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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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[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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SKgjhfkjhg all these compliments... ]
That... is something of a longer story. It is somewhat complicated.
[ Time to explain as best they can and hope the tinier Link can comprehend this... ]
... I suppose no one is aware of this, really, but the door to the Sacred Realm in the Temple of Time was where the Triforce was kept. The Royal Family, Princess Zelda's bloodline, were the ones who could open it. Ganondorf had not risen to power yet, and he was planning to overthrow the King... we were your age, and we were--fools, I suppose.
So the Princess and I came up with a plan to get the Triforce before Ganondorf could. I gathered the three Spiritual Stones for her, which each race had one of to protect. With them and the Ocarina of Time, which Zelda kept safe, we had the keys to the Sacred Realm.
[ Pausing, and sighing. This part was... not good. ]
When I returned to the castle, I found Zelda fleeing on horseback from Ganondorf... she threw the Ocarina into the mote, and he did not notice. He pushed me out of his way when I refused to tell him which way she went, but in the end I gained the Ocarina of Time--
[ Link holds the blue, ornate instrument up, for emphasis. ]
--and used it and the Spiritual Stones to get to doorway that held the Sacred Realm. Though I did not see it, myself. Merely the Master Sword in a pedestal, sealed inside of it. Like a fool, I walked right into Ganondorf's trap when I pulled the sword out of its pedestal... it was the key that let him into the Sacred Realm to take the Triforce for himself.
And as for me, I was powerless to stop him, because the moment I pulled the sword out, I was taken to the Chamber of Sages, a dimension hidden from those not allowed there--even Ganondorf could not enter it; it was the last stronghold against his evil. I.... was put to sleep there for seven years because the gods did not feel a ten year old child was fit to wield the Master Sword or carry the mantle of the Hero of Time. I was not yet the hero of destiny they sought; I was too young.
So I aged. But I did not live it. I understand more than I did before then, however, physically... I do not belong in this age. I should be your age.
[ This all said, Link sighs, going quiet for a long moment. ]
... Though all hope had not been lost, he had tainted and changed the land, hurting many people during the 7 years. So many have died or been hurt because of me in that future timeline...
[2/2]
... Regardless, I would not consider myself an "adult". I am rather good at games. There is no one who can best me at archery or swordplay, and I am very competitive. I don't like to lose. I've played every game available to me; in fact, the first thing I did upon visiting the Castle Town was see if the Bombchu Bowling Alley was something of interest.
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All he really wanted to know is if you were good at hide and seek, Link. 8(]
Um...
I didn't know archery and swordplay was kinds of games. I played hide and seek with my sister and the other kids on my island all the time, and tag, too.
... And what's a bowling alley?
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Welp. ]
... Not in itself. But it can be. Archery is by far the most fun competition.
[ BIAS WHAT BIAS-- ]
Ahh, Saria and I used to play that a lot in the Lost Woods... but... a bowling alley is a place where you take bombs and aim them at targets. If you win after so many tries, you get a prize.
[ Actually that's just what Link THINKS it is. This is going off the one in Castle Town. ]
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I'm not good at archery though; it's just frustrating and hard. I have to aim funny to be able to hit things with my arrows.
But um... bowling alleys do sound kind of fun.
[Not as fun as some of the games he played back home though. :(]
Maybe one day me and you can play a game together? Like, um...
You know, I can't think of a lot we can play. But - you knew the Great Deku Tree, right?
If you have one of his leaves, I know how we can make tag a lot more fun!
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[ ... Huh? A leaf? Headtilt... ]
... Hm? A leaf... you have ones of his leaves?
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[glide*]
[He gives them a bright smile before hopping off the bench and grabbing their hand, giving it a little tug.]
C'mon, I'll show you!
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It... takes a while for him to lead them back to his room since he only sort of remembered where it was, but there they are!!!
He tugs them over to his chest, holding their hand with both of his and walking backwards.]
C'mon, c'mon - I've got a lot of neat stuff to show you, too!
[And once they're over there, he flips the chest open, climbing in halfway since he's kind of tiny, and pulling out everything he'd left behind to show them - grabbing first for what seems to be a tangle of sticks, until he holds it, the Deku Leaf unfurling in response to the boy's magic.]
This is my Deku Leaf!
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That is unmistakably belonging to the Great Deku Tree. It is positively SATURATED in magic, and Link can feel it from over here.
Goodness, how strange. ]
I... that is rather unheard of... I can't say I've ever seen the Great Deku Tree do something like this. He must have known you needed it for your quest.
[ The Great Deku Tree was very wise, and very kind, after all.
... Their father, that is. Was the nicest, smartest person. Link misses him dearly. But let's... try not to be sad here, the kid is so happy... like everything else? Bottle it. Cork it. Put it away. ]
I can't say I've... seen anyone use that before.
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