#also ooooh him and impa

[skyward-floored]

I’m sorry to be pestering you about this but now that it’s in my head it won’t leave

Oma and I were laughing about Power and Dragon Warriors and just… Peggy, before Power realized that Volga could turn into a Hylian he’d be doing so many things to try and figure this out 🤣

Warriors flicks his scarf a little to move it and Power immediately hones in to see if he’s hiding a tail under his scarf and tunic.

They’re sitting by the fire and Power tosses an extra log on with more gusto than he should so that embers fly everywhere to see if it affects Wars at all.

The stink eye he gives Impa every time she walks by. He won’t even talk to her, he’s so baffled by everything about her decisions. His Impa would never find a lizard attractive and abandon her kid.

The amount of times Power wanted to ask if Wars hatched out of an egg but held himself back.

Power watched a little salamander basking on a rock one time and just cringes and Warriors is like “uh u good bro”

When Volga does finally show up and Power gets all the relief in the world at learning who he is, he just subtly trails the guy all over camp because how is he a dragon?? He uses transformation magic too??? But Link’s magic doesn’t change his anatomy, it just fools others into seeing something that isn’t there!

Power’s way too polite to ever specifically ask anyone, but he’ll just stand in dark corners and blend into the shadows and observe so he can figure out what the frick is going on. Warriors thinks he’s being really weird.

Wars: Uh… Zelda. That new Hero…

Artemis: Yes?

Power, in the dark, red eyes glowing: 👀

Wars: Idk man. He’s kind of weird.

Power, internally: Everyone here is insane

My Mom walked in right as I was reading this and wanted to know why I was laughing and I couldn't just tell her without explaining twenty different things so I was like "you know, the... the internet..."

anyway suffice to say that I was dying reading this YOU'RE NOT BOTHERING ME AT ALL DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT THIS IS SO FUNNYYYY HBSFDJHBHBH

The thing is, like, some of that stuff wouldn't bother Warriors. Like he is moderately fireproof, and sometimes he does sun himself, so like... not super obvious dragon things. but enough to drive Power even more insane. Thank goodness he wasn't there during the steak thing LOL

I also think Volga would know full well that this weird kid is stalking him (can probably scent him or something) so at some point he wanders off somewhere more private, then whirls around and is like "is there something you need, Sheikah child??"

and Power Link, being caught in the act, is a little flustered and just blurts something out like "HOW ARE YOU A DRAGON BUT ALSO NOT"

[just-some-random-blogger]

Hello, I recently read one of your Morpheus fic and I really like it🤭 and I'm hoping to make a request, where reader is also an immortal like Hob and have been friends with Dream but reader loves him (but dream doesn't know that) but then dream goes falling in love with all these other people and starting to spend less time and forget about reader then they snap and finally confessed (like the scene in little women, where Amy admitted to laurry "not when I spent My entire life loving you") and reader leaves and avoids/hides from dream. After many years he finally found reader again and they reconcile and get together. Angst then fluff in the end✨

Sorry this is such a long message, I hope you are doing well, thank you✨

Through The Dark

Dream of the Endless x Immortal!Reader

Summary: It took a chance encounter with Dream of the Endless for him to realize you had been missing in his life.

Word Count: 2k+

Warnings: I invented Keeper of Knowledge lol, gender neutral!reader, i stole that one line from Doctor Strange, angst, typos, etc.

A/N: I'm so pleased you like my work, nonnie. As you should 💅 PURR THANK YOU MY LOVE IT GENUINELY MEANS A LOT TO HEAR THAT EVEN THOUGH I KEEP GIVING THE SAME REPLY TO IT I SWEAR MY HEART GOES BOOM. It took a while for me to get back to your req cos of my homework but LOL I FINISHED ALL MY ASSINGMENTS NOW (im kinda upset at myself cos i settled with MID-ness but anyway at least im done.) Also, don't worry about long messages 🫶🫶 I love long messages. I remember when I saw this in my inbox I was like OOOOH GOOD SOUP AN ANGST REQ, but you gotta know, if you ask for angst, i wont feel like giving you any bit of fluff HAHAHAAHAHAHAH 🫶 Also i highly suggest you listen to this song. I fell in love with it because of her cover on tiktok she is so amazing i love her. it's honestly too lovely for this fic, but in my head this is how reader feels or felt for dream, and how he'll eventually realize he feels towards reader. no i will not make a p2 Tagging: @pinksirensong @deniixlovezelda @shadow-pancake9

