#nabooru finds out about this and goes to try and free them all but only manages to get some of them out

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Mirror of Twilight.

Nabooru heard Link's tale through a murmur of static as her mind returned to a memory, though ancient, still remained fresh. A last ditch effort to save her sisters and their king before they could be executed. Some successfully escaped with her aid. But she was not quick enough. The rest of the combatants who fought with Ganondorf were executed in front of him, at the top of the temple turned prison.

And then...they turned their sights on the king. The sword that pierced his chest. How he broke free and dispatched of one of the glowing spirits overseeing his, now failed, demise. The disc...the mirror that created....something. A portal, perhaps, that pulled him inside. All witnessed from within the shadow of a pillar...

Her senses returned near the tail end of Link's story where he explained his ultimate goal. Where he confirmed that this mirror did in fact create a portal. One to some other realm.

Could he have truly survived then?

At first, Nabooru offered little more than a stoic nod to the young man dressed in green, gold eyes sharpening once more. She re-sheathed her blades and took hold of the key again. She turned around and placed it in the lock, twisting it to unlock it. The heavy chains fell away.

" I understand now why this place changed so drastically, then. I used to be able to go wherever I wanted here. " she murmured, referencing his story about this Zant character causing trouble all over Hyrule. His influence must have followed him here and, if he did not want these two to follow him, he likely made the grounds inaccessible to most who would try.

" But now, there are more monsters than ever. More obstacles and locked doors... " She paused then met Link's gaze again. " I'm coming with you. I want to see that mirror. I want to go to that other realm with you. "

his people? link wasn’t even from the kingdom of hyrule and he was chosen by the gods to save it. besides, what did he have to do with the actions of others? if anything, link was right now trying to fix the choices and mistakes of others ( with not even so much as a say ): still this courageous one was not heartless, he sympathized with her plight but was unsure how he could even help in this situation? for starters, it was far too much to explain. too many words of destiny and prophecies of old being carried out in a more modern age. just where did one start? in all the wisdom relaid to him by the light spirits—this was never a thing of note. most people encountered him and either already assumed link a hero or assumed he was in the budding stage ready to bloom into one.

the women may be a warrior but he was too. however, as clumsy and misplaced as his words could be at times ( honestly a lot of the time ): link knew that many battles did not have to be fought with weapon in hand but also knew sometimes the toughest of wars could be seized with just a bit more understanding and a lot less bloodshed. even so, where did he begin? surely not at the beginning nor the middle and he hadn’t reached the end quite yet—so where?

as his thoughts raced he noticed the shift in the women, how her energy now dripped with anger, bitterness, and anger. link could also do what he did best and choose the third path. ❛    so ya want me ta start wif’ da twilight coverin’ hyrule or da whole wolf thang or the girl that’s laughin’ at me inside my shadow? ❜ because seriously, who would believe link—link didn’t even believe link and he was experiencing it, living it.

still, he had enough monsters to fight. he didn’t need to add a telma lookalike to the list, unless he really had too and link really did not want to have too. if link could fix just one thing he thought so wrong about hyrule is that it had far too many people who where quick to go for blood and not enough trust in one another, but, he supposed, a blind trust in others had also been the cause of many a war before too.

❛    tryna find da mirror of twilight but gotta deal wif’ da boss dat on’ want me ta. ❜ 

was that too much information at once? well good thought link because she had asked and he graciously delivered. all of this was confusing and required a touch he didn’t exactly have. he was good at fighting, all matters of flora and fauna—but not this. people where much too fickle for his taste, it was why he stayed silent in the vast majority of situations. much easier than this. but maybe he should start at the beginning, didn’t all great tales first hook the reader with a fascinating opening arc? at least that was how it was all in the stories he’d read until his very life became one. 

❛    got pulled inta da twilight, turnt into a wolf, met da girl ya jus’ seen—from dat otha realm—wen’ lookin’ fa som’ pieces of fused shadow—think dark magical masks—dey got taken, midna—da girl name—got really… sick cause she like allergic to light n’ wen’ ta see zelda den she touched her n’ faded away but now midna ain’t sick no mores n’ we lookin’ fo’ dis thang—mirror of twilight—ta get inta her realm so i can kick zant’s ass—he’s the one that put perpetual dusk over hyrule. ❜ 

the further into the topic link got the more his ordonion slang worsened and his sentences ran into one another, he could only hope he wouldn’t have to do that again, because he wouldn’t. infact, maybe he should’ve just stayed in his wolf form at least then link wouldn’t have to try to have someone make sense of the chaos that was being a hero chosen by the gods.

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CHARACTER INFO SHEET — ;

Tagged by: @koopzilla and @timid-plumber thank you 💚

Tagging: u

NAME: Nabooru (she doesn't technically use her last name, but for ease for the Hylians, she uses Vaidena)

NAME MEANING: "lone wolf" in Gerudo (based on a super old beginnings of a Gerudo language I found YEARS ago and can no longer find 😭)

ALIAS(ES): The Exalted, Chief Nabooru, Sage of Spirit

ETHNICITY: Gerudo

THREE HEADCANONS YOU’VE NEVER TOLD ANYONE: 

Nabooru only used her ripping-the-spirit-from-a-being powers once to test them out. While the results terrified her, she is not completely against using them again in emergencies.

(I'm sure I've told some people this but...since I'm still on the fence about it, I'm putting it here) I've played around with the idea of Nabooru being pregnant when she gets caught in the Spirit Temple by Twinrova. Since she was brainwashed, she would have no idea what came of the child.

Nabooru would have made Gerudo Town much bigger than what we see in BotW and TotK. Realistically, it would just have to be. In her time, the Gerudo more often stick around and live in the desert rather than only coming around to work there/train/etc.

THREE THINGS YOUR CHARACTER LIKES DOING IN THEIR FREE TIME:

Number one is absolutely training. She loves combat, the way her body feels when she fights and the intoxicating adrenaline. She's all about self-improvement.

She also loves to read! It kind of goes along with her love of self-improvement, but she just likes to learn and lose herself in a different world while curled up in bed or on her cushy couch.

Experimenting with her hair and makeup. It's not excessive, but she likes changing up her look once in a while.

EIGHT SIX PEOPLE YOUR CHARACTER LIKES/LOVES: 

Aveil

Adena (her mother)

The Gerudo (even the ones who make her life hell)

Zelda (she's trying)

Her horse, V'risqa

Ganondorf ???

TWO THINGS YOUR CHARACTER REGRETS:

Not being a little more adamant about ideas of compromise.

