AU where the Hyrule and Legend meet first before the rest of the chain.
The portal dumps Hyrule right in the middle of the ocean. Even if he could swim it would be futile as there’s no land for many miles. As he starts to drown he sees a flash of shimmering scales. He loses and regains consciousness over and over again over a course of time that he can’t count. Each time he wakes sees pretty pink scales, pink hair, gills, and violet eyes. Sometimes he even hears the comforting few notes of a song.
When he finally comes to it’s tucked safely under a cluster of palm trees on the shore of an unfamiliar beach in an even more unfamiliar, but familiar, Hyrule. He has to wonder if the goddess really does love him or if he really was rescued by a mermaid.
Legend had never intended to leave the unfortunate Hylian behind. He left him in a safe spot on the shore before looking for a nearby village that could give better medical attention than he could. He never would have expected an avalanche to descend out of nowhere. It’s not even rainy season. Before he can run or activate a shield he’s struck across the head and knows no more.
He gains consciousness a few times and each he sees the shining form of a green fairy, a color of fairy he’s never seen before. Each time he wakes he hears soft chiming and feels the warmth of fairy magic in his blood. When he finally comes to he’s nestled safely in the roots of a great old tree. He wonders if the green fairy was real or if one of his rings just activated.
Legend and Hyrule both travel for a day aching and tired. Each of them are determined to find the unfortunate soul they had to momentarily leave alone. They run into each other on the road and recognize one another immediately. Do they mention their acts of kindness or blatant recognition? NO.
Maybe one day in the future they mention being saved by a mermaid/odd green fairy. Do they piece together each other’s stories? Maybe…
REFURBISHING AND polishing my 2 adventures AU
If you don’t want to read my last post, (which is fair bc it was mostly rambling), the gist of it is that the LU crew goes on two adventures. The first one occurs while most of the chain is quite young and then years after that adventure ends they all come back together again grown. This applies to everybody BUT Warriors.
For the first adventure most the heroes are really young. Time has just finished the events of Majora’s Mask. Wind has just finished Wind Waker. Four, he’s not even Four yet, just went thru Minish Cap. These three are all around age 11-12.
Hyrule is 13, having been living by himself for a year now after completing the events of Zelda 1. Legend is 16 and has only been home for few months after the events of Link’s Awakening.
Sky and Twilight are both 17, having just finished their respective journeys.
WILD, I owe this completely to the suggestion of @durudurururu, is 16 and has recently been knighted and is starting his fight against the calamity. He has not been through the events of BotW yet.
And Warriors. . . Warriors is a 23 year old, recently appointed captain, who is in the early stages of the war of eras. He has so far not met Mask or Tune yet in his war.
I think the funniest way this would go is that Wars along with Sky, Twilight, Wild, and Legend are pulled together in quick succession and are told somehow by the goddess that there’s a great threat that requires many of her heroes to vanquish.
Wars thinks this will be fine. He isn’t shocked that this is happening, his own era is going through something similar, and working with some teens isn’t bad. He’s already used to leading young knights back home.
Shit hits the fan immediately 😭
Warriors tries to take charge, assuming a leadership position quickly. Sky and Wild are quick to follow him, already quite used to following captains back home, but Legend and Twilight…
Legend, freshly traumatized, has decided that he already hates Warriors and does his best to refute everything he says and generally makes things 100 times more difficult. Legend often tries to do his own thing which pisses of Wars to no end. Wild and Legend develop SEVERE beef right away after Legend’s declaration that “knights ain’t shit.” Sky tried to play mediator until Legend declares that “Hylia is a stank-ass ho” as to which Sky is like: >:(
Wars hopes that Twilight will be reasonable. He tries to tell Twilight to do something he doesn’t want to do one day and his response is to spit in the ground, “not the city slicker telling me what to do.” And struts away.
Wars prays, PRAYS., for the day this adventure is over. His teenage comrades get into more fights with each other than they do with the black blooded monsters they should be. Their hygiene is almost dangerously bad. They REEK. Wars prays for the day he doesn’t get awoken by a petty argument. Three times this week dinner has been interrupted by a PHYSICAL altercation between from two to ALL of the boys.
