weepingtalecowboy

[weepingtalecowboy]

Sorry…

But legend annoyed me too much to not have diabolically traumatic experiences for him and his friends

Broken doll

The second part of this post I made :

After the chain found out about legend being a doll tension was lifted from the chain

Especially warriors who thought he permanently damaged his friend

(It happened once already it couldn’t happen twice)

Yet another fight with the shadow was all it took for everything to get out of control

Legend got taken down by a lucky hit, … a brutal one but he would be fine.

He did say in the worst case he could immediately leave to the other doll he had

Yet apparently the shadow takes prisoners this time

(Not again)

The priority didn’t changed to rescue,… he couldn’t make it higher priority, not after seeing the results of losing battle for a rescue personally

But at least legend would be better off then any other soldier

Warriors and the chain went after the shadow as fast as physically able

As soon as the fight was over the next mission took priority immediately

Following the shadow through its portal and praying that legend will be found alive , … how often has he decided on the wrong decision and found just a body by the end.

Yet the Yiga hide out only made warriors more paranoid

They are much more likely to interrogate for information if they are people, he knew from own experience.

Maybe finding a body killed quickly would be better than alive , or having suffered before death.

The injuries were always gruesome and painful if they were caused by something that thinks

A monster just bashes your skull in , a person would think where it would hurt the most and cull the slowest.

As the chain sneaks further inside the hide out they split in pairs , no use for fire power or men power if you are outmatched in enemy territory

The faster the mission ends the more efficient and safer will it end in such a case

It was him and one other hero who became witness of the taken hostage

The sight was sickening to witness

Vile in a way that only a person could cause

Just like always when you made the wrong call and see the result

A broken body hung from a rope covered in… oil(?) black darkened liquid

The relive was almost too good

That's right Legend would have left the body before they had a chance, he knows he can escape pain and would rather leave than endure if possible.

Yet looking at the body of the doll , it was cracked and broken face ripped, limbs twisted or torn ,treads hanging from them like they would connect them.

It reminded him too much of a broken body hanging from a noose then a broken doll

Yet carrying it out like that seemed wrong, not when it resembled his brother's body so much.

Covered up in a white sail cloth, it’s looked much more like a body then it did before, now the treads and wires are covered

the splintering limbs as well.

Only the darkening cloth surrounding a vaguely person shaped object was visible to them.

It reminded him of all the others who died before

He had no idea how to show it to the rest when they eventually had to bring the broken body to its family

He couldn’t distinguish it from a corpse no matter how much he reminded himself that it was just a doll

The weight that he was carrying was about the same

The shape

The darkening cloth showing where the injuries occurred

Or

Wouldn’t it be messed up if legend got taken dipped into his other doll immediately and the chain saw him only after a month of torment having to see his broken doll and carrying it with them in sky's cloth and wild's slate

While having a horrible time trying to disassociate the doll from a corpse no matter how much they keep trying to convince themselves that it is just a doll

While Warriors is hit the hardest because he knows how a mangled corpse from a failed hostage rescue mission looks like

Warriors was having war flashbacks (quite literally)

[weepingtalecowboy]

Broken doll

The second part of this post I made :

After the chain found out about legend being a doll tension was lifted from the chain

Especially warriors who thought he permanently damaged his friend

(It happened once already it couldn’t happen twice)

Yet another fight with the shadow was all it took for everything to get out of control

Legend got taken down by a lucky hit, … a brutal one but he would be fine.

He did say in the worst case he could immediately leave to the other doll he had

Yet apparently the shadow takes prisoners this time

(Not again)

The priority didn’t changed to rescue,… he couldn’t make it higher priority, not after seeing the results of losing battle for a rescue personally

But at least legend would be better off then any other soldier

Warriors and the chain went after the shadow as fast as physically able

As soon as the fight was over the next mission took priority immediately

Following the shadow through its portal and praying that legend will be found alive , … how often has he decided on the wrong decision and found just a body by the end.

Yet the Yiga hide out only made warriors more paranoid

They are much more likely to interrogate for information if they are people, he knew from own experience.

Maybe finding a body killed quickly would be better than alive , or having suffered before death.

The injuries were always gruesome and painful if they were caused by something that thinks

A monster just bashes your skull in , a person would think where it would hurt the most and cull the slowest.

As the chain sneaks further inside the hide out they split in pairs , no use for fire power or men power if you are outmatched in enemy territory

The faster the mission ends the more efficient and safer will it end in such a case

It was him and one other hero who became witness of the taken hostage

The sight was sickening to witness

Vile in a way that only a person could cause

Just like always when you made the wrong call and see the result

A broken body hung from a rope covered in… oil(?) black darkened liquid

The relive was almost too good

That's right Legend would have left the body before they had a chance, he knows he can escape pain and would rather leave than endure if possible.

Yet looking at the body of the doll , it was cracked and broken face ripped, limbs twisted or torn ,treads hanging from them like they would connect them.

It reminded him too much of a broken body hanging from a noose then a broken doll

Yet carrying it out like that seemed wrong, not when it resembled his brother's body so much.

Covered up in a white sail cloth, it’s looked much more like a body then it did before, now the treads and wires are covered

the splintering limbs as well.

Only the darkening cloth surrounding a vaguely person shaped object was visible to them.

