Translation From Merspeak:

translation from merspeak:

"dear friend...

across the river,

my hands...

are cold and bare."

I realized that I’ve never drawn Cryptid Legend (“Hylian” form) in color.

… oops.

Well here you go!! These two have my whole heart. I’ve been thinking a lot about them recently. The beloved.

I don’t know if I’ll ever actually use this little secret code in my comics but I want you to know that it exists.

For the Cryptid au, Mer language is very much based in music. Songs. Legend has different melodies for all of the Links- songs that exist in their respective games- that function as their names to him. Ravio is called by his theme, Marin is called by the Ballad of the Windfish.

Legend has two names in his own language: one that was given to him by his Pod and one that was given to him by Ravio. The one given by his Pod is a deadname, he’s not allowed to use it anymore since he was banished. Ravio calls him by the “First Search” theme from Link’s Awakening, and that’s what he answers to now.

He also gave Ravio his second name, since poor Rav was too little to remember his first one.

Legend is unfairly good at singing. Poor Ravio’s voice is all scratchy and hoarse- he hasn’t used his native language since he fled his home. He was five years old. He’s very out of practice. Legend gives him vocal lessons until he’s able to hold a proper conversation in Merspeak.

… I love these two so much

just finished my first draft. it is. 18k words. :]

@caramel-catss ' trilogy links meet :))

i'm still getting used to tumblr ettiequte, so i wanted to ask any other writers how many words are generally too long to post on here.

like, if i have a oneshot that's 10k+. is it fine to include the full text in my post about it or should i just link to ao3? what do you consider the word limit for tumblr, if there is one?

For reference mine was I was so mad at the canon ending for my favourite character in an otome game that I wrote fanfic to fix it