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battleartist) wrote2012-01-23 12:19 pm
battleartist) wrote2012-01-23 12:19 pm
AU details
Spark notes version: Sixteen-year-old mostly mute precog, in an AU where Ganondorf outright kills the Great Deku Tree instead of cursing him.
Alternate universe details: Link is born to a Hylian family in the midst of war. When his father is killed and his mother fatally wounded, she escapes with him into Kokiri Forest, leaving him in the care of the Great Deku Tree and the Kokiri. Link grows up here, largely isolated from others due to his lack of a fairy, having just one friend (Saria) to spend time with.
When he's nine years old, he begins having dreams. Link has always had dreams that could tell about some little event in the future, but these are far more intense - scene after scene of a man in black armour threatening him, a girl on a white horse escaping, storm clouds, monsters, and darkness. He sees himself with a fairy and a sword, fighting off a monster, and carves it into the base of his treehouse. He doesn't go to anyone about this.
A few months later, everything promptly falls apart. A man in black armour appears in the forest, and by the time he leaves, the Great Deku Tree is dead and the treasure of the Kokiri - the Sacred Stone of the Forest - is gone. Chaos sets in - without their leader, the Kokiri become withdrawn and paranoid. Monsters begin to fill the forest. The world becomes a very dangerous place.
And for Link himself, things begin to change. A couple of years later, he begins to notice things - he's growing taller than any of the other Kokiri. His body is beginning to change. Fearful of the changes in him, and suspecting that he may be turning into a monster (no fairy has come to him, yet), he's turned out into the Lost Woods to complete the process.
However, despite growing taller and broader and his voice deepening, Link does not, in fact, turn into a monster. He finds shelter just outside the Lost Woods and remains there, continuing to have dreams about impossible scenes and drawing these down as a way to cope with this new knowledge.
Outside, the world he doesn't know is changing. The man in black armour has managed to subjugate the Gorons and the Zora and has claimed all three spiritual stones, but the last piece - the Ocarina of Time - is out of his grasp. With Princess Zelda escaping with her protector Impa, stealing away the night that Ganondorf had murdered her father and taken over Hyrule by force, it remains an elusive and much-hunted-for treasure. With the Door of Time securely shut, there is no way in to the Sacred Realm - the Triforce remains intact and the Master Sword asleep.
Until, after seven years pass, when Princess Zelda sends her closest friend (Impa's nephew and student, Sheik) to find the one destined to be a Hero...
About Link: Despite being taller than most of the Kokiri, Link is pretty small and undersized for sixteen - he's malnutritioned, about the size of a thirteen-year-old or so. His voice is essentially shot to pieces after not speaking to anyone at all for five years - in terms of vocabulary and syntax, he speaks like a child, his voice is incredibly rusty and quiet, and he honestly prefers drawing things out to speaking out loud.
He's jumpy and easily startled, and while he can hunt and fight a little (needing to fend off Deku Scrubs and Deku Baba, as well as the occasional Skulltula or Keese), he's much more timid than he'd usually be, and he clearly wouldn't be classified as a swordsman. His survival skills (having survived in the wild for five years) are superb. His art skills are far better than his canon counterpart's, and he can draw fairly realistic scenes. He also has a love for and skill for music - upon being exiled from the forest village he had been raised in, Saria had gifted him a hand-crafted ocarina, and music is one of the few bright spots of his life.
By this time, the precognitive abilities he shows in the game are far more developed, and he uses them for his survival - he can receive short 'flashes' of events that will happen in the next few minutes to the next hour or two. He still has vivid prophetic dreams, but he can use them in his waking life as well.
Appearance:
Despite being sixteen, Link physically looks closer to thirteen or so - he's short (about 5'1") and barely developed - unlike his canon counterpart, he's skinny and wiry - there's definitely strength there, but he definitely couldn't be called muscular.
His hair is shaggy and kind of unkempt - both his bangs and the back of his hair fall just past his shoulders, and is scruffy and full of tangles. His face is narrow (which correspondingly makes him look like he has biiig eyes), and there are almost permanent shadows under his eyes from the dreams keeping him awake.
Clothing-wise, it isn't a bad thing that he's so small, since he still fits into the tunic he wore when he was eleven (with it being slightly shorter and cut up the sides for ease of movement, and patched here and there with the blankets he was permitted to take with him). Underneath that, he has a pair of green shorts that went with it, and his old boots have fallen victim to his knife - the legs have been cut off at the ankles and stitched on to his shorts to make them longer and more durable, and the too-small boots have been cut in to and formed into rough sandals.