It reminded him of all the others who died before

He had no idea how to show it to the rest when they eventually had to bring the broken body to its family

He couldn’t distinguish it from a corpse no matter how much he reminded himself that it was just a doll

The weight that he was carrying was about the same

The shape

The darkening cloth showing where the injuries occurred

Or

Wouldn’t it be messed up if legend got taken dipped into his other doll immediately and the chain saw him only after a month of torment having to see his broken doll and carrying it with them in sky's cloth and wild's slate

While having a horrible time trying to disassociate the doll from a corpse no matter how much they keep trying to convince themselves that it is just a doll

While Warriors is hit the hardest because he knows how a mangled corpse from a failed hostage rescue mission looks like

Warriors was having war flashbacks (quite literally)

[weepingtalecowboy]

… yeah I do lol

Walkie talkie duo (wind+wild) being able to talk to each other even post lu via the slate+pirate's charm though

Wind is able to talk to Aryll in Hyrule Warriors via his charm, so the charm can connect from different timelines 👀

Imagine like, in a wind goes to the war of eras post lu scenario, he talks to wild about how hard it is to reunite to wars+time but they don't know who he is oough

Wild going through totk post lu scenario, he talks to wind during his adventure via slate the entire time, like tells him about his weird arm and how worried for zelda he is and then immediately calls wind when he finds the truth about the light dragon ooooough

I have a lot of feelings for the walkie talkie duo

[weepingtalecowboy]

Why does this give

“Friends from different parts off the world who have different time zones so one always has a messed up sleeping schedule waiting for their friend to wake up and write” vibes

Honestly it would be diabolical if during the time travel adventures the magic walkie talkies just got connected to the wrong timelines

So while wind is in Hyrule warriors Wild is still link from age of calamity and has no idea who the hell is calling him

While Wild is in tears of the kingdom wind just started his first ever adventure and again they don’t know eachother

And while they are on linked universe they connect to each other because of close proximity

I am sorry

I swear

Walkie talkie duo (wind+wild) being able to talk to each other even post lu via the slate+pirate's charm though

Wind is able to talk to Aryll in Hyrule Warriors via his charm, so the charm can connect from different timelines 👀

Imagine like, in a wind goes to the war of eras post lu scenario, he talks to wild about how hard it is to reunite to wars+time but they don't know who he is oough

Wild going through totk post lu scenario, he talks to wind during his adventure via slate the entire time, like tells him about his weird arm and how worried for zelda he is and then immediately calls wind when he finds the truth about the light dragon ooooough

I have a lot of feelings for the walkie talkie duo

[weepingtalecowboy]

Yeah legend deserves to lose his body

As a lil treat

Nobody wants it anyway

Doll shenanigans are creepy by default

Fanfic prompt : Legend but he accidentally lost his hylian body somewhere in hytopia after he got his two dolls

And never bothered with finding it again because he doesn’t feel any pain in his bones ,… if he simply doesn’t have any bones.

And the joints can always be fixed or oiled to keep working and even be replaced in worst case scenarios

He certainly has the money to repair magical things and stuff

After link between worlds he also had someone who had experience with magical artifacts and could potentially fix them ,

… if not he still has another doll in his basement somewhere

Ravio considered himself the luckiest man alive to be both able of studying such a genius construct …

And also a house with no rent ,

A hylian citizenship AND a life partner ,

An opportunity to set up a very close to illegal shop (his weapons are NOT overpriced he swears on link's right arm ‘that he can replace with no problem’)

A legal business on creating Prosthetic limbs (no way is he going to let his knowledge of Link breaking off legs for stupid reasons NOT turn into a new business … he has way too much experience)

And even the favor of the princess

His life can’t be better and all because Link has been breaking limbs enough to get a permanent 50% off deal from the sheer knowledge of building prosthetics that Ravio got from rebuilding him over and over again when he stumbles back with half his body missing and face torn off…

(It was a horrible first experience to say the least)

When Ravio went on to go join the war of ages he was the go to guy to get perfectly functional… but ungodly overpriced prosthetics

He was not at all ashamed about being in love with a doll (nobody quite got the sentiment of that)

Wars was very much ignoring that

Tune for odd reasons kept snickering when Ravio spoke about how great his (probably not real) husband was

During linked universe Warriors and legend still bickered until …

Warriors after his night watch: *goes to check the pulse of the person closest to him just to be sure*

Warriors realizing that legend has no pulse , no signs of breathing ,no body warmth , no movement or twitch implying any signs of life : *starts aggressively trying to resurrect him … chest compressions*

Warriors obviously failing at it : “cries*

Legend hearing it : *opens eyes just to realize his brother broke his non self repairing rib cage*

The entire chain (minus Sky) was awake and ready for a fight

Just to see Warriors crying in relief and holding Legend (bro was reliving trauma that moment)

Afterwards he was really having a bad time with his bent rib cage and unfortunately being examined by a field trained soldier, a healer and then dragged to a doctor in the nearest village

But obviously they would have never assumed that Legend is a doll with full body mobility ,a sense of self and metal joints

They concluded that legend is overachieving with every new breath he takes and probably is about to die because of his weak heart beat ,

His very cold and rough skin in some places (fake magic skin is expensive … he can’t replace it every single time)

His very minimal breathing

The sheer horror Warriors felt when he realized the dent in legend's chest is simply not healing from when he broke the ribs by accident

Means that now everyone is convinced that legend will evaporate if they turn their eyes away

And Hyrule and Warriors are feeling horrible because they can’t fix it… or just make it slightly more bearable

