#it was Riju who took the oil

[needs-to-stop-looking-at-yigas]

A request for something that might be hilarious: Sooga railing Kohga hard and dirty, as is tradition, but there's someone stuck in the room (snuck into Kohga's room to grab/steal something and hid in the closet when the husbands came in or something) and forced to secretly spectate. Cil, Von, Zelda, Revali.... doesn't matter who. Just hilarious awkwardness XD

I had JUST the pairing in mind for this!

"This is RIDICULOUS! I KNOW it's in here!"

"What makes you think he took it?"

"Because Kohga is a petty, pot bellied idiot."

"And I'm here because?"

"He likes you. In case we get caught."

Mipha was there with Revali in Kohga’s room. He had somehow convinced her to join him in searching for a bottle of precious oil he was missing, convinced that Kohga stole it from him. Mipha looked at the door, then back at Revali. Using the party as an excuse to stifle through his things felt wrong, but Revali was a very adamant bird.

"Can you at least be careful? You might break something!"

"I'm going to break HIM once I find it. My feathers do NOT settle properly without it!"

He kept digging through his things, trying not to make it look like someone had been in here. That was when Mipha heard the door. In a panic, she grabbed his hand, and dove for the closet, shutting it, and putting her finger over her lips, letting him know to be silent. They both poked through the crack of the dresser, watching a lovesick Sooga give kisses upon kisses to his Master Kohga.

"Hey hey, easy you dog! I'm not going anywhere!"

"Can't help it. Cil had been ogling you all night, and it really got on my nerves."

"Oooh a petty pounding! I can get behind that~"

Sooga pulled Kohga’s clothes off surprisingly quickly, and Mipha had to cover her face as soon as she saw what was happening.

"Oh my gosh- we HAVE to let them know we're in here!"

"Sooga is going to kill the BOTH of us, and I'm not leaving without my feather oil! Just block it out, I know it's in this closet, so I'm going to keep looking."

Revali tried to be quiet in his search, unlike the now nude yiga in front of them. They both heard Kohga yelp from the sudden slap on his ass, before hearing him damn near giggle to himself.

"You are being SO bad, you dog!"

"Based on that laugh, you want me to do that again."

Sooga didn’t wait for an answer, delivering another smack to his ass, making Kohga jump. Mipha HATED hearing it. She was invading their privacy, being near them during such an intimate-

"God Sooga has a huge cock."

"Revali! What happened to your oil?"

"Right right- sorry I got distracted."

"You are PERVERSE!"

"Like you've never wondered how big he was. That Yiga outfit BARELY leaves anything to the imagination!"

"It's RIGHT in my face, of course I wonder, but that's not the POINT! Did you find it?"

"No, I haven’t. He's hiding it SOME-"

She clamped her hand over his mouth, upon hearing movement close to the closet. They both peeked out, in time to see Sooga sitting back down, and hoisting Kohga back into his lap. He rubbed his cock against his now oiled up hand, making Kohga chuckle.

"Shit...you aren’t gonna be gentle with me, are you?"

"Do you want me to be?"

"HELL no. If you're too nice to me, I'm fucking leaving you."

"Noted. You remember the safe word, yes?"

"Ugh. 'Porgy'. Hate it, but it works."

"I'm just making sure, you know this is all about you. Everything about me, is about you."

Sooga grabbed handfuls of his ass, nice and firmly, before sinking Kohga down onto his cock. He was gentle as a breeze. For a second. Mipha wasn't looking, but within a moment, the air was full of loud, repetitive, wet slaps. Mipha wasn't pure physically, but knowing she was listening in on this, it made her cover her ears. Then it got worse.

"Fucking shit-you pansy, I said FUCK ME."

Given how he cried out, something told them Sooga was more than happy to obey. Sooga's hips slammed against Kohga’s thick frame, and in mere seconds, Kohga was shouting swears upon swears. From cussing him out, to swears Mipha swore she hadn't ever heard of.

"Oh my god Revali."

