botw link was implied to be a happy, popular, and normal boy with a family who looked up to his father and wanted to be a knight like his dad. and it JUST HAPPENED that he was able to pull this magic sword and suddenly he’s this incredible perfect hero. and the feeling of so many people watching him and judging him and telling him “youre the hero and youre going to save hyrule” confuses him and causes him so much anxiety that it causes him to become mute. and then hes part of this team of champions and one of them is an asshole and hates him so much for having the master sword but link never wanted it in the first place. and then it becomes his job to follow around the princess but she hates him too and he doesnt understand why. and eventually he and the princess become friends and she loves him. but he fucking DIES protecting her. and then he gets resurrected but HAS AMNESIA. and just wakes up 100 years later in a world where everyone is a stranger to him and he has no memories of his friends and loved ones.
and from the moment he woke up, all he was told was the exact same thing that he heard from everyone before he died: that he’s the hero and he has to save hyrule. and its implied that he cant fully recover his memory so then he’s a shell of his former self stuck saving this ruined world. like he only ever did what people wanted him to but he still suffered so FUCKING MUCH and for nothing
Character Chart Character’s full name: Reason or meaning of name: Character’s nickname: Reason for nickname: Birth date:
Physical appearance Age: How old does he/she appear: Weight: Height: Body build: Shape of face: Eye color: Glasses or contacts: Skin tone: Distinguishing marks: Predominant features: Hair color: Type of hair: Hairstyle: Voice: Overall attractiveness: Physical disabilities: Usual fashion of dress: Favorite outfit: Jewelry or accessories:
Personality Good personality traits: Bad personality traits: Mood character is most often in: Sense of humor: Character’s greatest joy in life: Character’s greatest fear: Why? What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? Character is most at ease when: Most ill at ease when: Enraged when: Depressed or sad when: Priorities: Life philosophy: If granted one wish, it would be: Why? Character’s soft spot: Is this soft spot obvious to others? Greatest strength: Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Biggest regret: Minor regret: Biggest accomplishment: Minor accomplishment: Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: Why? Character’s darkest secret: Does anyone else know?
Goals Drives and motivations: Immediate goals: Long term goals: How the character plans to accomplish these goals: How other characters will be affected:
Past Hometown: Type of childhood: Pets: First memory: Most important childhood memory: Why: Childhood hero: Dream job: Education: Religion: Finances:
Present Current location: Currently living with: Pets: Religion: Occupation: Finances:
Family Mother: Relationship with her: Father: Relationship with him: Siblings: Relationship with them: Spouse: Relationship with him/her: Children: Relationship with them: Other important family members:
Favorites Color: Least favorite color: Music: Food: Literature: Form of entertainment: Expressions: Mode of transportation: Most prized possession:
Habits Hobbies: Plays a musical instrument? Plays a sport? How he/she would spend a rainy day: Spending habits: Smokes: Drinks: Other drugs: What does he/she do too much of? What does he/she do too little of? Extremely skilled at: Extremely unskilled at: Nervous tics: Usual body posture: Mannerisms: Peculiarities:
Traits Optimist or pessimist? Introvert or extrovert? Daredevil or cautious? Logical or emotional? Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Prefers working or relaxing? Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Animal lover?
Self-perception How he/she feels about himself/herself: One word the character would use to describe self: One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? How does the character think others perceive him/her: What would the character most like to change about himself/herself:
Relationships with others Opinion of other people in general: Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? Person character most hates: Best friend(s): Love interest(s): Person character goes to for advice: Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Person character feels shy or awkward around: Person character openly admires: Person character secretly admires: Most important person in character’s life before story starts: After story starts:
I’m reposting this story in it’s entirety because the situation is getting dire and no one’s helping.
[Top] Gina Reynolds, a University of Michigan Flint student majoring in social work, chants “clean water is a human right,” at cars passing by during a small protest Jan. 13
[Bottom] People bring water from their taps to show city officials at city meeting, Jan. 21
I made a post earlier about my city of Flint, Michigan’s water situation and I wanted to share this because our drinking water is literally making people and pets ill. I don’t want people to ignore this, I NEED people to know what’s going on here.
LeeAnne Walters, 36, of Flint shows water samples from her home to Flint emergency manager Jerry Ambrose on Wednesday after city and state officials spoke during a forum that addressed growing health concerns about the drinking water.
In a city where residents have felt under siege for years — from crime, bad press and an emergency manager some feel forced upon them — the newest threat pours from kitchen spigots and showerheads.