NOTHING WORKS on him (it’s twilight's injury all over again)

It only got worse when legend told the chain that he has been having such problems since his last three adventures already (telling people he is an object never turns out well)

The chain became overly affectionate

The sheer amount of relive they felt when Ravio somehow fixed the dent

And the most intense anger when they realized that they were worrying for literally nothing

The chain finding out that Ravio fixed the worst damage: …. : ) finally he good

The chain when they realized that Legend was Ravio's doll in question: >:(

The chain reaction when legend admits he lost his body somewhere as if it is something acceptable to say : :o

The chain : how did you lose your body

Legend : accient :) silly mstke

[weepingtalecowboy]

Koholint wasn’t real

Fanfic prompt : you know how in link's awakening you wake up on an island that turned out to be the dream of the wind fish

That made me think that every character on Koholint was created and written by the dream god

It chose for Marin to fall in love with link

It chose to let her know that it was a dream

It chose to let the monster be somewhat aware of the dream

It chose for link to traverse the island and have to collect the instruments

It chose for link to see an appearance of it called the wind fish

It chose to make koholint disappear

It had full control

Every thought every single decision made by all characters

The god is the writer of the story

But if Marin appears in the war of eras how can it be

Because the god chose for her to appear and help win the war

It chose the stakes it chose the characters to appear

It already had chosen who lives and who dies in the war

It chose for link to realize that everyone around him was a dream

It chose to torture him with the knowledge that everyone is gone

It chose to keep sending link on adventure since he was created by the god

Every pain every injury

It chose for link to feel it to see the loss to feel the pain

It knew how he felt about it

They watched him suffer from it

He was as real as Marin

A tool for the narrative

The goddess knew his pain and even worse his very realization that he knew the goddess knew

The goddess decided for him

The goddess controls every thought , every decision

Every loss and every pain

Him knowing means she decided to let him know she knows all his feelings

For she can make him forget just as fast

She wanted him to know that the island koholint was gone because of him waking the wind fish

She chose all his adventures all his decisions

Even his questions for her

Even his hatred for her

His hatred for hylia was decided BY hylia

Every foe he fought was decided and scripted by hylia

Because he was as real as a dream

Even as eight other links appeared it was on her decision

And he realized in the moment she allowed him to realize

That she decided he wouldn’t know

She controlled legend just as much as she controlled the sun

She controlled dusk and echo as much as she controlled his life

She controlled her blood's destiny

She controlled everything related to him

Because Koholint wasn’t real

And he wasn’t either

Not since koholint or prior

Or legend realizing that he isn’t fucking real and then realized that the knowledge that he wasn’t real was decided by the goddess

And that hylia knows his pain personally because she creates it for him and the very knowledge was given to him by hylia for drama

And he really doesn’t want to be her favorite but also if he is boring she would lose interest in him and then he would cease to exist

Hylia a writer for real and her OC is Zelda

And her favorite is Legend

Because legend is a concept she gave life

Legend is a doll of her making

And also because torturing your favorite pet since they became a concept

Killing all off its kind then bringing one back to fight in a war then shove it back in a drawer

Making the little doll think that it was responsible for it

And then forcing it to interact with other people who have free will is hilarious

Even funnier if you make it think that all your other OCs have free will and let them be unaware of your influence

(We really should rescue her pet bunny and her other critters from her she is a horrible person… she a writer fr …girl leave the Zelda's alone they want agency or does she just not make them want agency and fix the problem while legend is having a mental breakdown she forced him to have)

The chain must feel so horrified by the reality of all their Zeldas being Hylia's dolls and lacking agency

Like WTF hylia

[weepingtalecowboy]

Hyrule Warriors strategy lol

Fanfic prompt: A thing I absolutely love about Hyrule warriors is how the game needs strategy and how said strategy evolves

You go from

“Please go there I will carry you there but please don’t run off”

Too

“GET OVER HERE RIGHT THIS SECOND OR ELSE…!,!”

like you end up barking orders like a literal drill sergeant

You have absolutely no faith that anyone would go where they need to

I spent more time in the menu barking orders than I did actually holding and taking over zones

Even funnier is how replaying the game absolutely makes a difference

Where in games like windwaker or twilight princess you are forced to progress slowly through the game

No matter how good you get at them you still need to wait for bosses to enter second and third phase

Or more specifically need to either tear down the barrier (or skip it but that’s hard) or turn into a hylian in both games

The only thing that changes is that you can play the game better and more reliably than before

In Hyrule warriors the learning curve makes replaying the game hilarious

Because the second you genuinely understand the strategy for the game you play it completely differently

Fighting Volga the first time is literally more about precisely mashing buttons and aiming at him every single time than anything else

I beat him in like ten seconds flat

Like from a time travel fix it perspective Hyrule warriors let’s you do everything immediately

Like imagine warriors getting sent back in time to the first ever fight in Hyrule warriors and literally the second he gets promoted he goes full drill sergeant mode on people

Where first time you learn the usefulness of dragging people to do stuff rather late

You also eventually don’t trust anyone to do stuff if you aren’t outright controlling them immediately

This time around warriors got the confidence to scream at people right after he got the promotion lol

It probably looks so funny when a near new recruit gets the audacity to threaten everyone the second he gets promoted

And then out drill sergeants a higher up and finishes missions in like half an hour the most (respect speed run )

But only because he scared everyone into obedience (like npcs run like they would die if they don’t get to the ordered position right this second)