Picking THAT DAY to defy orders and go to the temple

TWO PHOBIAS YOUR CHARACTER HAS:

Failure (more in regards to failing her people)

Like-Likes (less a phobia and more just keep them as far away form her as possible)

[midzelink]

Okay, but imagine a story where Link meets Nabooru prior to his opening of the Sacred Realm; say, after obtaining the Spiritual Stone of Water from Ruto, something goes awry at Zora’s Fountain, and he winds getting swept downstream, all the way to the bottom of Gerudo Valley.  It’s Nabooru who finds and saves him, and this is where things get more interesting:

See, up until now, Link has never met a Gerudo before - he’s seen Ganondorf “The King of Thieves” Dragmire twice, once in a nightmare and once through a window in a castle courtyard, but all he knows about him and his people are things he’s been told by - things that, upon meeting Nabooru, he learns are nothing more than flat-out lies.  The bit about them being thieves?  A falsehood propagated by the Hyrulean Royal Family, born of xenophobia and racism.  The Spirit Temple has always been a stronghold of hypnotism and brainwashing? Actually, it was a holy place of worship, up until Koume and Kotake moved in and defiled it.  Men aren’t allowed into the fortress?  True, but only because the only men who come waltzing into the valley have foul intentions (I highly doubt those carpenters wanted to become thieves), not because men are cowards or bad fighters or whatever else the in-game excuse is.  Link is a child now, hardly a man, and he’s more than welcome - and after learning that him and Nabooru have a common enemy in Ganondorf, he decides to stay and help her try and take back her temple, all the while mingling and learning more about the history of the man he has been told time and time again is nothing more than the embodiment of Evil.

Not only does this give Link the chance to learn about Ganondorf as the man he might have been rather than the caricature he sadly is before actually meeting the dude face-to-face, but it would also serve to flesh out Nabooru’s character where it is sorely needed; she’s the only Sage in the entire game we don’t meet naturally along the course of our adventure (we meet her for the very first time inside her temple, very near the end of the game), and as a result her in-game kidnapping falls very flat when both a) we’ve only just met her and b) we can simply and immediately return to to the future in order to set her free.  Imagine instead, then, that after growing to respect and admire this woman over the course of a few days’ time, Nabooru’s kidnapping is the inciting incident that urges Link to return to Castle Town with the Spiritual Stones, as he is completely helpless to save her in his current state.  I mean, he’s just a kid; he was lucky enough to be able to break the curse on the Deku Tree; he was somehow able to help the Gorons, and give them their cavern back; and he miraculously was able to find and save Ruto and free Jabu-Jabu of his ailments, but he is completely helpless to do anything to save Nabooru, and that sticks with him, hard.  He means to return to help her as soon as he can - surely, with the power of the Triforce, he’ll be able to - yet after pulling the Master Sword and learning that seven years have passed, he fears that it is too little, too late.  Imagine how much more impactful their reunion would be, then.  Imagine how much more weight her story would have.

Also, in this one, many Gerudo are trans and lesbians and they all wear actual clothes, send post.

[piefanart]

My high school final report thus far

this is my report. you can probably tell the point at which i got bored.

THIS IS MY REPORT. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE IT.

also spoilers for pretty much every single zelda game below. not joking. read at your own risk. and if you do manage to read the whole thing, tell me what you think! my entire high school grade is depending on this.

The Legend of Zelda series has been around for thirty-one years since its debut in 1986.

The series has featured over twenty-one games and has had numerous official and non-official spinoffs, as well as years of merchandise.

Throughout all of these games, there is a definite and binding timeline that pulls all of the games together into one continuous story. This timeline was created by Nintendo. It is unknown when the company originally created this timeline, but it was commonly theorized among the fanbase and finally released to the public by Nintendo in 2011 with the release of the book Hyrule Historia. Since this book was published, there have been five new Legend of Zelda games released, the most recent being The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While the other four games have already been placed in the timeline, Nintendo has not yet announced where Breath of the Wild places on the timeline. The only hints they have given is a statement by Aonuma telling us that the game takes place after Ocarina of Time. Later in this report we will see why this statement does not make placing the game any simpler. Currently, the most common speculated theory is that the game takes place in the Child timeline, after The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Many of the games in the Legend of Zelda series reference each other or the timeline itself. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, originally released on November 4, 2004 for the Game Boy Advance, makes many references back to a previous Zelda title, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords (December 2, 2002, Gameboy Advance). At the End of Minish Cap, the player (Link) reforges the sword you have used throughout the game, the Picori Blade, into the Four Sword, the blade for which the earlier game was named.

The Minish Cap was actually a prequel of sorts for Four Swords, as it explained what had happened before Four Swords.

Another commonly referenced game is Ocarina of Time, which has been one of the most beloved and ground-breaking titles in the Zelda universe. It was the first three-dimensional Zelda game, released on November 21, 1998 for the equally ground-breaking system the Nintendo 64.

Since Ocarina of Time's release, almost every new Zelda title has referenced it in some way or another. Majora's Mask (April 27, 2000, N64) used many of the same textures, sound files, and character models from Ocarina of Time for two reasons: First, the game was a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time, and second, the game developers were given only one year to complete the game from start to finish. Despite this, Majora's Mask is by far one of the greatest Zelda titles of all time.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (December 13, 2002, Gamecube) references back to Ocarina of Time in that the beginning cutscene of the game, which explains the backstory for the game and immediately places it in the timeline, contains many notes and nods to Ocarina of Time, including references to “The Hero of Time,” the seven sages, and the defeat of Ganondorf. Later in the game, when the player finds the sunken remains of Hyrule Castle and raises it to sea level, the room containing the Master Sword also has many stained glass windows, which are all images of the sages, the Triforce, and Ganondorf.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (November 19, 2006, Gamecube/Wii) comes after Majora's Mask in the timeline. In this game, the player finds a character known as the Hero's Shade. In Hyrule Historia this character was revealed to be the dead spirit of the Link from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. In order to locate the places this spirit appears in game, the player, in wolf form, must howl specific notes. A golden wolf will echo them back and the two begin howling a melody. These short melodies are actually all songs the player would have learned to play in game in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.

Although this is a non-canon appearance, a Tingle doll is located in Princess Zelda's bedroom in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (November 18, 2011, Wii). Tingle is a popular character who first appeared in Ocarina of Time, but has also shown up in Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, The Minish Cap, and others.

