#miniscrew anon

[st0rmyskies]

*gets some substantial Four lore*

Welp time to do some writing I guess 😭

-miniscrew

LOOK WHOMST WE HAVE SUMMONED

[poodle-anon]

I have no idea what to put here as a title so I'll just say that @miniscrew-anon inspired me to write a continuation of one of their febuwhump prompt fills and ended up with just shy of 500 words about Champion and the other two Guard Boys waiting around just after the little altercation at the hospital when he first woke up.

enjoy 👀

characters of course belong to @st0rmyskies

Champion studies himself in the hospital bathroom's mirror.

They'd be waiting on clearance to go home for a little while longer, given the… drastic effect of his head injury, so in the meantime, the three former royal guardsmen had a room to themselves.

Champion runs a thoughtful finger down the side of his cheek, before rolling his jaw to watch and feel the scarred skin shift.

"What happened to me?" He reaches up to rub a thumb over his ear, and notes the heart shaped stud in the shell that he doesn't remember getting. It wasn't new.

Sky purses his lips for a beat.

"It's… It's a long story. But the scar is from someone that's not a problem anymore."

Champion's hands return to the edge of the sink to lean on it, turning his head this way and that to see and feel again how the scarred skin looks and feels. His expression seems only curious. 

They'd better not be a problem anymore.

"Why was everyone calling me Wild?"

"That was your nickname. After the accident, you lost your memory and before today, it was like you were a different person. Someone called him Wild Man at some point and he decided he liked it, I guess."

"You remember the accident, right Champion?" Warriors pipes up from the corner.

Champion squints at his reflection, shoulders tensed just slightly. 

"Some. I remember things going wrong, I think an ambulance, but not a lot." He eyes the rest of himself up and down, bandages and scars and all. 

"How long ago was it?" Champion rubs his side, feeling some of his older scars through the fabric. And some newer. Places where he remembered searing pain before he passed out the first time.

"A little less than two years." Sky's answer is maybe quicker than it should have been, he'd done the calculations enough times.

Champion gives him a quick, thoughtful hum. His hand lingers on his ribs, breathing in deeply to feel how the skin flexes below his shirt, and testing how painful the bruising really was beneath it. His pain tolerance had always been high, but it wasn't as if he couldn't feel it at all.

"What's the facial scar?"

Sky pauses again.

"It's…" his stomach works itself into a knot thinking about that night, "There was a fight, and someone held your head to a stove burner…" Sky sucks half a breath through his teeth with a grimace.

Champion is silent for another beat as his eyes are fixed on the mirror. Watching the reflection of himself and the space behind him in equal measure.

He makes another affirmative hum, and rolls his neck with several audible clicks before turning to rest against the tiny bathroom counter with crossed arms.

“Well, at least I’m not dead,” he says plainly, and maybe there was a hint of a smile tugging at his lip.

[st0rmyskies]

JFC YOU GET DEATH THREATS FOR THAT?!?!

Omg People need to get a life

- miniscrew anon

Yeah man you don’t fuck with Four fans, some of them are… extremely attached to their headcanons.

Emphasis on extreme.

[st0rmyskies]

Well you know what they say about one man's junk 😘

-Miniscrew anon

Sexual harassment on tumblr dot com???

I understood the intended innuendo so it's all good. I'm also more awake now so being a little kinder to myself. Some of the character interactions are fun, after all.

Together, Warriors and Dark both fell on their asses behind the closed doors, panting with exertion and the thrill of danger. Warriors was shaking madly, trying not to fold in on himself as the ringing in his ears quieted just enough to hear the voices of those locked on the other side of the door.  Next to him, Dark fell on his back as he clutched his sides, laughing madly. “Did you see their faces!!?” Warriors turned, slow and silent, to find Dark grinning at him. “Man,” Dark reached out to give Warriors’s shoulder a gamely pat as he got back to his feet, “you sure put the ‘laughter’ in manslaughter, kid.”

[st0rmyskies]

“No!!” Dark barked, picking up one of his discarded socks from the floor and whipping it in Shadow’s direction. “You get back here!! We’re gonna discuss this together! Like a family!!”