It had been 10 minutes since the start of their wait. Johanna was unfazed, but Dream was growing impatient. So much in fact, it was really grinding her gears, "aren't you literally endless?" She dusts off her coat for no reason, "how can you be so impa-"

"I find the wait unnecessary," Dream interrupts.

"Well, we're not the only who wants their time."

"Yes. But must you insist on waiting for-"

"There is only one Keeper of Knowledge that I trust," Johanna snaps at Dream from the bench they were sat next to, "and that's-"

"Constantine," I smile, then I don't. I watch as Johanna stands, along with-

"My keeper," she smiles as she releases a breath. She notices where my attentions were then looks between us, "oh, right. Thi-"

The both of us speaking each other's names cut her off.

"Oh," Johanna says, "so, you're already acquainted," she purses her lips, "an unfortunate fate."

"It has been long since we've met," Dream speaks with familiarity. The richness of his voices makes my chest constrict. The telltale glassiness of his dazzling blue eyes makes his gaze unbearable.

"Yes, it-"

"Too long," he steps forward.

My pulse quickens. What was he doing?

Johanna turns from me to Dream, her face contorts at his expression. "Right," she says, not knowing what else to. She grabs my arm, "I need to check the archives on logs for mystic artifacts."

I turn to Johanna, doing my best to ignore Dream altogether, although he has moved too close to my taste. I offer her a soft smile, "of course."

Johanna smiles back, releasing me.

"I assume you have your pass now?"

For a moment, she measures my words. She taps her foot then crosses her arms. She releases a breath, "that's cold. You know they haven't released it yet."

I shrug, shaking my head, "I don't make the rules."

"I am her pass," Dream states, making the both of us turn to him.

My stomach begins to roll. A flush of memories of him spring up in my mind. I will them away in silence.

Dream tilts his head up proudly, "you would dare not deny the King of Dreams and Nightmares knowledge he himself has imparted to your collection."

I watch the corner of his lips curve. He was jesting, although at it's core, his words were sincere. My brows furrow at this. It was not like him to egg people on... there must be another reason why he was acting out of character.

Johanna nods and points, "what he said."

I sigh, turning from him to her before walking away. When they do not follow, I look over my shoulder and knit my brows, "well, are you two just gonna stand there?"

The three of us then make it deeper into the place. I lead them into one of the atriums and greet a few other keepers along the way.

Once we make it to the relatively unvisited area, I stop in my tracks and turn to Johanna, trying hard not to look at Dream. I motion to my right, calling their attention to the sign, "this is the area for ancient and obsolete artifacts."

Johanna's wide eyes take in the room. I know Dream keeps his gaze upon me.

"Knowing you, Constantine," I lick my lips, "I lead you a bit deeper into the archive. This is where weaponry starts."

"Brilliant," she notes, moving off to start her hunt.

I add with a huff, "also knowing you, I'd ask if you could be a bit more specific, but-"

"That's why I like you," she says as she pulls out one of the files, "you don't ask stupid questions."

Had it just been the two of us, I would have rolled my eyes at her like I always did. But the feel of Dream staring at me made me want to scream, and so I catch myself before I do something I would regret.

"I'll leave you to it then," I mutter, before making the grave mistake of checking Dream's expression. The pleased undertone of his face made me sick. I turn to my side when Johanna calls, "thanks a billion, babe."

I forfeit a response.

I push past him, sucking in a breath as I make it down the hall.

I feel my spirit grow lighter with every step I take that brings me farther away from him.

And yet I begin to feel stuffy all over again.

I gasp when someone grabs my hand.

