RavioLi

RavioLi is the slash ship between Link and Ravio from The Legend of Zelda fandom.

Canon
After Seres is transformed into a portrait and kidnapped by Yuga, Link is taken back to his house by Ravio who introduces himself as a traveling merchant who claims to look for a place to stay for a while after giving him advice that he should report the incident to Princess Zelda in Hyrule Castle and when Link agrees to let him stay, Ravio will give him a bracelet and while he insists that it has the smell of history and he should wear it. Sometime after Link tells the princess what happened at the Sanctuary, Ravio turned Link's house into his personal shop where he rents a variety of weapons to Link for him to use which will have the rabbit ears on his weapons and items when they are rented, but when Link gets a Game Over, Skearow will retrieve the rented items from Link's inventory and he will have to rent them from him again. Ravio is very polite with Link in his greetings and when Link leaves. Ravio's bracelet ends up saving Link after Yuga turns him into a wall painting in Eastern Palace and ends up gaining the ability to wall merge at will and allowing him to access hard to reach places at any time. When Link returns and tells him what his bracelet did, Ravio acts surprised to learn about its power and tells him to make good use of it. If Link tries to look into his bag, Ravio will yell at him to not bother looking as it contained something he greatly treasures.

After Link gains the Master Sword, Ravio will go through with selling his items though they are at a higher price to be able to own and keep them and Skearow will not retrieve the bought items when Link gets a Game Over which saves him Rupees each time it occurs. Once Link purchases all the items, Ravio will be so pleased that he made a lot of Rupees and decides to close his shop and retire early and will end up taking naps for the remainder of the game. When entering and exiting the house, Ravio will give out different dialogue during his naps, and goes on about how outlook on life is has changed since then, but he will always end with "And it's all thanks to you, Mr. Hero!". He will sometimes sing and claims that it has been a long time since he was up for doing it. Ravio's Bracelet also goes on to be the very thing that allows him to travel between Hyrule and Lorule at any point to help both kingdoms with the ongoing crisis.

Once Yuga is finally defeated and a confrontation with Princess Hilda, Ravio will hop in and remove his hood, much to Link's astonishment as Ravio was his Lorulean counterpart as Princess Zelda was to Hilda and she asks them if he could step in to resolve what has happened. As Ravio explains to Hilda how her and Yuga's actions were causing more harm than good and it was repeating history ever since Lorule's Triforce was destroyed and bringing her kingdom into disrepair, Hilda agrees to set things right and brings them to Lorule's Sacred Realm where she takes the bracelet from Link and uses it to send them home, but Ravio takes a moment to say good-bye to Link and tells him that he may be the reason why he gained the courage to help Hilda come to terms with Lorule's state. Link and Princess Zelda are sent back to Hyrule. Link and Zelda decide to perform a selfless act and wish upon the Triforce to restore the Lorulean Triforce, restoring light to the otherwise dark kingdom.

Fanon
RavioLi is a popular ship with the fans and is notable for how Link and Ravio look different with each of them being the opposites, with Link being a brave hero who stands up to anything bigger than him while Ravio is a coward who shrinks away and feels helpless when Hilda is teaming up with Yuga to gain Hyrule's Triforce and Yuga had malevolent intentions on destroying both kingdoms and turns to Link for help and assists him in handing over his wares so he can traverse dungeons and defeat Yuga. Fans have greatly loved their bond to a great extent that over 300 slash ships have spawned in Archive of Our Own and over 90 friendships in the same site.

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