#bludo's now in akkala

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LINKTOBER DAY 8: GORON CITY

Not featured here: bludo’s off in akkala because he and bolson company’s getting paid to work on architecture.

Very featured here: yunobo’s crippling anxieties only exacerbated by well meaning neighbors.

Definitely now my headcannon: bludo taught yunobo welding, and by the goddesses he's going to use that power for great evils (or goods)

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[ultcfanfiction]

After a week-long hiatus, Chapter 8 is finished!

After a harrowing escape, Zelda arrives at the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab with a severely injured Link. As Link recovers in bed, Zelda is forced to confront her growing feelings for her trusted knight.

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Past Link/Mipha (Legend of Zelda) Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Impa (Legend of Zelda), Paya (Legend of Zelda), Purah (Legend of Zelda), Mipha (Legend of Zelda), Prince Sidon, King Dorephan, Dunma (Legend of Zelda), Rivan (Legend of Zelda), Original Zora Character(s), Bazz (Legend of Zelda), The Yiga Clan, Minor Goron Character(s), Yunobo (Legend of Zelda), Daruk (Legend of Zelda), Bludo (Legend of Zelda), Robbie (Legend of Zelda) Additional Tags: post-BOTW, idk what's gonna happen in BOTW2 but this probably isn't it, Action, Adventure, Romance, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Rating May Change, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Zelda is rebuilding Hyrule, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Some Fluff, I literally have been writing this for like 3 years, Time to show the world, Like everything I write is based in this little fanfic universe lmao, Angst, Blood and Injury, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 1 of Stronger Together Summary:

Calamity Ganon has been sealed away and Hyrule can sleep safely once again. But the kingdom is in shambles and somebody needs to rise up to pick up the pieces. Zelda begins a journey of retribution, rebuilding the Hyrule that she called home into something greater than anybody could have ever dreamed. Link, ever the loyal knight, offers to protect her on her adventure.

But as they travel, the two begin to rediscover each other, Link to the young woman whose voice is his first true memory, and Zelda to the young man who laid down his life for her 100 years ago and now.

[returnerofthesky]

Exploring around the top area of Death Mountain was pretty interesting, all things considered. The sidequests are fairly interesting, but the problem is that with the lava and the way the terrain is set up, it’s sometimes hard to figure out where exactly to go.

Case in point, I got a request to fight an Igneo Talus, then stumbled onto it much later when trying to find a tunnel for a shrine-related quest and ended up nearly dying to it. Mostly it was my own stupidity though; stuff like trying to climb on it while it was superheated, and then I tried to use a bomb arrow and it exploded in my face from the heat and sent me straight into the drink. Then I realized that ice arrows were probably the best thing to use and after that it was a cakewalk.

That shrine quest was no slouch either, though. I got down to the end of a hill, then climbed back up, found a hungry Goron trying to bore out a cave and had to bring him rock sirloin, but then a bunch of moblins appeared on the hillside so I had to clear them all out. Nothing like getting smacked in the face and watching your chunk of stone meat roll all the way back down and also go straight into the drink, Sisyphus-style.

(The shrine, Greedy Hill, was particularly fun, though short and simple. Having a single slope that has both rupees and spikeballs rolling down is a goofy concept.)

After all of that, though, I headed into the next part of the main quest, in which I was tasked to find the Boss Goron’s helper, who had gone out to an abandoned mine and gotten stuck. This whole sequence actually was pretty alright, and it had the potential to be really cool... if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s not that clear that you can move the cannons’ position by hitting a lever. As in, hitting it with a weapon. I kept trying to push it and use magnesis on it and everything, and I had to ask a friend what the deal was to figure it out.

Kind of a shame, because the cannons are actually really cool - blowing up the monster encampments - even blowing up one of the giant stone skulls - was really rad. It wasn’t entirely new to me, since I’d actually blown up an encampment down at the halfway-mine and freaked out when it happened, but it still would have made things a lot easier if I’d known to just smack the things.

After meeting Yunobo - who’s not quite as charming as Sidon, but his goofy personality is still a lot of fun, and it’s a nice contrast to boot - I immediately met up with Bludo again (his painkillers didn’t work, rip) and then headed back to Yunobo in order to help gain access to Vah Rudania. We smacked the Bridge of Eldin down (Daruk’s face being “carved” into the underside of the metal was a really nice touch), and headed onto the center of the mountain.

Now this sequence, this was really good. The basic gist was that Rudania sent out a ton of unarmed sentries, and if we were spotted we’d get magma bombs dropped on our heads. Little did they know that I had gone to Akkala already and picked up a bunch of ancient arrows! I ended up using them all up on the trip, but it still made things much, much easier than they probably would have been otherwise. I couldn’t take down all of the sentries, but I took down enough to have a clean trip through with no alarms - and then we hit Rudania a few times with Yunobo serving as the cannonball, which sent it scuttling into the Death Mountain crater. And that’s where I left off this time!

[ultcfanfiction]

Chapter 7 is finally ready!

Link and Zelda enter the province of Akkala. As Zelda ponders the nature of Link’s place in her life, the two travelers encounter an enemy so fierce that it threatens to end their mission early...

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Past Link/Mipha (Legend of Zelda) Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Impa (Legend of Zelda), Paya (Legend of Zelda), Purah (Legend of Zelda), Mipha (Legend of Zelda), Prince Sidon, King Dorephan, Dunma (Legend of Zelda), Rivan (Legend of Zelda), Original Zora Character(s), Bazz (Legend of Zelda), The Yiga Clan, Minor Goron Character(s), Yunobo (Legend of Zelda), Daruk (Legend of Zelda), Bludo (Legend of Zelda) Additional Tags: post-BOTW, idk what's gonna happen in BOTW2 but this probably isn't it, Action, Adventure, Romance, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Rating May Change, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Zelda is rebuilding Hyrule, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Some Fluff, I literally have been writing this for like 3 years, Time to show the world, Like everything I write is based in this little fanfic universe lmao, Angst, Blood and Injury, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 1 of Stronger Together Summary:

Calamity Ganon has been sealed away and Hyrule can sleep safely once again. But the kingdom is in shambles and somebody needs to rise up to pick up the pieces. Zelda begins a journey of retribution, rebuilding the Hyrule that she called home into something greater than anybody could have ever dreamed. Link, ever the loyal knight, offers to protect her on her adventure.

But as they travel, the two begin to rediscover each other, Link to the young woman whose voice is his first true memory, and Zelda to the young man who laid down his life for her 100 years ago and now.