#aog x reader

This too, is short n’ sweet. Based on @trippygalaxy/@acrossthegalaxyau’s Beast.

He’s a little self loathing.

and this is totally self indulgent.

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

He was an abomination. He was sure of it. He was no good thing, not anymore. His temper had soured. His fangs had sharpened — his senses too. He was more beast than man. It was what defined him now. It was his namesake. It was his purpose. To rip and marr and massacre.

Staring down at his chest he saw only proof of it. A shard, the catalyst to his pain, embedded between his ribs. He was other. Neither Twili nor Hylian. His form struggled to reject the magic as it latched to his heart. What was once soft and warm was now cold and still. Spider-like scars wrap around his torso in an unnatural teal, glowing and pulsating with the beat of his changed anatomy. His skin blackened near the wound.

Like rot.

You should not insist upon resting your head nor giving your heart to something so beaten, he thinks dully, as you do just that. You shouldn’t accept this so readily. You should scream and thrash and cry, like prey caught in his arms. But you do not. You refuse. You kiss the shard lovingly before repeating the motion above his heart. He does not understand why you trace the thin lines with your fingertips, muttering sweet compliments into the worst part of him. You are faced with what taints him, and you love him despite it.

He does not deserve such love.

His teeth are made to rip and tear soft flesh, not graze against it teasingly. You should know. You’ve seen the deer carcasses. You’ve heard the rumours. But you kiss his lips as if there’s never been blood on them. His hands are meant to break and crack bone, not cradle yours softly. You’ve seen him work, you know what he can do, the strength he yields. But you thank him all the same, wrapping your arms around his waist and murmuring your approval. His demeanour is supposed to drive everyone away, so why are you still here?

And why doesn’t he want you to go?

Why does he embrace this soft life with you, letting you pepper kisses across his tattooed cheeks? And you shouldn’t see the worth in spending meaningless days watching him work his small field. You don’t need to follow him around on his late night walks as he avoids himself. You especially don’t need to comfort him. He’s been primed to kill, and yet you soothe him like he's a frightened stray. He shouldn’t let you waste your precious time cooking him meals and tending to his many wounds.

He shouldn’t let you.

But he does.

He craves your soft touches and the jump of his heart. He breathes now to be good by your standards, if he can’t be good wholly. He longs to be held by you again. He waits on your call eagerly— loyal as ever. He aches to be loved by you. To be special to you in some way. He doesn’t care how much he has to give, so long as you love him it’s worth it.

He knows it’s bad— to keep you from better people and a better life. But that doesn’t change that he wants you at his side. And it certainly doesn’t change that no matter how often he tried to tell himself otherwise, he loved you. He was yours, heart, mind and soul.

And he felt like maybe you were his too.

He saw no other reason you’d be so upset at others checking him out as he worked. And certainly nothing to warrant the smirk as you kissed him breathless to stake your claim.

He was no better than Heavens. He was a lovesick fool for you.

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH😭😭😭

AOG! Boy Reaction to Crush Kissing Their Cheek

Of course my love!! For those who don't know, these boys are from my au 'Across the Galaxy' that....is but isn't in the making??? Dhdjashfkahj I'll make sure to label who is from what game beside them!

Pairing: Heavens, Shifter x gn! reader (Separate) Warnings: Shifter's -> Self doubt, needles, tending to wounds

Heavens (Ss! Link)

The kiss happened before Heavens had to leave for an Expedition

Heavens, Ila (Zelda), Groose and a few others were the main group that would go off and explore the surface when the Skyloftians began to move down there in hopes of charting as much as they could

Normally these could range from a few weeks to multiple months, depending where they were exploring!

This would often leave you, a long time friend and longer time crush of Heavens, alone in the floating island of your home. Heavens always felt guilty after saying his goodbye, wanting nothing more than to have you join -him- the group but the fear of dragging you into a dangerous and possibly deathly land...well it stopped any thoughts about asking you to join.

You, on the other hand, felt a similar fear for him whenever he left

You knew he can handle himself-- goddesses, He killed a god!! Of course he can handle everything that is thrown at him! But...what if he cant? What if he didn't come back? What if...you never got to hold him like you wanted to? What if you were left alone, your love never to be returned?

This fear, this doubt, bubbled up one day when he had told you about another expedition he -and the group- had planned last minute.

You aren't sure if it was the fear or adrenaline, but the next thing you knew you had a tight grip on Heavens' scarf as you planted a firm kiss to his cheek, whispering a plead to return safe before letting go

TP!Link x reader but of @acrossthegalaxyau’s Beast. A lot of this isn’t proof read because my god it’s a long one.