I turn over and find Dream holding me. His face was soft, his lips were parted as though he had something to say but forgot it.

I am frozen in my spot. The feel of his hand in mine burns.

When he speaks my name, like an ancient call that had been forgotten, I snap out of my trance and recoil my hand

His expression twitches at it.

"How can I help you, my lord?'"

Dream presses his lips at the sound. He appreciated the reverence, the acknowledgment, but he was not 'my lord', he was Dream.

"You may call me Dream," he says.

My brows raise in bewilderment.

His expression slips because of it and quickly adds, "it has been a while since we last shared company, but I assure you, I am not fickle; change is a momentous occurrence for me. My feelings for you has not faded through time."

Feelings.

"Yes," Dream nods, "my feelings."

I clench my jaw shut. My blood rises up my neck when I realize I said that out loud.

My breathing is taxed when I shake my head, "what do you want?"

His brows knit at the sudden harshness of my tone.

I heave, mentally cursing myself for being so translucent.

In the silence that thickens between us, Dream's expression begins to shift when he tries to find reason to my words. He allows himself to relax slightly, "I wanted to ask how you have been."

My jaw slacks.

"You look well, as always," he places his hands behind his back, "but I know better than to assume one's temperament, especially when I have experienced some world bending things in the past century."

I am dumbfounded by his words, and it is suddenly clear to me why he was acting like this, why he was acting like nothing had happened between us. He looked at me like this because he does not remember our last meeting. My broken and bloody confession. I chuckle bitterly, and he says his feelings have not changed. He has forgotten me.

I don't know what hurts more, that he is treating me with such friendly indifference in spite our unsavory final conversation, or that fact he blocked out the memory from his being altogether.

"Are you stupid?" I mutter under my breath.

I was unsure if I wanted him to hear me when I said it, but hear me he did. It was clear with how his face contorted.

I grip my hands as I feel my throat constrict, "or perhaps," my voice breaks as it gets a level louder, "you're only heartless."

Dream tilts his head as anger laces his features. He speaks my name as though it was a warning, confused, insulted.

"We're not friends, Dream," I quip, feeling my emotions betray me when my eyes fog with tears. I helplessly mumble, "we were barely even lovers."

The sound of my breathing makes nips at him.

I knit my brows and grip my hands, "your feelings for me don't exist," I shake my head, "not in the way you think."

His brows tighten. He steps forward, calling my name.

It sends me reeling. I shake my head quicker, "you do not feel for me! You didn't then, and you surely don't now."

"And how have you come to this conclusion?" Dream demands coldly.

"BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME SO!" I whisper-yell harshly, voice choking when tears begin to fall from my eyes. Dream's face drops. I laugh at myself, "and you've clearly forgotten it all after being imprisoned."

His face ticks at the mention. There is a darkness that flashes behind his eyes as he stares at me. He tightens in anger, it is palpable. Then all at once he is broken; he is ashamed.

My heart hurts for him, even still, after all this time. It's as though I am hearing the news all over again for the first time.

I grab his sleeve as I step forward. I turn to our feet because I cannot turn to him.

He perks at the sentiment, but it is fleeting when his gaze is not met.

"There was not a day that went by that I did not pray for your freedom."

When I find the courage to meet Dream's gaze, I cannot stop myself from catching his face and wiping his tears. To see him broken in front of me was torment. I knew well his reclusion to emotions, so to have him so vulnerable before my very eyes was a humbling experience.

It dawns unto me that in this very moment, I was doing the very thing I have always wanted. I was holding him in my hands. He was pouring himself out to me. And yet I did not want it.

Dream ghosts his hands on top of mine as his tear-laced lashes droop down.

"I hoped that you would find strength from my calls," I offer him a soft smile, "even though my musings are infinitesimal to your being."

He grips my hands, "that has no truth."

"Hasn't it?" I chuckle dryly, "you didn't even hear me."

His brows tighten further, "I was trapped. I could not hear anyone."

My heart breaks at his words, at his attempt to soothe me, to soothe himself, "we both know that isn't true."

I pull away from him, but he holds me back, calling my name.

