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[birdgirlbooby]

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.

[birdgirlbooby]

Just posted chapter 1

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85617356/chapters/226218101

[birdgirlbooby]

Just posted chapter 2

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[birdgirlbooby]

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.

[birdgirlbooby]

Just posted chapter 3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85617356/chapters/228388876

[cracklewink]

god’s honest truth 🍎

[k1d1c4rus]

listen. i do not hc characters with EDs often at all. but if there was ever a boy with a more fucked up relationship to food/blood/intake/ denial/restriction it IS vladimir dracula

[evenlarksandkatydids]

it does not matter if you have a genuine desire to do good (kendall) or a deep capacity for love (roman) or have comparatively progressive politics and are a victim of the misogynistic environment your father created (shiv). because if your sense of self is so intrinsically tied to oppressive capitalist structures, what good are your best impulses, your love, your decency? waystar is them and they are waystar what does any kindness they possess actually matter if they are only capable of acting upon it within the framework of the fascistic, patriarchal corporation that they have no desire to escape?

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

Here is my list of next arthurian novels I am reading! I am currently reading "Kaffka, The Holy Grail and a woman who reads: The Quest of Sir Kay" which is both hilarious and well written.

I will see if "Lancelot" (Kristian) is extra good, I might have to finish the trilogy in that case.

[july-19th-club]

book for guys who have incurable wanderlust. book for guys who get weepy thinking about the ancestors and how old this world is and the people in it. book for guys who go out on a summer day and get overwhelmed because the sky is blue and the trees are green and the road is long

[nextstopparis]

“i asked chatgpt—”

ok well i asked the cryptic fucking dragon that was imprisoned underground 20 years ago and he told me that no one can choose or escape their destiny so. he may have also told me i have a soulmate in the guy whose guts i hate but i dont really have time to think about that right now

[alex-dot-com]

In my brain Elliot has major one sided beef with Shane but this whole time Shane has just thought he was matching his energy and now Shane thinks they are besties and Elliot wants him dead.

[aropride]

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

alfred is martha's gay little british friend whom she gossips with and he's thomas' old drinking buddy who's been with him through thick and thin. but also their boyfriend.

[frownyalfred]

Reading Pennywaynes as canon is SO funny because there’s no way to plot it out other than Martha dragging Alfred home, presenting him (in full, mild British fluster) to Thomas, and letting her darling husband know that she’d found a butler for them to fuck together.

He’s an excellent cook, he’s killed an indeterminate amount of people somewhere overseas, and she thinks he’d be lovely to have around for the baby.

[frownyalfred]

evil pennywaynes au (i think it’s the right one 😅) where for some reason Martha and Thomas come back to life/get summoned as ghosts for a bit, and see that their son and grandkids see their employee-with-benefits as family. And that’s how Bruce finds out they never really loved Alfred. And he’s so upset with his parents, and Alfred is living through the rejection all over again, and the kids are pissed at the Waynes and trying to shield Alfred, and Martha and Thomas and so disappointed and upset because he replaced them.

And Alfred didn’t replace them, he loved the so much despite everything, and tried his best to preserve their memory, by planting Martha’s favorite flowers every year, and using Thomas’s favorite dinner set on special occasions, and telling stories about them. But they don’t see that, they just see that he is loved in a way they never got to be by people they should have known but never will.

And then Martha and Thomas disappear into the afterlife again, and the living are left to pick up the broken pieces.

[not-another-robin]

I think Bruce was a chip off the ol block

[alex-dot-com]

I have a little headcanon living in my brain but i cannot write so i will leave it to you people…

Basically at some point one of the batkids find a photo album in some old storage elsewhere in the manor.

They obviously decide to open it, family bonding all that jazz.

But the pictures are clearly pre-Bruce, Thomas and Martha on dates, pictures in the manor gardens, Polaroids and photo booth strips of themselves stuck in.

All very cutesy.

And then Alfred is there, polaroids of him in the kitchen, dancing with Martha, gardening with Thomas, frowning at the camera as he sits in the library.

But then slowly the photos are getting more intimate, Thomas and Alfred with their cheeks pressed together grinning at the camera with lipstick stains on their faces, Martha laying against Thomas’ chest in the bedroom, Thomas’ head in Alfreds lap.

They cant stop turning the pages, more and more throuple-y adorable photos, finally one with Thomas and Martha on either side of Alfreds cheeks, in marker underneath ‘our Alfie’.

Obviously its chaos, blah, blah, blah i think theres a fic in there somewhere

[najmalzahr]

Mike needs a firm hand to ground him and Harvey needs someone to care for, devote himself to— keeping him tethered to the earth.

[windybluebelles]

“We all could’ve had a loving father if only your unselfish ass hadn’t gone and DIED” <- All of the Batkids at Jason atleast once

[mood-mixerrr]