It’s the reason behind mysterious rashes on local children, parents say. Unexplained illnesses. Even sick pets.
Bethany Hazard said it’s the reason for the brown rust circles that began appearing just months ago around her drains and the oily film in her bathwater in her longtime east-side home.
On the west side of Flint, Corodon Maynard said it’s the reason he was bent retching violently over the toilet this month — just hours after chugging two glasses of water at bedtime.
“I was throwing up like bleach water. It came up through my nose burning,” said the 20-year-old.
The water from the city system is so corrosive, according to General Motors officials, that the automaker’s Flint Engine Operations pulled off the city water system, connecting instead into a water system operated by nearby Flint Township.
Adam Mays, an artist and Flint resident, protests the condition of the Flint water system at Fifth and Saginaw in Downtown Flint, Michigan, with a few handfuls of other protestors, Tuesday afternoon, January 13, 2015.
So what’s in Flint’s water and just how dangerous is it?
It depends on who you ask and what tests you’re referring to.
State tests suggest the water is clear of coliform bacteria, which can suggest the presence of other disease-carrying pathogens.
But as a result of treating the water to kill any dangerous microorganisms, the water now carries low levels of Total Trihalomethane, or TTHM, a by-product of the disinfectants. Years of exposure may cause liver, kidney or central nervous system problems and an increased risk of cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The city maintains the water — pulled from the Flint River rather than the Detroit water system that had served the city for years —is safe.
Mayor Dayne Walling who was born and raised in Flint, said he drinks it.
The river, long known for the toxins left from Flint’s industrial years, is cleaner than it has been in years, “but that perception persists,” Walling said.
Flint resident Gladyes Williamson-Bunnell asks officials addressing issues with the water quality if they would drink some of the Flint water she held up in a gallon jug during the water meeting on Wednesday evening, Jan. 21, 2015, at the Flint City Hall dome in downtown Flint.
“I’ve taken to calling it ‘poop water,’ ” said Nayyirah Shariff, a community activist for the grassroots group Democracy Defense League.
Many said they are ready to abandon longtime homes.
“What we have is a full-blown crisis,” said GM retiree Claire McClinton who had bundled up against the snow earlier this week to run into El Potrero Mexican restaurant for a late lunch.
But she reconsidered at the last minute and walked out instead, worried about eating at restaurants that rely on city water in their kitchens.
She’s not the only customer who is concerned.
Business overall has been hit “probably 20 to 30%,” said manager Jorge Alcazar.
The restaurant’s lifeblood is in customers seeking a quick, affordable lunch, often with a glass of ice water.
Unwilling to drink the tap water, customers also don’t want to pay $2 or more for a pop or buy a bottled water.
Worse for waitress Ashley Trujillo, customers have argued with staff. One customer left three pennies as a tip after fuming about having to pay for water. Others have left nothing.
“Like we have something to do with it,” Trujillo said.
All of this — the frustration, the slump in El Potrero’s business, the jam-packed meetings with residents toting jugs of brown water and claims they are being poisoned — are the latest blows to a city that has felt swatted around for too long.
“People think all the crime happens in Flint and everyone is poor in Flint, so there’s this stigma. Now we’re fighting against dirty water. Really?” said radiology coder Cindy Marshall, who joined about two dozen protesters earlier this week.
“Are you trying to kill us?” read one sign. “No more poison,” read another.
McClinton echoed Marshall’s sentiments: “We’ve lost confidence in the city.”
A protestor holds a sign out for cars to see during the protest of the conditions of the Flint water system at Fifth and Saginaw in Downtown Flint, Michigan, Tuesday afternoon, January 13, 2015.
Soaring bills.
For years, residents in this city bleeding jobs and soaked in red ink have been facing growing water bills. Some have climbed as high as several hundred dollars a month.
“We have residents choosing between water and groceries and other bills,” said Hazard, whose own bill is about $100 a month for a single person.
“I feel like I’m going under,” said Hazard, who survived cancer twice and who was forced into early retirement and limited income.
The city eventually decided to dump the Detroit system in favor of the Karegnondi Water Authority, which is building a system to supply Genesee County with water pulled from Lake Huron. In the long run, this will mean lower water costs, officials have said.
Under the plan, Flint is temporarily pulling water from the Flint River until the water authority’s system comes online, expected in 2016.
In August and September, however, the city issued three advisories to boil the water after detecting coliform bacteria.