When Sky says the goddess told him more heroes will be joining them, Wars prays that they will be older and wiser. When he’s met with a gang of child soldiers he decides that Hylia must be dead and gone because this has to be the work of demise.
Two of them are non verbal. The masked one makes some attempt to sign, but the young, skittish teenager makes absolutely 0 effort to even try or even indicate that he’s listening to Wars. Wars is convinced that both of are feral. Were they raised in the woods?? In a cave?
One is a self proclaimed pirate. Wars is ashamed in the others that the person who tries hardest to actually listen to him is the 12 year old actual criminal who starts struggling with alcohol withdrawal a week into the journey.
Baby Four is basically the version of himself at the beginning of the 4 sword manga. A huge ego as he’s a budding knight. He listens to Wars less than Legend does.
Miraculously they manage to survive, not even the journey but each other. Things got a little easier.
Legend takes responsibility for Hyrule after the chain discovers he’s not in fact non-verbal BUT Hylian is not his native language. He speaks Calatian and Legend the resident polyglot takes to teaching him Hylian.
Wars is shocked when Wild and Twilight become buddies. He has no clue when that happened. Wild is unsettlingly quiet and too well behaved at the best of times while Wars has to bribe Twilight to bathe sometimes.
Four looks up to Sky after he learns that he’s a god slayer and starts listening to him in proxy of Wars.
Wars finds himself with two shadows, Time and Wind.
Their mission comes to a close and Wars finds that he’s dearly going to miss all of his little brothers despite the stress they put him through. He’s prematurely greying now.
He returns to his own war, reunited with Time and Wind, each a smidge older. After two more years, the war is over and Wars once more says goodbye. The day after the war is declared over, Wars is pulled back by the goddess into a journey across time once again. Apparently there’s some unfinished business from last time.
Wars is SO stressed. He’s not at all ready to go back to being the single father/Fiona Gallagher to 8 traumatized children again. He barely, BARELY, survived last time.
Somehow what he finds is much worse 😭
All of Wars’ journey including the one he went on with the chain, occurred over 3 years for him. He’s now 25. So why… WHY is everyone else so much older????
Baby Mask and the Minish hero are so much older. Time must be pushing 40 and Four is easily 5 years older than Wars.
Twilight, Sky, and Legend are all in their mid to late 20s. Twilight is courting a nice young woman, Legend is engaged, and Sky is MARRIED. With kids.
Wild, what happened to that guy???, is nothing like the quiet, unsettling, lad he was before. He’s in his early 20s and well. More Wild than ever. He also doesn’t remember or barely recalls anybody.
Hyrule, shy, skittish, feral, Hyrule is also now in his early 20s and is almost outgoing. He speaks clearly and magic unlike anything Wars has ever felt before seems to come from his very being.
Wind is finally of legal drinking age and is shockingly similar to before except now he claims to be able to see dead people.
The first thing everyone does is treat Warriors to a drink while he processes.
Okay I’m having big thoughts after finishing Skyward sword and they’re mostly about the shipping (I know I’m disappointing myself rn 😭)… and it’s NAMELY… Groozelink. But we’ll get there. First. Analysis. (This is also gonna swing back around to LU, not yet but we’ll get there! In case anyone is confused over the Sun and Sky naming convention)
Skyward Sword is the first Zelda game I’ve played to actually make me kind of ship Zelink. I’m not a hater, cross my heart, but like, most times I just really really don’t ship Zelink. Either canon isn’t enough for me or just.. idk, it doesn’t appeal to me. Most Zelink ships just don’t do it for me.
But Skyward Sword… from the beginning they were basically an established relationship which somehow didn’t annoy me. I thought they were kind of cute, like first love teens. Sun sticks up for Sky. Nice. Cute. No flaws or annoyances.
But then… DRAMA happens and it feeds my soul. I was pretty content in the first acts embarking on this quest for Sky’s kinda girlfriend. She endeared herself to me enough for my heart to be in it. And then you actually see her a few times and she’s got her own quest going on and it’s like cool… how do I fit into this? There’s something bigger than the two of them going on now. (I also just really like how they showed that she had a lot going on. It’s nice to see her have autonomy)
BUT THEN… 👀👀👀 Sun awakens her identity as Hylia and full on admits that she was using Sky’s affection for her to embark him on this quest which raises a lot of questions. Like:
Is Sun’s affections real or were they fabricated by the Goddess? How much of this was Sun and how much of this was Hylia?