Additionally, both The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (June 23, 2007, DS) and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (December 7, 2009, DS) are sequels in the Adult Timeline arc, with both games coming directly after The Wind Waker. Unfortunately, despite their revolutionary use of only the touchscreen and the stylus for controls and the use of dual-screen technology, these games are both seen as failures by the fanbase because of their linear storyline, lack of side quests, and “ridiculous gameplay”. Most of Phantom Hourglass is spent either in a temple as the player tests their stealth against over powered enemies, or in a boat waiting to get to the next island; most of Spirit Tracks takes place in a train trying to avoid obstacles in the tracks and outrunning enemy trains. Neither of these games contained much free-roaming ability, which is something the Zelda franchise has always been known for.

The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors (August 14, 2014, Wii U), which was a third-party game developed by Koei Tecmo, Omega Force, and Team Ninja, was a fast-paced action game based around the Dynasty Warriors franchise. In the storyline for this game, the main antagonist actually opens up time portals to three previous Zelda titles: Skyward Sword, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess. This game was revolutionary in that the player could not only play as Link, but also as many other heroes and villains seen in the Zelda universe, such as Tingle, Ganondorf, Princess Zelda, Impa, Tetra, Medli, Midna, Zant, Ghirahim, Fi, Darunia, Ruto, Sheik, Agitha, Skull Kid, Ravio, King Daphnes, Marin, Yuga, and others. These characters came from titles such as Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, A Link Between Worlds, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, The Wind Waker, and Link's Awakening. The game also featured its own new characters that slowly appeared during the main storyline, such as Lana, Cia, Volga, Wizzro, and Linkle. A few of these characters, such as Linkle, first appeared in Hyrule Warriors: Legends, which was released on March 26, 2016. These characters were later released as  dlc for the Wii U version of the game.

The Zelda title with possibly the most references to previous games is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (March 3, 2017, Wii U/Switch). This game features an expansive three-dimensional open world that the player can roam freely, which is new to the Zelda series. There are many references both canon and non-canon in this game.

The first reference to be listed here is the appearance of Wolf Link, who can be summoned by tapping the Wolf Link amiibo to the Wii U gamepad or Switch. Wolf Link acts as a helpful companion, locating and killing prey for the player, attacking enemies, and helping the player find objects that the Sheikah Slate has located. Although Wolf Link is from Twilight Princess, this reference has been stated to be non-canon by Nintendo.

Another reference in Breath of the Wild is the equipable gear the player can obtain from amiibo. There are outfits, weapons, and shields for Link from The Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and the original Legend of Zelda. These items each have special descriptions linking them to their home games, but as these items are amiibo-only and not related to the main storyline of Breath of the Wild, they too are non-canon.

A few of the canon references in this game can be seen by exploring the open world. Players have found areas that look almost exactly like certain areas from other Zelda titles. Near the outskirts of Hyrule Castle, there are ruins of what looks like Lon Lon Ranch from Ocarina of Time. There are the horse-jumping fences laid out just as in the earlier game, and there are ruined buildings where the house and barn used to be. Additionally, if the player goes to this area at night, ghostly skeleton horses will appear. These are very rare in the game, mostly showing up only at night in the snowy region to the far top left of the map. These skeletal horses, also known as stalhorses, will only appear at night and will disintegrate as soon as the sun rises.

Near the beach at the bottom of the map, the player can find a broken stone monument that looks like the Mirror of Twilight from Twilight Princess.

All four of the Divine Beasts have names that sound similar to popular Zelda characters from previous titles. These Divine Beasts are: Vah Rudania, Vah Medoh, Vah Ruta, and Vah Naboris. The character names are Darunia, Medli, Ruto, and Nabooru. In the game, only Vah Naboris is confirmed to have been named for Nabooru, but it can easily be surmised that the other three were named for the characters listed as well.

The Legend of Zelda timeline is an offical timeline created by Nintendo. This means that it is canon to the series and not fan-made, though there are fan theories about it.

This timeline will be discussed below. Although not every game has been listed above, only the year of initial release will be listed. The reasoning for this is that the timeline is not linear to when the games first came out; the timeline has branched out since the first game was released in 1986. The following paragraphs will be written from the view that Hyrule is a real place, not a video game.

The Legend of Zelda timeline begins with Skyward Sword (2011), in which the world is created. This game sets the “rules” that occur in the Zelda universe. For example, this game explains why Zelda and Link are reborn century after century, and how Ganondorf is able to attempt to take over Hyrule time and time again. This game also explains the creation of the Triforce, which is split into three parts: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. Each part of the Triforce is protected by an individual with its traits. Throughout the history of Hyrule, Princess Zelda is Wisdom, Link is Courage, and Ganondorf is Power. If all three parts of the Triforce are together, then the bearer of all three becomes omnipotent. Ganondorf seeks to destroy Link and Zelda to gain their Triforces so he can take over the world.

At the end of Skyward Sword, Link reforges his goddess sword into the Master Sword, which has the power to seal Ganondorf away.

The next game in the series is The Minish Cap (2004). This game takes place hundreds of years after Skyward Sword. In the Minish Cap, there is a festival every 100 years to celebrate the small creatures known as Minish or Picori. Only children can see the Picori. During the festival, a dark sorcerer known as Vaati appears to try to steal the light force, a golden light wielded by a previous Hero and protected by the Royal Family. This light force is most likely the Triforce of Wisdom, as it is later found out that the light force is inside Princess Zelda. Vaati turns the Princess to stone and takes off. Link, a young boy, finds a talking bird-like hat named Ezlo, who has the power to shrink himself and Link down to the size of the Picori. Ezlo is actually Vaati's teacher, but when he wouldn't teach Vaati what he wanted, Vaati cursed him into bird form and stole his powers. Eventually, Link reforges the Picori Blade into the Four Sword and restores Ezlo's power by destroying Vaati's. Princess Zelda is freed from being a stone and peace returns to Hyrule.

However, in Four Swords (2002), Vaati is reborn again as the Wind Mage, a large bat-like creature who Link had sealed with the Four Sword. Vaati breaks this seal and wreaks havoc on the land, so Link goes to draw the Four Sword. As soon as he does this, Link is split into four Links, each with a portion of his personality. The four Links, nicknamed Red, Blue, Green, and Vio, must work together to destroy Vaati once again. Once this was accomplished, Vaati was sealed again and the Four Sword returned to its pedestal, and Link became one person again.

Although there is not yet a game about this part, years after Four Swords the Kingdom of Hyrule was plunged into a fierce war. During this war, an unnamed Hylian woman, wounded in battle, made her way into the Lost Woods to the Great Deku Tree, where she died, leaving her newborn baby alone. The Great Deku Tree saw the baby and took care of it, naming it Link. This is where Ocarina of Time (1998) begins.

