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Ｒｅｓｏｎａｎｃｅ | Kali & Dark Link

His heart was racing so fast, he feared it bursting out of his chest could ruin this moment. Even so, his heart was beating rapidly due to happiness… and nervousness, of course. For once, he was nervous about something being too good to be true instead of whether or not he’d live to see the next day or because of the rush and risk of being engaged in battle.

He’d been afraid to say it… the three words that, once said, sent both parties involved into a situation near impossible to back out of. It wasn’t because he didn’t mean them, because even the word love itself wasn’t enough to describe his feelings. He was simply afraid such feelings wouldn’t be returned. Love was a complex, almost foreign thing to the shadow clone, and after so long of being exposed to nothing but the opposite, he’d grown accustomed to the thought of never having to experience it… until now.

Silence fell between them for what felt like ages, red eyes widened in pure shock. She’d beaten him to it… no, that wasn’t even the main point here. The fact that she’d said it at all and meant it…

Is this really happening?

"I-I…" he stuttered, swallowing hard. Goddesses, just say it! You love this girl. She’s practically the only good thing you have besides the sword and shield on your back, and even that only goes so far. She’s the only one who completely understands how you feel because she’s been through the same thing… no, worse. She forgave you after you left her to her lonely solitary confinement once again after promising not to. Don’t screw this up…

He sighed heavily, then managed to smile softly at her before taking one of her many hands in his.

"I love you, too, my beautiful Kali." he finally responded, grasping onto her hand a little tighter as if to let her know he would never even think to leave her side again unless necessary, and even so, he’d make sure to return as soon as he could.

#darklink-to-the-past #wow kali your emotions change fast

Ah, did it ever feel good to finally have confessed to him. There was certainly no going back now, and heck, she was proud of herself for speaking up at last. Kali was overjoyed. Just like that, it was as if she'd completely forgotten where she was, and every other little hindrance she dealt with daily. She was a stranger to such a giddy feeling, it almost felt wrong, but at the same time, so right. And it was just the two of them after all, not like someone was just going to walk in to this scene. Not like if anyone did happen to, they'd live to tell the tale. No chance there.

"Ehehehe... yes...~!" By now she had completely given up on even so much as bothering to try and contain herself, and now she was even laughing. It was hard to imagine that she had previously been downcast. She was still in her right mind of course, even when she threw her arms around him and practically tackled him over, completely and utterly intentional.

"How long... how long have you... felt this way ?" She questioned, now resting her chin on his shoulder and smiling in a dreamy manner to herself. She was well aware that answering her own question was, in a way, easy enough for her, but curiosity was most likely about to get the best of her on that one. For one reason or another, she just had to know.

Ｒｅｓｏｎａｎｃｅ | Kali & Dark Link

Goddesses, he looked pathetic, and yet, he didn’t care. He’d told himself he’d never show a lick of emotion besides happiness and anger towards anyone, and here he was, sobbing uncontrollably like his life depended on it. What made it worse was that, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t stop. He’d try to force back the tears and only ended up choking and belting out more tears.

"How!?" he managed to ask, desperately staring at her. "How can you forgive me?! I don’t deserve it!"

It seemed his mind couldn’t wrap around the fact that, after he’d punished himself for his actions for so long, the one person he’d worried about hurting the most, even above his own self, was forgiving him, and so easily. He had to calm down, though… he was already on edge, only inches away from going over. He squeezed his eyes shut, the mixture of salty tears and lack of sleeping causing them to burn. He slowly opened them again after a few seconds and simply stared into the other’s, one more single tear sliding down his cheek before he lurched forward and pressed his lips to hers.

Out of all the things he could have done, that was the first thing he came up with. His eyes were shut again, though not squeezed shut, and his hand had, at some point, made its way to her soft, cold cheek. The tear that had been sliding down his cheek curved around his face and lingered on his chin for only a split second before finally detaching itself and falling to his dark tunic, creating a barely noticeable dark circle in his lap.

He lingered for a few seconds before pulling away, only a little space in between their lips. The once cold cheeks from a few moments ago were now warm and red.

"Kali…" he whispered, pressing his forehead against hers again.

