#Hero of the Waking World

[tired-sky-lian]

Welcome to my Linkverse! This Universe, where each story takes place between Official Zelda Titles, is called Unchained. Inspired by @minas-linkverse, @linkeduniverse, and @linked-maze

Hero of a Thousand Stories (Lynk, 32) takes place between the Oracle games and A Link Between Worlds. He's a librarian who overheard begging families request help of the Royal Militia and knew he had to do something to help.

Hero of Dragons (Link, 20) takes place after Spirit Tracks. Dragons is just a farmhabd helping his grandma, as she tells him stories about the Dragons of Old Hyrule. He quests to bring Dragons to New Hyrule for his grandmother.

Hero of the Dreaming Worlds (Ravio, 19) takes place after Twilight Princess and alongside Hero of the Waking World. Ravio uses the Lorulian Triforce to save Lorule, but nothing goes according to plan. He needs the help of a hero.

Hero of the Waking World (Link, 19) takes place after Twilight Princess and alongside Hero of the Dreaming Worlds. Link is a young solider who sneaks onto missions he's not supposed, along with attending the escort squad for people who could potentially pull the Master Sword.

Hero of the Moon (Nik, 12) takes place after Wind Waker. Together with his twin brother, they must save the Sun and the Moon from being stolen by malicious sorcerers.

Hero of the Sun (Lynn, 12) takes place after Wind Waker. Together with his twin brother, they must save the Sun and the Moon from being stolen by malicious sorcerers.

Hero of the Future (Link, 22) takes place after Four Swords and before Ocarina of Time. The Crown Prince of Hyrule investigates his mother's murder with the help of his little sister, Zelda. His prophetic dreams help a little.

Hero of the Dead (Link(?), 17) takes place after Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. Link can see ghosts, it's nothing new to him. However, when more and more ghosts come to him with help about their murder, he wants to investigate. He hopes it's just a coincidence that all the ghosts are named Link too.

[cometecti]

first ones to see jesse pinkman from breaking bad, gman from half life, alan wake, and dante from devil may cry preforming float on by modest mouse

[hamable]

Now that the season’s over I want to share one brief, gruesome theory I had in regards to Lucy’s death and KLCK’s wrath.

Kipperlily felt that the school favored certain students over others. I started wracking my brain for a time when a staff member would have stepped in for TBK in such a way that it was not only perceivable as an unfair advantage, but would so fully fuck over KLCK, her party, or the student body as a whole. I landed on one thing: Aguefort going God Mode near the end of spring break.

He turned into a giant. He moved the very sun in the sky. Mountains were molehills and enemies were ants.

When The Bad Kids found Lucy’s body, the detail of her being struck with unimaginable bludgeoning force stood out to me. It doesn’t fit the timeline, and didn’t end up matching the rest of the evidence they gained from Lucy’s body, but the momentary idea that Aguefort had fully crushed Lucy and possibly others during spring break bc he came to The Bad Kids’ Aid was a concept that rocked my world. As much as I love how the season played out, KLCK being right and the fault being on Aguefort would’ve been a wicked interesting plotline to follow

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 26

Inspired by atla

Danny was unable to stop the ghost king from destroying amity in the ghost zone. Pariah declares earth will be his next conquest he needs more skeleton soldiers bound to him.

He rips open a portal Danny rushes to the other side. He freezes the portal and him (not his plan) with ghost ice. Pariah freshly released is unable to open a secondary stable portal.

Rather then a full army. attacks only happen through natural portals. This bringing anger between the two dimensions at a all time high. Time continues. Danny stays frozen. Amity long forgotten.

As the attacks happen more then once technology is made to deal with threats. Nothing lethal more often then not the ghost return to the ghost zone when there attacks fail.

Unstable portals are now opening with more frequency. One day heros get a spike from amity and come investigate. When coming across the iceberg with a glowing green humanoid trapped one hero touched the ice.

