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towerofanimus2012-02-14 12:22 am
cantstopme) wrote in towerofanimus2012-02-14 12:22 am
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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.]
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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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.
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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...
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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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The trees in our forest, especially deep into the forest, have a very mysterious melody about them that sounds something like that... though, in truth, it is more magic. Every living thing has its own rhythm to it; that is what we believe. They cannot sing, though the Great Deku Tree could speak just fine.
[ Music was a magic in and of itself. ]
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That's really neat! I... I wish I grew up learning stuff like that, but I didn't. Even the King thought my Wind Waker didn't work until I picked it up and used it.
It's weird, thinking that everything had magic, but it was all gone by the time I was born...
[Or almost all gone, really.]
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Magic is never gone. You have just disconnected from it.
[ That's all. ]
Your Wind Waker... would you mind showing it to me?
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[Luckily he brought it with him - it's on his list of "things he shouldn't leave places with". He takes it out, the baton glowing and sparkling from the tip as usual.]
It's a baton used by people in the old days to borrow the power of the gods. I can conduct stuff with it, like the wind and even the time of day.
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... Then it is like the Ocarina of Time that I hold in my hands right at this moment. The notes I play with this instrument and the songs themselves are all quite special; many of them allow me to travel throughout Hyrule between the six Temples, and others allow me to change day to night, or make a storm.
[ Link cherishes this Ocarina. It has been an invaluable asset. ]
There is one special song, though. It allowed me to open the door to the Temple of Time... where I found the Master Sword. It was also there I met Rauru, the Sage of Light.
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I can summon gales to travel in, and even control others with it. But it's rude if I don't ask first.
[He looks at the Wind Waker for a second, before putting it away.]
One of the Sages told me that it was used to conduct the Sages as they played for the gods, and that the king was the one who used it. I guess it kind of makes sense...
And... what's the Temple of Time like? I got the Master Sword from inside of the castle, so I didn't get to see anything like that... just the Wind Temple and the Earth Temple.
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... The Temple's very ornate and marble. It is white, with black accents--closer to a church on the inside, almost.
But what I remember most vividly... was how it sounded. It had a very regal, almost chanting sort of heavy sound to it... it sounded sacred. Revered. Important. ... It felt like it, as well. You could tell evil was not welcome in that place, merely from the atmosphere and how it sounded alone.
[ And yet Ganondorf had still gotten into the Sacred Realm, which... was their fault. B-but skfjhg sigh. Not saying that...! ]
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[He blinks at that, confused.]
What do you mean by that? Did the temple have someone playing music there?
And... and what's a church?
[He's never really seen or heard of one before.]
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... No, of course not. Why would you need music for there to be music in a place...?
[ Confused... headtilt... ]
A church is a place of worship... or, so I have been told. There is actually one in this Tower, on one of the floors, I believe.
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[Is this going to be a weird cycle of confusion?]
Music can't really just appear from nowhere... Someone's got to make it.
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Of course it does... instruments are meant to convey what surrounds us. Music is just as free-flowing, if not the same, as magic itself. You just have to open your ears... it is really quite simple.
You must be very lonely, without any sound with you...
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And, um... I think it would get kind of distracting. I liked listening to the wind and the sea, back home. It was really peaceful, and nice to take naps to. Seagulls make weird sounds too, but I like the noises they make, because it always made me think of my sister.
Even when I was alone on my cabana that Ms. Marie gave me, I still had lots of stuff to listen to.
[He pauses then, scratching the back of his head.]
I guess it's not that I didn't have sounds around me, I just had different sounds. But now I'm starting to notice how quiet this place is...
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No, no, it isn't like that, although you can hear those sorts of things. Everything has a soft music to it, but... everyone should know that. Perhaps you simply cannot hear it?
[ Link you do not understand it is just you. : | ]
... And... I am aware. This place is unnatural and dangerous. There is no real life here, though there are forest floors.
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I can't hear any music.
I don't think I heard anything back home, either... Unless someone was playing music.
[Another pause, and he shakes his head again - but this time, more like he's trying to get something out of it.]
I don't like this place at all. You can't see the what's around it when you look out the windows, and I don't like that. I just... want to see the sea again, or at least feel the air, but all this place has is rooms, and rooms, and rooms.
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Little Link, you are getting a hug. DEAL WITH IT. Link is not very good at comforting nor at speeches but... well, they have to say SOMETHING... ]
... I know. I am not... accustomed to this place, either. ... I'm sorry they took you here; this place... it is vile and full of unnatural things.
However...
[ Not letting go per se, but they will pause to stroke the kid's hair a bit, offering a gentle, apologetic smile.
Link breathes a bit. This will be a lot for them to say, as Link is terrible with words and fears speaking out too much, but... ]
The sounds of this Tower are very unnatural. Perhaps it is just the difference between where we live that you cannot hear these kinds of things. I grew up in a forest with magic permeating everything, and the music was simply part of that. It was a place of nature and magic, and music... for my people it is normal to hear the trees sing quietly without a voice, and to hear earth humming with no mouth.
[ And so, they will lay a hand on the other's gently, hoping this helps, falling into silence for a few moments, before speaking once more. ]
... Do not despair. If anyone could find a way back to your home, I am certain it would be you. After all, you are a fine hero. I do not think I could ask for anything more in the one who has carried on in my image.
