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Welcome to the Yiga Link AU blog.

This is a fanfiction AND roleplay blog.

I'm roleplaying Breath of the Wild/Age of Calamity Link in this AU that YOU are part of.

You may RP as OCs or different canon characters throughout this fanfiction we will be building together.

You can ask me questions using the ask box, or join in on the fun through reblogs.

I have a direction I want to go with this fanfiction roleplay AU.

Big pivotal movements of this AU will be written as a "Chapter" or "Scenario" while more minor parts are left out so that whatever we roleplay together as a group is considered canon to this AU.

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Whenever anyone treats the Yiga Clan as mere sword-fodder for Link or as "idiot cultists" who are "brainwashed" or otherwise have no idea what they're fighting for and/or who are incapable of anything but murder and silly pratfall banana joke stupidity...

I think of the Yiga characters you can talk to in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and encounter in missions and read about in quest descriptions in Age of Calamity.

Like the fellow at the Blademaster station who is genuinely happy to have a new colleague and welcomes your visits. And the one who encourages you to train at the Hideout.

The Footsoldier who's nervous when there's two Blademasters in the room with him. The one who complains about tailors.

The Blademasters and Footsoldiers in AoC who compliment Master Kohga and Sooga's skills (and Kohga's handsomeness) in their training missions. The fact that both leaders “rush to the rescue" of some Yiga being attacked by a Molduga. And how a whole group sticks together to the bitter end in the "Yiga Clan's Retreat" story mission.

The guys who are inventing the Hoverdoom and the Gloomdredger--using Zonai tech (without a Zonai arm) and Yiga magic and engineering. The ones in the Depths trying out new Zonai device combos for traps and vehicles. How they seem to really enjoy this kind of work and just zip around on their little contraptions. But also the ones down there who complain about it being too hot or too annoyingly full of monsters.

The Footsoldier at the Hideout who just really loves big huge spikes and calls them his babies ( @firefly-factory has an OC of him!). The one who "dreams of studying ancient tech," who is overjoyed when Kohga gives him an "oldfangled doodad" to mess with. The one who donates some ancient tech to the Sheikah scientists from the Yiga's stash, creating an "unlikely bond" between Sheikah and Yiga tech researchers (I hc that these two quests involve the same guy, and I have an OC of him!).

There's the Yiga who are working on supplying the others on Depths trips and writing the notes you find in the scattered bases. Those notes that clearly show the coordination and thought that has gone and will go into their continuing mission--which the Blademasters and Footsoldiers are aware of. They share their thoughts about the strange world of the Depths and speak of Master Kohga's goals and the Magnificent One etc. They know what's going on.

The disguised Yiga you run into on paths who talk fortune-telling and poetic metaphors about blood. The ones who attack Link expressly "for their fallen kin."

The Yiga who attend a disguise seminar and all start transforming themselves into Master Kohga. The fact that morale improves in the Clan after they see their Master working hard to perfect a powerful technique. The folks who hold secret meetings on how they can help Sooga with his many duties.

The Yiga who try to buy--not steal--all of the kingdom's mighty bananas but then are "moved" to stop hoarding them after a "small boy who loves bananas" and can't find them in shops anymore steals some from their camp. How the flavor text of these quests say the Yiga who did all that banana-buying want to start a new garden once the Clan is back on its feet.

I think about all these Yiga Clan characters who exist in canon. And I just. Wonder.

Why they aren't seen as people.

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Chapter 3/Scenario 3

I fell back to my memories.

I looked up at the masked figure before me. "Hmmmm. You don't seem so tough"

I stomped on his foot as hard as my 8 year old body could.

"YOUCH! What's wrong with you?! I thought you wanted to join the clan for crying out loud, not hurt the top banana!"

I just replied, "That's for killing my dad."

Master Khoga sighed, "Kid, you're dad and the royal family kinda screwed you over by being there. Isn't that like..." He scratched the back of his head and paced back and forth, trying to think of a good analogy. "Like if a bossy monkey was eating a bundle of bananas and gave its bodyguard who was also a monkey only one banana, but the bodyguard monkey had a kid monkey who only got the brown part of the single banana!"

"What?" I asked gobsmacked. Even at this age I could tell this was a bad analogy.

"YEAH!" Khoga continued like I understood. "And we come along and try to give the baby monkey and the bodyguard monkey all the bananas by killing the bossy monkey. But the bodyguard monkey starts attacking us. What are we supposed to do? Let it kill us to death?"

I thought about this for a minute. "I guess protect yourself?"

