#hyruin

[thelaundrypool]

"my lady."

knelt upon the sandy stone, sooga's head hung low. his subservience came above all else, his sense of duty extinguishing any kind of pride. to his subordinates, he was indomitable, a leader in the absence of their master. to kohga, he was whatever tool she saw fit. today, he was her master of spies, a prying eye into the gaping maw of the castle and its cruel occupants.

"reports have come saying that there will be a knights' tourney to celebrate the king's birthday within the next few weeks."

hyrule loved its festivals. sooga could not remember a single day in which he had not heard of some festival being planned--the 100 year festival for the minish, the new year festivals, dozens upon dozens of tournaments celebrating soldiers becoming proper knights. this was simply one more in a calendar of thousands--but perhaps, that could be leveraged.

"he will be front and center during the celebration," he continued quietly, his deep, throaty voice monotone in spite of the treachery he was to utter. "the soldiers will be preoccupied with a parade for him. it is, perhaps, the most vulnerable he will be this year."

@hyruin

[flockrest]

biggest strength as a roleplayer? / @hyruin

i’ve said this to you before, but i could genuinely shout from the rooftops about the level of thought you put into the worldbuilding & characterization of the rito as a whole, as well as your individual lil guys, until the end of the world. everything you write wrt to their society & community is fantastic, & it just feels like such a natural extension of the lore, to the point where when it’s not referenced in – game i’m like hm. something feels lacking here ! you’ve taken the foundation given to you, shored it up, & built an absolute palace of ideas on top of it, & it’s honestly fantastic.

that, & your sense of a character’s voice is absolutely unreal – when it comes to canon characters like tulin & molli, i can hear them, it’s the exact opposite of “they would not fucking say that” it’s they absolutely would say that & i’m dying to hear more !! & honestly, i think everyone who’s ever rp’d knows that sometimes it can feel like getting blood from a stone to get people to care about your muses, but you have gotten that one down to an art form my friend, i care about your little flock so much, i’m so overjoyed for tulin’s journey, i’m so excited to learn more about dineli, i’m so heartbroken for kido & all they’ve been through at all times !! & i haven’t even gotten into your actual PROSE, honestly !! you're doing an excellent job here friend, & it's such a joy & an honour to read your writing, & witness the magic !

blue. i am. i have. [spontaneously combusts] WAH?? i cannot thank you enough for this?!? oh my gosh. oh my gosh. oh my goodness. ohh my god i'm!! in genuine tears, this is just. the most thoughtful thing and it means so, so, SO much to me — these are words of such high praise, from such an amazing writer!! to know that you think of my content like this, my muses especially, TRULY YOU'VE BOLSTERED MY SPIRITS, oh my god?!

but can i just shoot this love back at you? can i just appreciate you as well?? i've also said this to you before, but the wild amount of dedication and passion you put into fleshing out your muses and building them up from canon influences still absolutely blows my mind! your dossiers are so deliciously rich with detail and lovingly personalised lore, even the ones you're still working on, and it's legitimately such a wonderful treat to see!!

YOUR WRITING TOO?? we only have one thread together ( that i thoroughly delight in! that my partner thoroughly delights in!! ) but i lurk on all your other ones and ohhh my goodness. your voices for each muse come through so clearly and you do masterfully with tone! when it hits hard, whaddaheck does it hit hard, and when you're going for that fluff, i'm like. melted into a puddle! AND THE HORRORS. THEY ARE SUCH TASTY, TASTY HORRORS EVEN AS I'M OVER HERE LIKE. NOOOOOO!! crying over your lovelies, thank you for crying over mine too!!

YOU ARE SO VERY KIND, thank you again for this! printing this out and pinning it to my wall so i can see it always, because this is seriously SUCH a massive boost of serotonin!! ♡♡♡♡ i'm so stoked to keep plotting with you, and writing with you, and interacting with you!! it's been an absolute joy and honour for me with you too!! AAAAAAAA

[vigilantdesert]

one, what otp(s) in your fandom do you just not get ?, five, has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you ?, & 11, is there an unpopular character that you like that fandom doesn't ? why ?

