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Hello! this Linked universe au is by @nebulapaws and its amazing and awesome so I wanted to write about it, but I have no plot ideas so just have a bunch of the links from this au chillin.

If you don't know what this au is, all the links are monsters from myths/legends. nebulapaws knows much more about each monster, but heres the context:

Green is a Harpy, Blue is a selkie, Red is a satyr/fire Fae, Violet is a changeling/were (werewolf?), Shadow is a demon (of the shapeshifting vein), all together Four is a chimera (bird, deer, seal, wolf and Fae.), Twilight is a werewolf, Wars is a kelpie, Wind is a sylph, Sky is a biblically accurate angel, Time is a fallen angel (in this context, I'm assuming when angels fall they lose all the eyes and.... biblical stuff and just a pair of wings is visible. In Time's case, his wings are clipped.), Hyrule is a cervitaur, Legend a pookah, and Wild is a dyriad (or coulde be a naga. In this one tho, I plan on making Wild a dryad, but maybe in the future there could be some with naga Wild.) I have no clue where this could be going, but who knows! So yeah, thats all the info in this fic you really need to know!

Green groaned as his tail scrapped across the dirt. His normally green feathers soaked in mud. Thats going to take so long to get out... he tucked his wings close and ducked under a particuallry low hanging arch as he stumbled through the forest.

"This is not the best portal jump we've had..." Red mumbled, shaking next to him in the crisp air.

"Yeah, worse enough its a full moon. Vio and Twilight are in their were forms. And Vio doesn't have us to help contain him. I also expect him to not want to form Four..." Green trailed off.

"So basically the only way we can catch and stop the rest of the chain from finding out about us is if we catch and somehow contain Vio? But for how long? We can't form Four without Vio and the rest of the group will want to come search for us!"

Green sighed. "I don't know Red. I don't know.."

Time's back ached. He reached his hand to his back, before stopping himself. Lowering his hand again, he sighed as he watched Wild wildly (aha, a pun) wave his hands around and Wind watch in awe.

"Hey, you okay there?" Sky asked, his wings twitching on his back as he blinked at Time. He stiffened, not hearing Sky at all as he came over.

Time nodded. "Yes. I am fine."

Sky frowned. "I can tell your hurting. Can I see the injury. If I bring Hyrule will it help?"

Time shook his head. "I'm afraid that this injury is years old. Nothing we can do now."

"Oh, but still. Maybe we can do something so you're not in pain?" He asked, his wings fluttered behind him as he gently patted his friend's shoulder.

"You can try." Time said, Sky nodded and hopped off, coming back with Hyrule. His hooves nerviously pawing the ground as his pointed deer ears flickered. He tilted his head.

"Where is the injury?" He asked, his fingers fidgeting with his horns on his head.

Time turned around, and gestured towads the back

"Can you remove your armor and shirt real quick?" Hyrule asked and Time nodded, slowly taking off his armor and discarding it in front of him.

Hyrule gasped as Time partly lifted his shirt off. Displaying scars that ran across his entire body. His cold hands gently touched the scars.

"Where did you get this from...?"

"A secret I would rather not tell."

Sky gasped, quietly under his breath. He stared at the scars in shock.

"Seriously Blue? You live in a fish tank??" Shadow laughed, cackled even, as Blue glared at him in return.

"Listen, I like the tank. Its a nice tank." Blue crossed his arms and huffed.

Vio watched them quietly, his horns shifting away as he closed his book to stop his siblings from arguing.

"Hey Legend!" Wild called out, picking up the pookah and grinning. "You wanna commit some crimes?"

"No thank you! I've committed enough in my time." He crossed his hands.

"I want to!" Wind exclaimed, his form flickering slightly in the breeze,

"Of course you do!" Wild laughed at the sylph's antics.

"You all have fun. Now listen, I'm not responsible for whatever you do." Four said without looking up from Time's shield. "Most of all, I swear if you break another sword Wild, we're going to have words." His wings shifted behind him as his antenna things flicked.

Wild nodded.

"Can you let me down now?!"

Warriors ears flicked as he stood in the swamp. He frowned and stared at his hooves as they sunk into the dirt.

"You're looking a little down there." footsteps squished through the swamp behind him.

Warriors turned to see Twilight. He nodded. "Yeah, it just.. instincts. You know?"

Twilight nodded. "Yeah, happens every full moon here."

They stood in silence as crickets started to chirp.

"Whats it like when you turn into a werewolf?"

Twilight sighed. "Like being trapped in a prison within yourself."

Warriors stayed silent, watching the setting cast beams across the sky. Like an endless dance.

"Sometimes, I wish I didn't have these instincts."

What are we even playing?! Uh... Guys?

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To be honest, no one knew how it started. It was supposed to be a good game night at Lon Lon ranch.

Malon watched the chaos confusedly, while her father was only making it worse.

See, the chain were all playing a different game. Legend somehow got his checker pieces and was playing with Wild, whom had stored chess pieces in his slate. Both had a layout of cards underneath, all different colors as they played. Wind was looking smug as he hoarded all the tokens in a game from his era called, poker. Time was playing old maid and Hyrule was playing a game called go fish. Twilight was somehow playing catan with Warriors who was doing a game called Sorry. Sky was playing uno and Four argued with himself as he played monopoly. Somehow, they all were sitting in a circle and were calling out things to one another.

"Hey uhh... Guys? What are we playing?" Wind asked, blinking as Hyrule said 'Go fish' and dug through the pile of cards.

"Chutes and Ladders." Talon said with a completely deadpan expression.

"Dad you're not helping!" Malon cried.

"I know."

"Oh! Okay thank you! Wait. Whats Chutes and Ladders?" Wind asked.

"Wait you don't got chutes and ladders in your time? Tragic. Its a great game."

"No they should pay me and then I cam move my car piece over and buy Park Place!" Four muttered, his eyes flashing different colors in the light.

"You okay Four?" Sky asked, looking at Four.

"Yeah, I just. I need more money, and SOMEONE is refusing to pay me." Four glared at Warriors.

Warriors shrugged, bumping Four's car. "Sorry."

Wild cheered. "Checkmate!"

Legend laughed. "Yes, but now..." he paused, waiting for a dramatic effect. "I make this a king! Aha! That is my fourth king!"

Twilight stared at Time in silence as he put down a town on the water's edge.

Time placed down two pairs of cards, the same image reflected.

Hyrule giggled, calling out "Go fish Time!" and Time sighed.

Malon watched as the chaos around her increased in volume.

Suddenly, a knock on the door drew Malon's attention away and she turned. Weaving between the scattered pieces and laid out cards that splattered their living room floor like paint.

"Hello!" Malon greeted as she opened the door, noticing the postman.

"Hello. I have a letter for... uhh... Link?" he asked, waving a letter.

Malon nodded. "I can take that. Thank you very much."

The postman eyed the chaos in the living room curiously. "Whatever is going on in there, it sounds like fun. They playing clue?"

Malon groaned. "Don't you start also... No, I have no clue what is going on."

The postman laughed. "Well, I must go. After all, these letters aren't going to deliver themselves!" He waved and walked off. Malon shut the door with a quiet click just in time to hear her dad call out.

"Yahtzee!"

At the end of the day, no one had any clue what was going on, but they all had fun. Malon smiled seeing all the heroes laughing and joking around.