Just before Christmas, residents received notices that state tests indicated higher-than-acceptable levels of trihalomethane, the disinfectant by-product.
Hazard’s cats have been sick. So has she and several neighbors. Even her houseplant began to die.
Maynard threw up. Residents complained of rashes and mysterious illnesses.
“We just want safe water. How hard is that?” Hazard asked.
But assurances come with qualifiers.
The chlorine did its job and cleaned the water of microbial pathogens that can cause disease within days. That means the water is safe for healthy people to drink for a short time, said Michael Prysby, a district engineer in the state’s Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance.
But the trade-off was TTMH — possibly a danger for the very young, the very old, or the very sick if they ingest it long-term, he added.
People with prolonged exposure to TTMH may experience problems with their liver, kidneys or central nervous system and have an increased risk of getting cancer.
“But we’re talking decades,” he said, adding that those who are worried should talk to their doctors.
“We don’t want to make a blanket statement to say water is safe or unsafe. It’s misleading both ways.”
That’s the kind of answer that infuriates Marshall, the protester and mother of a 5-year-old.
“They said it’s safe, but it’s brown water,” said Marshall, also a radiology coder, after the meeting. “Why do we have to drink brown water? No one else has to drink brown water.”
So, it's been about 9 months and the water has not gotten any better. As a matter of fact, it’s worse now. Here’s a picture taken just a few hours ago.
From the Facebook post associated with this picture “This fire hydrant in Flint, Michigan has been “flushing” for over 5-hours… after 5-hours, that’s not flushing… that is the water quality in Flint. ”
Fire hydrants carry CLEAN, TREATED water. This is our “clean and treated water”. This is the water that we have to drink.
And that’s not all. Water tests have been conducted in the last few days and in every district they checked, the amount of sites with over 15ppb of lead in the water has either gone up or stayed the same. You can see the results here at http://flintwaterstudy.org
Update for September 24th, 2015
Flint mayor Dayne Walling is letting his people be poisoned and is continuing to deny it.
The lead content in Flint children’s blood has spiked in the past year.
In perhaps the most dramatic proof yet of the toxic impact of Flint’s decision to draw municipal water from the Flint River, a new study released today shows that the amount of lead found in the bloodstream of Flint children increased dramatically following the switch from the Detroit water system in 2014.
The results — which are based on blood samples drawn from 1,746 children ages 5 and younger — were even more frightening in Flint neighborhoods where Virginia Tech researchers testing water from nearly 300 homes found the highest levels of lead in the city’s water. Analysis of blood samples from children living in those same high-risk areas showed that the number of kids with elevated levels of lead in their blood jumped from 2.5 percent to 6.3 percent.
The following statement was released by Congressman Dan Kildee earlier today:
“This new study showing elevated blood lead levels among Flint’s children is very troubling. People have the right to have confidence that their drinking water is safe.
Immediate action needs to be taken by the State of Michigan to ensure that relief is provided to people who are concerned about lead levels in their water. Today as part of my ongoing efforts, I talked with the EPA Region 5 Administrator about the State of Michigan providing emergency assistance, including lead-clearing filters and bottled water, until a more permanent solution can be determined.
This new study by the medical community also raises additional doubts about prior water testing done by the DEQ and EPA that stated the water was in compliance with federal law. I have been completely unsatisfied with their answers to my questions regarding their testing methodology, which is why I have called for additional immediate independent and scientific testing to be done.”
