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My fav is Sky, but Four, Legend, and Wild are all up there with him so...
Disclaimer that my headcanons for Four probably shift and change the most out of any of the Links depending on what I’m wanting out of a given story.
- Four still lives with his grandfather at the forge. His dad was in the picture for a time but it was brief and they never got very close. He has a very good relationship with Grandpa Smith.
- Very private. He’ll be friendly or at least pleasantly social with people, but it takes him a long time to actually warm up to them. Dude has excellent customer service skills; he knows how to read a room.
- Trades constant, ruthless short jokes with Dot. They’re as bad with teasing and shit-talking each other as Wind and Tetra. Dot is taller than him but not by much.
- The vast majority of his community loves and is supportive of him. I go back and forth on the degree to which his colors are public knowledge, but at least a few members of Hyrule Town are aware of them and are friendly towards whichever part of Four happens to walk through their doors.
- Closet gremlin
- Being separated for as long as he was during Four Swords meant the colors became just individual enough that when he re-merged it did not go smoothly. He had to relearn how to walk, talk, eat, everything. Immediately post adventure he was completely bed-bound, relying on soft foods, and barely communicating. It took intense therapy to get him back on his feet, which Dot made sure was provided to him. Grandpa Smith was his primary caretaker and so played a large part in his recovery; it’s part of why they’re still so close. Eventually he recovered the ability to split, which helped significantly. It meant he could split up to work out the problem when his colors started clashing instead of getting sucked into his own head and locking up.
- All of that recovery took a minimum of two years, probably more like three or four. So for this to work and him to be ~17 by the time of LU he’d have been about 13-14 on his second adventure. Younger than I think the actual characters of the canon manga and game were meant to be, but imo it works with the art style of the game.
- Grandpa Smith knows the colors as individuals and considers all of them his grandsons.
- Can sometimes get lost in his own head if the colors are having a strong disagreement or he’s otherwise having a bad mental health day. It usually reads as kind of dazed/out of it/stumbly to those around him
- Quite comfortable in crowds, royal court, high society, society in general.
- Dislikes cats
- Little gay man. The individual colors might have differing sexualities and genders (heck, he’s young enough for all of that to still be changing and developing) but they are all attracted to boys to at least some degree so Four as a whole identifies as gay.
- Violet’s first crush was Shadow, and at least some of those feelings carried across to Four. At the very least he considers Shadow to have been a friend.
- Nothing will make Four pull his hair out faster than people doing things they shouldn’t to their weapons. To him, smithing is an art form. Four takes the care and quality of all of his companions’ weapons very personally.
- Four is something of a jack of all trades when it comes to weapons. He isn’t just a sword guy; he’s perfectly capable with a bow and quite likes bombs. His fighting style involves lots of rolling and dodging and redirecting momentum. He just can’t afford to take as many direct blows as someone bigger.
- When at home, Four can and does split into his component colors all the time in order to get more shit done or just give himself some mental space. When he needs to settle himself mentally into one body, he usually turns to smithing. It’s one of the few activities all of the colors love equally.
- Protective of Sky, who is something of a kindred spirit. They’re usually the first to notice if one of them is having a bad health day, though Four tends to put a lot more effort into hiding his bad days than Sky does.
- I headcanon that the boys all met up in pairs first, then those pairs joined up before finally coming together in one big group. In that little scenario, Four met Twilight first. He was Minish size and Twilight was a wolf, so they knew one of each other’s secrets from the start. The reciprocity of that appeals to Four, as does Twilight’s level head, so he began to trust Twilight a lot faster than he usually would with someone.
- Will get up to shenanigans with Hyrule, Wind, and Wild. Those four are all definitely still teenagers, and sometimes you just gotta try out whatever hairbrained scheme your buddies have cooked up this time.
