ok i'll have to edit and add to this later, like hella later but i felt the need to force dump this from my brain yesterday as much as i can remember before i forget about this from my brain dump even further
did not clean edit sorry yet no time 😭
song:
animation script
[PRELUDE (extend)]
there is a tapestry. on one side there is zelda and link, and on the other side there is astor. a golden light seeps into the yarn art of zelda. a malice seeps into the yarn art of astor.
the malice takes over and eats into the astor part of the tapestry. it turns into a puddle of malice.
the feet of child astor is in the puddle. camera pans up and zooms out to child astor. he is wary, janky, and naive giddy. he is in a dream.
there is a blood moon. (malice erupts from his feet and climbes through his legs, as if his legs are pipes or as if the malice are vines twirling up a tree.) he goes up to malice pig ganon and smiles. (perhaps malice tears in his eyes.)
[I live inside my own world of make-believe]
child astor, in hateno village, is seen poking and digging up dead animals. for him, the dead animals seem to wave at him, enticing him. he grins widely.
astor looks up. children are looking at him weirdly. astor enthusiastically chases the children with the dead creatures in his hands. (, chanting "blood moon"/"blood vessels".)
plants seemed to shrivel and wither around the steps that he take. (adults glance at him cautiously.)
the children have run away. child astor, dirt in his hands and face, stops at the horned statue, waves his hand at it, squats in front of it, and then starts talking to it.
[Kids screaming in their cradles, profanities]
at the first two beats, rina pulls him up by his arm and shoves a broomstick into his hand.
(when the camera switches from squatting astor to standing astor, astor seems to have become slightly older.)
at [Kids], astor seems sheepish and slightly disheartened as rina pushes him into the inn.
at [screaming], astor sweeps the floor
[I see the world through eyes covered in ink and bleach]
[Cross out the ones who heard my cries and watched me weep]
[I love everything]
a) azelphir pulls astor aside and asks him if he wants to see his future. his expression is very serious and grave.
astor nods, afraid.
b) astor and azelphir are sitting at a table. astor reaches for the orb, a wary look on his face, then pulls back in hesitation.
[Fire's spreading all a-]
azelphir stirs around the orby and malice mist pours out of it. azelphir is focused. astor is scared as hell but he also feels like he's gonna jump out of his skin from not unfamiliar anticipation.
[-round my room, my]
the orby suddenly blooms with constellations and a hella of malice.
astor looks up to the constellation. His face is lit with the magenta light, and his face is full of fear and his eyes are wild with shock and a hint of interalized desire
[world's so bright, it’s]
azelphir holds up 1 finger. [1: You are going to be the Royal Seer.]
[hard to breathe, but]
azelphir holds up a second finger. [2: you are going to be sent into exile.]
[that's alright]
azelphir holds up a third finger. [3: you are going to devote your life to Calamity Ganon.]
astor’s eyes widen in horror.
c) a malice line quietly coils up from behind and wraps his arms and torso.
[Hush]
a) astor recoils into his chair, as if he has just been burned.
b) it looks like astor’s soul has left his body
c) the malice line yanks on both his arms and astor is thrown backwards. [it is astor’s hallucination, it represents astor’s haptic state of mind at the moment.]
[interlude 1]
b) astor is taking in the information and breaking apart. it looks like an invisible hand is forcefully covering his mouth and choking him, pressing him down. azelphir solemnly comforts him and then leaves the room.
c) astor in the hallucination is freaking out, lying face up on the ground. the real astor is rooted into his chair, while azelphir is comforting him by the shoulder before leaving the room.
c-1) while he is lying there, there are brief flashes of prophecy 1, where he is wearing royal robes, at a ball, and he spins zelda-rose to the rhythm of the last part of interlude 1.
slight zoom-in just enough to clearly show the expressions of astor and zelda-rose.
[clock]
zelda-rose’s face contorts into one of sorrow, as a vague malice line crawls from the back of her head to her ashened face.
[interlude 2]
the child astor, in reality, slams through the gates and is running away in tears. it is at the dead of night. he doesn’t know where he’s going. he doesn’t seem to notice the scratches and bruises he’s getting from hanging tree branches and bumping into walls.
he collapses at a dead end at a cliff over the hyrule forest river.
he stares over the water.
he lifts his head to gaze at the castle at the last beat.
[Shh]
brief flashes of prophecy 2, where astor is giving zelda-sparrow a silent princess.
a) his face is not shown, the camera is at zelda-sparrow’s height, overlooking adult astor’s shoulder.
b) his face is shown, the camera holds both zelda-sparrow and crouched astor. his face is holding the same sorrow that was in zelda-rose’s face.
[interlude 3]
child astor gets up on his hands and knees, which are bloodied from being scraped harshly on the ground. he shakily looks at his hands. the blood reminds him of malice. he’s still crying. he feels numb.
two stalkoblins and two stalmoblins emerge from the ground. startled, astor stumbles backwards.
[ding]
cam is zoomed in on adult astor’s forehead and eyes. there is a malice eye on his forehead. streaks of malice are on each side of his cheeks like veins- alive, sentient veins that had just finished filling his new body. he opens his eyes in time with the ding.
[interlude 4]
the stalmonsters grovel down around child astor. astor stumbles up.
brief flash of adult, soulless astor entranced in his malice pink orby.
child astor, in desperate denial, shakes his head and clutches his head. he looks around, takes a step back like trying to run away, but then he is sucked into the ground.
[Tape my eyes open to force reality (oh, no no)]
astor opens his eyes, slowly coming to his senses. he was in the middle of being chosen as the royal seer.
[Why can't you just let me -]
thelem helps astor get tidied before he is sent to the castle. thelem fusses astor about everything. astor smiles a little. thelem gives a thumbs-up and leaves.
[- eat my weight in glee]
astor's smile fades. he breathes in, breathes out, and walks alone into the castle.
[I live inside my own world of make-believe]
astor feels all eyes on him. he is getting fully appointed or something. he and zelda-rose do some formally introducing to each other stuff. zelda-rose leads him inside the sanctum.
[Kids screaming in their cradles, profanities]
a) rhoam outwardly shows his seer-hate to astor. zelda-rose puts herself between rhoam and astor.
b) rhoam gives an imposing glare to astor during the royal seer ceremony. astor gives him back a wary look.
[Some days I feel skinnier than all the other days]
[Sometimes I can't tell if my body belongs to me]
etc etc etc
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