It must be a nice break from all the stress. Malon smiled warmly at the heroes, young and old. I'm glad that they had fun. They deserve some fun in their life.

What better way to start the new year off with a fic? - A Wild Time to slow down.

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Time was fighting a horde of monsters. All wielding clubs, swords, and anything else they could get their grubby little hands on. A bokoblin swung a really heavy sword at Time when suddenly it was as if it were moving in slow motion. Everything slowed significantly and Time blinked, easily dodging the swinging sword.

What? He blinked, wondering if any of the links had done this. Turning, he noticed that everyone was slowed down. Legend was in the middle of a backflip, dodging a blast of fire. Sky and Four were back to back, swords swinging and determined expressions. Wind and Warriors were teamed up, it appeared that they had formed some kind of hurricane. Twilight next to him was also slowed down, mid yell to warn Time. He could see no Hyrule or Wild.

As suddenly as it slowed down, everything sped back up. Legend finished his backflip with a slice of his sword. Twilight closed his mouth, but he was blinking at where Time was just at, staring at Time now right next to him.

"How did you...? you know, I'm not questioning it..." Twilight muttered as he slashed a moblin.

(Twilight asked Time later, he just shrugged or made a cryptic comment and continued on.)

The next time it happened, Time saw the culprit in action. Wild just barely missed a hindox's attack. Just as he dodged, time slowed down again. Wild moved at normal pace and slashed at the hindox in quick attacks.

Hyrule was mid lighting strike when it happened. Time couldn't help but chuckled at Hyrule's position.

Huh, thats a useful trick. Time chuckled and Wild turned just in time to see Time pulling up his sheild to block an arrow.

(Wild wondered how he was moving normally and still, to this day, does not know how Time moved normally. Wild was determined to figure it out, but still. Time is a very cryptic hero...)

Time resumed to normal as they fought they continued to fight the horde once more.

((Sorry! I accidentally posted this on the wrong account!))

The Hero Send

A prompt in the linked universe discord by 'A Hero of Way Too Many Wilds.'

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"Hello, thank you for calling Hero Send, what's your emergency?" A cool, pleasant, female voice asked through the call.

"THERE'S A GIANT PIG MONSTER CHASING ME AND-" A sharpened blade sliced where he was just earlier. The beast becoming human faster and faster. "ACK- HELP!!"

"Understood. Are you within our covered network of Hyrule?" The soothing voice asked smoothly. As if they had all the time in the world.

"YES! YES! I'M IN HYRULE FIELD! PLEASE SEND HELP!!! OH GODDESS, HE'S GOT A HORSE!!" He yelped as the once-pig beast now got on a skeletal mount and galloped towards him.

"Horseback, Hyrule field..." The woman's voice droned as sounds of very loud typing was resigered through the call. "All other heroes are currently asisting other customers. The closest is the Hero of Wilds. Would that suffice?" The woman inquired

"YES!" He shouted quickly.

"He's been informed and coming out there immediately."

"THANK YOU!!" He could only pratically cry tears of joy as the sounds battle as the Hero of Wilds came and made quick work of the beast.

"Hey Lullaby, how's the work been? Any new customers?" Malon asked, sticking her head into the room where Lullaby and several other Zeldas sat at several computers.

"Yes. A new call from Hytopia. I had sent Legend the on the case, since he has had work there before.

Malon nodded. "What about you Sun? Anything new with the different operations?"

Sun shook her head. "So far, nothing too bad has happened. What about you? How's been the new recruits?"

Malon smiled. "Doing quite well in fact. I was just talking with Tetra earlier about them. Sidon is particually excited. Miphia also told us many wonderful things about him."

Flora chuckled over to Malon's left.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

"Dusk you take it." Lullaby sighed, resting her head on her hands.

"Okay then."

"Hello, thank you for calling Hero Send, what's your emergency?" A female's voice asked.

"Hi, yes. Well there is this giant dinosaur with a turtle shell that breathes fire and is causing mass destruction." He spoke in his high pitched voice. "I was just tryin' to have a nice camping trip."

"Are you in our covered network of Hyrule?" The voice asked, more strained than before. Of course, he didn't notice.

"No, unfortunately not. But I will get the prenium package if I must. I am in the Mushroom Kingdom."

"I'm afraid that is a beyond our network systems. If you are looking for help in the Mushroom Kingdom, I hear the Mario and Luigi plumbing and saving service is special for that kingdom. I'm am very sorry for the inconvenience. I wish you luck and I truly hope you do not die."

A click sounded and Fable sighed, groaning in misery.

"Another call from the Mushroom Kingdom?" Dot asked, looking up from her computer, pity glinting in her eyes.

"That's the fourth time this week. I swear if I hear again about this giant, fire-breathing dino with a turtle shell I'm going to lose it." Fable groaned.

Dot gently patted her shoulder in apology.

(Captain Toad was upset. Mario and Luigi's plumbing and saving has the worst service. Plus! They aren't even free half the time. Also the Hero Send is so much more reliable. He growled in defeat, shaking his head sadly as Bowser roared in the background.)

Tetra sighed as she walked the hallways of the Hero's Send building. I don't understand why I can't take calls! She grumpily sat down on a bench and ate her sandwich.

"Hey its okay!" Aurora smiled as she sat next to Tetra, scooping bits of pasta into her mouth.

"I don't understand why I can't take calls!" Tetra exclaimed, waving her hands in the air.

"Maybe because the last couple of calls resulted in argueing matches? Also you broke our last phone, after getting a call from the mushroom kingdom again, by throwing it at a wall." Aurora blinked, wiping her mouth.

"Oh yeah.."

"Besides, you work much better as a captain and the boss of people. You're just a natural leader."

Hyrule sighed, after just healing an injured elder after a big attack, he wiped his forehead. Removing the sweat. Suddenly, he got a ding and stared at his comumicator.

Needed at Hebra mountain, please don't get lost!

Hyrule frowned, staring at the message.

"Is it just me, or has there been more attacks recently?" He asked Four, who had just helped him save a village.

Four nodded. "Yeah, and these monsters are not at all natural. Having this black blood and everything. I have an odd feeling that something's not right..."

"Yeah... Hey, which direction is Hebra Mountain? I forgot my map again."

"AGAIN?!"

"Hello and thank you for choosing Hero Send. Unfortunately our team is busy and unable to take your call. Your call is important to us. Please hold."

"THERE'S A GIANT OCTOROCK THAT'S DESTROYING MY BARN! NO I WILL NOT HOLD!"

Time groaned, his back aching.

"What old man. You having back troubles?" Warriors asked teasingly, swiping his sword through moblins that swarmed them.

"Well yes, I am old. But also I had to come the the Guerdo right after a call from Hyrule town."

"Ooh, that's rough."

"Oh its Mr Hero and Mr Pirate Hero!" Ravio exclaimed excitedly, clapping his hands together.

"Yes, hi Ravio. You called for help..?"

"Oh yes! Over there!"

"Ravio, where- uhm. Ravio... Do you know what kind of monster that is?"

"Oh my goddess! Legend!"

Ravio secretly cackled as the two heroes stared at the worst monster of all. A cucco. (Also Ravio never really needed help, he always loves when Mr Hero comes around though.)

