#Daredevil Disease Hyrule

[singingvio]

((Decided to post this for some reason. It’s just a rough draft but I’m kinda proud of it.))

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Sky first noticed something was wrong when he asked Four to spar with him.

Instead of just agreeing or disagreeing like Sky would have expected, the smaller hero launched into an entire argument with himself, speaking clearly and loudly without muttering or stumbling over his words. He didn’t even seem to notice what he was doing.

“No, see, if we spar with him, we could-- don’t tell me we’ll improve, we’re already the best-- oh shut up, we should just agree, it’s not that difficult-- come on, guys, can’t we cooperate for once…”

“Uh, Four?” Sky asked hesitantly. Four gave him a quizzical look.

“Are we doing something wrong? Wait, are we talking aloud-- shit! He’s going to figure it out-- I can’t stop talking-- we can’t stop-- if only we were back in our Hyrule, we could get help-- we can’t split-- FUCK!” With a final frustrated scream, Four threw his hands in the air and stomped off, still talking loudly to himself.

Sky followed him hesitantly back to the main camp, which, thankfully, seemed normal at first. Until, of course, Four started talking to Wind, who immediately leapt back about five feet, staring at Four like he was Ganon himself.

“Y-you’re acting w-weird? W-well, d-don’t come n-n-near m-me, then!” he cried loudly, wrapping his arms around himself in a sort of self-hug. He then actually started to cry, and Four kept talking, switching between apologizing, asking Wind why he was being weird, and still asking for help.

Time burst into laughter, pointing at the exchange as he doubled over, cackling like it was the funniest thing he’d ever seen. Legend glared at him, hitting his shoulder. “Hey, Old Man, what the fuck are you doing?” he asked harshly. “I think they’re sick or something, this isn’t-- stop laughing! This isn’t funny!” his eyes widened slightly and he leaned away from Time. “Are you okay? Now I’m getting worried.” he muttered. “Wait, shit, I didn’t mean to say that…”

Time continued to laugh, tears running down his face. Legend shot up from his seat and backed away, horrified. Four kept talking, rambling to no one while Wind cried on the ground, hands covering his ears as he muttered “I’m scared” to himself over and over.

Sky turned on his heels and ran to find someone who could deal with this.

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Twilight was scouting the area with Wild, Hyrule, and Warriors, when suddenly he turned to see they had all disappeared. “...Guys?” he called out, spinning around slowly in a circle to search. “Come on, where are you?”

“TWILIGHT, WATCH THIS!” yelled a voice. Hyrule. Twilight ran through the trees, whipping his head around to try and spot Hyrule. He looked up, and his heart dropped into his stomach. Hyrule was at the edge of a very tall, very steep cliff, grinning like a madman with a stance that showed he was going to jump. He wasn’t looking down, either, he was looking away from the cliff’s edge at… Wild and Warriors.

Warriors was shouting encouragement, but instead of any positive stuff, it was… a lot more negative. “Go on already, ‘rule! Are you a coward, are you going to wait for Twilight so he can catch you before your body hits the ground?” he yelled, hands on his hips as he grinned evilly at Hyrule. “Or are you going to jump without looking down and getting cold feet like a real hero would?”

Wild, on his part, wasn’t even doing anything. He was lying in the grass, his arm dangling over the side as he looked sleepily at Twilight. He grinned. “Hey, Twi! Yolo!” he called, and it sounded… lazy. Not like Wild at all.

Hyrule looked down at Twilight and grinned wider. “TWI, I’M GONNA DO A BACKFLIP!”

Twilight’s eyes widened and his blood ran cold as he ran forward, arms outstretched as if to catch Hyrule. “No, wait!” Warriors cackled, a dark glint in his eyes as he grinned at Hyrule. Wild flashed a peace sign at Twilight and closed his eyes as if to sleep.

Hyrule jumped.

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Sky rushed forward at the same time Twilight did, leaping up into the air and only barely managing to catch Hyrule before he hit the ground. He fell forwards, cushioning Hyrule as he crashed into Twilight and the three of them fell.

“Wild, you wanna go next?” Warriors taunted. Wild didn’t even budge.

“Nah. Too tired, you know?”

“No, I don’t know. Fucking coward.” Warriors replied, stomping away. “Whatever, I’m going to do my own thing.” and with that, he was gone.

“Wild, get down here!” Twilight called, getting up and rubbing a sore spot on his head where he’d hit the dirt.

“Don’t wanna. You guys come up here.” Wild called down with a yawn. Sky grumbled something under his breath and reluctantly started making his way up the cliffside, gently pushing Hyrule into Twilight’s arms. Twilight started to check him over, and Hyrule tried to shove him off.

