#itcantbe

"I didn’t know you can dance...”

(Thanks @jenseits-der-sterne​ and @itcantbe​ for the prompt!)

Hahaha, yes, these still exist. 🙈 Ghosts is sitting at about 3k words, but I'm having trouble wrangling the ending into submission. Trauma is only 500 words, but already has the ending all written out. So. How's that for irritating. 🫠

The big issue with Ghosts is that I've inadvertently jumped down this unintentional lore rabbit hole with it, and most of those 3k words are Link talking with someone who isn't Zelda. And I feel like it's boring.

And then I think to myself, maybe I should just scrap this idea and go a completely different route? But I've already written 3k words! Do I really want to waste more time reworking it? Even if it isn't the best, it's better than nothing!

Gwen is a dog. She belongs to the Zelda of Uneasy Lies the Chosen of Farore, but like…a decade before that story starts. She was a little puppy of dubious ancestry one of her kids brought home from the stable one day , and she got pretty bent at her spouse for allowing this to happen, but she raised the puppy herself.

Gwen ends up being the emotional support animal when bad things happen. She gets to go to meetings and she doesn’t care for the captain of Zelda’s personal guard. She turns out to be right about the guy.

this one is the newest addition to the pile! it's really only an idea, there's barely anything written down.

you know all those quests in botw where you have to take a picture of something on the slate, but the guest giver assumes you drew it because they don't know the slate has a camera? so essentially, link gains a reputation as a masterful artist because everyone mistakes his photographs for lifelike paintings. and then everyone wants to commission him, and he's too nice to say no. so now the poor guy has to balance a full-on art career with saving the world, while hiding the truth that he actually can't paint for shit.

Ahh, broken-down heroes. My favorite! 😎