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I don't know who behind Cadence of Hyrule is responsible for making Shadow Link a playable character, but they have my eternal gratitude. I absolutely adore this lil' guy

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log number 2544

heeeeeey beach its me again comin at you wwith some hot planet updates

i literal havve hated myself recently to the point wwhere i typed that nd had to stop nd laugh but no that wwas terrible im so sorry but im not deletin it please just accept the stupidity

onto the subject at hand i guess i should do my first actual formal update since ... wwoww fivve months ago accordin to my last log to this wwebsites clock geeze im sorry i really meant to get to these sooner i just ,,,, you dont care

you hate me draibe nd you knoww it but wwhatevver these are my logs nd my journals nd you just gotta deal wwith it its not like anyone else cares about jack diddily shit

planet wwise i must inform you that i havve not found any that are good enough for us to stay long term--the closest being one with creatures wwe couldnt handle nd i doubt wwould alloww any of the lusii to stay thusly that removves the mothergrubs survvivval a good bunches so that one out unfortunately

it is a lovvely picnic planet though wwould recommend as a pitstop to let the younglings run around ? just an idea ..... though keep them head counted

another thin to update is tester 8 has been poppin around on the radar but i cannot pinpoint wwhere she is she doesnt not seem to be one to care much for anythin other then her pushy spiderlusus gettin fed--understandable but she doesnt think a the bigger picture like i try to do .... not the best but i TRY at least

tech nd zeze havve both been gainin wweight easily nd ivve been wworkin to get the twwo in better condition zee has stopped eatin sopor nd instead eats a healthier fruit that wworks the same so they stay safer tech has just started gettin feelings back in their toes after the surgery on the mothership nd his psionics are comin back um .....

i had more but i cant think a it at the moment .... i guess thats evverythin ... oh !!! nd for the Empress i gots somefin for you ! um .... sorry if its stupid but its a thank ya [youdontgottakeepit.obj] 

this is eridan star ampora signin off until next time

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The funniest thing about legato would be that he literally just has to slip up once when explaining

And the chain will grow ten times more concerned about him then they are already

Like telling them he has done adventure stuff for over 8 years (concerned as hell )

Explaining the situation off the hytopia gladiator thing in a tiny bit too little detail (concerned about the fighting pit legato could have grown up in if he did dangerous stuff since he was a toddler or something)

Telling them he died to a fairy because he tried to kill it (leaving out the Kamikaze part obviously) (very very concerned )

Telling them he knew links before… back track from the statement and now the chain thinks his family all called link are his dolls in hytopia and he doesn’t have a family (CONCERNED)

Accidentally mention romance and how destroyed he was afterwards to cheer someone up …. Forgets he is assumed as a child and then failing to notice the very pale and horrified faces of the chain … no way to backtrack …she dead anyway ? (it made things worse)(game over for him the chain ain’t gonna let him breathe by himself now)

Like if he tries to explain without revealing too much he going to shoot himself in the leg ten times over and then have to fight god to prove he can be left alone for more ten ten seconds lol

Oh yeah, you have no idea how much I've had to restrain myself from having Legato casually drop some absolutely brutal info about himself XD

Just consider: Legato has been a hero for around twelve years, which is coincidentally how old the others think he is. He has to be careful about mentioning literally anything about his past simply because something that happened four years ago carries very different implications for a kid than it does a young adult.

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Hello again—I come bearing another LU Doppelgänger AU question!

Hopefully this isn’t a spoiler or anything but I was curious about what age each member of the group thinks Legato is?

Like we know that they think he’s younger than Wind based on his diminutive stature so that sets up an age range of 12 and under. And based on Time’s experience, the lower range a hero appears is like 9-10 years old so we got our lower bound.

(I have no idea on how old Legend was in his very first adventure but he was also very young and given his relative age in the group—late teens to early twenties—he was probably around Time’s initial age at the start.)

So given these assumptions, the oldest he can be is 12 and the youngest is between the ages of 10-11. They know he’s been on two adventures which would take at LEAST a year minimum if he had bad luck and got hit with them one after another.

Wind’s journey starts off with him at 12 and by the time he’s finished both Hyrule Warriors and Phantom Hourglass—he’s anywhere from 13 1/2 to nearly 14. So entirely doable to do two quests in a year or so.