Welcome to the Salty Spittoon

So, again, caveat of I was the wrong age to play OoT for the full effect, but Link/Malon does nothing for me. I sort of get it in the sense that a lot of people love the childhood sweethearts angle and I do think the horse girl movie sense is cute, but neither of those do much for me. Part of it is that I'm used to working with Link in the context of "battle scarred man who can't even talk about what happened to him because it technically didn't happen in this timeline" and I have a hard time seeing him with happy-go-lucky Malon, but I really think my age is the major dividing factor again here. I didn't fall in love with Malon the same way a lot of people did when they played it first so she's as significant to me as any of the Kakiriko refugees.

I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I don't actually take shipping that seriously. I do write a lot of it, especially on here, but when it comes to canon pairings I've always been very live and let live about the affair. I think the closest that fandom's come to ruining a ship for me was Mrs. Lovett/Sweeney Todd back in the day, but that was a weird situation because I always saw it as just "hey wouldn't it be fucked up if" and the fandom romanticized the hell out of it. I'm all for writing awful people being awful together, but for lack of a better term, they woobified the relationship and I wasn't there for it. I ended up dropping it entirely anyway for something that started as a crackship, but that's a story for another day.

I actually thought of one this time! Ashai, who teaches cooking and courtship in Gerudo Town! Hear me out, she is an absolute HOT MESS but that's why I love her. I love her weird weeabooism for Hyrule, I love her "I accidentally had a boyfriend at 13 so now I'm telling all my 12 year old friends what true love is like" attitude, I love the nightmare of a love triangle she's in with Ishta and that random Hylian chef, I just think she's neat! I do understand the frustration with botw/totk Gerudos occasionally being obsessed with love quests, but I don't think that Ashai deserves to bear the brunt of sloppy writing in this case. She's a disaster and I love her.

[riwrite-a]

LINK ( WILD ). / @hyruin.

darkness. it's all he's known for a very long time. wretched radiance thrums far, far above him — but it's weakened in the last few months. something has happened to the stone likeness of hylia up in her temple on the surface. she's not gone, he can sense that much, but she no longer stands proud.

and with that, his restraints have weakened. now, he sits amidst the gloom, gathering strength in his humanoid form. that other blade, the one with the gaudy violet hilt and infuriatingly calm voice, she's not the only one who strengthens when exposed to power. traces of his master's magic swim within the dark substance, he's been down here with it a long time.

untold time has passed when footsteps echo through the endless caverns of the depths. he looks up with the bright white eyes of his unglamoured form, and the movement causes some gloom still on him to slide off his polished obsidian skin and vanish into the pool below. he expects to see one of the idiots running around down here who wear the sheikah eye inverted on their masks, or maybe another bumbling monster wandering too far from its companions. instead, he's met with messy blond hair and sharp blue eyes — almost reminiscent of a face he loathed lifetimes ago.

beside the sword spirit is the very sword he usually resides in, stuck jagged blade - down in the dirt and heavily chained in place there. he stands, and the chains rattle.

" you have excellent timing, don't you ? " millennia have passed since he last used his voice, but it doesn't sound at all like it. " it's been many, many years since anyone had the treat of seeing me like this. "

[gloryseized]

hyruin asked:

nonverbal starters. bandage ( patch them up when they get hurt. ) from ruins / botw zelda, for link !

Meme Tag -- @hyruin

He tries not to look too annoyed that this happened. It isn't that he doesn't appreciate her care over him after he'd taken a more direct blow than he was used to from an electric lizalfo, it is the fact that he took the hit at all. Wincing slightly as she applies a balm to the electrical burn on his left hand, he shifts slightly as his feet tingle as well, somehow hurting even more than his hands. Remembering something Zelda once said about lightning needing to find the ground, he realizes that something like that must have happened this time too--the electric blast that came off the monster definitely found the ground and if his hand already hurt, he isn't too optimistic about how his feet are going to look.