Tw: depictions of gore.

The hand that held his sword was tired. In both a very literal and metaphorical sense. Long ago, he had begged his father to let him hold a blade, to learn to fight. To protect that which was precious to him. Now, with all he longed to protect kept at a healthy arm's length, he wondered when his hands had gotten so tired. When had his wrist become so sore from the burden it held?

To him, his burn out, his loss of drive within the world was an infection of sorts. The title of Hero was a burden that in many ways he wished he wasn’t bestowed. Well most certainly an honour, seeing that which he loved, which he fought so hard to protect, be harmed and disregarded was not a motivation. The responsibility wore at his bones until they cracked and ate at his energy until he passed out, only to be shoved back into him the second he awoke. The title of hero outweighed his own name. No longer was he Link of Ordon, But Link the Hero of Hyrule. He was no more than his deeds. Then the safety he was tasked with bringing to their feet, begging like a dog for any award. In some sense, he was awarded. With titles and land and money and publicity— but none of it mattered. To a hero, perhaps these things were valued. But to Link if Ordon, such prizes were worthless. They were gifts of obligation, not of any true thankfulness or appreciation. And so, he viewed his task as obligation, and their gifts without any thanks or appreciation.

He stood now, a group of lizalfoe in front of him, without much a feeling of fear. Not in such a sense of bravery or courage, but simply the absence of feeling. His sword sunk into flesh with no discernible difference between the monsters. Corpses were Corpses. In the eyes of fate and history, enemy was enemy. There was no concern for where they came from or what lives they might’ve led if he hadn’t come into their lives. It was his obligation to kill. To lay waste the creatures of evil. Four were downed, one last left standing among the bodies of its allies.

Clouds parted from the gibbous moon, letting its silver light steam down. Once upon his past, he would’ve spent such a night by fireside, you cuddled up against his side as some idle story filled your minds. Further back than those memories, you both would’ve snuck out to run along the river. Younger then, the two of you would’ve curled up in some quiet field after dinner and fallen asleep. Within those memories were gifts. The peace of domesticity he could no longer afford. Love of another which he now can no longer, lest you be ripped from him too. Contentment, something he can now only find within his memory. He could read between the lines of his life and surround himself with yes men, convincing himself its love, but contentment cannot be fabricated. It is a measurement only knowable by oneself, their enjoyment of simply being alive. And it was in the cold days that followed the abstractness of his journey that he is unhappy with the idea of simply being alive anymore.

Pain struck, washing over his network of nerves, his sword sinking into the wet dirt. Gnawing fangs latching to his flesh. He was only awake then long enough to see an arrow pierce the vile thing. He was only conscious long enough to scold himself— this is what comes of closeness. Pain. Suffering. Loss.

Staring down at the mixture of splintered bones and ripped skin didn’t affect you as much as it should’ve, but goddess knows how many hours into your nights at the ward meant you couldn’t scrounge up any more energy to be panicked. Night bleeding into cold night sapped out the care and individuality of each patient down to a cot number. The whole process got methodical over time— healing people. There wasn’t much of a difference within the bodies after enough time. It didn’t matter to you whether the patient was alive or dead, biologically a man or woman, or whatever arbitrary things society dubbed someone as ‘different’. Red potions and fairies worked their magic all the same on Zora as they did with Goron, so on and so forth. A needle pierced flesh no different from a child than it did an adult or elderly. Sure, there were minor differences in anatomy and function, different needs of each individual, but they were all just people in the end. It didn’t feel different to operate on one than it did another.

But there was something you found odd in the way you felt when it came to healing Link. All things considered, he wasn’t much different from any normal hylian. A little on the lean side, sure, but nothing apparently extraordinary at a first glance. Of course, with a little more information readily accessible, you knew a few quirks. Strong as the hero was foretold to be, he was littered with scars. A few on his back from fighting, the worst from the night the village was destroyed by the wakes of twilight. A nicked lip he’d received from a scuffle with a drunk man who lunged at you. A few lining the inside of his arm, which he didn’t need to define and nor did you force him. A long slice in his forearm from when he was trenching you how to shoot a bow. A small scar on the inside of his ankle from when he fell in the river when you’d both snuck out in the dead of night, his young body unable to balance on unsteady feet. Each one you’d bandaged and stitched and monitored. Each wound of his recklessness was eased by your hand.

