#anyway hi meet my rabbit blorbos

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I've been marathoning the Hero of Legend's games and writing up a character study so I'm going to inflict a preview of that upon you.

First, games: I think the general agreement is that the Hero of Legend's games are A Link to the Past, Oracle of Seasons/Ages, and Link's Awakening (with LA before or after Oracle).

Linked Universe (and I) add A Link Between Worlds (which canonically has the same Link as in Triforce Heroes). In Nintendo canon, ALBW is likely a different Hero because the descendants of the sages you rescue are different, there are references to ALTTP happening a decent amount of time in the past, and there's one elderly character in ALBW who might actually BE the Hero of Legend. Ultimately though, it's not 100% clear or confirmed, so for the purposes of this write-up I'm going to add ALBW specifically because of the theme: Greed and Selflessness.

In Konjaku Monogatari, a book of Japanese folklore, there's a story of an old man begging for food from a monkey, a fox, and a rabbit. The monkey offers fruits and the fox offers a fish. The rabbit, however, couldn't feed the man grass like it ate, so the rabbit throws itself on a fire so the old man can eat its flesh. The old man, a moon god in disguise, rescues the rabbit from the flames and carries it to the moon as a reward for its selflessness.

Keep this in mind.

Link's story opens with him running into a stormy night with naught but a lantern to find his uncle dying in the castle culverts. Link is shortly after branded as a criminal for "kidnapping" Princess Zelda after he rescues her from the castle dungeons (and from Agahnim—Ganon in disguise).

Link gets set on a quest to first find three pendants to access the Master Sword and prove himself the Hero of Legend. Zelda and the descendants of the Sages are banished to the Dark World, where Link rescues them and eventually defeats Ganon himself.

The Dark World was formerly the Sacred Realm, where the goddesses left the Triforce. When Ganon broke in and wished upon it, his greed warped the Sacred Realm into the Dark World. Others followed seeking the Triforce, and all are transformed into creatures reflecting the greed in their hearts (notably, a lot of monkeys and foxes).

You hear this story throughout the game and it repeatedly hammers in the theme: greed corrupts. Greed is Bad.

Link is posed as an foil to Ganon, the selflessness to Ganon's greed. When Link enters the Dark World, he's transformed into a rabbit. His true form is a prey animal that can only run from predators, but most importantly his true form is considered a selfless creature in Japanese folklore. The connection is made more evident when it's the Moon Pearl that allows Link to maintain his Hylian form in the Dark World.

After defeating Ganon, Link has an opportunity to wish on the Triforce himself. You could argue that the truly selfless thing to do would be to not wish at all. That defeating Ganon should have been enough. Wanting—wishing—for anything could be construed as greed.

Link wishes anyway.

I don't think we know the exact wording of Link's wish, but it undoes the damage Ganon inflicted on Hyrule and the Sacred Realm. Link's uncle and the king are restored to life and people lost in the Dark World return to Hyrule. The selfless Hero's greed was rewarded.

Sometime after, the Triforce calls the Hero to the castle. When he arrives, he's sent to Holodrum (OoS) or Labrynna (OoA).

The order isn't critical. What matters about these games is the tone compared to A Link to the Past.

In ALTTP, Link is on a solitary adventure. He just lost his uncle. His face is on wanted posters. He's alone the entire journey save for a few visits and telepathic messages from Sahasrala and Zelda.

In Oracle, Link can't walk fifty paces without tripping on a new friend. He meets the Oracles themselves, Zelda's nursemaid Impa, the animal companions Ricky, Dimitri, and Moosh. He becomes a frenemy to Maple, the witch's granddaughter. Ralph and Link cross paths multiple times during Oracle of Ages. Link names a village couple's child.

I think in these games, Link learns to love adventuring. He learns how to dance from Din, the Subrosians, and the Gorons. There are a ton of mini-games. Even if lives are at stake, Link can have fun on this adventure.

In the end, however, Ganon is (partially) revived and Link has to defeat him once again. He saves the Oracles and Zelda and leaves on a ship for another adventure.

Lightning strikes his boat, and Link wakes up on the island of Koholint. He meets Marin, who found him on the beach and brought him to her father's home in Mabe Village.

Ever since Link appeared, monsters have grown more agitated on the island. An owl tells Link he needs to find the Instruments of the Sirens and wake the Wind Fish, or he'll be unable to leave.

