A character profile for my Rito OC/Ritosona, Rinili. (Check out @3leggedmagpie's art of him!). I'm going to do shortform here and longform under the cut. Rinili first shows up in chapter 6 of The Ballad of Kass and is present throughout the after then and also makes a brief appearance in chapter 10 of Shifting Tides of Fate. (I've tried to make the longform as spoiler free as I can.)
Name: Rinili
Species: Rito (Mixed Ancestry)
Pronouns: He/Him
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Age: ~22 years old [As of first appearance in fic, around 42 by time of series end]
Birthplace: Presumably Sukilin (Sue-key-lin) Lumber Camp, raised in Kariki (Ka-re-key) Village
Height: 180 cm
Build: Moderate
Eye Color: Light Green (Jade)
Plumage Color: Midnight blue above ribs, powder blue below ribs
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Four long ornamental tail feathers
Peafowl like crest
Pluma (“hair”) on top of head
Powder blue wingtips with white band
White banding on legs
Yellow breast patch
No white on underwings
Silver-gray zigzag band around midsection
Mottled silver-gray chevron patterns on upper back
Slightly larger dark spot on beak hook
Kirikaros (UV beak markings): a broken line from the base of his beak to the tip on top and a similar broken line running along where the mandibles meet, as well as several small streaks between the broken lines.
Occupation: Warrior (Ryski [Rye-ski])
Signature Weapons: Three pair of Tyto Axes with blue leather inner handles and spiked buttcaps. Each pair has a different back, only carries one pair at a time. [Eventually wields the Harpy Macuahuitl (moc-wa-weetle) as well.]
Relationship Status: Single
Exes: Gizli, Daklin, Kirlini, Lakson
Family:
Parents:
Biological parents deceased, names unknown
Adoptive mothers: Harli and Milni
Siblings: Sisters: Koli & Vili
Backstory
Rinili is a warrior from Kariki Village, a Rito settlement located on the eastern cliff sides of the Great Scar Canyon, the massive chasm separating Hyrule from the lands to it’s north and west, near the end point of the Tanagar Canyon. He is presumed to have hatched sometime in 55 Era of Rejuvenation, 22 years ago, although the exact date is unknown. He was found by one of his adoptive mothers, Harli, during her time as First Warrior.
Harli, a member of the Orni Tribe with pale red plumage and blond pluma (“hair”) was leading a group scouting the abandoned Sukilin Lumber Camp, northwest of Kariki Village in the forest at the bottom of the Great Scar Canyon, when her party came upon a gruesome sight. Beasts feeding on the corpses of a pair of Rito. After felling the beasts they landed and began investigating the area. The sounds of a crying fledgling attracted Harli to a barrel, where she found the young Rinili, who had just barely fledged, along with two golden armbands adorned with emeralds. She took the young fledgling and tied him to her breast with a bit of cloth and flew back home in the hopes that he wouldn’t be scared by the vision of what was left of his parents.
The scout group found Rinili’s name carved into the lid of the barrel he was hidden in and Harli and her wife Milni (also of the Orni Tribe, with has cream colored plumage and snow white pluma) kept his name and adopted him. They kept the armbands, presumed to be a symbol of Rinili’s parents union, similar to a feather pin or Hylian wedding ring.
While it was hard to tell based on the condition of the bodies, Rinili’s father was of mixed ancestry, Cardu and Cristatta (Cris-tat-ta) Tribes. His mother however, was of an unknown, lost Tribe, with bright yellow feathers, a silvery band on her midsection, and a peafowl-like crest. Harli spent years looking for information about Rinili’s father to no avail.
Unfortunately, Harli’s attempt to shield Rinili from the sight of his parent’s bodies did not prevent him from being scarred by the experience. Years later, he began to have nightmares about what he heard while in the barrel. When his adult plumage began to come in his mothers told him the truth. Rinili decided to become a Warrior in part to prevent others from suffering his or his parent’s fate.
Personality
Rinili keeps to himself for the most part, focusing on his duties as a Warrior. Unusually for Rito, his roost is rather plain and undecorated. He can be a bit gruff and quick to anger, but he as a sarcastic since of humor.