"Exactly, baby monkey- I mean, whatever your name was. But we'd need to kill it before it kills us. And now we take care of the baby monkey and share and equal portion of bananas!"

I looked down and replied "but dad said-"

Khoga grabbed my shoulders and shook me. "Listen kid! You're a warrior in your own right from what Mitsuki told me. I want you to show me what ya got! You could be a big asset to the Yiga Clan. Nowhere close to me, though. But, you could make a fine footsoldier. Maybe even a blademaster."

I took a deep breath before releasing it with a nod nodded. That day forward I was trained and taught by different members of the clan as if I was one of the kids born into the Yiga Clan.

~~~

I walked out to the chamber room of the hideout with a banana in hand. I peeled it, lifted my mask enough for just my mouth to show, and took a bite. As I overlooked the circle of torches around the room. It looked like yet another boring of guarding a hideout that would never be found by the Gerudo.

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Right, rules of the blog. Honestly forgot you had to do that for roleplays and also some more general info

No NSFW.

Transphobia, racism, ablism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, pluralphobia, etc. are NOT allowed. If you have those beliefs fuck right off

I'm playing Link 100% of the time. I may introduce OCs and such in which you can take to roleplay. I don't mind that. I actually encourage that.

When I write my fanfic pary of the RPs, I'll also write "a yiga member" as I want you to try to envision it's your OC. I will never say its your OC unless you specifically give the okay (message me and tell me it's okay to put your oc in my fanfic)

This is an AU focused blog that spans from 16 year old Link (about a year before pulling the master sword) to (1)18 year old Link.

Play as any canon or noncanon character you want! My fanfic might be stuck on one part, but I'll RP during any time period you want.

Please send asks! They help build the lore.

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Chapter 2.5/Scenario 2.5

"Hey, wake up." a voice says.

I blink awake and wipe the sleep from my eyes taking note of the futon exchange that happens every 6 hours.

"Have a good sleep, comrade." I say standing up. "Glory to Master Kohga."

"Glory to Master Kohga!" the Yiga responds taking off his mask.

I stretch and yawn while walking over to the changing room to get out of the sleeping clothes and into my armor. As I get to zipping up my head piece, I take all my hair and pull it into a ponytail. After zipping up my head piece and before putting on my mask, I notice black streaks on my hand.

"Damnit." I mutter to myself. "Looks like I'll have to redye my hair soon."

I place my mask onto my face and sigh. I walk out to wander the rest of the Yiga Hideout. First heading over to one of the 3 supply rooms all while I think about my memory I had dreamed about of what had happened 8 years ago...

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Chapter 2/Scenario 2

"What do we do with the kid?" one Yiga member asks not only 30 seconds after I watched Arn- my father- and the Queen of Hyrule die right in front of me.

"We should kill him too." another Yiga member chimes in.

"No." the Yiga woman holding me still says, almost sadly.

"He's the son of a Royal Guard. You saw already how dangerous he is, Mitsuki!" the first one argues.

"Yeah! Look he's still biting you and thrashing!" the second points out.

Despite my best efforts, I could not get through the armor Mitsuki was wearing.

"Well he's just a boy! We should bring him back to the hideout. See what Master Khoga says! We could train him." Mitsuki says calmly, paying no mind to my attacks.

"Oh surrrrre and then he'll kill us because I don't know if you have dementia, but he just watched us kill his dad."

"Gordon, we need to have him understand. He WILL understand it's for the greater good. Lord Ganon will spare him. He'll then know he wouldn't have ever stood a chance if he was on the wrong side of the war."

I stop thrashing, my voice gives out, my eyes still full of tears, and my body dripping sweat from the heat. I blink slowly until I faint from a heat stroke.

~~~

A few hours later I wake up to see a woman with purplish black hair in a Yiga suit smiling a warm smile at me through thick wooden bars of a jail cell. Her eyes matched the color of her hair and there was but a sadness to those eyes.

"Good morning, Link, that's your name, right? I'm Mitsuki. I held you down earlier. I'm so-" before she could finish I jump up and run at her and stick my hand out of the jail, trying to grab her.

"Let me out! I'll- I'll fight you! I can- I can kill you! Like how you-" I started coughing hard. My throat's dry from all the yelling and crying earlier.

"Hey hey hey." Mitsuki says caringly handing me a bottle of water. "Drink. Stay quiet. You're dehydrated. You went through a lot today. I don't know when your dad and the queen last gave you something to clench your thirst."

I grab the bottle and think about how I could throw it at her head. If I did it hard enough, the glass might break and kill her instantly. But I could feel my throat drying up as I considered this, so I just pop open the bottle top and start chugging.

