This is for @perereiii’s LU AU!! I hope you like this, I kinda took a different interpretation of it, so…I hope it’s not too bad!
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In the deity’s realm, time works differently.
The deity finds it incredibly ironic how the Young-Old Hero is nicknamed after the only part of his life that he can’t control.
The flow of time is always cruel. Yet this particular hero is bound by it.
The other heroes (some young, some old, but not quite like the 9 and 17 and 12-year-old boy who slayed the moon) call Young-Old by this strange Hylian term. How do mortals name something they can’t comprehend? The deity prides himself in being the few gods who try to understand emotion and patterns, but heroes always surprise the deity.
The Little One did too. So bright, so whimsical, so innocent. Easy to tease. The deity can’t remember the last time that it laughed when it asked what the Little One would pay in return.
“Uh….my firstborn…child?” Little One said hesitantly, biting the inside of his cheek as he waited for the deity’s response.
The deity does not bargain. It finds it pathetic, forcing mortals to give items and values to something that doesn’t need them. When Young-Old Hero begged for help against the corrupt spirit of Majora, he displayed his entire life to see, so desperate for success.
Link tasted godliness at the ripe age of 9, 17, or maybe 12. That power consumed him. He became the deity that fateful night, without a trace of his mortal soul left behind.
He’s only known godly magic as overpowering. When there came a battle, nearly ten years ago, Young-Old Hero sought the mask, displaying his entire life for the world to see.
He didn’t speak, not like the Little One. He didn’t ask. There were no jokes during that battle, a decade ago. Young-Old Hero called on the deity, so the deity answered.
And when he donned the mask, it consumed his desperation with hunger tenfold.
The deity doesn’t understand chances. He doesn’t understand consequences. He knows nothing but to fight and to win.
Perhaps this is why Young-Old Hero is so upset.
It’s been ten years. The deity asks for Link to sit. The hero scoffs, annoyed.
“Were you desperate?” the hero questions. “You could’ve declined.”
But it had been a battle. The deity was made for battle. The hero has an eye, but he still cannot see.
The deity doesn’t wish to argue.
“Link,” it tries, but this only seems to make the hero more frustrated.
“You did just the same in the past!” he cries. “And you still look as exalted and pristine as ever—not a scar in sight!”
His body is armored, but anyone can see that it is marred by the passage of time. His right eye is godly, tearing his own skin apart. He smells of a dying star, bright and burning in the present. But Young-Old hero has seen the past and the future all the same.
He is the one that the deity cannot comprehend. He despises the deity.
Why? The deity is not usually one to wonder. It doesn’t need to, but heroes seem to be an exception to any rules that the universe has in place.
One day, Young-Old Hero will be broken and yet trapped in his mortal soul. A ghost, as the Hylians like to say.
They name so many things that they can’t understand.
Link talks on, again and again, interrupting the deity with sharp words. A lesser god would have struck him down by now. But the deity has learned to listen.
For the man he still calls a friend.
He asks for quiet. Link is somewhat willing to listen. It seems maturity has served him well. The deity explains Link’s desire for distance. The deity brings up the giant stall in their friendship—a deity can be naive too. Ten years ago, after so long of being unworn, and met with such desperation, the combo had been catastrophic.
The deity made Link begin to die as a god, and Link made the deity seek mortal values of friendship. The impossible accomplished twice.
The deity cannot control time. He can’t see the future. Link can’t either, yet he is defensive and blames the deity. He is angry. He says silly things, like rather choosing to side with Ganondorf than the mask. The deity calls him out, and asks for a truce. Link accepts, a bit begrudgingly. But what else can a man do against the divine?
The deity can’t blame Link’s hesitance. He’s right, in a way. The deity does not have scars and has no pain. And this man, so tainted with power, will likely die beyond the body he’s known in a ghostly form.
Link leave the realm. The deity is left wondering about something…more. It know that it fights and it wins. Simple. That is how it will always be, no matter who the caller. The Little One needed to fight and needed to win, so the deity was there. And still, Young-Old Hero resents it for this fact.
Link’s anger had threaded through his face (his faces? Is the mask just a face or is the face still a mask?). It highlighted the tears in his spirit that pull and stretch against the lingering godliness in his mind.
The Young-Old Hero will always know what divine power tastes like. No man can forget such a thing.
And while the deity has no concept of sadness, he knows that Young-Old Hero had been trapped in the deity’s mask for…for so long…
The deity knows it is not a true friendship. It does its job. It was asked to fight and it always wins. The battle would’ve ended badly without it. The deity knows not of deep, emotionally connected relationships, but it has seen grief destroy mortals throughout all of history.
It is a mask, afterall. No mask is made without mourning.
The deity can’t make promises. It knows he will see Link again, whether in his body or bound by his soul. The deity will ask to sit and chat once more. It can’t hold regret and anger like mankind. Link probably will, until he loses his mankind to the divine lingering in his blood. He’s been met with a terrible fate…
So the deity will try to fix it. He will seek out Link with peace, hoping that their bond will not be one of hatred before Link departs. The deity can’t know if Link will call, or if the Little One will.
Time: a wise leader and possibly father figure/ teacher too
Warrior: See him as an annoying guy but respect him as a hyrulian knight general
Twilight: a big brother or a big brother figure since he bearly remember his old life and teacher
Sky: the mother hen of the group
Legend: a grumpy uncle at first but to grumpy rabbit
Hyrule: a younger brother / lost boy partner since he get lost too
Four: brother in arms since wild have to remain himself to make sure to leave stuff in low shelves or on the ground so four can get what he needs
Wind: a little brother and prankster troll
Sia: At first, he is careful not to say or do anything wild around her til her secret is revealed and start having feelings for her he doesn't understand, then once he understands he (try), woo her
Bonus
First: okay guy just felt mixed feelings but won't treat him bad since everyone have their own stories.
Fierce:.......
Ethan: he's a good guy. He felt bad he's hated for being the holder of the Triforce of power but won't treat him badly ever