Secrets had no reason to be kept hidden away at the back of her mind anymore. Especially now that she was making her feelings quite clear through not only her words, but her actions as well, and she definitely wasn't inclined to move from where she was now. Nothing else mattered to her in that moment, he was the only exception. If truth be told, that had more meaning to it than she'd ever intended. Not that it was a bad thing. It was just that... she was supposed to be seen as a monster, and nothing more than that. Her light had flickered out long ago, all hope was lost for her (not that it mattered much anyways), but all that seemed to vanish on that fateful day many moons ago when she first met him. He truly was the only exception, the only one who deserved any affection and warmth whatsoever from her. That was what made it so impossible for her to hold a grudge, to not forgive him. The one time she'd opened her heart to someone, she found herself blinded by her own emotions. And surely, that wasn't about to change.

"I... have my reasons..." she responded calmly. It was all a matter of explaining said reasons now. That shouldn't be too difficult, just a simple three words would do the trick. No need to go into details, just a confession that should have been said long ago.

Although, she didn't find herself with the chance to speak another word. Rather, she found his lips meeting hers instead. Oh, if only time could freeze right then and there, that way the moment could last forever...

Even as he moved away Kali found herself remaining completely still, with the same slightly surprised expression frozen on her face. Eventually, her mouth curved into a small, joyous smile as she prepared to finally, after all this time, tell him what she needed to say.

"Dark... I love you..."

#darklink-to-the-past

Ｒｅｓｏｎａｎｃｅ | Kali & Dark Link

He just barely watched her every move, fingers fidgeting with his darkened tunic as the rustling from her movement continued. Partially out of paranoia and partially because he hadn’t a clue what to do or say, the shadow clone remained where he was, waiting for Kali to make the first move. If she wanted to kill him, fine… but that didn’t seem to be the case judging by her actions.

The silence lingered between them, an eerie, tense atmosphere consuming the temple. He was slightly shivering at this point, though he was unsure why. The temple was cold, but it wasn’t like the shadow clone wasn’t used to cold environments. No… he was struggling to keep his composure.

He tried to speak again… nothing. It was as if the ability to communicate had become completely foreign. It was no use; he’d either have to move or wait for Kali, and there was no doubt in his mind that it would end up being the latter of the two.

Dark, you idiot…

Mentally, he was tearing himself apart. He’d entered so strong, but was then reduced to a pathetic state at the mere sight of her. Meanwhile, Kali was still observing him in silence. How much longer would this go on?

Apparently, not much…

What did she say? Surely, I’m hearing incorrectly… she… missed… me?

Whether he’d gone into a state of shock or was finally unleashing the vast amounts of built up emotions, even he was unsure, but nonetheless, the shadow clone was brought to his knees, hands swaying on his sides as he remained there, motionless, shedding tears from the same red eyes that had been so lifeless just a moment ago. His body started to shake a bit more violently with each progressing sob, eyelids failing to contain the waterfall of tears that welled up.

"I-I missed you…" He was interrupted by a choked up sob, then continued… "I-I missed you, t-too… I’m so… so… s-sorry…"

That was all he could say at that point.

"I’m sorry… I’m s-so sorry… dammit, Kali, I’m so sorry…" he continued, repeating the same thing as he finally raised his head so his eyes could meet hers. "I’m sorry…"

#darklink-to-the-past #Omfg my heart just kind of died a lot there ;^;#She could never hate him not a chance ;A;

Was... she seeing this right ? Apparently she had touched a nerve or something, because the next thing she knew was that he was on his knees and... crying ? Oh no... what have I said wrong ?

At this point, Kali had no idea what to do. She simply stood there for the longest time, just... watching, and feeling stupid for not even so much as trying to do anything. What was there she could do anyway besides wait for the right time to arrive to make a move. Whenever that would be.

But then it was as if her heart had shattered into a million pieces, looking down at him now, she realized that seeing him like this made her insides melt. Even as he spoke, something seemed to stir inside her, so he had missed her as well. That on its own was reassuring news to her, he hadn't forgotten her at all. Now it was all crystal clear to her just what she had been feeling besides all the emptiness that slowly and surely followed her during her time alone.

As if on cue, she too soon allowed herself to drop to her knees in front of him. Taking his hands in her own and gazing into his tearful eyes, Kali still managed to offer a warm smile, despite that she as well was trying to fight back her own oncoming tears, with very little success.