Legato’s behavior also works as a confounder since he’s a good mix of optimism, trust, and wisdom. Legato is very cheerful and has a lot of trust in the group at the start that from an outside perspective can make him appear really young and naive. However certain members have been exposed to Legato’s more mature qualities such as his ability to understand and articulate complex emotions (high emotional intelligence) and his worldly experience (magic knowledge, gladiator work, etc.).

So I think some members will view him closer to being around 12 (Four and Wind) and others closer to 10-11 (Twilight?) but I’m not sure on specifically where each member falls on this kind of scale.

Thanks!

Hello! You nailed it pretty much exactly on the head--the general consensus among the group is that he's 12. Both for the reasoning you used, and because of how the others see him in comparison to Wind (whose age is known). There's his size and disposition to take into account, but overall it's mostly that nobody wants to consider that he might be younger than that.

The Chain doesn't think about his age much beyond him being the 'youngest'. Out of everyone, Warriors and Twilight see him more on the young side (ie if asked they would guess the lowest ages for him).

Fun fact! Four is the one who sees him the oldest, mostly because he's judging purely based on Legato's knowledge and behavior. He is the only one who actually suspects that Legato might be the same age or older than Wind--he doesn't see appearance as a reliable measure. Time would also be here but ironically due to his own life experiences he thinks he's biased and doesn't trust his instincts on the matter.

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Hm, I don't think I have any weird--oh.

If I finish an olive or pickle jar, I'll drink some of the juice/brine/whatever you call it. Not all of it, since I've been told that it's bad for my health, but about half of whatever's left.

Oh, and string cheese/cubed cheese and pretzels are fantastic together. It's my default snack, in fact! The mildly weird part is that I store cheese sticks in the freezer (so they last longer if I take them out of the house), and will absolutely nibble on them while they're still frozen.

I'm just gonna open this to anyone who sees this and wants to answer, since otherwise I'll spend far too long figuring out who to tag XD

Gonna try starting a tag game!

Share your weird eating/drinking habits-I’ll start!

My favourite tea is not really tea at all, you see, I get your casual lemon flavoured tea and I put a whole tablespoon of honey in. ATP I just like drinking diluted honey

Oh and I also spread things onto bread using spoons instead of butter knives >:3

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Collectively, the group can figure out most of Legato’s secrets but individually, they are stuck. Certain members have more pieces than others but not enough pieces to figure out the whole thing.

(I don’t blame them for not talking about Legato’s oddities because Legato has been pretty good at diverting attention and people are only now realizing the extent of it and they’re trying to be respectful to each other’s experience by not trampling on old wounds. Pressing someone for their adventure details also opens up the possibility of others asking about there’s and no one wants that.)

Now onto groups that if they talked could figure out some of Legato’s everything!:

Legend and Four: Legato’s from Downfall Timeline and is probably after Legend and either before Hyrule or after him. Four heard Legato make a mention to hostile River Zoe’s back in Legend’s Hyrule and this type of Zora is most common in Pre-Time-split and in the Downfall Timeline. Furthermore, the way Legato brought it up—offhandedly like it’s common knowledge/phrasing in his era—means that Zora being aggressive is normal to him thus eliminating Wind, Time, and Wild from being close to his era. Legend figured out that Legato already knew that he could turn into a pink rabbit beforehand so that implies either time travel shenanigans or stories of that being passed down into Legato’s era—thus Legato has to come after him at some point.

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Very random but if the chain ever happens to visit legend's time again

Or even worse they happen to visit legato’s era and get dropped in front of legend's hut

And Ravio happens to be there …

Oh boy , I can only imagine the sheer salt and acidity in legato’s entire being as Ravio ends up getting “friendly” with Legend

While legato is seething with rage in the background at the display of affection and feeling deeply hurt at it

Because Ravio would always rather choose his older still hylian and more mature looking self over him

He did prove it when he got back to him

Even if legato felt so much more comfortable as a dopple Ravio would only see it as his death being disgraced by this circumstances

He did never get to hold a funeral for legend

Legend died in his eyes and a doppelgänger took his place not giving him the opportunity to mourn