The difference with this adventure is that there's not really a time limit that you know of. No one's been kidnapped, no one's being sacrificed to revive Ganon. Link is on a tropical vacation of an adventure. He even goes on a date with Marin (who is a much bigger gremlin than I expected).

The village and island are idyllic. Still, Marin wants to see the world. Her father doesn't believe there's anything past the sea, but meeting you gave her hope of a world outside.

But.

There are hints that something isn't right. Some of the creatures don't appear to be from the same world. There are owl statues with cryptic, nigh-incoherent messages. The first truly ominous one appears near the Ancient Ruins: "The Wind Fish slumbers long... The Hero's life gone..."

Within the Ruins themselves, there's a mural of the Wind Fish with a message:

"To the finder… The isle of Koholint is but an illusion. Human, monster, sea, sky. A scene on the lid of a sleeper's eye. Awake the dreamer, and Koholint will vanish much like a bubble on a needle. Castaway, you should know the truth!"

Link must wake the Wind Fish. When he does, Marin and everyone else on the island will disappear.

(In the 1994 manga by Ataru Cagiva, Link tries to build a raft to escape the island with Marin at this point. The currents pull them back in no matter how hard Link rows.)

"But, verily, it be the nature of dreams to end."

In the end, Link awakens the Wind Fish. The island fades. He wakes up adrift on his ship's wreckage. Link saves the Wind Fish by sacrificing himself—an act of "selflessness".

He's depicted as smiling in the end credits, but shh Nintendo is wrong. This is one of the most heart-wrenching endings to a game in the series. And after everything this Link has been through, I cannot imagine he's okay after this. His act of selflessness is his emotional undoing.

This Link is greedy.

I don't mean it negatively. This is a positive, protective greed. This is a greed that says, "these people are my people and I will throw myself in the flames to feed keep them." It's selflessness and greed rolled into one. In his first adventure, he went to the ends of the earth to get his uncle and Zelda back. In his second and third, he met dozens of friends and, once again, sacrificed his safety to bring the Oracles, Ralph, and Zelda home. His sacrifice is always in service of bringing his loved ones back.

In Link's Awakening, he loses Koholint. And there's absolutely nothing he can do to keep them.

Whether this same Link goes on to A Link Between Worlds is up to interpretation, but ALBW does add a bit more to this theme. Even if it's a different Link, there are strong parallels between ALBW and ALTTP.

ALBW's plot happens because Hyrule's parallel world, Lorule, lost its Triforce. Lorule's people fought over the Triforce in conflict after conflict until finally they wished for it to be destroyed. When the loss of the Triforce breaks the foundation of their world, Princess Hilda tries to steal Hyrule's.

Everyone in Hyrule has a Lorulean counterpart—their foil, similar in appearance but with a "flipped" nature. Not exactly opposite, but like looking at that character through a fun-house mirror. Hilda is cruel compared to kind Zelda, but both will do anything to save their people. The difference is where they draw the line of what's acceptable in pursuit of that goal.

Link's Lorulean counterpart is Ravio, the greedy, self-proclaimed coward in a rabbit outfit.

The primary adventure of ALBW is mostly a rehash of ALTTP in terms of dungeons, with the Dark World replaced by Lorule and the Seven Maidens replaced by a variety of new characters.

It's Ravio's presence that's the key element in this game. Ravio, in the guise of a traveling merchant, gives Link the bracelet enabling the game's core mechanic (merging into walls) in exchange for a place to stay. Ravio moves into Link's house, shoves all of Link's furniture against the walls, and sets up an item shop from which he RENTS OUT the magic items Link needs for the dungeons. Or Link can buy each one permanently for the low, low price of 800 rupees. If Link falls in battle, Ravio's bird carts Link back to his house and Ravio takes any rented items back.

When you buy all of his items, Ravio's stays in Link's house just lounging and enjoying life. "You know, it's been WAY too long since I've been in a singing mood. But I've got a new outlook on life, and it's all thanks to you, Mr. Hero!"

The truth comes out. Ravio was Hilda's servant in Lorule. When Hilda and Yuga hatched the plan to steal Hyrule's Triforce, Ravio fled into Hyrule to find a Hero to stop it, thinking himself too much of a coward to do anything (and not realizing that in this act of betraying Hilda, he showed more courage than most).