The story of Ocarina of Time begins with Link, who is now ten years old and living in the Kokiri Forest with the Kokiri, a race of children with fairies who never age. Link, told by the Great Deku Tree that he is a Kokiri, is the black sheep of his friends, as he has no fairy. One day, Link receives a fairy, known as Navi, and The Deku Tree summons Link to him, where Link finds out that an evil parasite is eating the Deku Tree from the inside out. Armed with a small sword and a wooden shield, Link plunged into the Deku Tree to destroy the parasite. Link is successful, but he is too late. The Deku Tree dies and Link must venture out of the Kokiri Forest to Hyrule, where he finds the young Princess Zelda. A Gerudo man known as Ganondorf has infiltrated the castle and is now a trusted adviser to the king. Princess Zelda does not trust Ganondorf, and explains this to Link, who promises to protect the princess. Link, now armed with Princess Zelda's heirloom, the Ocarina of Time, searches all of Hyrule for the three Spiritual Stones. He had already received the Kokiri Emerald from the Great Deku Tree, leaving the Goron Ruby and the Zora Sapphire. After he finds these jewels, Link takes them to the Temple of Time in order to get the Master Sword to destroy Ganondorf. However, Link is not old enough to wield the Master Sword and is cast into a magical sleep for seven years. During this time Ganondorf kills the king of Hyrule and destroys the land. Princess Zelda takes on the form of a boy known as Sheik to protect herself, and falls in with Ganondorf's army as a spy for him, in order to secretly help Link.

This is where the timeline splits. There are three possible outcomes for Ocarina of Time:

*The Hero, Link, is successful and destroys Ganondorf. He continues his life as an adult.

* The Hero is successful and destroys Ganondorf, but Princess Zelda uses the power of the Ocarina of Time to send Link back to the past to live out his life as a child and get back the seven years he lost while he was asleep, without the threat of Ganondorf.

*The Hero is not successful. Link dies at the hand of Ganondorf's beast form, Ganon, and Hyrule is overtaken by evil.

These three outcomes each have their own “leg” in the timeline. These legs are known as the Adult Timeline, the Child Timeline, and the Fallen Timeline.

The Adult Timeline continues after Ocarina of Time, in which Link is successful and he and the Seven Sages seal Ganondorf away. Unfortunately, over time this seal breaks and Ganondorf is allowed to roam the world once again. Ganondorf attempts to seize power over Hyrule, but the Sages use the last of their power to flood Hyrule, hoping that they will drown Ganondorf with the land. The only remaining land is the tallest peaks of the mountains, which became small islands. Only a few people survived, but over many years they began to prosper once again. On a certain island, boys who turn thirteen wear the green clothes of the Hero of Time on their birthdays, to celebrate the defeat of Ganon. Here begins the story of the Wind Waker (2002). A thirteen year old boy known as Link is awoken from his nap by his younger sister Aryll, who tells him that their grandmother has finished his green outfit and there will be a party for him later that day. Link goes to visit his grandmother and puts on the clothes, even though they are much to warm to wear on the tropical summer day. He hears a scream from outside, and runs to see Tetra, a pirate girl, fall from the talons of a gigantic bird. She is caught in the trees of the forest on the island and Link runs to help her. Tetra, in her usual brashness, is unthankful and shrugs Link off. She prepares to leave the island, but the bird comes back and kidnaps Aryll, mistaking her for Tetra. Link leaves with Tetra on her ship to rescue his sister. Unfortunately for him, he is not successful at first, and blacks out. He wakes up on an unfamiliar island in a small boat. The boat, which can talk, explains to Link that he is the next hero and he must save Hyrule from Ganondorf, who is responsible for kidnapping his sister, as well as every other girl with blond hair and pointed ears. Link helps the boat, named the King of Red Lions, find the sunken shards of the broken Triforce and faces off against Ganondorf. It turns out that Tetra is actually Princess Zelda and the boat is the King of Hyrule, her father. Link temporarily returns to the past and defeats Ganondorf, with the help of Zelda. Hyrule remains flooded, so Link and Zelda search the seas for a new land to call home.

Eventually, the two find the seas governed by the Ocean King. There they find a ghost ship, which Tetra boards and is turned to stone. This is where Phantom Hourglass (2007) begins. Link finds an old pirate known as Linebeck, who begrudgingly helps Link save Tetra. Afterwards, they find a vast land and name it New Hyrule.

The next game in the Adult Timeline is Spirit Tracks (2009). This game takes place 100 years after Phantom Hourglass. New Hyrule has been thoroughly populated and Princess Zelda has once again been born, as has a boy named Link. Link studies to become a train engineer and meets Zelda at his graduation, where she was to present him with his engineering certificate. However, Chancellor Cole kills Zelda and takes her body to try to take over the train tracks that have been laid across New Hyrule. Princess Zelda comes back as a ghost and realizes she can posses empty suits of armor. She and Linebeck II help Link defeat Chancellor Cole and regain hold over the trains, at which point the history of the Adult Timeline ends.

The Child Timeline begins with the defeat of Ganondorf, at which point Princess Zelda uses her powers to send Link back into the past with his memories of his adventures to live out his childhood in peace. Unfortunately for Link, this is not the case, as he begins searching for the fairy Navi in the game Majora's Mask (2000) and is attacked by Skull Kid. Link chases after him and falls down a very deep hole, landing in the area known as Termina. Skull Kid, armed with the power of the evil spirit Majora, has caused the moon to fall very slowly into Termina. Because Link has the Ocarina of Time, he can stop the moon, but this causes a rift in time that makes the entire world of Termina repeat the same three days over and over until Link is able to defeat Majora. It is commonly theorized that Link is actually dead in Majora's Mask, for a variety of reasons such as how far he fell, the recurrence of events, and even the name Termina. This is a topic for a different report, however.

The next title in line in the Child Timeline is Twilight Princess (2006). This game takes place many years after Majora's Mask. In it, there are two realms; the light and the shadow. Neither is considered evil or good, but both contain both evil entities and good ones. In the Shadow realm, the leader of the Twili tribe dies and his daughter, Princess Midna, becomes Queen of the Twili. Her father's adviser, Zant, disagrees with this and usurps Midna's throne and casts her out into the Light realm in the form of an imp. Zant, underwhelmed with his new power, decides to try to take over the Light realm as well and casts parts of it into eternal Twilight. Link, a teenage farmhand, becomes a wolf when as soon as he goes into the Twilight, and is cast into Hyrule Castle's dungeons, where he meets Midna. She convinces Link to help her gain back her throne and return the light to Hyrule. Eventually, it is revealed that Ganondorf was behind Zant all along, and Link defeats both Ganondorf and Zant and returns Midna to her True Form and restores the peace to Hyrule yet again.

