So. I did it again. I have another half baked AU idea. That may or may not turn into a fanfic. Here we go.
Consider. Zelda AU for Daredevil. Not any one game or era specific/not anywhere timeline specific as of yet but probably after where BOTW/TOTK has recombined the three timelines after the war or ages, just so im able to pick any element from the series to fuck around with.
So, youād think we would start with āoh yeah so Mattās the reincarnation of the heros spirit in this, no shitā However no, fool. Bitchass idiot is instead the ganon of this era, Foggy is the heroes spirit, Karen is the princess zelda goddess hylia reincarnation.
Okay so, Matt: reincarnation of demisesā curse of hatred. Following the extra tidbit of info we get in botw with the gerudo marrying hylian men, so heās got the red hair from the comics, and the whole āthe murdock boys got the devil in emā thing, in this case being demises curse, and the triforce of powerās got the red so it all just lines up color wise. So heāll have this whole āI donāt want to be this,,,, prophesied evil demon of hatred, iām my own person and I want to be good!!ā themeing/arc going on.
Its sorta gonna be like that one artists AU with botw young and not evil ganon being friends with link and zelda, fighting against the curse or something, i think the artists name was cherry.
So, Mattās the 100 year gerudo male, and while we as the audience know its a trend but not the rule for the gerudo dude to tend to be ganon, I imagine at some point a stigma spawns of āhey, whenever the dude whos supposed to be our king is born, he tends to turn out to be ganondorf again, so if that happens, panicā
Maggie and Jack, of course, are expecting a girl, so imagine Maggies surprise and terror to find the kidās the boy for the century! This would just take her canon postpartum depression that caused her to leave in canon up to an 11,,, so she tries to kill baby Matt,,,, yeah. Jack takes baby Matt and absconds off into the night, cause he doesnāt want his kid dead no shit, Maggie doesnāt tell anyone out of shame for having the supposed prophesied king of evil.
I swear to god Iāve seen other readheaded hylians around in the games, Malon for example, so theyre able to pass Matt off as just a redheaded hylian and get away with it.
When Jack dies (tbd how) and Matt ends up in some either triple golden goddess or Hylia church orphanage, the Sheikah (who are now the Chaste and the Yiga are the Hand) find out, and Stick shows up. They decide, rather than just killing him, to instead, train him into their own weapon against the Yiga, get a jump on the prophecy as it were.
But that doesnāt quite work cause we still need them to eventually fuck off and leave Matt alone voluntarily for a good long while cause heās āemotionally compromisedā or whatever, and it doesnāt make sense for them to do so if they know heās the reincarnation of demises hatred curse. So maybe they donāt know. Idk iāll figure it out.
For the accident, the zelda fantasy equivalent radioactive ooze is in fact malice goo (unless i change my mind), somehow leftover from botw/totk era in some tucked away corner of the depths probably, we still get the pushing old man out of the way of oncoming carriage in this case, but, where with someone else the spill would probably just kill them, since matts the one hit, it doesnāt, instead powering up his senses, but still hurting him at the same time and ruining his eyes because he isnt likeā¦ a fully awakened demise reincarnation, hes still mostly,,,, human? mortal? hyrulian? theres a right term for this im not thinking of but you get the gist.
I subscribe to the theory that, later down the adult timeline, before the war of ages timeline convergence, the great sea gets pretty much covered up and made level with new hyrule by deku trees forming like, a new layer of earth overtop the ocean (probably magically faster than it would in more realistic geologic terms and timelines), then the water drained out of the depths, leaving the caverns and the sea salt everywhere and old hyrule underneath in time for botw. Also, my own thoughts adding onto it, this is where the sheikah tech comes from. New Hyrule, the one wind waker link establishes, still exists having their train industrial revolution somewhere beyond the Old Hyrule horizon, some Sheikah make their way there, and contribute and expand on this industrial revolution, making the sheikah tech as we know it, and then bring it back to old hyrule, then a calamity happens, still centered on old hyrule due to the stipulations of the curse, destroying hyrule as it was but leaving new hyrule untouched (the tapestry battle in botw) then leaving the tech buried and forgotten about till the once again for the millionth time reestablished old hyrule finds the tech again for botw and totk. All that time, New Hyrule is existing more or less fine and fucking around with sheikah tech. Also, the depths hyrule is not gonna be zonai stuff, but instead old hyrule, like, oot hyrule, because i said so. A reason i donāt like totk as much as i could have is that the zonai donāt really feel like classic zelda. Shhhhh war of ages stuff weāre ignoring the zonai because i said so.
