#poly!sky

Things I am doing: drafting a short, sweet poly!Sky thing that starts with itty baby Sky.

A piece i did for the lovely @st0rmyskies based on her Poly!Sky series which you should totally check out if you haven't.

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Assuming this is for poly!Sky...

What is the pettiest thing they've ever argued about?

The proper recipe for pumpkin soup. Sky insists it must be sweet, creamy, and thick. Sun thinks he likes it a little too sweet. Twilight favors a savory, pepper-y soup with meaty chunks of fish.

Warriors believes that soup alone doesn't count as a meal, and the texture of any squash-based soup makes him want to retch.

More than one pot of simmering soup has simmered too long during this argument.

What's the most embarrassing thing they've walked in on the other(s) doing?

Sky is known for some of his more creative sleeping positions. If he succumbs to a nap in a bad spot, he might slide off of the bed or other piece of furniture and get stuck ass-up--which he will continue to blithely sleep through. Because photographs don't exist, the others must resort to pantomiming the position later on during dramatic retellings.

Warriors will sometimes hum or sing quietly to himself as he's working on mundane chores. When he thinks he's perfectly alone, he tends to choose those more bawdry songs that kept exhausted men lively enough to work through it in the army. When caught singing about how some poor schmuck's wife was "born and bred a harlot, at night her thighs were lily white and by morning they were scarlet," he denied the incident up, down, and sideways when the others tried to sing it later (badly).

Twilight's canine condition causes some embarrassment on occasion, especially in moments when he forgets himself and does wolfy things in his very human body. Like chomp down on a stick--just to see the texture!!--when he didn't realize anyone else was coming out into the yard.

There’s simply no way the others would be able to match Sky’s gift giving powers and they would be forever guilty about it 😂 Until one year they all come together and are like ok. This gift giving disparity cannot stand. We need Sky to feel as loved and understood and appreciated as we do every single time he gives us a gift. And then they all work together to plan Sky’s Perfect Day and he WILL cry about it 🫶

The resolution comes after the Solstice holiday, when Warriors is contemplating the embroidered border on the new tabard Sky had gifted him with. "We can't let him get away with this every year."

"What d'you mean?" Twilight pretends like he doesn't get it, like he hasn't been staring at the hand-tooled patterns on his new boots since he opened them. Sky is soundly asleep next to him, his head in Twilight's lap.

"The gift-giving." Warriors frowns at the leaves stitched in groups of five, one for each member of their little family. "It's too lavish."

"You're ridiculous," Twilight snorts. Sky doesn't so much as twitch.

"How many hours do you think he spent on those boots!?" Warriors shoots back, gesturing at Twilight's boots sitting on the floor between them.

Twilight opens his mouth to fire something back, but stops midway as he considers the question. He goes quiet with a thoughtful hum, color darkening his cheeks.

"He outdoes each of us for every event: holidays, birthdays." Despite his severe tone, Warriors is still holding the tabard up to his shoulders and looking at his own reflection in the dark windows, turning this way and that. "We've got to put a stop to it."

"Well, good luck on that." Sun is draped in her soft new shawl as she settles in with Lyra for an evening feeding. "Gifts are how he says 'I love you', you know."

Warriors makes a quiet, disgruntled sound.

"Askin' him to stop would send the wrong idea, too. But," Twilight ventures, his brows quirking upward, "there's no reason why we can't try beatin' him at his own game."

Yes, poly!Sky holds a warm place in my heart and I’m so glad you enjoy it! And here I thought Wildlight was usually the gateway to Linkshipping.

STORMY THATS MY BEST GUY HOW AM I MEANT TO CHOOSE ONLY 3

Ok. Ok. Okkkkkkk ok I’m going to be broad here and go with my favorite character traits to see in all the iterations of Sky or Skyward Sword Link I commonly read. In no particular order:

Sky’s kindness is a choice. He wakes up every day and chooses to be kind even when everything else in the world is fighting against that choice. There is an unbeatable strength in that.

Polyamorous Sky :D!!! Poly as in the sexuality, not specifically your poly!Sky (although I hope you know how much I love that series hehe). He just has so much love to give!!! It can’t be contained!!!! Extra special bonus points if he’s in a relationship with Zelda and Groose my beloveds.

Sky feels everything very deeply. In the game we can see how expressive he is and I love when that is translated to fics. Give me a Sky that can’t always handle the depth of his emotions. Give me a Sky that laughs and cries and loves so hard that he wears himself out. Give me a Sky who will help and comfort the others far past his own limits because he can’t help but feel exactly what they’re feeling. Give me a Sky that can’t help lashing out in anger when he can’t regulate it himself. And let him be snarky. That’s not super related but it’s always fun. HE FEELS EVERYTHING SO DEEPLYYYYYYYYY