Which both probably are in the right in some way because Ravio couldn’t bare it any longer to see legend get hurt over and over again while he sees him become less and less the person he once was for better and worse

While legato was given the opportunity to no longer be in pain at the expenses of his mortal body and he was more or less comfortable with the losses of many things that came with being a dopple the eventual rejection would hurt in a way nothing ever hurt before

He lost Marin through circumstances and it hurt

But he never experienced the kind of pain of being rejected by someone he loved the way he was now

While he still has to deal with the fact the person is alive and very much just over it

He probably copes like shit with it because he has no idea what to do about it other then put it in a box and pray he never has to deal with it (master at suppressing trauma and pain that he is)

He already is kinda unhappy about the way he looks

It would get so much worse when he sees that Ravio likes legend more (even if it is a version of Ravio who doesn’t even know who the random kid that looks at him with ill intent even is )

The sheer hit to his self esteem would be the equivalent of a nuke going off

Complete annihilation

The sheer amount of jealousy that would then proceed to generate towards legend as a result (even if he doesn’t want to)

Lil guy would throw a hissy fit at the very notion of legend and Ravio being in general proximity while he can’t do anything about it

And he is both happy for them and also intensely bothered because he knows exactly how painful it would be when it ends and he doesn’t want this pain for legend to experience as well

The chain meanwhile would be concerned why Ravio seems to bother legato too such an intense degree

He would have a hard time explaining why exactly he is seething at Ravio and probably get Ravio killed by accident when he messes up one single excuse for his intense sad meow meow behavior and why he wants to protect legend from the guy who kinda broke up with him and he never really had the time to get over it but that part he obviously can’t name lol he just doesn’t like scammers and there is no other reason whatsoever

But with the context that he is in a very very exploiting industry

By himself with no real support system

And apparently hates scammers with a passion to the point where he throws his first ever tantrum in front of the chain over it

When he always seemed to be a happy go lucky lil dude with only sunshine and rainbow energy to the point where getting maimed and being on the death bed is taken with a smile and no problem

He still is legend after all he can get bitter as a lime it would probably need a lot nonetheless because he is hanging around with his brothers to get his mood sour enough to metamorphose back into legend … like having to deal with his ex and a version of himself who he hopes won’t get dealt just as horrible of a hand as him

The chain gotta wonder just how worse it can show itself to be

Okay, quick disclaimer before I fully answer this: Ravio's side of things is more complicated than Legato knows. The situations you're describing would not play out that way in the series due to a variety of factors.

That said, I do enjoy angst and can appreciate the directions you're taking with this, so let's get into it :D

Either way you go, Ravio would probably be more comfortable interacting with Legend. And as you mentioned, Legato has a tendency towards avoidance whenever he can get away with it--he spent most of their visit to Legend's era hiding away and not really interacting with anyone.

Granted, he was able to get away with this because of the incident in Kakariko. Everyone thought he was upset about that and elected to give him space so long as he didn't wander too far. This would not be the case should they end up in Legend's era again.

With the newfound context that Legato is Legend's sort-of successor, Legato would have to be careful about the others interpreting his awkwardness as meaning something regarding Ravio's future. He could play it off as trying to avoid influencing the timeline too much with what he knows of it. But if he slips...

A Plot: Legend has a (not so) mild crisis, spiraling as he tries to figure out what Legato's attitude towards Ravio means. Time and Twilight try to reassure him but fail miserably due to their own personal struggles with trying to fix the past--ultimately Wild turns out to be the voice of reason, to everyone's surprise (minor callback to that LU comic about Kings of Hyrule, wherein Wind lectures Wild about fighting for the future).

B Plot: Legato sneaks off since staying in Legend's house will drive him insane, Wind and Four follow him. Wind specifically points out that it'll be good to have him along for emergencies since his pirate charm can connect to Wild's slate. They get to have a fun day of visiting the different treasure caves and mini games (and trying to cheat at them) scattered around central Hyrule. As a nice break from the angst.