"Dream," I mutter, "you have muddled your affections with familiarity. Your feelings now are just of that-- you are happy to see a face you have not seen in centuries."

He disagrees, "I am happy to see you because..."

When his words run dry, my heart is staked. My face contorts just as his does. He finally gets it.

I pull away from him and step back.

He does not like this. He watches me as I rub my face and offer a sad smile, "it's ok. I'm glad you remember now."

"No," he quips, "you are my friend."

I laugh.

I genuinely laugh.

Because it is ridiculous. It's pure ridicule. It's pure tomfoolery.

Yet as I gaze upon him, I find only sincerity written on him. It is maddening.

My lungs deflate, "maybe I was once... before I tore my heart out to you." I continue to step away from him.

Once I get too far, he begins making up for the space between us.

He raises a hand warily, "don't."

I shake my head, "I've spent too much time watching you fall in and out of love, wondering when I could have my chance because I know," I stab my finger into the air, "I'd never let you go-- would never hurt you."

He says nothing, there is nothing to say. He matches his strides with mine.

"You can't make me go through all that again. I won't let you."

When he says my name the next time, Johanna screams it as well from across the expanse, making me jolt.

For a moment, we are both frozen in our spot.

Johanna does not appreciate the silence. "KEEPER!" she calls, "I DON'T MEAN TO ALERT YOU, BUT I THINK I JUST BROKE SOMETHING."

I let out an exasperated breath. I run my hands through my hair, "Johanna!"

"WHAT? IT'S LIKE A MILLION YEARS OLD, YOU CAN'T BLAME THIS ON ME."

"Those documents are renewed every year!" I call off to the distance.

"..."

I huff and move past Dream.

I shove him off when he grabs my arm.

"Please," I offer him one last look, "enough of this."

He releases me, against himself, then mutters, "I do not want you to forsake me like the others."

My insides flare at his words. How dare he say this to me.

"I cannot forsake you, my lord," I say to him, although I do not spare him another glace, "because you have not had me for a long time in the first place."

I am undeterred by the flickering lights when I begin to make my way back to Johanna.

Once she catches sight of me, she rushes forward. "You can't make them hold back my pass b-" Johanna cuts herself off when she sees my face.

I sniffle and grab the ripped piece of paper from her hands. I look past her to see if she damaged anything else.

When I catch her face, she silently looks at me in concern.

I rub my nose on my shoulder, "work hazard."

Johanna's eyes dart away. Dream is there, looming in the background. It doesn't take a genius to put one and two together.

Her lips press into a line before she speaks, "like I said," she tilts her head, "an unfortunate fate."

[geminiskulleta]

It’s ok dw

BUT OOOOH MY BRAIN DID A THING

Ok. So

What if Lullaby in the child timeline (the timeline Time lives in now) is just a normal queen/princess? She doesn’t remember anything about OOT really and is just a perfect queen. She’s happy and cute and a little shy, and Time still doesn’t speak to her much and she is still Malons bestie…

But the Lullaby in my AU is actually from the timeline that Time left. And she loved him and he loved her, but she knew that she had to let him go. So Time gets over her and marries Malon, his true love, and Lullaby is all alone in the adult timeline.

(I’m just gonna call her A!Lullaby cuz she’s in the adult timeline and C!Lullaby is from the child timeline)

But basically A!Lullaby was sheik, Impa and her father died, Hyrule castle was destroyed, etc. and she had to become queen at 17 and rule all by herself. She misses Time every day and struggled to rebuild Hyrule, but she united all of the different races and made huge progress. She actually became good friends with Malon in that timeline too, and they speak with each other whenever she delivers milk to the castle. Sometimes she fights monsters as Sheik as well.

While C!Lullaby still has Impa, and her kingdom is living in prosperity. She knows Link but never loved him, and he eventually stopped speaking to her unless he had to because the memory of A!Lullaby was too much. She doesn’t understand why he left and sometimes wishes they could be friends but overall it doesn’t bother her. She does have a kingdom to run after all. She was never sheik and has SOME magic but not as much as A!Lullaby, she also grew out of having visions once ganondorf was arrested. Time still thinks about A!Lullaby sometimes, but he moved on from having feelings for her.

