thank you for the tag! 💖💖💖here are mine! this is not definitive as I am HIGHLY indecisive, but I've slapped something together anyway that I will probably second guess five minutes after posting and say "agh, I should've included this other one instead!" but it's fine!
Warm Milk and the End of the World - Majora's Mask. I wrote this for Homemade in Hyrule vol. 2, a LOZ series cookbook zine; the digital-only side zine, specifically, which had fics centered around food in the series. As you might guess from the title, it's from the perspective of Cremia as she struggles to keep things together for Romani's sake, on what she thinks will be the last night of their lives (and all of Termina). I'm just really happy with how this one came out, the emotions I hit in it, and I think it might be my favorite zine piece of all the ones I've done so far.
The Legend of Zelda: The Ghosts of Yesterday - Original Legend, taking place in a Hyrule I created by cobbling together pieces of all the others. I wanted to explore what it would really look like if the reincarnation theory and Demise's Curse were real things that affected the world, and how messed up it could potentially be for everyone involved (aka, the entire world, really), and what things would look like if that cycle got broken if the chief players got tired of it playing out. I love stories that take place well after apocalyptic events, like Wind Waker and Adventure Time, and stories about breaking cycles that aren't healthy for the world, so I wanted to delve deep into that and a ton of other ideas and concepts floating around in my head. I've only posted a few chapters so far, but I'm REALLY enjoying this one.
Song of a Champion - Breath of the Wild. My half a million word long retelling of BOTW, with Mipha as the protagonist instead of Link. It was based on the Mipha's Grace mod that lets you play as her--seeing some of it streamed in Discord lit a spark in me, and it took me two years to see the story through to completion. Remains one of my proudest achievements.
Winter's Moon - Breath of the Wild/Age of Calamity, other assorted LOZ games. It's older than my other entries on this list, but I still love it and look back fondly on writing it. It's an amalgamation of various characters and places from the series, put together for the purpose of retelling East of the Sun and West of the Moon in a more modernized (but still fantasy!) setting. I had so much fun writing it, and it'll always be super special to me (especially because it started my addiction to writing Mipha as a protagonist going on adventures).
Hallowed Evening - BOTW/AOC. It was between this and a couple other entries I did for Miphlink Week 2022, a year in which I was apparently ON FIRE creatively for that ship. Anyway, this one was a retelling of Tam Lin, a very very formative and influential folktale/ballad. I think reading it at a young age was part of what got me so deeply enamored of narratives where the heroine saves the hero, instead of the much more common one of heroes saving damsels in distress. Only makes sense that I would eventually find a way to do a Miphlink version!
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