Probably my biggest headcanon for LU, and honestly the Zelda games in general, is that Dawn was quite a bit older than Hyrule when he rescued her in Zelda 1.
I think while he was, I’m pretty sure canonically(?), around 10 or 11 she was more so like 17 or 18. I have no canon backing for this or any context at all besides that fact I like it for the following:
It’s no secret that fans of Hyrule and the first two Zelda games in the series have to do a lot of their own world building based off the lack of actual details the games give us. This paints a very lonely picture of Hyrule (in my modest opinion). He has no family members and not really any established friends in the series. Of course it’s implied that the Zelda’s probably think highly of him and he does have a few character interactions but the rest is purely left the speculation.
I like the idea of Dawn being quite a bit older than Hyrule because I like thinking that she brought him up as an elder sister to him, leaving him with a family member to return to. I also like the drama that would occur from her being older.
imagine: You are 18 and have been kidnapped by an ancient evil that not even you, the princess bestowed with power from the goddess herself can defeat. (I like to think that Dawn is brawny and tough. She is a princess yes, but she is the princess of a wasteland. She is a survivor with the rest of them.) You’re furious that this creature is razing your land to even more pieces and you are also disappointed in yourself. You have high expectations for yourself being one of the only figures of authority left in this place. You don’t expect to be rescued, it’s a dog eat dog world out here, but you are. And your brave rescuer is 10 years old 😭
I like to think that she’d be horrified that the only person in this world to try and save their princess is a literal child. So she takes him under her wing and finds that he is quite literally half feral. Like he growls at strangers and doesn’t know basic hygiene. So she takes it upon herself to teach this kid how to live as a proper person 😭
she feels kind of awful, like she’s stripping away his core as she civilizes this child, but she firmly believes it’s for his own good. If he doesn’t know how to clean himself he will fall to infection, even as he bites and screeches as Dawn painstakingly brushes and cuts the mats out of his hair. He hates learning math and reading, it caused him a frustration that not even fighting darknuts had caused him, but without it he can’t read road signs or spell books. Through blood, sweat, and tears Dawn manages to mold Hyrule into a person.
it’s not all bad though, she teaches him to forage for medicinal herbs and he takes to it like breathing. He starts smiling at her and rarely, in a hushed croaky voice, he shares conversations with her.
Dawn is the first to fight her own council when they want to cast out her little hero as his blood begins to drawn in beasts. She’s the first to cry when they don’t give her a choice and her little brother is cast from underneath her arms back into the wastes. he visits occasionally and sometimes she receives a letter, but there isn’t a day that passes that Dawn doesn’t miss those days he spent under her care.
I just really see Hyrule as the type of boy to have a big sister. She forcefully loved him and he learned to be loved.
(I think later on Aurora would be like a little sister to Hyrule giving him a little taste of what Dawn had to put up with him but that’s a different conversation)
I find Dawn really interesting and I feel like I don’t see much of her at all in the fandom. I think there’s a lot of potential in the princess of a wasteland kingdom (as so many people chose to see Rulie’s era). In general, I wish I could see more of the Zeldas.
if you have thoughts on any of the Zeldas pls lmk!! I love nothing more than hashing out different thoughts and headcanons
I really like some the totem of healing headcanon where it stitches your body together while you’re basically still moving and I keep thinking about how that would apply to bbh in the dungeon vod
like he burned through over 20 of them and IGH the angst and hurt/comfort whump potential there
I’ve seen some really good fanart on Twitter of the same idea
but I really have to imagine how using dozens of totems in the same hour would affect a body
he was running around like “I’m alright”, but are you bbh??? 😭 are you really??
