#botw au

[yiga-link]

Time: AoC, 2 weeks before pulling the Master Sword

I take the Blademaster Test. The test is a durability and strength test lasting 2 hours of non stop fighting with the other members of the Yiga Clan who were also taking the test.

I clash with them, with my demon carver. At one point my notice how easily I knock out other comrades. So a group of 8 surround me.

I grin as spin, slashing all of their weapons out of their hands. As they run to get towards their weapons, it's as if time slows and I rush toward each one, hitting their heads one by one with the handle of my carver to knock them out.

"STOP THE TEST!" Master Kohga commands. I freeze up, as did the remaining few left. "Link, that was something else." Kohga comments. "Not a trick those of here taught you, I think."

I nod. "I just... see things as if they slowed down. And I just.. see the opening and take it." Kohga taps his foot and then nods to himself. "Alright, You're one of my top Blademasters now. And that means..." he points dramatically to me "you will do the honors of killing the Princess of Hyrule to death!"

Everyone's jaw dropped, a comrade who was eating a banana chokes. Then there are some cheers, claps, and "congratulations." All I can do is stutter out a "Th-thank you, Master" as I drop down to a bow.

"In 2 weeks. There is a ceremony. A test to see if any knights of Hyrule can pull out that awful sword! You and a group of your choosing will put a stop to it. But you, you will kill the princess to death with that skill of yours."