"I... forgive you..." she murmured quietly as she closed her eyes and leaned in close to the point where their foreheads were touching. "I kept telling myself that... that you hadn't forgotten... I knew you didn't... I'm glad... that you're here... That I can see you again..." Everything was just pouring out now, she had no reason to hold any of it back any longer, it had found its way out already. Affection, was it ? Yes, by now she could call it that, she was absolutely certain of it. The complete opposite of resentment.

Shelter (Kali And Rowan)

Rowan was glad to hear that she wasn’t hurt. A small smile appeared on his lips. Though, this place still made him uneasy, he was a little more relaxed knowing that. He wouldn’t want anyone hurt while he was around. If he could help it of course. The young hybrid’s head gave a slight tilt and soon nodded afterward. “I ca-can ge-get across.” He said, in case she didn’t see his nodding. It wasn’t that bright in this place. Of course, he could see perfectly fine, but he knew normal people couldn’t.

Rowan slowly disappeared in a cloud of black specks. Piece after piece getting smaller before eventually disappearing and reappearing next to her, all put back together. Now that he had been closer, he noticed she looked rather pale, with wounds that never seemed to heal. His brow furrowed from both confusion and worry. Hadn’t she said just a moment ago that she was okay? He wasn’t sure whether it were alright to ask about that or not. Despite the obvious, she appeared to be fine. Maybe he should just remain quiet. If she asked or said something about it, then he might question.

#askrookierowan #Yeee RL can toss stuff at ya a lot xD

Kali squinted her eyes in an attempt to get a better look at her guest, she was truly curious as to how he would go about getting to her side. Did he have some sort of special object that could pull him across ? Or was it something else entirely... Either way, he had her full interest and attention. Nothing seemed to happen for a few moments, which led her to believe that he wasn't honest when he confirmed that he could cross over.

At least, that was until he seemed to appear directly beside her out of nowhere. That was unexpected. "O-oh... ! How... how ever did you do that ?" She gasped silently, a look of pure awe on her pallid face. Now that she got a better look at him, she noticed that he certainly looked... different from the humans she'd seen wander in before, but shrugged it off. He was from the outside world, after all, right ? And she knew nothing of that place. Well, where else was there, really. It took longer than it should have for her to notice the look he was giving her, and more specifically, just her face in general. Why ? Was there something on it ? "My face... is there... something wrong with it that... makes you look at it that way... ?" She asked in a quiet voice, raising an eyebrow questioningly.

Ｒｅｓｏｎａｎｃｅ | Kali & Dark Link

How long had it been? He honestly couldn’t remember. Time was a trivial thing to him, though even so… it felt like too long. Even he knew this…

He’d withdrawn himself away from everything… everyone. An emotional rut he’d cast himself into that seemed to last forever, though somehow, he’d managed to pull himself back out. A good thing, most would say, though he was finding it hard to keep from ending up right back where he was: Alone… unmotivated… false feelings of betrayal… the list went on. The only way he could think of to remedy this was to escape the confinements of his house and venture elsewhere for the time being… and the first place he thought of was a place he hadn’t visited in quite a while.

Part of it was because of how he’d been feeling, though the other part was for a completely different reason. How could he bring himself to go back there after he’d broken his promise to the one thing that mattered there?

I hurt her…

There was no denying it; she’d probably forgotten him, and if she hadn’t, she more than likely possessed more than enough hatred for him. She had every reason to, after all; he’d promise to always be by her side, but instead, did the complete opposite. What made it worse was that he knew she was confined there and could not chase after him, not that she knew where he lived to begin with…

These thoughts plagued him as he entered the temple, hat pulled over his eyes slightly to mask his emotions, something he’d grown quite well at doing.

Straight ahead… through this door… turn…

… she’s not there. Honestly, he hadn’t expected her to be, but perhaps her already being easy to find would make things a little easier.

Oh, who was he kidding?

Lingering for just a bit longer, he clasped the side of his tunic tightly before turning around.

Maybe this was a bad idea… I should leave.

A face of lost emotions, he headed back towards the way he’d entered from, no haste or rush in his step. He was just about to turn the corner when he heard a voice so soft and quiet, if the temple weren’t already desolate, he’d probably have failed to hear it.

"Where have you been…?"