And kept tabs on all the zones that need to be held

While also ignoring literally every enemy except the generals , redeads and other special forces (honestly redeads make NPCs a new level of ineffective… way to slow)

Only doing side missions for two seconds and then doing the main ones exclusively

And boosting moral like crazy (because of how fast you get side missions done)

You legitimately become a tank at some point in Hyrule warriors and not even replaying the entire game would balance it out

Tune and mask probably feared the captain when he went drill sergeant (and you go drill sergeant way too often in this game)

We need more drill sergeant warriors in the fandom

Because in the game nobody disobeys your orders and runs like their lives depend on it

The chain needs to experience drill sergeant warriors when fighting a boss (maybe dink)

No honor for the evil … you trap them in a corner and keep beating them into submission and don’t stop until they disintegrate

Cia didn’t even have a chance lol

We need more time travel where the character simply immediately becomes their best possible form because they simply had a growing as a person arc they could skip this time around

Arguing with that guy about stuff involving missions is probably not recommended

Time and wind just sit back and watch as warriors get into drill sergeant mode and wait till one of the links gets to do pushups

You have better luck with literally any other type of discussion but not military or mission related lol

[weepingtalecowboy]

There is an imposter among them

Fanfic prompt : Considering that every single toon link looks exactly the same except clothing (I know it is the art style but it is still hysterical to think about

Imagine how freaked out a Villain would be if they capture Four

They look away for a second

Then suddenly there is four of them

Then Wind tries to sneak in and the have to add another one

They look away again

Then the Triforce heroes appear for some reason(maybe a portal and hylia just happens to spit them out in the prison cell)

And now there are

8 of them

The toons just start to play cards while the Yiga freak out horrendously because where in the name of the calamity do they keep spawning from

Shadow joins as well

Then Spirit Tracks Link joins

Then Minish cap also joins ( because as long as it isn’t specifically shown that the link from a previous game is in a second one I will count them as separate because it would mean more toons)

And then legend joins as well (link's awakening because it would increase the toon count)

And the guards are terrified because there are like a hundred of them already

And then the chain appears and they just slowly turn and leave because that is too weird

Then the second the chain leaves the toons build the ultimate totem tower and ransack the entire hideout

And now the chain is outnumbered by toons

[weepingtalecowboy]

the better question is…

Why wouldn’t I !?!?!?

I hope you are aware that I LOVE seeing my favorites suffer

The wind's tune

Fanfic prompt : You know how people assume that the war of eras happens for Tune before linked universe

And how time and warriors would try to hide it but eventually it always ends up revealed for wind that he would end up helping them in the war

And wind would scheme and threaten them with pranks he could pull off as the one who knows them when they don’t know him

While time and Warriors would think “yep , that is definitely baby tune”

As they humor him and give him stories and their bond grows around the idea that wind would some day be tune

Every inside joke is shared and wind hopes someday he would get them as well

They end up being really close telling him so much

…

Yet after linked universe he never met them again

He waited for years hoping that a portal would open or something magical would happen

But even decades later he never got taken to the war of eras

Because Wind was't tune

He was never meant to go to the war

Another version of him did

All those inside jokes and jabs at him … he would never find out their origins

How they were hurt at him for never saying anything about meeting them prior when they shared everything

Maybe because he never met them

Tune never knew them before linked universe

Presumably because Tune never went on the adventure with the chain

Like wind never met mask and wars

Is their relationship built upon the relationship the three had prior even real

Because nobody was closer in the chain then them

or where they even close ?

Legend and Hyrule knew each other just on this adventure and gotten close

Yet it was genuine because they only knew each other as the adventure progressed

Twilight and Wild seemed to be in the same boat as he and the others

Wild knew him but who is to say that it was even this twilight

As he clearly wouldn’t be tune

Did wind steal connections from a version of himself who actually experienced them

He would never find out

For he was never going to be tune

Tune was on the adventure as a young adult

He wasn’t a young adult anymore

It hurt

[weepingtalecowboy]

Legend be like :

He tiny but he brother

Very important legend headcannon,

I see him as the physically weakest link as a baseline, he's relied on power bracelets and titan mitts his whole life, in some of his earlier games he can't even push a pot around. That and a bad diet his whole life.

That being said! How does he gain the respect of the macho gorons? He dances! Everyone's aware that the gorons have a movement culture but it's really in the oracle games you get to join in on their sessions.

Picture this, twilight and legend have to get through some goron sacred ground and they have to achieve "brother" status to get through. Twilight tosses their biggest guy no problem, but he's worried. Legend's so small, they're gonna crush him! And they made him take off all his gear waist up! He starts to try talking his way through it but legend shuts him up.

Legend gets up in the ring with the goron he's supposed to face, and proceeds to execute the most acrobatic breakdance routine twilight has ever seen in his damn life. The gorons go insane, egging him on. At the end of it they cheer and recognize him as a brother immediately. Legend puts his clothes back on and smirks back at twilight, still dumbfounded.

"They're never gonna believe you"

[weepingtalecowboy]

Wait why ! !!