Well, now you supposed, it wasn’t each. Now the man in question lay hardly living and hardly dead on your makeshift operation table, it seemed there was yet more to uncover when it came to Link. You were met with a familiar hollow burn beneath your ribs, seeing the angry red gash on his left wrist. Not even that he’d gotten such a wound in the first place, but with your offer to heal the wound being met with stiff silence. It would’ve been easy. Some gauze and disinfectant. It wasn’t even deep enough to warrant stitches. It was, however, deep enough to warrant infection in its neglect. Sure, To this alone you would’ve been only slightly frustrated. But seeing the flesh falling from bone on the right half of his abdomen was enough to convince you that said negligence happened to be enough to affect his ability of wielding his blade.

The sun was rising by the time you were done. Nearly eight hours it had taken to close all his wounds. Another spent on treating his infection. Changing his bandages over for the second time that… evening? night? You decided to let yourself question the possibly most apparent difference of your Link since you’d last been aloud to treat him. There was something embedded in his chest. About a palms length from his collarbone, embedded in his sternum was… something. And from it sprang magic. It discoloured his skin to a black geometric patch with teal lines crawling over his chest. It hummed slightly, in tune with his heart, and that hollow feeling rested within you again. It was more corrosive this time, eating away at you in a way you couldn’t begin to express. It burned within whatever soft place it settled in —your heart most likely— and for the first time that night you felt something other than bitter isolation. You believed it to be jealousy in one of its many wicked forms.

The thing with dead bodies was you knew from their lack of pulse and cold skin that there was no soul to connect with. There was no one there. Those who were alive provided a sense of warmth. Physically and emotionally. Once, Link too was the same. He was warmth. Your very own sun. He’d make sure you were safe and drag you up from the depths of whatever dark hole you’d crawled into with no expectation of a return. Now, Link was more akin to the former. He regarded you with unresponsiveness. Cold in every way but literal. You gave him space when he asked for it upon his return. You don’t question when he stopped showing up to events. You tried not to take it personally when he stopped talking to you. You tried to convince yourself he hadn’t walked out of your life without a second glance. You tried— you really did. And for a while it worked. You managed to fool yourself that he didn’t mean to, or that he’d be coming back. And maybe that’s the cruellest part, that you wholeheartedly believed your own lies. But looking down on the wounds he’s collected, you can’t help but be hit with the realisation that he doesn't want you anymore. He had seen the world outside of what Ordon had to offer. Through his heroism he’s travelled the highs and lows of Hyrule, met all its variations of people and became their Hero. A person of their creations. And with it, with their creation, you weren’t dubbed a necessary piece of him anymore. You weren’t the only one that loved him anymore. So how foolish could you be to assume that he was still yours?

Your trance was broken by his eyes fluttering as the sunlight streamed in. He blinked a few times before sitting up, you didn’t have the heart to usher him into laying back down with soft mutters. His slitted pupils adjusted to the light, growing thin and sharp as they met your own. His mouth fell slightly agape seeing you framed by the sunlight, an angel sent to him, surely. Your hands felt stiff as you grabbed his neatly folded clothes and other items, setting them on his lap.

“Your- Your service total is 300 rupees. Feel free to pay at the front or discuss other financing options.” Your voice shook as your routine line spilled from your lips. Your heart shook from the gasp that came from him, his weak lungs drawing in a cold, shuttered breath.

from @trippygalaxy / @acrossthegalaxyau and their OOT!Link, Shifter! Hope you enjoy. @quiteliterallyilliterate come get your man.

TW: ((I’m really not joking this time read em’)) Suicide, suicidal tendencies and explicit self harm.

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

I’d say for his sake, if you were going to be properly romantically involved with this man you’d have to beat the trauma before it gets to him. To have someone that holds him close and loves him not in spite of what’s happening— but through it. His vision of love has so long since been warped by what he’s told love should be. In his eyes, he is no knight in shining armour worthy of someone to kiss his wounds better. To him, he’s marred and frayed, not even worth the effort of mending. It’d take a lot of love to get Shifter to understand that your dynamic of love isn’t necessarily what society deemed to be romantic, but it’s what you have and that’s all either of he can demand from the goddess— something that’s finally his.

Shifter switches often between hot and cold. He often yearns to be by your side, crumpled with the guilt of leaving you on your lonesome for possibly months on end. And yet when he finally falls through the door of your shared home, likely beaten and battered, all he wants to do is leave once more. He feels partially as if he’s misleading you. That every time he walks through that door you wish for something of him that he simply could not provide, a more simple relationship. He cannot provide you with a quaint home and quiet mornings curled up together. He cannot even provide you a ring for his fear to leave you officially widowed. He is afraid of heartbreak before he can even hand his cracked heart to you. Moreover, he’s scared to hold your heart. He cannot handle fragile things— let alone something as amazing as you.