A gut-wrenching feeling… but he had to face it. He had to… he… he couldn’t. All he could do was pull his hat further over his face again and turn slightly to look at her out of the corner of his eye. His mouth opened to speak, though no words came from it.

"…"

#darklink-to-the-past #Welp I think I managed to make her sound somewhat crazy ^^'

Upon being met by that silence, that oh so familiar silence she had long grown accustomed to living inside the house of the dead, her first instinct wasn't to turn around, face the one she'd been waiting on for countless hours-- Hours ? Days. Days, weeks ? No, that was silly to think about. It didn't matter how long it had been, she'd never truly know anyways, so why bother dwelling on it. Why bother thinking about it in the first place. It had come to the point now where anyone could've just wandered in and she'd believe it was him, and though she had been wrong times before, there was nothing stopping that shred of hope that remained. She turned her head slightly, watching the long graying arms to her right swaying-- if you could even call their occasional twitching that, back and forth. She had to say something, anything, but what was there to say ? Although he may have broken his promise, abandoned her, she could never truly resent him for it even if she tried. If she felt anything at all, it was the complete opposite, confusing as it was. She'd thought about it in solitude, thought about him. If she were to turn now, get a glimpse of his face for the first time in so long, surely she'd end up throwing herself into his arms. Which is what she wanted to do. Yet she held herself back when she finally did turn to face him. Without uttering so much as a single word, Kali strode towards him, stumbling once, twice, before finally stopping. Behind her, the infinite hands receded back into the ground. She wouldn't need them, no, not now, especially not now. So just how long has it been, my dearest Dark Link ? Was what she felt like saying, but not in a harsh tone. Instead, she simply began circling around him, trying to keep her balance as best she could while doing so. In truth, there was so much she wanted to say, but it was all a matter of timing, take things slow, she'd told herself. Speak. Say something before it's too late. Something subtle, anything at all... "... I... missed... you..." she finally managed to choke out in an awfully hollow sounding voice. Well, it was something she meant sincerely, even if it wasn't what she had in mind. So much for being subtle.

Shelter (Kali And Rowan)

Once she came into view, he noticed the strange features about her. Of course, looks never mattered to him, she just seemed strange. He had seem many strange creatures and people along his travel. This wasn’t entirely new. Though, meeting new someones or somethings always made an excitement rise in his gut. He smiled and gave her a light wave before noticing she was walking forward into the trench before them. His eyes grew wide and he held out his hands as if it were going to stop her.

"Wa-Wait s-stop you’ll-" He stopped in mid sentence when her foot meet with the empty space instead of meeting ground.

Rowan’s mind panicked. She was falling and he had no magic or item that would help. Perhaps twiliporting….

Twiliporting! Yes! That would most likely do the trick. Just before he could disappear in black sections of twili dust. He saw hands shoot up and catch her just before she fell in. As it sat her back upon the edge. He let out a slow sigh of relief. Thankful for whoever else might be in here. “U-um.. A-are y-you alright? D-did you ge-get hu-hurt an-anywhere?” He asked, concerned about the girl’s well being..

#askrookierowan #OH MY GOD I'M SORRY THAT I TOOK DAYS TO DO THIS #POKEMON X AND Y KIND OF HAPPENED AND MY OTHER BLOG GOT IN THE WAY TOO ;A;

Sometimes Kali had to consider herself lucky that she had those hands of hers ready at will, whenever she needed them. Now was one of those times, and so far, the most dire circumstance that had occurred to her. Yeah, she was completely used to her dark and musty home by now. That trench was there and she knew it, or at least she should have been watching where she was putting her feet to. Idiot ! Idiot, idiot, idiot ! You just had to make that mistake, you had to ! Somehow even in the aftershock she'd managed to beat herself up over her silly miscalculation in the distance between what was solid ground and nothing.

Of course, once she noticed that her guest wasn't eyeing her weirdly, because of the sudden appearance of her infinite hands out of nowhere, she began to relax a little. If he wasn't terror-stricken, then he meant no harm, right ? From what she'd noticed, there was almost always horrified expressions on the faces of those who came for ill reasons, or so she thought. Humans, for the most part, made their intentions so clear, you could tell just by looking at them, but not always.

