towerofanimus | 1st Shard

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1st Shard

Characters: Lil' Link and you!
Setting: Room 1-18 and both dorm floors.
Format: Either or!
Summary: Link freaks out and then freaks out a little more.
Warnings: None I think; will change if it happens?

[Room 1-18 and probably the hallway too.]

[Of all the ways Link has woken up before, this had to be the worst. First was the sleep paralysis; that gave him a good spook, since it's definitely never happened before. Only thing that equals paralysis in his mind are those stupid Redeads - but after gaining movement again, he already checked the room for those.
Thank goodness there aren't any. Yet.

But second was realizing, hey, this definitely is not anywhere he remembers being. Definitely, definitely not. This place is too... fake feeling to be anywhere on the Great Sea. So of course, he got up to check the room out.

And that's when he noticed the third thing - that collar clamped around his neck. Oh, this ain't good, no sir; it feels like something evil, and just looking at what he can see of it gives him a little bit of the heebie jeebies. Which means it must come off, and now.

So if you pass by that room or are lucky enough to be in it, you may or may not find Link with his back to the floor, hands clasped on what he can grab of the collar, and his little legs scooting him backwards across the ground like he expects it to help. It's probably pretty dumb looking.]

[Around the dorm areas.]

[Later, of course, is time for a little exploration; he's grabbed all he can carry out of his trunk, and he's making his way around to try and find the door outta here - which in his logic means "go around and open every door you find". So feel free to notice the little nine year old hero peeking his head into your room, there.]

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[And now his eyes just light up -- so yes, he's going to climb up onto the bench next to them, giving them the biggest smile.]

You're the Hero of Time?
Really?

[ alkjshdlkgjh SUCH A REACTION SOB. And Link is very modest, s-so... there's a headrub. The wood they'd been working on whittling is put down. ]

... Um... yes.

[ G-gosh this is so embarrassing... can we change the subject? ]

If I may ask, how... do you know about it?

[ About... well, them. The title. Well, Link knew the Hero of Time thing was sort of a... legend? But not everyone had heard of it in their timeline. Some people said they'd come eventually and Sheik had always said it HAD to be them, but...

Well. Maybe it's timeline shenanigans. Not impossible; Link has a fairly decent grasp of timeline stuff by now. It kind of comes with the job description. ]

There's a legend about you, where I'm from. It's why I'm wearing this; on my island, when boys turn the age you were when you started your quest, they have to wear this.

It's kind of uncomfortable, but it's hero's clothes.

[He tugged on the tunic as he talked about it of course, looking down at the uncomfortably warm clothing.]

Not only that, but... Ganondorf said I was "the Hero of Time, reborn" before we fought.

[ Pauses, taking this in. ]

Oh, I see, where I am from, my people wear this sort of outfit traditionally--

[ Wait. ]

[ WHAT.

Ganondorf.

Ganondorf.

And there's a legend... about... them? ]

[ Okay no. No no no no no no no NO. BACKING THE HECK UP. ]

... Are you saying that Ganondorf is alive and you fought him?

[ No no no no no THAT CANNOT BE-- ]

I... I'm going to stop him. I should have stopped him by that time. I cannot lose. I won't. He should not be alive at all.

[ THIS IS REALLY UNSETTLING AGHDFLKJHGLFDKJG okay, okay. DO NOT panic. This boy knows something, so... ]

And what of Hyrule? What state was it in, when you left?

[.... Uh oh. He fidgets a bit, playing with the end of his tunic and looking down at his hands.]

Um... Ganondorf came back. And I killed him. At least, I think he's dead - he turned to stone, and stone isn't alive.

You did stop him, it's just... the seal broke and he came back, and that time, you were gone.
So all the people prayed to the gods, and the gods put them on the mountaintops and flooded Hyrule.
But all of the people were safe, so it's okay.

[ Link listens to the boy's tale and... a sort of melancholy expression drifts over their face.

