Mini and Archive have to do the plot of Bowser's Inside Story (taking the Mario Bros. places). How does it go?
It... goes.
Suffice to say, it does not follow canon. Archive's approach to things is to Not Approach things, and he is the sole reason that their inventory is always empty - he uses the items the very moment that one comes into his possession, because the alternative is to physically attack something. And he's not about that life, okay.
Mini, meanwhile, is aggressively asserting his dominance over everyone they come across, including Bowser himself. How did he manage to assert dominance over someone that he's quite literally inside of? Nobody else is sure. And Bowser certainly isn't willing to answer questions about it.
Somehow, collectively, the two of them cause more damage to Bowser's internal organs than the Mario Bros. ever would. (Could is another issue entirely, but we're not gonna bother about that.) It should be noted that neither Mini nor Archive are deliberately trying to cause Bowser large amounts of medical issues, but between Archive spamming fire every chance he gets and Mini quite literally throwing himself and his sword at his opponents' heads, there is inevitably some collateral damage.
I go by really anything idc what you refer to me as as long as you don't call me blitzo (PLS it drives me mad the amount of times ppl thing my name is a ref to helluva boss/srs/gen)
For no good reason at all, a brief summary of my current OC Links.
Under the cut!
Hero of Times (with an s, yes)
As seen in my old as hills story Hero. He’s a five year old who was tricked into fighting Ganon while absolutely not being ready, his soul was trapped in a bottle for 1500 years after he was brutally murdered several times (he had fairies), he was reborn (not reincarnated unlike all the previous times due to the whole trapped like a poe for centuries) in a dystopian Hyrule with no clear memory but a lot of crippling phobias. He finds out when he’s fifteen (in his new life) that he needs to fight Ganon but the poor thing has absolutely no resource other than a very hands on (and bossy) Zelda, who’s not a princess and is herself almost as resourceless. He’s also constantly terrified of everything, including monsters (even little keeses) and swords – which is a just a BIT impractical in his situation. The only thing that saves him is discovering the ability to send his spirit to visit his past lives (thus my calling him hero of times) and, as it turns out, borrow some stuff from them. He lives in a dystopia where long eared Hylians have been killed off, and everyone is very malnourished and overworked from dawn till dusk with no medical attention available ever, and the life expectancy is under 30. He looks almost normal in that context: short dark blond hair, blue eyes, extremely skinny and quite short even compared to most of his past lives, and one thing that sets him apart from his contemporaries, slightly pointed ears.
'Old Link’
One of the past lives the hero of times visits. From that hero’s perspective, a particularly helpful and fatherly old man living a seemingly happy life after his own adventures are long over and who seems to know a much younger Princess well, enough to send her to fetch stuff, and who only seems to regret knowing Ganon is not gone for good. The story the hero of times doesn’t know hasn’t been written (yet) but it involves Zelink and royal politic shenanigans (with a Zelda that’s his own age, not the one the Hero of Times meets).
‘Nice Link’ and ‘Angry Link’
Also appear in Hero, one just gives the Hero of Times a bunch of food thinking he’s a ghost trying to move on and eager to help, the other is in a dungeon and just generally not trusting of the ghost-looking hero of times and in a very bad mood. They’re not defined further.
The Last Hero
As seen in No More, Not One Single Time More. A radicalized teenager who looks a fair bit like the Hero of Time, part of a revolutionary group called Din’s Justice and dedicated to his life’s purpose of ending the monarchy with them. He lives in a very dark age and the royal bloodline is corrupted beyond anything ever seen before in Hyrule, has been for generations with no end in sight, and every time a revolution looks likely, they trigger the curse by summoning an army of unbeatable monsters which the hero has to defeat to save the population (or at least as much of it as they can) with the end game being the ‘Princess’ getting credit for the final victory. This stops revolutions not so much because the population falls for the Royal Family being to thank for the save but because they’re terrified to trigger the King into doing it again. This Link lashes out verbally a lot (expect a lot of f-bombs), he has zero impulse control, but he cares a lot for people who aren’t royalty or nobility.
The Previous Eight
The previous eight heroes in No More(…). They all died fighting the Unnamed, which is the enemy the Last Hero also has to face in the end. At least one was a girl, but they’re not defined further than that.
Link of Given
Main Character for my WIP All That Hurts Us. Third generation immigrant to Hyrule, he’s what Hylians call a ‘Sea Folk’ because they arrived in Hyrule by the sea. For all intents and purposes, they look like black people in our world. They have round ears, as well. Link lives in a time where Hyrule is very knowledgeable of their own history thanks to archeology and linguistics to decipher old texts. They know of the heroes, they know of the curse, and they have a method of finding the hero ahead of the time that person would be needed, which is how Link is identified. They do not, however, have any record of a non Hylian hero so Link is considered the first one with a notable portion of the population believing the id method failed and that he’s an accidental or willing imposter. He’s kind, selfless and dedicated, but he desperately wants the curse to only affect him so he’s very overprotective of everyone and bossy, pushing away any attempt at help of even support. He’s also paranoid due to still waiting for the curse to manifest after 11 years, trains endlessly and doesn’t deal well with whatever he deems a waste of time. He’s impatient, kind of jumpy and generally just always roaring to go. He’s dealt with racism enough that he’s grown into being overly polite and formal to strangers in an unconscious attempt to defuse potential aggression that most wouldn’t show anyway. It’s self torture: the formality and over politeness mean it takes longer to express anything when talking. Wears his hair in braids, they reach just below his shoulders.
The Hidden Hero
Don’t have an actual name for her yet, only just starting to define her. She also lives in a dark age with a corrupted royal family, and also one where Hyrule is aware of the curse. In her case, the Spirit of the Hero opted for stealth: she is a cis girl, which in the mind of most, disqualifies her from potentially being the hero. She works with an imprisoned prince, a relative of the current ruling branch to save Hyrule when the King attempts to make a deal with demons. She’d probably be best buds with the Last Hero if they met but they live thousands and thousands of years apart. She is NOT one of the ‘previous eight’ mentioned above, she’s way before that, in one of the early dark ages.