Hundreds of years later, Ganondorf is reborn again and finds the Four Sword. He then attempts to free Vaati, beginning the storyline for Four Swords Adventures (2004). Link again uses the Four Sword to split into four Links and seals Ganondorf and Vaati away.

The next leg of the timeline is the Fallen Hero Timeline. This begins with the defeat of the Hero and the rule of Ganondorf. The first game in this part of the timeline is A Link to the Past (1991) in which Agahnim (aka Ganondorf) tries to kill the reborn Princess Zelda. Link temporarily defeats Agahnim and continues his story in Oracle of Seasons where Link finds the land of Holodrum and saves it from the evil Onox, who wanted nothing but utter chaos. Then Link finds the land of Labrynna in Oracle of Ages (2001) and saves it from Veran, who wanted to be Queen. After these adventures, Link set sail back to Hyrule, where he had a dream. This dream is the events of the game Link's Awakening (1993). Once Link got back to Hyrule, he defeated Ganondorf again. There is not yet a game for this specific defeat, but soon an evil wizard known as Yuga tried to take over Hyrule. A young man named Link tries to stop him, but fails. Yuga steals Princess Zelda in the form of a painting and retreats to his homeworld of Lorule. This is where the events of A Link Between Worlds (2013) take place. Link defeats Yuga and leaves Lorule and Hyrule altogether, venturing to the land of Hytopia, which is a kingdom obsessed with fashion. Their Princess Styla has been cursed to only be able to wear an ugly brown jumpsuit, and Link, along with two other knights named Link, is recruited as a soldier to defeat the witch who did this. After doing this, Hytopia is restored to its former glory.

Meanwhile in Hyrule, Ganondorf has taken over. Again. And thus begins The Legend of Zelda (1986).

[dont-ever-forget-the-tears]

All right, so I’ve played for a few hours now, and haven’t exactly progressed much. I keep getting distracted and lost. That’s basically what this game is about, I suppose.

The first portion of the game was pretty easy because I’ve already watched so many videos. Link wakes up, gets the Sheikah Slate, goes out into the beautiful world and meets the old man:

Robs him:

Terrifies him:

Hangs dramatically off the Temple of Time for a while:

And then activates a bunch of towers all across Hyrule. And upon reaching the plateau tower, he is contacted once again by the mysterious voice and he gets his first look at Calamity Ganon:

After descending the tower, the old man flew in and noted the newly emerged towers and shrines. He pointed out a nearby shrine and offered Link his paraglider in exchange for the treasure inside. Which is a pretty neat trade! I got the Magnesis Rune and a Spirit orb for completing the shrine. Outside, the old man changed the deal: now he wanted Link to visit the other shrines on the plateau and bring him the treasure from each for the paraglider. Annoying. Fortunately, they were all pretty easy to locate and beat, and I got the Bombs, Cryonis, and Stasis Runes. Also, there was one Cryonis thing that reminded me of GS, heh:

Also, Link met the old man again on top of an icy mountain, and he gave him some warm clothes! ...I mean, that would’ve been a bit more useful if he’d given it to him before he started climbing, but whatever. After completing them all, the old man appeared again and told Link to meet him at the centre of where lines drawn between the shrines would intersect, and that was of course the Temple of Time. When Link arrived, the goddess statue was doing some fancy lightwork so Link prayed there and was offered a choice to trade his four spirit orbs for more stamina or a heart container. I chose stamina, because you need a lot of it. After he got that, the old man called him up to the roof for a chat, and revealed his true identity:

...I mean, almost everyone suspected, didn’t they? He looked too much like the WW king for it to be anyone else. But still, I don’t think anyone expected him to be a ghost. And then he dropped the story of the past, much earlier than I was expecting to get it. Stories of Ganon passed down, yadda yadda, prophecies concerning his return and weapons to combat him. So it turns out all this fancy Sheikah weaponry was buried underground and the Hylians uncovered it on the word of prophecy to combat Calamity Ganon, which explains where all this Sheikah stuff came from in a post OoT world. That’s one question answered. They uncovered the Four Divine Beasts and the Guardians, and the beasts were to be controlled by four Champions. They showed them, and was pretty obvious the who Zora, Goron, and Rito were. There was a Gerudo too by the look of it, but she didn’t look like that one girl from the trailer. So there were those four, plus Zelda and Link and a ton of Guardians, who were all prepared to fight Ganon. But Ganon seized control of the Guardians and Beasts and turned things around. The Champions were all killed. Link was gravely wounded trying to protect Zelda. And Zelda went to face Ganon alone, like the goddess she is:

Where’s all those complaints about BotW Zelda being a weak crybaby now, assholes? But yeah, the king confirmed that the voice Link had been hearing was Zelda, and that she was still trying to restrain Ganon inside Hyrule Castle, but he would soon break free. And he asked Link to save Zelda and destroy Ganon.

Can’t wait for those speedruns. He suggested Link head on over to Kakariko Village to meet with Impa, and finally gave him the paraglider so he could get off the plateau without dying, yay! And so I could get down from any large height without accidentally killing him, yay!

My first order of business upon my arrival was to secure a horse, because it takes SO LONG to get anywhere, the world is so fucking huge. It took me a while to find a herd, but when I did, I spotted the most beautiful horse and decided that it had to be that one, no other horse would do! I successfully stalked the herd and jumped on it’s back... And I didn’t have enough stamina to break it, so it kicked me off and ran away. But I had to have that horse!!! I chased it for like, 15 - 20 minutes I swear, because it ran off into monster territory and kept getting spooked by them, but eventually I was able to jump on again and this time I paused the game and restored my stamina before it ran out completely and was able to break it!

Isn’t it lovely? :3 I rode around for a while, exploring, gathering, and taming my new horse. Eventually I headed off on the path to Kakariko. I discovered new tower and received the West Necluda map and Sheikah Sensor, which goes off whenever a Shrine is nearby. I found a few more of those. And I found the Stables!