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After a bit, he blinks away to stop what tears he can, and clings onto the other's waist, burying his face in their stomach before speaking up again.]
I... I want to learn to hear things like you do, and do things like you do. When I heard your legend and stuff, and had to go be a hero when I think I wasn't really ready for it, I just tried to think of what the Legendary Hero would do, and it gave me courage.
Um... I'm sorry I started crying, b-but. Thank you, I think.
I-I just want to go home, but if I got to stay here for a while, it won't be too bad with you here, too.
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Putting an arm around the boy anyway, because dammit this kid reminds them a lot of them when they were like he was... ]
... I'm still sorry I have not found a way out yet.
[ There's a short pause. ]
A friend of mine once said the Goddesses chose me because it was my destiny; that only I could do this, all alone. ... It is very difficult to live up to the destiny placed on one's self, I realize. You have to be an example for others, and you must be fearless even when you are truly frightened.
[ Heh... ]
... Though as I have said this... it's fine to be upset. It is also perfectly fine if you are sad or miss your home. Truthfully, I'm... not as heroic as you may have heard, but I try my best. And I am proud that someone took up that burden, at such a young age...
[ Link pauses here, considering. ] In fact, you are already more fit to be a hero than I--when I was your age, and I pulled the Master Sword out of the pedestal, they did not think I was ready to wear the mantle of the Hero of Time, at my age. I was put into a sleep for seven years because they felt that a child could not handle the responsibilities of an adult... but you seem to have done that very well.
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W-well, um... I didn't... I wasn't really chosen or anything like you were.
I had to work really hard just to save my sister, and then I had to work even harder to get to Ganondorf, and he still managed to hurt me a lot.
[Being smacked around by a fist the size of your torso is terrible, bro.]
I don't even know if "Hero of Winds" is a real title or not. It kinda sounded like the king made it up when he got real proud of me for going through the Temple of the Gods.
[So it's not that he was chosen, he just kind of... bumbled around until the gods noticed him and said, yeah sure, you can have this triforce, you earned it. At least, that's what it felt like to him.]
I'm not a legendary hero, like you... I don't even know if the gods knew I existed until they let me have the Triforce of Courage.
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Do not be so hasty in your thoughts. The mark of a true hero is not how many times they are spoken of, or if the deeds they did were done with a title or not.
[ Silly child. ]
Being a true hero means facing many, difficult trials. Saving your sister was likely predestined; what else could motivate someone to leave their home? If the Great Deku Tree had not given me the quest originally, I never would have left my home, either. I had too many friends there, and I did not know the outside world... in fact, we had been told that the Kokiri would die if they ever left the forest.
I have always been aware of the Gods, but only because the Great Deku Tree taught us much about them. A title is only as important as you desire it to be.
[ ... They say that, though deep down, Link puts a lot of stock in that title. They worry they do not deserve it, that... well. That is something for another time... if a child a year younger than them was worthy of being a hero in the Gods eyes, were they... unworthy? Did they not deserve the title? Link had felt for some time that perhaps they were the wrong one to hold it (heroes couldn't be... like them, could they?), but even so, this was not about them. ]
... I am not legendary. I am just one person, like any other. You are not any less of a hero than I am. What we were chosen was not because being a hero was what was important, or because we should be known. It was because you were the right person for the task. ... A very wise friend of mine once told me that the Master Sword does not let just anyone wield it, Link.
... Aside from which, the Triforce is not just given to someone as a reward for good deeds. They must earn it.
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... You're right.
But, um... you're really quick to put yourself down, you know that?
The legend that people tell of you is really neat, you know. You're always known as really strong and kind, but...
I don't know why, but it never said that you were grown up. I always thought you were a kid, because the legend only mentions your age at the beginning. So, because I always heard that legend on my island, I knew that kids could be strong, too...
[Another quick pause, as he settles back down in front of the other and lets go of their shoulders.]
But the legends were right, I think. You're really nice, and you look really strong, too.
Kind of like a big brother, sort of. I've never had a brother, but maybe this is what it's like...
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... You are kind. Too kind. ... Thank you, Link.
[ A laugh, though, at the whole "adult" thing. Haha. Were they an adult? ... Not really. ]
But your legends are not necessarily wrong, from my perspective. A child can be of remarkable strength--you are proof alone of that. As are my people.
[ A pause. ] Though the Kokiri do not have actual ages, at least--there is no point, as none of us reach adulthood, normally. At least, we do not COUNT them, but... I believe I would be around your age and then... I think it would be seventeen Hylian years at once. So I am still a child, but... I am not.
Time is a tricky business.
[ ... Hmmmm. ]
I don't have any family left, myself. But I would not mind being your sibling. I honestly do not think that a person could ask for a better little brother, after all, were we related by blood.
[ ... Link would kind of like to know about those stories now, though... ]
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Then from now on, you're my big brother, okay? 'Cause I couldn't ask for a better older sibling.
[A pause.]
Though, I have to ask... does that mean you're still kind of ten in here?
[That's asked as he taps the side of his head, of course.]
Because I noticed adults are really bad at playing games. They're just better at telling kids how to play them.
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