I don’t doubt that Sun does have affection for Sky but if it were me, I would be HAUNTED. If I were Sky I’d be replaying that conversation through my head again and again. Especially in the post credit scene where she starts talking about how she wants to stay and protect the triforce… like… is that YOU or HYLIA??? And then she asks Sky what he’s going to do and it’s like… does he even have a choice? This whole game was kind of leading to the fact that this is what he was made for. It’s his fate. Of COURSE he’s going to stay with her. But what I want to know is does he ever think about that??? Does he ever wonder if Sun loves him back?
And if I were Sun I would feel guilty, and holy shit she’s literally cursed, in my opinion, of all the memories and knowledge of the Goddess she once worshiped. And if she does like Sky I bet she would wonder if those are her true feelings or if they’re just convenient to keep everything in line. Or maybe she’s scared of hurting him again. One part of her dragged him purposefully into an extremely dangerous quest and now she’s pulling him into even more serious responsibilities… (if I were to character analyze ss!Link I really feel like he’s the type to be really content with letting others take the reins for stuff like this. His quest was really out of necessity. In my eyes)
From here on it’s my own kind of really dramatic fanfic-esque take on everything so if you’re not down me way over thinking and reading into things this might not be for you
Because Groose… 😭 I’ve been aware of Groose as concept and the Groozelink ship for a while now but I always thought of it as a crack ship until I played the game and… there’s a LOT more there than I ever expected there to be. why TF was he there for like most of the key moments??? Why did they become a trio??? Why were they exchanging GLANCES in those cutscenes????
But anyways, I think they’d get married really soon after getting to the surface. Kind of a shotgun wedding. They’re basically going to be the first monarchs of Hyrule (or at least I think that’s implied?) they’re at least going to probably be in positions of leadership building the kingdom of Hyrule. Getting married makes sense. They love each other. Right?… RIGHT?!?!? That has to be real!! Out of everything at least they still have each other????
I think Sun starts getting eaten up by guilt. She doesn’t know if Sky is happy. He’s a pillar of strength next to her but he’s changed… of course he is after what he went through but she knows that he’s upset. He’s having nightmares, he’s stressed. She thinks that maybe he’s feeling trapped… And maybe she’s what’s trapping him into this stressful lifestyle. That maybe there’s some mistrust.
I also think maybe she starts feeling discontent with being the goddess reincarnate. She’s still mortal, she doesn’t want to be perfect. It’s getting to her… so….
She turns her eyes on Groose. Groose who’s gotten so reliable. So kind. So… so FINE.
So maybe one night she leans in for the kiss and of course Groose is kind of horrified. He’s also confused because he loved her for so long but… she’s married!! To his best friend. But. He also knows that she’s been traumatized and traumatized people do weird things. So he turns her down, with surprising grace, and begs her to consider her husband. He decides he won’t tell Sky, because at the moment that feels like it would do more harm than good. He is worried about Sun’s mental health though… but before he can do anything about that…
Sky tries to pull the exact same thing 😭😭😭
so now poor Groose is trying to figure out what to do bc how do you tell a couple they’ve both tried to cheat on each other and how do you gently tell two traumatized people that maybe they need to pump the breaks on building an entire new country, relinquished care of the triforce for a little bit, and focus on actually healing from what happened to them???
But then Sky gets eaten by a portal and gets thrust into another quest but with 8 other Link’s just like him.
Sky eventually tells the chain that he’s married to the goddess incarnate. He’s kind of horrified in himself for making a pass at Groose, kind, reliable Groose…, so he goes full wife guy iykyk. So for months he’s like: *fists clenched* IlovemywifeIlovemywifeIlovemywife-
To where it’s like… part of his personality.