Ravio convinces Hilda to let Link and Zelda return to Hyrule with their Triforce. He pleads for Hilda to take the selfless course of action.

"Lorule may be doomed, but at least our kingdom won’t be condemned for stealing their Triforce."

When Link and Zelda make it home to their world's Sacred Realm, they immediately reach for Hyrule's Triforce and wish for the restoration of Lorule's. The greedy merchant's selflessness is rewarded.

Link and Ravio are two sides of the coin of greed and selflessness. Which character is on which side? It's the same coin, anyway.

Okay Link fans I need help. I have my Link/Zelda game that I’m specifically fixated on (that being Wind/Wind Waker), but I want to be able to write/understand other Links with the same amount of care that I give to him.

So if anyone who sees this post has a Link who is their favorite little guy (you’ve played his game(s) multiple times, you’ve made a bunch of headcanons about him, you think about him all the time, etc etc), I want to hear your perspective on that Link. I wanna know what you think his general personality is. I wanna know what you think he was like pre-journey(s). I wanna know how you think his journey(s) affected his development. I wanna know how you think the themes of his game(s) intertwine with his character. I wanna know how you view his significant relationships. And I wanna know anything else about him that you would like to share. Any information/ideas are appreciated, just absolutely go off ^_^

[felipe-v-fanblog]

My Questions:

If you had the chance to meet your favorite historical figure, what is the first thing you would ask them?

What is a trait you share with your favorite historical figure?

Who is Isabel de Farneso? because Idk much about her except the fact that she is ambitious.

im always happy to talk to you :3 makes me happy.

long ass post as usual (this is to be expected when handling with me):

1.IIII i guess people would expect me to say that felipe v is my favourite historical figure, but I dont like him in a historical way, he is just my blorbo. My favourite one is Louis XVIII as he was a really good king, I would say the best France ever had (I would say the only good one they ever had), and I dont have any questions about him because I went down the french rabbit hole. But I have been hyperfixating on Robespierre lately and there is not much known about him in his intimate life and thats something I would really want to know because I am a communist.

2.III with Louis XVIII hehe we are both INTPs 5w6 and gay and pretentious whores. tbh he was a meanie and that was very real from him. he was a very pathetic whore ngl i love him but he would be today a sassy whore. its so funny to talk about him like this when everybody knows him as the soon-to-die king of the bourbonic restoration but eh he has a very wild story behind. he is my favourite part of the marie antoinette story along with his wife. wild stuff. anyway i share more traits with christian vii of denmark. i love him he is my son

3.Ah finally infodumping. I always expect people who like Spain to know her I am sorry if I talked about her as if everybody knows her iii when I think of Spain I think about my best friend who is from there and about the habsburgs and the catholic kings and Isabel de Farnesio (also known as Elizabeth Farnese or Elisabetta Farnese) . Of course she was the second wife of Philip V of Spain and the last princess of Parma and Piacenza from the Farnese family which you may know them as they come from Carlos I and V of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire (the habsburg guy) . I always expect people who likes habsburgs to like all habsburgs at least the classic ones so ! i will guess you already know him and are aware of his life. She is also related to one of the popes from that time, I cant remember which one, and very important italian nobles which I cannot remember right now. From her childhood she was a very kind and smart woman and all her family loved her. Very important character here is cardinal Alberoni which back at the time wasnt a cardinal but worked for the duke of Parma which was the uncle or the father of Isabel (I cannot tell which one was duke at the time Alberoni was there but it was probably her father) . When the spanish war of succession begins Louis-Joseph de Vendôme is sent to work for Spain and his troops are set in Italy to stop the imperial troops from the territories that back at the time were spanish. So the duke of Parma goes to nicely ask him if he could take his troops out of his territory . as to which vendôme shows him his ass ? which is a power-move for me . so he sent alberoni to talk to vendôme because he got upset because vendôme was like XD lmao anyway alberoni and vendôme began a sexual affair from there which ended in louis-joseph taking him to spain and from there alberoni settling on Philip Vs court . when Marie Louise Gabrielle of Savoy dies (first wife of Philip V) he asks for a new wife and, the princess of Ursins, wanting to keep her power over Philip V, which she usually had over his wife as they were friends, eh Alberoni suggests to marry Philip V to Isabel. This is a nasty plot from Alberoni bc he already told Isabel that Philip V would easily let her manipulate him (he is malewife) . so eh the princess of Ursins thought that Isabel would be nice to her as Isabel would never be able to marry a king without her as she was a very not-rich princess. And so it happened and Isabel made Philip V push the princess of Ursins out of the carriage (literally, in the middle of nowhere) . Isabel de Farnesio is known for taking back the italian territories that Spain lost during the war of succession (may not be all of them, but they gained a lot, and she also made a lot of her children reign there) . She was practically the king of Spain during her time there until Ferdinand VIs reign. She loved her children a lot and her favourite was Filippo di Parma and Carlos III. She was hated by the spaniards and her step-sons as she also hated them. She liked to go hunting and knitting. She is also the one who gave the next bourbon-anjous the weird face (check out the names Ferdinando I de las dos Sicilias or Carlos III de España o Carlos IV de españa o infante Don Luis de Borbón-Vallabriga) . Is this everything about her ? I am having doubts but I read a big ass book about her this year so IIII could probably remember something about her later . may send you an ask about mariana de austria or felipe iv later ! with your permission and reassurance. maybe even talk about don juan josé. i would talk about don juan josé all my life.

