The sound of the phone rang out over the splash of the water spraying from the shower head, Warriors pausing where he’d been about to start washing his hair. The ring soon cut off though, which meant Artemis had picked it up. She didn’t immediately call his name either, which meant the call must have been for her, so Warriors went back to what he was doing, giving his hair the extra scrub it typically needed at this point in the week.
It shone as he dried off afterwards, and Warriors gave it a quick comb, then pulled on some comfortable clothes, letting the tension from the day drain from his shoulders. Any work was finished, chores caught up with, their son was asleep for the night... Warriors was looking forward to just relaxing with Artemis for a while.
He walked out of the bathroom with a puff of steam, and headed into the living room, expecting Artemis to be there after her own shower. Oddly enough he didn’t find her sitting there, and he gave a quick look around their apartment. He finally found her sitting at the kitchen counter, staring at the hung-up phone while she repeatedly twirled and untwirled a piece of her hair. It was a nervous tic Warriors was familiar with, and as Artemis continued to stare at the phone, he saw she looked... disturbed.
“Hey. Who was it?” he greeted as he walked forward, and Artemis hesitated. “...Arty? What’s wrong?”
Her fingers tightened around her hair. “It was my mother,” she muttered, hunching over a bit more. “I... hung up on her.”
Warriors blinked in surprise, and slowly sat down beside her, giving her a worried look. Artemis almost never spoke of her parents. In fact, Warriors hadn’t even known her mother was even living. She certainly hadn’t been at their wedding.
“What did she want?” Warriors asked.
“She wanted to see me again. I guess she changed her mind when she told me to get out of her life and never show my face to her again,” she said with a bitter laugh. “Probably because I’ve made a life for myself, and she wants in on it.”
“Artemis, I didn’t know your mother was alive,” Warriors said as he sat beside her, and Artemis grimaced.
“She is. Alive and kicking.”
“That’s a bad thing, huh?”
Artemis looked like she wrestled with herself a moment. “...It makes my life more difficult.”
“In what way?” Warriors asked, and Artemis rubbed her forehead.
“That’s... going to take some explaining.”
She stood and they moved into the living room, Artemis sitting heavily on the couch. She seemed uncomfortable in a way that was unusual for her, and as Warriors sat beside her, she set her head on his shoulder, her expression rather difficult to read.
Warriors put his arm around her, and Artemis let out a long sigh.
“My parents... didn’t love each other,” she said with some difficulty. “You know my father was a businessman, a rather successful one. He wanted a family to carry it on, and found my mother, who pretty much just married him because he was rich. They had me, but father wanted a boy, and despite how they tried, they never had any more children. Father got over it, but my mother never let me forget.”
“Was it bad?” Warriors asked as he set his hand over hers, and she nodded.
“I can’t remember a day they didn’t argue. I’m certain my mother only stayed with him as long as she did for the money— she divorced him when I was seven. They shared custody a while, but when I was eleven, my mother said she wanted nothing to do with me and quite literally threw me out of her house. And my father... he tried his best to care for me after that, but he was too busy to give me the attention I needed. He found Impa, and she became my caretaker. She’s more my mother than my real mother ever was.”
Artemis exhaled, and tiredly rubbed her eyes before she continued.
“I think I’ve told you before that my father passed away the same year we started dating. He had his protégé he left the company to, but I inherited a lot of his money. I either gave it away or dropped it into savings though— I suppose I was afraid if people knew then I’d end up like my poor father," she admitted softly. "Anyway, I would guess my mother’s been trying to track me down ever since he passed to try and get a piece of it.”
She closed her eyes, and Warriors gently rubbed her arm.
“I’m sorry, Zelda. That’s a lot,” Warriors said softly. “And I thought my family was complicated.”
Artemis gave him a smile, but she didn’t laugh, still looking unsettled.
Warriors lightly kissed her hair. “Hey. Don’t worry. We can handle one greedy woman with an agenda. If you don’t want her near us, just say the word, and I’ll make it so you don’t even have to see her face if she shows up. And I’ll get Sky and everyone in on it too. We’ll keep her away if we need to.”
“I know. I just worry about what she might try,” Artemis murmured. “She’s a horrible woman, Link. I assumed she’d never want anything more to do with me, but... somehow she got our number, she might know where we live. I didn’t tell her she has a grandson, but what if she finds out?”
Warriors tightened his arm around her. “We won’t let her do anything, Arty. It’ll be all right.”
Artemis sighed heavily, and her breath brushed Warriors’ damp hair. “I know. It just makes me angry, I thought she was done making my life miserable. It took everything I had not to give her a piece of my mind over the phone.”
“Well if she calls again, I’ll gladly tell her a thing or two,” Warriors said cheerfully, and his tone of voice pulled a small laugh out of Artemis.
“I think I’d like to see that. Goodness, she’d hate you if you met.”
“From what you’ve said about her, I think the feeling would be mutual,” Warriors said, and squeezed her hand. “I vote we pull out that extra cake in the fridge.”
