#i cant remember where i heard it but like. i think the rito appear as enemies in the tloz 2 the adventure of link

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Even more Tears of the Kingdom thoughts (SPOILERS)

I cant figure out how long after Calamity this game is set. It's got to be at least some years, everyone else has changed but Link and Zelda

Link and Zelda have lived this time together in Link's house in Hateno <<33

Their Well holds Zelda's secret room

Also yes every well in this game has something so my favorite thing rn is just jumping into wells

Zelda had a school built to Hateno because she loves kids

I hate how so many people in this game who should know who Link is dont know him

You mean to tell Ive been living in Hateno for years and no one recognises me

Zelda is still referred to as princess which implies she hasnt allowed herself to be crowned queen

Ive spent like three hours just strolling in Hateno

I did get the camera and my enjoyment of the game has increased tenfold

HATENO TECH LAB HAS A RUINED GUARDIAN I REPEAT HATENO HAS A GUARDIAN REMAIN

Im so excited I missed seeing these everywhere

Purah's room has drawings of them and the divine beasts

You can just pick up the koroks who need to be reunited w their friends with ultrahand and carry them wherever they want to go. They also roll down hills

Me @ the forbidden ruins in Kakariko: "Let me in, let me innnn"

SIDON HAS A FIANCE

IM SO DISTRAUGHT

THEY SAW US SHIP LINK AND SIDON AND WENT "none of that here is his gf"

HUDSON HAS A DAUGHTER <<33

This game has cheese. I can die happy now

I am taking the elevator up every time I see a falling rock

Went to Akkala Citadel Ruins. Was looking at the views. SUDDENLY EVERYTHING GOES RED AND HANDS ARE CHASING ME WHAT THE FUCK

The way they dont let my boy have his long hair out on any fits is criminal. Could have tweaked the armor sets that much

Why is Zelda appearing everywhere and being an evil menace??? Zelda tf is going on w you?? Arent you supposed to be in the past

They looked at me, specifically, loving side quests more than my life and going "we have to give them more" and this is a good day

There's a golden horse???

Also I heard Yunobo is a dick in this??? Not my boy :(

I go to the Zora tower and there is a man nearly dead

ALSO OH MY GOD WHY DID ZELDA ATTACK KING DOREPHAN

Man was dying (Lets hope this doesnt age poorly because I dont think I could handle it)

So its been like five years at least since BOTW ended and like. Why does no one remember me and also where did all these new people come from that didnt exist here couple years ago?? Where were yall?? Having tea??

Kilton has a little brother <3

I should get back to the "first" main questline as in the Rito are dying in a blizzard but there's pretty flowers and mayoral elections

Did I already mention they did not nerf bows? They didnt and I love that, archers for life

Also I lost Hestu again and I need more inventory

I am afraid to venture into the Korok Forest

Stables are so fun. You get points from first visit, staying the night, registering horses etc AND THEY GIVE YOU REWARDS

I got the Traveler's Gear for General (my baby boy horse)

I found Big Horse and named him Babylon

Also saved this one guy stuck in a cave

Starting to get to a point where enemies drop 15-30 fuse power parts and life is getting easier

Ive activated like 20 shrines since I last did a bunch. I havent done them because what if I have to build vehicles (bad)

I miss cryonis

Havent done much in the sky tbh

I want my champions tunic. I however dont feel like going to the castle

Where the fuck is Ganondorf

I could always see him in BOTW I dont like this

I am kind of disappointed they didnt change the looks of old armor sets. HOWEVER. Cece's hat is all Im going to say. I wonder if I can wear that to Gerudo town

Im still a one shot to so many things

The Zora are dying (their water is turning into mud)

Gorons have malice pink eyes so dont trust theyre doing too well either

Barbarian armor fits so well with Link's messy long hair

Im still kind of shocked that the sheikah tech is just gone

How do I get into Hateno tech lab

Some of yall are actually building vehicles? Im avoiding that like the plague

Still salty about Sidon

I get taken for a little while and he gets engaged

His fiance did refer to Sidon as "my best friend"

The quote went "Im Prince Sidon's... oh forgive me. I am your best friend's fiancee"

She us cute but still

ALSO THEY MOVED MIPHA'S STATUE TO THE TOP OF PLOYMUS MOUNTAIN

THE ZORA'S DOMAIN STATUE IS NOW OF LINK AND SIDON

Why cant I marry him

Sidon carries Mipha's trident now (sobs)

When you meet him he goes "Its good to see you my friend" so happily

"By the way... I hope you know that I am truly happy to see you again after such a long time apart, my dearest friend"

I sobbed

He loves us so much

Just go visit him

Sidon wont marry me and Sonia and Rauru are married, cant a man find some love in Hyrule

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(part 1)

“Please - Skull Kid, can you- Fae-doll!”

The child stills their excited bouncing.

“Please don’t move so much,” Hyrule asks -- no, begs them. “I can’t do the basting if you keep jumping around like that.”

“Why not?” they ask.

He fights to hold the still somewhat separate glove pieces together on their little arm: “Because I don’t want to stab you with the needle while I do it.”

“Oh, I won’t feel it,” Skull Kid assures him.

“I’d rather not take any chances.” the traveler replies.

The imp hums unhappily (though a bit too dramatically to sell the emotion as real), tenses the little scrawny legs and finally sits back down, not moving another muscle. The healer huffs, a little smile breaking the concentration of his face, and focuses on the waves the rough thread draws on the underside of the fabric as the thin metal tool pierces it before emerging again. He gets the first of the gloves ready in about ten minutes, fifteen if he’s being slow; as the child flaps it experimentally, he moves to the other one, beginning to work its left side.