She couldn't make the noises stop. She was contemplating just running out of the closet, when the noises were suddenly properly muffled. She looked up at Revali, who had both of his wings at her ears. Was HE suffering? Absolutely, but that didn't matter to him. What mattered was sparing poor Mipha. Even at the cost of hearing Kohga’s ass slam against Sooga’s cock.

"Hey hey hey, don't you f-forget, I'M the one who goes first, you idiot."

"I w-wasn't-"

"You're throbbing. I know you like fucking my ass, Sooga. I know sometimes you touch yourself thinking about it. But I get MY fucking load before you stuff this ass. Get it?"

"Y-yes Master Kohga. Absolutely. P-pardon me f-"

A loud moan escaped his lips when Kohga lifted his hand up, and clenched around Sooga’s throat.

"You don't get to fucking BREATHE until I cum. So you better get to fucking, big boy."

Sooga did as he was told. Despite Kohga’s hand, Sooga did as he was trained to-getting Kohga off upon his demand. And Kohga did in fact, cum, but a moment later. It was a hell of an orgasm, given the fact that some of his cum splashed against Revali's foot. Mipha saw the panic in his eyes, and kept his beak shut with her palm, making his panic scream muffled. She looked at his foot, and after making sure he wasn't going to scream, she took off her blue scarf, and cleaned Revali's foot.

"It's okay, it's okay, keep calm now."

She didn't want to use it, but it was something she could clean off rather easily later. Even after she wiped it off, he still shook it wildly, disgusted.

"Ew ew ew. I'm going to kill him for THIS now. Thank you, Mipha."

"Thank YOU. I didn't have to listen to ALL of that. Now we'll just wait till they fall asleep, and sneak out."

Kohga laughed just outside.

"Holy hell, there was DISTANCE in that one! I should get a trophy for that shit."

"I can think of an alternate reward~"

"God you have NO recharge time. It hasn't even been a MINUTE."

"Knowing I can make you this happy, it makes me ever eager for you."

Kohga snickered, bumping his mask against Sooga’s.

"Alright, alright. Let's put Cil to shame then, boy~"

Mipha and Revali looked up at each other in horror. They weren't being scared anytime soon.

[only-by-the-stars]

the annotated Tome of the Wild

Part 7: The Wild!

- Link didn't open his eyes. A twist on the beginning of BOTW, where you hear Zelda telling Link to open his eyes. I couldn’t resist.

- Hestu’s cameo was a lot of fun to write too. I always found him adorable, first in BOTW and then in AOC as well, and the idea of him waking up Link with his maracas was too amusing not to do. I also had to include his “shimmy shimmy” battle cry from AOC because I always laugh my head off whenever I hear it.

- This also reveals that Midna brought Link to the Great Deku Tree, a character that debuted in OOT and made further appearances in WW and BOTW.

- Something tickled her arm, breaking her out of her gloomy thoughts. Midna lifted her head and looked down. New growth was sprouting from the branch she was sitting on, wriggling its way up onto her. Nothing like this happens to Beatrice in the show, but I had to put in this chilling little moment of Midna nearly succumbing to the dekuwood. It provides a way later to introduce Rhoam’s presence in his scene, as well as some horror at what could’ve happened to her here.

- Note to self: never visit Tabantha if you can help it... Tabantha, of course, being a very cold region in BOTW’s Hyrule. Link’s newfound hatred of snow mirrors my own, and now he’s going to associate it with this horrible experience.

- “It's a bad habit, I guess.” He laughed softly. He’s referring, of course, to how he casually greeted Riju and Medli back at the school pool and they gave him a bit of a hard time about it.