[diagonal-queen]

HI STILL NIGHTGOWN ANON. im a silly little fella. I JUST SAW THE OTHER POST. IM MOTIVATED. IM GLAD YOU LIKE THE IDEAS! ILL TRY AND THINK OF MORE.

- i see... so you have showed poe popipo?? alright next up on the chopping block: 'AaaAaaaAaa'

- i personally LOVE rabbits. Just imagine little karl with little holland lop bunny :) OKOK THATS MY PERSONAL PREF HAHA

- imagine reader is a fellow writer, and they meet at like.. this writing convention or something like that, going to like the same publisher/editor?? thats how they met

- what if you met through ranpo? again, reader also writes and has like weird ideas and hes like: i gochu. i introduce you to racoon man! you: .o. hes perfect.

- reader reviewing poe ideas and just being like: bro that wont work r u stupid

- reader sitting on poes lap while he writes and complaining about him writing too much

- poe gets a hand injury bc he writes too much and reader has to take care of him (babying him)

- poe and ranpo have 'friendly' playdates (although they like to call it a debate between skills) and reader like you said, is the mediator between the two.

- reader and ranpo are besties. poe being the sugar daddy he is, buys reader everything they want. reader then proceeds to take all snacks and stuff to share with ranpo. poe then has to monitor both of their sugar intakes because... well...

- poe babysitting reader and ranpo

- ranpo babysitting reader and poe

- trio being unsupervised (jk kunikidas there to save the day)

- ranpo dies and reader uses poe as therapy/replacement. poe accepts their date proposal because he liked them. OF COURSE RANPO WOULDNT DIE THOUGH BC HES TOO SMART I LOVE HIM

- vice versa. poe dies and reader uses ranpo as therapy/replacement. ranpo accepts their date/proposal because he had his eye on them. SAME THING THO HES TOO BABY TO DIE

IDK these thoughts came randomly to my head while i was writing them. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF MY LOVE! ❤️

nightgown you're like a stray cat that shows up every now and then but instead of me giving you treats you're giving me headcanons and i appreciate it because poe is the blorbo ever 🤧 i love all of these so much WHAT

poe can't get behind miku he'd be like 'BUT SHE'S A ROBOT ON THE COMPUTER. HOW CAN A ROBOT BE REAL' 'no edgar she's a vocaloid' 'THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE' lol, also poe lowkey really does seem like a bunny type. those rabbits are very cute <3

it would be very cute if poe and author!reader met because they had the same publisher but it would also be adorable if they met at a convention that they were both featured at and they were like huge fans of each other, so all the bookworms there who went to meet you and poe just watch the two of you awkwardly interact ksjskskjs

there are SO many ways you could fit ranpo into a poe x reader. i've written myself a little bit of a 'ranpo with a younger sister who likes poe's books meets him and falls immediately' already lmao but ranpo, knowing that poe can be awkward sometimes, would probably deadass just lock you two in a room with a bunch of pens and blank manuscripts and be like 'go on then' LMAO

poe's books and poems are basically always a hit but when he's tired and suffering writer's block some of his manuscripts are a bit iffy. you've had to help him out of his slump a time or two. get all the terrible drabbles out of his system before he finally presents you with another banger of a novel. don't be too relentless with him though he might cry