And then they finally do get to Sky’s era and… at first they’re just as lovey dovey as you’d expect from how Sky’s been talking… but then… maybe over dinner… (don’t ask me how this happens just let me write my shitty soap opera) Sky figures out that Sun made a pass at Groose. Maybe he finds a letter Groose was trying to draft or maybe Sun’s been trying to get the guy to stay over while Sky’s been gone…
And holy SHIT do they have the fight of the MILLENNIA. But it’s not just Sky going: “omg I can’t believe you tried to cheat on me” it’s “HE’S MINNNEEEEE!!!!” From both of them
And then there’s screaming, plate throwing, cussing. And then it’s just not about the attempted cheating but every single little thing they can nitpick. All of their dirty laundry out.
And the chain, who were trying to enjoy their nice dinner of pumpkin soup, are sitting in shocked silence the whole time just like: 😦😟🥲
Maybe a few of them are secretly relieve bc they’ve had some relationship issues BUT NOT LIKE THIS while others are scared this might be some sort of genetic Link curse.
The fight escalates when Sun pulls the harp off the wall. Sky treats her like she just picked up a loaded gun. Things look like they’re gonna get worse when they notice Groose standing in the doorway.
He’s so sad… he’s down trodden. He doesn’t want his best friends to fight like this… he’s going back to Skyloft for a while.
Sky and Sun promise each other to actually talk when Sky gets back home and when he does… they do. Because. They do love each other. They just hate feeling like pawns incapable of their own actions and fates…
And… they both really do like Groose. So they talk to him… apologize. And the rest… 😘 who knows lol.
They grow not only to love each other more authentically but respect each other in new ways too. They learn to live apart from each other but with each other as well… and. They do really love each other.
The end I’m tried I’m going to bed 😮💨 I hope somebody else had a similar thought process to me bc this game was genuinely kind of a mindfuck to me (but I loved it). But there’s SO much to unpack with Link in Zelda in Skyward Sword. Like, it had me going bonkers. If you liked this pls… pls talk to me. I NEED to talk about this with someone. This is a cry for help. Pls somebody talk to me about skyward sword it was insane
Edit: and omg what was going on with Zelda and Impa too??? Lowkey Good Luck Babe coded
If you are a bbh fan I hope you like this! It's basically a little over 3k of thinking about egg death and all that entails
That’s so embarrassing I forgot the link
I can’t explain it at all but q!Philza gives me crunchy mom energy, helicopter mom vibes (in a funny way I swear) looking on in horror as Tubbo feeds Sunny red dye 40
I just finished Minish Cap and I think it gives Four a kind of… uniquely angsty start to his adventure compared to the other child soldiers of the chain. (This is not saying his is more angsty, just uniquely so)
What I mean is that there’s kind of… the illusion of choice? (Maybe not the best way to describe what I mean) Like okay so: Wind didn't really have a choice, he had to rescue his sister. Who else would do that? His elderly grandmother? Legend didn’t have a choice either, if he didn’t go on his quest he would’ve been slain. Time had a chosen one thing going on. Then Hyrule… he was just given a sword and told to save the princess but like, he did it.
Four has a unique vibe to me compared to the rest of the chain because he was a very normal person. Or normal kid- let me explain 😭 a lot of members in the chain start as your average joe but a lot of them find out they’re special or they’re forced into the narrative. Four, however, is literally some kid who they tell to go to the picori for help and like- the whole time I was playing I was just like: I need an adult 😭
Like this is insane, I know there’s kind of one or two lines that kids can see picori but also there’s the whole thing with the gate to their world being open. They couldn’t’ve… like… sent an adult? In Minish cap there is just an abundance of capable adults around the entire time and they’re all riding your ass about saving Zelda and it’s like. I am 10 years old.
I think I just found this funny compared to every other Zelda game because it’s just like… Obviously Four would want to save his best friend but at the same time it’s just… they really chose the child out of any other candidate.
I just feel like maybe he’d have some bitterness after this quest like damn. These people kept seeing him come back into town. Injured. BEDRAGGLED. And all they have to say is hurry up??? 😭 I’d be PISSED.
I hope this makes sense. If I were Four this would keep me up at night.
I must admit, Four has a really edgy 2014 lab AU that I spent too much time thinking about. I did have fun though so here’s his backstory and a trigger warning for unethical human experimentation. I don’t think it’s anything more graphic than what would be in Soul Eater.