But he doesn't want to make Zelda look at his feet either. Attempting to distract her from worrying about any further injuries, especially at least where it concerns his feet, he reaches out a hand to cover hers. Once the bandages are finally applied to his left hand, he reaches up to tap his chin before swinging his hand forward slightly. << Thank you. >>

[oocca]

@hyruin sent : ❛ you know there's nothing i love more than a good boy time. you know i used to be the king of the good boy time. ❜ ( cadenza, for shanti ! ) // dimension 20: neverafter.

good boy time — yes, totally. shanti knew exactly what link meant : good boy time. that is, some good time between boys, which due to recent events, there was a serious total lack of in shanti's life. likely link's life too, thinking about it. he had fulfilled some huge, important duty with the whole curse that was placed over hyrule ( which apparently shanti had missed out on about half of that on behalf of a very long impromptu nap ), and now he was with the princess a lot.

not to say the princess of hyrule didn't seem like a radical young lady, but a boy couldn't have a good boy time with a princess ( unless a girl is also a boy sometimes but that's neither here nor there ).

"we should, like, have a good boy time," he drawled, "together."

although, thinking about it, that was likely the entire point of bringing up boy time in the first place. link's heart must have yearned desperately for a good time between boys. shanti pulled himself from the clear waters of the river that winded into the lake, shaking himself off slightly into the grass, lest he get link wet.

"yeah. totally. let's do some stuff," he decided then, firmly. now, some stuff was vague — he mulled over what stuff they could be doing for their boy time together.

shanti snapped his webbed fingers, as if he had an astounding revelation.

"dude, we should totally go surfing — i don't think i've ever seen you surf. it's all the rage with the zora right now."

[pestilight]

sundial / accepting / @hyruin ( Sonia )

the past always has its hands around your neck, doesn't it?

     There are things he doesn't know how to tell her. Beginnings he gets lost in, endings he can't find the words to tie up. Fragments of himself he doesn't know how to release from where he's clutched them, even as their edges cut into shaking palms and draw blood from tautened fingers.

     There are things, he's rediscovering, he doesn't seem to need to tell her.

     At this hour, the setting sun casts a beautiful afterglow. It limns her every contour in strokes of radiant gold. This is something new they've been doing — just the two of them: sharing spaces, savouring quiets, spinning stories with worn threads — but her eye for all that goes unsaid is not a novel development.

     "In a way," he says. Softly, as she had — which is certainly softer than he might have with anyone else, in any place and time else. Rauru does not have the luxury nor right to speak so lightly of these memories, monumental in their devastation, yet in the wake of those gentle tones...he does not feel so ashamed for indulging.

     Their voices are followed by the thin tremolos of songbirds in a dusk chorus. The fireflies will be emerging soon. They ought to be making their way back inside, but as he turns his gaze further down from her own, landing on a hand mere inches away from his, a want gently blossoms within the hollows of his heart.

     "However," he starts, chuckling, resting his hand closer. A small touch, in his littlest finger pressed against hers, "I like to believe that the future might have its own guiding hand in mine."

[bransles]

@hyruin​​ said : ❛   it’s dangerous to go alone. take me !   ❜   (   from cadenza / coh link !   ) // good fucking luck finding the meme.

old ruins of a forgotten hyrule thrust through the ground with seemingly complete disregard for natural law. the ivy - covered, ornamented walls and columns no longer carried any sign of mortal artisans. they only served as a landmark; a signal to octavo that he was nearly there. an old temple awaited him, once that only children would hang around just slightly past the entrance to test their bravery, before that ran out, and they insisted their parents would kill them if they ventured any deeper.

octavo had read that these sorts of places often kept hidden relics of old hyrule — namely what piqued octavo's interest were what was recorded to be instruments. whether or not that's what waited for him here, he had no clue.

regardless, it would be an interesting adventure for sure. monsters had likely made their home inside the temple's bones, but octavo prided himself that he could handle the measly chuchu or bokoblin. he rolled his shoulders, prepared to enter —

then, a voice calling after him. he jumped, nearly out of his suit from surprise, and quickly twisted his hip to look back at whoever had the audacity to actually follow him all the way out here.

it was . . . that boy from the castle. the one with the sword. the one who was paraded as being special. the one who was said to be hyrule's champion.

octavo frowned. why him?

