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kyndaris · 4 months

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L.A. Calling

From one red-head protagonist to another, I thought the brief lull during the holiday season (for games I was interested in anyways) would be the perfect opportunity to try out the Burning Shores DLC for Horizon: Forbidden West. After all, there was a reason why I kept the game despite finishing it after a hundred hour marathon of a month gaming last year. That reason, of course, was to ensure I knew the new story threads leading into the third game. But with the passing of Lance Reddick, it was also a chance to catch a glimpse of his last performance as Sylens - Aloy's reluctant ally.

So, from the highs of the Star Wars universe, I plunged back down to a post-apocalyptic Earth where robot dinosaur roam and a rogue A.I. is hurtling back to destroy what remains of humanity. Good stuff!

Following on from the ending of Forbidden West, Burning Shores sees Aloy heading down to the ruins of Los Angeles after being notified by Sylens that Walter Londra, a member of Far Zenith, had headed there following his arrival on Earth. Aloy agrees to investigate and heads down the coast on the back of a Sunwing.

As she approaches the the remains of Los Angeles, Aloy is shot down by a drone tower. With the help of Seyka, a member of the Quen, they take down the machines in the area before heading to Fleet's End: the settlement the Quen have made since floundering in Los Angeles after a typhoon.

It isn't long before Aloy agrees to help the Quen out and find their missing people. And it certainly wasn't very long before I was scrambling across the map of old Los Angeles to scrounge up collectibles and completing the scattered side quests and errands available on the map.

Could it have benefited with having a Tallneck to climb up? Yes, but given Aloy had flight on her side (granted soon after taking down the first drone tower), it wasn't very long before I managed to explore most of the map and engaged with a few select new machines like the Bilegut and the Stingspawn.

From a narrative perspective, Burning Shores didn't really add anything new to the overarching plot except another scavenger hunt across an open world for a weapon to take down Nemesis. Or, perhaps, the third game will truncate the search a little by focusing it once more in some area of the North Americas. Here's hoping, though, the Horizon series takes our allies across the seas and try something a little more different from the remnants of the ol' United States of America.

At the very least, though, Aloy walked away from the adventure with a new ally she was keen to work with. All throughout the DLC, Seyka stayed by Aloy's side and proved to be an effective fighter. Was it any wonder she proved to be Aloy's first actual love interest?

Both of them are capable warriors and hunters of machine. Both are practical problem-solvers, doing what needs to be done instead of fussing about if it'll offend someone's sensibilities. And both are driven.

I'm actually somewhat relieved Aloy didn't try to push Seyka away. Although, it did take her a while to finally admit the impending threat that was Nemesis heading back towards Earth, keen to destroy the Earth. Still, Seyka had her own secrets when it came to her sister and her fears Kina had willingly joined up with Walter Londra (a fairly forgettable antagonist) who was willing to irradiate the surrounding land in order to escape back into space and be surrounded by a loving and brainwashed cadre of followers.

Combat-wise, Burning Shores added in a few new different skills to tackle on enemies. In the end, though, I found myself still relying on tried and true abilities. Given it had also been a year since I last played Forbidden West, my skills were also quite a bit rusty. So, I'm not ashamed to admit I did dumb the difficulty down just to ensure I could enjoy the story rather than struggle in a high-end area because I'd forgotten Aloy couldn't parry attacks like Cal Kestis or that the way she normally tackled enemies was from afar with ranged attacks.

It was also a matter of relearning the status effects of the game, like drenched and frozen and shock and corrosion.

Targeting weak points also proved to be a trying affair after all the different games I'd played over the year. Especially given how the machines move and make it difficult to target the one spot that'll do MASSIVE damage.

Or maybe I just need to 'git gud' as the pro gamers like to say.

Overall, I enjoyed my time with Burning Shores. It was good to dive back into the Horizon universe and tackle on a map that wasn't as large as the base game. It also helped there weren't a ton of collectibles needed to be found and unearthed. So, my map wasn't entirely pockmarked with '?' to drive my curiosity and insatiable need to uncover every. Single. Point. Of. Interest.

Thank goodness for small mercies.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there are huge open-world games where I need to collect a thousand and one items calling my name.