A small disclaimer: I’m going mostly off of what I remember from the manga for any sense of canon, I haven’t had the privilege of playing the game yet. 😔
I think I mentioned before, but each of Four’s colors are a different type of knife. Together they’re able form the four sword.
Green is a machete.
I decided on that for him because I think that machetes look really dangerous, showing up in a lot of horror media, and can cause a lot of harm, but that is not what they are meant for. Machetes are meant for clearing bush and foliage away to clear paths through forest or jungle. They can be used to obtain resources. A trailblazer or leader might use this knife. Green grew up with his father who was a captain in the royal guard. Green was being groomed as a weapon for the Princess Dot. Upon manifesting as a machete, a lot of people, especially Green’s own father, were disappointed and believed him to be a poor weapon for a princess looking crude and brutal. Together, Dot and Green proved the masses wrong, with them both proving themselves as leaders before fighters.
Vio is a throwing knife.
Vio is a child runaway. I can’t figure out what would be a good reason for him to run or what his family would be like, but I imagine he learned a dangerous secret. I also like to think that despite Vio being very smart, he can be unreasonable and is able to rationalize himself into making bad choices. He’s a throwing knife because it takes a lot of learning and skill to be able to wield a weapon such as that. It also takes something crazy to throw your weapon away from you and be able to rely on it to return. Vio can be recalled by his meister, but it has to be of his own accord. He can also control his flight to some degree. Up until the events I’ll describe in a minute, he had never been wielded before.
Blue is a trench knife.
In the background of the events during my story, there’s a war raging in the background that’s much more prevalent in Warrior’s story. This has caused a lot of children to be orphaned, Blue included. He grows up in a poorly funded orphanage and gets into a lot of fights growing up. I chose a trench knife for Blue because it is a very brutal weapon, something which I think he can be. It’s also a weapon that when you use, you know that you are aiming to really hurt your opponent and that you have to get really close to do so. There are also two main ways to use a trench knife, the blade, ofc, and the brass knuckles which I think kind of show how Blue thinks outside the box, especially in combat. It’s also a weapon that’s mean to be used when your back is against the wall.
Red is a Switchblade.
Red also grew up in an orphanage also due to the war. He and Blue grew up in the same place but weren’t close with each other. He definitely grew up more of a lover having a high level of empathy. Despite being picked on, maybe bullied a bit, Red is the type of person who never wants to hurt somebody else even in self defense. I chose the switchblade for Red because it kind of conceals its nature most of the time hiding in a sheath. A switchblade is a weapon that has to be used in close quarters, but unlike Blue’s trench knife, the opponent might not even recognize it as a weapon until it’s too late. Switchblades are spring loaded and fast, but by pressing a button, the user has a lot of choice before they use it. I think Red would be able to stop himself from being triggered in his weapon form if he tried hard enough.
All of the four were born in the same year, all being roughly the same age. (Yay this means I can choose their zodiacs!) When they were all 11, each of them were kidnapped in the same winter by a witch called Vaati. Vio was first, being a homeless child he was hungry enough to be lured in by the prospect of working for food and board. This later would be something he feels ashamed of thinking himself more clever than that. Next would be Red who thought he was helping an elderly woman carry her groceries home… into a dark alleyway. Blue would be next, probably just being classically kidnapped after he poked around somewhere shady. Green would be the last, going on a personal mission to investigate the rapid disappearance of kids from the city he lived in.
Vaati is a witch who is trying to make weaker weapons stronger in order to arm the army of the ancient evil (ganon) that he and many other witches are trying to revive. For his first experiment, he wants to fuse several small/young weapons into one big stronger one. He chose the four because they’re young enough to be malleable but old enough to actually be able to turn into their weapons. They also conveniently have a lot in common, age, gender, and weapon type which Vaati thinks will make it easier to fuse them.
Vaati begins a series of experiments that don’t really seem to make sense to the four. He’ll force them all to work together to complete puzzles only to rip them apart for the next few. Vio, who’s been there the longest, plays along well knowing what to expect. Green, who’s been training already for a long time, doesn't struggle too much with physical or mental challenges. Red and Blue however struggle a lot causing Vaati to use crueler and crueler experiments to get them to obey.