Twilight's ears pinned back as the strange man approached. He growled as the young girl clutched his neck fearfully.

"Hey now, I ain't goin' to do nothin' with her." He said, his accently clearly fake.

Twilight narrowed his eyes and ran, with the child protectively on his back.

"Look! Doggie!" The child cried, rushing towards the wolf with odd patterns on him.

"Yes, doggie." Wild cackled quietly, watching Twilight glare at him totally worth it.

"Doggie!" the children cried, their tear soaked faces grinning with joy.

"Now this is Wolfie. Here let me show you something he really likes..." Wild explained.

(Twilight supposes it wasn't the worst. But he sure is going to make sure that the Zelda's hear his mind. He never signed up to be a wolfy companion. Then again, he supposes its not that bad. Seeing the children laugh again after a fire.)

"Welcome to the Hero Send. If you need any help, please see our recipetent. Otherwise, you may check out some of our finest items over in the 'Heroes Hoard', named after the one and only Hero of Legends." Mipha smiled as A goron walked past, lumbering over to the Heroes Hoard.

"Hey, where can I get the special lawn mowing service?"

"You can talk to Urbosa about that if you want. However, we are not responsible for pottery destruction." Mipha said with a complete straight face.

"Thank you!"

Oh for the love of the Goddess...

She stared at the ad of Hero Send. Her eyes flickered throughout the text.

"Are you in danger of death? Maybe you lost something important to you? Call 4166-hyaa to get the service of a Hero! They will be there instantly and you won't have to worry about a thing! Prenium packages and the off days include very unique and special heroes to help out with YOUR needs."

The Heroes include:

Out of Network Coverage: Hero of Time (Premium Package) best if you're on a time-crunch) Also capable of underwater rescues Hero of Legend (Premium Package) Useful for unexpected situations or traveling to alternate dimensions, also capable of underwater rescues Hero of Wind—Excels in sea-based rescues. Hero of Warriors—Usually an in-network coverage, can be called beyond Hyrule for an added premium fee. Usually has an army at his back.

In-Network Coverage (Within Hyrule) Hero of Sky—Premium Fee. Guaranteed to blast away any corrupted energies, wonderful for dispelling curses. Hero of Four—Four-for-one (premium upgrade required). can reforge legendary artifacts as needed, and fits into smaller spaces. Hero of Twilight—Excellent tracker. Can even act as companion wolf for added fee. If you've lost something, he can find it. Hero of Hyrule—(can be called out of network for a Golden Premium Package Fee) Excellent healer. Can take the form of a fairy for a premium fee. May disappear at times, but he will fulfill his duty. Hero of Wild—Can tackle anything. Usually good at finding hidden items, will often disappear (not rec for escorts) Beware of fire.

Off days and unique heroes:

Hero of Spirits- Very good engineer and very intelegente. Good at fixing things. Only available on New Hyrule. Hero of Light- (Prenium Package). Works on Time crunch situtaions. Can investigate and resolve disputes. Only available in certain regions. Hero of Rhythm- Good all-around worker. Likes to dance a lot. Good at throwing parties. Only active on fesitvals. Very good entertainer and good at cheering you up. Hero of Men- Only available for the forest communities, we are not in touch with them very much. Does not talk much. Linkle- (Prenium Fee) Hero of Warriors's sister, very good fighter and is usually accompanied by a group of cuccos. Unpredictable and can get lost very easily."

She smiled knowing they were in good hands

The Hero Send. Its scoffed, its red eyes rolling at the name. They think by summoning those pesky heroes, that I will just what? Stop and lay down dead? Hylians so reliant on their devices nowdays. It would be a shame if everyone were to suddenly lose power.. It smiled wickedly, sharp, crooked, jagged teeth gleaming in the moonlight. It fiddled around with a wire before snapping it into two, forcefully cutting out the power quickly.

When the heroes do come, I will send them to an early grave.

The Hero Send, Adventure of the Special Heroes

In which a rupee is worth staring at for 17 hours.

Basically it's a Twilight Princess speedrun low%, but its Lu and Twilight just stares at a rupee for 17 hours as he slowly gets absorbed by the wall. Enjoy!

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Legend groaned as a branch smacked right into his face for the seven-hundredth time that day. Shoving it out of his face he ducked to avoid the next incoming leafy missile.

"Twilight, where are we going that is so off road?" Legend asked as Warriors grumbled behind him. "And also, we've lost the rest of the group." Legend squinted into the trees, his hair tickling his neck as he looked for the others.

"Well, I mean they have Zelda. Plus! I wanted to see something. You see, there is this wall that I've had a particular trouble with... And you always seem to have rupees. I will need a rupee when we get there." Twilight explained, motioning to a big gate with a heavy lock on front. It was three times the size of Time (Legend groaned internally), and clearly sturdy by looking at it.

"See, I was challenged a while back to find a way into here..." Twilight started, crossing his arms and staring at the gate. "Back then, I didn't have anything with me... but now I will get past this gate." Twilight paused, turning towards Legend and Warriors. The later of which was grumbling and pulling leaves out of his hair.

"Continue.." Legend said with the most deadpan expression and voice.

"Without opening the gate." Twilight grinned, revealing sharp canines from his wolf form. "Hey one of you, pass me a rupee. Doesn't matter what kind. This is going to take a while... probably." Twilight smiled as he stood at the gate facing Legend and Warriors.

Warriors threw a blue rupee and stood back, watching as Twilight grabbed it and stared at it.

It went so long that the sun was starting to set and Legend and Warriors had made a campfire, bickering as the time passed.

"Hey Twilight?"

"Yeah?"

"You've been staring at that rupee for seven hours now. I think it knows your the stare master. Or if this is a staring contest your losing. Badly." Legend groaned, watching the unintresting display of Twilight just staring at a rupee.

"Yeah, I did warn you it would take a while."

Fourteen hours in and Twilight was still staring at a rupee. But Legend noticed something... odd.

"I'm sorry, but Twilight? Are you.... merging into the wall??" Warriors beat Legend to the chase, his eyes staring at where Twilight was clearly partly in the wall.

"Yeah, you know that one thing you can do where you phase into walls Legend? This is kind of like that, it just takes a lot of time.." Twilight laughed quietly.

"Oh for the love of hylia. You mean like one of those physic defying things?" Legend laughed. A short, barky sound. It reminded Warriors of a Rabbit.

Warriors sighed, finishing up an apple he was eating. "Well, we should probably sleep in shifts. Since we don't know where the rest of the group is and there could be monsters around."

Legend nodded. "Good place for an ambush. I'll take first and when, and if, Twilight stops staring at a rupee, I'll wake you up."

Warriors nodded and settled down. Laying out his mat, he settled on a comfortable position as Legend observed the surrounding area.

"So Twilight. Have you ever done this before?" Legend asked.

Twilight nodded. "Once. There was this gate I had to get past to fight a boss. However, I couldn't get the key, so I had to sit there staring at a rupee for 20 hours. My friend was so dumbfounded and I would say, it was worth it seeing her face." Twilight laughed quietly, his expression turning sad at the mention of his friend.

Legend groaned. "It took you 20 hours? Oh god. I have a feeling we'll be here for a very long time."

Seventeen hours of nothing, and Legend was done. He had woken Warriors up and sat down on his mat again as Warriors rubbed his eyes.