"oh. you." he greeted flatly.

take me, he said. immediately, the words no, begone lingered on octavo's tongue, but he quickly swallowed them down; no need to be rude just yet.

"i am perfectly capable despite appearances, you know," he said, turning away from him back towards the entrance, "besides, i'm sure what i've set out to do here will only bore you."

well, maybe he could be of assistance? since he was offering. he turned his head, looking towards link from his peripheral.

". . . but, an extra set of arms and eyes might be useful. why do you want to tag along, anyway? surely you cannot be that worried for my well - being."

[dragmiire]

SENTENCE MEME. / / @hyruin

❛ i feel like i've been here before, haven't i ? ❜

in another life, he had. ganondorf remembered it, as if one hundred years had been nothing more than a sleepless night. dead and gone, yet, no rest was allowed for the chosen knight of hyrule, nor for the goddess's favorite puppet. by force had his soul been dragged up from wherever afterlife it had tried to drift away to, and thrust back into the broken corpse that had once served his kingdom until, battered and bruised, it could no longer endure the punishment of its cruel existence. but hyrule allowed no reprieves. no rest for neither the wicked, nor the heroic.

" perhaps in a dream, " ganondorf suggested, glimpsing up at the young man from beneath the shroud of his hood. dawn stretched slow over the plateau, and the flickering fire before him still served as the primary source of light with rising embers creating dancing shadows. they darkened the shade concealing his face below his hood, and only golden eyes stood out, glinting.

" you have slept for a long time, " he continued, and motioned for the man to sit. keen eyes study him constantly, watching, keen on understanding the unnatural technology that defied nature's laws to allow the dead to walk again.

somehow, even after a hundred years, link looked the same. aged by not a day, wounds healed to pale scars, and fit in spite of remaining in stasis for so long. by all accounts, he should have rotted by now.

" do you remember your name? "

[ateliaers]

usual weekend inactivity is getting my ass but my schedule for the next two weeks is pretty generous on the working from home front so you know what that means folks, endless procrastination & emptying out my drafts god fucking bless, hope yis are all having a good one in the meantime 💙

[flockrest]

mun(day) questions / @hyruin

what is your favourite canon muse?

i um. i can't choose. i can't choose sdlfkjf there are definitely some i would reach for first to answer this question over others, but i have? so many favourites?? i'm going to discount tp zelda because i've talked about her enough, i feel :'D

can i just cheat and say all my little guys? i have many, but most notably tulin ( and the crowd goes silent with non-surprise ), toothless from httyd, and young link from oot/mm ( i know i haven't spoken a word of him but he's my og son! at least in terms of the zelda series! i have no muse for him the way i have no muse for my queen, but if given the opportunity to write him again...! i'd take it! )

also, he's not a little guy, but honourable mention to revali for taking up a ridiculous amount of brainspace since i saw him and finally wriggling his way into a muse slot after all these years asflkdfj there is just so much to him. i actually don't read zelda fics ( don't ask me why when i clearly love writing for these games, i just don't ), but he and tulin are the sole exceptions to this rule...in that i have read like one (1) zelda fic involving them since totk dropped afkljsd but that means a lot coming from me!

who is your favourite OC?

i reached for kido immediately, but that may also be because he's the only oc i'm actively writing as of the moment? would dineli count as an oc? i mean. i've swiped him from nintendo at this point, he's mine now sfkldjfl i did used to write a zora oc for an affiliated group that i was fond of — that i would translate to vah ruta's first champion if i were to write him now, in an independent muse context...

ultimately, i think i'd stick with kido! something about your average kid being touched by world-ending tragedies that don't actually end the world, just his, and learning to heal from them, because there is more to life than what was first given to him. it's just very freeing to write with him, plus i've talked before about how i like seeking out the quieter narratives in any given media. it's also exciting to have him still be developing! it's very slow-going development, and i hope to stick around long enough with this blog to see it go somewhere, but i'm happy that it's there at all.

thanks for these, blue!! ♡

[vigilantdesert]

GET TO KNOW THE MUN .

