5 drabbles [zelda: various characters]

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Title: If
Characters: Zelda (post-Oot)
Rating: G
Summary: This word will not let her forget.
Note: Prompt was "if"

Comments

[wrongly_amused]

This are wonderful, as usual! But oh, poor OoT Zelda. :( I feel like anytime you try to sit down and write her story, it cannot helped but be framed by regret.

The Ghirahim drabble really gets under the skin. There's just something so surreal about the horror in it. On the other hand, it sort of...makes sense? Knowing what he really is, I think the penetration metaphor is unavoidably fitting.

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Thanks for the comment! And yes, I feel the same way whenever I write Oot Zelda, whether she's a child or an adult, her story, as well as the Hero of Time's story, is so sad to me, so I can't help but write it that way.

I'm glad you liked the Ghirahim one! It's one of my favorites. I love writing him because he's such a creeper, and I think he has a creepy thing for Zelda, in his own way. I mean, he calls her pet names like "darling young girl" and "adorable" throughout the game.

[wrongly_amused]

I feel like OoT was okay when I played it the first time, but with TP and WW working together to make it even more depressing by furiously asserting that everything was for naught, it's basically an experience in getting punched repeatedly in the stomach.

I agree that Ghirahim and Zelda make a really interesting duo. They're elemental opposites, yet his entire existence is entirely substantiated by her own. No wonder he's obsessive.

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Yes, I think TP and WW did a good job with the endings, I think WW is the most heartbreaking, because while Oot Link and TP Link both lost a companion, WW Link lost both a companion and Hyrule :/ and when you think about the fact that, all the Link's are essentially reincarnations of one another...well, I personally don't think about it too much, it's depressing, haha.

Thank you! That's exactly my reasoning. Everyone thinks it's Link Ghirahim obsesses over during the game, but that's largely a case of Shipper Vision at work; it's not Link Ghirahim is after, it's not Link that he wants, it's Zelda (albiet to, er, sacrifice her eternal soul). So glad I found someone who sees it the same way :)

[wrongly_amused]

WW is one of those games that sits on the edge of the sword for me - on one hand, it's a tragic deconstruction of the hero myth. On the other, it's a euphoric celebration of renewal - Hyrule is lost, but so is the bloody history of the Triforce wars. When I get to the end of the game, it's like a mix of heavy feels - I want to do backflips but then cry afterwards over a tub of ice cream. TP isn't really anywhere near as bad, but then Hyrule Historia had to go and be all, "Yo, that Hero's Shade? Totally the HoT." And then it was just like :| nintendo plz

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Yes, exactly. I never quite know what to do with myself at the end of WW. Then there's the fact that all of this has happened to a little kid - Link, specifically - which just makes the tragedy of it all 10x worse, because at least the other Link's weren't children, aside from Oot/MM Link.

Oh, the Hero's Shade....for the longest time, I liked to think that, at the end of MM, Link eventually found his way back to Hyrule and died a peaceful old man...but nope, HH had to go "lol no" and break my heart. I think I sympathize more with the HoT than any other Link.

Same here! I really liked Zelda at the beginning of SS, she reminded me of a more playful, girly Tetra, and I expected her to have a more prominent role in the game. Well, she DOES, but it's on the sidelines. She may be the one "pulling the puppet strings" but we don't see it. She was pretty much pushed to the side, and all her spunk was lost by the end of the game. Not that I can blame her for it, but still. I just would have liked her to retain more of her character by the

[wrongly_amused]

I suppose the flip side to knowing TP Link is the HoT's descendent is that it does mean he had a family at some point. On the other hand, I have serious qualms about child-raising from a man who's only parental guidance figure taught him lying to your children was a-okay and that it was acceptable to put nine year-olds in imminent mortal danger. (The HoT totally got the shit end of the hero deal. I think LoZ/AoL Link is the only one who comes close to that incredibly depressing mix of solitary orphan/child soldier/endless war thing going for him, and even then, he got to be BFFs with his Zelda afterwards.)

