#diracetors commentary

Hello fellow chronic illness Sky truther!!!! I’ve been thinking about this all day and all night. I love them your honor

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sky and Legend as chronic illness buddies. For one I just think they would get along very well, and for two they are so easy to project chronic illness into hehe. Sorry blorbos but actually I’m not 😂

One big thing I enjoy exploring with Sky and Legend is the differences in how obvious their disabilities are to other people. With Legend, he’s naturally a more vocal person, so he would talk about them more I think. I also usually imagine him having mobility aids like braces or compression garments or a cane, etc. So, all that to say I usually write him so that it’s very clear to others he’s disabled. 

With Sky, his are more invisible. Or at least he plays it down well. For example, everyone knows he’s sleepy. When people make lighthearted jokes about it, Sky just smiles and goes along with it instead of saying something like yeah I’m always horribly fatigued from my chronic illness 🥲.

I also think there would be a difference in how disability and chronic illness are handled between Sky’s and Legend’s era. Legend is so far into the future and his civilization is more advanced, so he would be much more likely to actually have terms and words and diagnoses to describe his experiences. That makes it so so so much easier to understand his body and his experiences, describe them to others, and ask for and use accommodations.

Sky has a tendency to downplay and ignore his symptoms until it sends him into a flare up and he can’t ignore them anymore. Part of it is who he is and the trauma issues from not being fast enough, but also part of it is some internalized ableism telling him his symptoms aren’t as bad because they don’t present exactly like Legend’s. THAT IS NOT TRUE!!!!! DO NOT BE LIKE SKY!!!!! Everyone’s symptoms are different and you should never downplay your problems because you believe someone else has it worse.

All of this is something very important to me personally, and I think it resonates well with any others out there with undiagnosed issues and invisible disabilities.

Director's Cut ask: Tell me which of the Gratitude chapters has been the most fun for you to write and why!

This is excellent I loooooove gossip :D

That’s a hard question actually!! All of the Gratitude chapters have something special, to me.

I really enjoyed writing Twilight’s chapter because I wrote it as I was playing TP for the first time! Colin is so freaking cute. AND THEN THEY HOLD HANDS!!!!!!! I love letting the blorbos hold hands.

Four’s was fun because they were both being very autistic 😂. And then they got to be gremlins. I like letting Sky and Four show their gremlin sides. They’re all Links, they all have one.

Legend’s was fun because Sky Legend best friend duo is my FAVORITE right now. And Sky gets to infodump about Loftwings!!! I left it a little unclear why Legend’s Gratitude crystal formed on purpose. It was a combination of everything Sky did for Legend that chapter, sure, but it was mostly just Legend feeling so lucky and thankful to have a friend like Sky love him back. SCREAMS SOBS /pos

I got the idea for Time’s chapter literally in the middle of the night. I woke up and it was playing in my head like a movie. Those are so fun. I’ve written something very similar to this before, too. It just scratches the brain cells in the right way.

Ok I think if I HAD to choose one chapter, I would choose Time’s. He’s my second favorite in LU so I guess that isn’t surprising :).

Ooh! It’s been a while since I’ve thought about this one!

It starts out with Wild wanting to show Sky something cool in his Hyrule. He wants Sky to meet Branli since Branli is obsessed with birds! If they had made it, Sky would’ve told Branli about Loftwings then he and Wild would’ve had a competition to see who could glide the farthest. Sky’s stamina isn’t as good as Wild’s so he would lose by a lot, but it would’ve been super fun anyway.

They get captured because the Yiga sneak up on Sky and knock him out, then coerce Wild to go with them with a knife on Sky’s neck.

Sky does murder :). Below the cut bc it’s gross

IM SO ON IT

So when they first get to the bar with the cool lights, Warriors is nervous about going in because he doesn’t know if there will be people who still resent him because of the war. He puts on a big show of being super outgoing and knowing everyone but in reality he’s paranoid and sticks to his few familiar places in Castle Town. And, as we see later in the chapter, his anxiousness is justified. Sky touches on this a little bit when he first notices the people looking at Wars.

From the little Warriors has told Sky about his home era, it wasn’t friendly towards him. Warriors didn’t like talking about it. Sky also noticed, the few times Warriors did talk about it, a dark look fall over Time’s features. It was identical to the one he held when they discovered the assassins in Wild’s era. Sky put the pieces together and came to the conclusion that many in Warriors’ era didn’t support him, and some went so far as to want him dead.

There’s a subtle line about Groozelink in there hehe.

I imagine Sky being a very sensory-seeking person. He loves the sensations that come with flying and freefall, and above the cloud barrier the sun is ALWAYS bright. Woodcarving is a good way to always keep his hands and mind occupied. All that to say- blorbo would love the lights and loud music in a bar environment.

✨Blorbo is experiencing PTSD✨

“We were just leaving,” Warriors said. There was something off about his voice that had Sky blinking in confusion. He couldn’t place what it was, but it wasn’t a tone Warriors had ever used around him before.

The tone is strange to Sky because it’s a mixture of Wars’ captain voice and his voice betraying that he’s barely keeping it together. He used that voice a lot in the war. Mask would be familiar with it

When the bad guys try to start a fight with Sky, he doesn’t retaliate until someone hit Warriors. Sky knows his own strength and he’s not going to hurt someone in the name of protecting himself, but once he sees Warriors hurt that hero mode goes right out the window and he’s fucking pissed.

Out of the corner of his eye, Sky saw the first man raise his fist towards Warriors. Warriors kept both his arms at his sides and did nothing more than turn his face to the side. With a sharp crack the man’s fist collided with Warriors’ cheek.

Sky yelled and rushed towards him. He punched the man squarely in his face and he crumpled to the ground, unconscious. Warriors grabbed Sky’s upper arm in a tight grip and yanked him towards the door.

Unfortunately for Warriors, that does not help his image lol

Sky doesn’t realize it, but he’s being EXTREMELY hypocritical here 😂

Sky took a grounding breath and stepped closer. “Why didn’t you defend yourself?”

Warriors hesitated before answering. “I’m stronger than them. If I fight back, I’ll win.”

“So it’s better to not even try?” Sky asked. Warriors didn’t respond.