Warriors glanced at Twilight muttered "He's still at it?"

Legend nodded. "I've been timing him. Its been 17 hours."

"Geez." Warriors groaned. "At least it seems he's halfway into the gate or something."

Suddenly, Twilight jerked. Both Warriors and Legend jumped as Twilight suddenly moved, vanishing behind the gate.

They both stared at the gate, and it suddenly opened. Revealing Twilight with slightly bloodshot eyes.

"I did it! AHA I beat the challenge! I'm... I'm going to sleep." Twilight mumbled, collapsing next to Legend.

"Must of been a very interesting rupee huh?" Legend snickered.

"Right now, all I can see is blue rupees. Everything is just blue rupees now." Twilight groaned, he rolled over on his back in the grass. "I forgot how boring it is and how painful is it after. I feel so sore, I don't think I will stand for the next ten thousand years."

Warriors snorted. "Would you like some help setting up your mat?"

"Yes please."

*linked universe modern au*

Four: What did you guys get for the homework. Specifically number five?

Wild without looking up: Blue.

Twilight: B.

Wind: 138.7 inches squared.

Legend: Abraham Lincoln.

Hyrule: There was a question five?

Warriors: I just drew a picture.

Sky: Wait we got homework???

Four glancing down to his homework where it clearly is a true or false question.

Time clearly face palming in the background.

Alternitvely:

Time the one who gave them different homework pages and smirking at the chaos

((The alternative version is from this post here!))

Meet Olly the stalhorse

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"Guys, this is Olly"

"Wild, that is a stalhorse. Get away from that thing!"

"But he's a friend, say hello to him. And hurry up, it's half past 3"

Time facepalmed, his one good eye staring at where Hyrule was gently patting Olly gently, a confused expression on his face.

Legend to was groaning in a face palm. "Aren't those things monsters or something? The stable person said that it could eat the other horses when you tried to keep the last one."

"What do you mean? Why do we need to hurry?" Four asked simultaneously, looking into Olly's glowing eyes. "Also Wild had gotten more of these? When? And why have I never seen them before now??" Four's eyes widened and glimmered violet in the moonlight.

Wind was petting Olly, clearly not caring about danger. Sky and Twilight, however, stayed back.

"Well, you see..." Wild started before Olly collapsed in on himself.

Wind and Four instinctively jerked away, Time noticed Four's hand instantly go to his sword handle. Warriors watched quietly, not reacting much but a small stiffen of his muscles. Legend watched disinterestedly but his hand flashed to his bag for a quick second. Sky and Twilight stared not moving. Only Hyrule and Wild was unfazed. Time himself was a little unnerved as Olly started to break apart.

"That happens.." Wild said as he watched his friend crumple into purple dust to float away in the wind.

"Aww, but Olly!" Hyrule said slightly sad as he watched the nicest (In Hyrule's opinion) monster fade away into the wind.

"Olly shall be missed on this day..."

Hyrule: What makes life so difficult?

Legend: People / Hylians

Legend: What am I allergic to?

Ravio: Pollen. And the full spectrum of human / hylian emotion.

Have a little ficlet of something lu, and I really like the idea of.

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Sky frowned, blinking at Wild as he hummed. Unaware of what impact he just said.

"I'm sorry, but you said that a person just, gave you the master sword?" Time asked, blinking slowly at Wild.

He nodded. "Yep. After I gave him 10 restless crickets.

Twilight shrugged. "Whats up with that? I got my master sword by defeating a poe."

Four frowned again, staring at them. "I have a very odd feeling that this is not normal, yet I got the four sword, though it was called the white blade (tempered) at the palace of the winds as well as, for some reason, the earth element." Four frowned, his multicolored eyes flickering with colors.

Wind nodded. "Yeah! I got my wind waker from a chest underneath a house... I don't know how it got there, but I'm not questioning it."

Time shrugged. "I got my Zora mask before I got my deku mask."

"Is that out of order or...?" "Yeah, it very much is."

Hyrule and Legend sat quietly.

"Well I don't know about any of... that, but once I got lost and got the magic boomerang before I got any bombs or swords." Hyrule tilted his head to one side.

"I once found a boss key out in the middle of nowhere. Really no clue how it got there, but Linkle got it." Warriors blinked before he resumed to sharing his sword.

Legend stared at all of them.

"Beetle did once selll me clawshots and digging mitts, as well as a heart container... for some reason. And I did get the Goddess's sword by crashing a chandiler..." Sky shrugged.

Legend blinked, processing what was happening. "All of you are a menace. I'm sorry, but Sky you crashed a chandelier?" a nod. Legend pinched his nose. "I don't exactly think that was the way you were supposed to get those items. I mean, yeah, I understand. My uncle somehow gave me magic cape.."

Epona snorted as all the links contemplated life in silence.

"Yeah, something definitely went wrong."

Wind: Life is like a game of chess... Four: You can't play chess. Wind: ...Checkers? Legend: How do you even know what that is? You don't even have it in your time!

Wild: okay, so which one of you want to go next?

Legend: I’m sorry. What?

Wind: MEEEE!!! *Hops off the cliff and glides with the leaf*

Wind: *LOUD SWEARING INTENSFIES*

Sky: Ah man, That really ruffles my feathers

Time: One does not simply swear.

Legend: does it look like I give a FU-

Wild: Swearing? Whats that?

Hyrule: I do not understand this.. thing.

Four: *peace signs outta here with no consistency*

Twilight: I grew up with kids thanks but no.

*just a random afternoon*

Wild: If one truly thinks about it, Water is the source of all life…

Hyrule: REALLY?!

Legend: Did you really not know this?!

So people are asking about the lost au… and wellll….

There appears to be a link missing from this.

Hmmmm

Also maybe I will give a small summary, but not rn. Its late. Maybe tomorrow? Idk. But all those expressions really fit the lost person.

Fyi the lost au is basically corruption except I made it 10x worse.

Who is who?:

so in order:

A1; Twilight | A2: Ravio | A3: Wild | A4: Red

B1: Malon | B2: Warriors | B3: Legend | B4: Blue

C1: Wind | C2: Dot | C3: Sky | C4: Green

D1: Dink/Dark Link | D2: Hyrule | D3: Shadow | D4: Vio

Legend and Fable are siblings, and they talk shit about people together.

A large collection of doodles, most of the LU ones are for the elements au I got planned. If your interested in the au then I’m more than happy to ramble about it.

Uhhhh more doodles, I love Legend and Ravio but I don’t draw Ravio enough. the design of Wind belongs to @mmmwafflesart, I just really like the idea of Redead Wind. Oh and the one of the Legend designs belong to Sheepa on discord, idk if they have a tumbler.

I wish my wips looked like this. Woe is me, amateur mediocre fic writer with sentences and bullet points instead of fics.

Boom shakalaka or wtvr….. this isn’t finished and will not be finished but it’s okay because I like how it is right now and I wanna be free from WIP hell 😞😞😞 SAVE ME I DRAW TOO MUCH AND DONT FINISH THEM EVER AAHHHH

Headcanon that when legend fails a song he'll fall to his knees and shake(?) a fist at the VR sky. So the others just get 10 seconds of Beat Saber void and the tip of the blue sword just twitching in the corner. Even better if it's on Warriors by Imagine Dragons on Expert+ because holy shit that level took FOREVER to clear and also hehe funny.

