#oops kid Hylia has plans for you *oof*

[fuckit-hero-of-trains]

Sometimes I think about the fact that Legend grew up in a world where The Hero failed. Like, growing up, Legend must have heard a lot about The Hero of Time. He heard how he failed, heard how he died. He does not grow up idealizing the boy who played hero, the boy the goddesses offered on a silver platter to be slaughtered. Parents probably make him a cautionary tale, a story about a child trying to do the job of the sages. Regardless, some kids still see their tree branches as the Master Sword. They see their backyard as a battle field, their friends, siblings, pets as monsters to be slain. They jump and fight and tumble and laugh and save the world, but it's all so juvenile to young Legend. He knows it's all make believe. Play acting. Baby stuff. He knows it’s fake cause he knows what happens to real heroes: they fail. They die.

Now blacksmiths... now thats a profession. They get to make all the weapons and tools everyone uses. They get to work with molten metal and fire and hammers and its just so cool! So while other kids tackle each other and argue and cry over who gets to be the hero this time and pretend to pull swords from stones, Legend spends his days pretending to pull swords from hearths. He spends his days peeking through the blacksmiths windows and watching. 

He has not heard of the Hero of the Minish. That’s a legend that has mostly faded from history by his time, overshadowed by the Hero of Time’s failure. He does not grow up looking for Picori in the grass nor pretending to fight his shadow. Who Legend has heard of, who he looks up to, who he is so happy to be named after, is Link, the Legendary Master Blacksmith who could forge a blade to rival even the Master Sword. 

#been thinking about this again #just #the thought that Four inspired Legend to become a blacksmith #legend hoping to be able to forge his own legendary weapon one day #oops kid Hylia has plans for you *oof* #lu legend #lu four #linked universe #linkeduniverse #train talks