I can’t believe this kid just called me out like that. Anyway, I talked around, sold some cooking for Rupees, and registered my horse at the stables so he’d get a saddle and bridle and now he comes when I whistle for him. :3 I named him Boon. Also, it turns out that there’s a difference between the wild horses? Single colour horses like this one are harder to tame, but faster, and spotted horses are easier to tame, but slower. Figures I’d have to fall for one of the difficult ones... Well, he might’ve been a pain, but I do love this guy! And I can still board four more horses here! More beautiful friends!!!

I did move on from the stables afterward. ...And had my first encounter with the blood moon:

This is the game’s explanation for monsters respawning, it’s pretty cool, even if it’s creepy as hell when it happens. And I found a huge Korok named Hestu! His maracas had been stolen by monsters, and Link had to get them back. When he did, Hestu was upset because the Korok seeds inside were gone. Sooo, that’s what the Korok seeds quest thing is for! But Hestu does provide a much needed service:

Unfortunately, he only expanded my inventory twice before he said he had to go back to the forest, and if I wanted more, I’d have to go see him there. :( I eventually arrived at Kakariko and checked out the clothing shop there.

Super cool Sheikah outfit that’s too expensive for me. :( But they did have other cool clothes within my price range that I could actually buy! And I went up to see Impa and saw this cutie:

She’s a bit shy. :) Link went in to meet Impa:

Wow, if she knew him then she must be over a hundred now? How old was she when they knew each other? Was she just a kid? Same age range as Link and Zelda? Older? I hope she shows up in some flashbacks! Anyway, Impa told Link that she had a message for him that Zelda gave to her before she went to face Ganon. (And she brought up the creation of the Divine Beasts, and that happened 10 000 years ago?!) And the message was that Link needed to free the Four Divine Beasts from Ganon’s control, confirming that they are indeed the dungeons in this game. And she named the Beasts and the Champions. The only one who’s name I didn’t know was the Gerudo, Urbosa (Hah! I bet those Gerudo deniers are feeling foolish now!). A cool touch is that the Beast’s names, Van Rudania, Van Medoh, Van Ruta, and Van Naboris are clearly references to Darunia, Medli, Ruto, and Nabooru. :3 She suggested I go to some nearby village to talk with some guy, but I wanted to do more exploring! Also, I talked to this guy:

Sad. I went over the mountains and very nearly got my poor horse stuck. But somehow I successfully brought him into Lanayru, and had no idea where to go from there. I tried to find my way back to Necluda, but I was either too lost or literally couldn’t ride back. I did find this guy though:

Hey, there’s another reference for you! Also I found Kass!

Aaaaaand I had no idea what he was talking about. I kept exploring, trying to find a way back to Necluda and it occurred to me that I was in a looooot of danger. I found camps of Lizalfos where there would usually be Bokoblins, and I had to sneak past a sleeping Hinox. And then I saw something off in the distance and thought it might be a mounted Bokoblin, but it looked more like one creature than a horse and rider, so I zoomed in for a closer look:

THAT’S A FUCKING LYNEL!!! A FUCKING LYNEL IN A 3D ZELDA GAME!!! HOW LONG AGO WAS IT THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH I WANTED THIS TO HAPPEN AND HERE IT IS!!! It spotted me just as I took this screenshot, so I bolted in the opposite direction. No fucking way am I fighting that thing now, they’re high level monsters in every Zelda game they’re in!!!

Anyway, after this I ended up warping back to the shrine closest to the stables. I intend to go back to what I was supposed to be doing, where it’s much safer.

[thegeminisage]

zelda blogging which is so deeply super spoilery, possible the most spoilery it’s ever been, so if you haven’t THOROUGHLY explored the central-north part of the map DON’T read it

aww some of these gerudo wear glasses! love it

i like the music here too but i kinda wish it had been the same melody from oot ; ;

omg riju is tiny!!! is she still young?!

aww her relationship with buliara is sweet they obviously care about each other a lot

AAAAAH THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT MY SWORD lmao maybe i should have gone to get it after all

oh my god a sand seal that gives you words of wisdom for food

ooh i get a free accessory for giving this lady some flint...hmMmMMmMMmmm

topaz i guess bc i'll probs need lightning protection soon? but no, i'm getting a helm...

haha sapphire to go with link's eyes?

ruby bc the flame armor is the ugliest and i wanna wear something else? LOL

went with sapphire iin the end MAY I NOT REGRET IT...

ooooh i shoulda been saving my gems....Dang

i mean, at least i have the 10k i need for the great fairy, but there's so much cool stuff here and i can't bUY ANY...

ah no i did get some opal and amber earrings :3

swim speed up and the ithers are just extra defense

"apparently the accessory maker and the teacher of the relationship class were both in a tragic love triangle, and now they are both single" nintendo this is an all women society please give me lesbians i BEG of you

ok, i need 1 ruby and 5 topaz to finish buying one of everything here. i'll remember

hahahahaha "you've gotta take your time when selecting gems and voe" wise words, lady

omg i found a bar but im too young to drink. nice, nintendo

lmao you can tell one of the ladies you're over 100 and she doesn't believe you dxkfjhg

ok so the hideout of the yiga clan is apparently to the northwest of here so i get to RIDE A SAND SEAL or surf behind one i guess. tbh im a little worried i'll break all my shields :/

i got a gerudo one that i really like!! goes with my scimitar and golden bow!

aww can i not wear accessories along with normal armor...? that sucks

LOL SEAL PUNS the options when talking to the sand seal lady are full of em im dying

wow i can't get this shrine unless i wind sand seal races which i can't do with the divine beast out LOL

jesus those sandstorms look so huge and terrifying...especially since i know they'll disable my map

i wanna explore but tbh i better just stick to the plot and away from those bad boys

oh JESUS i went to an outpost where they're monitoring the beast and it's. so big. and so loud and big and. so scary. oh my god, it's huge

oh FUCK i got too close and it started targeting me so i ran away and thankfully it stopped...definitely gonna take it easy on the exploration if i can help it

oooh no no no why is the air turning green out here...dnw dnw leave me and my map alone!!

uh, and where is my fucking seal...? i left it right HERE

ugh i had trouble mounting the one from before when i stayed in the monitoring outpost do they like leave if you stay gone a long time...? fml

awww this old gerudo never found the lovers pond ):

ugh i see so much stuff i wanna check out but im too scared to get off the seal for long :/ ESPECIALLY if i get stuck in a storm i'll want a way out

oh wow the air is so hot here even my gerudo outfit is useless

tbh, maybe that's a good thing, if i'm eating food i can wear armor with actual defense...much as i love these clothes they're great for getting your ass kicked

ok no seriously WHY does everyone from the yiga clan drop bananas..............

i know that everyone talks about how cool it is that this game just plops you down in the world and lets you figure it out for yourself without hitting you over the head with the instructions

but i just found a bow and some torches in a circle of lit torches with some obviously flammable banners nearby, so

i found the missing gerudo soldier!

