#and revali has destroyed 12 of the castle's targets every single one of them loaded with arrows at the center

[amiharana]

thinking about the champions fighting off a monster horde together and revali acting as link's support to make sure no monsters get the jump on him, but at some point he shoots an arrow near link with the intention of hitting a monster at the same time link turns his head to look at revali.

the arrow grazes link's face leaving a cut, and revali watches it all happen in slow motion, from the moment link starts to turn his head to the moment it draws blood and link winces. utter horror floods revali's veins so he knocks and shoots as many monsters around him and link as he can, then drops to the ground stalking over to link to check the injury.

he's snapping and spitting link for being an idiot and putting himself in the line of fire (and also gently adding healing salve to it), but inside, revali is completely horrified to have injured link. his aim is usually so precise and clean, he doesn't know how he could have made such a rookie mistake. luckily, it's a light wound... (but it could have been worse, a voice whispers in the back of revali's mind)

after the battle, they return to hyrule castle and after the debriefing with the princess, revali immediately books it to the archery range at the training grounds and starts shooting as many bullseyes as he can. his aim has never failed him, he's never hurt anyone like that, especially not link. he keeps replaying the moment link got injured because of him in his head... revali refuses to let it happen again, he can never inflict harm onto link with his craft like that ever again. he couldn't live with himself if he did.