Sep 24, 2023
still trying to make antiphon happen before the end of the month and I made decent progress today, but it's legitimately the hardest piece of the "trilogy" in spite of of being less than 6k worth of words
there's just... so many layers to everything? it's at once a sort-of post breakup fic that explores the aftermath of a toxic relationship, but also asks what future is worth living for during the early stages of reddition/colonization, and also a continuation of the ongoing philosophical debate about how to free yourself from arbitrary divine and systemic violence, and also a window into Zelda/Sheik's shattered and Wisdom-pumped brain post OoT when she's all alone in the world, and also some setup....
It's A Lot to balance.
#thoughts#oot#ganondorf#saeruk#iftaah#zelda#sheik#gerudos#antiphon#unhallowed vespers#zelda/sheik gives me sooo much trouble#I'm trying to juggle eighty billion elements to her character at once#and saeruk is not much better honestly#like#yeah so my god-king that was sort of my lover??? kinda??? but also we resented each other immensely had a mystical breakdown#abandoned me and my people and then became genghis khan on crack + a demon and ascended from his mortal form to Something Else#and then was defeated and sealed into hell where he cannot ever truly die and must linger there#and now his victims are forcing us to open our borders and make amends due to his failures because he failed everything he attempted#and our ways of life will be changed forever and that starts by cursing his name out of our history forever#how do I feel about any of this!!!!#very normal breakup things to work through