WICJDKDKKDKSK YOU WERE RIGHT I AM SCREAMING AT A DISTANCE!!!!

Forget the townhouse - THIS is the found family I want a sitcom with: A soft-hearted Country Boy just trying to figure out his particular flavor of Gay, a thief with a pathological lying behavior and a hunger for chaos, a underpaid mechanic with four undiagnosed mental illnesses and an air of mystery, and a hulking Ex-Con with a murderous aura, trigger-happy fingers and soft spot for this fucking group of misfits all shoved into the world's shittiest apartment.

Goddamn I love them all so so much I'm gonna shriek and scream

-Miniscrew

The most unlikely sitcom ever. Between Dark and Shadow’s love-hate relationship, Twark’s awkward progression into a real relationship, Four’s quirks and all the questions about his background, and the dangerous livelihood of the shadow Links, I could legit write a spinoff series about them by itself.

[st0rmyskies]

If Wars and Dark ever got together the townhouse would devolve into pure chaos within 24 hours.

Twilight is living in a tent out back, absolutely refusing to step back in even to use the bathroom. There’s perfectly good bushes that don’t whine and moan as they’re thrown over the bathroom counter out here, after all.

Sky is begging the castle staff to let him move in. Sunny is laughing at him but No, love, you don’t get it- they’re everywhere!!! Sky had to climb up to the second floor from the outside of the house- you don’t want to know what happened to the stairs-!

Hyrule is begging his director to let him work a quadrupole. He may be hallucinating demonic entities because of lack of sleep but that’s much better compared to what he could be seeing back home.

Legend is leaving increasingly deadly traps around the house to try to discourage them. It started with a few mouse traps in inconvenient places. But now it’s a full on Cold War between them. Both sides are stubborn, bitter, and willing to take it to the extreme. Dark hasn’t worn clothes since he got there (aside from what can be worn on his you-know-what) and Legend is tarring the bathroom floor.

Wind ordered a rope ladder to hang out his window so that he never needs to walk through the house. He uses the nearest cafe bathroom and Wars credit card for food. Is considering buying a house boat on their dime if nothing stops them soon.

Wild is crying and frantically disinfecting the kitchen counter for the tenth time that day. Please, guys, he’s so happy for you, but also he cooks here? He just wants to make breakfast? But now he’s sitting here at 4AM scrubbing the counters again. He can’t even make toast. Not after what they did to the toaster.

Four is walking around revving a chainsaw as both an announcement of his presence and a warning.

And Time is considering burning the whole house down. No, really. It’s the only way to be sure the demons are purged. And he could rebuild. He has the money. Maybe with one less bedroom this time, though.

-miniscrew anon

Congrats guise we found the literally MOST toxic ship in the entire series.

[st0rmyskies]

I’m so soft for Drunk Sky defending his friends from assholes tho 😭 I love gentle juggernauts

Someone pressuring Champion to drink and not leaving him alone? Eat a knuckle sandwich!

Someone laughing at Legends mood? Wham! They’re on the floor!

Someone getting handsy with Four? Now they’re eating their own teeth!

Someone throwing a drink at Wars because he rejected them? Have fun waking up in the hospital!

Sky will get arrested before he lets someone fuck with his friends and I am so in love with him ❤️ They don’t even need protecting or defending but Sky will do it for them anyway because he cares and I think that’s just so poggers

-miniscrew

Sky doesn't give much warning, either, before laying someone out who deserves it. A stranger wouldn't know it, but the boys know when he's wearing That Smile and will immediately start to take stock of where everyone else is and who's in trouble or who needs to be collected so they can all make a swift getaway.

[st0rmyskies]

OMG HYRULE!!! I was just rereading that Drabble and I realized that when Hyrule said he was scared of heights, he was like 3 feet off the floor. He’s a baby ❤️

-miniscrew

Hyrule is INCREDIBLY baby. He just wants to help and participate, he's so rarely around to just hang around and goof off with his friends, he's forgotten what it's like to not have to be The Mature One With Your Head On Right in the room at all times.

Let Hyrule be afraid of small heights, or get lost on an outing to the boardwalk, or eat way too much junk food and get a stomach ache.