemis and Dusk also feature heavily. Definitely one of the things I'm more proud of this month. Kinda funny that both things I'm most proud of are both Fable things haha

“Hey Dusk, Artemis, can I ask you about something?” Fable asked, probably failing to disguise her anxious fiddling. She’d mostly successfully been ignoring her anxiety over her impending coronation and ascension to the throne, but it had come back to hit her over the head out of nowhere, and she’d gotten the idea to ask Dusk and Artemis, both of whom were Queen in their respective eras, about their coronations and how it had been immediately afterward. 

They’d settled down in this area for the day so that Shadow and Dot could work on transmuting the dark magic left behind by the monsters the Links had killed. Fable would be helping them, but her anxiety over becoming queen had been skewing her magic control past what even her rings could control. Her magic control had always been a bit iffy, interacting directly with the triforce twice had completely thrown it off, enough she couldn’t just account for it when trying to do something and causing dangerous flares. 

Legend had found the control rings for her, which she hadn’t really taken off since, but they could only do so much. So if her magic was thrown off by high emotion, then she couldn’t really do any magic. So Dot had banished her from helping until she figured it out. 

“Sure, I wasn’t really doing anything anyway.” Artemis sheathed her sword and stood up, re-clipping the rapier to her belt. “Would you like to take a walk?” 

“Yes please.” 

“I can come as well,” Dusk agreed, standing up and dusting off her clothes. “Let’s not go too far from camp though.” 

“Of course.” Artemis led them off, although dropped back a bit to walk between Fable and Dusk once they were a bit away. “So, what did you want to talk about Fable?” 

Fable took in a deep breath of the fresh forest air, then let it out slowly. “I wanted to ask about your coronations, and kinda about stuff right afterward.” 

“You’re turning eighteen soon, yes?” Dusk asked, raising an eyebrow. 

Fable nodded, ears tilting down. “A month or two. I don’t know if it’ll have to be rescheduled because of this or if it’ll finish before it’s scheduled.”

“Perhaps preemptively reschedule it when we reach your world next,” Artemis suggested. “It will put less stress on the planners if they know beforehand it will likely need to be pushed back. They don’t appreciate being told they have to reschedule something only a few weeks in advance, especially if it's such a big event.” 

“Good point,” Fable said, a bit embarrassed she didn’t think of that sooner. “I’ll do that as soon as I can.” 

“Back to your initial question,” Dusk said mildly, if a bit firmly. “My coronation was quite the affair, but it was less nerve-wracking than you would think. There were many people, but there were enough that faces blurred together. I couldn’t tell you even ten people that attended my coronation that I saw.” 

“Mine was similar,” Artemis agreed, smiling faintly. “If you asked me afterward who attended, I would have only been able to tell you that Impa was there. It will seem quite daunting, but leave your focus on the ceremony. It will be over more quickly than you think.” 

“And afterward?” Fable asked hesitantly. 

“Not much of a difference,” Dusk admitted. “I was already functionally ruling, it was simply a formality at that point. My parents had already died a year or so beforehand, I had been prepared my whole life, so I was ready. I had a regent until I was of age, but they were simply a formality by the end of the year.” 

“I too was functionally already ruling before my coronation, however, it was because my father’s mind had begun to go. My mother died when I was small, so technically he was functioning as my regent until I came of age, but Impa took over for him three or four years before my coronation because he was unable to fulfill his duties, and slowly transferred all duties to me to prepare me for being queen. She’s taken it back on with my absence, I feel a bit bad, but she did admirably during the war, and I have no doubt she’ll continue to do so.” Artemis chuckled quietly. “I do hope she’s getting along without Warriors and I. No one to gossip or mock old biddies with.” 

“You are doing the majority of the duties of a queen, yes?” Dusk asked after their giggles over Artemis’ last comment died down. 

“I think so,” Fable mused. She didn’t technically have a regent, something she had heard complaints about, and she oversaw the majority of matters in the kingdom. Those she didn’t her advisors did, and they reported to her. “I oversee the majority of things personally, and those I cannot my advisors handle and then report to me.” 

“Sounds like a queen’s workload,” Artemis said, huffing quietly. “You delegated the majority of your work to your advisors?” 