"all i've ever seen them do is patrol and eat[in red text] bananas" LMAO WHATS THE DEAL MY DUDES

theres some bananas here on a table wtf do i do throw them at them?? lmao

OMFG LOL IT WORKED

dude pranced right over to it and pocketed it lmao

nooo i missed a chest...maybe i can get it on the way back out ;_;

LOL I FOUND AN ENTIRE ROOM FULL OF BANANAS

this is so funny dkjfgh fck

urgh i wish i could just...snipe them from here. it'd be so EASY

im actually not even totally sure which direction to go, im all turned around

ok, one stationary guy at the door maybe i have to move him?

NOOO I FUCKING FELL THEY SAW ME

i couldn't even fight they one-shotted me and mipha's grace didn't kick in! that isn't fair at all

at least i can get the chest i missed

lol and i cant save in here. perfect.

ok yeah im gonna have to look it up bc as far as i can tell this room has no exit all the hallways just circle back around into it

apparently i CAN fight them...? they're just really hard?

this walkthru is so unclear lol there's a hidden door i can find with magnesis on the right-hand wall WHICH RIGHT...

WAIT fuck i finally see the exit

ah ok. wrong room for the hidden door.

master kohga!! he just...knocked himself out with his own attack. lmao ok

fuck this is SO FUNNY he is so funny

i love it even his bones cracked

isn't what he used to be, apparently

wow this is a boring fight he has a lot of hp and he's so far away the only way i can attack is arrows

and now arrows aren't working anymore...? obviously i'm doing something wrong

maybe i can reflect the rocks back at him

ok google says to drop his things on his head

HAHAHA HIS SPECIAL ATTACK FAILED

this undertale naruto motherfucker im crying i love him

"pretty soon you'll be gone! and not just from my line of sight!" i'm CRYING

fuck the ball rolled on top of him and made him fall

"COWARD! I SHALL BE REMEMBERED!!!"

what a fucking legend i'll never forget you master kohga i promise

aaaand thunder helm retrieved

but i gotta rescue that missing gerudo!

ah good her cell is empty!

lol im skipping sooo many shrines rn...i'll come back to them later i swear

oh NOOOO i got a memory!!!

urbosa the prankster!!! witht he power of lightning at her disposal!! protective of princess zelda!! i'm dying!!!

also im sad so zelda's sealing power mjst be what she used to seal ganon away but apparently in the past she couldn't make it show up for her whole life...?

aw no poor riju the helmet is too big on her

(give it to meeeee)

ok it's time for the divine beast bit but before i do jack or shit im going to upgrade my armor as much as possible rn

ugh you can't enhance the gerudo clothes...geez

FUCK YES HERE WE GO!

aaah riju is talking!!! i always get so surprised!!!

i did it!! tbh i had a really hard time keeping up with her...a dash was too fast but regular speed was too slow

AAH URBOSA IS TALKING TO ME ;_;

ohhh wow it's really walking around while on it

oh man. it's so big. it's so big

oooh you rotate the insides of this one!!

i get the feeling now i should've done more shrines in this area afterall, they have the same sort of electricity theme and they would've been good practice 

okay that was...easily the hardest beast so far

i had to use a guide TWICE and i could barely understand the instructions, PLUS i got two terminals by sheer dumb luck

oooh boy okay a lightning boss im assuming here we gooooo

LMFAO i suck so much at this urbosa was like "there is valor in dodging"

thanks zelda i missed your captain obvious statements

geeeeez i just barely got it

oh EW that never gets any less gross

ohhh my god

"I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF HER" B Y E

oh my gOD?

she mentioned nabooru from oot BY NAME holy SHIT this continutity between games!!!

and "calamity ganon once took on the form of a gerudo that makes this all the more personal" jesus fUCKING christ

i feel so bad for ganondorf the man like

he didn't ask for this shit anymore than link or zelda

and at least they get to win most of the time he always loses and even when he does win he's hated, his win brings ruin

where's the fic where the only way to end the cycle is to become friends with him huh

or like, frankly: the true enemy isn't ganondorf but the evil that takes hold of him

when does he get to be the hero and fight it and smash it to little bitty bits!

oh lord and the blood moon as soon as i get back

do people like, see these towers popping up and beasts moving around? does it scare the shit out of them or make them hopeful?

anyway i hope now i can explore with less sandstorms

oh boy time to ride into a sandstorm gee i sure hope i dont get lost

LOL and first thing i run right into a camp of enemies just bc i was trying to stay in a straight line!!!! jesus

lovely! i am now hopelessly turned around in a sandstorm. i literally don't even know which way i came from

my sand seal is also STUCK lol

ah i passed through it! i'm right where i need to go!

omg I FOUND THE LAST GREAT FAIRY

i'm. i'm 500 short. oh my god

nothing i can't earn with 10 minutes of cooking, tho

huh...? she only asked for 1k...?

i could've SWORN i read someone asks for 10k at one point!

god what if i've been MISINFORMED all this TIME

ooh this one is orange and green

FUCK "i know what you're thinking...can't we just skip to the part where she enhances my clothes?" FUCKING PLAYED

holy FUCK just found my first molduga...i have to KILL one of these for a quest? jesus christ!

ohhh that actually wasn't too bad at all once i figured out the strategy...i've had more trouble with lynels and hinoxes

i'll be honest, the interactive map take a bit of both fun and "work" out of exploring...i look at empty areas and don't wonder "ooh whats over there" but think "ah i can just glance at that bit"

which should make me feel like my Pure Enjoyment of the game is being compromised, and i guess it does a little, but

i wasn't kidding when i said the need to explore was a bit compulsive so it's mostly a relief

ah from up here i see the sandstorm...i think it rotates around the desert? so, it's very possible to avoid and survive even if you do get stuck

anyway i missed several shrines but the quests for them are so complex and i am so Sick

of the desert. even worse than rain tbh

now the question is what to do next: master sword or rito beast

lowkey wanna wait until i get all four beasts before the sword, but

i know you do all four beasts and then ganon and that's it, so if i got the sword then it wouldn't help me for long

plus i'm a little tired of fighting the temperature and changing gear/eating food all the time, so......i guess i'll go check out the forest

maybe i'll see dinaal! i've only seen him once from veeeery very far away

im getting aaaaawfully close to hyrule castle i Dont Like This

lmao every time i catch sight of the divine beasts in the distance, the fact that i can SEE them from THIS far away, blows my fucking mine

they are SO BIG

im getting a much closer look at that flying thing and i'm almost CERTAIN it's a divine beast

just. jesus christ. so BIG

ohhh my gosh i can see the giant pink tree from here *_*

or maybe it's brown, maybe the deku tree is dead lmao

lol straight up skipped the bottomless bog and the enemies at the bottom bc i glided in from death mountain

whoa this tower has rock all over the top??