1. Last beverage: water 2. Last phone call: mom 3. Last text message: bruh 4. Last song you listened to: Milk Bar theme from Majora’s Mask 5. Last time you cried: this morning 6. Dated someone: yea 7. Been cheated on: nope 8. Kissed anyone and regretted it: never had a kiss 9. Lost someone special: not really 10. Been depressed: yes 11. Been drunk and threw up: im not old enough for that + i h8 alcohol 12. List your three favorite colors: yellow, blue, green 13. In the last year you have: become more socially aware. 14. Fallen out of love: i want to 15. Laughed until you cried: oh yeah 16. Met someone who changed you: uh huh all my friends 17. Found out who your true friends are: i hope so 18. Found out someone was talking about you: not like rumors or anything mostly just “that kid is so obsessed with link wtf" 19. Kissed anyone on your FB list: what does that even mean 20. How many people do you know on your FB list: ^^^ 21. Do you have any pets: no but i really want a pet tortoise 22. Do you want to change your name: maybe… 23. What did you do for your last birthday party: ate sushi, watched shrek with friends 24. What time did you wake up today: 7 am 25. What were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping 26. Something you cannot wait for: Zelda Wii U 27. Last time you saw your mother: yesterday 28. One thing you wish you could change about your life: I wish I was better at decision making, maybe not autistic, maybe not depressed, maybe not trans gender, a lot of things tbh… … 29. What are you listening to right now: nothing 30. Have you ever talked to a Tom: my history teacher 31. What’s getting on your nerves right now: everything 32. Most viewed website: koalastothemax.com 33. Nickname: Cal, fucking nerd, egglord, a lot of things 34. Relationship status: single pringle 35. Zodiac sign: Sagittarius 36. Elementary: the one by my house 37. High school: the one by my house 38. College: I hope. 39. Hair color: black 40. Long or short: medium-short 41. Height: 4'11” i am tiny 42. Do you have a crush on someone: uhm… . . 43. What do you like about yourself: i dont like anythign only link 44. Tattoos: maybe. gotta be something really meaningful 45. Right or left handed: mixed (right for writing and drawing, left for everything else) 46. First piercings: none 47. First best friend: nobody i am terrible at making friends 48. First sport you joined: football but i quit i cant do that shit everyone else weighed twice as much as me 49. First vacation: Disneyland on my first birthday 50. First pair of trainers: what does that mean 51. Eating: nothing 52. Drinking: nothing 53. About to: not do my homework 54. Watching: nothing 55. Listening to: nothing 56. Waiting for: my orchestra uniform to come in the mail 57. Want kids: nahhhhh 58. Get married: i want to but i am terrible with people 59. Career: video game dev, marine biologist, concert violinist, ive got a lot of options 60. Lips or eyes: dont care 61. Hugs or kisses: hugs 62. Shorter or taller: i wont answer this im literally shorter than everyone i cant 63. Older or younger: idk;;; 64. Romantic or spontaneous: romantic 65. Nice stomach or arms: i dont really care 66. Loud or sensitive: dont care 67. Hook-up or relationship: relationship 68. Trouble maker or hesitant: hesitant 69. Kissed a stranger: no 70. Drank hard liquor: no 71. Had sex on a first date?: nope 72. Broken someone’s heart: nope 73. Been arrested: no 74. Turned someone down: yea 75. Cried when someone died: no 76. Fallen for a friend: AHAHAHahahHAhhahahah… … . . 77. Yourself: i love nobody only link 78. Miracles: i hope. 79. Love at first sight: no 80. Heaven: not really. 81. Santa Claus: he’s real. 82. Kisses on first dates: why not! 83. Angels: no 84. Reincarnation: I hope so.
tagging: dinosaurparfait (is the only person i know who doesnt really mind this stuff )
I want to address your reactions to people having headcanons that Link is not a cisgendered boy. For the most part, what you said is irrelevant and your behavior is childish. You have little evidence to back your claims. I understand that you’re very upset, but you just don’t realize how ignorant you are, do you? And as a transgender person, I’m deeply offended by your actions.
I’d like to start off by saying that Link, as a fictional character, cannot express a gender identity. You claimed that those headcanons could not be valid because the text in the games uses ‘he’ pronouns and refers to Link as a boy, and you also said that “I thought y'all were against misgendering people”. What you don’t understand is that just because Link is called “he”, does not mean that Link is a cisgendered boy. Pronouns do not in any case dictate gender. The only thing that dictates gender is personal identity, which Link cannot express because he is not real, therefore it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to misgender him. Additionally, just because the game calls him a boy does not mean that he is a boy. A person’s gender is their gender regardless of what people call them. If a trans boy is called a girl, does that mean that he is not a boy? No. If that person identifies as a boy, they are a boy regardless of pronouns, biological sex, how they look, or how they dress. My point is –and I can’t stress this enough– that because Link is a fictional character and cannot express a gender identity, it is impossible to determine his gender, and therefore can’t misgender him. We could interpret it any way we want. Link has no canon gender unless Shigeru Miyamoto actually announces “Link identifies as _____(gender).”
Now, I’d like to address what you thought of the people who you claimed had these sorts of headcanons. You implied that to agree with these headcanons, a person would identify as something along the lines of “autisgender otherkin supercalifragilisticexpialidociousexual.” It was very clear that you felt animosity for these people, saying that they treated genders and sexualities like accessories, which made you feel like your gender and sexuality were not being taken seriously. That’s a very reasonable thing to be upset about, but are you 100% sure that the people who have simple headcanons are the same people who were treating identities as accessories?