🥲

(Please don’t/ half seriously joking)

The wind's tune

Fanfic prompt : You know how people assume that the war of eras happens for Tune before linked universe

And how time and warriors would try to hide it but eventually it always ends up revealed for wind that he would end up helping them in the war

And wind would scheme and threaten them with pranks he could pull off as the one who knows them when they don’t know him

While time and Warriors would think “yep , that is definitely baby tune”

As they humor him and give him stories and their bond grows around the idea that wind would some day be tune

Every inside joke is shared and wind hopes someday he would get them as well

They end up being really close telling him so much

…

Yet after linked universe he never met them again

He waited for years hoping that a portal would open or something magical would happen

But even decades later he never got taken to the war of eras

Because Wind was't tune

He was never meant to go to the war

Another version of him did

All those inside jokes and jabs at him … he would never find out their origins

How they were hurt at him for never saying anything about meeting them prior when they shared everything

Maybe because he never met them

Tune never knew them before linked universe

Presumably because Tune never went on the adventure with the chain

Like wind never met mask and wars

Is their relationship built upon the relationship the three had prior even real

Because nobody was closer in the chain then them

or where they even close ?

Legend and Hyrule knew each other just on this adventure and gotten close

Yet it was genuine because they only knew each other as the adventure progressed

Twilight and Wild seemed to be in the same boat as he and the others

Wild knew him but who is to say that it was even this twilight

As he clearly wouldn’t be tune

Did wind steal connections from a version of himself who actually experienced them

He would never find out

For he was never going to be tune

Tune was on the adventure as a young adult

He wasn’t a young adult anymore

It hurt

[weepingtalecowboy]

The wind's tune

Fanfic prompt : You know how people assume that the war of eras happens for Tune before linked universe

And how time and warriors would try to hide it but eventually it always ends up revealed for wind that he would end up helping them in the war

And wind would scheme and threaten them with pranks he could pull off as the one who knows them when they don’t know him

While time and Warriors would think “yep , that is definitely baby tune”

As they humor him and give him stories and their bond grows around the idea that wind would some day be tune

Every inside joke is shared and wind hopes someday he would get them as well

They end up being really close telling him so much

…

Yet after linked universe he never met them again

He waited for years hoping that a portal would open or something magical would happen

But even decades later he never got taken to the war of eras

Because Wind was't tune

He was never meant to go to the war

Another version of him did

All those inside jokes and jabs at him … he would never find out their origins

How they were hurt at him for never saying anything about meeting them prior when they shared everything

Maybe because he never met them

Tune never knew them before linked universe

Presumably because Tune never went on the adventure with the chain

Like wind never met mask and wars

Is their relationship built upon the relationship the three had prior even real

Because nobody was closer in the chain then them

or where they even close ?

Legend and Hyrule knew each other just on this adventure and gotten close

Yet it was genuine because they only knew each other as the adventure progressed

Twilight and Wild seemed to be in the same boat as he and the others

Wild knew him but who is to say that it was even this twilight

As he clearly wouldn’t be tune

Did wind steal connections from a version of himself who actually experienced them

He would never find out

For he was never going to be tune

Tune was on the adventure as a young adult

He wasn’t a young adult anymore

It hurt

[weepingtalecowboy]

So, I wrote this a few nights ago, and this is basically how it came into being:

Brain: I see you've gone to bed early so you'll be well rested tomorrow, that's cute! Anyways, what if the Triforce was cold?

Me: ...what?

Brain: what if the Triforce was cold instead of warm? Glowing golden stuff is usually seen as warm, right? But what if is wasn't?

Me: that's cool, but I'm trying to sleep rn

Brain: well that's too bad, because I'm already thinking about it in great detail!! Better start typing away, because it's either that or try to ignore it, be unable to fall asleep until 1am anyway AND forget all but the vaguest details of it by morning! :D

And that is the story of how I went to bed at 10pm and still stayed awake until 12:30am typing out ALTTP Link (or pre-LU Legend) making his wish on the Triforce, with a sprinkle of a timeline split theory, in my phone notes. Please enjoy my creation.

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Link’s lungs were burning, every breath feeling like it was dragging hot knives down the inside of his throat. His limbs trembled in exhaustion, and the Master Sword in his hands suddenly felt too heavy to hold. He let it slip from his grasp, watching it fall to the floor. It clanged loudly against the cracked stone, and the sound seemed to echo around the suddenly empty-feeling chamber.

Link had won. Ganon was gone.

Link had thought maybe he would feel a thrill of victory or something similar, like heroes always did in stories—not always, not the one who had fought the darkness before him and failed and died���but he just felt…tired. And maybe a little relieved, but mostly he was so, so tired. He wanted to curl up in a ball on the floor and never move again, but he remained standing.

His ragged gasps for breath were beginning to even out, the ache in his lungs fading. Link took a deep breath, holding it deliberately for a few seconds before letting it out, slowly. He glanced down at his hands. They were strangely steady, considering how the rest of him was shaking like a leaf in an autumn breeze.

A flash of light caught his eye—the Master Sword, still laying a few steps to his left. Its blade was glowing gold. No, that wasn’t right. It was only shining in one spot, more like a reflection of something else, but what…?

He lifted his head, and there it was: a bright, glowing golden triangle, hovering at about his head level in the center of the room.

The Triforce.

Link’s eyes widened, and he took a few hesitant steps towards it before stopping. He was sure that it hadn’t been there a moment before. He studied it carefully, looking for any sign of danger.

Nothing. Just a sparkling triangle of triangles.

“A wish for the bearer.”

A voice seemed to echo inside Link’s head, and he jumped. It didn’t seem to come from the glowing triangle before him, but from someone or something much older.

He glanced quickly around the room. He was alone, save for the vines creeping along the walls and the sword laying a few paces away, still where he had dropped it.