Heh, it's kind of refreshing to meet someone who had the same reservations about SS. I went into this game with a lot of hype backing it, and while it was a good game, it could have been a great game if it hadn't wasted so much potential. That reminds me - I need to start your multi-chapter story! I bookmarked a whole bunch of SS fic recs until after I finished the game, and yours is the start of the list. TIME TO GET ON IT

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The HoT really did get the short end of the stick, which makes his story that much more tragic and depressing, which is exactly what I like to write about, haha. No romance or humor for me, I'm all for dat drama and angst. Gimme gimme.

Same! I also wish they'd elaborated on Ghirahim's backstory. We know he's actually a sword - but who made him? What was his purpose? We know about Fi, but since they're both sword spirits (though complete opposites) it really makes me scratch my head and wonder.

My personal theory is that Hylia made BOTH Ghirahim and Fi - Fi to guide Link in the future, and Ghirahim to guide herself (Zelda). But somewhere along the line, Ghirahim betrayed her and joined Demise. I mean, it makes sense to me....I'm not crazy right?

Oh, thank you! I'd love a new reader for that :) I would suggest reading it on fanfiction.net instead, though, because I'm really trying to get more reviews for it there. You know how ff.net is, the more reviews a story has, the more likely people are to click on it. Sigh. But, thank you! I

[wrongly_amused]

I tried to write some happy OoT romance fic once; halfway through it, Link turned into a quiet drunk with intimacy issues. Oh, Hero of Time. Your life

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See, for some reason I tend to lean more toward Oot Zelda whenever I write Oot fics. I don't know why, because I typically lean toward male characters. Oot Zelda is one exception, I guess. She always turns out a little more sulky than I'd like, but I think she can get away with it, circumstances considered

[wrongly_amused]

I think I avoided OoT Zelda when I was still actively writing, as I found the depth of her anguish difficult to conceive during my younger years. I find her more interesting now that I'm older, especially in regards to her relationship with Impa. (Of course, I go back to OoT a lot now and wonder whhhhhhhhhyI don't generally mind touches of fluffy romance, though I do generally avoid the overwhelming amount of it in fandom. Granted, I attribute this more to the youthful demographic that makes up the majority of fandom - it takes experience to acknowledge love can just as easily bring out the worst in us. That's why crack pairings are so much fun. :D

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Going back to Oot, oh boy...the amount of Fridge Horror in that game is astounding. I look back on it now going "how the FUCK was this game rated E back in the day? The amount of psychological SHIT Link has to go through this deserves a T, at least!" (Such psychological shit including Ruto. Oh, poor Ruto).

Then there's MM. That's another story entirely. Fucknuts.

I don't mind occasional fluff myself, but that's exactly what it is - fluff. There's no substance to it. Though TBH after writing the last chapter to Who By Fire, Imma write the shit out of some fluff.

Oh, yes exactly Zelda and Ganondorf are always the catalysts, Link is just the poor sod who gets stuck between them, over and over again. He's as much a tool of destiny as Zelda and Ganondorf are, poor guy, except he's the one being pushed into danger with the Goddesses going "lol good luck." And people wonder why fans want a happy ending for him, for once

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Haha, yeah, I was completely not surprised when the rating got upped a notch with the remake's release. To this day, I sort of boggle at just how much innuendo slipped under the radar. (The poe collector, man. Link, you need an adult. ;-;)

MM is a total mind...bender, but I sort of absolutely adore it? It's one of the few times I think Nintendo dared to try something different, and the result was the one game in the series that approaches the closest to art. It's a perfect sequel precisely because it doesn't pretend a good ending has to be a perfectly happy one.

I'm very enamored with the idea of Link becoming the Hero of their unending, cyclical war completely by an accident of fate. He caught the eye of a possessive goddess and befriended the wrong mortal girl and now he is stuck endlessly, mercilessly entangled in a story without end.

I should clarify that I wasn't recced this by anybody else - I saw it pop up on my flist once on one of the comms and decided to threw it on my personal rec list for later since I hadn't

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THE POE GUY. Jesus, when I played Oot again a few years ago, after not playing it since I was 12 or so, when I got to that part...I went "what da FUCK Nintendo