It begins to melt. Danny falls out unfrozen. The glowing becomes more intense as the portal becomes visible through the ice. Somehow Danny while panicking manages to stabilize the ice which forces himself into his human half.

So now the justice league has to deal with feral Danny to stop pariah. Nobody is happy with the arrangement. Danny just wants to go off and fight. He doesn’t want to deal with learning how to use his powers.

It’s unfortunately up to the halfa to restore balance between the two dimensions.

They have until the ice melts to help the feral child master all his powers. So hopefully together they can save the world.

[kagoutiss]

zelink in your au or nah?

i would say there’s about as much zelink in my au as there is in the game, so…like it’s there but it’s also probably sad and doomed lol. link also isn’t there for the large majority of it, so a lot it comes down to how sheik remembers him while he’s sealed in the sacred realm and how she feels about their whole situation over a period of years. it’s kinda hard to say how their relationship is when one of them isn’t there for so much of it, and the other is constantly thinking and mulling over just their memories of them and what they could’ve done differently. but that’s also part of the reason they’re so interesting and heartbreaking to me. im blabbin but basically there isn’t NOT zelink, but it’s complicated and still sad and not necessarily the main focus

[givehimthemedicine]

never forget El isn't just touchy feely as a random personality trait, she's spent most of her developmentally critical years horribly starved of touch and warmth and love :)

and every moment of physical comfort she receives is precious to her as an antidote to some specific moment in her past when she suffered the lack of it :) and you can also see the shadow of her traumas in the ways she thinks to give physical comfort :)

and also don't forget that her trauma didn't end with the lab :) when we first meet her her traumas are drawn from lab days but by later seasons it's clear some of the traumas guiding her behavior are just... the show :) such as the crushing pressure of everyone counting on her to find Will :)

and if I spend more than 2 seconds thinking about what any simple little moment of closeness/physical affection/comfort must mean to El I will start sobbing and never stop :)

[moonilit]

the fact of Jote being a rescued/ adopted bearer by the undying was a fact I didn’t know what to do with first time i heard it, but now that it sinked in I believe this is for multiple reasons but the sweetest of them is to clear up the undying name, they were elwin followers and Elwin trusted them with his most secret and sensitive plans aka how he eventually wanted to give better lives for the bearers and all, them taking that one baby bearer , not branding her, hiding her, train her and help her in hiding the fact she is a bearer, trust her with their literal lord etc, they are following in elwin footsteps and

[karinaing]

I JUST REWATCHED PIWON MOVIE AND I HAVE THINGS TO SAY

[featherymainffins]

Well these colours sure didn't translate well

@prismatic-starstuff @beardedladyqueen

[amethystpath-writes]

The Sky Falls

(NOT A PR0MPT)

******

“I know the world is ending, but…at least we have each other, right? Is that too cliché to say?”

Hero’s eyes almost brimmed with tears at the sentiment behind his words. The sentiment, however, was less overpowering than the sadness which was starting to rupture her heart. “Villain, I can’t do this.”

“I know it’s scary, my love, but the sky will not fall on us. If it did, you know I would protect you.” He shifted on the plaid blanket, touching Hero’s hand. His fingers were stained with paint from the mailbox at home, and Hero couldn’t help but to smile.

So kind. So kind and thoughtful, but it wasn’t true. It wasn’t Villain. “I can’t die with this lie brewing endlessly.”

“Lie? What lie?” Villain didn’t seem concerned over Hero’s words. He never was. He was too in love to have caution when it came to Hero.

“Your love isn’t real. We captured you, Villain, and Other Hero charmed you. You don’t love me. I can’t let you think your love is real when the world is about to end.”

Villain stayed quiet for some moments, and then, it seemed as though something snapped. His once plump lips tightened into a harsh line, sharper than a pair a shears.

Other Hero said it would be that easy. ‘Never even hint at the charm existing. I’m not strong enough to make my will permanent.’ Hero didn’t want it to be permanent anyway. Something about taking another person’s freedom to love who they chose didn’t sit right with her, even if Villain would be unaware of it.

