Whenever I see a post about how easy Windblight is to defete and how lame Revali must have been I can't help but think of Age of Calamity.
Like all that speculation of Revali being blind in the dark and hindered by the rain aside.
The blights in BotW are weakened after a hundred years.
When you fight Windblight in age of Calamity - Revali, Teba, Link and whoever else you bring with you all cannot defete Windblight - when you reach a climax in battle, Windblight runs away.
And then comes BACK while Revali is piloting the Divine beast and you SHOOT IT IN THE FACE WITH VAH MEDOH'S LASERS MULTIPLE TIMES AND IT STILL DOESNT DIE, IT RUNS AWAY AND COMES BACK AGAIN.
Like. At full power, that thing can literally take multiple divine beast blasts and still be fine. It can teleport away to heal and then return at full power again. Like - it would be physically impossible to beat it as one person.
Sure you can nerf it no trouble in breath of the wild after it's been rotting for a hundred years, but Revali didn't have that easy a fight back then. Don't do my mans dirty
I thought Medoh disposed of any leftover debris...
It's rather eerie looking, I never noticed it propped up here, I wonder if one of the sentries put it here for some reason... well thank you for spotting it before it caught me off guard...
Heh. It almost looks like a chunk of its face.
Do you think if I made it into a mask, I could scare the snot out of that ridiculous knight?
Heh.
Heheheheheh...
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I.....rather like this.......actually.......
It feels nice........I might hold onto this......just for a bit.......
Uh, Medoh.....why did you have that in the first place???? Shouldn't you have destroyed any Windblight debris like Revali said?
Processing Query . . .
I was in the process of searching for a way to safely dispose of the debris. I have not found a proper way, due to it being made of the same technology as I am, which has made it extremely difficult to destroy them.
...One other thing is that it is not like my so-
a brief pause from Medoh.
...It is not like Champion "Revali" to mess with the debris like this. Something is most definitely wrong. I am going to send my Scouts, Sentries, and Sentinels to locate him immediately. If he has touched it at all, then the worst may possibly occur.
I honestly feel really sad that no one believes me that Sidon yelled at me during the assault on Vah Ruta. Everyone thinks that he's always nice and kind, and honestly I don't blame him at all for yelling at me, but I do think it's interesting that people flat out don't believe me.
If I hadn't been so focused on not dying as well as not becoming so frustrated that I rage quit, I would have simply screenshot every time he yelled, "GET IT TOGETHER, LINK!" and "STAY FOCUSED!!"
Maybe I was just that goddamn terrible at it. I even sucked at doing the dungeon for the most part. That's why I was even more nervous about taking on Waterblight because of how poorly I had performed boarding Ruta as well as doing the dungeon. However, I took Waterblight out in less than two minutes so, HA!
Teba and Riju were 100% kind the whole time. I gave Riju no real reason to worry about me (it was the most fun I had trying to take out a divine beast) and Teba, despite my poor shots, was either worried about me getting hit OR encouraging me.
And I love Sidon so it honestly made me really upset that he yelled at me several times. It's not like I meant to be absolutely shitty at taking out the ice blocks and shooting the orb things. I just got really dizzy and overwhelmed.
I do also feel really bad that during my fight against Thunderblight I made Urbosa worry about me 100% of the time. Mipha, I think she spent the time going, "Be careful!!!" and Revali was trying to be helpful but I was a terrified, anxious mess doing Windblight for so many reasons. But Urbosa was all, "There's valor in dodging, you know.," and the several, "LINK!!!" She was so worried. I'm so sorry mommy!!!
revali and windblight but instead of bitter enemies they're roommates
Okay this turned out way longer than I intended but I low key actually like it. Should I post it on ao3?
They start out hating each other, Revali because he was killed by Windblight, Windblight because he's literally a manifestation of Ganon's hate
Revali tries to just ignore his captor at first, silent treatment for the win. But he was never as good at being silent as Link was. So instead he monologues about how if he'd hadn't just flown across Hyrule, if he'd had his Great Eagle Bow, then he would have won easily.
Around year 30, he starts using Windblight as a therapist. Frankly, Revali has a lot of trauma, if he's gonna be trapped here for the foreseeable future while Link takes his sweet time, might as well work through it.
Windblight isn't verbal, and they can only really communicate through screams, but the two make it work.
Around year 50 or so, Revali realizes that no one is coming. Link probably died in the original fight, Ganon has destroyed all of Hyrule, and he's going to spend forever trapped in the shell of the beast he loves so much. It's fine. Revali is used to being alone, he was before the Champions. He'll be just fine.
Around year 65, the decades of being trapped catch up to him. He hasn't seen the sky, or felt the wind in his feathers in decades, and he never will again. He'll never see Link again, or any the other Champions. His friends, his family.
He's trying to calm his panic attack (seriously, who let dead people have panic attacks, not fair) when he suddenly feels the pressure Windblight has, pushing him down and trapping him, lessen. He pushes past it, and finds himself on Medoh's top deck, just as the sun starts to peek over the horizon.
He can see all of Hyrule from here, he can see Rito, flying around the village's spire, he can see Hyrule, not destroyed. Not too far in the distance he can see Hyrule Castle, surrounded by the choking malice that's been holding him down for so long, but being held back by a golden aura that he knows must be the Princess.
He can see where his friends are trapped, their beasts looking just as lifeless as Medoh looks. He stays above for nearly an hour, watching everything he can see, until Ganon realizes Windblight's control has slipped and pulls Revali back under.
Windblight doesn't do it again, but Revali can see Medoh's immediate surroundings now instead of the suffocating darkness, so that's something.
Around year 100, something changes. Medoh takes flight again. A sickening purple light now replaces the soft blue Revali is so used to. He can see she's flying again, rather than sitting dead above the village. She attacks any Rito who dare to fly close to her, screeching in a tone that sounds aggressive, but Revali knows she's in pain.
Two Rito keep coming back, despite Medoh attacking, they keep trying to board. The one with darker feathers is shot in the wing. Revali doesn't see if his companion catches him.
When the white feathered Rito returns, he has a Hylian with him, and Revali only knows one Hylian stupid enough to attempt what this one is attempting. Link is alive, somehow.
Link boards Medoh, doing exactly what Revali had dared him to do a century ago. Revali taunts him for taking so long, he has to, otherwise he'd start crying.
Link defeats Windblight, 100 years after Revali was imprisoned by him. Windblight was gone, Revali was free. They weren't friends, not a chance in Hylia, but it could have been worse, all things considered.
I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned this before but seeing Thunderblight and Windblight next to each other is the funniest shit bc of the size difference