- “You...” Midna stared at him for several seconds, stunned. “You...” She slapped his hand away and starting swinging her tiny fists at him, which he easily dodged. “You oaf! You idiot! What the hell—what the hell is wrong with you? How can you forgive me so easily, when you're still in a shit situation because of me? Neither one of us would be out here groping around blindly in the fucking snow if not for what I did!” I set up Midna and Link to be parallels of each other in a couple ways. One of which is that while Link has isolated himself from Mipha, hurting and confusing her, Midna is on the other end of something similar with Zelda. And here we see something they both struggle with: forgiving themselves. Midna can’t understand how Link can so easily forgive her actions towards him, while Link utterly despises himself for his actions towards Mipha and cannot forgive himself for causing her pain. He’ll later struggle with the fact that Mipha forgives him easily, just as Midna is having trouble understanding his forgiveness of her here. All of them find it easier to forgive their loved ones than to grant that same grace to themselves.

- “She told me that while she appreciated how much I cared, I should think a little more and be less reckless. I know she'd never call me stupid, but...” Link shrugged. “Honestly, I kind of am.” Another reference to Mipha calling Link reckless, and how she hates seeing him get hurt. He is indeed not the smartest guy around, but she does describe him as being very kind and determined to help those in need, so I tried to emphasize that aspect of his personality in this story. Although the “I kind of am” line is also intended to be a subtle red flag. We’ve already seen that Link thinks very little of himself and his abilities, even when it’s clear from the words of others that he’s very talented. And we’re about to soon see him use a bit of intelligence he very much does have, in order to save the day. He would never believe himself capable of such a thing, but he does it anyway.

- “Even just a few branches could be processed... enough to get us through this storm...” Note the use of the plural here. This is leading up to the revelation about his belief that Zelda is in the lantern. His desperation to find more oil anywhere is because, of course, he believes that if the light goes out she will die. And he wouldn’t be in this scarcity if not for what happened back in chapter one, with Link and Aryll and the dog accidentally wrecking the mill and his oil supply.

- He was soon rewarded with a most welcome sight: a single dekuwood branch, growing out of that of a normal tree. It seemed sickly, withered, and it waved feebly in the air, but he rushed forward and hacked it off anyway. The very same branch that tried to attach itself to Midna, sickly and withered precisely because of that failure.

- And now we come to the confirmation that the dekuwood is made from the people who succumb to despair and exhaustion in the woods, right as we see it growing all around Aryll. Rhoam has been unaware this entire time of all the souls he’s sacrificed over the past several months, and now that he knows, he refuses to do it any longer. For he, like Midna, recognizes that Zelda would never want anyone to be harmed for her sake.

He’s also right that Link would never leave Aryll to such a fate, recognizing Link’s love and protectiveness towards his little sister. This is a point where my characterization of Link wildly diverges from that of Wirt, the protagonist of OTGW. I pulled some things from Wirt for Link and his arc, but one thing I didn’t keep was the resentment and initial callousness that Wirt displays for Greg, who is revealed in the tavern sequence to be his half-brother thanks to his mother remarrying, something Greg frowns at when Wirt mentions it. Aryll is also technically Link’s half-sister, as I revealed in the letters that his mother remarried some years after his father’s death and had Aryll with her new husband, but I could not for the life of me see him being resentful or unkind to his little sister. Whatever his faults, I’ve written him as being, at his core, an incredibly kind and deeply loving person, and his adoration of his sister is a part of that. He doesn’t view her as a “half” anything, she’s just his sister and he’ll do anything to protect her. Which of course is a big part of what led to his breakdown: his feelings of guilt over not doing as good a job of that as he thinks he should be doing.

- “Link, I don't... I don't think that's natural light. It looks more like...” This has a double meaning. The fire in the lantern is not the “natural light” of the sun, and it is also deeply unnatural, given that it’s the Beast’s soul in there.

- Speaking of that! The confrontation with the Beast plays out a bit differently here than it does in the show, thanks to Midna’s personal connection to all this. Rhoam’s mention of Zelda gets her attention, and the Beast uses her love for Zelda as a way to try and turn her and Link against each other with his attempt to make them choose which soul will go into the lantern. He’ll get fuel and kill Aryll either way, but why not pit these two against each other as a way to manipulate them into doing what he wants? Except it backfires, because Midna won’t harm anyone for Zelda’s sake, and Link figures out what’s going on anyway, thanks to remembering the words of Rhoam and Telma.

