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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