#compass.

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Character building time. Fill my inbox with questions about my muse!

Character building time. Fill my inbox with questions about my muse!

It changed completely. Nothing was the same. But that’s to be expected, right? Link had changed, Hyrule had changed, Ordon and its villagers had changed. Life in the Blessed Kingdom ( and in its outer territories ) fundamentally changed for all its denizens after the Twilight Crisis, and everyone moved on and adapted. For some people, things were mostly the same, just with perhaps a more profound respect for life or religion or what have you. For Link, though, everything was different.

During the first several months after the final battle with Ganondorf, Link remained very focused and busy by helping both Hyrule and the Twilight Realm rebuild. No one in Hyrule knew who he really was; no one thought he was the reincarnation of the Hero. Then again, no one in Hyrule really knew what actually happened, just that something terrible had gone down, but now it seemed to be okay, and this guy in the funny green outfit was super helpful and kind. Link didn’t have time to process everything that had happened to him, which was good because he just wanted to ignore it – he ran messages between Zelda and Midna, carried materials for relief and aid across both realms, and generally just filled his time with doing things. During this time, he stayed in Ordon, in his old home, when he needed to rest.

After Midna broke the Mirror, Link was forced, finally, to deal with what happened, to deal with his grief, to accept that his life was fundamentally changed. Not only that, but he had to accept that his divine purpose was over; he had fulfilled it, and he was free to do with the remnants of his life what he would. The deep introspection took a great deal of time for him to go through in its entirety, but even when he was just starting to work through everything, he knew already that he had changed too much to return to the life he had once known. As shown in the very end of the epilogue sequence of Twilight Princess, Link returned the Master Sword to its place of slumber to await its next wielder, and then he took Epona and left Ordon, never to return.

Trigger warnings apply!

been cheated on | been bullied | told a horrible lie | stolen something of value | overdosed on drugs | been drunk | passed out | cheated | bullied | punched someone in the face | been beaten up | broken a bone | been admitted to hospital | had a near-death experience | been drugged | done drugs | smoked | kissed someone you weren’t attracted to | bled severely | killed someone | had an attempt on your life | made an attempt on your own life | lost someone | loved someone | gone without food for over three days | gone without sleep for over three days | been tortured | been slapped by a parent | been abused by someone who should have loved you | had a panic attack | been in a car accident | had sex | had sex with a stranger | been raped | felt raped | passed out from pain | cried yourself to sleep | spent a whole day in bed | hurt yourself | taken your anger out on yourself | taken your anger out on someone you love | been used | used someone | been terrified | played a cruel game on someone | been dominant | been submissive | been forced to smile | been misgendered | felt too many things at once | laughed when you felt like crying

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i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. // tyger tyger, burning bright // i have done it again. // do not go gentle into that good night. // the sea is calm to-night. // let us go then, you and i, // april is the cruelest month. // pretty women wonder where my secret lies. // there is a place where the sidewalk ends. // i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) // two roads diverged in a yellow wood. // whose woods these are i think i know, // let us twain walk aside from the rest. // once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary, // i taught myself to live simply and wisely. //

it so happens i am sick of being a man // i wandered lonely as a cloud // does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? // o my love is like a red, red rose. // o captain! my captain! our fearful trip is done; // out of the night that covers me // it was many and many a year ago // you may write me down in history // do not stand at my grave and weep // some say the world will end in fire // some say in ice. // hope is the thing with feathers // the wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, // no man is an island, //

remember me when i am gone away, // i met a traveler from an antique land // ‘twas brillig, and the slithy toves // this is thy hour o soul, // when we wear the mask that grins and lies, // death be not proud, // and death shall have no dominion. // laugh, and the world laughs with you; // the art of losing isn’t hard to master; // to see a world in a grain of sand // is there anybody there? said the traveller //

nobody heard him, the dead man, // that crazed girl improving her music. // come to me in the silence of the night; // where the mind is without fear and the head is held high // when you are old and grey and full of sleep, // in flanders’ fields the poppies blow // i thought of you and how you love this beauty // life, believe, is not a dream // it may be misery not to sing at all, // if starry space no limit knows // come live with me and be my love, // had we but world enough and time, //

talk lonk to me.

He’s probably been complimented on his eyes a lot, even in his youth. One of the few things he’s vain about are his eyes, because he knows they’re beautiful and feral. After he transforms into a wolf and retains his eyes, when Ordona calls him the blue-eyed beast, that’s when he really understands what’s going on. Because, y’know, he couldn’t really see himself. He had no idea his eyes were still blue until Ordona told him; he kinda figured he was just a regular ole wolf, albeit a particularly big one. It’s then that he realizes, oh shit, something deeper is going on. And at that point, he can’t yet quite grasp at what that is. He may be told that his fate is to be the Hero of Hyrule, but that doesn’t mean he’s accepted it, and that doesn’t mean he’s chosen to go down that path yet. Indeed, he doesn’t concede to his fate until sometime in the Water Temple.

talk lonk to me.

The City in the Sky. I’ve talked a lot about this, in this post and this post. To recap, even though most temples are pretty traumatizing to him, the City in the Sky is particularly terrifying because of Link’s crippling fear of heights. It’s a phobia -- his fear is absolutely irrational, and it’s all-encompassing. There’s no way around it. He can’t make his fear go away. He can’t quiet it, or stifle it, or ignore it, or push past it. He is terrified of heights, and there’s nothing he can do about it. So the City in the Sky plays upon this fear -- every step of the way he is kicking and screaming to go back. Each time he comes upon a new height-based challenge, Midna has to fight to convince him to keep going. He frequently breaks down and stops entirely to cry or huddle in a corner. He’s done.