He couldn't possibly understand the things they'd done for that country. Ground or not, that land was important to them. It was their home. Apparently, they'd failed Zelda and the people.

What sort of hero abandons their own people in the hour of their need? What could they have been doing at the time? The only conclusion Link can come to is that in the end, this title truly wasn't meant for them.

They did not deserve it, and they certainly did not deserve to be called any sort of hero. As this child has proved, a male is far more worthy than a female; a child, single-handedly stopping Ganondorf...

When, at his age, the Goddesses had deemed them "too young" to carry the burden of the Hero?

... Honestly, they'd been forcefully aged, and hearing this cannot help but make them feel--nostalgic, for when they thought in such a simplistic manner.

Link pauses to turn away from the child, drying their eyes before any tears can come to them, because they'd long ago promised they'd never shed tears again.

There is a short silence as all this goes on. ]

[ Like all other things during their quest, Link would place all these feelings in a bottle and tuck it away, like a fairy or potion and pretend it didn't exist.

And, the Hero of Time turns back to the Hero of Winds, smiling. ]

... I see. Yes, you are right, that is what is most important in the end. I'm pleased to know that the world was put in very capable hands during my absence.

[ Have a little messing of your hair, tinier Link. Sure, the smile and all of it is very fake, but that's fine. Cheeriness could be faked easy enough.

... Especially when Link had spent so, so very long at this point bottling up all the things they'd felt for the good of everyone else. It didn't matter how they felt. It mattered that everyone else was okay and happy, in the end.

Even if that meant enduring pain on their own, that was also fine. ]

[He smiles then, nodding and holding his hat on as his hair is messed up. Finally, someone gets it.]

Oh -- you know, I think I forgot to say this, but the gods kind of put a bubble over Hyrule, first.

But you're right, it's best that everyone was safe.

And I can't really take all the credit... Tetra helped me, too. Or, uh... the princess of my time, I guess. "Tetra" fits her better, calling her princess is too weird.

She'd hit me if she knew I was taking all the credit.

[ ... Link laughs. ]

A bubble? The Goddesses are certainly resourceful...

[ Heh... the old kingdom lived in ways. At least... at least its people were safe. ]

She'd hit you? That doesn't sound very nice at all. ... Tell me, the people who escaped, have you heard anything of those from the forest?

Oh, um... The Great Deku tree and the Koroks live in the forest. I don't... I don't know if that's what you mean, though.

He told me the Koroks used to look like humans.

And Tetra is nice, she just angry really easy.

[Honest! She's just... constantly cranky.]

[ Like... humans...? Their friends asdskljhg ;; But which timeline is this Link from? It's hard to say, given that the boy seems to be so far into the future... ]

So the Deku Tree... the sprout lived... that is good.

[ Relieved, in a way, but... it'll never be the one that they knew. Heh. He was like their father, after all. ]

I think you might have met the descendants of the people that I grew up with, if they used to look human. I grew up in a forest--I was raised by the Deku Tree alongside them. Though, in my time, we were called the Kokiri, and they looked like Hylian children.

[ They motion to the tunic ensemble the younger Link is wearing. ]

In fact, that outfit you wear is what was traditional for our clothing.

[He blinks a bit, tugging the tunic and looking at it again.]

... Oh! I think... I think I met a Kokiri, once.
He was kind of a ghost though, I think.

And I didn't get to talk to him much at all, he just taught me his song and played his cello thing with Makar.

But he looked a lot like you do, and wore this stuff, too.

[He stops to think a bit more, rubbing the back of his head.]

And I think I saw a picture of a girl Kokiri once. But she didn't have a hat.

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[ Eh...? A girl? ]

... You saw a girl? Did she by chance have green hair in the picture?

[ It's worth a shot. Goddesses, do they miss Saria. ]

Mhm! She was in a window; a stained glass one. In Hyrule's castle.

I don't know why, I think she was really important though.

[Headtilt?]

