#gloom puppet

Chapters: 5/7 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Link & Puppet Link Additional Tags: takes place during the events of totk, Talking Link (Legend of Zelda), Gloom (Legend of Zelda), gloom spawn - Freeform, gloom puppets, gloomed Link, Puppet link - Freeform, Temporary Character Death, Link's casual disregard for his own well-being Series: Part 2 of Imposter Syndrome

Summary: What makes a monster and what makes a hero? The question seems so simple, Link has never had any reason to think about it. But as he chases an enemy with mysterious intentions across Hyrule, he finds the question concerns him more and more.

Preview:

The thing surged out from the dark, dragging the dark with it, and attacked, sword raised. Link barely got his own blade up in time to block. He was holding the shield Purah had made him in reserve, for now, but he would be ready in case this thing got its hands on him.

The puppet fought with a silent, vicious implacability. If Purah's trap really had almost killed it, there was no sign of that now. It was faster than it had been, stronger.

So was Link. They clashed, over and over, the fight growing more brutal as it became clear how evenly matched they were and each sought some small advantage. The puppet kicked Link through a pile of lumber, readied by the construction crews. Link peppered it with arrows of all kinds. The puppet nicked Link with its unholy sword and Link nicked it with his holy one and both wounds steamed and hissed.

Chapters: 6/7 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Link & Puppet Link Additional Tags: takes place during the events of totk, Talking Link (Legend of Zelda), Gloom (Legend of Zelda), gloom spawn - Freeform, gloom puppets, gloomed Link, Puppet link - Freeform, Temporary Character Death, Link's casual disregard for his own well-being Series: Part 2 of Imposter Syndrome

Summary: What makes a monster and what makes a hero? The question seems so simple, Link has never had any reason to think about it. But as he chases an enemy with mysterious intentions across Hyrule, he finds the question concerns him more and more.

Preview:

Gloom oozed up around the demon sword, eroding whatever magic the fusion used. The sword clattered to the ground and then was engulfed. Link held steady. The gloom bubbled and began to take the shape of a person, features slowly refining. Pointed ears, champion's leathers, all the details down to the eyelashes and fingernails etched in glutinous black and red. And then the gloom began to drain away and the puppet emerged, eyes closed, on its back with the sword in its scabbard beneath it.

Link rested the point of the Master Sword at the hollow of its throat and the puppet's eyes flew open.

Chapters: 3/7 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Link & Puppet Link Additional Tags: takes place during the events of totk, Talking Link (Legend of Zelda), Gloom (Legend of Zelda), gloom spawn - Freeform, gloom puppets, gloomed Link, Puppet link - Freeform, Temporary Character Death, Link's casual disregard for his own well-being Series: Part 2 of Imposter Syndrome Summary: What makes a monster and what makes a hero? The question seems so simple, Link has never had any reason to think about it. But as he chases an enemy with mysterious intentions across Hyrule, he finds the question concerns him more and more.

Preview:

Then something caught the corner of his eye, a patch of shadow where there shouldn't be one, and Link startled to the side with a burst of adrenaline. But the shadow didn't move. Link took a breath and approached cautiously.

It was a sword. It no longer looked anything like the Master Sword; it looked more like a gloom blade, the kind he might get after fighting the usual type of gloom spawn phantom.

But there was something off about it. It was darker than other gloom blades and just looking at it made Link want to turn and start walking quickly in the opposite direction.

He reached out to grasp its hilt, then paused and brought around the slate instead, aiming its camera at the blade where it rested in the grass.

The camera gave him a series of question marks, even after he took a photo of it. It filed the photo dutifully in the compendium, but in a new slot also numbered by question marks. It seemed it could recognize it as a weapon, but could provide no further information.

Link sighed, thought about it for a few seconds more, then picked up the sword.