“Yes, I have several levels of advisors to ensure only the most important things get to me.” A system set in place by the Queen two generations before Fable, when the kingdom was just barely getting back on its feet. There had been so many issues with getting the government up and running the way it had been before the Fallen Hero that the Queen had just fully started over, creating new positions in court, and establishing a set of levels that anything had to get through to go to the Queen’s attention. There were a couple of ways to bypass it, but those were rarely used, and all went through Impa. “It was a simple matter of having them take slightly more power, I’ll review anything big when we arrive at my era again.” 

“Sounds more functional than my system.” Dusk sighed, ears dropping. Fable glanced at her curiously, it was probably the first time Dusk had brought up her government, after noting that she had figured it out so she could leave with them anyway. 

“Mine certainly could be more functional for delegating work,” Artemis mused, contemplating something. “You’ll have to sit me down and describe how exactly yours works at some point. I feel it would be useful.” 

“Let me sit in too,” Dusk said quickly. 

“Delegating problems too?” Artemis guessed, although Fable doubted she actually thought it was delegation. If Fable had to guess, it would be more of an issue regarding Dusk’s control over the government itself. 

“Not really.” 

“It’s just us, you can speak freely,” Fable offered quietly, they were still fairly far out from camp, definitely out of earshot. “It’s not like word will get back to anyone in your kingdom.” 

Dusk sighed, changing course to head for a recently fallen log. She settled delicately on it, while Fable and Artemis just sat down on the ground, far more used to just sitting around wherever than Dusk. “It’s not delegation. I fear far less information gets back to me than I would like. I have no way of otherwise obtaining that information, however.” 

Artemis and Fable exchanged a glance. They hadn’t met an Impa in Dusk’s world, and no one had mentioned one, and there hadn’t been any Sheikah among her staff, at least not full-blooded ones. No white hair or red eyes to be seen in her staff anywhere. 

“No Impa?” Fable asked gently, scooting a bit closer in case Dusk needed the reassurance. 

Dusk’s ears dropped further, if that was even possible. “No. She-” Dusk paused for a long time, and Artemis and Fable exchanged another look. “She died in the invasion. Zant killed her as an example.” 

Fable’s ears flattened against her head. She couldn’t imagine not having Impa, she’d been there all of Fable’s life, Impa had half-raised her, and supported her in everything. She couldn’t imagine not having any sort of confidant. 

Based on Artemis’ similarly pinned ears and hard expression, she also couldn’t imagine being without her Impa. 

And if there hadn’t been any sort of attempt at replacement, that had to mean the Sheikah were either so depleted that they couldn’t spare someone to be trained as an Impa, or there simply weren’t any Sheikah to fill the role. Neither was good. 

“She did her best to support me, and she died for it,” Dusk whispered, staring at her lap. 

Dusk wasn’t crying, but Fable had to somewhat discreetly dry a few tears. “If we can, we’ll help you reform your government,” Fable promised, laying a hand on Dusk’s knee. “Whatever we can do, just say so.” 

“I don’t even know what can be done.” 

“Start with the top level,” Artemis suggested, a wry smile playing at her lips. “Sweep them clean and start with a new slate. Then work your way down with their assistance. Fable has her government structure, we can work off of that.” 

“Yeah, and if we need extra help we can get my Impa to help, she’s been doing this since she was a young woman, and she hasn’t been a young woman in probably a century.” Maybe that was a bit of an overstatement, Impa couldn’t be more than eighty, but it certainly felt like a century. 

“We’ll work it out,” Artemis said, affirming the sentiment. “You aren’t alone in this.” 

“Thank you,” Dusk whispered, although she didn’t look up at them. 

Fable huffed when no one made a move for a hug. That was totally a hug moment. “Come on, that was a hug moment, get in here.” 

Artemis giggled, but did lean in to let Fable grab her and pull her in for a hug. Dusk took a bit longer, but eventually scooted hesitantly off her log and into range. Fable cheerfully pulled her in too, hugging both women as tightly as she could manage. Maybe she hadn’t expected to be brought on this adventure, but it was well worth it for the sisterhood she’d found. 

#hhau artemis #hhau fable #hhau dusk #hope of hyrule au #zeldas meet au #march of the zeldas 2023 #hhau #check the ao3 version for my notes on things in the authors notes #I'm not gonna try and put them here #too long #but I think they're important anyway

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One Tiny Golem

Gen, pretty short, Artemis got pov rights accidentally, they're just making a tiny golem.

“Are we sure this is safe?” Artemis asked, hovering just outside of the circle and watching her harp, which was currently laid across Dot and Fable’s laps. 