While he most certainly appreciates the nuances of your relationship, he doesn’t understand why it is you insist time upon time to stay with him. It simply doesn’t make sense to him. You haven’t been seeking out other company to fill his constant absence, though he’s convinced you should, because what kind of lover is he to miss holidays and birthdays and every other important moment. And that fact of true unconditional love and loyalty is breaking to him. It rips him to shreds. It dampens his hardened heart until it’s soft and alive, much unlike the fabled perfection that’s expected of him. Perhaps there’s something poetic about it— a hero foretold throughout the ages and forged through trials that would break any normal mortal man, is bested by love. Not passion or lust or romance. Just love. Sickening as he found it ‘such trivial topics only meant to waste time’, it was more fact than most within his life.

To him, I see two endings. A hand stretched to the open sky in a barren field. One man lay at the centre, eye shut in a peaceful rest. The breeze cools the unfeeling skin, and his blood nurtures the soil beneath him. The blood seeps into his clothes, every patch you made and hole you mended, was it all ever worth it if this is how it ended? The wind whistled its mourning cry into the empty socket of his eye, a wail echoing through his kind that he couldn’t shut out like he did you. Sword embedded into his abdomen, he wonders what you’ll feel when you get the news of what he’s made of himself. He hopes you don’t cry. He hates it when you cry because he should be the one to prevent it, not cause it. He hopes you’ll find someone to help you as you helped him. He hopes you won’t join him. He doesn’t want to ask for your forgiveness— he’s always asked too much of you. So maybe his hopes can keep you safe in his stead.

please.

i do not care. Fluffy enough I get cavities?

Hell yeah.

Angsty enough to be on r/im14andthisisdeep?

Hell yeah.

Trippy i want to see my husband.

Oooo...Mmmmm We'll see how this goes >:)

HAHAHAH NEVER ALLOW ME TO LISTEN TO MITSKI WHILE WRITING >:)

Pairing: Legacy (HW!link)xgn!reader Warnings: ANGSTTT!!!, Character death implied, mourning,

It was suppose to be a normal day for you two, it was suppose to be spent inside, tangled in eachothers arms with flickering candles and wool blankets to give you warmth. You were suppose to feel his scarred fingers mingling with your locks, you were suppose to feel his full lips kissing the cold metal of your engagement ring, you were suppose to feel him.

But you don't. And you can't.

Hes gone, hes gone and you dont know where he went. No one does, no one ever will. Hes gone. Your fiancée is gone.

It was suppose to be a normal patrol of the castle walls, he was only meant take a few hours, he should of arrived to your home at noon with the suns rays beaming through your curtains but...but now it the sun has long since rested past the horizon. The cold moon casting haunting shadows in your colder house. They play tricks on you, the shadows, they trick you with vague shapes of your lover just out of sight.

--

After your clock had struck 2 hours past noon, you had marched to the castle with a heart heavy with worry.

No one had dared to stand in your way as you march your way to the Queens quatres. You were a trusted ally, you had fought beside the Queen during the war and your (now...was?) fiancée. They knew you wouldn't dare harm the Queen...But they also knew what sort of death would be upon them if they dared to step infront of your path. And no one could stop their flinch when the echoes of your anguished screams filled the midday halls. No one could imagine your reaction --no one want to imagine it less they wished for their heart to break-- to the dreaded words the Queen spoke.

"Link...He is missing. We've lost track of him and their has been no signs of him other than...this." The Queen handed you his engagement ring that loosely hung from a leather strap.

He worn the ring around his neck to protect it from the grime and blood that stained his perfect hands. He...He always kept it safe and close to his chest, saying...He said it was how he longed to treated you. Close...Safe...Never stained by the horrors he would face day in and day out. He- He promised to come home...he promised to...He promised.

You demanded they searched for him, you demanded they never rested until he was found, you demanded that they brought the sun to him through torches and warm smiles. You demanded for your fiancee to be brought back to you. You--- You... You collapsed onto the cold floor of the Queen's quatres.

And even as she raced to your side with whispered promises to bring him back, the Queen wasn't able to console your suffering heart, no one could but him.

--

So there you lay, clutching his ring to your chest with eyes red and dry, cheeks stained with tears that could never even begin to convey a fraction of your despair with shadows mocking your lost with such malice you begin to think you deserve it all.

Bard signs and wipe his own face with his hand as some of the group smirks or let put little laughs of their own.

Bard: their going to be the death of me.

Seam: yes they are.

Reader: Come on babygirl, we have long way to go.

Bard: we're coming! Slow down would ya!

HEHEHEHEHH!!!!