#video games #aloy x sekya #burning shores #horizon: forbidden west #I'm not sure how I know the name of the song I used to title this post #lance reddick #sylens #the name of the title just came to me

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solfinite · 4 months

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hello finally putting my au stuff down on paper after several months.. also finally chose a name for it !! it's called Sonic Aeroventure :)

(+xtra traditional sketches below)

#Aeroventure AU #sthav #<-titles/tags i'll be using for the AU #my art #sonic the hedghog #amy rose #tails the fox #cream the rabbit #rouge the bat #shadow the hedgehog #sth #sonic #sonic fanart #sonic au #designs and stuff will probably change a bit in the future knowing me but i do rlly like these rn #i don't have alot written down rn bc i didn't write down anything back in march(?) 2023. and so I've forgotten quite a bit #but i did remember some things :)#amy sketch page isn't rlly anything to do with the au itself i was just rewarding heroes and the haunted house part came up #alot of these sketches are from like. last month but i wanted to think of the name of the au before posting more #yeah :) the general idea and inspos are the same im just actually sitting down to world/storybuild now

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bardicblast · 4 months

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#dnd #curse of strahd #rahadin #dnd rahadin #dnd art #artists on tumblr #dnd character #dungeons and dragons #drow elf #dnd drow #i am goncharoving my way out here guys #wanting to do art featuring our rahadin but we dont know anything about him so im filling out the gaps vaguely #peeking just a little into his wiki page with half my eye so i can confirm One Thing #i am fighting the hardest battle over here trying to not spoil anything from how the original lore went down #i learned my lesson not to search for anything bc the guys on reddit wont bother hiding imortant details from the title #i am still laughing..when i was like collecting and writing names together i stumbled upon the name vasili which i did not remember where #that came up so i went okay imma just search it and a piano dropped on me immediately #i am still torn between: this detail fucks im glad i know vs it would have been bonkers if i experienced the piano drop during session #plus the amount im on the cos tag this info is everywhere so there is no way around it anyway

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checanty · 6 months

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I just noticed I didn't tell you yet--which is shameful as it is Tumblr where the Mermaid Scientist was born! My Mermaid Book was picked up by Eye of Newt and is available for pre-order right now (it's coming out very soon, though, so any orders should make it until Christmas if that's a concern of yours)! If you're in North America, I'd suggest ordering directly through my publisher's website, however it's available anywhere you'd usually order books. You can ask your favourite indie book shop to order it for you or--if there's no other option or you're worried about crazy shipping costs where you live--it's available via the place starting with A, which shall otherwise not be named, as well. Please note: This is an edited version of the original book. It's shorter, but with more coherent world building and a beautiful new layout and design. It's a proper field guide now!

#Mermaid book #books #mermaids #field guide #art book #this makes me a traditionally published author-illustrator now :DDD #when we talked about editing the book for publication my publisher was like #we love Dr Lillefisk #Let's keep her!#Now she's in the title!#I made her up on a whim!#Her name is just grammatically incorrect Swedish #I love it so much #just thinking about how everything started and came together #and the book changed and grew and now #7 years later this is where we are!#my publisher send me the video btw #I can't wait to get the book myself!!

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fionnaskyborn · 4 months

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Was tagged by @oceancamp to post my current five favorite songs! (They should invent a stages-of-grief-esque model that encompasses and accurately describes both types of anguish I had to go through making this list - the one of limiting myself to only five songs, and the one of trying to put as little videogame music on here as possible so that I don't end up looking like an absolute goddamn geek, which... I am... Oh well!)

Thank you so much for tagging me - here are the songs!

Heaven Pierce Her - War Without Reason

Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Space

This specific arrangement of Death And Republic + Meet Again

Winger - Junkyard Dog (Tears On Stone)

The Protomen - Light Up The Night

Is it courtesy to tag other people after you've been tagged in a post like this? If that's the case, I'll tag @spiralled-fury, @solradguy, @swamppossum, @five-by-five, @northstarring, @ineedmoredragons and @tbonechessor!