As a Warrior
Rinili is a member of the Ryski, a word often translated into “scout”. However, like many instances of Hylian translations of Rito words this does not quite give the entire picture of the role of the Ryski. While they do scout, they also conduct raids and fight as skirmishers, hitting hard, fast, and silently. Usually felling their foes before they have time to react. Rinili is self described as being rubbish with a bow, so he fights with a pair of Tyto Axes.
In spite of his young age, he quickly proved himself as a capable Warrior and was given permission to wield Tyto Axes with blue leather inner handles. The Tyto Axe is constructed with inner handles for the primary purpose of being wielded with one’s talons in a high speed dive. The inner handles have leather grips instead of the colorful cord wrapped wooden handle that is mainly used while holding it in one’s wing. The type of leather is a symbol of rank or skill among the Rito. The lowest level is simple leather made from the hides of any number of beasts. Next is red leather made from the hide of a red monster. And the highest level is the blue leather made from blue monsters.
In Rinili’s case, his axes were made with the hide of a Blue Moblin he personally slew. In spite of his moderate build, he is unusually physically strong for a Rito. It should be noted that blue monster leather is usually purified by hours long rituals. Black Monster hides are simply too tough to make leather out of, and few dare to fight them unless absolutely necessary.
Rinili also makes use of talon dropped explosive devices when necessary. These provide more destructive power than the popular bomb arrows, but do require flying at lower altitude to effectively use them. Several are carried in a bag, held in one talon and a cord is pulled with the other before dropping them on the target.
[Later on in the story, Rinili recovers his mother’s Harpy Macuahuitl and uses it as well.]
Rinili often escorts merchants and couriers to other Rito Villages and sometimes to Gerudo Territory. Like most Rito living outside of Hyrule, he isn’t terribly fond of Hylians, but he respects the Gerudo for being skilled warriors while also sympathizing with the fact that they too lost one of their important figures during the Great Calamity, Chief Urbosa.
Family, Friends, and Relationships
Rinili refers to Harli as Ma, and Milni as Mum. After Rinili moved into his own roost, the two of them paired up with Taslin, an Orni Tribe courier with olive green plumage, to have their two daughters, Koli & Vili. Koli has pink plumage and is Harli and Taslin’s child, while Vili has yellow plumage and is Milni and Taslin’s child. Taslin visits from time to time, but otherwise Harli and Milni raise the two fledglings.
Since the Great Migration after the events of the Great Calamity, Rito culture has put a strong emphasis on getting married and starting a family as soon as possible. Rinili’s first romantic relationship was with Gizli, a member of Arini Tribe and painter from Suskiri Village. Their plumage is bright scarlet, with verdant tips on their crest, wings, and tail feathers, and a golden breast. Rinili and Gizli had a long-distance relationship for over a year before it fell apart.
He has had relationships with Daklin, Kirlini, and Lakson in the time since but none of these relationships lasted very long. Much to Milni's chagrin, he has not put much effort into serious relationships and has had numerous flings.
Rinili has a few friends among the other Warriors in Kariki Village and a few acquaintances in Gerudo territory. He is cordial with Taslin as he often has to escort him to various villages. He has avoided Vilia since leaving Gizli, as she reminds him of his time with them.
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"The Ballad of Kass" covers Kass journey across Hyrule in an AU of BotW.
Summary: Kass' begins his journey to fulfill his promise to his dear departed teacher. Along the way he'll encounter another living legend as well as uncover secrets he never expected to learn. It's a good thing his sister, Kalia, is tagging along…
I've posted up to chapter 9. (Will update chapter count as needed...)
This is part of my epic LoZ fanfic, "The Realm Walker." Each section of the story (for now) is told from the POV of one to a few characters, and while reading all of them would be helpful for understanding everything, my intent is that it would not be required to read everything to fully enjoy the story.
As of 9-9-23, Chapter 10 has been posted! New Chapters have specific content warnings in a clicky in the chapter notes. (Appears as an arrow you can click on to see specific warnings, or you can ignore these if you don't want spoilers.) I'm going to put these in a few of the older chapters when I get the chance.
For the chapter titles game - there are a couple that made me laugh, as I love translating common phrases into in universe versions, so tell me about
Big Trouble in Torikirika
And
The remilt’s out of the bag
Thanks for the ask @drsteggy !
Hehehe, this isn't the first time I've used phrases and things for fics. I split up the phrase "The calm before the storm" into "The Calm..." and "...The Storm" for my defunct Star Trek project (as well as using some song lyrics for "episode" titles...)