Mitsuki takes a sigh of relief and hands over a banana she just peeled. "This too."

I yank it from her and start eating. With every bite I tear up more and more until I burst into a full on cry.

Mitsuki sits against the cell bars and passes another bottle of water through the bars. "I know, Link, I know. I'm so sorry. If I had known they'd kill your dad, I would've stopped them. We only wanted the queen dead, he had nothing to do with it. Neither did you."

"Why did you kill my dad?" I beg for an answer despite knowing she has none to offer me, a grieving 8 year old kid.

Mitsuki looks up at the ceiling and listens to my pleas. "I had a son like you once... He died which is why I joined this clan."

I freeze. My head turns to face her voice.

"As one of the Hylian Royal Family's maids, you'd think we'd get good treatment. But, my son fell ill and died. I couldn't be there in his final moments since the royal family wanted their castle halls to be clean. They had plenty of maids, but decided they couldn't spare one. So, I joined this clan." Mitsuki turns her head to face me. "Your dad, me, you, my son, we're just pawns to the royal family. We can dedicate our life to them, give up our lives for them, but they will never do the same in return. That's why, when Lord Ganon returns, he'll pass judgement to the Royal Family."

The cogs in my head spin and click. I don't fully get it, but I understand that she and I both lost someone.

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Chapter 1/Scenario 1

A knight, a boy, and a queen run through the Gerudo Desert, their feet picking up sand, the knight's armor slows him down slightly. He heeds no mind to it and is more focused on the queen he protects in front of him and the 8 year old boy's hand he's gripping and dragging behind him.

The knight sweats both out of nerves and from the heat. The queen trips over herself.

"You're highness!" Royal Guard Arn shouts. He hears maniacal laughter from all around them and grits his teeth. "DAMN YIGA BASTARDS! Come face a worthy foe!"

In a puff of smoke from the puffshrooms of the depths 12 Yiga soldiers appear in a circle around them as if coming from thin air.

The knight lets go of the young boy's hand and draws his royal broadsword from its sheath. The Yiga laugh and draw their weapons, 3 with bows, 3 with katanas, 3 with sickles, and the remaining 3 with demon carvers.

"Are ya sure this is how you want to die? With your son watching? We're only here for the queen! Turn away and you get to go home with your kid. Goddesses know why you brought him along."

I, the young boy, turn and make note that each of them standing about 2 meters apart. in this circle. People could run out if they were fast enough. I furrow my brows at one of the masked, red ninjas.

"My serve the royal family with our lives. Something you would know nothing about you traitors!" Arn says firmly while eying the fallen queen and glancing over at me.

I give a small nod and bend my knees until my hand touches the sand dune which I grab two handfuls of sand.

The queen of Hyrule gets to her feet and cautiously raises her hand.

"Link, now!" Arn commands.

I throw the sand up into the air, trying to make a sort of cloud of dust. The queen clenches her fist returning the sand to the the air the moment the sand touches the ground. Arn rushes 2 of the 12 Yiga members and performs a spin attack, ripping apart their weak armor and exposing the skin.

It is then hell breaks loose. A Yiga member jumps on top of me and holds me down as I yell and kick.

The Yiga members with close range weapons attack Arn. The 3 archers take their chance and fire arrows at the queen who throws up her hands, having all the arrows stop mere centimeters away from her and they drop to the ground.

Arn fights back 8 against 1 and his eyes darting between all the Yiga members, but unable to keep up with their speed and cunning tricks.

I bite the Yiga's arm that holds me down, only tasting the rubbery, thin leather that is their armor.

"Hey, kid, stop thrashing! I don't want to hurt you!" the Yiga member desperately says, her voice seeming in her mid thirties trying to hold me still.

The queen holds out her hand as a light starts gathering in a ball around her palm.

"Shit! She's about to blast!" One of the archers says before using a spell to teleport away.

The other two archers were not so lucky to get out in time. The ball of light becomes a beam and obliterates the last 2 archers.

Then unexpectedly, another Yiga member, one with a sickle fighting Arn teleports and places their sickle up against the queens neck. She gasps. Arn freezes and I stop fighting the Yiga woman holding me down.

"May your daughter never learn the secrets to unlocking the power your bloodline holds!" The Yiga shouts as he slits her throat open.

Arn starts to try to get over to help the queen of Hyrule when the other 7 jump him all at once. My eyes widen in horror when the last remaining Yiga with the bow finally reappears after the teleporting spell 3 meters above Arn with bow drawn and fires straight down at his face while the others hold him down.

My eyes water, and I scream the last word Arn ever hears, "DAD!"

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