I just want to see more talk about the horrors
looks like ao3 is down again and i was in the middle of a multi chapter fic when it died on me.
and if that happens to you, this is what you can do to download the fic:
copy paste https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/fic.html in your browser url
replace the pink bit with the number right after /works (that's the work id)
for instance, in https://archiveofourown.org/works/44970790/chapters/113154673 the highlighted bit (44970790) would be the number you swap for the 0s
the download link will look like https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/44970790/fic.html
if you want the fic to be downloaded as an epub instead, use .epub at the end of that link
it should start downloading on your device
i'm sure a bunch of people know this and use it but in case you don't, hope this helps
Badboyhalo fans come get your juice
this is so good!
HUH?? WUH?? CHAPTER ONE OF THIS TWOSHOT IS FINALLY OUT?? AND IM DROPPING IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT??
Tw for (semi-graphic) blood, violence, nausea, etc. Read the tags, it's all whump. Chapter 2 will be all hurt/comfort so if you can't handle violence and stuff, stay tuned for that!
Summary:
For a moment, everything is silent.
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Or: What was going through q!BadBoyHalo's head as he revives himself dozens of times in the recent fight in the cryogenic dungeon? What tole does it really take on himself and his body?
I love Vidow. I think it’s a super cute ship and I’ve thought this for like a decade, ever since I read the manga in middle school.
My question lies in the context of aus where the colors can merge and unmerge from and into Link (or Four in LU). Or also I guess more canon adjacent stories where Link doesn’t split again. Do you think Link/Four loves Shadow or do you think it’s more of a sectioned off complicated part of him? Or other? In cases where Link splits on and off again do the other colors start feeling non-platonic affection for Shadow due to Vio’s emotions leaking over?
honestly I’m a multishipper so I tend to enjoy anything well written or convincing enough so I have no solid opinions on this but I’m very curious if there’s any consensus or other opinions!
yesss
Hc: I don't think hg!Cellbit was a bloodthirsty man during the Hunger Games.
He was a child (14y) thrown into an arena who had to learn to kill if he wanted to survive. Gradually, with so many deaths, he became apathetic, starting to see human life as simply disposable if he wanted to survive, being more and more cruel... After all, the "cowards" were never kind to him.
Again: I'm not saying that he didn't become bloodthirsty, precisely because he became apathetic, so he also became cruel. AFTER ALL, he was arrested after the war and we don't know exactly why... Well, f!Cell tells us a little about the reason. But at the beginning? As a headcanon, I imagine that when q!BBH adopted Dapper, for even a second, he remembered the little boy he protected in the arena. The hg!Cellbit had no name at the time, he was just one of the many children thrown into the arena to fight to the death, but luckily and for a short period of time, he learned what was to have affection and having someone care about him, that was BadBoyHalo. hg!Cellbit became apathetic when he was left alone, thinking that hg!Bbh, like everyone else, had discarded him. But in reality, years later, with a bittersweet feeling in his mouth, Bad, looking at Dapper, was still thinking about the crazy, goofy little boy he'd met in the arena, but who was probably dead and he didn't want the same thing to happen to Dapper...
Now, imagine their relief when they found each other again and realized that they were only separated by the war, but never forgotten by each other?
hey, don’t cry. one half flour one half yogurt knead into dough and fry for easy flatbread and dip in balsamic vinegar, okay?
Hi. I have a question about your lu soul eater au. What's Dots reaction to Green getting kidnaped and then coming back fused with 3 other people?
Thank you so much for the ask!!! 💕💕💕
Dot, like Green, was also a young kid at the time of his kidnapping so it was very distressing for her. Naturally there were search parties for him, but Vaati was good at hiding so they never found anything.
After search party after party kept failing, she would become more and more upset, begging her father to let her help but being forced to stay inside being a princess. This alone enraged her, but to make matters worse, after the 2nd month of Green missing, they stopped sending out regular search parties. She dipped into her family’s treasury to pay mercenaries to start looking and begged guards she knew to look for him on their off time. She was devastated when they too kept coming back empty handed.