Vaati’s struggle with Red and Blue resides in that Blue fights back the most and is actually quite brawny for a tween and Red won’t fight at all refusing to take his weapon form and even if he does, he won’t unsheath. Blue is something Vaati must subdue and break in. Red is something to trigger. He routinely exposes them to extreme temperatures, Blue the cold and Red the heat, and subjects them to frightening simulations. (I’m basing this off the manga with blue being frozen, red in the burning village, the giant poe)
Most confusingly, he makes the four wield each other which is not natural/impossible for weapons to do. Vaati achieves this with the help of magic.
Vaati works using his own son Shadow as an assistant. Shadow is a similar age as the boys and enjoys the power he gets to lord over them. Secretly, he’s really happy to have so many other kids around. That being said. He hasn’t been properly socialized so his idea of trying to play with them is just by mildly tormenting them.
Vio is the first to start befriending Shadow. Like in the manga, he does this with the intention of later betraying him, planning on using him as means to escape. He unexpectedly begins to genuinely like Shadow and starts to experience extreme guilt in thinking about what he’s going to do. Nevertheless, Vio begins to start faking Stockholm syndrome. This is really confusing for the rest of the boys. Blue thinks that Vio is bad person and is actually siding with Vaati. This leads to a fight between them that results in Vio being separated from the rest of the boys. (I didn’t mention it but they’re usually locked in the same room between experiments.) Red believes that Vio actually has Stockholm syndrome and feels really bad for him. Green can see through Vios' plan but just thinks that it’s a really bad idea. He doesn’t say anything though because he doesn’t want to ruin it for him just in case it does work.
Red is the next to befriend Shadow, though it’s unintentional. Despite everything, Red does his best to remain kind, maybe not so much to Vaati, but to Shadow, sure. Red thinks that Shadow is just a brainwashed kid, which he’s kind of right about. Shadow starts to like Red because he’ll go along with any game he wants to play.
Green falls after Red gets more chill with Shadow. The games they play look fun and Green really didn’t have a lot of chances to play growing up. He starts to take a page from Vio’s book, trying to pry information where he can from Shadow. Somehow he feels less bad about this than Vio does.
Blue thinks everyone is going crazy in here so he takes to verbally bullying Shadow whenever he swings by. Shadow, being a weirdo, thinks that it’s a form of banter so he just bullies Blue back. Unexpectedly, and to his own horror, Blue finds it really fun to be able to have a witty back and forth with somebody who can match his level.
Shadow for the first month or two is really his dad kidnapped people his age. It’s so FUN having people to play with! He even has a best friend now in Vio. He doesn’t really think about the implications of his dad hurting his new friends, and his role in that, until they start acting different.
Vio starts having panic attacks (out of nowhere!/s) and can take hours or even days to calm down rendering him unable to even speak. This is the first thing that rattles Shadow. It’s the first time he felt hurt seeing somebody else hurt. His attempts to calm Vio down begin selfishly, wanting him to stop acting weird and to start acting like his best friend again. Eventually it turns into genuine and raw concern. Shadow, for the first time, feels bad because somebody else does. He starts just really wanting Vio to be okay.
His other playmates start breaking down too. Red is too exhausted now to play. He sleeps most of the day away and when he’s awake he’s too shaky and weak to do anything. Blue becomes dissonant, stuck staring at walls. He won’t respond to even the strongest of Shadow’s remarks. Green is caught between caring for the other two. He becomes too busy to try and pry information out of Shadow.
Then a day comes where Vaati gathers each boy and throws them into the middle of a collection of runes drawn on the ground with a combination of their blood. A flash and they’re all rendered into their weapon states, unwillingly. After a few moments there’s another flash and only a single weapon remains. The Four Sword. When the weapon takes its human form back, only one terrified boy stands sharing features of the four that formed it.
Despite Vaati’s satisfaction, Shadow feels that something REALLY wrong just happened, and it did. He later visits “Four. Four is shell shocked, barely able to walk, confused, and really, REALLY scared. He looks at Shadow and begs him to let him out. Shadow obliges.
Picking up the newly formed Four sword, Shadow vanquishes his own father and runs with his new friend Four. Shadow was greatly wounded in the fight, his father cursing him to never stand in sunlight. Four is traumatized and so confused. He decides to go to Green’s father, now technically Four’s father, unsure of where else to go.