C Plot: Warriors, Sky, and Hyrule are checking in with Fable at the castle. Warriors does most of the talking, while Sky and Hyrule hang back and get to wander around the castle. They talk about legacy and what it means, both as a predecessor and a successor. Their conversation mirrors some of the stuff from the A plot, in that terrible things may happen in the future but the most you can do is try to keep going and leave something for future generations to work with.

Anyway the whole thing concludes when everyone regathers at Legend's house, and it's Warriors who accidentally lets slip that Ravio was part of the War of Ages, and that's probably why Legato was worried but insisting that it all was fine. Legato is quick to latch onto that excuse and run with it.

(Ravio is very panicked about how he'd fare in a war, but quickly warms up to the idea when it's pointed out that he could make a lot of money through opening a shop in Warriors' Era. Legend now has a new thing to worry about.)

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This isn't at all what you're going for, but I love the concept that the shadow was traveling across the timeline for something unrelated to the heroes. Like, the shadow turns around and does a double take because each hero independently saw a weird portal and decided to walk through.

Everything happens afterwards seems haphazardly thrown together because the shadow decided to commit to this whole dramatic crossover event and is making it up as they go.

So, there's an important question that I (personally) haven't seen being asked yet, so I'm going to speculate, because that's the good and proper thing to do when you don't have information, context, or anything whatsoever to inform your thoughts on a matter 👍

So yes, my big question is: why is the shadow hopping times to begin with?

We know that the chain is following the shadow, so we know why they are hopping through eras and going through these gates, but why does the shadow make them? We've seen that he's the source of the gates, and the boys have recently figured that out too, but why? Why is he making them? Why does he need to travel through time and does he have any control over it?

So far, we've seen two portals opened. Once it was in an attempt to escape our boys, but the second time? They already thought he was dead, so there was nothing to run from. They're not existent as a form of escape from the boys, but the fact that they opened in all of the heroes' eras and timelines to bring them together at all would either imply that the shadow has gathered them on purpose (popular theory) or perhaps that there's something in their worlds that he wants/needs.

What is he up to while our boys are bonding and traveling? Is he on the worlds worst grocery/errand run For Evil while nine heroes constantly try to stop him? Is his reason for traveling across times perhaps to gather something? Pieces of a something?

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the black blooded monsters are a distraction to keep the boys busy, but there's also just the chance that the shadow is trying to kill them and thus empowering his army as much as possible. Still, that doesn't explain why he'd use the gates, even if it was just to gather a monster army.

Is he working for someone? Is there a bigger bad somewhere? Is he doing this of his own free will, and in that case, what is he doing? Why do the boys matter in the equation?

Perhaps- and I'm just spit baling right now- the shadow is gathering some sort of supplies, pieces of something, some artifacts or tools. He's gathering something while the boys wander cluelessly after him. He needs them to follow, needs to keep them close, but not too close on his tail. Why? Because he needs their power, or something that can be only achieved with all of them at once, in one place.

Is he planning to use them like magical batteries for some purpose? Is he going to pit them against puzzles and dungeons and foes he can't handle himself, in order to sweep in and reap the rewards? Why bring the heroes with? Why leave a clear path to follow him if he really wanted to escape?

What is the shadow's goal here?

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Will the chain encounter legato specific monsters

Like getting screwed over by a Mimic chest never happened in any other game that must be devastating for them

I fear chests

Now that the shadow's gotten into Legato's era, it's certainly possible for them to run into some of his new enemies!

...yeah, I don't think they'd ever fully recover from their first Mimic Chest encounter. Wind's and (young) Time's chest opening animation has them climbing in the darn things, and the others tend to stick their head in. You just know that they'd become uncomfortably aware of all the times that could have gone super badly for them. Betrayed by a hero's greatest joy 😔

I imagine that Wild's habit of kicking chests open will be more widely practiced after watching one try to take a bite out of them XD

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I know that the whole reason I kept my old laptop was for situations like this, but it still feels wrong.

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in honor of LU Doppelgänger AU’s most recent chapter—have some memes!

Four:

I loved seeing the dynamic of the Colors in the story and I loved Red especially. That guy has been stewing for days in this issue and he finally got to express all his upset and it was V I C I O U S.

Fun to read, absolutely awful for Wild!