Even worser, close to the half year mark of Green missing, Dot’s father,(do any of the Zelda’s have a living mother???), sits her down and tells her she must continue her studies. She has to start wielding a new weapon. This enrages her but she holds her head high and accepts. She’s paired with another princess from the other side of the kingdom, Fable. She feels as if she betrayed Green on a deeply personal level.
Thankfully, Fable is a good match for her. She’s witty, respectful, and a good listener. Dot is touched when Fable has her own guards search her kingdom for Dot’s missing best friend.
When news of “Green” coming home not himself but a fusion of him and three other boys, Dot is worried. Selfishly, in her own opinion of herself, she hopes that he will remember her.
At first her family and the guard try to keep her away, whispers of “traumatized” and “not the same” floating around. She doesn’t care and sneaks off to find him.
Four is not Green, that she realizes very quickly, but he does remember her. Upon meeting Four, Dot realizes that she still misses Green because he’s still not here. Despite that, she sees him in Four. She’s happy to meet him, feeling bittersweet about the whole thing.
Dot is the first person to recognize Four as somebody who isn’t Green. Sure he is Green, but at the same time he’s not. The palace staff and Four’s own father still treat Four like he’s Green but he isn’t. When Four goes to live with his grandpa, Dot visits him frequently.
A year and a half after escaping Vaati, Four defuses for the first time.He and Dot have a tearful reunion. She realizes that he’s not the same Green that she knew, but she’s not the same either.
If you are a bbh fan I hope you like this! It's basically a little over 3k of thinking about egg death and all that entails
That’s so embarrassing I forgot the link
I wanted to add a little epilogue where shortly after meeting each other they immediately get sucked up into portal that thankfully dumps them out onto Lon Lon Ranch. Malon finds them stumbling through her pastures, takes in the dried blood in Legend’s hairline and Hyrule’s drenched appearance. She basically looks at two pathetic drenched cats and takes them in. She has them feeling better in no time with a meal, baths, and a potion. When Time gets back home introductions and explanations go around. Upon hearing that they’re all called Link they’re like: omg it’s such a common name.
They think it’s a coincidence until Malon tells them: “you guys fell out of a portal. Nature is attacking you. You all have the same name. You don’t think you’re connected somehow?”
And then they’re all finally like: oh
I just think they’re all kinda dumb like that 💕 affectionately
AU where the Hyrule and Legend meet first before the rest of the chain.
The portal dumps Hyrule right in the middle of the ocean. Even if he could swim it would be futile as there’s no land for many miles. As he starts to drown he sees a flash of shimmering scales. He loses and regains consciousness over and over again over a course of time that he can’t count. Each time he wakes sees pretty pink scales, pink hair, gills, and violet eyes. Sometimes he even hears the comforting few notes of a song.
When he finally comes to it’s tucked safely under a cluster of palm trees on the shore of an unfamiliar beach in an even more unfamiliar, but familiar, Hyrule. He has to wonder if the goddess really does love him or if he really was rescued by a mermaid.
Legend had never intended to leave the unfortunate Hylian behind. He left him in a safe spot on the shore before looking for a nearby village that could give better medical attention than he could. He never would have expected an avalanche to descend out of nowhere. It’s not even rainy season. Before he can run or activate a shield he’s struck across the head and knows no more.
He gains consciousness a few times and each he sees the shining form of a green fairy, a color of fairy he’s never seen before. Each time he wakes he hears soft chiming and feels the warmth of fairy magic in his blood. When he finally comes to he’s nestled safely in the roots of a great old tree. He wonders if the green fairy was real or if one of his rings just activated.
Legend and Hyrule both travel for a day aching and tired. Each of them are determined to find the unfortunate soul they had to momentarily leave alone. They run into each other on the road and recognize one another immediately. Do they mention their acts of kindness or blatant recognition? NO.
Maybe one day in the future they mention being saved by a mermaid/odd green fairy. Do they piece together each other’s stories? Maybe…
kill the shift manager in your brain
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