The two boys tell the story to Four’s dad and a proper raid is unleashed on Vaati’s lab, leaving out the parts where Shadow was Vaati’s accomplice for most of the time. No body is found. Four’s father tries to defuse him, which just terrifies him. Shadow gets some medical treatment but most people don’t want to treat him, as he was Vaati’s son.
Four’s father, unsure what to do with two traumatized children, dumps them on his father, Four’s grandfather who lives out of town as a blacksmith. There they all heal and after a few years learn to defuse. They’ve all spent so much time together though that they can’t bare to part. They are literally part of each other now. Green’s father decides to give them all knight training and Shadow learns how to wield each of them and Four properly. They all know how to wield each other too but this is uncanny for a lot of people. Weapons wielding weapons…
Shadow goes missing at the end of a dangerous mission. All too soon, Four is called to accompany 8 others on a holy quest. He sets out determined to save the world and his best friend.
And that’s Four 😭 goodness that ended up a lot longer than I expected.
Please, and I’m begging 🙏🙏🙏, let me know what you think, your own headcanons, critiques, questions, ANYTHING. And who you’d like to see next!
Thank you 💕
Beginning of Main Storyline:
The main storyline for my little maladaptive daydream vampire AU follows Tubbo, a troubled human who tends to get in even more trouble for petty crimes. He takes up a dangerous job working as a “bloodbag” and runner for a non-legal coven.
Essentially, in exchange for money and protection, he exchanges his blood and runs, often less than legal errands, for a dangerous group of vampires. Quesadilla Island is quite strict against vampires, but will often recognize covens in order to better keep an eye on them. Covens that are legally recognized have to pay specific taxes and perform specific duties to the government in order to live peacefully and have access to ethical blood sources.
Covens that fly under the goverment radar are often dangerous and most notoriously obtain blood from unethical sources, like down on their luck adults or even teenagers. In Tubbo’s case, the coven he affiliates with is one of the more dangerous ones.
It’s actually not fully fleshed out in my mind, because I spent more time thinking about the origins to vampires or later story stuff, but it would probably be a bit funny if the leader of Tubbo’s coven was Tommy. Tommy is a powerful progeny of a long dead original vampire called Envy.
I can explain the power scaling and vampire hierarchy later.
Tubbo gets caught blood running and is taken into government custody. After some court trials, they find his case sympathetic as he had grown up in a group home and had joined the coven as a teenager.
The government means to sentence him to a rehabilitation center, which is basically just a slightly nicer prison with more social and psychological rewiring, but accidentally mess up the paperwork. The government is busy and kind of a hot mess when it comes to humanitarian aide. They mark him as a lone, fledgling vampire by accident and ship him off to be assimilated into a government approved coven.
Tubbo gets forcefully escorted into a train and rides it, a very long and uncomfortable journey, to the very north of the archipelago. The weather here is dreary almost all year and experiences harsh winters. The summers, fortunately, are beautiful. Too bad Tubbo gets there in the beginning of autumn.
Tubbo considers trying to make his way back to his coven, but he doesn’t really want to. Before his arrest, Tommy had begun to get more and more possessive over him, becoming furious if anybody else were to feed from him. Tommy began to talk about how he’d turn Tubbo soon, something Tubbo didn’t want. When he expressed his displeasure, Tommy would just laugh. Also, Tubbo literally had no money of his own. He did skim some of the covens cash for emergencies, however that was repossessed from the island.
At this point Tubbo realized that they sent him to the wrong place, especially since he was being unassisted after leaving the train. He comes to the conclusion that they must’ve sent him to a different social service and decides to see what it can do for him because he’s certain they can’t force him to stay if he doesn’t have an agent with him. He goes to the address and has to walk miles into the woods. This furthers his decision to stay because he physically wouldn’t be able to sleep outside with the lack of resources he has on hand: none.
After walking all day in the rain, Tubbo finally reaches the address: an old Victorian building of notable size. If he were to guess, a decommissioned hospital repurposed into housing. He knocks and is very surprised to have Badboyhalo open it, an ancient vampire. Bad is equally surprised as he was expecting a young vampire and not a fleshy human. He welcomes him in, nonetheless.