what’s your phone wallpaper: The lock screen is Urbosa, the wallpaper is Nabooru

last song you listened to : Let There Be Fire by The Aviators and Miracle of Sound

currently reading : So many things uhhhh From Hell, Consensual Hex, and the Fiance Farce

last movie : The Super Mario Brothers Movie and it SLAPPED

last show: If we count podcasts it's Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City, if not it's Dirty Laundry, I've been on a Dropout TV kick

what are you wearing right now : Athletic shorts and a Detective Pikachu tank top

how tall are you? : 5'8 or 176 cm

piercings / tattoos?: Just the lobe earrings

glasses ? contacts? : Contacts in the day and glasses at night, I can't see for shit

last thing you ate? :Uhhhh I think pepperoni pizza

favorite color(s): Burgandy and Mustard Yellow

current obsession :I suppose Zelda in general? I'm caught between really gripping obsessions rn

do you have a crush right now? : yep, on my fiance!

favorite fictional character : this is a very mean question but Adele Blanc-Sec sdlkfs I love French Femme Indiana Jones sm.

last place you traveled : Kansas cause I'm boring lol

TAGGED BY : @sentinaels Thank you love! TAGGING : @zoranzeal @archaeval @npcharacters @adventuroushero @hyruin @hyruleir @gloryseized @bransles and YOU

[gloryseized]

hyruin asked:

❝ you must be still, you are grievously hurt. you will do yourself great injury. ❞ ( from mipha, for link, a clash of kings prompts ! )

Meme Tag -- @hyruin

Link's world was pain, explosive shocks traveling up and down his spine, arms and legs on fire. A sharp hiss escaped his lips before he ground his teeth together, trying to keep any further sound from escaping his mouth, because somehow making sound made everything hurt even more. And he could barely hold still, body not responding to his demands to do as Mipha bid, instead writhing back and forth to try to find a comfortable position that couldn't be found.

It wasn't until Mipha's cool touch against his shoulder sent another shock through his body, this one soothing instead of fire, that Link was finally able to still. A relieved gasp pried its way out through his lips as white hot tears sprang to his eyes. Barely managing to move, he tapped his hand to his chin, swinging his hand forward weakly. << Thank you. >>

But what had happened? Link couldn't remember. There was a monster, and it was threatening the young Zora. He had run forward to help and then... and then he couldn't remember. Confusion danced across his face as he tried to ask Mipha with a look, body in too much pain to sign further.

[oocca]

@hyruin // sc.

early mornings in castle time had entered a quietude and monotony, which some chafed at, but shad could only see it as a sign of the dust of anxiety and fear settling. calm were now the mornings of citizens with a sluggish churn of blood making their way through the blue morning fog to start their day. no fear of any horrors that lingered both within and outside of the town walls. a routine that was sorely missed by shad, to be frank. even if it did leave the resistance with not much to talk about in the way of the group's purpose — but wasn't that a good thing? isn't discussion of the mundane better than the brutality of the monsters that terrorized those who strayed too far in the fields?

it also, finally, gave shad the time to do something that he had been keeping swallowed down for some time; he wanted to wait until things were even calmer, and now that they were —

oh, but he still couldn't help but feel a tad selfish. link was his friend, after all. and shad did genuinely treasure the time he got to spend and talk with him! but . . . perhaps it wouldn't hurt to ask?

"link, old boy, good morning," he greeted him by the table, having sat there with auru until the sun had began to hang high in the sky discussing different blends of tea. "so nice to see you — always so nice of you to drop by the bar still."

really, sometimes he wondered why, but he wasn't about to curse it.

"actually, there is something i wanted to ask of you, if you don't mind . . ." he stood, but suddenly feeling rather shy about it, even though he had spent weeks gathering the courage.

. . . the worst he could say is sorry but no, right?

"you . . . do have access to the castle, right? i am not sure if that's is, ah, official permission or if the guards simply . . . just let you waltz right in, but —" he cleared his throat and pushed up his glasses. "i was wondering if you could, well, take me with you. specifically to the library. ah. if — if that's alright."

