#dink?

hhmmmMMMMMMMMMmmmmm interesting Gin, interesting…

First impression: goop? Black goop with eyes? Same thing as Malice? Now he’s a lizard? Is that the same thing as the black goop with eyes??

Impression now: a kind of mix of the potential darksides of all the heroes so he’s super powerful and emotionally really interesting to think about because all those darksides came from somewhere. I’m excited to find out more about Dark and his story and if the chain will actually get to know him as more nuanced than just a monster (I think this won't happen in canon... but it is happening in my head)

Favourite moment: fighting Wolfie in the ruins after "you want to fight like a beast now?" It's just so tense and focused. Both of them are giving the fight everything they’ve got and the art is so powerful and vivid.

Idea for a story: I don’t have a particularly well developed idea about Dark in my head but I love possession stories/Dark shapeshifting into one of the Links. I also like the idea of someone (probably Hyrule or Legend because Hyrule or Legend) fighting with him in some kind of eerie liminal mental landscape but this is just a vaguely epic scene bouncing around in my head.

Unpopular opinion: I am really bad at this question. His fashion choices are getting progressively worse. The whole iron knuckle thing was not his most flattering look (idk I’m sorry)

Favorite relationship: I feel like in the comic his relationship with Wild is about to get extremely interesting because now he knows to take Wild seriously, which means mess with his head let’s be honest, and Wild has already shown us he’s ready to move mountains to take Dark down after hurting Twilight, so…

And if we assume Hyrule’s shadow (which I do though I may just be exposing my ignorance of Zelda lore, please correct me if so!) is basically the first version of Dark then I’m pretty excited to see what could happen here. In that situation, Hyrule’s already fought Dark (I know he’s not the only one but he was the first) and knows what it’s like to fight yourself (and potentially lose). And at least in my hc evil always feels too close (physically and emotionally) to Hyrule so being confronted with an old enemy that’s this personal would be intense angst territory.

Favorite headcanon: Dark isn’t evil, he’s the inversion and pathologization of the hero's spirit. Which maybe is the same as evil, but a much more complicated evil in that case. I feel like when (if?) the chain figures out the implications of who he is they’d feel more sadness and anger than hate because in Dark’s very existence there’s so much of each of them to mourn and pity.