I have a rlly strange LU headcanon but I want to get it out there anyways laalalal

Sky would be a beast at beat saber.

Like... rhythm game + sword thing

Sky is the best swordsman in the chain. ANNDDDD, like most of the Links, he's got a nack for music.

so @aaa-batteryy how crazy would it be if i showed up to school tomorrow with a bucket of ice water

congrats on the 350 followers!!! if you haven't received 5 art suggestions already, could i suggest something with Sky, Four, & Legend? --@uncleskyrule

I think those 2 should get to be mischievous, and Four I've decided would absolutely be their target because they're determined to get a reaction out of him lol

Thank you for requesting this!

okokok hear me out... centuries by fall out boy for our boi legend

hiii!

i believe i have a song that’s really Legend-coded. i saw you made a bunch of playlists for our boys and i thought i’d share! it’s called Bow Down by Alibi Music. i just thought i’d share :D

You know what? Consider it added. Both because I think he deserves more Empowering Songs (he has so many sad ones 😔) but also because it's giving me ideas possibly beyond my art skills HAHA

I READ THE FIC AND YOU SHOULD TOO GO DO THAT RIGHT NOW PLEASE

Fanart based off of THIS AMAZING WHUMPTOBER FIC of @skyward-floored 's!! Please read it and it's sequel❤️

Warning: Blood, stabbing, character under control

I admittedly underestimated the ‘Graphic Depictions of Violence’ tag when I read this fic. But also this fic is now my prime example for why ao3 should never be censored. Yes, it’s bloody. Yes, it’s gorey. Yes, I would never be allowed on the internet again if I ever got caught reading this. But I’m telling you there’s something so raw and unfiltered in this fic it’s art. This is a work of art. I’ve never seen an author reveal so much of their thought process behind their writing before and this is what dedication looks like. I repeat, PLEASE READ THE TAGS on this work but King of Hyrule will probably live in my head forever as one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of taking a character and just running wild with the plot. It is simultaneously eerie how in character and how wrong the characters feel. It is so horrifyingly detailed and well thought out. It’s amazing to see someone so passionate about their work. I fricking love the internet.

king of hyrule: a clumsy analysis, ch1.

for @toyouhellohowareyou, @nyastri, and @starwolfie, who asked for a director's commentary on king of hyrule.... i've never done one of these before but i've always wanted to try!! we'll see how it goes. warning: i have given myself permission to ramble. hard tw for descriptions of gore under the cut.

also, my deepest apologies to anyone who thought i knew what i was doing at any point.

first i will give context. this fic was given to @across-violet-skies as an (extremely belated) birthday gift... i'd been trying to find out what sort of ideal gift riv would like without actually asking, and so far had received no hints, because i was a coward who wasn't actually asking. then a perfect opportunity fell in my lap! i said "i've never actually written anything from hyrule's perspective" (we are all gracefully ignoring THE VASE), riv said "i love hyrule. if you write hyrule it will 100% go on my to read list", @a-manicured-lawn went straight for the throat with "Hyrule MEETS THE CHAIN MID SACRIFICE"... and then thunder clashed overhead, sealing my fate forever. chat threw evil possessive fae rulie at me and i caught him with both hands. the first thing i wrote in the document was came back wrong.

i opened a new doc. faced with the spine-tingling prospect of writing from a perspective i was not experienced with, i immediately closed the doc. i backtracked to my headcanons file. in the hyrule section, i found this:

his sisters do not seem to know that he was born so large and wingless, but he thinks that maybe they understand better than he does, for joining them feels like shedding his skin for something truer, and even when he puts it back on he can feel it, these days. he can feel where it rubs against his wings underneath, feels like he is hiding in a shell like the hermit crabs of wind’s beaches, like he is only in disguise as human and is really perhaps something else entirely. fairies are mouthless unless they need to be otherwise, in the case of offered sugar water and fruit. they sing more than speak, and it sounds like chimes, and hyrule knows this, it needs no translation, it sings to the boneless ecstasy of this form, of flight and family and the sweetness of being small…

which i quite enjoyed thinking about. the intersection of fairy joy and horror had potential. the alien qualities of magical creatures. i drew from this feeling to cobble together an opening line:

Mouthless, the fairies sing to him. In his dreams they are made of light.

okay, so, this is a solid start, right? i love it.

He wakes from memories of the cold-sweet greenwoods of Twilight’s era to darkness, and for a moment the sound of his brothers’ laughter seems so far away he wonders whether they were a feverish invention...

i aimed for confusion and befuddlement rather than ignorance. he needed to have some sort of expectations for the situation, so i could fuck with his head more effectively 😈

...a flame deep in the cave, a flickering torch, and by it he sees blood.

here we meet fuckup number 1, in the second paragraph because i exceed even my own expectations! the original draft included monsters - because, logically, who put hyrule on the altar? wouldn't they wish to witness the sacrifice? i ended up getting rid of the monsters to eliminate the need for a fight scene (although, PFFFT, i went back there in chapter 2 anyway), but this lonely torch stuck around. it makes no sense. i don't know why i didn't just remove it. i needed the cave to be very dark anyway, so that the chain would have to light a lamp in order to see the damage hyrule's body sustained...

Hyrule reaches out a finger and scoops it up. It tastes of iron. He can’t afford to leave it, out in the open, where…

blood curse!

...the dark wet pool where he’d been laying. Hyrule reaches out with terrible dawning horror and traces the edge of a divot in the stone, a path for the blood that had leaked out of him while he was unconscious, down and down and down until his hand slips off the edge of the altar and sinks into a bowl of soft ashes —

deeply unhappy with this paragraph. dark wet pool, as a description, gets a mediocre 5/7. the stone altar has carved channels for the blood? okay, but why did i not call them channels??? and thirdly, THE ASHES, ALSO KNOWN AS FUCKUP NUMBER 2. THIS IS LIKE, THE ONLY TIME I MENTION THEM IN THE WHOLE STORY. WHAT THE FUCK, PAST ME.

His dreams of light and greenery are quickly becoming murky.

i quite like this sentence, but—

He lowers his hips off the edge, but he can’t feel the floor. There is not enough light to jump. The altar seems to drop away into an abyss.

WHERE! ARE! THE! ASHES! ARE THEY FLOATING??? HOW DID HE FEEL THEM OFF THE EDGE OF THE ALTAR IF ITS SO TALL??? i was having such conflicting mental images when writing this fic. the altar in my head was like... a normal altar height. but i needed it to be taller to explain why he didn't just run away, since i got rid of all the monsters. so i spent the whole three thousand words trying to edit the altar in my head. mostly unsuccessfully.

The skin on his stomach scrapes against rock as he pulls himself back up.

this sentence was about his hip bone. but i hadn't told you about it yet so i had to switch it out for skin. but it's really about his hip bone in my heart. you understand

...tries to draw his knees into his chest on instinct and the twinge becomes a full body shudder—a spike in his side that reverberates down into his thigh, creaking and bending—

this paragraph was originally about real pain. and then a few minutes later, i was like - wouldn't it be better (worse) if there wasn't any pain? then i can focus on the actual horror part of it rather than the injured part of being injured. if that makes any sense. the imagery is also a bit messy. if i was editing, this is one of the paragraphs i would rewrite. sometimes i actually can't believe i put this stuff on the internet. wtf am i doing

...traces the damp skin where his blood had run all the way back to where it started...

i can't even look this sentence in the eye. i did you so dirty, babygirl. you need a comma. or major surgery. maybe both

edit: i did, in fact, go back and add a comma.

