#the HILARITIES. i think it gets to the point where link is like DAAAAAAD SHADOW TRIED TO DROP ME IN LAVA AGAIN (<-lying through his teeth)

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i think the reason it's so much fun to me personally to imagine post-manga link and shadow (with shadow having regained a body somehow) with like. sibling-adjacent energy. is just the sheer hilarity that would be trying to fucking explain where this mysterious new twin brother of his came from and why he's Definitely Not the guy who was out destroying villages and shit. no that was a totally separate guy wdym. and then link turns to his dad for help and his dad is like Listen. I agreed to let the shadow demon live in our house. I did not agree to explain WHY. YOU brought him home YOU take responsibility for him. and link gets about two letters into making up the worst possible new nickname for shadow to take as his """""twin""""" """""""brother"""""""" until shadow interrupts him by going straight for the throat screeching about how he is NOT going to be named LONK, LINK!!!!!!!!!!!! and then they're rolling around on the ground trying to strangle each other with their dad standing over them with the facial expression equivalent of "For Fuck's Sake". i know in my soul that at least one time link would be yelling at shadow to get out of his room and shadow would be like "I'M NOT IN YOUR ROOM!!!!!!" *has one toe crossing the threshold of his room* and link somehow harnesses the power of sheer unbridled rage to split into four again to chase him through the house. and then they can't figure out how to fuse back together again without the four sword so it just becomes this whole thing