A wish for the bearer.

A wish? Could he wish for anything? The voice hadn’t said if there were limits, so he might as well try.

Link tried to think about what he wanted most, but his mind began to wander of its own accord. It strayed to the people whom Agahnim had harmed in his mad quest for power; the seven maidens, sacrificed for his twisted cause, the king, who had disappeared completely, the soldiers who had killed and been killed—who he’d killed— at the wizard’s beck and call.

It strayed to a too-large sword pressed into his shaking hands, and the dying breaths of the only father figure he had ever known.

It strayed to a weathered and moss-covered stone in a tangled and ancient wood, and a child who had fallen and taken the world with him.

A wish for the bearer.

Link looked up at the Triforce, gleaming with divine radiance in front of him.

It was not good. It was not evil. It was the purest form of power, and it was waiting for him to choose how to wield it.

He took a deep breath and reached out a hand.

He was half expecting his fingers to pass through it, like it really was made of light; brilliant but insubstantial. Instead, the golden surface was smooth and surprisingly cool, like a polished shield left under the shade of a tree in high summer. He curled his fingers around the edge of its lower right facet and closed his eyes. He knew what his wish was.

All those people who had been controlled and killed by Agahnim and Ganon, just for their blood or their status or for daring to resist; they hadn't deserved to have their lives cut short. They should be able to live.

Family. Maidens. Royalty. Soldiers. A lonely tale of a failed hero, recounted by all with pity and resentment.

The Triforce pulsed beneath his fingertips, its glow flaring bright enough that it seemed to cut right through his eyelids and burn into his retinas. The cool material grew colder, his fingers going numb as the triangle turned to ice against his skin.

He didn’t dare let go.

The light grew until it illuminated everything, embraced everything, became everything. It settled over Link like a second skin, one made of hoarfrost and crystal, and his breath turned to snow in his lungs.

He wasn’t sure he’d be able to let go now, even if he wanted to.

Link felt as though his blood was freezing in his veins, sending ice rushing towards his heart and spreading out through his limbs. His eyes were still screwed shut, he was sure they were, but the world around him was pure white and glittering with colors he had never seen before and certainly couldn’t describe. He was everywhere and nowhere and somewhere that didn’t exist but was definitely solid beneath the worn leather soles of his boots.

He tightened his grip with fingers that he couldn’t see or feel but knew were there, still wrapped tightly around the Triforce. It seemed to be the only truly real thing that was left anymore, beating a steady rhythm in his chest to replace the heart that it had petrified, golden power pouring through his veins instead of blood. It grounded him, froze him, blinded him. It unmade time and space themselves before reweaving them into a newer and more complex pattern of kaleidoscope textures and colors and shapes.

The Triforce hummed, a sound that he couldn’t hear but felt reverberating through his very soul, thawing him from the inside out until his heart was pumping blood and his lungs were filling with air and his skin was warm again.

Link opened his eyes.

The room was the same as when he had closed them, with creeping vines clinging to the pockmarked walls and shattered stones littered across the equally ruined floor, the Master Sword still nestled atop the debris. The Triforce remained hovering in front of him, its blinding glow having faded back into a soft shine. It felt cool to the touch once more, no longer so cold it burned his flesh to the bone.

His eyes flicked towards his hand, still wrapped around the corner of the Triforce with a white-knuckled grip. It was unmarred, save for the streaks of dirt and blood left over from his battle with Ganon.

Nothing around him seemed to have changed, and yet…

A wish for the bearer.

Something very important had happened just then, something far greater than what he had thought he was wishing for, but Link couldn’t put a finger on what it could be.

He placed his other hand on the Triforce too, wondering if he would be able to move it around and examine it. He might be able to find out how the supposed wishes worked if he could take a closer look at the source. As soon as both his hands were laid on the Triforce, it flared brighter—though nowhere near as brightly as it had before—and began to melt.

He jerked back, watching in wide-eyed fascination as sharp edges blurred and ran together, becoming a floating cloud of liquid light that slithered its way down the fingers of his left hand. It pooled on the back of his hand, sinking itself into his skin and tracing out lines to form an image of itself there: three smaller triangles, placed corner to corner to form the larger one. The symbol shimmered like gold leaf against the smudged and dirty parchment of his skin for a few seconds before fading completely.

Link continued to stare at his hand long after the mark vanished, turning it slowly this way and that to see if the Triforce would reappear, if any glimmer of gold would show itself through his skin.

Nothing. It was almost as if there was never anything there at all, save for the unnatural coolness that had settled into his bones alongside the Triforce.

A wish for the bearer.

Link finally let his hand fall to his side, moving to scoop up the Master Sword. His body ached in protest at every movement, but he pushed through it as he straightened up and returned the sword to its sheath before heading towards the exit. He needed to get back home, needed to see if anything had changed. He needed to see if Uncle was back.

A second chance.

Time to go see if his wish had come true.

[weepingtalecowboy]

Twilight ain’t a Wolfie … he wolf doggo… Woggo

Fanfic prompt:

You see the dumb thing I realized looking at wolf link is that wolf link doesn’t really look all that much like a wolf

More like a dog with wolf aesthetic

But then it gets cursed because looking at his frame and body proportions

It gets very clear that his body isn’t as slender and the space between his front legs is much larger then a normal wolves

Hind legs to wide

Ears not truly right for a wolf

Not afraid off people like a usual wolf would be

His face looks wolf like at first but the proportions are off as well

You know which animal fits this….?