“Chill, man, I’m fine! It was just a little stumble, that’s all!” he said with an overconfident smirk. Twilight frowned at him.

“No, it wasn’t! You tried to backflip off a cliff, you could have died if Sky didn’t get here in time!” he protested, and he knew it was true. There wasn’t a chance he would have reached Hyrule in time to catch him.

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Sky grabbed Wild by the forearm and hauled him up, glaring at him. “Wild, Hyrule almost died!” he cried. “Do you care? At all?”

Wild stared at him blankly, not comprehending. “...No? Listen, I just want to take a nap. Sorry Hyrule got hurt or whatever, but I don’t really care.” he muttered, not shyly, but like he couldn’t put in the effort to be louder. It was like the opposite of how he… usually… was…

Sky dropped Wild’s arm as the world went dark, pitch black in fact, and he was engulfed in shadows. Out of the shadows stepped out none other than Dark Link, his sword not drawn as he smiled at Sky like an old friend. Sky reached for the Master Sword, but found nothing. He’d left his sword at camp, fuck.

“Strange, you and Twilight aren’t affected.” Dark Link said calmly.

“What did you do? You’re the cause of this, aren’t you?” Sky questioned. Dark Link nodded and waved a hand dismissively.

“Yeah, but it’s just a bit of harmless fun, really.” he said, giving a small chuckle.

“Hyrule almost DIED! Now what did you do? I don’t need my sword to kill someone, you know.” Sky threatened, clenching his fists. He was stronger than he looked.

Dark Link held up his hands.

“Calm down, Sky, was it? Don’t worry, it’s not fatal… unless one of your friends has a terrible immune system.” Dark Link laughed at whatever joke he thought he made. “Just a little disease, that’s all. Highly contagious, unfortunately. I only meant to affect Warriors and Four. Not that upsetting, though, it’s more chaotic this way.” he explained.

“What are its symptoms? Is it the reason everyone’s acting strange? Why aren’t Twilight and I affected?”

“Because you’re blessed by Hylia more than the others and Twilight is a creature of dark magic.” Dark Link said with an eye roll, like it was obvious. “It’s called the Despair Disease, it makes the infected act the opposite of how they might normally act in certain categories. I don’t know about the others because I didn’t personally give them the Disease, but I gave Warriors the Disloyalty Disease, and Four got the Oversharing Disease.”

Oversharing? That made sense, given his recent behavior. But Disloyalty… that worried Sky. Would Warriors betray them, or did that mean he just didn’t want to work with them at all?

The darkness faded, and Dark Link laughed. Sky snapped back to reality like a rubber band and turned to Wild, who was standing there and looking lazily at Sky as if nothing interesting had happened. Wild…  might have the Laziness Disease? It seemed to fit pretty well in Sky’s head.

“Come on, let’s get back to camp.” Sky mumbled, and dragged Wild by the wrist back to where Twilight and Hyrule were waiting. “We’re heading back. I know what’s going on.” he explained shortly to Twilight. “We need to gather everyone.”

“We don’t know where Warriors is, though.” Twilight reminded him. Sky shook his head.

“We’ll bring these two to camp, you find him once we do that.” he ordered.

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[singingvio]

LU Despair Disease AU

Dink gets an idea from a video game to put the Links and their loved ones through something truly horrible-- Despair Disease. With the Despair Disease, the Links would slowly fall into ‘despair’ and eventually give up their fight.

…Right?

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((The Despair Disease is from Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. It’s a disease that give the infected fevers and high levels of exhaustion, along with new personalities that are completely different than how they usually are, usually the opposite of a large character trait. At first, only one person is infected, but the disease is highly contagious and spreads fast.))

I won’t give all the Links the Cowardly Disease because that’s fucking boring. Here we go!

Time - Hilarity Disease (Can’t take anything seriously, takes everything someone says as a joke, can’t stop laughing at inappropriate times.)

Four - Oversharing Disease (All his thoughts are spoken aloud and he’s unable to hide anything.)

Twilight - Not Affected (Twili Magic.)

Sky - Not Affected (Hylia’s Blessing.)

Wild - Laziness Disease (Doesn’t have the motivation to do anything and wants everything to be done for him.)

Legend - Truthfulness Disease (With anything anyone asks him, he has to answer truthfully and cannot lie or avoid the question.)

Wind - Cowardly Disease (Is too scared to do anything and generally can’t be alone without bursting into tears.)

Hyrule - Daredevil Disease (Will do anything anyone tells him to and willingly does exceedingly dangerous things that could even kill him.)

Warriors - Disloyalty Disease (Is constantly off doing his own thing, won’t trust the others and even lies to them, would rather be alone than receive aid or support.)