For most of the people that have these headcanons, they have these headcanons because they themselves are transgender, non-binary, or agender and they want to be able to connect with the character more. You, as a cisgendered person and a person who is not in any way part of the lgbt community, just don’t understand how marginalized and shoved-under-the-carpet people like us are. Not only do people legitimately think that our gender identities are fake, people like us are literally killed for them. Even within the lgbt community, our supposed place of safety and solidarity, we are ignored. So if we have just one chance at being represented, and that chance is a headcanon, don’t you think we’d take that chance?
Now, about the people who you said were treating identities as accessories. That makes me upset too. Not only are those people incredibly stupid, immature, homophobic, and transphobic, those people are all cisgendered and heterosexual. How do I know? It’s because they don’t actually know what it’s like to have their identities mocked, and that’s why they do it. They aren’t even aware of the fact that they’re stupid and offensive. They’re like children; they simply do not know any better.
And speaking of children, I’d like to close this by addressing your extreme immaturity. Do you really think that you’re going to be attacked for being cisgendered and heterosexual? Do you know that you are part of the majority? Do you know that you have privileges, and those privileges came from centuries of the systematic oppression and dehumanization of people like me? You are never going to be attacked for being cisgendered and heterosexual in real life. Because you have the privilege of having your sexuality and gender assumed to be the “default” for people, what is “good and natural” for people. You did not have to come out. You will not be persecuted. If you tell a stranger that you are cisgendered and heterosexual, you will not receive the same disgusted, angry, fearful reaction that I get when I tell people that I am transgender and asexual. But you’re just so unaware, aren’t you?
Grow the fuck up. You’re 23 years old, you’re working on getting a degree, and you have a job. If you’re fearing for your mental health because you’re afraid that some teeanger on tumblr is going to call you a cishet, rethink your priorities. Lastly, if you are legitimately offended by the fact that people imagine Link as being transgender, you might want to consider that maybe you have a problem (like, I dunno, transphobia??)
PS. If you’ve read this and feel like replying, don’t you dare pull the autism card. I was diagnosed with autism at 11 years old and I still see multiple therapists for treatment. And clearly, I’m capable of not using my autism as an excuse to be homophobic and transphobic.
THAT’S LITERALLY THE SWEETEST THING, THANK YOU SO MUCH<3
ALRIGHT, SO HERE I GO
HW Zelink -
Zelda stitched the words “I believe in you, no matter what time.” in Link’s scarf. It’s placed where Link can see it every time he looks down.
Link has a habit of wrapping half of his scarf around Zelda whenever she gets cold. It’s fine with her just, they can be closer huehuehuehue.
OKAY THIS IS THE WORST ONE I HAVE, SO LIKE, ONE NIGHT BEFORE FRICK FRACKLING, ZELDA DECIDED SHE SHOULD JUST WRAP HERSELF IN LINK’S SCARF ALL SEXY LIKE. BUT SOMEHOW SHE GOT STUCK, AND LINK JUST LAUGHED. And they did it because she’s so fucking cute.
Whenever they are in bed together, Link loves wrapping his legs around her waist. Hearing her giggle before they go to bed is just the highlight of the moment.
Zelda’s favorite move is when she jerks on his scarf and he comes to her so they can smooch.
Zelda is constantly smacking Link’s ass whenever he wears the Postman Costume
TP Zelink -
Zelda loves taking baths with Link. It’s the one moment they can be alone and she can sort of be off her guard. Plus, Zelda is very handsy at times and she likes prodding him and rubbing his skin.
Whenever Zelda is feeling in the teasing mood, she likes to lean on Link. Placing her arms on his head and she just smiles while he’s all pouty and flustered. Eventually he learns to love it but he’s still sensitive about his height.
Whenever Zelda is sick, Link goes into over protective mode. Constantly worrying if she’s okay and such. Coddling her till no end. But if Link is sick, Zelda is just having major meltdowns because she doesn’t fully grasp the concept of “no, I am not dying, I have allergies.” Her books are like Web M.D.
Link loves giving Zelda forehead kisses when they are laying down. because he can’t certainly do it when they are standing up.
Occasionally, Link licks Zelda’s cheek when they are making out. Don’t even ask why.
Zelda sleeps in Link’s tunics if she doesn’t have a clean gown to wear.
Link sometimes sleeps with his face pressed against Zelda’s chest.