Thank you dearly but how on earth did you make these so quickly--

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Thank you for the tag! ^-^

LU12 Duped

LU13 Ballistic Dummy

FSA Green Everyone's Left

Botw Time Loop

LoZ Unattended Children

LU Four Solitary

LU Neverland

Yeah I have literally dozens of other wips but these are the ones that I've worked on in the last month.

Okay this is bad tag game etiquette but I glanced at other reblogs and it seems like everyone that I immediately think of tagging for this has already been mentioned, so I'm just gonna open this to whoever is interested in joining.

Tagged by @waythroughtheice (but making a new post so the other one doesn't get bogged down with everyone's WIPs)

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Here's my WIPs I actively think about, all of which are LoZ based:

Chapter 8 (original legend AU)

Kakariko (original legend AU)

Lost Woods (original legend AU)

Scarabs and Scorpions (original legend AU)

Broken Vessel

BV Sequel

TeLink part iii

Anyway, as far as tagging... @mistresslrigtar @daemosdaen @mailrebel @poposusz @zolanort if you want to, but don't feel like you need to!

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I'm literally so excited to see the og Chain's replies to Legato's letter. I can only imagine the utter chaos of "WHAT- HUH?!?" That will come from that.

Will they give him advice on changing little details of the quest? Ask him to push on to reveal something earlier than what originally happened? Will someone tell Legato to play a silly yet very specific prank on their past/alternate self?

I can see all of it happening, and I know that whatever you choose to do (even if it's none of these options) it's going to be amazing because you are such a wonderfully talented author!

Thank you so much for sharing this story with us to read!

Aw, thank you!! It's been a pleasure to share it <3

As for their reactions, you pretty much got it all down. After the initial wave of letters that amounts to "we know your gimmick is having done this all before but wtf Legend", there's a lot of curiosity about their alternate selves.

I probably won't spend much time on their exact correspondence, but everyone ends up asking Legato what he thinks of these different versions of them--with varying degrees of directness and insecurity. It's a weird situation all around. Legato definitely takes a few days figuring out the best way to word everything since it's a delicate balance between being enthusiastic about his new brothers and not wanting it to sound like he's replacing them.

OG!Time and Warriors are the most focused on helping Legato plan out changes to the timeline, whereas Twilight and Wild are trying to serve as emotional support so that he doesn't feel like he's solely responsible for the well-being of the new Chain. Everyone else falls somewhere between those extremes.

(OG!Wind is the first to help him plan a prank. The other Wind catches Legato halfway through him executing it and demands to join in.)

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Hello!

Any chance Legato will ever meet the Colors?

I can think of a couple reasons why it might happen but also an equal number of reasons as to why Four wouldn't.

I think Four might explain the Four Sword without demonstrating splitting itself though. Just on account of the two being friends and Legato's interest in magical weaponry. So Four might be comfortable explaining that part if he feels up to it.

Honestly, I just kind of miss seeing the Colors even if we only really got to see them once. I think Red should get to hug their friend after he went and got axed. I'm also just curious about the possible dynamic Legato would have with them since while they are all Four, they all express different priorities.

Anyway, I think there's a non-zero possibility of Legato meeting the Colors but also I don't think it's very likely to occur.

Hello!!

Yeah, that's pretty much my thought process regarding it--there are fun things I could do with it, but there isn't much reasoning for why Four would reveal it to Legato at this point. Thankfully hugs and quality time can still be had when merged ^-^

So, to put it shortly: maybe, though I don't see Four splitting in front of him anytime soon.

With that in mind...let's just say that something might happen in Hytopia that'll cause Four to start wondering if Legato already knows. After all, the Wolfie reveal proves that he's good at figuring out and keeping those kinds of secrets.

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Hey okay so I know I've sent a lot of ask recently but I just got hit by a ton of revelations while reading Duped and I need to scream.

In the most loving way possible and with so much respect for your writing and universe, pray we do not meet because it is ON SIGHT.

Hey so you know that feeling when you start reading something that re-contextualizes everything you know about a character and how they act?

That's me right now!

(Its like entering a building knowing that you have to duck a little to get through the entrance except you misjudged how much you had to duck and slam your head into the frame. You saw the obstacle but didn't notice how much space it took up until it was too late!