For The Remlit's Out of the Bag, I answered that here.
For "Big Trouble in Torikirika", it's a play on the movie Big Trouble in Little China obviously. Torikirika (Toe-re-key-re-ka) is the Rito name for Rito Village, what was once the Rito Capital before most of their population fled Hyrule during the Great Calamity (an event known as the Great Migration), resulting in a fracture society where every village is just doing their own thing.
So this chapter is after Kass and Kalia split up after the events of "The Remlit's Out of the Bag", and is focused on events in Rito Village. Now at this point Kaneli has given Amali and Huck a task, go down into the village Archives to find anything they can on the Divine Beasts as well as images that may help Huck design cold weather gear for a Zora (he means Mipha, but doesn't tell Huck that). They found (some of) what they needed, but also found a few Chuchus... So now they have to clear them out...
And so Teba sets out to get Mimo to help out at Amali's request...
Teba stops just outside Mimo’s roost. For several moments he watches as Mimo sorts through some papers on a desk, pondering to himself what he’s going to say. He had banished the vent from the Flight Range and banned him from the ranks of the Warriors over his behavior. The arrogant fool thought he was practically a reincarnation of Master Revali. Then he failed the trials over and over again.
He is a decent enough archer, and he can handle a blade or a spear well enough. But he’s practically unable to work with others. He doesn’t follow orders, and he’s too concerned with his own glory to be trusted relaying them. Which makes his choice of career as a courier even stranger…
But the worst of it is that he blamed others for his failures. Accused them of sabotaging him. Compared with that, his inability to keep his beak shut and out of others business is his least irksome quality.
Mimo suddenly glances at Teba and scowls. Of course, so does Teba. Mimo walks towards him and asks, “What are you doing here?”
Teba grits his beak for a second before responding, “There is a matter concerning the security of the village that I could use your assistance with.”
Mimo raises an eyebrow and his voice drips with sarcasm as he chirps, “Oh? And what can this humble courier, who was banished from the ranks of the Warriors, do for the mighty First Warrior Teba? Do you need me to throw my life away on another failed attempt to bring down Vah Medoh?”
Teba’s feathers rise in irritation and he struggles to keep an even tone, “No. There’s a monster infestation in the Archives and I need some help clearing it out.”
“Don’t you have Warriors that can do that?”
“Not enough for that and keep the village’s guard up at the same time.”
“What does it matter that there’s monsters in the Archives? Keese are always flying in there. Just keep the door shut.”
“The Elder wishes for Amali to search for anything in the Archives that could help deal with Vah Medoh. And it’s not Keese, its Chuchus”
“Ha! Some Warrior you are if you need my help to deal with a few bouncing balls of jelly!”
“You arrogant vent!” Teba shouts as he grabs Mimo’s cuirass.
Mimo’s eyes widen as Teba rips into him, “Do you remember nothing from your training?! It doesn’t matter how insignificant a single monster is, a multitude can take down even the finest Warrior. The Archives are dark and narrow, and we Rito are not suited to fight in those conditions.”
Mimo tilts his head slightly, and speaks calmly in a low but serious tone, “You come to my roost to try and ask for my help and then attack me when I refuse? I could report you to the Elder for this.”
Teba pulls him closer until their beaks almost touch and grumbles lowly before shoving him back. “Fine, sit in your roost for all I care. I didn’t even want your help. The only reason I came here was because Amali suggested it.”
Teba turns to leave but Mimo queries, “Wait, Amali asked you to ask for my help?”
Teba turns back to him and glares as he responds, “What of it?”
Mimo crosses his wings, “Her husband still owes me a few rupees for that letter I delivered from Kakariko Village. If she pays his debt, then I might consider it.”
“Money grubbing cuckoo,” Teba mumbles, “You can talk to her about that if you want.”
Teba walks back towards the village entrance. After a moment he hears the sound of Mimo’s footsteps behind him.
The rest of the chapter is getting the team together (lots of OC's) to go down into the Archives and clear out the Chuchus. A Simple Task, Big Trouble in Torikirika, The Hunt, Discovery, and Aftermath are all part of this story arc. (Keese can get in through holes in the pillar carved out as windows. How the Chuchus got in is the mystery.)
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