#dl questions

[changeling-rin]

Behold, the first incarnation of Demise’s Hate:

He’s just a little guy!

[changeling-rin]

Something that I really like about the Current DL Rewrite is that the Links somehow feel more and more like an actual Found Family, what with the newly added interactions both fluffy amd angsty!!!

I am trying very hard. I want them to feel like people who chose to care, you know? Like, the universe (and their Goddess) threw them together but now you're gonna have to pry them apart with a crowbar. Each Link says no this is my sibling group now, I'm keeping them.

I am smacking them with the Found Family Stick and I'm having a great time.

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Dimensional Links… but the Links can use the various glitches/bugs from their respective games…

...You're a genius.

Dusk picks up a Rupee, holds it out to admire it, and then doesn't move. "You good?" Gen asks him. "Oh, I'm fine," Dusk assures him. "I just need to get through this wall here. Feel free to do your own thing though." "...Okay?"

Realm approaches every door he needs to enter by stabbing it. This somehow puts him on the other side of the door. "Are you sure that isn't your Wandering acting up?" Sketch says. "No, this just happens sometimes," Realm says.

Lore chops two bushes at the same time and says "Oh no," right before his body ragdolls backwards at a truly impressive clip.

Dusk is still holding the Rupee. He is roughly a foot away from where he'd been standing. His shoulder is touching the wall.

Ocarina grimaces, places a bomb directly behind himself, and braces. The bomb explodes. Ocarina is sent flying a truly improbable distance through the air, and lands safely on the other side of an otherwise impassable chasm. "Hate doing that," he mutters.

Mask, wearing Mikau, is swimming... through the air. "Can Zora do that normally?" Speck asks. "Nope," Sketch replies.

"...Why is your Shield invisible?" Lore sighs. "There was an incident."

Dusk is still holding the Rupee. He's about six inches into the wall. It looks bizarre.

The Four narrow their eyes at the teleportation portal that keeps turning up whenever they stay in one place for too long. They accidentally confused the system one time-

Wind heaves up an overly heavy rock, and equips the Iron Boots. Counterintuitively, this lets him walk faster. "No, I can't explain how it works," he says when the rest of the Links gape at him.

Red is holding a Moon Pearl. Vio is holding a Roc's Feather. Green and Blue are holding everyone's hands. And for some reason, this is letting them fly. It makes no sense, but it's very useful!

Dusk is still holding the Rupee. He's clipped almost entirely into the wall. Nobody has ever asked him what the inside of the walls look like; they're afraid of the answer.

Speck's sword does not make the usual 'shwing' noise when he uses it. When asks, he sighs very, very heavily. "There was an incident," he says resignedly.

A door closes on Steam and... goes straight through him instead. "What," says Wind, behind him. "Yeah, this happens sometimes," Steam says irritatedly, and then walks through the rest of the door to the other side. "What," says Wind.

Gen uncorks a glowing bottle and an entire Skyward Strike comes out of it. Goddess energy is weird sometimes.

Dusk is still holding the Rupee. He's clipping just a little bit into the room on the other side of the wall.

Sketch has been trying to pick up a seashell for a full ten minutes. For some reason his hands keep glancing off to the left, where he grabs at nothing. It will take about ten more minutes before his pride erodes enough to ask someone else to get it for him.

"...You're flickering," Mask tells Lore. "Why are you flickering?" "This happens on rafts sometimes," Lore says, tiredly.

Dusk lets go of the Rupee. He's through the wall! "Do you realize that you've been holding that thing for twenty-six hours?" Vio asks incredulously, once Dusk makes it back outside. "Oh really? I was expecting longer."

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Was rereading the Unwritten Details for the nth time and realized no one's asked about Dusk yet. So, anything Unwritten for him? Maybe Midna too?

Genuinely surprised to discover that no one has asked for Dusk yet.

-according to my research, a charging ram the size of an Ordon goat roughly generates anywhere from 700-1200 pounds of force. Since Dusk can stop one of those bare-handed, it's only reasonable to assume that this is also his bench weight. (is this an accurate assumption? I dunno. I also don't care. I did math for this, I hate doing math, I refuse to do even more math.) For the sake of being not-completely-ridiculous, let's stick to the low end. Dusk can, apparently, bench 700lbs with only moderate effort. Power Gauntlets whomst? That's all him.

-i have not done math on the force of a charging Goron. Suffice to say, his bench max is probably something even more ridiculous. What are they feeding this boy.

-his favorite color is, in fact, green.