I nod. "It will be done, Master Kohga."

~~~~~

I dress up in the Blademaster armor. This one was made to resize me since most Blademasters were taller and more muscular than I was. I heeded no mind as I let my black hair down.

I look into a mirror and wonder if now I didn't have to keep redying my hair now that a hood would cover my head. I smiled at the thought. It had been years since I saw my own natural hair color.

I place my mask onto my face and throw the hood over my head. It takes about a week to even get to the Lost Woods, meaning I have a week to build up a squad.

[yiga-link]

107 year time-jump

I stand on the edge of the hole leading deep into the Depths that Master Khoga had fallen into 7 years prior.

I look at my right hand and see the gloom hand staring right back at me.

"You know my every move, Ganondorf." I mumble as I use my left hand to unmask myself. As I unmask myself and take off my blademaster hood, my dirty blonde hair sways in the chill wind from the mountains above.

I take a deep breath, closing my eyes to shield my view from the Malice Eye's gaze.

"How cruel that Rauru's plan to catch you did not work out. You were his last hope. Falling with me into the Depths... I blessed you with my arm." the Voice of Ganondorf says in my head.

"This is how you controlled Naydra up until a few years ago." I reply out loud.

"Bring me to the one you call 'Master'." the voice commands again.

I open my eyes, glaring at the arm, and then take a jump into the Depths below.

As I fall, I think of everything that happened over the years, from me pulling that damned sword, to losing my memory, to me ending up being a friend of Zelda's, and now my sneaking into my old living quarters to speak with my old master all because Lord Ganondorf wants me to deliver a message... or to test his loyalty.

[phoenixparadoxreactivated]

Pre-calamity Link for my au, he stronk

[sithfox]

Last Line Challenge!

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote or drew, and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

I was tagged by @insertmeaningfulusername - thanks for the tag 💕 From the BotW!QuinFox AU:

"Goodnight, Quinlan," Fox murmurs, dark curls highlighted by the bright light of the moon.

Tagging @hastalavistabyebye @the-starry-seas and @amarcia!

[sithfox]

A snippet from the BotW AU! Sometimes, when I get stuck on a scene, I switch to writing another POV to try and figure out what they're thinking and how they'll react to what's happening in the main scene.

The BOTW AU is entirely Quinlan's POV, so I've written quite a few snippets from Fox's to make sure I understand his mindset. Fox has Secrets (tm) in this one, so it's important to me to keep track of where he's at emotionally, especially when Quinlan doesn't know what he's thinking.

Fox can't stop thinking about it, even as he tries desperately to rip his mind away—even thinking about [his past] would be preferable to this. He knows he can't have Vos, can never let even a whisper of his quick-blossoming feelings escape his iron grasp, but watching the Knight's dead fiancé's ghost appear and bring him back from the brink of death had been too much for him to handle. How could he even think of catching the Lady's chosen's eye when he'd been engaged to the prince of the Zora? Fox is nothing—nothing but [spoiler ;)]. It doesn't matter how Vos' eyes sparkle when he chuckles at Fox's rusty jokes, or how nice it feels to curl near his warmth in sleep. Everything he's gotten so far is a fluke, an undeserved gift that he should be grateful for instead of wanting more. He's a bit rougher with his knife than he means to be, lost in his head, and it earns him a thin red line down the side of his hand when it slips. He glares at it in disgust, already hearing Paya's lecture, and rummages in his bag for water to rinse out the dirty wound before he drinks a sip of healing potion. Not a whole potion, not for this—just enough to conceal the evidence of his carelessness. Unfortunately, he's not fast enough for that. "Are you hurt?" Vos asks, squatting beside him and reaching for his now-damp hand. Whole, and hale, and looking to all the world like he hadn't died not five minutes ago to the very Bokoblin Fox is butchering. He doesn't wait for an answer, of course not. No, he just lets his eyes slip closed and lets his power flow, the cut vanishing without a trace. It's intoxicating and infuriating and Fox bites his cheek to stop himself from lashing out. "There we go," Vos murmurs.

[yiga-link]

I look around and sigh with relief when I notice no one is around. I rush off down the canyon and once I reach the exit to the rest of the Gerudo Desert. I cast a simple spell to hide my Yiga clan armor and make it look like regular traveler's clothes.

I walk quietly to the sandseal pen the Yiga Clan kept as a secret and steal one of the seals, and I set my sights for Kara Kara Bazaar. I flick the leash of the sandseal and hear it bark before swimming through the desert, carrying me on a pot lid with it.

As I race through the desert I smile and let out a cheer. "Wooooooo! C'mon! Let's get faster!" I flick the leash again and almost fall when the sandseal dashes forward under the sand.

I quickly get myself rebalanced and laugh as the sun beams down on me. After an hour or two I reach Kara Kara Bazaar and tie the sandseal I stole to a post. I head to check the marketplace filled with traveling merchants. Surely one of them would have some more dye for my hair to stay black, the one thing all Yiga Clan Members had to have: black hair or dye their hair black.

Most of the Yiga were Sheikah, a genetic mutation of Hylians that let them live double the lifespan of other Hylians and even made it so that they had white or silver hair. All the Sheikah in the Yiga Clan had to dye their hair like me, an ordinary Hylian, but one with natural blonde hair.

I see an old Gerudo walk by me and her coin purse was hanging off her belt without a care in the world. I fake a stretch and "bump" the woman and quickly snatch the coin purse while catching her.

"I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention to where I was stretching." I apologize profusely while shoving the coin purse into my pocket.

Please read my pinned post for more information [Start]

[phoenixparadoxreactivated]

BOTW AU I can’t elaborate on until I can somehow come up with a master post for this overly complicated au here’s Link’s design when he’s on the plateau tho, poor guy hasn’t seen the sun in 100 years

[sithfox]

WIP Wednesday!

A snippet for y'all, from my BotW/Star Wars QuinFox AU. This is a 'before the Calamity' scene, written while I was working to figure out how I could combine the lore of the two franchises and implement my own worldbuilding. I also wanted to get a handle on what Quin was like before the 100-year-amnesia-inducing nap, so:

Aayla takes a steadying breath, then steps forward into the warm waters of the spring. "I will do whatever I can, as I am right now. Even if all I have to give is my faith that things will work out," she murmurs. Quinlan focuses on their bond, that shining golden strand that binds their minds and souls together. He doesn't have a lot of memories of the ancient Priestesses, but the ones he does he's always willing to share with Aayla. Something about this spring seems to sing to him, an echoing melody that he can't quite find the tune of. He glances over at the Sheikah where they've set up a small camp near the entrance to the Spring, Chigo napping and Impa watchful, and brushes his knuckles against the hilt at his waist. "Looking at you, I fear the goddess is mistaken in her choice of agents," the woman snarls, the tattoo around her eye making clear her loyalty. "If this failure is any indication, you have no hope of defending Her Grace—" The memory shatters; Quinlan yanks his hand away from the Blade of Evil's Bane. Sometimes he hates his telemetry, hates how it intensifies what should've been gentle hints and half-remembered dreams into crystalline clarity. This isn't how it's supposed to be. But—if it means he can help Aayla, he'll bear this burden. She needs him, far more than he needs to carry only his own memories. Compared to what she's going through, having a few extra lifetimes of memory is nothing.