[ ... There's a small, somewhat melancholy smile. Might as well explain it, they suppose. ]

A stained glass window... were there others there? The Castle I knew before it was destroyed didn't look like that... her name is--was--Saria.

[ Link is silent for a moment, before looking back to the other Link. ]

She... was my very close friend. We grew up together, in the forest. You see, my people, the Kokiri, they don't age. They all look like you, around your age, and are forever children.

... But I was Hylian, like you. They were just adopted family, though I never knew it. The Great Deku Tree was our guardian, and... he was my father. I never knew my Hylian parents, and Saria was... my friend, and something like a mother as well.

[ Almost. Link... loved her very much. ]

Unfortunately, she was also destined to be the Sage of the Forest, so we could not live together...

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There were a lot of other windows like hers, mhm. Lots of people I didn't recognize, and some of them didn't even look like people.

[Like Laruto.]

... I kind of hope I get to meet her, she sounds really nice.

But, um... I'm not Hylian.

[That term doesn't even exist on the Great Sea, after all... they're just long eared humans.]

No, you are definitely Hylian. Your ears make you so. Though, I suspect the term may have been lost with Hyrule...

[ To illustrate the point, Link gently pokes them. ]

Our ears as well as our affinity with magic. I have heard that the reason we've longer ears than humans is because that we can hear the voices of the Goddesses.

[ Anyway. ]

When you say they did not resemble people, do you mean that one had white skin and fins, another was brown and very muscular...? Was there also two other women, one with red eyes, and one with darker, tanner skin?

[He blinks at that, tugging on the ends of his long ears a bit, curiously, and nods at the rest of it.]

Mhm. I think that's what they looked like; and the end windows had the Triforce on them.

[... He's also making a face a bit, as if he's trying to hear something really, really quiet.]

One of the sages really had fins though. I had to help a friend of mine learn her song and go through her temple, since she was the new Sage there.

[ Link looks surprised. ]

The people you saw on the windows were the original 6 Sages, then. ... To be truthful, my duty was to awaken all of them so that we could defeat Ganondorf, though from my perspective, I suspect I have lost the last one, the Sage of Spirit, as I have not purified her Temple yet...

[ The hero can't help but smile a little at the smaller Link's trying to hear something. Heh, they had better hearing than normal humans, but if you were used to it then you weren't going to hear a difference, silly child. ]

... Would you like to learn about them? I suspect that the Sage you met may be related to them.

[Link thinks about that, and nods, finally letting go of his ears so he could listen to the other better.]

I only know about two of them, and I didn't get to talk to them much.
They just taught me music to teach to the new Sages.

[ There's a fond smile. ]

In my time, Hyrule was a large land. If you would like to know the truth, I actually have never seen an "ocean". I have... heard of it, of course, but...

[ Yeah, never saw one ever! ]

Truthfully, I had met nearly all the Sages previously when I began my journey. I was... actually, around your age, I think, although the Kokiri do not put numbers to their ages, I think about 10 cycles of each season had passed?

[ Link is normally not so talkative, but... well, it's a story, so it should be okay, right? This little Link is also a hero too, and they get the feeling they might want to learn more about the whole story, anyway, considering how excited they were about the Hero of Time. ]

As I've said, Saria was a friend of mine from the very beginning; she later became the Sage of the Forest, and gave me the Medallion of the Forest as proof of it.

Through in my journey, I met more people. The first one I met was Darunia, the Chieftain of the Gorons. He... was rather frightening, actually, but he had a good heart. Ganondorf had forced his people to starvation... it was quite amazing, actually, I played him the song that Saria taught me--it allowed us to communicate with each other. It was the same music as was in our forest, you see, the trees there have a song to them, and apparently, he really enjoyed dancing...

[The younger Link nods as he listens, getting comfy on the bench they're sharing as the older of the two tells their tale.]

Trees... that have a song? I've never heard of stuff like that. Unless the Great Deku Tree has a song, but he can speak, so I guess that wouldn't be so weird...

[Though, "dancing" just makes him think of Tott.]

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