So when Linked universe happen Lullaby and Time reunite. And she is ecstatic, she runs to him and hugs him, and he backs away.. and shows her his wedding ring.

(🎵THE OOOOTHHHERR WOMAAAANNN🎵)

She’s shattered, but she knows how to keep a poker face so it’s ok. She’ll move past this.

Then she meets her alternate self, with her perfect life and perfect kingdom… and meets Malon as Times wife… and sees Impa again…

She’s basically the same as what she is now in my au, just from the adult timeline. She is a little more traumatised tho.. and much angrier at Hylia (when she sent Time back she thought she was rewinding time- she didn’t know Hylia would create a new timeline. So when she opened her eyes and wasn’t a kid again, she realised what she did.)

ALSO

imagine everyone is in her Hyrule and there’s a conflict that may start soon and water all over some of the streets in Castle town (SALT Water) and she says “ There has been a small flooding problem lately…” and Tetra and Wind just stand there in shock

@isasan347

OMG I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!! I CAME UP WITH THE BEST IDEA EVER OMGOMGOMG

[parksrway]

This is a coupon to ramble about your favorite character or oc as much as you want use it whenever

*grabs sheik by the collar and drags him up to the counter*

hi I'd like to redeem this

hehe blorbo hehe blorbo that's him that's him hehe that's my blorbo have you looked at him recently he's my blorbo if you didn't know hehe 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

no but fr sheik is SUCH a source of comfort for me. if I am ever sad I think about sheik. if I'm happy I think about sheik. if I'm mad I think about sheik. I literally am always thinking about him and I don't think a fictional character has consumed my thoughts quite like this weird little guy has

he's just. idk. I put a lot of myself into his character so that's probably why I'm so attached DHHDJFKSKDK

hmmm what to talk about what to talk about

hhhhh he's just my favorite

if I was asked something specific I'm sure I would be able to give an entire dissertation DJHDJFJSHFJKD

hmmmmmmmm

okay okay okay so at first sheik has a complicated relationship with link right

after the triforce appeared on his hand when Zelda reached out to him, he became resentful because well. he'd grown up thinking one thing and then suddenly he's some "chosen one" whose whole purpose is pretty much to be a human shield and die in the process. this uh. kind of pisses him off for multiple reasons.

so he's got a lot of repressed anger he's gotta work through and. because link is. well. link. sheik sees him as the reason for everything. and ends up sort of taking some of that anger out on him. but obviously it's expected of him to keep link safe so he's like constantly arguing with himself about it because he WANTS to be mad but he also HAS to protect him because if he doesn't then he's letting all of Hyrule down. so he just ends up being distant and cold.

but he's also distant because well. he's also not "supposed" to be close to the hero.

this is because he's. expendable. that's the whole thing. he doesn't need to be kept alive. he's there to make sure link doesn't die, by throwing himself in the way of danger and sacrificing his own life for the greater good. and if he and link get close, and something happens to him, that could throw a wrench in link's progress and slow everything down. so sheik keeps his distance. or he at least tries to

but link has a way of worming into people's hearts

because despite how unimportant sheik is and how much sheik feels he doesn't deserve it, link still shows him kindness. link shouldn't care about him, he's not supposed to, but he still does.

sheik struggles a lot with his self image. it wasn't very bad until well. the triforce showed up and his entire self concept was flipped upside down. before everything he saw himself as well. a part of impa's family with no strings attached. but after.. . ........ yeah it's not great. and it makes me SAD.

ooooh baby he hates himself BUT BUT BUT!!!! HE SLOWLY LEARNS TO VALUE HIMSELF MORE AND THAT HE DESERVES NICE THINGS AND IT MAKES ME EMOTIONAL COMFORT CHARACTER COMFORT CHARACTER COMFORT CHARACTER COMFORT CHARACTER COMFORT CHARACTER COMFORT CHARACTER COMFORT CHARACTER

[puns-parce]

tgcf 👀 also loz

Legend of Zelda

Blorbo - impa!!! any impa!!! all the impa!!! OR TETRA I LOVE TETRA SO MUCH

Scrunkly - yeta my beloved

Scrimblo Bimblo - daruk! his power up is useless but he is so!!! warm!!!

