Maze AU: Beginning

Badboyhalo didn't particularly know who was in his bed at the moment, but he also didn't really care.

Judging by the soft fingers combing through long hair, and a cold hand on the bare sliver of skin at his waist; Forever. But by the nose at his nape; Etoiles?

Bad would just have to roll over, he guessed. He was cold anyway.

Letting out a deep, deep breath he'd been holding since the hand starting stroking through Bad's long midnight hair, he heaved himself over, ancient bones creaking with the effort.

The demon opened his eyes to soft morning light. Sun shone through barely closed blinds, not too brightly to hurt his eyes, but enough to make him groan.

Yup. Forever. Etoiles hated the morning light just as much as he did, while Forever took any excuse he could to crack open the windows and stare INTO the SUN.

Blinking sleep out of his eyes, Bad tried to register his surroundings.

Headache, first of all. Very familiar. Eventual hangover most likely.

Foul taste in his mouth.

Gentle digits raking through his hair, massaging his scalp.

Stomach gurgling uncomfortably.

The smell of old booze and weed - wait, stomach gurgling?

Badboyhalo jerked up, stumbling from the bed and gripping his cane by the bedside table tightly. Hand over his mouth, blankets dragging until they're caught by Forever's weight, the nether demon bumbled into the bathroom.

Cold tile against his soles, he bent over the toilet, and-

I think you can guess what happened then.

Bad wiped his mouth, whimpering at tightness of his throat and gross taste left over. He quickly filled the glass on his counter with cold tap water.

Feet padded into the bathroom next to him. Hand on his nape and another on the cup, Forever helped him drink the rest of the water.

A clumsy, delicate kiss aimed at his cheekbone missed. Landing on his jaw instead. "Bom dia," Forever murmured, husky voice grating pleasantly on Bad's ears.

Cute.

Badboyhalo responded tiredly, "bom dia."

"Slept well?"

"As well as you can, considering I was blackout drunk and you kept kicking me in your sleep."

Forever snorted.

"I don't sleep securely when I had drunk alcohol."

'I can tell' thought Bad. But that wasn't something he thought he should share.

Forever's face is all too pretty relaxed like this anyway, he didn't particularly want it to go away.

AHHHHH

My first writing.. and it's a ship I don't like that much..

Excuse any mischaracterization and grammar issues please 😭

you guys ever read a fic and just think to yourself

“damn this person really saw the egg arc different than I did”

😭😭😭

I know bbh is my baby girl but pls 😭 if I see another wild mischaracterization or paper villain version of him again I will scream cry myself to sleep

I'd love to hear you ramble about this Soul Eater LU au!

Thank you! You might be my first ever ask

LU Dawn Lore

I don’t think this is headcanoning anymore, I’m just kind of making up my own lore for Dawn at this point. I hope somebody enjoys this!

When I think of Dawn and Zelda 1 and 2 the aesthetic I imagine is like 80s dark fantasy. I really kind of think of Dawn as this She-Ra princess warrior or Mad Max baddie, though I think she might wear more armor or pants if she were to fight somebody.

Moving on- Dawn’s father, the current king of Hyrule, is a no good, dirty rotten, pathetic man. The only reason the royal family has even persisted this long is due to their resources, wealth, and control at this point. They have just enough of Hylia’s blood still running through their veins to have enough power to make sure Ganon doesn’t full snuff them out but it is obvious that Ganon rules this land. Dawn’s father is greatly concerned with his own comfort and a sickening greed. 

The royal family owns a vast library that ensures that stay educated enough to maintain control over the few surviving towns in Hyrule. The king enacts harsh taxes over these towns in return for education, access to medicine, and protection. The king has never married and has dozens of bastards across Hyrule. One day he sends out a call for all of his children to convene at the castle. 

For Dawn this is easy, her mother is a part of the royal council and she ensured that Dawn grow up in Castle Town. Her father had decided to declare an heir and he decides to do so through a “series of tests” to decide who is most worthy. These tests are mostly just throwing his various children into a Thunderdome type arena and having them fight. This is to his great amusement. 

Dawn is HORRIFIED. This is sick. Everyday she fights somebody of her own blood watching as her father laughs and laughs, choking on mead and fruit that rarely grows in these lands. She almost refuses to go, but every night she dreams of a beautiful woman crying tears like stars begging her to try. Begging her to save these lands. Every night this woman whispers wisdom to her and every day Dawn survives another day. 

She does her best to spare her siblings where she can. It’s not fair to fight the ones too small to lift a sword or those so thin they sway in the breeze. Many of them use this mercy to leave, go back to their real families. But not all of them. Some have the same greed and madness their father has. The blood of Hylia runs through all of them but it’s partial to Dawn. After a week of this, she emerges victorious and is dubbed as the princess of Hyrule. 

Despite being the princess of Hyrule now, Dawn knows that her father doesn’t actually plan on giving her any power whatsoever. This whole heir of Hyrule thing is just to appease some members of the court who are worried about the family line or appearances. She has a sick feeling her father agreed to this just for his amusement. 

