you have very good takes <3 a lot of the time I’m split between whether or not I actually ship something or if I just really like a good story and good dynamic. Maybe those are the same thing? But with GanLink I really wish there were more stories for them that explored the dynamic more thoroughly.
I think the way I was imagining their dynamic would be that Ganon is revived as a man, unlike the pig/beast form he’s taken for the past centuries. He would have empathy and emotions this time but he still has a hunger for power. He remembers some of his past, but not very clearly. He takes the weakened hero as a pet, mostly as a show of victory to the crown. He doesn’t realize for some time how badly he desecrated Hyrule in his last reincarnation. He doesn’t like this, at least not anymore. He still wants power, but what is power if you want to enjoy it? This land has nothing to give him, not crops, no art, not even clean water. So he starts gathering resources to start forging this land back into something great again. Something that he can actually feel proud of conquering. All the while he waits for the crown to attack, but they never do. I think Zelda from LoZ 1 would be unique in the way that she’s been a survivor since birth. It’s not like she doesn’t want to rescue Link or defeat Ganon again, but she knows that her kingdom does not have the resources to go to war. She decides to wait for Ganon to do something first and he hasn’t. All the while he’s had Link in a pretty birdcage of a room. He thought this might humiliate him but Link has never been better fed or rested. Oddly enough the hero begins flirting with him. Ganon learns pretty quickly this was just a ploy to draw him in to slay him once again when his guard is down. Oddly enough, the murder attempt is what attracts Ganon’s attention. The hero does start acting more and more like a caged animal after his assassination attempts keep failing while Ganon finds himself feeling more and more like a man (Like as in a person). He then finds himself in the odd position of being in a Cold War with the princess(es), in possession of a slowly maddening hero, and in the process of trying to heal a country he himself destroyed.
I’m sorry 😭 this turned into a short story instead of a response but the questions you asked were so good and I haven’t actually exercised this idea very well until today
thank you <3
Is there a certain version of GanLink that you like best or is it more of the concept itself that you like? I think it’s a really interesting dynamic in general but I think it would be really interesting with a post Adventure of Link Link and a cult revived Ganon.
I am 100% a Hero/Villain shipper if people put in the work to convince me of it, both consensual and not.
Obviously with That Broken Promise, Ganondorf there is a rational person, a good king, the only Triforce wielder with a braincell, and someone that the Curse of Demise had its work cut out for it to warp into doing what it wanted.
But I've also written a lot of Ganondorf's who are still villains, although I personally aim to keep the human-formed version rational with clear and obvious motivations that make sense. I'm only really into omnicidal villains once you leave behind active humanity (Or unless you demonstrate how and why their feelings about the world have been driven over that brink.)
This is only half because it's racist as Hell if you don't; the other half is because it's fucking boring.
eg. Calamity Ganon, a kind of amorphous blob makes sense as an omnicidal villain, as does the Echoes of Wisdom one, but once you drop back into Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf I want to see that at least at one point he still had reason before it became corrupted, if that makes sense?
So on that front, Adventure of Link reviving with a Doll and being picked up by his revived Ganon could work for me in four or five different ways.
Is he revived as a proper man with real emotions and sympathetic cause? Win. Is he revived as a beast that keeps Link as a pet? Win. Is he revived as a man who has rational desires but still likes the idea of a pet hero? Win. Is he revived as an omnicidal force of nature that wants a trophy? Win. Is he revived as a monster and Link's just sick of this world and into that? Win.
Probably a few other ways that I don't much feel like listing on my main, but you can probably guess from my other works too. So I guess in general it's the concept I like: how DO you make these characters work together? How do you build a relationship that feels substantial with that kind of a polarized starting point that doesn't just handwave away the difficult parts?
Hi guys, here's a little Drabble/Oneshot series of some stuff I wrote. Im sorry it's not the Cellbit BBH hunger games one Ive been working on.
So far we have some actually non toxic Bbh and Tubbo bonding and then some slightly toxic fitpac
This is a first draft so the dialogue is a bit rough, lol.
Thank you to @kittycatboyhalo for creating basically the entirety of this storyline! Bad is currently feminine presenting, and just got accused as a witch. He escaped, was chased, and stumbled upon Etoiles’s forest home. Etoiles has helped rescue ladies like Bad from witch trials in the past.
Heilige also means Saint in German, so I thought it would be funny to call the Saint of Games himself Madame Heilige. Probably not accurate historically or otherwise, but let’s just roll with it.
I love Vidow. I think it’s a super cute ship and I’ve thought this for like a decade, ever since I read the manga in middle school.