Glup Shitto - Gonzo. Gonzo my beloved. I go feral whenever I think of him.

Poor Little Meow Meow - master kohga or skull kid OOOOH OR TWINROVA

Horse Plinko - GROOSE MY BELOVED. SHAKES HIM BY HIS HORRIBLE LITTLE COIF BUT AFFECTIONATELY oh and of course link our tw!nk

Eeby Deeby - Tingle. No mercy.

TGCF

Blorbo - bet this comes as a surprise but. qi rong

Scrunkly - Feng Xin AND GUZI they are both so cute and shaped in different ways but looking at them provides me happiness all the same

Scrimblo Bimblo - Lang qian Qiu!! He is so interesting but he disappears and then we forget about him :(

Glup Shitto - Jian Lan I love her so much fjskfjskf get that child support and leave queen

Poor Little Meow Meow - Mu Qing since for some reason he's considered problematic but I will just tenderly hold him and stare at him obsessively. Also Qi Rong and Xuan Ji and Jian Lan and He Xuan probably IM SORRY I CANT PICK ONE

horse plinko - also Mu Qing and Qi Rong but now with the addition of both peis and the wind master and honestly like 90% of the cast they're all so easy and fun to torment

Eeby Deeby - Hua Cheng and Jun Wu and Zhu. Get in the Eeby Deeby. Get in there.

[ebonwinged-nova]

Breath of the Wild day one impressions, the really articulate version:

(Includes spoilers for the beginning of the game.)

(I will be referencing events up until talking to Impa at Kakariko for the first time.)

Okay so. I am really, really impressed with this game so far. I’ve purposefully kept my expectations low even after I saw enough to convince me that Nintendo handled changes made to the classic Zelda formula well, and now my mind is blown. But let's go through it chronologically.

After the initial waking up sequence I opted to go talk to the old man straight away, and here I have to mention, I got attached to him almost instantly. I don't know what it was, he just grew on me really quickly. (I also called him being the ghost of the king of Hyrule almost instantly.) Either way, he doesn't really tell you much at that point, so I went off wandering around until more story stuff happened.

I quickly got into a battle or two, with some chu-chus and bokoblins, armed with a couple of tree branches and an oversized axe. Gameplay feels fluid and the controls are tight, even though it took some time until I got used to the different control scheme. I also realised at that point that this game is herb picking paradise. I love it.

The game eventually guides you to raise the first Shiekah tower, and then the old man will prompt you to clear the first four shrines in exchange for his paraglider so you can get off the Plateau. And here I was really pleasantly surprised that the game let me fumble around, because you're supposed to find the shrines from the tower with the shiekah slate's zoom function and then mark them on the map, and I... don't really like the zoom function. It zooms in too much with no option to adjust and it moves too fast, so I had some trouble with finding them at first... but not only did nobody butt in to help you regardless of whether you wanted it or not, the old man even tells you that you need to learn to be self-sufficient if you talk to him about it. After the excessive handholding in Skyward Sword that was great.

One of the shrines on the Plateau is in a cold region, so I had my first experience with cooking and it is sooooo much fun. Watching the food bounce around with a little jingle and then Link's excitement at having made food is great and I love it and it also makes me really hungry because the food art looks delicious.

On the way to that shrine I died for the first two times out of... a bunch. Seriously. I died more often just today than I usually do in an entire blind Zelda playthrough. One was because I jumped into ice water (oops) and the other was when an enemy straight up OHKO'd me. People weren't kidding when they said this game is harder than other Zeldas—but it's also very forgiving with saves, so even with all the deaths that happened I've never actually lost any progress.

