“What did I just do….” Despite the song being one of healing and kindness. The youngest hero could feel a seal being broken.
In the dark coldness of the ruins where moblins slept, the ground started to shift, and crack. With a burst of toxic light erupting forth, and what was once a hand pulling its body out....
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Title: Song of
Author: Me!
Chapters: 9 (and on going)
Long talk/ideas under the cut. Warning for canonical character death and slight body horror with force transformation (Note: may add stuff over time but will never delete from the list).
Time. Wind. Legend. Hyrule. Four. Sky. War. Wild.
Twilight (Twilight princess). Other Nicknames: The Rancher, Pup, The Farmer, Epona’s Favorite, Wolfie, Twi.
Titles: The Hero of Twilight, The Hero of Hyrule, The Blue Eyed Beast, First Divine beast, Husband of the Twilight Princess.
God who has claim over his Soul: Kishin (Fierce Deity) (Blood relation to Time and a vow of protection).
Part of First’s soul: Perseverance
Notes: History actually connects to Time, it plays with time, sleeping curses and a god of death and time.
Backstory before game:
Time and Malon grew up, having a family together, eventually Malon had a second child, a baby boy this time. Who she jokingly called Link Jr. (Time always said no and they would figure out another name). However as Ganondorf is captured, he uses the triforce of power to try and kill the bloodline that trapped him. Now during a war with an unknown nation and dark forces, Lon Lon farm is burned, Time comes back to Malon and Saria (their first child) missing, only the baby hidden in some burning rubble.
Time takes his son and begins to look for somewhere safe, yet he is always being chased, always being attacked. Eventually Time is forced to run into the lost woods, with his son in tow. Time is fighting monsters, caring for his son, now forced to feed him fae food otherwise he would starve. He grapples with leaving his son with a fairy, knowing he would be cursing him to a life as a kokiri.
Eventually when he’s backed into a corner (his son got sliced during one of the attacks), he makes a choice, he hides the baby in a small grotto. He lays a spell onto the baby, so that he will sleep and never age until someone who has a pure heart and could love him finds him. He begs the forest to protect his son, even trading his own protection, even begging the spirit in the FD mask to use what magic it can to look after the baby. Time buried the FD mask in the grotto, allowing the FD magic to protect his child, and hiding it from any of the dark spirits. All he leaves behind is the embroidered blanket the baby is wrapped in and the Kokiri emerald (as far as Twi knows). Time leaves the baby, promising to come back for him, he tells himself that everything he put is just a precaution as he doesn’t know how long he will be fighting.
Time fights, clearing more of the forest. However when he’s fatally impaled with a poisoned metal mix, the forest can’t heal him.
He dies in the forest, Oni tries to get him to pass on and Time tries to plead for more time, which is refused. Time refuses to move on, instead opting to become a ghost, his biggest regret is leaving his child alone, never seeing him wake.
Hundreds of years later, Uli is walking into the forest (chasing a spirit), stumbling onto a grotto where she finds a sleeping baby. Who wakes up and starts crying, she immediately picks him up, noticing the blanket, seeing the embroidery Link on it, she takes him back to the village.
History:
Link is a young teen living in the village of Ordon, adopted by Rusl when his wife found an abandoned baby in the woods. As the oldest of the children he often looks after and plays babysitter to the other village children. Rusl wants Link to deliver the newest sword to the castle town however this is put on hold when the children of the village are suddenly kidnapped by monsters.
Link goes after to save the children but ends up captured and transformed into a blue eyed wolf in a world of shadow and twilight. He is saved by an sassy imp by the name of Midna and agrees to help her get back pieces of a ‘fused shadow’ if she helps him find and save the kids of the village. They grow close over their adventure, when Midna is nearly killed, they grow even closer. Eventually he learns about the Twili, the mirror of Twilight, Midna being the the twilight princess and Ganondorf involvement. All this time he is looked after and trained by a golden wolf who calls himself the Hero’s Shade.
Eventually there is the final battle with Ganondorf, The Hero’s Shade appears to help get in a hit before the King of Evil is killed. The Hero’s Shade finally ‘vanishes’, saying he has found peace. Midna is freed from her imp form, finally free to be in her true form. Finally at peace Midna with the help of the others opens the mirror of twilight so she can reclaim her kingdom. However Midna breaks the mirror, promising it isn’t goodbye, that she will see them again, but for their safety, this is how it needs to be. Link is left alone, to go back to his life on the farm, sometimes going on adventures to find a way to see Midna again.
Death: Unknown….
Interest stuff/Headcanons.
Twi is very good about finding his way around the woods, to the point he’s the one the village sends if an animal runs off.
He’s adopted by Rusl and Uli, so he’s considered Collin’s older brother.
The reason he lives alone in the treehouse is he started to get bad nightmares as a teen that would wake the house, so he wanted to live alone.
Link knows he was found, and named after the embroidered on the cloth he was wrapped in.