That’s right a wolf dog

A dog/wolf hybrid would fit the rather odd proportions and the lack of fear

…

And that is incredibly cursed

The chain might not even notice because it is surprisingly hard to tell wolf dogs apart from wolves

To them Wolfie is a dog anyway lol

But Malon being a farmer since childhood who usually have to deal with wolves and sometimes even their dogs creating offsprings with them (or at least heard about it from other farmers who have wolf dogs by accident lol …it happens more often than people think)

And being very concerned about the implications of Twilight

Telling Time

Their descendant's beast form looking like a wolf dog…

WTF are those implications what is anyone meant to do with this information

Time be like “Twilight explain how you look half dog ,please !?!?!”

Twilight who just never thought about it that much “how could you do this to me !?”

It’s not making it easier for twilight that the golden wolf is his ancestor

Time just decided to get him a collar and now the chain has a good explanation for why Wolfie is allowed into towns

…

He is unfortunately a dog (they were laughing for a while about poor woggo twilight )

The conversations with guards are so not worth having access to towns as Wolfie

[weepingtalecowboy]

Honestly it would be so much worse

If the house is very empty

Windows nailed shut with planks

The garden overgrown and foundation crumbling

The inside empty with only a few pieces of furniture and rotten floor

pealing walls and ceiling having holes

…

Whoever left the house took anything related to legend

Except a chest carefully sealed shut in the basement

It had books

If he got really excited about having a memory of his brother through the many books

…

Just to be hit with the most depressing and painful stuff ever in every single one he found

Like reading them

Reading books revealing the origins behind the dolls he finds

Knowing that Legend absolutely hates them and how much it hurt him over time

How he slowly got worse

Reading one about how he felt ,…

Only for that book to get more and more difficult to read because of how in his last day nobody was there for him

He died by himself thinking that nobody would even notice

The page was the last one with writing,… then there was half of it empty with yellow pages

That was the last thing legend wrote before death

By far the worst moment in his life was one just for himself,…

Telling him where he can find the grave if he truly is Hyrule

It wasn’t written in legend’s writing

The grave he ended up finding was overgrown and the tombstone barely visible

Yet written on it was Link

He broke down sobbing

Yet over time he would end up visiting his brother again and again keeping his grave clean

Reading the books left for him to find

Dolls for Hyrule

Fanfic prompt : After linked universe

Legend would go on to create dolls for Hyrule

Knowing that Hyrule’s survival depended on them during his adventure

He would create them first slowly having yet to know how exactly they work

Using threads and fabrics from Hytopia to guarantee they work

Outright mass producing them by himself till his hands were bloodied and he was tired of seeing them

Till he could make them near blind barley looking

Till he outright despised them from how much it hurt him to make them again and again and again

Every time he stabbed himself with the needle

How much it would annoy him to redo the threads because he missed the right part to sew

How tired he got from doing it day and night

At some point he didn’t even try to redo them if he got blood on them by accident

But stopping at making them could endanger Hyrule’s life

So he continued until he physically couldn’t anymore because his hands hurt from doing the threads again and again without pause

It hurt that his old injuries were making themselves known again later in his life

He never thought he would even reach an age over thirty

But was it really worth it if his bones ached and his hands shook from repeating the same thing every day without much pause

He really hates retirement now

Especially because he isn’t caring for his orchard of apple trees and sitting at home with ever worsening pain watching them wither and grow uncared for by the end

Maybe him wasting his life truly was for the betterment of Hyrule

Wouldn’t even be the first time that he got permanent damage from helping somebody (he knew that the pain he feels would get worse with time)

…even if Hyrule might never know how much making him little dolls makes him hate the very concept of sewing or dolls

Maybe he could write to Hyrule about stuff if he really wants the other to know how much he hates his dolls

A book or letter might survive several centuries

It would be a link to the past

It's not like he can really do anything beyond sitting around in bed and waiting for his hands to fully fail him as he uses them

He barely can even walk without a cane

,… using the cane of somaria as a crutch somehow still makes it more useful than placing blocks

It’s hilarious how useless he is by now

He isn’t going to even beat Warriors' age isn’t he

Dead under forty seems like a joke

Would he see his chain of friends again

Would hylia tell him that he sucks or would he be forced on another adventure by her

Would she maybe tell him it was worth it,…

Except it wasn’t , was it ?

Hyrule will fall and every injury and pain he gained would be for nothing ,… afterall he IS making magic tokens for a hero in a broken world

He was sent on one other adventures after the chain parted ways still

Because the goddess wouldn’t stop until he was beyond ruined

Cadence was a great friend to make, sure

But it was probably the last time he would be able to fight for Hyrule

He met the fates

They would see in the future ,… and he knows how he will die

He died a few times

They revived him but he feels how his body slowly failing him after his latest adventure

This is how he would go

Slowly but steadily getting worse

He supposes dying is not fully reversible

It hasn’t helped that Ravio has probably been forced into the war of eras by now

… or he just abandoned him and never returned

He hopes it is the later because he doesn’t want him to suffer the war

Would hylia have taken him if he was useful still

… is that why Ravio went in his stead

He selfishly hopes that Ravio would be horrified by his condition

After all he never saw him succumb to his pain

Does he even know ?

After all the merchant disappeared before he could die in everything but body

Because he truly is dead already

The most painful part would be that his friends probably still think that he is making dolls…

Would they only find out when they check on his house many months later ?