“How long?” Villain asked. Hero watched his fingers curl tightly in the woven grass, and heard the stalks pop from the ground. Her chest tightened.

Maybe taking a breath would make her feel better. “Four years.” Hero swallowed.

“I reckon that’s why you said ‘no’ when I proposed?” He chuckled, and it was a laugh Hero hadn’t heard in so long. The last time she did hear it…it was when Other Hero did the charm. Villain swore it wouldn’t work, that he wasn’t capable of love- ‘…especially not for any of you.’

His voice had become soft when he experienced love. He was polite, and his nose crinkled when he smiled. For a time, Hero forgot what his frown looked like.

“There was no other way to stop you, Villain. It had to be done.”

“So what!”

Hero was frightened. For four years, his voice never raised- only became louder when he was calling Hero from the kitchen.

“You take away my free will, and now look. The sky is red, Hero. I sure as hell didn’t do that. If I wasn’t under some uncontrollable gaze, I would have stopped this shit from even happening!”

“You knew about Supervillain?”

Villain ignored her and looked to his hands, plastered in a coat of lies. That paint wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for Hero. He shook his head. “It was all I ever wanted- to not die. To- to live long enough…I was fighting my own battles, Hero. Did your team ever think of that? I knew this”- he gestured to the sky- “was happening. I was trying to stop it, dammit.”

“You said you were sick. We…I guess we thought it was a terminal illness. The charm would fix the illness, and it would stop your crazed ruthlessness. You would only experience love. We thought it was the right thing…I’m sorry.”

“Sorry,” Villain repeated with a shake of his head. “Dammit. Dammit, dammit, dammit!”

“You could have asked for our help,” Hero suggested softly.

“Your help? What makes you think I would have wanted to ask for it? All you have ever done is ridicule me.” Villain finally stood from the blanket and began pacing, like the ideas in his head pushed him to his feet, too full of energy. “I tell you there’s a villain- a real villain- and you turn me into this helpless, loving thing. I didn’t need love. I needed…I didn’t need anything. I was going to stop this from happening alone.”

“What about the sickness, then? Was it a lie, Villain? Something to make us feel bad for you so we’d let you go off killing again?” Villain killed. God, he killed everything. Humans and pets. Plants and fish in the ponds. Anything capable of a heartbeat was killed. For what? As far as Hero’s team was concerned, Villain was the end of the world.

“I was sick; it just wasn’t fucking cancer. I tried to tell you. Why did no one listen to me?” He sighed. “It was a disease, Hero. I don’t know where it came from, but it infected everything, and only the infected could see where it was. It was a curse- dark and evil and twisted. I watched it spread, and no one was going to stop it.”

Villain looked to the sky and a tear spring to his eye. “It used to tell me in my sleep, however seldom that was, that it was going to take over. I decided to kill it. I would kill every infected thing and then I would end it all with myself. I was going to save the world, Hero. Now there’s no hope for it at all.”

******

Tag list: @faeruine

[ikarosxflight]

Humanity VS Divinity

The ancient Greeks embraced life passionately, loved unashamedly, and followed their innermost desires. They established a remarkably sophisticated society renowned for its advancements. However, they did not value humility, viewing it as a source of shame. Humility seemed out of place in a society that esteemed reputation, power, and honor above all else.

The only form of humility deemed acceptable was reverence to the gods, acknowledging one's position within the hierarchical structure. In the myths told, most Heroes were taught humility or suffered the consequences, usually resulting in death.

Captain Pit lives his life with unapologetic boldness and unwavering dedication to serving Goddess Palutena. His deep sense of duty and reverence for Palutena's superiority often lead him to view himself as superior to mortals. This unwavering loyalty and pride in serving his master define his character, shaping his actions and interactions with others.

However...