...back to the tender flesh of his hip, where he touches something smooth and hard. He strokes it gently with his fingers, exploring in the dark. He finds wet skin, and hot tense muscle.

okay LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!!

Hyrule shivers. He sits quietly with the ghost of what should be pain. Letting it wash over him. The knowledge festers.

something something the horror of placidity when faced with terrible things. something something hyrule has been running from this exact possibility for years and now that it has happened he doesn't know what to do next. something something life after his inevitable sacrifice has never been a possibility for him

He has been bled like an animal for this sacrifice.

ripping this sentence to shreds with my teeth. in a good way. me when characters dehumanise themselves‼️

If he has already bled into the ashes, if he has already been sacrificed, how is he still awake? How is he still alive?

this is me asking myself this question, by the way. at this point i still didn't really have any idea what was happening beyond "let's fuck em up"

Where is Ganon? Unless—

and then i was like, aha. there is something here that i can work with. you are watching me figure this fic out in real time.

...finds skin; hands reaching up from the ground, fingers just reaching the altar. He grasps them, weak. They are hot. Or maybe it is just that his own pulse is cold and slow? He feels faint.

reaching twice in the same sentence? i'm going to travel back in time and break all my fingers before i can hit post. that wasn't intentional. also, the hands were originally cold, and hyrule felt very hot, because like... fury and anger and evil, u know? temperatures rise with a fever? he's sick from the possession? but then later on i wanted legend to be warm with the triforce, and i realised that it made more sense for hyrule to be cold like a corpse. so i changed it.

He bites his lip. So what if he bleeds? What could it matter now?

hopelessness. lack of urgency. he (and i) are both starting to get an idea of what is happening.

“LIGHT!” Legend shouts. “I FOUND HIM! WE NEED LIGHT—are you hurt?”

legend's so cute when he's stressed out. i say this in a demonic writerly way 🥰

“A darkness looms in this cavern,” Four’s voice says distantly. “Something is shrouding the torches. They’re lit, but… the light is stifled.” “I feel it,” Time agrees. “Evil is here.”

where tf is everyone else? i ask myself. ensemble stories are difficult, because they shift the tone. i need to keep the focus solely on legend and hyrule, so [throws glitter] now you're all wandering around in the dark!!

Sorry, sorry,” he says again, feeling the heat inside him shift and writhe. “It wakes. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m—”

this is the point where i was like, hell yes, he has ganon inside him. also, meet fuckup number 3. i forgot to get rid of the heat motif. he's supposed to be cold now. whoops.

“Sorry for what?” Legend cries. His hands flutter at the edge of the tall altar, empty, searching. 

in which i remind myself that the altar is supposed to be tall.

Hyrule curls his palm over his heart and wishes to wake from a dream. Nothing happens. He traces the familiar scar with the fingers of the opposite hand. It’s cold and light and empty . Why is it cold? Where is the tr—

first reference to the triforce. heavy-handed, but i needed to make sure everyone was on the same page. he doesn't have it anymore. also, i use the rich text box to post to ao3, and it always adds a space after italicised text, which is mildly annoying.

The path that led through the cold-sweet greenwoods, and laughter that quickly turned to shouts of fear and the ring of steel on steel. The ambush. His flaming sword. Legend, turning for a moment to protect Warriors’ back, and the Darknut that launched itself from behind a moblin towards him—

backstory! and a reference to the first paragraph, because i was really enjoying the phrase "cold-sweet greenwoods". an antithesis to everything currently happening (or at least, it was when hyrule still had his heat motif). "his flaming sword" is hyrule's fire spell. i picked a monster at random.

His hand comes away wet from his chest. He can’t feel anything.

i decided he was going to be impaled even before i decided he was going to be possessed 🥰 it wasn't in the brief but sometimes... sometimes you just gotta sheath a sword in someones chest. u know. u kn—

“I’m not Hyrule anymore,” he says.

and then i was like. you know what would make this worse? what if i trick everyone. what if ganon and hyrule's perspectives are hopelessly entwined? what if there's no way of knowing how much is hyrule and how much is ganon? what if this was actually ganon?

and so this is where i started to have lots and lots of fun. and we get into the gore.

His heart. He is touching his own heart. It beats still. That’s not a good sign.

a bit of casualness among the heavy descriptions! a bit of levity for your brain! also, hyrule(?)'s slow, burgeoning panic? i'm chewing on it. if i do say so myself.

Hyrule’s body withdraws his wrist from the inside of his own chest. How deep does the wound go? If there was light, would Legend be able to see the other side of the altar through him?

i was oddly captivated by this idea that legend would be able to see through his chest. this is also our FIRST use of "hyrule's body" replacing "hyrule" as the perspective character! this transition was something a lot of people loved, and i am very glad i went ahead with it. the idea didn't come to me until the night before posting, and i almost discarded it because it made some sentences clunky.

“You know it,” Hyrule’s body says gently. He cups his hand around the veteran’s face, red-stained nails just lightly pressing against skin, wondering what would happen if he dug them into that soft flesh. “You know it, don’t you? You saw that wound. Nothing could survive that.” “You’re not a thing,” Legend objects from under his palm.

once again, me and characters dehumanising themselves. not a huge focus but it complements the ganon/rulie identity issues nicely.

hyrule's always been a "do not go gentle into that good night" sort of character to me - the idea of him so fatalistic? so hopeless? alarm bells are screeching. something is wrong. SOMETHING IS WRONG

the uncomfortable intimacy begins.

“I think I am,” Hyrule’s body says. “I am a corpse.”

this has really got to be one of the most fun lines in the whole thing.

...flinches back, grip tightening on Legend’s face, dragging him forward until he is pressed against the altar.

underestimating the height of the altar, the sequel.

“Finally. We can see,” someone says. “That took forever. Where’s Legend?”

who? is the character omitted because it's not important, or because hyrule's body doesn't immediately know? the legend fixation is rearing its ugly head 🥰

...and Hyrule’s body is saddened but unsurprised to see tears on his face. They glisten like silver stars.

it took me literally twenty minutes to remember what this sentence was supposed to mean, if you're wondering how brain dead i am right now. anyway, it's genuine sadness, not patronising sadness. it's the part of hyrule that still lives and hurts to see a brother grieving. in a way, this is the only moment in the story that hyrule allows himself to properly mourn, and it's through the lens of his relationship with legend.

Their clothes are unstained, faces tense but clean of blood. In this unholy place, from this altar, their wholeness seems hideous.

i like this bit. it widens the gap between them. makes things a bit more real, a bit darker. presenting the chain as alien emphasises rulie's stance as an unreliable narrator. SOMETHING IS WRONG!!

Somehow, he does not care so much anymore about the mess. He is numb. The stone altar almost feels comfortable to his sensationless legs. He moves, and bone scrapes against the stone. 

this paragraph doesn't quite do what i wanted it to do. it's not raw enough. but it has potential.

...drinks the noise in, heart quickening. Another wave of blood paints itself over his chest.

i'm mortal enemies with this last sentence. i scratched it and rewrote it five times. still not happy.