#logs #ya don't have to participate if you don't want to‚ from what i've gathered - it's all just for fun anyway :]#The link to Yamashita's song is actually a link to a website that hosts city pop songs‚ since those keep getting taken down on YouTube due #to the strictness of Japan's copyright laws with regards to music. Uploads of Yamashita's songs in particular get taken down quite #frequently... The rest are either Bandcamp or YouTube (in case of Junkyard Dog) links #Very out-of-character of me not to put a Кино song on here‚ haha #I had a hard time deciding whether to put HOLD BACK THE NIGHT or Light Up The Night here‚ but ultimately decided on Light Up The Night #because... hoo boy #okay storytime. i've known of the protomen since somewhere around 2021. got The Good Doctor in my recommended feed‚ clicked on it because #i thought the album cover was cool + the title was appealing‚ but i never really listened to anything theirs beyond that song after that.#fast forward to 2022. be me‚ watching the greatest videoessay on planet earth (Steak Bentley's Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake).#the fucking MONTAGE comes on‚ and I fall in love with my second Protomen song. second fast forward to 2023 going into 2024‚ finally got #around to playing the Violence update. i learn of the name of level 7-2. the widest‚ most mischievous grin appears on my face.#i enter the level‚ proclaim ''ULTRAKlLL IS NOW A STEAK BENTLEY REFERENCE'' and blast the song as i get my ass beat by every single thing in #that level.#and let me tell you. getting mollywhopped ten thousand times by the FUCKING GUTTERTANK TRIO AT THE END OF THE LEVEL WAS. not a pleasant #experience. but the song made it better. :) (i played the level before the balance patch came out and uh let's just say i had more deaths on #that level than on 2gabe and 1gabe. SEVENTY-FOUR. FUCKING. RESTARTS. JESUS /CHRIST/.#goodness how i yearn to make a 3d animation of v1 going through 7-4 with that song in the background as a tribute to the man himself but #alas i am a student who has everything in the world but time #thanks for the tag again!! ^^

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quibbs126 · 1 year

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So do you think the “job Cookie names” (you know, one’s like Adventurer and Muscle, etc) are like, chosen names?

Because I don’t think Cookies like Adventurer or Knight were baked as an adventurer and knight respectively (I mean, maybe Knight could have been baked by the Witches to be a knight, but we know Adventurer comes from a family, so he probably fully grew up). You have to rise to the rank of knight and Adventurer is what he is in spite of his aristocratic background. Did they originally have different names but chose to take on these names as sort of a title indicating what they are?

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diamond-vic · 1 year

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Thinking about how King and The Collector were both named for what they were / thought they were rather than having their ‘own names’ given

King in Sense and Sensitivity saying how King is ‘more of a rank than a name’ . How he, his whole life, must have thought that he’d forgotten his true name when his memories were wiped (which, of course, never really happened).

How, in Echoes of the Past, he muses whether the symbol at the tower was his given name. Him wondering aloud to Luz ‘Is it ok to still call me King? It feels kinda weird when I’m not the king of anything’. Finding comfort in Luz’s words (‘Well, you’ll always be king of my heart. That’s good enough, right?’) and deciding that he’s ok being called King despite the fact he never really was a king of demons. The name finds new meaning for him separate from what he’d always dreamed of his whole life, in a way he’s ok with. It’s his name, despite it all, even when he feels his whole identity and view of the world and himself has been shattered

Meanwhile, there’s The Collector, whose name is also clearly just a title, just a statement of their species. They never get to be distinguished from the other Collectors, just one in this group of unknown number, and yet he so desperately wants to be better than them, and do their philosophy right. He thinks they did it all wrong, and yet they keep following the same basic guidelines as the others. The Collector has known nothing of individuality for however long he’s existed. They don’t realize things could ever be different, or that he could be more, and that there could be a different life for them. He probably never had proper parents or guidance or love. They don’t even have a name. Just a vision of what a Collector is meant to do, and a determination to do it RIGHT

And what does this all mean?? I’m not sure exactly hahah, It’s just something i noticed. Names are a HUGE part of personal identity, and I think these two can serve as sort of opposite parallels. King who has found his true identity through his arc, letting go of his fantasy and embracing who he really is, while the Collector is still clinging to the role and story he was given (and that he made up himself, partially! They edited the Collector book!) and trying to bend things to how they think it should be