“It should be,” Dot replied, which wasn’t even remotely reassuring. “If it fails it shouldn’t cause any damage.” 

“Are you sure that misshapen thing is even going to move?” Dusk asked, ears pinned back against her head warily. A reasonable reaction, if this backfired, it was really going to backfire. 

“If we do it right it will,” Fable said, her hands, one holding one of Dot’s, and the other on the harp, began glowing. Just because Artemis had faith in her harp’s ability to channel magic and transmute it into other elements, didn’t mean she had faith that this wouldn’t go horribly wrong. “Oh come on, just believe us for once. It’s not going to go wrong.”

“We’ve accounted for everything we can think of, and even if we forgot something, everyone here’s well-versed in magic and can destroy the thing if it goes out of control.” Dot’s hands were also glowing, and the thing they’d drawn on the floor was starting to glow brown, rather than gold. “Ha, it’s working.” 

“Is it?” Dusk asked, a bit pessimistically as the golem shuddered a bit, but didn’t come to life even as the magic infused into it. 

The circle stopped glowing and Dot and Fable squinted suspiciously at the golem. 

“Why isn’t it alive?” Artemis asked, curious if they had an answer. 

“I have a suspicion,” Dot said, hands starting to glow again. “Let’s see if this’ll work.” 

This time, blue magic flowed through the thing on the floor, followed by red and then green magic. Every time Artemis saw the two do magic like this it was impressive, she had no idea how to magic like this. She had thought she was fairly adept at magic, considering how much she had used it as an offensive weapon when undercover as Sheik during the war, but compared to them she was barely scratching the surface. 

As the green magic touched the golem, it shuddered again, then actually started moving, swirling magic appearing in what vaguely looked like eye sockets. 

“It worked!” Dot said, grinning. “Golem, sit down.” 

Shockingly, it actually sat down, as much as it could sit down given its somewhat misshapen form. Maybe they could convince someone to make it look…less like a child’s art project. Who knew none of them were any good at sculpting? 

Honestly, Artemis probably would have been more surprised if it turned out looking like anything intelligible. The misshapen creature that only vaguely looked like a golem had been expected. 

“Golem, do a cartwheel,” Fable instructed, and the golem stood up and sort of did a cartwheel. It did more of a falling over itself, but close enough. 

It was almost cute, in a creepy weird way. 

“He can be in Flora’s slate for if we need someone tiny to do something,” Dot decided, passing the harp fully to Fable and standing up, walking over to the tiny golem and picking it up, holding it aloft. “Who’s the cutest? It’s you, yeah, it’s you!” 

The golem almost looked confused, probably because that wasn’t instructions. 

“I don’t know about cutest,” Dusk said doubtfully, frowning. “Creepy, maybe.” 

Whatever it was, it would probably come in handy, so they’d better keep it on hand. Artemis did vaguely hope it wouldn’t end up coming in handy though. 

#hhau #hope of hyrule au #zeldas meet au #march of the zeldas 2023 #hhau artemis #hhau dot #hhau fable #hhau dusk

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Vivid Flowers and Crisp Spring Air

Gen, Aurora's pov, Flora has a major role, and Artemis shows up somewhat briefly. They've arrived in Flora's world just in time to see the flowers bloom.

For March of the Zeldas day 19

“Oh wow,” Aurora breathed as she stepped out of the portal. They’d just been in their world, which, well, it was sort of home, but it was kind of dreary. 

This, wherever and whenever it was, was very far from dreary. The sun was shining brightly, the grass was an impossible shade of green and looked so refreshing, and there were flowers everywhere. 

“Aww yes! I had hoped we’d land in my era in time to see the flowers!” Flora said, beaming as she turned to look at them. “Can we just stay here for a while? A lot of these are medicinal, and some are super strong pigments I can bring to Hateno to the dye shop to dye my clothes, and we can just relax for a bit!” 

Aurora looked to Artemis hopefully, and she seemed to be considering it. 

“Alright, we can stay here for a bit. It can’t really hurt, we’ve been going full steam ahead for a few weeks.” Artemis nodded decisively. “Try and stay within sight of at least one other person, alright?” 

She got a chorus of agreements, and Aurora muttered her own before crouching down right where she was to look at the flowers. Maybe she could use some to try out for her paints? She was pretty sure some paints were made with flowers. Although they were probably usually dried. Could she even dry the flowers? 