[evintide]

✧.   get to know the author !

name : zeta

pronouns : she / her

preference of communication : im’s via tumblr atm! i’m on discord but i am EXTREMELY shy so that is currently saved for mutuals at the moment.

most active muse ( s ) : as of right now midna is my main gal! though i’ve been feeling very tempted to pick up lumine since it’s been awhile. i have a few other muses that are burning a hole in my pocket (along with an oc or two) but they’re either a) a passing fancy or b) i feel... way too embarrassed to even think about offering them to anyone. LOL.

experience / how many years : as if i didn’t feel old enough turning 30 in June LMAO... i would wager at LEAST twenty or so years at this point, but i’ve had a lot of irl things that took me away from writing for stretches at a time during all of that.

best experience : hooo this is hard... probably back when i was writing in my original fandom and i found a writing partner with an awesome au that i just clicked with really with. we don’t talk much any more but i still care for them deeply, and i loved working off their ideas. we even had a single thread that continued for MONTHS. wild to think that i had the mental stamina for that! also i was in a group chat (same muse) and someone mentioned that our thread (albeit a short one) felt very in character and i was just. beyond touched at the time. small things like getting asks and stuff were always a big treat too! (and still are!!)

rp pet peeves : when people don’t give me anything to work off of. rp is a two way street, and while i know not every reply has to be a novel or move the characters in a certain way every time, if i’m left carrying the scene on my own it dries up my interest very quickly. also, not fully rp related but over complicated blog themes. i love themes! coding is absolute wizardry to me and people who can make and/or edit stuff beautifully are magic! but if i have to highlight the page to try and see where links are or have to copy/paste text onto a text document due to eye straining colors? nah dog. i’m outtie.

plots or memes : i ADORE plotting! not every detail has to be hashed out but getting a feel for the direction for the rp or if there’s some sort of idea you’d like to talk about and experiment through writing? LET’S GOOOOO!! though that can also easily be brought up or be inspired by memes so! kinda both? is that an acceptable answer?? i’m admittedly prone to getting super hyped to talk about plots and then... have my mind go blank from a stage fright response, LMAO. so having memes to work off of can be INCREDIBLY handy for me. the two more or less go hand in hand in my book!

are you like your muse ( s ) : yes and no? IT’S A BIT HARD TO EXPLAIN. but at  least one thing midna and i share is that we care very deeply but expressing it, especially through words is. very difficult. or we make it more difficult than it should be. :,D at the very least i know for a fact ALL of them would disown me the minute i started spitting puns (which is very, VERY often.)

tagged by. @hyruin thank you friend! ♥

tagging. @riwrite @twilitae @cyclebound @legendryhero @silenthime @calamight and anyone else that reads this! >:D

[godblooded]

what color character are you?

kitty valentine barbie

Red characters tend to be both quiet and observant as well as loud and dramatic. They are often brash and impulsive, and tend to act on instinct rather than planning ahead. They are quite self-sacrificing, often veering into self-destructive, and they push themselves to their limits trying to succeed. They tend to be stubborn, and it might take a lot to change their mind. They have a hard time expressing their feelings, and may come off as either emotionless, self-absorbed, or perpetually angry. They don’t have a ton of friends, and when they do, it’s often by circumstance rather than choice (although they grow to fiercely love their friends). They are not usually innately good at fitting into social situations, and can be awkward and out of place in them. They can come off as unhumorous because of how sincere and honest they tend to be, but tend to just have a dryer, sarcastic sense of humor. They do often think of others first, but their motivations for it might not be entirely selfless. They usually have a hard time conceivably lying, and are quite earnest without meaning to be.They put their full effort into what they do, and push themselves to improve at all costs. They get easily defensive, and feel like they have to prove themselves to earn anyone’s respect. They have a strong sense of internal morality and high standards for themselves. They also hold others to their internal high standards, which can cause a lot of conflict if not worked out. They tend to have bad relationships with their parental figures, who were usually either absent or abusive, and contributed to their toxic view of themselves. At their core, red characters want to be loved and accepted, but have often been denied it, leading them to build up lots of defenses. Others need to be patient with them and give them a safe space to be themselves as they open up and begin to flourish.

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