scribblewriting65 asked: If you have ideas already for what each Hero would test Link on, you can ignore this. But one lesson could be to not be afraid to cut loose and go all out from time to time. As for the teacher, either TP Link (Wolf form and ferocity) or Child Time Link (Fierce Deity Mask.) could teach it. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! As for the tests I didn’t really think of each of Link’s past lives teaching him anything specific but it does make sense that they would. o3o
Hmmm… Actually I’m not entirely sure what each of Link’s lifetimes could teach him specifically but before I figure that out, lemme hash out all the lifetimes he’ll actually encounter in the trials:
-Goddess’ Champion (SS): The first lifetime Link ever had; a difficult fight but not the most difficult opponent in the Trials, the second to last “boss fight”. Probably the most straight-forward fight in the Trials.
-Hero of Time (OoT and MM): Probably the most difficult opponent in the Trials due to his use of the Masks and the Ocarina. Switches often between the body of a child and an adult but would probably stop in the teens at the end of the battle
-Hero of the Twilight (TP): Would fully utilize his wolf and human forms and will encourage Link to do the same. Wears Midna’s helmet as his own and is the only incarnation who seems to have a deeper grasp on magic aside from the Hero of Time.
-Champion of Wind and Sea (WW, PO): One of the few of the Trials to be shown as a child, I’d imagine his fight to be centered around ship warfare and the ability to stop time for brief periods
-Hero of the Sword (MC, FS,): Second incarnation to be depicted as a child, has the ability to make upwards to 4 clones of himself and animating his bird-like hat to be a weapon in its own unique way.
-Captain of Hyrule (HW): Not too sure if I’m gonna add this one, but I’m thinking about it. Of all the incarnations he’s the only one to lead an army into battle and utilizes that in his battle.
-Champion on Hyrule (BotW): The final incarnation of the Trial and the last lifetime Link had before he was born again in the current timeline. I’d imagine his fight is unique in that it doesn’t actually start with one: he has a long chat with his future self about the fear of failing… and actually having that fear being realized. If there is a fight to be had, it’ll be one that’s impossible to beat at first: Link would be beaten and defeated a few times, only to have to start all over again. But eventually the hopelessness gives way to a reminder that he isn’t as alone as he thinks and that it isn’t just him who’s fighting for the world: he has his friends and allies to back him every step of the way.
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A work in progress but yhuh, there ya have it! Now that I’ve gotten some idea of who the incarnations will be I think I have a few ideas of what the main Trial they represent would be. O:
remember: the ‘holy’ white doves are just white rock doves, aka the common pigeon!
Doves are just pigeons with white privilege
Also can we talk about how STUNNING their irredentist feathers are?
This post made me finally look up whether Australian crested pigeons are also doves, and I didn’t quite understand the wiki page but I think the answer is ‘yes’.
You guys are gonna go ham when you hear about fruit doves
some people say it’s an echo chamber, but I would say it’s more akin to a thousand different echo chambers. There’s discord servers, private twitter feeds, tumblr mutual circles. An initial idea can get into one of these and bounce around it a whole bunch, changing along the way, before one of them brings it back out into the wider world, by which point it can seem very odd and undecipherable to any/everyone else. For instance:
One thing I enjoy about “opposites attract” kind of lovers is when the two are superficially different but share the same morals/values under it all, but the process of discovering that is a slow one and hampered by the fact that they have to learn each other’s language, so to speak. They both have very different ways of communicating and showing trust and affection, so like the angsty brooding character is suspicious of the bubbly character’s care because they believe it’s insincere, while the bubbly character doesn’t notice the angsty one’s subtle but significant gestures and instead takes their cold demeanour at face value. Then slowly, slowly on their journey together they learn how the other one speaks, and copy each other’s mannerisms, etc, and come to understand their values and how they really feel, like all this is a mouthful to explain but that is *chef kisses fingers* my fucking jam babey