"I'm... I'm fine... You don't need to concern yourself with that simple mishap. T'was my fault for not watching where I tread." She shook her head and smiled faintly in return, "can you make it over here ?" She wondered aloud, glancing at the gap between them. "I've... never actually figured out... how people get across that... and inside the temple..."

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Ocarina of Time: The Shadow Temple

Ｒｅｓｏｎａｎｃｅ | Kali & Dark Link

Just how long had she been asleep for. It wasn't exactly a common occurrence for Kali to doze off like that, laying sprawled out and as comfortable as she could ever hope to get on her skull pile. Nothing too out of the ordinary there. At least, for her definition of ordinary. Well, she was awake now. No point in sitting around in there any longer. After tumbling off her skull collection and forcing herself to get up with great difficulty, Kali found herself wandering out to her favorite area of the dark temple she called her home. Wasn't really anywhere else she wanted to go, or where she could go for that matter. By far, it was the more open rooms in there. Wasn't much to it though, just a large raven statue circled by many unlit skull-topped torches (most of the skulls were just mere illusions that she could just barely make out to be fake, nothing exciting there). The only thing that was even mildly interesting at all anymore was what was supposedly beyond the large crevice across the way. She often looked out over it, wondering what else could possibly be out there, past the familiar places she'd already grown fond of and used to. She didn't need to concern herself with that, though. Anything past her own domain was irrelevant to her anyways. Speaking of her own domain... Things were oddly... quiet. Not like the Shadow Temple was very lively to begin with, just her and a few ReDeads here and there. Their constant moaning often kept her company, and just their presence in general was lacking. But enough about the undead, there was something-- someone else who's absence had been troubling her. By all means, she was used to being alone by now, how could she not be after all this time. Even so, her thoughts were ceaseless on the matter. So of course, at the first sound of footsteps approaching her from behind and shattering the silence, she was quick to react in her usual manner. Six pale arms shot up from the ground around her-- a necessary precaution in the event that she was mistaken. Then, she spoke, her voice barely audible and echoing through the darkness. "Where have you been... ?"

#darklink-to-the-past #HHHHH I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE IT THIS DAMN LONG ;-;#I HOPE THIS IS OKAY #Oh and you don't gotta worry about making anything as long as this I just got carried away ^^'

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ReDead by John Willis

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Link’s Foes

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Ikanian redead dancers by ~Carb0nell

#Headcanons wrote #Bio revisited #Art finished #OPEN FOR BUSINESS AGAIN~

( Wow, it's been such a long time since I set foot on this blog. ;w; This really should have been said ages ago, but I didn't think I'd end up losing my muse and just... outright disappearing like that. I figured I might as well pop in with a little tidbit of news; I'm making a not-so gallant return on here. Seriously, I've missed it here more than I thought I would. Life kind of decided to bitch slap me back in February though, so I kind of... died for a while I guess. But now here I am dragging my arse back. I knew I couldn't stay away forever. In the next few days I'll be giving Kali somewhat of a new makeover-- I say somewhat because there won't be much different from how I used to play her way back when. Still a half-zombie or whatever the hell you wanna call her. So with that, I'll get back to working on things for my-- I should really say our return. And again, I'm very very sorry for vanishing without a word. If anything should ever come up like that again, I'll actually say something instead of just dropping off the face of Tumblr. )

#Figured I might as well pop in and make my return official #Really looking forward to it c:#ooc

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Shelter (Kali And Rowan)

Rowan looked around for the source of the voice. He wasn’t quite sure if he should go ahead. It wasn’t that he was frightened of the voice or it’s owner. Though, he would admit to being scared. It was that he was always very nervous around someone new. Regardless of who they were. He would have moved forward if he knew where she had been. Farther in the cave could have sections splitting off from each other. Not that he would have gotten lost, It was the fact that he might not find the new person. He took a deep breath.

“I-It i-isn’t tha-that I’m a-afraid. It’s th-that I’m n-not q-quite s-sure wh-where you are.” He said truthfully.

With that said, Rowan began to move forward. He stepped carefully until he saw a few passages before him. Some, supposedly hidden to the naked eye. Rowan, being a twili, could see passed the deception and only see it as a new opening. He continued to walk forward until he spotted, what he was sure was, the voice he heard moments ago. “U..Um… He..Hello?” He asked.