the zelda sideblog

did you know that they all come home to roost before sunset blankets tabantha frontier like a stage curtain, tucking themselves under each others wings before the night cradles them in her own?

did you know that when a rito is caught in the dark, the first thing they are taught to do is sing, in hopes that another will hear and guide them back to safety?

did you know that the calamity struck hyrule during an apricot-skied evening, and despite revali’s fervour, malice-soaked night had cloaked the kingdom by the time he had made it to vah medoh’s pilot’s chamber?

did you know that, transcending species, the body’s first instinct when frightened in the dark is to attack with desperate ferocity, praying that one hit might just land?

not only does he spend "ocarina of time" growing up as an orphaned outcast, watching the closest thing he has to a guardian die, and then get blamed for it, but then he has to go through all the events of that game, including briefly experiencing sudden adulthood with no opportunity to mature, before being catapulted back like none of it ever happened and losing those connections to people he met in the future.