I imagine at some point they either go to new hyrule or closer to the border where the trains are. I just want them to get on a train at some point, see something of the technological marvel New Hyrule is. Also there will be something of the other countries (holodrum etc) mentioned at some point.
OKAY SO, back off tangent, Matt and Foggy, in some hyrulian fantasy equivalent of college, (it doesnāt have to be college, just something equating to the kind of environment college has, cause I refuse to replace a decade of friendship with them meeting mid adventure and knowing each other for like a year) become friends before Foggy finds out he has the heroes spirit, (It would happen post grad, being like the inciting incident for the plot) and so theyāre journeying around, doing Link shit, maybe trying to ātrack down ganondorfā or whatever, the whole time Matt knows hes lying by ommission or just straight up lying to Foggy, thinking Foggy will eventually kill or seal him away, and is so certain thatās whats going to happen he, in his mind, is putting it off by lying. Of course when Foggy eventually finds out he is absolutely horrified but still feels betrayed like in canon. Matt totally is like ājust get it over with and kill me already!ā or something to that effect.
So Matt is running from his perceived ādestinyā. He does not want to be this evil demon lord reincarnation, says fuck that and wants his own life. He thinks he finds that in Foggy. Kind simple Foggy, not connected to the ongoing prophecy in the slightest, its a relief. Theyāre friends for years, Matt thinks he pulled it off and is safe and is free to live his own life. Oh, oh no, Foggys the incarnation of the heroes spirit, heās drawn the sword, hes the hero of legend. Foggyās destiny is to kill or seal Matt away and now has to go find the incarnation of demise as well as find the three+ magical macguffins and do 3+ temples.
There is going to be like, a two stage confession, so that Matt and Foggy can journey around doing temples and finding macguffins without Matt still trying to hide his senses and sheikah ninja skills. Stage one will be those senses and ninja skills, then stage two is that hes the ganon reincarnation.
On the topic of Fisk, he is still totally the actual bbeg, but in a āthe real evil was capitalism and also this bald asshole all alongā way, and he TOTALLY tries to get in Matts head with a āyouāre literally the calamity, the incarnation of hatred and evil, you are just like meā type speech.
Also, im bringing back the minish, cause the lore of minish cap is a favorite of mine, and along that vein the sky,,, palaces, island,,, thing ,,,which is like, starting with the skyward sword islands and getting added onto and changed into a more dedicated sky tribe like in MC and later TP when some skylofitans stay. So thatās where the wind temple is gonna be, yes im giving Foggy and Matt rocās capes and pegasus boots weāre going back to classic zelda items the loss of which in the most recent titles is a fucking travesty.
Ive been talking about Matt a lot, time to talk about Foggy. Up to him pulling the sword, he is a normal ass hyrulian, he doesnt have the triforce mark. But him (I havenāt determined how yet) pulling the sword definitively marks him as the reincarnation of the hero, and he hates it. So much. Whole āIm not a hero i cannot swing a sword I do not go hiking this, whole thing isnāt my beat, are you sure you havenāt made a mistake? maybe someone else can do this?ā Arc. The call of the hero is being soundly refused. Peak refusal of the call hours.
He eventually gets a handle on it and can fight. After reveal number 1 and he knows Matt can fight, Matt kinda totally carries the team for awhile and Foggy feels SUPER guilty about it. But he just isnāt up to the task, meanwhile Matt has total faith he can do it and is being an encouraging as possible which makes Foggy feel even worse.
āIt is your destiny to save Hyrule from Evil, Linkā
āExfuckingscuse you my name is Foggy, screw your destiny bullshit, I just got my degree damnit I had an internship lined up!ā
I have more thoughts but this is insanely long Iāll continue later.