and of course the beloved poe scenario where reader is like 'POE STOP' and he's just writing light yagami style like 'NEVER'. he won't stop if you sit in his lap or complain though. he is a hard worker and very creative, and much like myself must get his ideas out or he'll forget them immediately. maybe if you manage to distract him somehow? put on the nightgown JYGSJKHKKJBRKTW IM SORRY

if he hurts his hand...imagine poe being so sad because he's physically unable to write- he'd definitely try anyway, but you need to be like NO, BAD. you do get to spend a bit more time together than normal which is nice, but once he's healed it'll take a miracle to pull him away from his desk

trying to be the diplomat for these two would be a nightmare. ranpo's silly, poe's awkward, they're both bickering ;-; at least if you team up with ranpo you can convince poe to buy the two of you candy (he really doesn't wanna, but...T-T). you two are far too excitable and talkative for his own good. on the flip side, ranpo would just give up taking care of the two of you immediately because EUGH romance and EUGH being quiet and EUGH socratic circles lmao

also you three are lowkey a menace to society. like in all honesty you solve crimes together and work towards a safer society but also, two chatterboxes being followed around by a tall awkward man wearing a cape and accompanied by a raccoon? yeah.

i would HATE to write a fic in which either of my beloved boys die but picture this- you're dating poe and he dies somehow. you and ranpo are very sad, you bond a little more after his death and eventually begin dating. it's been a while and you and ranpo are still together, but then poe reappears out of who knows where and sees that you're dating his best friend... (vice versa works too- either way it's the WORST)

[fandoms-of-a-random-existence]

You know what! I will accept that I am most certainly biased as the player of Raevyn but fuck it we ball. Time for the Raeran Weirdest Couple Propaganda Post!! Because if not me, who's going to make this!! (.....okay i'm lying given the distribution it's not impossible for someone else to do this but LOOK I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY'RE SO-)

Just as a concept! Escaped lab experiment who went to Disney Villain Anime Boy Gacha Game Academy x Robot Dreamwalker With Mommy Issues (Shout out to fucked up evil mad scientist Dr. Milf! help we've called her that so much in ooc i can't think of Moiras as anything else) And don't worry about the implications of this Loyal Son working for his evil mad scientist "mother" (she does not see him as a son. just a creation. also hates aer. Almost everyone does. Guy who sucks and commits atrocities <3) dating an escaped lab experiment there's absolutely nothing to worry about there [sideyes [REDACTED] arc] it all works out in the end!!

Even their first meeting! Gayboy wanders into Raevyn's mildly unhinged dreamscape and gets the "follow the white rabbit" experience! Going through mirrors and finding aerself in coffins and hedge mazes and hopscotch over open voids and musical stairs! All of which is perfectly normal (NO) and then they finally meet and flirt a bit by dancing on tables right out of the gate until they're attacked by the memory of a phantom! You know how it is!

Raevyn literally loses their head! (That one just picks it back up and reattaches it as Zoran offers to help but "oh! well, I see you've got this handled!") and now they're fighting together and flirting by showing off in increasingly dramatic ways whilst still beating the phantom and its card soldiers up! But do they acknowledge that anything about this situation is in any way abnormal? Of course not! (Genuinely finding screenshots for these two being weird is so hard bc they're always playing it seriously) But now they have one crown! Which is only enough for one of them! And so they immediately commit themselves to a Dream Heist so they can be a matching set!

I need to impress that this is literally their first meeting.

Also that Raevyn had recently promised Zoran's sister that if the person she was speaking about (Zoran, but Luci never mentioned aer by name) ever showed up that one'd run him over with their motorcycle.

They're insane to me /aff

They spar gayly offscreen and one time Saluci came in and kidnapped Zoran from Raevyn's dreamscape in the middle of one these spars (to make him pay for Crimes. Or something. He's a fucked up pathetic sopping wet little meow meow do i look like i keep track of all the atrocities he commits-)

Honestly there's probably a lot more but it's a low spoon day and I have Arrangements that start in [checks time] approximately 10 minutes but I want to get the blorbos out into the world before tumblr deletes my draft!

Anyways!!!! Vote Raeran weirdest kitc couple sweep ooooooo you want to vote for them sooooooo bad /j

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