The first shrines themselves are brilliantly executed tutorials that don't look like tutorials whatsoever. They give your four shiekah slate abilities (bombs, making ice blocks, magnet and time stop) and then require you to solve puzzles using these abilities. It's very intuitive how you need to use them and it teaches you the basics of what you can do with them much better than some onscreen text could. The abilities themselves are really fun to use too, and they do lend themselves to really unexpected uses! There's an area on the plateau where a couple of stationary guardians will snipe you if you're not careful. I grabbed an iron door that was lying around and used it as a shield with the magnet ability. It was a bit finnicky because you can't turn the object you're levitating around, but it actually worked!

All shrines being done I went and met the old man at the ruined Temple of Time, where, unsurprisingly, he revealed himself to be the ghost of the old king of Hyrule from 100 years ago. At this point I was actually a bit sad, because as I mentioned I grew attached to him and as you might expect, he did not stick around afterwards. RIP, old man king, RIP.

Either way, he dropped some exposition on what happened 100 years ago and I... I'm really into it so far. Partly because the voice acting really adds to cutscenes, but also...

THEY'RE DEPICTING ZELDA AS A BADASS COMMANDER AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.

Seriously. She's the commander. Link's her sworn knight. She's calling the shots. She's the one going to face Ganon all on her own. THIS IS GREAT. I LOVE IT.

Also, Hyrulean mechas.

So yeah. After that cutscene I went and explored the rest of the plateau before leaving and promptly ran into the talus, then proceeded to run away very quickly. Then I timed my departure so I could fly off into the East into a beautiful sunrise (man, does this game have beautiful lighting), and then completely ignored the directions the old man gave me and wandered off in search of cool things. And ho boy did I find them.

The world is teeming with details and things to check out. I was worried about that becase some of the footage made the game look a bit barren, but I've almost found myself wishing there was *less*, because it just. Never. Ends. I keep finding more stuff. It's the ultimate OOOOH SHINY experience. Thank god for map marking.

I found my way to the outpost stable that I think they showed on Nintendo Treehouse? I like that the NPCs say a thing as you walk past. Adds a bit of life to them. I also really like that the game tracks sidequests. It would have been a pain to remember the tiny errands they want you to run. I went and tried to tame a horse nearby, but the amount of stamina you start out with doesn't seem to be enough, so I gave up and moved on.

From there on I wandered around more or less aimlessly. There's so much freedom in navigating the environment that it's just really fun to travel around. I did a few more shrines (they really are everywhere), I saw a lot of cool things like accordion playing birds and cute foxes to murder in cold blood and a centaur that murdered me in cold blood... Because death is just not a big deal, I never had to worry much about consequences and did whatever I felt like. It led to a couple "I immensely regret my decisions" moments (like the time I jumped right into a bunch of guardians—that ended just as well as you might imagine) but that was a lot of fun too! This is a game where you can feel free to try out whatever crazy thing you think of and aren’t punished for it, I think.

I did eventually make my way towards Kakariko, like the old man said. I don't *think* you were supposed to climb straight over the mountain, but hey, YOU CAN DO THAT NOW. It's awesome. Link is basically spiderman. See that surface? You can climb on it. Even if it’s a solid ice block.

Kakariko turned out to be a very Japanese-looking village. I wasn't expecting that, given how Kakariko looked in past games, but I don't mind at all! It's very pretty. I encountered my first shops there and the way shopping works is really immersive. You don't select items from a shopkeeper list, they're displayed in the store in correct numbers, and if you don't buy the entire stock only the corresponding amount of items vanishes. I love that.

The player economy in this game is a bit... different. It doesn't seem like you can find rupees as easily anymore—I couldn't find any outside of some treasure chests. You can sell any items you collected though, and they do fetch quite a bit of money, so I assume they intended that as the main repeatable way of getting money. I like it. Makes more sense.

The music in this game takes a very different approach. It's mostly confined to stray piano notes or chords (although I haven't exactly seen a lot of it yet, so other areas may be different in this). Amazingly, this didn't strike me as odd or out of place in the least. It just makes the game all the more immersive.

So! There you have it. These are my day one impressions, or at least the ones I can still remember.