Excerpt - The Princess, the Knight, and the Beast
Again, again, again, again, the coughs and the pain return. The boy goes back, a third time, but did not call for the stranger, he fell to the sand and wept. A shadow loomed over him, blocking out the sun, and in his ear, he heard a whisper.
‘My love, your tears make my heart heavy with woe. Why do you cry?’ He did not lift his eyes to see what was before him, he had not the energy.
‘They are ill, again, again, again, and nothing I do will save them. They will perish and the light will be gone from my world.’
‘What would you do to save them?’
‘I would do anything!’ The voice hummed again, deep and rumbling, like the distant thunder.
‘My heart, look at me.’ And he looked up and was confused. This…this was no Goron, no Rito, no Gerudo, no Hylian he’s ever seen. Fear overtakes his heart, and he scrambled backwards but stops once he noticed the beast does not follow. Its eyes are gold and soft and full of sadness and kindness. It is tall, its face is so unlike his own, but it is beautiful. The fear leaves his body, and he is flushed with the feeling of calm and rightness. This was the being that had helped him without question, who he turned to in time of need. This Zora knelt before him offering to help him once more.
‘Would you leave them? Would you give away your heart’ And he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know the answer—if he stayed, they would die, but…but if he left…
He looked up at the Zora’s gold eyes and nodded. ‘Yes. If by my actions they live, I will do whatever it takes.’
“Go to them, they will be strong and healthy, you have my word. Tell them you must go, but that you will return to them one day when they need you most.” He nods and runs. His parents met him on the beach, they left their hut for the first time in weeks, and as the Zora said they were strong and they were well and they wept when he told them that he must go, but that he will be happy. He ran back to the beach, ran to the Zora, the kind, generous Zora, and he took the man—a boy no longer—to his kingdom beneath the sea, a kingdom of plenty where kindness abounds. And the man, now a Zora, remembers just as his kin remembers, the life he lived under the sun and over the sand. And he watches the village, he watches the fishermen as they sail over the sea and coaxes the fish into their nets, he leaves shells and previous gifts on the shore for the children to find and he sees them prosper beside the one who holds his heart.
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GOD. Epilogue of "A Dream a Kirin Dreamed" pisses me off. This is not to say it's bad by any stretch. It just pisses me off because WHY DIDN'T KIRYU BOTHER TO TELL DAIGO ANYTHING. Why did he just say "He didn't betray you" without backing up his point at all and then fuck off entirely without checking back in.
The man just woke up and he's awake for a week before he's discharged from the hospital??? Maybe catch him up to speed on something that's clearly weighing on him??? Or on anything else that's happened in the time he was unconscious ??? Hello???????
Like. Dude. Is it not enough that you're just dead weight for the entire fucking ending. Knowing this is your son's best friend. And no way he doesn't know because even aside from Mine's monologue which (obviously) focused on his perspective, Kiryu says himself when he encounters a journalist who can't find any friends or family to interview about Mine that Daigo would know him best.
KNOWING this is your son's best friend. You LET him kill himself in front of you both because for you, sitting on your ass and going "Mine!" was good enough. You didn't think to reason with him. You didn't think to grab onto his leg or something when he was three feet away. You weren't injured. You weren't THAT exhausted. You just didn't think to do it. Even though A SUBSTORY IN Y3 ENDS THE WAY THE MAIN STORY SHOULD HAVE AND IT'S ONE OF THE LAST THINGS YOU CAN DO BEFORE HEADING TO THE HOSPITAL.
Y3 ending is literally my Y7 ending in terms of how much anger rises up within me whenever I think about it because it just Somehow, To This Day, piles more and more on top that makes it worse than it already was. Like its ONLY saving grace is that Mine didn't actually die. Allegedly. At least you can argue Ichiban and Aoki didn't have time to react, but Kiryu had all the time in the world and did nothing.
Ok I need to stop I need to stop I know I should be mad at Yokoyama and Takeuchi and not Kiryu and I literally had to run this post through an all-caps -> sentence caps converter But Anyway Point Is If Ichi Had Been The Protagonist Of Y3 Mine Would Be Alive
i cant even really blame something like kiryu's emotional ineptitude to explain why he couldnt just be open about What Mine's Business Was because the guy can CLEARLY speak from the heart and say good and honest things. like he knows how to communicate For The Most Part so its truly just. The Fuck Happened Here you dont think it wouldve been a good idea to get daigo up to speed on the past week or 👁️👁️ just saying Mine Didn't Betray You is like. a FAIR start i GUESS but ELABORATE a bit ??
not at all a 'rare' L moment just a typical kiryu L honestly (;´д`)
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