Changes Through Time
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The group made their way over to the two Hylians, where the individual they had rushed to save was conversing with the newcomer. The newcomer was heavily scarred on his left side, and from the bow on his back, he was the archer who had brought down many of the monsters.
“Hello,” Time said, as he nodded to them. “Could you point us toward Castle Town?”
The scarred man blinked. “Nanda?”
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The Heroes of Courage are spread across ages. Hundreds to thousands of years between them. It should come as no surprise that they are having some trouble communicating. But when they’re dropped in a world of alien technology and a language wholly unfamiliar, they really wish Hylia had thought ahead.
Or, the gang-meets-wild fic in which there is an appropriate amount of linguistic drift between Links, Hylia does not provide Google Translate, and Wild is a linguaphile among other things.
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- Part 1 of Changes Through Time
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Adventures in Sign(ed) Language(s) by Kastaborous
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
17 Dec 2021
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Most of the Links have, at some point in their lives, been selectively mute and communicated through sign language. However, signed languages evolve just as much as spoken ones.
Link introduces the Chain to his Zora friend Shizumi, who in turn introduces the Chain to the sign language of Hyrule.
A cut scene from “Language Barriers”
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- Part 2 of Changes Through Time
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When Some Names are Object Nouns and Others are Abstract Concepts by Kastaborous
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
06 Mar 2022
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The Chain decide to try and teach Rinku (aka Link aka Wild) the meanings of their names. This proves much harder than any of them realize. And so begins the greatest game of charades in Hyrule’s history.
A cut scene from “Language Barriers”
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- Part 3 of Changes Through Time
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“What happened? To your world?”
Wild pursed his lips, staring into the distance as some memory the others couldn’t see played out in front of him. “Yakusai,” he eventually said in a hushed tone. “It is death. Many…” Wild paused, brows furrowed as he parsed through the sentence. “Many killed. No victory. Yet… we live.”
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The Chain has expanded their ranks by one member, and Link has a new name: Wild. But even with Wild on his way to learning the language of the other Heroes, he still has a long way to go, and their new ability to communicate opens the doors for a host of other problems. Ten thousand years is a long time, and what is “normal” changes.
Or, the Chain discover the differences in culture (and place) between them. Includes miscommunication and language exploration, sentient rocks, potion-making, memorials, old legends and much more.
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- Part 4 of Changes Through Time
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Where’s a Jabbernut When You Need It? by Kastaborous
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
09 Oct 2022
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“¡Manos fuera! ¡Prenderás fuego al bosque!”
Link groaned as the irritated voice grated against his ears, the words utterly unintelligible. It had been three days since he’d been dropped in a field together with eight others, and in the most marvelous twist of divine comedy, none of them spoke the same language.
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Or, Language Barriers, but it's on hard mode.
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- Part 5 of Changes Through Time