He flashes his eyes into the dark, where the Chain lurk, unwilling to step closer, faced with such a spectre. A corpse. A king, woken.

the eye flash was important to me. i was thinking about how many nocturnal animal eyes reflect light? the inherent creepiness of blank glowy eyes. also subtle dehumanisation. and ganon begins to enter the story consciousness - a king, woken.

“You were too late to save Hyrule. You chose to protect Warriors instead.”

this was a largely unnecessary plot point. i don't know. i think i was just trying to increase the tension between legend and hyrule. highlight how off the gentle intimacy between them was. they weren't codependent before. they weren't a perfectly synced pair. and now...

Hyrule’s body looks at him and thinks with a deep, all-encompassing revulsion, mine. All mine.

had to make sure i was hitting that 'possessive rulie' button! i've never written a possessive character before so it took a bit of wobbling before i committed. "how weird am i acceptably allowed to make this?" i was thinking.

Hyrule’s body smears the blood lovingly over him: letting it trace the ghost of his silver tears over his cheeks and nose. Rubbing it gently into his forehead. He hushes him.

replacing the tears with blood -> replacing the grief with fear -> replacing the love with something more terrible. also, characters doing horrible unspeakable things very calmly and gently makes me shiver.

Legend sobs again and tries to pull away, but a dead man’s grip is stronger than stinging iron, and Legend himself is weak and trembling. Barely more than a rabbit under his fingers. He wonders, detached, what it would feel like to snap that neck. What it would sound like. The crunch of bone.

stinging iron! fae reference. dead man! enforcing that corpse idea. rabbit! we know this one. the intrusive thoughts are not winning yet, but they're getting closer.

He giggles, and squeezes Legend until he squeaks. “I forgot you all were here,” he confides cheerfully.

i had a lot of fun with this. the happy cutesy language!! the most effective kind of horror, for me, has always been when something awful is sort of... not quite in focus. there, but not fully understood. happening in the background, or right under your nose while you're concentrating on something else. very casual. very normal. very scary.

“But he’s mine,” Hyrule’s body says reasonably. The torch flickers as a slight breeze passes through the cavern. He feels it whistle through his chest and twitches. Warriors’ eyes are wide and afraid. Hyrule’s body grins and licks his bitten lips, painting his canines with blood. “What are you?” the captain breathes.

and this is when i was like, fuck ganon/rulie's identity crisis, why didn't i write this from someone else's perspective??? HOW AWFUL WOULD IT HAVE BEEN??? WHAT ARE THE REST OF THE CHAIN THINKING??? WHAT DOES HYRULE LOOK LIKE??? his detachment, while working well to create tone and pacing, really made it hard to convey the horror of his appearance.

to my great joy, all my dreams were later answered in Hero of Hyrule, Knight of Hyrule, and Founder of Hyrule.

“Oh, were you trying to say something?” he asks, with his best manners. “Go on. You can do it.”

the CONDESCENSION. i then realised what i was about to make him do, and ran back to riv, asking how gorey the fic was allowed to be. "i can change it. it's not too late," i said... "i am so curious," riv replied. so i continued.

and here we go:

...lips pressed tightly together against the blood, which coats his mouth and the skin around it. It looks like he’s taken a bite right out of Hyrule’s flesh, he thinks. It suits him...

i am making things WEIRD and i am making things WORSE. i have nothing to say for myself. it's intentionally uncomfortable.

Hyrule’s body pats his tongue. “There we are! That wasn’t so hard.”

this is one of those sentences that was worsened by the switch to "hyrule's body". but i'm on a roll now. the next few paragraphs mostly consist of me grinning evilly to myself.

...waits, fingers clamped across Legend’s nose, until the man swallows, shivering. His eyes are glazed. Drying blood clumped in the lashes. Hyrule’s body coos. This was his big brother, once.

this is really the point in which legend's agency is completely gone from hyrule's perspective. he ceases to become a player - whether that's because of the way hyrule has succeeded in taking all control from him, or because of ganon/rulie's further mental spiral, who knows? and i just threw that brother line in there to hurt you. of course.

“Ru—Rulie would n—never do this,” someone else agrees, voice breaking. Legend whines an agreement.

even though i'm having a great time writing a darker, more horrific hyrule, i retain the belief that the heroes are each fundamentally good people. my main doubt with this fic is that i don't think i'm straddling that line very well. i mean... after all...

“I already told you I wasn’t Hyrule,” Hyrule’s body says. He squeezes Legend again to coax more pained sounds from him. What is he feeling? Does it hurt? He feels the numb bone of his hip grind against the altar as he moves. The cold point of Warriors’ sword presses softly into his chest. The pressure is almost welcome compared to the gaping emptiness of his wound. “You can taste it, right? You can tell?”

the trusty old obsession with legend manifests itself as jealousy, for a brief moment.

here we see my second attempt at describing bone scraping on stone. it's marginally better.

you guessed it baby, it's the impaling thing again!! if he can't feel pain, does he think of it only as an absence? a lack? there is a metaphor here that i'm not touching but it's in the room with us. it's in the room.

blood curse. right. that's where we're going

Legend jerks in his hold. He laughs delightedly.

now we're getting it!

“Yes, brave one,” he croons, “that’s what the ashes were for. Except I didn’t have enough of a body left to really inhabit , so I borrowed this one. Oh, he bled so nicely for me. It was beautiful.”

those FUCKING ASHES!!! WHY DID I NEGLECT THEM!!! also watch me stickytape an explanation for the possession together in real time

“Didn’t even have to tie him down,” he says gleefully. “He only woke up once during the whole thing, and I guess he figured you’d left him for dead, because he just laid back down. Placid as a lamb, that one, in the end. So easy , when he realised he couldn’t do anything to stop what had already been started…”

is hyrule's body lying? who am i to say (yes yes i know, but). whatever the truth of that dark moment was, i really love this little speech. the idea of him mock-comforting legend with a sugar-sweet description of his own death does something to me. the way he presents himself as helpless. the way he presents himself as unheroic. as giving up. is this hyrule or ganon talking? does it matter?

“STOP IT!” someone screeches. “STOP IT! DON’T SAY THAT!”

i had to keep stopping and going back to add in bits where the chain could talk. whatever fucked-up thing was happening between legend and hyrule had even me constantly forgetting that everyone was right there witnessing it. and when i did remember i had to stop and shriek and wonder whether i'd ever have the guts to post this on the internet.

“BECAUSE I HAVE WOKEN. I HAVE BEEN REBORN. I AM GANON, KING OF HYRULE!”

title drop. every time i read this sentence i get jumpscared by the first bit of my username. the speech pattern is also very clunky. 2/7.

Silence falls for a moment. The torch sputters. 

that fucking torch!!! i'm going to commit a murder.

...and, unwilling to let go of Legend for some inexplicable reason, Hyrule’s body instead lets himself sink down onto the sword. His ribs crunch. The blade enters at an angle but then slots neatly into the hole already there—he slides down the steel, still laughing, until the crossguard presses across his chest.

this paragraph and the start of the next had some good ideas and poor execution. i'm playing around with the 'wound as an absence, a loss' thing again. filled by the sword, by violence. that other metaphor is still hanging around. i'm pointedly not touching it. and ganon/rulie places legend above himself. or is it that he places his control of legend above the physical condition of a body he enjoys injuring, to watch the chain squirm? that's the question, isn't it? is this an act of cruelty or protection?