“Weren’t we saving that for tomorrow?” Artemis asked as she nestled up against him, and Warriors shrugged.
“It’ll taste just as good today, if not better. Upsetting phone calls call for extra dessert. Malon says that’s the rule, and who am I to argue with her?” he said with a wise nod, and Artemis smiled as she gave him a kiss.
“All right. Malon wisdom is inarguable,” she said as they finished the kiss, and both stood to go get the cake.
She kept her hand in his though, and Warriors didn't let go, silently reassuring her that whatever happened, he'd be at her side through it.
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Twilight blinked the sting out of his eyes as he looked up at the sky, a pale grey that was an unnatural color. The same smoke causing the color made the treetops disappear from sight, and he exhaled as he looked ahead of him where the other Links walked.
Their best guess was that there was a fire somewhere in the woods they’d been spat into. It must have been fairly far away since nothing was visible and the temperature wasn’t very warm, but the smoke was thick, and made hiking through the woods vastly more difficult than it normally was.
Legend suddenly leaned against a tree nearby, looking off, and Twilight walked up to him when he leaned his head against the tree, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
“You all right?” Twilight asked, voice muffled somewhat from the cloth over his mouth.
“Mm. It’s this smoke,” Legend said in a rough voice. He coughed then raised his head, eyes pink, expression weary. “It’s giving me a headache. And I’m not the only—”
He was cut off by a loud cough, followed by several more, and Twilight turned to see Sky bent over, coughing thickly into his arm. His coughing quickly turned to wheezing, Sky soon gasping for breath in between, and Warriors quickly went to his side, helping support him when he nearly fell over.
Twilight hurried over, but finally Sky managed to stop, his breath still loudly wheezing in his chest.
“I’m all... all ri...” Sky croaked, then began to cough again, Warriors quickly loosening the cloth over his mouth, and propping him up.
Twilight knelt down and handed him some water, and once Sky could manage to breathe again, he took it, wheezing a thank you before slipping it slowly. Twilight glanced at everyone while he drank, taking in the weary expressions as they watched, hearing thick breathing and heavy coughs from all of them.
“We need to get out of here,” Wild murmured, blinking tears born of smoke from his eyes, and Twilight looked up at the sky again, still pale, unnatural grey.
“We will,” he said firmly, slowly breathing in a dry breath. “We will. It’ll ease up soon.”
The closer to the modern era you get the more fascinating "lost at sea" becomes as a backstory element. Being lost at sea in 1612 is a downright normal kind of lost to be. Being lost at sea in 2012 is like, okay, back up – I need to hear this one.
a very special episode of Zelda Reacts to celebrate the Ocarina of Time remake!! I hope I did this outfit justice, I'm a pretty new Zelda fan and I've never played this game (but I have read the manga and loved it!!)
Here me out: hummingbird rito. They would probably be smaller than Link. They'd be super fast in flight but really fragile. They could make for really good delivery rito if they wanted to be!
They'd be full of energy and hyper ALL the time, bouncing around if they're on foot. Like, "Hey hey hey whatcha doin'?!" and if Revali was around he'd be SO annoyed with them.
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SkSw Link: ("What a terrifying power...he really does take after Wild...!")
the Knight Construct's sync strikes in hw:aoi are all so destructive (especially with Mineru), i thought it was funny. To me SkSw Link acts like Knight's proud and overly affectionate grandfather/uncle/mentor(??), and prefers more precise style of combat. So Knight's preference for a more chaotic style like Wild is...worrying surprising for him.
Hi! Here for prompts! How about pencil/pen for hdw?
"All right hero, put down your pencil," Volga said as Link grabbed another report to start working on. "I can see your hand cramping from here, it's time for a break."
"I need to finish this tonight," Link huffed, and Volga plucked the pen out of his hand. Then snapped it in half. "Hey!"
"A true warrior must fuel himself for the fights ahead, and I can hear your stomach rumbling," Volga said, and Link almost thought he saw him smile. "...And if you don't come eat, I'll go fetch your two young cohorts and tell them you've been neglecting yourself."
Link groaned, and reluctantly dragged himself to his feet. He didn't want to deal with Mask and Tune bugging him. "Fine. I'll go eat. But then I'm getting back to these," he said with a flat look, and Volga shrugged.
"So long as you eat, I have no problem with that."
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My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.
Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.
Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.
And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.
What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.
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I love drawing Link in the archaic set! It looks so good on him and it's the closest we got to having another green tunic in the game 💚 Also a little bonus ember set at the end
ahhhhh!!! This took so long and idk how I feel about it. The concept is pretty basic. I tried to get a good mix of Zelda eras (Zelda 1 through Tears of the Kingdom), but it was difficult because during the 2000s her design was so consistent game to game. Tetra is in the center because she deserves so much more. the link to the past blue dress also deserves more but I forgot about it until the final stage of this
here's the games I was trying to reference:
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