#the owl house #toh king #king toh #king clawthorne #the collector toh #the collector #toh the collector #king drives me insane.. going through his whole life being called a ‘title’ and never thinking anything of it #and then accepting it as a name. that demonstrates his bond with luz #and the Collector… this literal child who is so similar and yet so differnt to king #who just like him has no ‘true name’ and just an idea of who he’s meant to be #a dangerous idea that is hurting others #like how king’s fantasy would have hurt others had it ever been a reality #the collector came into being in whatever way and was sorted off with the rest as jusy another in this order of gods #this is super incoherent but if nothing else… king’s changing perception of himself and his name tugs at my heartstrings GAHHH

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emmavakarian-theirin · 6 months

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[bursts back onto tumblr with a tin foil hat]

guys what if we're getting a remake

#mass effect #my sleep schedule is all over the place right now but hear me out #ever since the initial liara teaser came out i thought how maybe it's not about connecting one thing to the other #maybe it's just showing you a bunch of iconic things that represent the series to get you excited and know there's more #and with the current 2/3 of todays teaser we have: eden prime music + 'someone' in n7 gear + the tempest + the name 'epsilon'#(epsilon was one of the original titles of mass effect) and it just seems like very specifically chosen assets to show #that to me don't really add up unless the series is being reprised as a whole #and these days games are getting rebooted and they typically come with a remaster too....#EDIT: i was wrong about the tempest

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leonardoeatscarrots · 2 days

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How did you come up with the title of your Story/comic/fic/book/WIP?

#webcomic #comic #webtoons #tapas #indie comic #indie creator #writers of tumblr #writing #oc tag #tag the oc #genuine question #for me someone had suggested the name rum and grifters #however it just felt a bit off to me #it wasn't until i was in the liquor store later that week that i saw a vodka bottle with a pirate ship on it that i came up with the title #spaceships and vodka

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acaciapines · 4 months

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the owl house daemon au ends at a perfect place. it gives closure to everyone who's gotten a pov across the entire series and finishes with luz and mari, who are undoubtedly the main character of the entire series.

......but what if i wrote a future fic starring the collector going to hexside--

#chatter #and a grove of palistrom to you #LOOK. I JUST.#okay so a title came to me right. something like #'sraf firefly clawthorne's guide to being a good owl'#(also yes sraf uses firefly's name as his middle name <3 thats his mom)#and its a few years post-epilogue so luzmari n co are in college #king and sraf are going to hexside #and we get to see how everything has changed....and maybe even we get more sraf lore....#since another idea here is that basically sraf meets their siblings lol #and we see how much they really HAVE changed like the other archivists #fully do not see them as the same species anymore #(which does great things for sraf's self-image)#or even recognize them whatsoever #(which is a little bit less great)#AND IT IS A BAD IDEA. BC I HAVE A GOOD ENDING #but. b. but.#but consider that i love him :(

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jtl07 · 9 months

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late night vigil

camila is no stranger to intimacy, to companionship as some would say more delicately, even if the acts they engage in are anything but. she also knows that beatrice has been as haunted as much as she’s been freed, waiting even as she’s living. or: camila learns about beatrice's strap; she helps in her own way

(mind the rating 🙈)

#y'all i have no freaking clue where this came from #but i'm just gonna post it bc why not lol #do not expect this from me on the regular because this is highly irregular 🙈🙈🙈🙈#avatrice #fun fact: the title for this in my head was “(sister) beatrice and her magic strap”#warrior nun fic #the real summary: beatrice uses her strap on various women including camila - that's it that's the fic #also i'm shit at figuring out titles #okay hit post gdi happy year of the yeet #my writing #jt writes fic #wait is there a ship name for beatrice and camila #beatrice x camila #oh and i guess should tag #beatrice x camila x ava #lol #idek what this is folks seriously

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emily-mooon · 9 months

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Stonathan Itakiss AU

Decided to make a moodboard for this au because I'm going to start writing for it soon and I might as well get the energy of it out there.

