When you read fanfics, specifically on Ao3, let’s say a word count of about 12000, would you prefer it to come out over time, chapter by chapter, or all at once? I want to write a fic but I’m struggling in piecing it all together/finding time, so idk if people like one big one shot to just appear one day or if people enjoy waiting for chapters to come out
REFURBISHING AND polishing my 2 adventures AU
If you don’t want to read my last post, (which is fair bc it was mostly rambling), the gist of it is that the LU crew goes on two adventures. The first one occurs while most of the chain is quite young and then years after that adventure ends they all come back together again grown. This applies to everybody BUT Warriors.
For the first adventure most the heroes are really young. Time has just finished the events of Majora’s Mask. Wind has just finished Wind Waker. Four, he’s not even Four yet, just went thru Minish Cap. These three are all around age 11-12.
Hyrule is 13, having been living by himself for a year now after completing the events of Zelda 1. Legend is 16 and has only been home for few months after the events of Link’s Awakening.
Sky and Twilight are both 17, having just finished their respective journeys.
WILD, I owe this completely to the suggestion of @durudurururu, is 16 and has recently been knighted and is starting his fight against the calamity. He has not been through the events of BotW yet.
And Warriors. . . Warriors is a 23 year old, recently appointed captain, who is in the early stages of the war of eras. He has so far not met Mask or Tune yet in his war.
I think the funniest way this would go is that Wars along with Sky, Twilight, Wild, and Legend are pulled together in quick succession and are told somehow by the goddess that there’s a great threat that requires many of her heroes to vanquish.
Wars thinks this will be fine. He isn’t shocked that this is happening, his own era is going through something similar, and working with some teens isn’t bad. He’s already used to leading young knights back home.
Shit hits the fan immediately 😭
Warriors tries to take charge, assuming a leadership position quickly. Sky and Wild are quick to follow him, already quite used to following captains back home, but Legend and Twilight…
Legend, freshly traumatized, has decided that he already hates Warriors and does his best to refute everything he says and generally makes things 100 times more difficult. Legend often tries to do his own thing which pisses of Wars to no end. Wild and Legend develop SEVERE beef right away after Legend’s declaration that “knights ain’t shit.” Sky tried to play mediator until Legend declares that “Hylia is a stank-ass ho” as to which Sky is like: >:(
Wars hopes that Twilight will be reasonable. He tries to tell Twilight to do something he doesn’t want to do one day and his response is to spit in the ground, “not the city slicker telling me what to do.” And struts away.
Wars prays, PRAYS., for the day this adventure is over. His teenage comrades get into more fights with each other than they do with the black blooded monsters they should be. Their hygiene is almost dangerously bad. They REEK. Wars prays for the day he doesn’t get awoken by a petty argument. Three times this week dinner has been interrupted by a PHYSICAL altercation between from two to ALL of the boys.
When Sky says the goddess told him more heroes will be joining them, Wars prays that they will be older and wiser. When he’s met with a gang of child soldiers he decides that Hylia must be dead and gone because this has to be the work of demise.
Two of them are non verbal. The masked one makes some attempt to sign, but the young, skittish teenager makes absolutely 0 effort to even try or even indicate that he’s listening to Wars. Wars is convinced that both of are feral. Were they raised in the woods?? In a cave?
One is a self proclaimed pirate. Wars is ashamed in the others that the person who tries hardest to actually listen to him is the 12 year old actual criminal who starts struggling with alcohol withdrawal a week into the journey.
Baby Four is basically the version of himself at the beginning of the 4 sword manga. A huge ego as he’s a budding knight. He listens to Wars less than Legend does.
Miraculously they manage to survive, not even the journey but each other. Things got a little easier.
Legend takes responsibility for Hyrule after the chain discovers he’s not in fact non-verbal BUT Hylian is not his native language. He speaks Calatian and Legend the resident polyglot takes to teaching him Hylian.
Wars is shocked when Wild and Twilight become buddies. He has no clue when that happened. Wild is unsettlingly quiet and too well behaved at the best of times while Wars has to bribe Twilight to bathe sometimes.
Four looks up to Sky after he learns that he’s a god slayer and starts listening to him in proxy of Wars.
Wars finds himself with two shadows, Time and Wind.
Their mission comes to a close and Wars finds that he’s dearly going to miss all of his little brothers despite the stress they put him through. He’s prematurely greying now.