He hopes he can see Marin when he is gone

,… and apologize for killing her

Because he will be just as dead

Meanwhile Ravio after several years in a war returned

For him it was years

He was assured it would be only months in his timeline

Yet he was to late by a day nonetheless

He saw a hero surrounded by dolls

Just as non living as all of them

And a letter to hide all off them well

[weepingtalecowboy]

Dolls for Hyrule

Fanfic prompt : After linked universe

Legend would go on to create dolls for Hyrule

Knowing that Hyrule’s survival depended on them during his adventure

He would create them first slowly having yet to know how exactly they work

Using threads and fabrics from Hytopia to guarantee they work

Outright mass producing them by himself till his hands were bloodied and he was tired of seeing them

Till he could make them near blind barley looking

Till he outright despised them from how much it hurt him to make them again and again and again

Every time he stabbed himself with the needle

How much it would annoy him to redo the threads because he missed the right part to sew

How tired he got from doing it day and night

At some point he didn’t even try to redo them if he got blood on them by accident

But stopping at making them could endanger Hyrule’s life

So he continued until he physically couldn’t anymore because his hands hurt from doing the threads again and again without pause

It hurt that his old injuries were making themselves known again later in his life

He never thought he would even reach an age over thirty

But was it really worth it if his bones ached and his hands shook from repeating the same thing every day without much pause

He really hates retirement now

Especially because he isn’t caring for his orchard of apple trees and sitting at home with ever worsening pain watching them wither and grow uncared for by the end

Maybe him wasting his life truly was for the betterment of Hyrule

Wouldn’t even be the first time that he got permanent damage from helping somebody (he knew that the pain he feels would get worse with time)

…even if Hyrule might never know how much making him little dolls makes him hate the very concept of sewing or dolls

Maybe he could write to Hyrule about stuff if he really wants the other to know how much he hates his dolls

A book or letter might survive several centuries

It would be a link to the past

It's not like he can really do anything beyond sitting around in bed and waiting for his hands to fully fail him as he uses them

He barely can even walk without a cane

,… using the cane of somaria as a crutch somehow still makes it more useful than placing blocks

It’s hilarious how useless he is by now

He isn’t going to even beat Warriors' age isn’t he

Dead under forty seems like a joke

Would he see his chain of friends again

Would hylia tell him that he sucks or would he be forced on another adventure by her

Would she maybe tell him it was worth it,…

Except it wasn’t , was it ?

Hyrule will fall and every injury and pain he gained would be for nothing ,… afterall he IS making magic tokens for a hero in a broken world

He was sent on one other adventures after the chain parted ways still

Because the goddess wouldn’t stop until he was beyond ruined

Cadence was a great friend to make, sure

But it was probably the last time he would be able to fight for Hyrule

He met the fates

They would see in the future ,… and he knows how he will die

He died a few times

They revived him but he feels how his body slowly failing him after his latest adventure

This is how he would go

Slowly but steadily getting worse

He supposes dying is not fully reversible

It hasn’t helped that Ravio has probably been forced into the war of eras by now

… or he just abandoned him and never returned

He hopes it is the later because he doesn’t want him to suffer the war

Would hylia have taken him if he was useful still

… is that why Ravio went in his stead

He selfishly hopes that Ravio would be horrified by his condition

After all he never saw him succumb to his pain

Does he even know ?

After all the merchant disappeared before he could die in everything but body

Because he truly is dead already

The most painful part would be that his friends probably still think that he is making dolls…

Would they only find out when they check on his house many months later ?

He hopes he can see Marin when he is gone

,… and apologize for killing her

Because he will be just as dead

Meanwhile Ravio after several years in a war returned

For him it was years

He was assured it would be only months in his timeline

Yet he was to late by a day nonetheless

He saw a hero surrounded by dolls

Just as non living as all of them

And a letter to hide all off them well

[weepingtalecowboy]

Screw dignity embrace rabbit

Fanfic prompt: Where after legend turned into a a bunny because of the twilight shard

Instead of asking for help he pretended to be a non sentient creature and bolted into the forest out of spite

While twilight was dumbfounded by the development of things

And then freaked out when he realized that a pink rabbit is lose in a forest and probably about to be eaten by a bird if he isn’t fast

He ran after him but it was already too late and Legend hid from him too well to be seen

Twilight meanwhile had a breakdown about possibly getting his brother killed because he wasn’t careful with the shard and was failing at finding him and in despair about it

Then he realized that he now has to go and tell the rest of the chain that he fucking lost Legend and what the twilight shard is and that Legend probably is a genuine rabbit right now

Meanwhile Legend realizes that he was stupid for running off because a rabbit in a forest that is filled with danger is not good

He then proceeds to build a burrow to wait until the others find him when he sees a hawk above him

The chain is busy with searching the forest but obviously it’s hard to find a rabbit that built a burrow and they are at it for …OVER TWENTY HOURS

And Legend lost his vest so now they think that he could have probably been killed already and worry even more and nobody is finding anything

And Sky is failing at locating legend because he has no idea what a rabbit is

And Wolfie isn’t much better because Legend is a professional at hiding from monsters in the dark world and it is obviously easier in a simple forest

And Warriors ends up finding him and he is relived as ever that he wasn’t eaten by something to even care that legend started to eat his scarf

And everyone decided that they would never mention anything about this incident ever again