#I AM CURRENTLY HAVING SOME BRAINROT FOR THIS #i will always be in jancy brainrot so the brainrot for this au coexists with it #i know i did that poll but i thought of just now making it a list of fics i should prioritize and since this one was second #im going to start plotting it out #i also recently came up with a title for it which makes me happy cause i am terrible at coming up with names #I finished this yesterday btw #most of the tags were made yesterday but I do not feel like changing them #I will tell you that this moodboard was hard to make becuase there is no aesthetic for living with someone you do not like #stranger things #jonathan byers #steve harrington #stonathan #itakiss au

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transingthoseformers · 9 months

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Wrote down a little bullshitted up lineage of primes thing as a treat, and I threw in a few of primes for a gap in between Prime Nova and Nova Prime, the latter is in my list as "Nova Prime 2: electric boogaloo" which is hilarious.

The oc primes:

Prime Proxima, Prime Plerion, Caerulus Prime, Cepheidis Prime, Asterism Prime, Luminus Prime, and Theta prime

#i am aware Luminus Prime is luminous minus the O. that was on purpose because i wanted another –minus prime #I've thought so much about calling a character theta btw #most of these guys and gals in my mind had relatively short reigns as primes and the majority did not have the matrix #(if any)#yes 5/7 use she/her pronouns bc i ran with the first pronouns that popped into my mind with their names #it's an interesting idea that for a while the title of prime came before the first half of the name rather than after #on my list you can also tell when either the primes started to become shittier people or at least when history recording the shitty stuff #i am aware that Caerulus means blue. he is the blue prime.#some of them are named for astronomy terminology!)#Proxima is named for Proxima Centauri #Cepheidis is named for Cepheid Variables / Cepheids which are a type of star #an Asterism is a star formation smaller than a constellation #aaand a Plerion is another name for pulsar wind nebulas!#... the name Imperator is calling to me again though.#again a word i like the sound of and i just think it's bullshit it's wasted on an invalid taxon #maccadam #transformers #ocs #basically all ocs for the sake of ocs #nova prime

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variousqueerthings · 2 years

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I’m reading Persistance: All Ways Butch And Femme and lemme tell you it’s doing wonders for everything -- feelings about gender, politics, language, relationships

every time I think I’ve come at some unknowable concept about myself that nobody could possibly understand and I’m totally alone (or at the very least I’m something new and fragile), reading about other queers makes me understand that actually it’s existed possibly forever and I can calm tf down and stop being so angsty, it’s not fragile at all, it’s years of others living these things into reality!

anyway, us lonelies under 30 (and over 30 too quite probably) who think we’ve reinvented the wheel and nobody could possibly get it, we need to read this sort of stuff to get out of our own heads and to respect where we came from and maybe all the fucking discourse can chill out and we won’t be so afraid of changes and concepts that already exist and have done for a lot of years!

#persistance: all ways butch and femme #queer stuff #queer theory #queer lit #lesbian lit #me like: im overcomplicating it ive gone too far im a fraud #a dyke who came of-age in the 60s: anyway these fag genderqueers i met in the 90s love em couldnt do without em great stuff #also rae spoon i owe you everything #and this discussion i just read in it i need to get their names #about femme through the eyes of masculinity STOP IVE BEEN FEELING THAT WAY (dont stop ofc)#and the new spectrum bit???? wtfwtfwtf i feel like im being inundated with The Lore and im some starry eyed apprentice #whenever i forget i can be like -- is my icon a claude cahun homage for NOTHING?!#it's about context building! it's about history! it's about thinking those threads were spindly but they're strong as anchors or smthin #fuckit im just amazed i cannot properly articulate how amazed i am #ALSO look im not a lesbian/i never came to transness through lesbianism like a lot of my peers (only briefly and it amounted to one bar)#my point being that if you think you can't relate to that title because you think you didn't get to experience that lens #1. read the lesbians generally because they're good for you #2. trust me this book opens some fucking doors (doors I'd been worried were me going too far/werent allowed)#recommend this to all the queers and non-queers alike boys and girls and people who think they're unfathomable #you will be uh... fathomed... as it were #(or not but it's still vital)

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cluelessmoose · 2 years

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Unfriendly First Meetings

Okay so today I posted the /actual/ whump fic for the Many Follies of Mortal Existence for Twilight, but this is the one I had pre-written but ended up trashing because I didn't like it -reasons completely unknown- and couldn't stand to make myself fix it so I /did/ like it.

