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LoZ AU- The Courage of Running Away PART FIVE

#AU August

#LoZ AU: The Courage of Running Away

The next few legs of Link's journey (with Marla and Tonbo in tow) I'm gonna summarize a little more broadly, less because this AU is already taking up half of AU August and more because my ideas for this next bit are slightly less nailed down.

One of the major ideas I have for the countries on the western part of the continent is that they don't fully recognize Hylia as a goddess per se, and in Labrynna and Holodrum in particular they talk about the Old Goddesses (Nayru, Din and Farore) pretty much interchangeably with figures resembling the Oracles of the same names, even calling them the Oracles instead of the Three Goddesses.

Termina recognizes the Goddesses but also more prominently talks about the Four Giants and the Moon and the shape-shifting Furious God (kind of treating the events of Majora's Mask loosely like mythology)

(I don’t have art for that yet lol)

And of course, everyone respects the Great Fairies, but HOW varies a bit even from town to town.

[Image description: A painted statue of a blonde fairy in a purple and white dress, with blue, red and green along the hem of the skirt. Her hands are held in greeting. End ID.]

And so Link and company are traveling from town to town and kind of keep... Helping people. It's a little bit of a series of accidents at first, being in the right places at the right time, rescuing a lost kid here and fighting a monster there, doing a favor for the Maku Tree (who here lives sort of on the border between Holodrum and Labrynna) which would be a greater magnitude of video game quest than some of the others lol

[Image description: A collection of sketches. One is of a young woman with long hair and a flowing dress seated atop an hourglass, with a small lyre in her lap. She is labeled “The Statue of Nayru in Lynna City Square.” Another two are of Zora with very long head tails and thin fins; one has barbels similar to a catfish. A note nearby reads “Labrynna Zora draw from river fish and ‘longe’, lol” Another is of a rounded reptilian creature with a large eye and a big toothy grin which is labeled ‘A Tokay.’ The last is of a human with long hair and is labeled “Round eared humans are more common on the Western half of the continent. End ID.]

[Image Description: Another series of sketches. One is of a Goron with curly shoulder hair and a curly topknot, beard and mustache. Even his eyebrows curl at the edges. He is labeled “Rolling Ridge ‘Wooly’ Gorons. Another is of a Gerudo woman with a slightly pointed ear smiling and talking to an owlike Rito. Next to the Gerudo is the note that “Holodrum features some of the largest Gerudo communities outside of Gerudo City” and next to the Rito is the note that “Rito are just everywhere.” The last is of two Zora with nearly nonexistent headtails and thin fins. It is noted, “Holodrum and Labrynna’s ‘river’ Zora pull from river fish and ‘short,’ lol- basically the goal is to make them ‘feel’ the most like the OG enemy Zora.” End ID.]

(Note: I haven’t drawn a map but I’m kind of thinking that Rolling Ridge is enough on the border of Labrynna and Holodrum that there’s some confusion about the actual borders and the Gorons probably ignore them to some degree. The Gerudo having a notable presence in Holodrum kind of just makes sense. I’ll talk more about the AU version of the Gerudo in a different post.)

But it feels good, getting praised and thanked for handling it your own way, and sometimes Link doesn't even HAVE to use his sword to do it.

The problem is that when people are telling stories about a young blonde Hylian with a sword that swept in and saved your village or talked down an angry herd of lynels (the lynels in this AU are their own post but think of like how lions and horses have their own social structures)

Well, if there's a wrong person to get wind of you, he will.

It's in Holodrum's capitol city of Horon that Link sees the shadow along the ground and looks up to see Hera, Astramorus's loftwing, soaring over the city's streets. And he pulls his hood over his eyes and says "don't look but that's my father's bird up there."

Marla, obviously, looks.

[image Identification: Tonbo, Marla and Link stand in the middle of a diverse crowd. Marla and Tonbo are looking up but Marla is tilting her head at Tonbo. She has one arm around Link protectively, while Link has pulled a hood mostly over his face and is looking back at her. Marla says, “Say Tonbo you were talking about maybe visiting that UNDERGROUND CITY, right?” End ID.]

So they travel down to Subrosia (I know that in the game you needed portals but we're ignoring that because part of the point of this AU is that you don't NECESSARILY need magic to get most places)

Because if you're hiding from a man on a loftwing going underground isn't the least logical thing you could be doing, right?

Subrosia is populated by the mogmas from Skyward Sword as well as the little jawa-like people from Oracle of Seasons because it seems like as good a place for them to show up as any, don’t you think?

[Image Description: an elderly mogma with glasses and a moustache- a mole or rodentlike creature with long arms and a fat tail that it rests its weight on- is discussing something with two small figures in concealing robes, pointing into a bag one of them is holding up for inspection. End ID.]

Also if Link fights a classic lava boss in this AU he does it here, lol

Link is actually pretty torn up in himself through the whole stay, though; it's hard to appreciate a tour through even the most amazing of underground vistas when you've realized that your abuser is still after you, and is probably never going to give up, and he says as much to his companions once they've calmed things down.

[Image Description: Link, Tonbo, and Marla are sitting by a fireplace across an old mogma lady holding a mug of something hot. The mogma asks Link "... Well, he was going to take you to meet the Hyrulean royal family before you left, correct?" Link says "yeah." She reasons, "maybe you should beat him there and tell them all the reasons why you don't want anything to do with him. It seems like your best chance." Link looks into the fire, his mouth tense.)

And that's why they go back topside to figure out how to get across Gerudo Desert and to Hyrule.

Bonus: Grammamogma’s initial concept sketch

[Image description: the old mogma lady from the previous image. She is wearing a shawl, tiny glasses and a shirt with poofy sleeves. She has an enormous bun in her hair and long ratlike ears. She is sitting on her tail like a pillow.]

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