He also has a long faded scar on his arm, Rusl says it was on him when they found him.
He also was found with a big emerald; Rusl and Uli never sold it, feeling that it belonged to Link.
Link was very protective of the gem when he was growing up, it was in his teens that the kids stole and shattered it.
Link lost it, screamed at the kids and refused to talk to them for about a week, it took Rusl getting him to the shop and talking to him.
Rusl was able to fashion the pieces into jewelry that Link never takes off.
He always got along with the animals in the village, easily taming a hawk that flew around the village.
Speaks in a heavy ‘southern accent’.
Midna had to keep him from adopting every cat they came across.
After transforming into a wolf for the first time, the marks stained Link’s face and hands, though everyone just assumed he got tattoos during his adventure.
His eyesight got a lot better after he transformed. This also causes his eyes to glow in the dark. His teeth have also gotten sharper as well.
After the first lesson with the Hero’s Shade, once he comes back, he immediately starts crying, he has no idea why.
His shadow got darker because of Midna’s magic, it always looks like an abyss you could fall into.
Any natural magic Twi had was stained after his adventure now reading more like Twili magic then his own.
It also stains his nails a black color.
Twi grew very close to Midna during his adventure, nearly breaking when she almost died.
He has a scar on his left wrist, from where the shackle was as a wolf.
Midna, Twi and Princess Zelda are all married by Twili standards. A natural bond formed with all of them during their adventure.
Midna promises she would see them again even after breaking the mirror, so Twi does look for ways to see her again.
He also looks for tales about who his birth family might have been, they loved him enough to embroidered his name on a blanket and leave him that gem.
Twi is eventually taken in by a goddess and is offered the chance to help a lost hero, this turns out to be Wild.
When he meets the group, Twi immediately realizes Time is the Hero’s Shade. He knows the Hero’s Shade has a blood relation to him but that’s it. But the armor and voice are what clues Twi in that Time is the hero’s Shade.
Twi assumes Time is an ancestor, Time also realizes he must have a connection to Twi as despite the dark magic, there is the hint of kokiri magic buried deep within him.
Twilight immediately becomes the other go to leader besides Time and War, acting more like Time’s right hand man.
Everyone likes to tease Twi considering how much he looks like and acts like Time.
Twilight looks after Epona and cares for the mare deeply, often checking her over to make sure an arrow didn’t hit her.
He’s a decent cook if he has a recipe to follow.
He knows a lot of secrets because of his time as Wolfie, most don’t know and will happily spill their troubles to the fluffy beast that seems to care for them.
Twilight is a great hunter and tracker.
Twi hums.
Twilight loves animals and animals seem to love him. Cats come and cuddle, dogs love to come and get scratches.
Twilight is the owner of Wild’s survival instincts apparently.
Twi actually prefers bloody meat, nearly raw, as his favorite food. He hates it as it’s a side effect of his wolf transformation.
Twilight is trying to figure out how to prevent Time’s death which would turn him into the Hero’s Shade.
I love the headcanon that Time is Twilight’s father and he died when Malon was pregnant and passed him down his triforce. A similar fate happened to Lullaby, she died of childbirth and Dusk got her triforce.
In LU, Twilight knows the full story but since he knows 2 people can't have the same piece of the triforce at the same time, and the piece isn't just taken from one's body and gifted to another person (if not by magic means, but who does this must have another piece of the triforce, as if I don't remember wrong we never see someone without a piece of the triforce stealing a piece from Link’s or Zelda's hands), but the piece is "naturally" passed down when the previous chosen bearer dies, Twilight knows telling Time his full story would hurt him and Malon, his mother, too much, because they'd quickly realize their future isn't bright, all their plans, all their dreams... they'd realize he'll die soon.
And so he tries hard to pretend he's many generations apart, that the family tree is huge. And he uses the word Ancestor, that could mean both father or a really distant relative, he isn't lying, but he isn't going into detail either. And he's convinced he mustn't tell him the full story, he mustn't hurt him with his existence, he got to see his father alive and well, and he wants to see him happy, because he knows he doesn't have much time left.
And for Twilight that's unfair because Time is healthy, still relatively young, he doesn't look like someone who's going to die soon. And yet he is. And Twilight feels so happy he can see Time alive, but it hurts too. Sometimes he wants to tell Time everything, maybe a bit selfishly, he wants Time to recognize him as his son, he wants to stop hiding the truth, and mostly he sees him of course living like nothing is going to happen, he doesn't know what's going on, and he has the right to know instead so he can live his last... months? Years? As best as he can. At the same time he doesn't want to, Time wouldn't leave the group for this, it would only make him terribly devastated, knowing he will leave his family. It's so damn confusing.
Hey there, Darlin’. You’ve been studying very hard lately, and I’m so proud of you for it, but I think it’s time for you to put down the books and rest for a bit, hm? School is stressful, and I don’t want you makin’ yourself sick over it. I’ll go see if we have anything to eat, and after that, we can take a nap together. How does that sound?