Instead, I'm throwing on here in all its unfinished misery, so that it isn't a complete waste of my time.

So here it is: Jaws that Bite

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Summary:

Twilight meets the Chain.

It’s just too bad he was scoping these armed strangers out in his wolf form, and that several of the heroes have lupine enemies that they’re all too accustomed to killing without hesitation.

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When Link came across the group of armed hylians as he was burning off some excess energy in the woods he immediately began following them, suspicious of them and their weapons and the way they seemed comfortable and accustomed to a wandering life, lost but clearly unconcerned by it.

He’d seen it often enough, even with the kingdom on the mend after Ganon’s defeat: brigands, taking advantage of the still unorganized army and weakened forces of the crown, attention focused on settling matters in Castletown before it could be turned farther out. They seemed to be trying to decide which way to go before settling on south.

Ordon lay that way, and with so many armed raiders the village wouldn’t stand a chance of escaping without casualties. That said, eight was a bit many for even Hylia’s hero to take on at once, especially with two kids involved that he wouldn’t want to risk hurting. When the group settled down and sent three out into the woods, he had his chance at last.

Link crept closer, trying to get a better read on them before he shifted and tried to talk the duo down before resorting to violence, though he doubted they’d listen. They never listened, it seemed.

Too close, maybe.

He’d made not a sound to give himself away, and yet he was forced to lep back as an arrow sang through the air from the trees behind him, a third hylian stepping into view with another arrow settling on his bowstrings, his scent was near untraceable: forest-y and natural and most importantly, downwind.

The archer lets out a warning whistle, and just like that the whole group’s attention snaps their way.

Retreat would be the better option, wiser, but-

There was only so much distance left before they hit Ordon, and who knew if they’d split up again knowing a wolf was on the loose. This would be his best chance at wiping them out, and that thought was all he needed to growl and duck behind a tree, determined to take out the archer first. He was already alone, and arrows would be a pain to deal with when he’s trying to take down the other two. He darts out the other side and lets the next arrow trace a line of pain down his side with a yelp of pain in favor of maintaining his forward momentum, slamming the slender hylian into a tree with a snap of bone, grabbing the bow as he does so and severing the string with his teeth. He skipped back just in time to avoid a blind swipe of a sword, the other gasping for the breath Link’s full-grown wolf form had knocked right out of him.

The one in red is on him before he can follow up on the openings of the injured archer, and it's surprisingly all Link can do to avoid the vicious stabs and looping swipes of the other, the swordwork at play much better than he’d have expected of common raiders.

Zelda had said that they had more desertions than usual though, and none knew better than the knights and soldiers just how ripe the kingdom was at the moment for highwaymen and their ilk. He snarled at the deserter, and in a move faster than any mere wolf could accomplish leapt forward, swiping aside the shield and burying his teeth in the bare knee before him. He nearly missed as the other almost dodge out of the way, snagging more of the calf than intended before the shield was brought back down upon him and he let go with a single vicious wrench of his head.

Another one out of the fight, hopefully- the grim face had done nothing to hide the youth of this fighter either, to his dismay. He was loath to kill them, but if they weren’t retreating from a wolf he doubted they’d surrender to a single hylian, either. Rolling his shoulder where the edge of the shield had buried in it, he paced around them, looping the last hylian as he took up a defensive stance by the red garbed one.

“Definitely infected,” he gritted out as he staunched the bleeding leg, glaring at Link viciously. “Fast fucker- good thing there’s only one.”

“Don’t jinx it, goddess above, Legend,” the armored one said irately, his single eye fixed on Link. Behind him the archer was getting to his feet as well, though clearly dazed based on the way he was leaning heavily on the tree.

Link wasted no time; he sprinted in a zig zag towards the eldest hylian; with a sword so big he’d never catch-

The blade caught him across the ribs, the only thing that saved his life was the quick twist that let it catch upon bone rather than gutting him any deeper. He rolled back up onto his feet, wobbly but alive, though a low whimper escaped him as blood began to pour in a sheet from the long, deep cut.