I knew Legato was having issues with alienation and forming connections and generally being self-sacrificial except Duped came out and suddenly everything was so much worse than I realized for my favorite little guy.)

Now Duped by itself was fine! Heartbreaking and a wonderful prologue to the series that establishes Legato's mindset going into it but then I finished writing my commentary/analysis on Four & Legato throughout Puppet Show to To Dance on a String. And then I did a comparison between Porcelain Veneer and To Dance on a String and I proceeded to get hit with so many realizations all at once.

What do you mean Legato's profound sense of alienation and self-sacrifice at the start of the series is partly stemming from his grief over losing Ravio?

Ravio, his Lorulean(?) counterpart, who followed him back to Hyrule and stayed and became his home.

What do you mean Legato has been operating on the assumption that his home abandoned him without warning (again).

(His uncle left him first. Died in the sewers and left Legato alone to save a kingdom. The guards who were supposed to protect him as a citizen of Hyrule tried to murder him on his first adventure without questioning why they were attacking a 9-10 year old child. The villagers who half raised him who did things that Legato avoids thinking about during his first adventure in Puppet Show.

Marin and Koholint Island in general.

Chain ver. 1.

Cadence whose relationship with both Legato and Zelda hasn't been discussed.

That's all the ones I can think of on the top of my head without research and it definitely doesn't include all of his games.

Legato doesn't get to keep the people he cares about in his life. He had Ravio. He sort of has Zelda but he also doesn't because she has a duty to Hyrule at large above anything else and she's stuck in the castle more often than not while Legato is out there.)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN LEGATO LOST THE PERSON WHO HAS CONSISTENTLY CALLED HIM OUT ON HIS BS AND FOUGHT FOR LEGATO AND NOT THE HERO OF LEGEND

Their relationships had a rocky transactional beginning but it would be false to say that Ravio doesn't care now. He cares so much about Legato now!

His last words to Ravio were about it being better to die than to abandon someone in need and then Legato proceeds to do exactly that in Cadence of Hyrule. He doubles down so hard on that belief that he dies repeatedly. It's almost like he needs to make a point to himself! Or worse that he doesn't care now that he's lost his strongest anchor point to the world!

Legato loves being a hero and traveling and meeting people but he's doing it at his own detriment.

I've had this little joke to myself since I started writing my Four & Legato commentary that Ravio is Legato's missing purple self as a funny haha thing.

NO IT IS NOT A FUNNY HAHA THING ITS A VERY SAD AND SHARP KNIFE!

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I HAVE TO REVIEW ALL MY ANALYSIS AND THE SERIES WITH THIS CONTEXT

THAT'S NOT EVEN CONSIDERING LEGATO ALREADY GRIEVING CHAIN VER. 1.

(There are some parallels in Legato & Four's relationship that I can see echoes of in Legato & Ravios relationship but the dynamic isn't the same because Four is a hero and Ravio isn't.

Ravio understands and contrasts Legato in such important ways and will always care more about Legato than Hyrule.

And I don't think Four can do that.)

Yeah so if we ever meet I will have to fight you on principle after all of this.

It shall be a duel for the ages! >:D

Do you realize how agonizing it was to talk about Legato's thought process throughout the series without bringing up Ravio??? Like you're fully justified in screaming but I assure you I have suffered in turn XD

The nature of Ravio's departure was something that I kept forgetting was a secret. But yeah, Legato was indeed operating on the (very untrue but reasonable under the circumstances) belief that Ravio finally got tired of dealing with him and left without so much as a goodbye.

It creates a bit of an interesting parallel between his first and second time adventuring with the Chain. If traveling with ver. 1 of the Chain taught him that it was okay to open up and care for people again, ver. 2 is about him getting it hammered into his head that he is loved. That his loved ones are just as unwilling to let go of him.

Yeah, Legato's love for adventuring has kind of gotten distorted. He's still genuinely having a good time in most instances and will say so if asked. But for a while there he felt like it was the only thing he had left. It defines his whole life--which is a bit more concerning for an apparent child than it is for Legend (which is something I wanna address in the future if circumstances allow).

All in all: Duped was challenging to write but I'm thrilled to see that it had its intended effect <3