Bad explains that his coven is one intended to take in abandoned fledgling vampires and lone vampires who either need help or are ones that the government won’t allow to exist outside of a coven. Tubbo is a bit surprised to find the place so… homey. The only experience he had with vampires formerly were desperate hungry ones. Also Tommy’s covens’ headquarters were in an abandon underground subway.
The cushy, mostly vintage decor, roaring fireplace, mood lighting, and lack of bloodstains really made all the difference. He’s also surprised to find that Bad puts out a small platter of muffins and tea. While vampires can digest human food in small doses, those in Tubbo’s former coven rarely engaged.
Bad asks Tubbo how he ended up in a coven house and listens patiently as Tubbo relays his story. He decides to be honest, as Tommy had the uncanny ability to almost always be able to tell when he lied. He doesn’t want to repeat that mistake with Bad, in case he has a similarl ability. Being around Bad, and in a house full of unfamiliar vampires makes Tubbo incredibly anxious and paranoid.
But Bad is kindly in demeanor and makes no move to turn Tubbo into a pre dinner snack. When Tubbo finishes his story Bad offers him the opportunity to stay, empathizing with Tubbo over their shitty government and even worse “social programs”. He promises that nobody in the house with feed from Tubbo.
Tubbo accepts, deciding that he’s probably dead if he returns to Tommy, and that if he dies here at least the government knows where he went. If he goes with Bad’s plan too, his record with be effectively swept clean.
It takes Tubbo some time, but he quickly warms up to the residents of the house. It’s also just an incredibly nice place and Bad has an eye for furniture. What truely let’s Tubbo put down his guard is the gaggle of bratty child fledgling vampires who are too honest for politeness sake. I think it would be Dapper, Pomme, and Richas. They tell Tubbo that they wouldn’t want to try his blood because it smells anemic and foul. They also explain that they’re well fed enough to not even really consider it anyways. Their hunting urges are met in the woods, where they help control deer populations as well as others.
Tubbo settles in well, getting along great with the members of Bad’s coven, Cellbit and Bagi, then probably all of the French. I’ll explain specifics in another post. All is well until… it’s not :). But for now, I want to talk about my B-plot.
she is so dramatic I love her
pommes journal is like a fucking wartime diary from the early 1900s please it's really fucking funny
Hello! I’ve been talking and meeting more and more people lately so I think a proper introduction is due.
My name is Liv. I’ve semi recently graduated with a bachelor’s in Psych and a lot of stupid pre-med course work which I don’t think I’m going to use. 😮💨 iykyk. I’ve been spending my time lately traveling, job hunting, trying to reconnect with my hobbies, and posting on here. 😻
I love video games, namely Zelda and Minecraft. Lately I’ve really been enjoying the Linked Universe fandom but I’m also a huge nerd for anime and manga. My all time favorite anime is Tsuritama and I’m currently reading Witch Hat Atelier.
I’ve been trying to get back into touch with drawing and creative writing, two arts that I feel like I fell out of touch with while I was studying for the past 4-5ish years. Maybe I’ll post some of my things but my confidence in how good they look so maybe later 😖
My most genuine hobby is… yapping. I love love love talking with the lovely people of this website about anything and everything. If you ever want a conversation, I’m your guy!
And that’s me! I have loved getting to know so many of you. I hope this opens up a bit more about me!
Now, I just woke up, it's 3 am and I saw a post talking about q!Cellbit eating chunks out of bad and then I remembered about Bad's body regeneration, so I want you guys to imagine;
Bad and Cellbit are out in the field again. There was one last group that they'd need to kill but the group had gone into hiding. Bad and Cellbit's food supply becoming scarce as time passed by, they had ended up resorting to the bodies that have been left bleeding out. But that was quickly becoming futile as the 'food' that they had been finding was starting to rot with flies all over. Bad didn't need to eat. But Cellbit does. Worried for his friend's well being he set off into the night with nothing but an axe, returning bloodied with a missing limb. Cellbit asked and asked but Bad refused to answer, claiming that "everything was fine" and that he "had just found it in the woods" but he knew the young teen was smarter than that.
Minecraft and Zelda FanThey/She/He (idc which one)I'm LivEnjoysLiving on ao3Adult
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