His hat and belt, alas, have been repurposed - the hat becomes a fishing net and a container to collect fresh berries and fruits, and the belt is used for everything under the sun.
Alternate universe details: Link is born to a Hylian family in the midst of war. When his father is killed and his mother fatally wounded, she escapes with him into Kokiri Forest, leaving him in the care of the Great Deku Tree and the Kokiri. Link grows up here, largely isolated from others due to his lack of a fairy, having just one friend (Saria) to spend time with.
When he's nine years old, he begins having dreams. Link has always had dreams that could tell about some little event in the future, but these are far more intense - scene after scene of a man in black armour threatening him, a girl on a white horse escaping, storm clouds, monsters, and darkness. He sees himself with a fairy and a sword, fighting off a monster, and carves it into the base of his treehouse. He doesn't go to anyone about this.
A few months later, everything promptly falls apart. A man in black armour appears in the forest, and by the time he leaves, the Great Deku Tree is dead and the treasure of the Kokiri - the Sacred Stone of the Forest - is gone. Chaos sets in - without their leader, the Kokiri become withdrawn and paranoid. Monsters begin to fill the forest. The world becomes a very dangerous place.
And for Link himself, things begin to change. A couple of years later, he begins to notice things - he's growing taller than any of the other Kokiri. His body is beginning to change. Fearful of the changes in him, and suspecting that he may be turning into a monster (no fairy has come to him, yet), he's turned out into the Lost Woods to complete the process.
However, despite growing taller and broader and his voice deepening, Link does not, in fact, turn into a monster. He finds shelter just outside the Lost Woods and remains there, continuing to have dreams about impossible scenes and drawing these down as a way to cope with this new knowledge.
Outside, the world he doesn't know is changing. The man in black armour has managed to subjugate the Gorons and the Zora and has claimed all three spiritual stones, but the last piece - the Ocarina of Time - is out of his grasp. With Princess Zelda escaping with her protector Impa, stealing away the night that Ganondorf had murdered her father and taken over Hyrule by force, it remains an elusive and much-hunted-for treasure. With the Door of Time securely shut, there is no way in to the Sacred Realm - the Triforce remains intact and the Master Sword asleep.
Until, after seven years pass, when Princess Zelda sends her closest friend (Impa's nephew and student, Sheik) to find the one destined to be a Hero...
About Link: Despite being taller than most of the Kokiri, Link is pretty small and undersized for sixteen - he's malnutritioned, about the size of a thirteen-year-old or so. His voice is essentially shot to pieces after not speaking to anyone at all for five years - in terms of vocabulary and syntax, he speaks like a child, his voice is incredibly rusty and quiet, and he honestly prefers drawing things out to speaking out loud.
He's jumpy and easily startled, and while he can hunt and fight a little (needing to fend off Deku Scrubs and Deku Baba, as well as the occasional Skulltula or Keese), he's much more timid than he'd usually be, and he clearly wouldn't be classified as a swordsman. His survival skills (having survived in the wild for five years) are superb. His art skills are far better than his canon counterpart's, and he can draw fairly realistic scenes. He also has a love for and skill for music - upon being exiled from the forest village he had been raised in, Saria had gifted him a hand-crafted ocarina, and music is one of the few bright spots of his life.
By this time, the precognitive abilities he shows in the game are far more developed, and he uses them for his survival - he can receive short 'flashes' of events that will happen in the next few minutes to the next hour or two. He still has vivid prophetic dreams, but he can use them in his waking life as well.
Appearance:
Despite being sixteen, Link physically looks closer to thirteen or so - he's short (about 5'1") and barely developed - unlike his canon counterpart, he's skinny and wiry - there's definitely strength there, but he definitely couldn't be called muscular.
His hair is shaggy and kind of unkempt - both his bangs and the back of his hair fall just past his shoulders, and is scruffy and full of tangles. His face is narrow (which correspondingly makes him look like he has biiig eyes), and there are almost permanent shadows under his eyes from the dreams keeping him awake.
Clothing-wise, it isn't a bad thing that he's so small, since he still fits into the tunic he wore when he was eleven (with it being slightly shorter and cut up the sides for ease of movement, and patched here and there with the blankets he was permitted to take with him). Underneath that, he has a pair of green shorts that went with it, and his old boots have fallen victim to his knife - the legs have been cut off at the ankles and stitched on to his shorts to make them longer and more durable, and the too-small boots have been cut in to and formed into rough sandals.
His hat and belt, alas, have been repurposed - the hat becomes a fishing net and a container to collect fresh berries and fruits, and the belt is used for everything under the sun.