#astoria is <3 well um <3 cia and astoria have a vry complicated history. but it doesnt help that astoria COMPLETELY stopped her for a bit

[thebleedingeffect]

OKAY!! Okay okay, so, Cia's feelings towards the Zelda's and Hylia is extremely messy, but I'll answer every question one by one!

First of all, just a random note, but with my rewrite I would make Lana and Cia have the same dark skin because I completely agree that the differing skin colors is an extremely gross detail. There's no reason anyway for them to have different skin colors in the first place, so I can only assume that the character designers massively messed up in that department.

In a way, I believe that Cia is envious of how Hylia was able to abandon everything of her past life and was able to move to another. Cia doesn't view Hylia's actions as being some sort of grand sacrifice because ultimately, she found her hero didn't she? No matter how far she falls, through time or distance, there's a strange sort of comfort that is knowing you'll be saved even while trapped. Another part of Cia resents how easily she was able to abandon everything and I think Cia wishes she too could abandon all that she views lacking in herself, all of the weakness that plagues her.

Part of Cia desperately wishes she could, but even with all of time at her hands... she's also driven by anger as much as she's ruled by desperation. Cia is so angry, she's so, so, angry, so much so that she feels like something needs to suffer because the only time the pain ceases is when she feels that her pain has impacted something. The world cannot ignore her if she makes it pay attention, it can't cast her aside if she does something so devastating that it would never dream of ignoring her once again.

The sad fact is that I view Cia to be a tragic villain, this does not excuse any of her actions of course, but all of her thoughts and motivations are very understandable. Even if she continues to do such horrible things on such a scale to hyrule to individuals themselves- ultimately? Cia can't leave the toxic, horrid cycle that she's let consume her because she's as ruled as her new reality than the gilded cage she once inhabited. There's no such thing as... simply letting go for Cia, she can't, she refuses to, she will win what she has demanded for so long or she will tear the world apart as she's dragged down.

Part of Cia wishes she could start over, have known what it was like to be loved by such simple, adoring love, but that time has long since passed.

Cia has... extremely complicated feelings towards all the Zelda's, some of them resemble Hylia more than others, Lyre and Astoria specifically, but ultimately she views them as moreso twisted mirrors of Hylia. The Hylia that she knew is gone, now just the slivers of the goddess live on in the Zelda's shadow as they more and more become different than the other.

Cia does hate all of them, for the obvious case of Hylia, but she has a particular hatred for Lyre and Coreulea. Out of everyone they resemble Hylia the most and they're also the ones with stories that most closely resemble the dreams that haunted Cia for years.

Ultimately, she does view them all as separate people who are just overshadowed in the various hues that Hylia painted over them. As time goes on, she eventually develops individual hatred for each Zelda as tensions rise higher and higher with no end in sight.

Hiiiiiiiii how would people feel if I posted something that was a complete rewrite of Cia’s character? ^-^