She takes to eavesdropping and spying to gain as much intelligence as possible. She soon learns that her father is planning to make a deal with Ganon. The known locations of the triforce fragments for safety and riches. Next council meeting she attends, Dawn gets up, walks across the table to her father and beheads him before he can even question what he’s doing. She pulls his crown from his head and declares herself the Queen of Hyrule. For the first time in 700 years, Zelda once again ascends the throne. 

She immediately regrets her quick decision and bloody judgement. Her council now listens to her but it’s obvious that they fear her and do not trust her. She is young, only 17. She’s sick and tired of killing by the time her own mother confronts her. There Dawn learns that her mother was more closely working with her father than she had thought. Dawn’s mother had been forming a small cult in worship of Ganon to prepare for his imminent takeover. Dawn’s mother pleads with her to understand her father’s point of view. Dawn thinks that she should probably cut down her mother where she stands but she cannot bring herself to do it, so she banishes her instead. This is the first time Dawn regrets NOT killing somebody. Her mother would only gain strength and followers in the wasteland. Years later her mother’s cult would become an ugly scar on her little brother’s life. 

On a small mission to try and form an alliance with a nearby great mother that leads a well hidden fairy fountain, Dawn is captured by Ganon. For months she is terrified and weak, subjected to listening to the snorts and grumbles of an ugly pig who is going to destroy her beloved home. She is greatly unhopeful to be rescued knowing her council has a poorly hidden disliking of her.

The pigs greedy and prideful rambling starts to bleed frustration. Somebody is finding the triforce fragments before he can. Dawn tries not to get her hopes up, but she can’t help herself. To her surprise, a savior comes. Hyrule, in all his 11 year old glory, fights the beast and frees her. Together they render Ganon into nothing but ashes. Another regret of hers for leaving something of him behind.

Of course she takes the boy home, he has many an injury and she has never had so much gratitude for somebody. Dawn decides that she cannot trust her council, especially after she discovers they were the reason she was captured in the first place. She gives them a choice: banishment or execution. Some of them wisely banish theirselves, but some try to fight for Dawn’s seat on the throne. She’s more than ready to fight, but to her shock and horror, her little hero is as well. Together they slay the rest of her court. 

She struggles to build a new one, miserable after the little hero is chased out of the castle due to a curse living in his blood. She’s more than pleased when he returns with a small entourage of kind people he’s met over his journey. Impa, a kindly old woman Dawn remembers well from her childhood. A village healer, a kindly knight devoted to the goddesses. A moblin that her hero fervently insists is friendly. 

It’s a small start but it’s more than Dawn had ever had before. She’s happy for the first time in forever and the sky over Hyrule looks blue.

2 Adventures AU

I think it would be kind of interesting if the chain went on two adventures. What I mean by that is the first one would occur while most of the chain have only been through one or a few of their games. This could also be seen as a childhood friends au? The chain is pulled together when most of them are pretty young.

Time has just finished Majora’s Mask and is in full young teen angst, trauma, mode. He’s extremely mischievous and poorly adjusted. He’s only around 12 or 13 years old.

Wind has just been through the events of Wind Waker. He’s only 12 and is pretty shaken up but still pretty similar I’d say. Maybe even more hyper and desperate to prove himself.

Hyrule has just been through the events of Zelda 1. He’s quiet and jumpy. Dawn has gently been spending the past two years trying to help him adjust to a more social life but it’s been slow going. He’s extremely anxious to be around so many people. I’d say he’s around 14.

Four has only been through the events of Minish Cap so he’s not even Four yet. His age is canonically the most confusing to me but I really like the headcanons that he’s a young adult who has a baby face. In this he’d be a kid though, so maybe around 11?

Legend I can’t decide whether he’d have only been through A Link to the Past and the oracle games or if he’s been through Links Awakening by this point. I think it would be more interesting if he had just been through Link’s Awakening and is severely jaded. He’s 16. (If he had only been thru the oracle games he’d be 14 and a lot more light hearted)

Wild would have gone through the events of Botw being 17. He’d honestly just be pretty baseline with no crazy changes.

Twilight would have also just gone through Twilight Princess being 18. I think he’d be really hung up on Midna. 

Sky has also just completed Skyward Sword, I think he’d also be 18? Pretty similar to canon. 

Warriors was plucked halfway through his game and thrust into this adventure. He’s very stressed, worried he left his people behind when they needed him most. He becomes the group leader being the eldest at 20. 

They come together, pretty much a platoon of child soldiers, defeat the evil, say teary goodbyes, and return home. 

Years later they’re all shocked to be pulled into a second journey across time and get to reunite with their brothers. 

This time Time is his canon Lu age of being somewhere around his early to mid thirties being much more cool and collected than the actual child nightmare he was initially. He falls easily into a leadership role. He seems to have mended many of his mental wounds despite him being prone to grumpiness. This adventure after so many years of peace is pretty triggering though. 

