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Linked Universe
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| Fan Comic | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Linked Universe |
| Artist: | jojo56830 |
| Date(s): | 2018 - present |
| First Published: | February 2018 |
| Medium: | Digital |
| Genre/Style: | Action/Adventure |
| Fandom: | The Legend of Zelda |
| External Links: | https://linkeduniverse.tumblr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/linkeduniverse_au/ |
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Linked Universe is a popular The Legend of Zelda fancomic by jojo56830. It is an Alternate Universe comic where various incarnations of Link from the many games in the Legend of Zelda series must band together in order to fight a growing evil.
Author's summary:
Unbeknownst to the 9 heroes of Hyrule’s history, Dark Link is causing trouble which results in their meeting. This new crisis has allowed them to cross time and place by means of mysterious gates. But this trouble needs to be stopped before it gets dangerous. What does Dark Link want? How will the Heros stop him? How will they even get along with each other with surprisingly diverse personalities?[1]
Fandom
The Linked Universe fandom is mainly on Tumblr and Instagram, the two sites on which the comic is posted. There is also a large Discord server. The fandom often focuses on the found family dynamic between the main nine Links, affectionately referred to as "The Chain".
As of February 2025, there are over 13,800 works on Archive of Our Own[2] and at least 130 fics on Fanfiction.net[3] that feature the Linked Universe AU; this means that roughly 0.4% of Zelda fic on FF.net[4] and 30% of Zelda works on AO3[5] are for Linked Universe. It's so prominent on AO3 that non-LU fics sometimes include the freeform tag Not Linked Universe (Legend of Zelda) to help distinguish them.
The most popular relationship tag is for the platonic/familial relationship of the nine Links; the most popular romantic relationship is between Time (the Link from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask) and Malon, which is explored in the comic.
Example Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fanfiction
- A Home for Flowers by faufaren
- Loved By Deities by Sinnatious
- #lu fanfiction tag on Tumblr
Fanart
- LU Writer Appreciation Project 2023 #2 fanart by kokiri-clori for " for @lyrabythelake based on their fanfic Lifting The Fog"
- took him a minute, by theegh0st, 2024
Other
- cosplay of Wind by weyesbloodliker, 2023
Archives & Resources
- Linked Universe (Legend of Zelda) freeform tag on Archive of Our Own
- Note: the Linked Universe - Fandom tag has been synned to the Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms metatag and cannot be used to find Linked Universe fics. Your best bet for searching for fics (or tagging your own fic to be found by readers!) is to use freeform tags like above or character tags.
- Character tags (the main group): Linked Universe Links | The Chain, Four (Linked Universe), Hyrule (Linked Universe), Legend (Linked Universe), Sky (Linked Universe), Time (Linked Universe), Twilight (Linked Universe), Warriors (Linked Universe), Wild (Linked Universe), Wind (Linked Universe)
- Other Character tags: Wolfie (Linked Universe), Flora(Linked Universe), Linked Universe Ensemble, more here
- TV Tropes page
- LinkedUniverse 101 FAQ page maintained by the tumblr blog https://linkeduniverse.tumblr.com
Communities
- Linked Universe comunity on Tumblr
- linked-universe-discord (nb: link to public-facing tumblr blog for the discord server)
References
- ^ This is LinkedUniverse 101. welcome!, Archived version Posted 9 May 2018. Accessed 7 June 2022.
- ^ search -- which shows about 12,100 works if you aren't logged in. This is probably an undercount, but a slight one -- my other searches suggest there's a few hundred fics that use LU-associated freeform or relationship tags but no character tags. However, some of those maybe be mistagged.
- ^ search on that forum shows 133 fics. This may be an undercount.
- ^ 130 fics out of 27k works in the story category
- ^ 13,889 works with at least one Linked Univer character tagged; the LZ&RF tag was 47,316 works total; 13889/47316=29.3%
| Related Concepts, Fandoms, Terms, Fanworks | |
| See also | Link and the Links AU, Linked Maze, Bonus Links |