Pit's inherent humanity has been with him since his creation, leaving him ostracized between mortals and Gods. In a world where repentance is requital, balancing wrong and right, the Captain of Angels has been exposed to something foreign to the Olympians and most deities: pain, suffering, guilt, and forgiveness—experiences and emotions that define and shape mortals for better or worse.

Like two powerful kingdoms consistently at war, Pit battles with the nature of his anomalism. His empathy, a trait that should be beyond his reach, often leads him to connect so strongly with the mortals that it affects his status among the divine. This connection, this understanding of mortal emotions, is a double-edged sword for Pit. Palutena, the goddess of light, created her Angels as the perfect servants, obedient and detached from vexing emotions that might lead them astray. Lady Palutena has always grappled with the concept of free will, a trait that even the Gods have attempted to influence, direct, and penalize mortals for. Despite her acknowledgment of this fundamental aspect of humanity, she often tests the limits of her authority with her Captain. His defiance, evidence of his foolhardiness and humanity, is a thorn in the Goddess' side and other Gods, who Pit has tested their authority. Time and again, Pit has demonstrated a remarkable ability to defy her commands and make independent decisions. In her relentless pursuit of exerting control, she has resorted to drastic measures, such as repeatedly erasing his memories, in an attempt to mold him into a more compliant version of himself.

When he was younger, Pit's behavior was worse. But now, as Palutena's Captain and Leader of her royal bodyguard, he tries to behave himself for her sake and the safety of their home, lest he invoke the wrath of Olympus.

It's a lonely, tiring existence.

[tired-sky-lian]

Hero of the Dreaming Worlds, Ravio and Hero of The Waking World, Link.

Mirrored counterparts from Lorule and Hyrule respectively. The game would take place a majority of the time in Lorule, following Dreamer/Ravio. It would follow Ravio as he beings to learn of all the corruption festering within Lorule, and how its also affecting his Princess Hilda, who he's sworn to guard as her personal knight. He, in an act of desperation, uses his magic to brute force his way into the Spirit Realm where he uses the Lorulian Triforce to ask for the Goddesses help. This... *doesn't go as he had planned*. The Goddesses take everyone from Lorule and basically trap them all within three different Dream Realms. So now he's all alone. In Lorule. And the only other thing around is Ganon and his malice infecting the world. He hears the voice of another Goddess in his head, Lolia (Lorule's Hylia ofc) and she tells him to make his way to the Sword Of Dreams, draw it, and she'll... *summon someone to help*. It takes him a while to get there because of all the monsters jacked up on rage who won't actually *die* and all the Lorulian technology just keep trying to *Kill Him*, ***Lolia I could use some fucking help here***. He gets to the sword placed in a pedestal in the middle of a garden and he wastes *no* time in pulling it out. At the same time, this bright ass light appears and another person falls right on top of him, oh shit it's Awake/Link!!! They take a bit to introduce themselves and Ravio apologizes for a good solid ten minutes before he realizes Link has the Hylian Divine Blade, the Master Sword! Link can actually fucking kill things and purge Ganons malice from everything and Ravio can just breathe for a few minutes. Together, they get to Ganon, and Ravio in a fit of his own spite and rage, uses the Sword of Dreams to subject Ganon to waking nightmares for everything he's done to Lorule. As the guy writes on the ground, Link is just.. "Ravi? Do you need a hug? A glass of milk? A kissie on the top of the head?"

They have a good hug, Link reassures Ravio that everything will be fine after Ganon is gone again. Together, they raise the Master Sword, and if it burns Ravio's hand a little bit he doesn't mention it, as they strike the blade between the Gerudo's shoulder blades.

