I just had what feels like a very big-brained revalink fanfic idea. Revalink, but with the hero of time.
I've always headcanoned the hero of time (at least, in the child timeline) as someone who would spend his life lonely. The most formative experiences of his life - experiences he had far, far too young - involved forming deep connections with people only for it all to be erased by time travel. Repeatedly, in majora's mask.
Surely it's just going to happen again, right? That's how it goes. Whether he consciously believes that or not, it becomes the lens through which he sees every possible connection. He could make friends, he could find love, but could he bear to become a stranger to his loved ones all over again?
And so he makes no friends, takes no lovers, has no children, trains no students, and dies so full of regrets he becomes the hero's shade.
I'm obsessed with the blue bird, so...throw him back in time and make them do a quest together. Revali has to deal with being out of his element - a Hyrule that's basically a foreign country, with no Rito, and with a Link that's simultaneously incredibly similar and very definitely not the one he knows. Link once again has a chatty flying companion and once again starts to bond with them, despite very much not wanting to this time around. They can bond over being orphans and what it's like fighting since they were too young to be in the fight.
If I end up writing it, the only question is what sort of adventure they should end up on. Except for making the adult portion of oot happen again, I've got nothing. If anyone has any thoughts or plot suggestions, please, please, reply/pm/whatever. I need the help.
Just posted chapter 1
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85617356/chapters/226218101
Just posted chapter 2
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I wonder if it's smart to post updates like this. I'm not sure how well my initial description of the idea matches the story I've written so far (though it is very early in said story.) And for all I know, I'll end up deciding to take it in a totally different direction.
Eh, whatever, it amuses me.
Just posted chapter 3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85617356/chapters/228388876


