...scrapes against the walls of his heart, tears his lungs ragged. Fresh blood bubbles into the wound and runs, dripping, off the end of the blade. Legend is crying.

blood & tears.

He can’t stop laughing in this dead boy’s voice. He is back. He is finally free. No longer trapped in blood—no longer suppressed by that triforce— his broken knees sag as he hunts them through the dark—

i just wrote him jumping down like a normal person (underestimating the height of the altar, the sequel's sequel), and then my fingers produced "his broken knees sag as he hunts them through the dark" in response to a personal inquiry as to what ganon/rulie's movement would look like and i was like, FUCK, okay, well, this has to be in it. so i broke his knees.

“Which of you has it?” he says suddenly, snapping his head around as he tracks their movement. His neck crunches. The sword in his chest slows him down. He isn’t bothered to remove it. Behind him, Legend retches, curled into himself on the floor.

how will this end? i asked myself. aha: a wish on the triforce. not too much of a deus ex machina, right? it's literally canon. so this is the point when i went back and added in that earlier stuff about the triforce. there's also a half-hearted broken neck in this paragraph. if i had the change to go back, i'd either elaborate on that or cut it entirely. i was too caught up at the time in wondering how to wrap the story up to pay attention to the details. my bad, guys.

The group exchanges glances, unwilling. He pounces on the nearest and shakes him against the ground, climbing atop the man and snarling in his face like a creature. “WHERE IS IT?”

does ganon/rulie know who this is? does he care?

As he leans over, Warriors’ sword begins to ooze back out of his chest. It slips down until the pommel touches the hero’s sternum. Like an axle it balances between them. He is a sheath for the blade. He is the meat on the skewer. He touches his forehead, leaving bloody splotches behind. Where are these thoughts coming from? He is not—he is more—he is GANON, RIGHTFUL KING OF HYRULE.

an interesting visual here, and not one that i'm convinced i pulled off. but i have been informed that the internal conflict was very good, which is comforting.

“Kill him, then,” says Warriors suddenly. There is an outcry from the others.

i wrote this without really thinking about where it would go, but i'm VERY happy i did. everything clicked into place. there could be a sort of standoff - ganon/rulie's dissonance would be exposed - then something and something else and then the end. i was getting close.

“You said he was yours,” Warriors says. “Why would Ganon say that?” He pauses. Hyrule looks back at Legend. He gets off the floor. 

this, wars my beloved, is a VERY GOOD POINT. he's the only person with a single useful thought in his head.

The blood and puke squelches under his bare feet as he walks back across the room to Legend.

i was pretty happy with this sentence for no good reason. it feels like a child to me. a disgusting, vomit-y child. maybe i'm just proud i managed to remember that legend threw up. keeping track of details is one of my most important goals in writing.

The wet tip of the blade touches the side of his neck. Simple and so—tantalising. Hyrule’s body can picture it. He can picture—

the internal conflict gets a change to shine. also i just love the contrast in the way ganon/rulie touches and thinks about legend. neither entirely separate. thoughts and actions bleeding into each other emotionally but not physically - he's holding back. he's been holding back this entire time.

But wouldn’t it be better if he—he has been so careful not to break Legend. So gentle. He has let him taste. Helped him understand what was happening—explained, kindly—let himself sink down with a squelch onto the sword—only thought about peeling back the skin from Legend’s face with his fingernails. Left the grinning muscle and bone safe in its flesh wrappings and protected— He stops.

i really love this bit. it was a joy to write. gentle horrors, once again. well-meaning destruction.

“See?” says Warriors. He sounds quietly smug. Hyrule’s body snarls. He wants to rip his arms off. Chew through muscle and tendon and nerve with his teeth—snap him bone by bone—he wants to haul him up onto the altar and keep him still and quiet and safe while his minions take over the world—he grips his forehead—what is happening to him—

my love for the em dash cannot be contained. i'm working on it, i promise, but it's easy and so tasty

Hyrule’s body looks. He finds himself with one hand cupped around Legend’s cheek, Legend pressing into the touch despite himself.

yeahh........ i fucked them up.

“I don’t—” he starts. “I SHOULD KILL YOU.” “But you won’t,” Legend rasps.

i'm not sure where i fall on the capitalised dialogue issue. (YES, i KNOW, it was ME who wrote it.) it goes a long way in emphasising power, magnitude, other-ness of the possession... but sometimes i squint at it and it seems a little camp. i guess that's not my problem anymore, though, unless i decide to write another ch—

“There you are,” Legend says. His mouth flickers into a smile. 

his agency is taken back. the culmination of something (of 20 days of bashing my head into a keyboard)

He pushes up to his feet, half-dried blood soggy on his face and matted in his hair—he stretches up to his full height, scabbed knees and dirty tunic and— His hand is so hot on Hyrule’s own that it burns. Legend blinks. Suddenly his irises are gold.

yes, i thought. yes, yes, yes, home run—wait, fuck, i don't know how the fucking triforce actually works—

“I wish to seal away Ganon once more,” Legend says. “So that Link, Hero of Hyrule, will be safe from harm.”

seven google searches and one plea to discord later, i say fuck it we ball. he's going to wish like a disney princess. it's part of the charm of the franchise, these cute fairytale elements, i say, as i frantically mop the blood off the floor

The torch roars higher. He sees a single tear on Legend’s face amongst the blood, shining like a silver star in the firelight. Darkness overtakes him—pain, suddenly, finally, spikes—

TORCH. 🪦

For a moment the sounds of the cavern seem so far away he wonders whether he is being tortured by a feverish invention. An echo. A might-have-been.  Then everything fades.

how do you write a proper conclusion to your essay? just rephrase the introduction/thesis. easy. what? that doesn't work with fic? surely you're mistaken. behold.

so here we are! this post has been a journey and a half. if you have genuinely read this entire thing, my life is yours. i had so much fun writing this fic, and i hope from the bottom of my heart you have at least mildly enjoyed me rambling about the creation of it. this story could never have existed without the wonderful egging-on of my friends 🥰🥰🥰 thank you for coming to my tedtalk

the fact that ravioli means two things in this fandom: the former vice president of the 'i hate link' club or two rabbit boys kissing

I made a meme

From my old post

I don’t even… how do I… help me. Downfall duo might be breaking me lol.

Thunder

Old sketch

Hyrule closed Legend's eyes because he knew that Legend was traumatized by thunder.

Ravio being the sweet wide-eyed innocent bunny and Legend with the ‘i don’t wanna be here’ glare is sending me

Gift for @sprite-and-the-bunnydragons !! The second I read about bunny Ravio I just... I HAD to draw him. And with drawing one scene came another... And another...

Everyone, please go read Two Bunnies for the Price of One on ao3! It's really funny and I highly recommend it (and honestly any of her other fics)

The hair looks so fricking cool <3

downfall duo

Hell yeah. What doesn’t kill you also makes you not dead so that’s nice.

Legend: WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU- Legend: majorly injures you and leaves you writhing in pain, an easy target for the next thing to come finish you off.

The inflation in Hyrule’s Hyrule do be crazy this time of year.