Wind has gone through phantom hour glass and is freshly 15. He’s a little more mature now but very much so the same kid except now he’s like: “I see dead people”

Hyrule is a lot better socialized this time. He’s almost easy going and has a mischievous streak that the chain welcomes. It’s a fine change from the scared scrawny kid he was years ago. He still is exceedingly sweet and has a plethora of new talents to share. He also has crippling paranoid and a blood phobia. He’s around 18. 

Four, despite being the youngest the first mission, is now a young man being in his early twenties. He doesn’t talk much about his last adventure but he’s noticeably scatterbrained. Despite that, he can think outside the box like nobody else. It’s like he can think with the power of four people! He also goes by the name four now. 

Legend who has completed two more quests now is incredibly frustrated to have been yanked out of retirement/his wedding planning. Legend was able to manage a lot of healing over his last two journeys. He got engaged to the one and only Ravio who he was supposed to be working on wedding invitations with. He’s lighter now but still a grouch at times. He’s in his earlier twenties.

Wild has completed his mission from TotK and somehow his iPad can do EVEN MORE now. If lobbing bombs wasn’t enough last time, now he can crawl through walls. He is noticeably shaken in a way he wasn’t last time and has almost an unwilling clarity of the world around him. He’s 21 now. 

I so sorry but I don’t think Twilight would be much different. If anyone has thoughts pls lmk. He’s been able to move on from Midna and has thrown himself into shepherd work. I think he’d be courting Ilia and would be living a good country life while getting to brag about having tea with the princess. He’s fairly okay with being on another mission.

Okay this is totally just a headcanon but I picture Sky as that guy you knew in highschool who gets married really young and starts a family right after school. Sky is stressed after getting sent on another because he’s in the middle of building a kingdom and his wife, Sun, is pregnant. 

Poor Warriors. As mentioned the first journey happened for him when he was halfway through his war. Unlike many of the others, when he returned to his f ‘n c z timeline it was like no time had passed at all. For the second half of his war he met many new people and old friends. Mask (time) joined him, an older, almost grown version of Wind as his best friend and second in command, Ravio, Midna. When the war ends he’s saddened to say goodbye to dear friends once again. Warriors is whisked away to his second journey with the chain the moment his war ends. For him, it’s only been a year or less in some circumstances that he’s seen the chain. For most of them to had aged so much is jarring to him. The last time he saw them all it was him and a mostly non verbal group of children. Now it’s a group of almost all adults bar Wind, who was Warriors’ age last time he saw him. Most shocking of all is to see his baby brother all grown up and older than him. 

I haven’t put much further thought into the AU but I thought the dynamic of splitting the chain up by the amount of adventures they completed would be interesting. Most of the chain also had started their journeys as children so I thought it would be a fun dynamic for them to have all met younger. Poor Warriors though, leading 6 mentally ill teenagers and children was a huge task. And now they’re all either older than him or roughly the same age. I imagine they hit the pubs hard 😭

do you guys think whenever the chain has to split up to do tasks some chain members get salty if they’re not put into the same group?

my vision is Wild and Hyrule holding hands giving Time the biggest puppy dog eyes, silently pleading with him to pair them up. Like a pair of high schoolers who want to get put in the same group project

he splits them up usually bc they cause problems together or get too side tracked and each time they, mostly Wild, throws a fit like: “Thanks a lot Time 🙄 now I’m gonna go die of sadness”

The others (Twilight and Legend) are just: “am I not enough for you”

this is what Cellbit looks like in my head

so I have a fully fleshed out hunger games duo hunger games fic that I really wanted to write but haven’t had the energy or inspiration to in like half a year.

would people still like to see the outlines and what I do have? I know that I still enjoy seeing people’s bullet points and outlines to fics they can’t finish so I was wondering if you all feel the same?

I was inspired by a lovely post from @mishapen-dear 💕

you guys know the trope in anime or other media where they have to dress a guy up as a girl to go undercover or something and he’s just so embarrassed/annoyed? I think in the chain it would be the opposite

Maybe the chain has to get in somewhere, maybe a Gerudo run city and ofc men aren’t allowed (this is with the assumption everyone in the chain identifies as male). Somebody, maybe Wars, is like: “alright guys… I think the only way we can get in is by cross dressing…. Is everyone comfortable with that-“ only to turn around and everyone is basically already in dresses.

Like obviously there’s Wild with his Gerudo outfit. Legend and Hyrule have canonically worn dresses. Time didn’t have a strong grasp of gender, especially gender norms, until he was like 10. Wind has a little sister, he probably plays dress up with her. I feel like most of the chain is gender nonconforming asf. Four was literally forced to talk personally with each aspect of not just his personality but his soul, he’s got himself figured out. Twilight is similar, he was literally a wolf, the clothing he wears is definitely not what defines him. Sky just gives me the vibe that he doesn’t think it’s that deep. And Wars is a dedicated guy.

and so, turns out none of them actually really care.

legend is just: “I’ve literally been wearing a dress this whole time.” Everyone kinda thought it was a fancy tunic 😔

Swan song:

The final act someone does before they die; the final performance of an actor. According to folk lore, swans sing most beautifully and mournfully before they die.