#take them out of my hands

[rayno-minior]

what follows are *my* personal headcannons of Dove, and their backstory.

fair content/trigger warning: small mentions of blood, mild hinted brain damage/brain aneurysm(?)

Well, I had the idea that my Dove's parents were a weather forecaster and a journalist. They're both unattuned but they do know about this aspect of the world. So when they found out about Dove being an attuned of the clairvoyant variety, they're parents funded a lot of money and time for Dove to hone their sorcery, to be used for a food purpose.

Dove would still have been very young when it started, maybe about 7 or 8, but they had a good enough grasp on their visions to decipher when they happen. Things would start when their weather forecaster parent would ask Dove if they could take a peak into what the future weather report was going to look like. It would start seeing clear skies, light showers of rain, strong winds, etc. And it all was pretty accurate from the time frame.

But one day Dove would be seeing a big flood was coming for their town in about two weeks. And it happened, destroyed half of the town but the population was save thanks to the warning of Dove's vision.

Which would've been celebratory but their journalist parent became very high on the admiration of their family, their child saving the town and being able to write about it. They would start to push Dove to specifically watch for bad visions. Which was a very stressful time for the poor Dove. Eventually the stress got so bad, they were getting constant streams of unfortunate future events, it would actually have them bed-ridden because migraine, hyperventilation and intense shivering.

When they pushed beyond their breaking point, they had a blood vessel in their brain burst and spit blood, from the stress of being pushed to see the worst of the future. It had them hospitalized for a while (it could've been between days and a month). Both their parents were distraught at the development, it definitely knocked the journalist parent out of the clouds and grounded them immensely. They never asked Dove to look into the future after that, they didn't want their child suffering under it again.

After that event, and the damage on their brain that still needed to heal, Dove's vision became very fuzzy, muddled, and unclear. The rare clear visions would be very fractured and out of order, there was no saying which of them would happen first, if at all. So they wouldn't even be able to use their sorcery for their parents, even if they wanted to.

With that their outlook on the future, their future felt very cold, empty and numb. As a way to cope with it they'd develop the shameless confidence we see in the audios.

It was when meeting Cyril that their visions started become brighter again. Still fractured and out of order, but brighter, lighter. Which is why they would become his personal terror, to be with the person that is quite literally, the light at their tunnel.

phew. I had fun writing this out. I hope the bit of angst wasn't heavy on the stomach.

Please remember this is just my personal headcannon of Dove's upbringing. Our different iterations of Dove can exist together 🙏 feel free to share if you want to

[citree]

I just want to start a flame in your heart~ 🔥🧡🔥

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[hinamie]

close again and closer still

[mellosdrawings]

So... heat waves are fun (not)

(Bonus : Mama Jamil)

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[evenlyevi]

Girls' night

[narsh-poptarts]

my dark link thoughts coalesced into wonderful headcanons and crazy amounts of forced perspectives and dutch angles

also sorry HW i would have included your dark link(s) but i do not have passion for your game <3 maybe next time

Some thoughts below

I have thoughts about dark link that boil down to basically two things: 1. it's always the same dark link, and 2. dark link has a very difficult time changing.

No matter how many times dark link is brought into existence, he is formed from the shadow of link usually to test link's will. that shadow can be duplicated (as seen in HW) but generally speaking it's the same guy, sharing the thought space, you know how it is. In terms of sentience/thinking for himself, I don't think there's all that much of it. He is a dark reflection/shadow of link, so shares his abilities and thought patterns (for combat) with added aggression and. evil. i guess.

As said by navi, "conquer yourself", and all that. He's a challenge to the inner will power.

That being said!!! he can have a little bit of individuality, as a treat. Just in the form of being mean and sadistic <3 he's got thoughts, he's not just a combat doll (tho in times of low power, or a greater power having the reins, he reverts to that), so he can be frustrated, vindicated, happy, etc etc. though when your thoughts are mainly "evilevilevilevilevil" your idea of these emotions are a bit skewed.

When he's summoned for each different link, i hc that it's all the same magic, so the same dark link every time. he "remembers" in an abstract sense of his role in the same way a link or zelda "remembers" their own reincarnation. tho his is less of a reincarnation and more being used over and over again. a persistence.

The iteration that's summoned reflects the current link at the time, the part of link that needs testing/defeating, so it's not an existence that he himself can change to match the present. he's locked to that first copy/shadow only. So if he were to have a second encounter with an older link, he'd look like the first time they fought, unless he was specifically re-summoned. i hc he's got limited magic, so this is not something he can do himself.

in a links-meet scenario, his form would be limited to those specific forms of the links, and it would always be the points in time in which he first encountered them, unless there's other magic either he or someone else has access to to allow him to change forms to match.

now you might be saying at this point "wouldn't he be a weaker match if he was put up against an older link?" yeah probably lol. but also!!! i like the idea that with the limited magic he has, he's able to change juuuust enough to stay relatively evenly matched. being able to play to different strengths and all that. but the base stuff is still the same, so he is decently easy enough to read if link remembers the kind of stuff he was pulling back when he originally fought dark link.

dark link also knows about all this so while limited to the particular skillset, is able to adapt slightly.

but yeah been thinking a lot about a links-meet au where dark link is there choosing a different link to be every time he appears to the party.

though there are a couple links that he never impersonates in their games!!! so can't change into those guys unless he gets a new round of copycat magic.

Anyways goodbye guy standing there with standard camera angle, i have dutch angles and forced perspective

[hellouniversehowareyou]

precious idiots

[mossy-paws]

these fuckass robots that I hate /aff (Ultrakill x PHIGHTING!)

the girls are PHIGHTING! again

[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

[larabar]

moodboard

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A fierce duel commences!

[decarbry]

heroes always stop

[dapurinthos]

forever annoyed at the lack of non-woven jedi garments. excuse you, fibrecraft is the basis of society. where are they getting their cloth from? are they weaving it themselves? are they spinning it themselves? where is the knitwear. you cannot tell me that there are no sweaters in the jedi order. there are probably hideous sweaters made from fourteen different colours of yarn because they're made from the wool leftover from other projects. all of the colours manage to clash. and embroidery is just too good for teaching patience. hand-sewing in general is good and meditative.

these people are going to be darning their own socks, patching holes in their robes. they are going to have needles and thread in their survival kits and know how to hold the cloth tension just right with the force so they can re-weave the bigger holes by using tiny, straight sticks to hold the warp in place.