- Link stood up, his mind racing. It was like when the solution to a puzzle finally presented itself in a moment of stunning clarity. For all that he’s not that bright in so many ways, it’s important to remember that he’s canonically able to solve all those tricky puzzles we do, without benefit of a guide, just using his wits and the tools he has at hand. And so too does he solve this particular puzzle, by remembering what he’s been told and piecing it together with what he sees here, thinking about the fact that the Beast’s story doesn’t add up. Which saves the day, in the end.

- “Am I wrong?” Link repeated, his voice shaking with barely suppressed fury; he took a few more steps, forcing the Beast to retreat further. “No more lies. Tell the truth for once, Beast.” Referencing, of course, the fact that Telma told him the Beast lies. He’s absolutely furious right now because of the attempt on Aryll’s life; you do not mess with Link’s loved ones. The Beast, too, fucked around and found out the hard way.

- In the show, Wirt gives the lantern back to the Woodsman to blow out after the delivery of the “Are you?” line that I kept (and had Link nail the delivery of on his first try, unlike Wirt, because that’s what makes sense for both their characters). Here, I chose to let Link kill the Beast, because he is, after all, the legendary hero who slays the villain. But even more importantly, I felt he deserved and had earned such a moment with his growing courage over the course of the tale.

- “See you later, Link.” Hey, remember how Midna broke all our hearts by saying a similar line to Link in TP as she broke the mirror and went back to her world? I sure do!

- “Sleepers wake, dreams will fade... although we cling fast..." This, and the lyrics that close out this section, are the first few lines of the vocal version of Ballad of the Wind Fish that was done for the LA remake.

- There were lights and shadowy figures coming closer, and voices—was someone calling his name? As I would later reveal in the prologue of a place to start, Mipha was screaming his name as she ran down the hill towards him.

- The words he wanted so badly to say to her hung on the tip of his tongue And it shows on his face, that desire to express the love for her that is all but bursting out of him in this moment, and Mipha sees it. She sees that love shining in his eyes as they stare at each other, giving her her hope back and then some. In a way, Link was right: if he hadn’t hidden from her, she would’ve realized what his real feelings for her are. He just didn’t know how happy it would’ve made her. But he will soon.

- “—and that's how we got away from the evil possessed lady!” Out of the corner of his eye Link saw Aryll shake the frog triumphantly, and Mipha, distracted by the sudden commotion, looked away from him. A small, muffled chime sounded, and the amphibian's stomach glowed. “The ringing of the bell commanded her! Though she wasn't really evil, just...” The series is never clear on just what the otherworld the brothers enter is, but it is clear that it really happened to them, and I preserved that ambiguity in the same way, by showing the bell as still being in the frog’s stomach.

- Link nodded. “Yes.” It didn't matter anymore how it'd gotten into her pocket; he'd made it, and brought it with him tonight, with the intention of giving it to her. There was no more question of taking it back or denying it. Courage has been achieved; he’s no longer going to hide or pretend, or try to take back the gift he worked on so hard. Midna is right: he’s been so brave in the Wild, and it’s time to apply that bravery to confessing his feelings to Mipha and letting her know that he loves her. The words will have to wait till the next day, but for now he’s doing all he can to face his fears and stop running, by hugging her and holding her hand and wiping her tears away, letting his love show in his expression as he looks at her without avoiding her eyes. Plus, of course, admitting to his intentions with the tape and inviting her over to listen to it together. They’re finally getting a breakthrough after two months of separation and pain.

- The doctor, Syrup, is a recurring NPC throughout the series, a witch who brews up helpful healing potions for Link to use on his adventures.

- I'm home, Mipha. Calling back, of course, to Midna’s line about there being someone waiting for him and to go home to her. Not only that, but in Mipha’s letters, I had her mention wanting him to “come back to her”. And now he finally has.

and that wraps this up, as the epilogue is composed strictly of Miphlink fluff and sweet, sweet payoff. if you took the time to read the fic and these write ups, thank you, I hope you enjoyed them! ❤