Hi, my name's Kiwi and I like to think about things that can't happen in BOTW and then think "well what if it happened ANYWAY?" Aka I wanna throw ideas around about what happens if Link dies and the player cannot go back to a save point
(Think of it like Hardcore mode in Minecraft but this time, there's in-world consequences for failing)
I don't know how often I'll use it, but I WILL have this as a verse where Link is a spirit like the Champions. The major difference is that in this verse, he wouldn't hold back when it came to speaking. With no troubles to plague him and his mission already failed, he has no reason to keep quiet anymore. His optimistic view of the world shifts upom realizing that he's dead and he becomes bitter and so pessimistic that he learns to loathe even himself.
Obviously most LOZ games have the "if Link dies, the world ends and there's nothing left of anything" method of going about things. For this verse, I like to imagine that Link fell in the battle again Calamity Ganon. Though he did die in the end, he weakened Ganon enough to ensure that he could not take any form other than his incomplete version.
In order to work around his unfinished form, he used some of the Malice that made up his body to "infect" Zelda in the same way Naydra was.
Of course this would mean that Zelda would likely remain trapped or that she, too, would become a husk of the princess she used to be.
(If interacting with a Zelda in this verse, that idea will be completely ignored and it'll just be Spirit Link)
The Malice found throughout Hyrule would become incredibly potent due to Ganon's influence + the additional power of Malice!Zelda
As a result, anyone who came into contact with Malice would either grow terribly sick or fall victim to the same fate as Zelda by becoming a mindless, evil shell of who they used to be.
TL;DR: Breath of The Wild but, like, a Bad End in typical zombie style
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