“Hey, Flora?” Aurora asked, a bit overwhelmed by all of the different kinds of flowers. “Which ones are the most heavily pigmented?” 

Flora came over almost immediately, crouching down next to her. “You were trying to make paint, right? I’ll help you find good ones for that. Flowers that are super strongly pigmented actually mostly aren’t great for flower crowns, so it won’t interfere with plans to make flower crowns.” 

Aurora actually didn’t know how to make a flower crown, she’d never had the chance. Maybe she could ask one of the others to show her. 

Honestly, she wasn’t sure she’d seen this many flowers in her life, even before she’d gone to sleep and woke up to a ruined world. This was a lot. 

“They all fill different ecological niches,” Flora narrated as she started picking flowers, showing them to Aurora. “The bright pigments I think are just to make them more attractive to things looking to pollinate them. This flower makes red, this one blue, and this one even though it looks red actually makes purple. Otherwise, most of them make the color they are. There’s another one that I don’t see right now that actually makes a nice blueish green. The flower is yellow though, it's so weird.” 

Aurora blissfully allowed Flora’s rambling to wash over her, picking the right flowers and keeping track of them and their colors in her mind. Maybe she could ask Flora to help her dry them? Could her slate do that? 

Maybe when she had enough. Eventually, she wouldn’t be able to come back here to collect flowers and would just have to survive on her own stash. She was already missing the paints she’d hopefully be able to make with access to all of these other worlds. Once she worked out how to make paint anyway. 

“Hey, Flora?” Aurora asked when Flora paused talking to breathe. 

“Yeah?” 

“Do you know if we could dry the flowers? I’m not sure how to dry flowers.” 

“I actually don’t really know either, I have some dried flowers in my slate from Paya, she enjoys drying flowers a lot, maybe we can collect a bunch and have her dry them for us? We can just collect them when they’re done drying.”

“That’d be cool, thank you Flora,” Aurora said, offering her collection to Flora, who put it into her slate along with all the other flowers she was collecting. “Are you sure it’s okay if we pick all these flowers?” 

“We could never pick all of them, and the plants will bloom again soon anyway. Most plants here will bloom three to four times through the spring and summer, just to make sure they can spread as many seeds as possible. That’s why they’re the species that survived. They evolved to make sure they could take advantage of all the new empty lands.” 

“Oh, that’s a relief. Thank you for telling me.” 

“Of course.”

“Where are we anyway,” Aurora asked after a while, handing another bundle to Flora. 

“Oh I probably should check, thanks for reminding me.” Flora stowed the flowers then swiped to the map part of her slate. “Oh! We’re near Tarry town! We can head there for the night! I’ve been meaning to check in on it.”

“Tarry town?” Aurora asked. She hadn’t heard of that one, and she thought Flora had brought them to all of her towns. 

“It’s a small town on an easily defensible island with just one bridge to the mainland. During his quest Wild helped build it and bring people in to populate it. It doesn’t have a shrine very nearby, that shrine all the way up there on that hill is actually the closest one.” Flora pointed out a shrine on a hilltop that was fairly far away. “You can take the road, although it’s faster to just paraglide down. Wild was able to obtain one for me, so I can do it, but trying to get you all down wouldn’t be easy, so we’ll just take the road. More time consuming, but safer.” 

“Safe is good,” Aurora agreed, shuddering at the thought of flying out into open space. That would be scary. Just a piece of cloth keeping her from falling and splattering against the ground. Even if Shadow could probably catch her, it was still scary. 

“I think you’ll like the town,” Flora said, humming a little tune Aurora vaguely recognized as something Sheik had played the night before. “It’s small and friendly. I’m sure they’ll be overjoyed to see us.”

“That is nice,” Aurora said, handing her another bundle of flowers. Her stomach rumbled, and Aurora looked up at the sun, which was about right overhead. “It’s nearing lunchtime.” 

“Oh yeah, look at that. We should have a picnic.” 

“Picnic?” Aurora asked. She wasn’t familiar with that word, what was it?

“Wait you don’t know what a picnic is?” Flora seemed oddly concerned about this, which only got worse as Aurora shook her head. “We gotta have a picnic now. I bet some of the others haven’t had a picnic before.” 

“Are they fun?” Aurora asked hesitantly. 

“They’re the best.” Flora replied vehemently. “You’ll see.” 

Aurora was sure of that. Flora seemed very enthusiastic about that. 