ah maybe it's so i can't glide to the big tree in the middle lol

not the lost woods if i don't get lost!

lol jk i got on top of it and there was a super cool sword here

aww rauru hillside...im sad

BRO im in the lost woods but its just playing the maze shrine music, i was so hopeful for saria's song

zora's domain having the same music set me up with false expectations t b h

omg if i go too high i die!! i can't follow my higher-ground instict here!!!!!

which is pretty cool but if all i have to do is wander around these woods with my map ON to find the master sword i am gonna be disappointed

even gerudo desert turned it off sometimes

ohhh okay if i wander off the path i also die i can't just go wherever i gotta follow torches i guess

mkay i googled it bc i got stuck and couldn't see anymore torches and it's wind direction! neat

see i feel a little bad about not figuring that out for myself but like...it's not Fun to die over and over bc you can't solve a puzzle. so #realgamers can shut the hell up lol games are for fun

the ember thing is SUPER clever tho and like i know this game is so like, praised bc it stops holding your hand, but i would have appreciated a TINY obscure hint

i did get as far as carrying a torch but i thought maybe i was burning off the fog or smth

omg i found korok forest!!!

oh

there's my sword

said "oh" out loud

kinda wish the quest had been more, idk

but.

mmm not yet. not yet. i'll talk to some koroks first

haha and the very first one tells me to go get the sword all right all right

man. i always remember now that fi's been in there since the ages of skyward sword, sleeping

tbh i kinda miss her 

even though she's way more annoying than navi could ever DREAM of being

for all we complain about compaions, they're a zelda staple and it feels lonely without them

i know not having one makes for a stronger game, i do, but...

really though. the master sword quest was SHOCKINGLY easy. i know i looked up the ember thing but geez it's the first truly disappointing this about this game

and my brother told me they made you work for it lmao but that was. not even close to Work. i've had more trouble at bokoblin camps

like. fucking weak. tbh. i'm so sad like i can't believe this game let me down

OH MY GOD

I TRIED TO TOUCH IT AND THE MEMORIES OVERWHELMED ME

and like at first i was like "ok if link gets his memories back with the sword i'll give them that, that's pretty sick"

AND THEN THE GREAT DEKU TREE STARTED SPEAKING

AND IT WASN'T LOST WOODS MUSIC BUT IT WAS FOREST HAVEN MUSIC

and i straight up burst into tears

"i have watched over hyrule since time immemorial" i know i know i was there i know i missed him so much one of the very first major zelda characters i ever knew i know technically he hasn't been there since the very beginning but he was my beginning

and i didn't even think i cared about him that much emotionally but i also welled up the first time he spoke old hylian in wind waker

oh god link's not WORTHY of the sword yet yes okay i'm here for this i knew this game wouldn't let me down

idk why i never considered the big pink tree might be the deku tree like i joked about it just a few minutes ago but i didn't seriously consider it so i was so surprised

and all the koroks running around and i know i KNOW they used to be kokiri it's almost like i came home, Really Home, the forest was where link began for me, not hyrule proper, he was always a child of these woods

ohhh my god i gotta mop up my face stream is soon!! jesus fuck

oh god now he wants me to pull it again

what if i'm not worthy? what if i am?

i don't have long left to play but i CANNOT leave it here, jesus christ

okay. i'm gonna try. i gotta try. courage!

oh my god it takes your LIFE?

and he said enough when i was down to my last quarter of a heart!! i'm gonna cry i was so close link tried so hard but he wasn't ready yet

i could eat food to max out my hearts but where's the fun in that........

ok. ok. i need to. step back a moment. fuck.

there's hestu! oh my god buddy you finally made it home!! me too pal me too

im gonna save and quit here before i talk to him tho bc like. i gotta stream. but Wow. god Damn

I KNEW THIS GAME WOULDN'T LET ME DOWN!!!!

LMAO I LIED JK im playing a bit more after stream

i talked to the trial korok and "do all the shrines here, it's based on the trials the legendary hero himself did" im crying!!! thats some History!!!

oh my god the koroks are so CUTE??

oh no this is so precious they've been waiting for him

sdfgsfdg "nooo vegetarians everywhere nooo that's my face" i wish i had thought to taka e a snap of that but i cant get him to say it again

aw omg they set up little stores and they only have one of many items please please i'm so proud of them

they set up a little bed for me!! they don't even want my money to sleep there!! i'm sleeping in a tree again, just like i was in oot ;____;

tbh it's so fitting that i did the scary mysterious thing of trying to pull the sword at night and i'm meeting the koroks in the brightness of day

i saw a shield resting on this rock and i had a tiny heart attack like OMG THE HYLIAN SHIELD?!?

ok. ok. i did the trials. i'm gonna see if i can get the sword now??

lol i have the same amt of hearts im not leaving to find a goddess statue and i was trying to boost my stamina anyway but maybe the food boost will help? unless they dont let me use it, we'll see

aaah no it DOESN'T omg

well, maybe one more heart container will do it...?

ugh i don't wanna go back and do the desert ones

me: already fast-traveling

Great, A Sand Storm, Just What I Wanted

fuck i stopped by town and there's a secret club that sells gerudo clothes for men

LOL why.........do they think dudes will feel weird looking pretty? come on

they said there's a high demand so i choose to believe there are lots of gerudo transmen. anyway back to the forest i got two more heart containers i pray it's enough i was SO CLOSE before

I DID IT FUCK I ALMOST DIED BUT I DID IT

IM GONNA CRY JESUS CHRIST

ZELDA SEALED THE SWORD

she's been fighting 100 years and she has so much faith in link

more importantly she heard the sword speak to her im crying fi is in there fi and zelda/hylia meet again

her smile is like the sun, i would do much to feel its warmth upon me again ME TOO PAL im weeping my poor brave daughter i promise i'll save her i promise i promise

it's almost 7am but that was worth it. that was W O R T H I T