After Link dissappears back to Hyrule in a shower of golden light, Ravio is alone in the final battle room, covered in his own blood and Ganons and Links. He's not really used to this whole "fighting a great evil" thing so he just kinda walks home(hah, home. His room in the castle.) and promptly passes the fuck out on his bed. It isn't until a few hours after he wakes up that he realizes that the world is still so quiet and *fuck everyone's still trapped in the fucking dream worlds.* ***Are you fucking kidding me.***

So Ravio has to find a way to get into where the Goddesses has trapped the rest of the lolians and it really does take him a little longer than it should to think of their temples with worship springs in them. He breaks his way through because there isn't anyone around who can keep him out and he makes his way through the first temple to find the spring of the Goddess of Wisdom. And as he places his sword in the pedestal in the spring, something glows on the back of his hand. Oh wow, has that been there this entire time? Maybe. He's got the Triforce of Wisdom!

Now, he has to venture inside of the Dream Worlds.

Inside the Dream Worlds, he has to fight off monsters called Nightmares and convince the Goddesses to let the Lorulians go back to their homes in the real world, no matter how amazing the Dream Worlds are and no matter how carefree everyone can be. They need to back to their own lives in the real world. The Goddesses are all like "Wait a second, you *wanted* this. You *wished* for this. Why are you trying to take it back now." He has to admit he couldn't save everyone when Ganon was around and he was too much of a coward to do much else than beg for divine intervention. He gathers pieces of the Triforce back every time he returns to Lorule from one of their dream worlds. In the Spirit Realm, as he reverts everything back to normal as the Triforce reforms, he can distantly see, if he looks down through the glassy floor, another golden Triforce. He returns sometimes to the Spirit world after he realizes this is the only connection he'll ever have to Link. He never sees him again. Ravio goes back to normal life as personal knight and newly appointed advisor to her grace Princess Hilda. The other Royals and Lords don't like him because he keeps undermining their schemes to exploit more money or land from her highness. He's attacked and sedated one day one of the more temperamental lords, Ghyrheim who *sews his mouth shut*. Hilda cuts the strings herself the next day because neither of them trust the castle doctors yet, which ends up leaving scars all around his mouth. He takes to wearing a mask around in public after that.

[And now, from the top]

Link/Awake is the sole Heir to a small fortune and the lordship title from his parents, who died a few years ago. The Haten manor not to far from the beach was his once he reached the age to claim it. Princess Zelda is holding the keys hostage to keep him in the castle because they've been roming the castle together since they were toddlers. He gets the same tutors as Zelda and they eat at the same dining table with the King. Link does sneak around the castle with Zelda sometimes while they were young children, watching the knights and practicing sparring in her quarters with hidden legs of one of her old dressers. It wasn't until he was 15, sneaking into the royal guard caravans that he found himself somewhere outside of castle town. They were escorting someone with dirty blonde hair in lose tunics to somewhere in the middle of deep forests. It isn't until they get to the Master Sword's pedestal that he realizes that the dirty blonde man is probably also named Link and they're here to see if he's the Hero of the era. The man tries to pull the sword, to no avail, and all the guards sign and turn back around and the man in heartbroken. Link watches as they all turn to leave and, very slowly, he drifts into the treeline until everyone else is gone. If he's wrong, he doesn't want anyone else to see this.

He pulls the sword, and in a blinding light, he's somewhere else. He's holding the Master Sword, he's wearing royal guard armor on top of his lounge wear, and there's an extremely haggard looking kid with dark purple hair, bags under his eyes, cuts and bruises and he's *bleeding*, but he's looking at Link in relief. Then Link realizes he's holding the Master Sword, *Then he realizes he has no idea where he is.* He plays 21 questions with this Ravio guy who's very literally the same age as him (same birthday, who knew?) And he finds out that this entire world is empty because of *Ganon*. Holy shit he never thought he'd see the guy in person because all the stories of his are *fucking terrifying*, but here he goes, he guesses.

He follows Ravio, who is *fucking amazing* with that sword which looks so cool, btw. They watch eachothers backs, and Link's pulls up the most fake bravado and courage he can because Ravio looks like he's going to shatter if one more thing goes wrong right now and Link definitely just wants to help him. Most of the minor monsters they have to face are quickly dispatched by Ravio who sends them into waking nightmares with his blade and Link quickly learns how to purge corruption with the Master Sword which is kinda cool.