#hhau #march of the zeldas 2023 #zeldas meet au #hope of hyrule au #hhau flora #hhau aurora #hhau artemis

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Lil chibi versions of some of the girls! I might do the rest of them at some point, so stay tuned. I was experimenting with other sketching styles and decided they were cute enough to keep doing.

#zeldas meet au #hope of hyrule au #hhau #hhau Flora #hhau dusk #hhau artemis #hhau aurora #arent they cute #flux-art

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Artemis! Please excuse the mitten hands, I couldn’t find a reference.

The transcript:

Artemis

- One of the taller Zeldas at a flat 6ft

- Knighted Sir Test Subject A on a joke, is slightly afraid she genuinely thinks the frog deserves that title for all he puts up with. Is slightly concerned about the intelligence of the frog

- Has been queen for several years, is the oldest Zelda at 23

- The defacto leader, with her battlefield experience, is secure in her leadership, although is slightly concerned about how few of the girls have any sort of mother figure because they all seem to be deciding she is a good mother figure

- She knew she’d have at least one kid some day, but wasn’t prepared to have 10 so early

- Knows of Tetra from the war, although never actually met her. She is quite pleased that Warriors’ description of her was accurate

- Knows of Sheik from the records and knows that she is Zelda, although isn’t telling anyone else because she wants to see if they’ll figure it out

- Is rather concerned about Sheik, although knows she can’t do much

- Has a mischevious streak, mostly comes out when trying to startle Sheik, it hasn’t worked yet, but she eargerly awaits the day Sheik is relaxed enough around them for her to be startled

- Can cook both over a fire and in a kitchen, although she’s less experienced in the kitchen

- Does best with soups, which is fortunate since most of the others aren’t that great with soups

- Has some other random outfits, but this is her most common arrangement

- Keeps lots of knives on her person like Tetra, more likely to pull them out to fiddle with or hand to one of the other girls to use

- Wasn’t hard to convince, was second to be grabbed, so it was only Sheik. Came along immediately because what is this if not another Tuesday

- Is genderfluid, but isn’t aware yet

She uses She/her for Sheik

#zeldas meet au #artemis #im very proud of her boots #look at them they are fabulous #HHAU #Hope of Hyrule AU #HHAU Artemis #flux-art

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Dusk! She and Aurora are the only two to be wearing purple(typically a royal color due to how hard it is to get that color dye) which is on purpose. The second picture is a closer up on her face with the scars. She also has a few freckles!

Also, this au has a proper name now! The Hope of Hyrule AU is what I’ve gone with. I’ll go back and add the right tag to the other posts, although I’ll probably leave on the Zeldas meet tag.

Transcript:

Dusk

- Recently turned 21 and is the second eldest Zelda

- Also on the taller end at 6’1

- The least familiar with normal life for people outside of her station, she’s been primarily contained to the castle for almost all of her life. It’s gotten slightly better as she made an effort to befriend her hero, but she’s still very disconnected from her kingdom

- A reasonably good relationship with her hero, although she isn’t sure he considers them very close. They have sparred occasionally in the past, as well as enacted some stress relief for both of them through playing fetch, not that Twilight will admit to the second one

- Knows how to use a rapier, although has never actully been in battle. Also can use her light bow, which she creates out of light magic when needed

- Has scars from the time she was posessed, and is very self conscious about them, choosing to hide the ones on her face, ears, and neck with makeup, and covering up the rest with clothing

- Has been Queen since her father and mother died when she was 17, and worries she isn’t doing a good job. Her era seems like it is falling apart at the seams and she can only grab some of them while others are blocked from her

- Will not take on a leadership role with the group, believes the other princesses and queens are far more suited to it then she

- Similar to Wild she believes she has failed her kingdom and is self conscious about that, especially seeing all these other (in her eyes) far more successful queens and princesses

- She wasn’t overly hard to convince, she was able to delegate most of her work fairly easily, although does worry for her kingdom while she is away, and was a little eager to see these other queens and princesses in action and be able to discuss kingdom matters with them

- She hopes she can pick up some new skills and learn how she can better serve her kingdom from the others

- Would maybe like a dog some day

Dusk uses They/them for Sheik!

#zeldas meet au #Hope of Hyrule AU #feels good to have that officially #Dusk’s on the lower end of sensing I believe. not as bad as Sheik or artemis #but not great #Twilight considers her a friendly acquaintance #she’s doing her best #hhau dusk #hhau #flux-art