-in accordance with my belief that there is no such thing as a consequence-free soul merge, Dusk has a few characteristics from other sources. As time goes on, the forehead markings from his wolf form will darken on his skin, and will eventually be visible like paint. On the other hand, hosting Midna in his shadow for as long as he has is resulting in her fangs manifesting in his teeth. He can flash a fanged smile with the best of them. If he keeps hosting Shadow, he'll gain red irises. This is unlikely with the current timeframe, though.

-following the math on his bench average, he is built like a brick house. If you describe him in one word, it would be sturdy. If he chooses to plant his feet, he will not be moved, and good luck trying to make him.

-consequently, underneath his usual passive chill, he has a stubborn streak a mile wide and then some. Once he sets his mind and makes a decision, That's It. It Is Happening. He Will Not Be Stopped.

-his favorite food is pumpkin.

-he will answer to "blue-eyed [insert noun here]". He doesn't like that title, but he'll answer to it. the Light Spirits never did manage to learn his name.

-he has subconsciously sorted everyone into pack hierarchy, except that there is no hierarchy, and he's just sorted everyone into 'Pack' and 'Not Pack'. Remember how wolves are extremely social and protective of their own?

-Midna thinks of him as her equal. Dusk still remembers the early days when Midna's personality bowed to no one and it was far more efficient to just... let her. In his mind, Midna calls the shots, and he makes them happen. He genuinely thinks of himself as a second-in-command, at most, and definitely not in the leadership in any way that matters. And part of this is also tied into his wolf instincts, because Midna uses the back-of-his-neck scruff to hold on and steer, and unknown to both of them, scruffing a canine is one of the fastest ways to assert dominance. Holdover instinct from when their mother carried them, and all that, it's a whole thing. If either of them ever figures that out, Midna is going to be mortified.

-his sense of smell is permanently heightened. It's still always better as a wolf, but also, normal hylians can't smell the bakery from half a city away.

-and lastly, he's also acquired some mild form of synesthesia, wherein scents have colors.

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Put all the links in a giant paintball arena, what happens?

It's (mostly) a free-for-all that starts as an attempt for everyone to prove that they're the best marksman, and devolves into covering each other in as much paint as possible. The carnage claims RGBV, the Four, Wind, Steam, Gen, Lore, Ocarina, Mask, and presumably Shadow except that he keeps incorporating the paint into his body and then pretending like he'd never been hit at all.

Meanwhile, Sketch is bizarrely immune to being hit. As in, he knows the paint is coming his way before he even sees it, and also knows exactly how to move to avoid it. "How was I supposed to know that I have some weird paint telepathy?" He argues, when the rest of the group votes to disqualify him. But when it then turns out that his own pigment overwrites the paintball pigment and that he's also physically incapable of being marked (Shadow is not jealous) the argument becomes a moot point and he's voted out anyways. He takes it with minimal grumbling.

Speck and Dusk emerge unscathed and are the winners by default of neither of them wanting to face off in a death-battle-for-the-victory. Speck is simply, genuinely untouchable, because nobody can find him. Dusk on the other hand found himself some high ground and proceeded to Hawkeye snipe everyone in play.

"Hey, if he gets to use his Hawkeye mask then next time can I-" Mask begins.

"Absolutely not," choruses everyone else.

"The Stone Mask is banned, stop trying to trick us into agreeing to it," Gen adds.

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This game reminds me of Realm

...wow. Never before have I seen such an accurate description of Realm's particular problem. That's hilarious.

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Dusk receives a letter that reads as follows: "I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I." How does he respond?

“…I don’t know what this means,” Dusk says.

(Legit though 😅 what does this mean?)

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Phantom Anon. Lore and Gen get into a spat with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (Both of Looney Tunes fame) - what happens?

First of all, love that you felt the need to make sure I could figure out who Bugs and Daffy were if for some reason I was unaware. Happily I’ve been watching Looney Tunes since I was about five years old, so I am exceptionally qualified to answer this question.

Lore is so, so very jealous of the way that Bugs and Daffy can just casually break the laws of physics whenever and however they want. He takes notes for future Dreamscape shenanigans. He also falls victim to the classic “Rabbit Season” blunder and vows to never let anyone know that he was outwitted, ever. The problem is that Lore leans into chaos, and it’s never a good idea to bring more chaos to an already chaotic scenario. It just makes a feedback loop and then whoever takes advantage first wins.

Gen, on the other hand, functions more on logic than anything else, and while he doesn’t exactly win, he also doesn’t lose. “That’s a tunnel painted on a rock wall,” he says critically. “I’ll go around, thanks.” Meanwhile Daffy slams into it head-on, as he is prone to doing, but he also pops back into shape unscathed since he too runs on chaos. Gen “wins” by virtue of suffering the least amount of accidents.

The only people who can out-loony a toon is a fellow Looney Tune, after all.