He’s not even halfway to the wrist that the arm flies upwards, escaping his gentle grip, and in an infinitesimal moment of panic he nearly sews right through it.

“Skull Kid!” he reprimands, “I said don’t move!”

The child remains blissfully deaf to his words: “It’s the wrong side up,” they say innocently, grazing the fabric. “Did you know it’s the wrong side up? The glove is inside out like this.”

Hyrule catches their wrist again in an attempt to keep steady: “I do know that,” he replies.

“Why did you do it then? It’s inside out, this way.”

“Because this way, when I turn it back on the right side, it hides the stitching. You didn’t notice that on your old gloves?”

Skull Kid shakes their head. “I don’t think they had stitching.”

“Really? Where did you find them?”

They shrug.

“Did you make them?” tries then the traveler. Again, they don’t seem to know. He furrows his brow: “Then what? Were you born with them?”

“Maybe,” they concede, not sounding even remotely joking or bothered by their own statement.

“Maybe.” the healer repeats.

Except he sounds on the verge of a breakdown.

The imp’s free fingers rub on their palm, against the pleasant texture of the finished glove: “I don’t know. I wasn’t really born I think, but I don’t really remember not having them. Or losing them. I think they were burnt. Or maybe they withered and vanished away, like the other Skull Kids. I wasn’t paying attention when the gloves stopped being there so I don’t really know.”

Well, them coming into existence fully clothed wouldn’t be the weirdest thing about them, nor their wardrobe changing as it pleases without them even realizing it; so Hyrule can easily entertain both ideas and save himself a headache from trying to figure what exactly happened.

(He completely ignores the ‘technically not born’ part because very frankly he lacks the time, will and insanity necessary to unpack any of its implications.)

He manages to get past the wrist, beginning the basting along the forearm, and soon enough he’ll get to the proper part. The sharp mouth clacks close after a yawn; little fingers wriggle, ball up in fists, and then relax again.

“I think I missed them,” Skull Kid muses. “My gloves. Like my beak.”

“I didn’t know you had a beak.”

“I had feathers too, but no wings. Sea’s friend Medli has a beak and feathers and wings because she’s a Rito.”

“He’s friend with a Rito?” Hyrule interrupts his work to ask, dumbfounded, because he remembers very well that’s a second name of the Fokka, and as far as he can tell from his adventures a large hostile avian-person isn’t exactly what he would consider friend material.

But Skull Kid just nods: “She’s very nice,” they say, “She plays songs.”

Huh. Guess the sailor has a way to win over a murder chicken barreling towards him at high speeds. The more you know.

-

Truth be told, it had taken them a little before actually even just cutting the fabric. Not having any actual design in mind beyond “no sleeves” made for problems like not knowing how much cloth they would have needed and how much they could have left behind without the risk of mangling the whole thing into oblivion, making everybody’s efforts eventually useless.

In the end, through surprisingly civil discussions, they settle on cutting a pair of squares with holes for the arms and see where that took them from there.

Legend flaps them and smooths them over with his hands, then stops. He looks upon them for a few minutes, and finally from his mouth comes a meek, mortified: “Oh no.”

“What’s wrong?” the captain perks up.

The younger man hides his face in his hands: “I measured it wrong,” he whispers as if that was the worst crime one could have possibly commited. “It’s too long.”

“Oh, we can work with that! It would be a bigger problem if it was too short,” Warriors reassures him. “How much excess is there?”

The other holds up his fingers to show him.

“Hm... How much would that be in terms of Skull Kid length?”

“About eye-height.”

The soldier processes the information with a small lag.

“About what-height.”

Legend’s face completely disappears behind his arms: “I measured it wrong on both sides,” his quiet wail comes out muffled from its shield of skin and fabric, “First I included their legs in the measurements, and then I somehow cut the arms holes too low.”

Ok. That could be a big problem. Could.

Warriors checks the damage himself to see if he can do anything, brain-gears turning to figure out a solution. The idea of a scarf comes back to him - it could be a safe way to solve the conondrum without cutting away too much, but how... Meanwhile the veteran has curled upon the ground and begun giving long yowling sobs.

“I’m an idiot,” he howls inconsolably, “A mindless cretin. I messed it two times. In a row. And I didn’t notice it until it was all ruined.”

“Come on, don’t beat yourself up - it’s still salvageable...”

“Who makes two errors like that and doesn’t notice?! I must have not even been thinking for something this stiupid to happen! I shut off my damned head when I should have been paying attention and now it’s-!”

“What if...” the captain interrupts him. Words fail him for a moment: “Scarf shirt.”

The laments stop immediately.

Legend rises from the depths of his despairing self-deprecation to look up at him like he’s absolutely insane.

“Listen to me. It’s a scarf,” Warriors explains, “But it comes with the shirt. It’s stuck to it. Like... A really, really tall collar, but warm, and not open on the front or the back or anywhere else, and also not really stuck to the body? A little larger. We can make the actual collar loose enough and it should work.”

The veteran digests the halphazardly exposed information slowly, with a face that tells of uncertain understanding and wild confusion.

“We would still need to cut the excess on both sides,” he argues.

“Not necessarily. And! Even if we did, the waste would only be half the amount.”

Legend waits in silence for a moment.

He tilts his head, honestly impressed: “So when you remember to put your brains back in your thick skull you do actually have good and sensible ideas.”

The captain flips him off; he is (lovingly) flipped off himself.