My question lies in the context of aus where the colors can merge and unmerge from and into Link (or Four in LU). Or also I guess more canon adjacent stories where Link doesn’t split again. Do you think Link/Four loves Shadow or do you think it’s more of a sectioned off complicated part of him? Or other? In cases where Link splits on and off again do the other colors start feeling non-platonic affection for Shadow due to Vio’s emotions leaking over?
honestly I’m a multishipper so I tend to enjoy anything well written or convincing enough so I have no solid opinions on this but I’m very curious if there’s any consensus or other opinions!
@livmightlive (sorry but this didn’t fit in the comment lol )
Fanfic prompt: I love the idea of legend and twilight having instincts from their animal forms
The dark form is a literal representation of the person where the twilight curse just happened to make link a wolf because of the triforce and not a spirit as it did with the npcs
But I couldn’t help myself because it made me think just how bad can their instincts get
I think it is mostly just the symbolism of a cannibalistic rabbit
The rabbit is often seen as a symbol of innocence and people find them cute and consider them tiny lil fluffs
But rabbits are genuinely nasty pieces of shit and well known for cannibalism and mutilating each other (eating each other’s kits ,chopping off dicks , or ripping off ears, a rabbit paw has completely different meaning in this one)
And I just want to say… a rabbit is a very dangerous and very scary animal if it was a person with the skills of one)
If we talk instincts it would be more realistic if legend was a crazy violence driven maniac because rabbits instinctively want to hurt each other
As they are very territorial the rabbit will often be aggressive towards the rest of the fluffle (and he is a hylian, so what does it mean for the chain)
(it is an evolutionary trait that presumably evolved because rabbits compete for food often and the aggressive behavior would make the competition more likely to perish)
Rabbit teeth can easily bite off fingers and rip out chunks of meat from your body as they are very sharp in one place like scissors
A stressed rabbit is a danger (and legend is always stressed so there is that) as it increases their chances of survival
Further more canonically legend murdered at least ten of his uncle’s friends (the boss fights are mandatory you need the items)
And probably at least a dozen knights (I once killed over 348 because they keep respawning and I was actively hunting those lil guys)
All of them who were sons and relatives, fathers and loved by someone
While it was a fight for survival he knew they all were just innocent men trying to protect the kingdom being simply cursed not in control of their actions
But as it came to his or their life he choose himself above all others (like the rabbit he is)
Even people he knew since he was little he killed when they posed a threat
If we use blind it gets even scarier because blind is a boss that takes the appearance of the one you love the most
Yet link killed his uncle's appearance while it begged and pleaded that he would stop (that fight in four sword palace is mental)
He killed the owner of the four sword afterwards as well
His wish was to undo the damage that ganon caused …,
But would that wish include the men dead by his hand ?
Or do hundreds of men stayed dead by his hands
I like to think that legend doesn’t regret his own continued existence
Perhaps if he could have the chance to redo his actions he would do so again if necessary
Legend the type of guy who you want to keep fed or risk getting cannibalized (the only and last time that the chain made that mistake)
When he was teasing wars the knight should have been glad that legend wasn’t Pulling out a fucking gun (which he canonically has since the oracle adventures)
Even if it ain’t personal it’s just survival instinct
I enjoyed reading your LU Soul Eater AU, and I have one question. (Well many but I’ll limit to one.) Who sends all the Links on their joint adventure? Hylia or someone else? Is there an ultimate power sending them (like Death) or just their kingdoms joining together and sending agents from each kingdom to fight the big bad?
omg pls ask as many as you’d like I live for questions and discussions bout my aus I’m so serious
I didn’t explain it well (or possibly not at all) but Hyrule is basically a huge empire (probably around the size of Russia???) that consists of several different houses/kingdoms that all rule underneath the Empress. (The empress is Sun who has very recently been placed into that role)
Before the chain properly forms, each link kind of goes on their individual journeys for different purposes. Some of them were born into a lifestyle where their families expected them to defend their kingdoms such as Sky, Legend, Warriors, Wild, and kind of Four. Time, Twilight, Hyrule, and Wind were much more reactionary/self defense kind of things. Time is a bit complicated.
I think I got a bit away from the question 😭 the driving force that’s causing so many issues is the near revival of Ganon, who I think would be a witch with near godlike powers. For the past century his followers have been trying to resurrect him causing an insurgence in issues across the Hyrule Empire.
kill the shift manager in your brain
anyone else feel like we’re going thru a fanfiction drought??
I check the bbh tag on ao3 with a fever and the amount literally went DOWN today 🤒
I am not blaming anyone, I’ve been too busy to write myself, BUT GIRL IM THIRSTY 😭😭😭
Waiting for someone to make a “My Mom” by Kimya Dawson edit
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