I love magical girls, and I love Four Swords. The next logical step, then, is to combine the two.
Magical girl is a gender neutral term, in my opinion, so I will be referring to the Links as magical girls rather than magical boys.
It should go without saying that this is not meant to be a "boys in dresses" joke, as such jokes are transmisogynistic.
The AU is largely inspired by a particular magical girl franchise as well as select aspects of Zelda lore. I sort of mash the two together to create this AU.
I can't draw well, so I don't have any visual art to accompany these ideas, but I invite anyone readig this to use their imagination and visualize what is written here.
The four main Links' powers are based on the Royal Jewels and their associated elements: Green controls wind, Red controls fire, Blue controls water, and Vio controls earth. Shadow, meanwhile, has his canon-typical dark magic.
The four main Links start out as a team, but Shadow is their enemy for the first half of the story before joining as a "sixth ranger".
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