They face Ganon.

Link almost throws up.

Ravio is outsmarting the scariest monster in the universe and Link barely gets some swipes in before Ganon falls to his own nightmares from a seething Ravio. And wow, the guy is going through a lot right now, and given the moment to breathe, Link makes Ravio look him in the eyes as they breathe. Just for a bit. Link hurts, he was thrown across the room a while ago, he's pretty sure he's got a few broken ribs, but Ravio needs grounding. They look down to Ganon. Link offers the Master Sword to Ravio, because the guy could really use it and kill him for all he's done to Lorule, but Ravio just curls his hand around both the handle and Link's hand and together they seal Ganon's soul back into the blade. Link doesn't have long and he can feel his body getting lighter but he rushed forwards to hug Ravio anyways.

When he gets home, most of his armor is gone, he's bloody and bleeding, and there are tears on his shoulder.

He makes it back to the castle after wondering in the forest for a while, the Master Sword hanging from his back, and he's barely two steps inside the castle walls when he's tackled by Zelda who looks likes she's been pulling her hair out for weeks.

He gets patched up and nothing really happens for a while. He's officially recognized by Hyrule Castle as the Knight who Seals The Darkness and he doesn't really want to mention how he's already killed Ganon because *Lorule feels like such a dream*, so everyone's nerves are on high end waiting for an attack by anyone. Any evil sorcerer or person from another dimension, or someone with a grudge against the Kingdom or Royal Family, but nothing really happens for weeks. Link gets formal training and life moves on. He does visit the spirit realm sometimes, and just below his feet he can see another Triforce, but no reflection kof himself. He thinks Ravio would be down there if he was real.

It isn't until a year later that shit starts getting real again.

Link gets attacked by his own fucking shadow, which, what the absolute fuck. It leaves his room in the castle a mess and all the guards on high alert. Link is hesitant to fight his own Shadow because *one* that shouldn't be happening in the first place, and *two* his shadow looks.. well, familiar. Which makes sense because he's sees that face in the mirror every morning... but it's also. It just. Well, it could just be that he misses the guy but his own fucking Shadow reminds him of Ravio. He wonders how he's doing. (He's clawing at thick cords laced through his skin).

He keeps fighting the Shadow and sometimes the shadows of the other guards or random civilians and it really feels like the world is out to get him for a while there. He meets his Shadow who's planning on merging this world with another and it isn't until the guy starts fucking explaining things that Link realizes the guy is trying to combine this world with Lorule is order to retrieve Ganons corpse and also something called a Demon Blade. It hurts because Ravio was *real*, Lorule *exists*, and he can't fucking go see him because this Shadow is trying to get Things on Ravios end. And while they're fighting, Link does realize that the Shadow really is *his* Shadow because it screams "*Don't you want to see him again?*" in his distraction, his sword arm is loped off. He grabs the Master Sword with his right and seals his shadow away.

Princess Zelda finds him in the Temple of Time, the Master Sword placed in the pedestal still covered in blood and something black, and Link only half conscious, crying, and missing a fucking arm.

He learns how to use his right hand to fight, how to write, how to button his shirt with only one hand. It takes a while but he's not helpless. He practices writing again by writing letters to someone he will never see ever again.

[cometecti]

i think you guys liked my guitar hero video so

here's alan wake, dante dmc5, nero dmc4, and max payne playing play that funky music by wild cherry

[mods linked this time]

[zodiac-entertainment-system]

Hiya everyone!!!! I'm Linkle and it's super neat to meet you all! I'm brand new to all this and still trying to figure out this whole headmate thing... it's weird having access to memories that aren't mine. But I think it might be fun, and I hope all of us can have lots of fun together!!!

- Linkle 🧭🐔

[koicrimes]

fuck matsuhige but wow, nish is so pretty 🥰 big nose ahh

[reineyday]

just watched bnha world heroes mission and wow they really packed a whole bunch of my favourite tropes into rody soul huh