The armored raider stepped forward, face empty of emotion, eye pitiless as he flicked that massive blade with terrifying ease.

Link had made a terrible mistake, it seemed. If he was lucky, he’d survive it yet, though. The hylian brought the sword down in a diagonal strike, and Link followed the momentum of the blade, looping back and around the other in a bid to escape and warn the village, to burn the bridge down if that’s what it took to keep these swords from spilling his family’s blood.

An arrow buried itself in his shoulder with a blast of lightning that sent him reeling and convulsing, blinking awake upon the ground and rolling to his feet with barely enough time to tackle the legs out from under the armored hylian as he raised his sword to end Link’s life. It was utterly graceless, leaving them both tangled and sprawling, his claws scrabbling harmlessly over the other’s armor as he pulled himself free in a limping run.

He can make it, even if he can see the archer drawing another arrow -where did he get a second bow from?- and sighting him.

There’s the hum of a blade whistling towards him, broken by a chime and a scream as the sword arcing in from an unseen caped hylian behind the tree went completely awry, missing him cleanly as he tried to dodge away. Link’s arrow-pierced shoulder refuses to bend that way under his weight with a shaft lodged in the joint, though, and with a shriek of pain his leg snags on itself and he tumbles head over heels to the ground, all too aware suddenly of how many raiders have him surrounded at this point, all around him with their swords out and their faces void of compassion, determined to see him die.

“Legend, wait!” He hears through the agony in his shoulder and his own grim panic, his head turning just in time to see the incoming blast of ice without being able to do a single thing to stop it. A sheet of cold immediately sinks deep across his torso, leaving him thoroughly immobile, trapped with ice coating both forelegs and his entire body from hip to neck.

Link can’t shift like this, not unless he wants to risk crushing something important if the magical ice proves stronger than his bones. He snaps helplessly as they draw in, concerned for their injured friends, directing far more attention towards threatening their wounds than the now incapacitated wolf in their midst.

Link twists his head, teeth scratching harmlessly from the ice, twisting immediately to snap at the scarfed hylian walking a circle around him with a naked blade, moving away from his jaws to his unprotected hind legs. I

No, he won’t die like this, he can’t leave his family and friends to face these men without warning!

“Shit,” the scarfed hylian winces, sheathing his blade as the caped raider joins his side, holding a glowing sword tenderly in his hands, face tight with pain and remorse.

Oh fantastic; at least he’d feel bad about killing a wolf. That’s more than Link usually got, to be honest, and it had to come from a brigand. Speaking of, the kid who most looked the part was leaning in as close as he could before the scarfed hylian snagged his arm and pulled him well away from Link’s warning snarls, though he couldn’t bring himself to snap at the kid.

“Oh, we fucked up,” he said, hissing between his teeth.

The white caped hylian crouched down on his heels before the wolf, laying the sword to the side and revealing badly burned palms as he lifted them in a show of harmlessness.

“Hi Link,” he said, causing the hero to immediately still and go silent. “I… think we owe you some apologies.”

And that? That almost sounded like he might just get out of this alive yet.

#The Many Follies Of Mortal Existance Series #LU fic #Ugh #Kind of anyways #edited the name #because an update email just let me know exactly where the title idea came from #stupid brain remember your SOURCE MATERIAL NEXT TIME

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Someone was asking me today what my middle name was and I swear I had literally forgotten? Not because I don’t use it but because I use the masc version of it because no one ever refers to me by my middle name. I was riding the crucial constanat letter trying to reverse engineer the final vowel to a nice feminine letter

#like I COULD have said my middle name was [redacted] it’s not like they could check #but also!#what if they asked why I had a male middle name #they’ve met my mum and asked if she’d be back in the country to come over for tea and what if it came up #i think she thinks I had a seizure #man I forgot how much I just. I don’t click with my (dead) middle name AT ALL #like my first name. fine. people call me my first birth name all the time bc something something severe trauma around coming out #my birth name is more like a title than a name if that makes sense #my MIDDLE name however??#nah nah nah. no idea why I feel more connected to my chosen middle name than my chosen first name #but no one’s ever asked! and I’ve just been using gender neutral nicknames!#sitting in someone’s living room making engine noises while I try to recall wtf my legal middle name is

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