He returns to his own war, reunited with Time and Wind, each a smidge older. After two more years, the war is over and Wars once more says goodbye. The day after the war is declared over, Wars is pulled back by the goddess into a journey across time once again. Apparently there’s some unfinished business from last time.
Wars is SO stressed. He’s not at all ready to go back to being the single father/Fiona Gallagher to 8 traumatized children again. He barely, BARELY, survived last time.
Somehow what he finds is much worse 😭
All of Wars’ journey including the one he went on with the chain, occurred over 3 years for him. He’s now 25. So why… WHY is everyone else so much older????
Baby Mask and the Minish hero are so much older. Time must be pushing 40 and Four is easily 5 years older than Wars.
Twilight, Sky, and Legend are all in their mid to late 20s. Twilight is courting a nice young woman, Legend is engaged, and Sky is MARRIED. With kids.
Wild, what happened to that guy???, is nothing like the quiet, unsettling, lad he was before. He’s in his early 20s and well. More Wild than ever. He also doesn’t remember or barely recalls anybody.
Hyrule, shy, skittish, feral, Hyrule is also now in his early 20s and is almost outgoing. He speaks clearly and magic unlike anything Wars has ever felt before seems to come from his very being.
Wind is finally of legal drinking age and is shockingly similar to before except now he claims to be able to see dead people.
The first thing everyone does is treat Warriors to a drink while he processes.
@livmightlive (sorry but this didn’t fit in the comment lol )
Fanfic prompt: I love the idea of legend and twilight having instincts from their animal forms
The dark form is a literal representation of the person where the twilight curse just happened to make link a wolf because of the triforce and not a spirit as it did with the npcs
But I couldn’t help myself because it made me think just how bad can their instincts get
I think it is mostly just the symbolism of a cannibalistic rabbit
The rabbit is often seen as a symbol of innocence and people find them cute and consider them tiny lil fluffs
But rabbits are genuinely nasty pieces of shit and well known for cannibalism and mutilating each other (eating each other’s kits ,chopping off dicks , or ripping off ears, a rabbit paw has completely different meaning in this one)
And I just want to say… a rabbit is a very dangerous and very scary animal if it was a person with the skills of one)
If we talk instincts it would be more realistic if legend was a crazy violence driven maniac because rabbits instinctively want to hurt each other
As they are very territorial the rabbit will often be aggressive towards the rest of the fluffle (and he is a hylian, so what does it mean for the chain)
(it is an evolutionary trait that presumably evolved because rabbits compete for food often and the aggressive behavior would make the competition more likely to perish)
Rabbit teeth can easily bite off fingers and rip out chunks of meat from your body as they are very sharp in one place like scissors
A stressed rabbit is a danger (and legend is always stressed so there is that) as it increases their chances of survival
Further more canonically legend murdered at least ten of his uncle’s friends (the boss fights are mandatory you need the items)
And probably at least a dozen knights (I once killed over 348 because they keep respawning and I was actively hunting those lil guys)
All of them who were sons and relatives, fathers and loved by someone
While it was a fight for survival he knew they all were just innocent men trying to protect the kingdom being simply cursed not in control of their actions
But as it came to his or their life he choose himself above all others (like the rabbit he is)
Even people he knew since he was little he killed when they posed a threat
If we use blind it gets even scarier because blind is a boss that takes the appearance of the one you love the most
Yet link killed his uncle's appearance while it begged and pleaded that he would stop (that fight in four sword palace is mental)
He killed the owner of the four sword afterwards as well
His wish was to undo the damage that ganon caused …,
But would that wish include the men dead by his hand ?
Or do hundreds of men stayed dead by his hands
I like to think that legend doesn’t regret his own continued existence
Perhaps if he could have the chance to redo his actions he would do so again if necessary
Legend the type of guy who you want to keep fed or risk getting cannibalized (the only and last time that the chain made that mistake)
When he was teasing wars the knight should have been glad that legend wasn’t Pulling out a fucking gun (which he canonically has since the oracle adventures)
Even if it ain’t personal it’s just survival instinct
Warming him up
Looks like a pretty big no! Honestly, very very fair! A big thank you to those who commented, you’ve all given me some very good things to think on. I won’t go down the death and destruction route but I might eventually post a Bad End type of thing. Ty everyone!!
in the series a lot of people die and it’s pretty meaningful. I’m also a fan of whump and let’s be honest. DRAMA. So that being said, I think it would keep things spicy. But. I won’t do it if everyone is strongly opposed.
Who left a letter written in the enderman language in Sir Francis Drakes’ estate and why are you calling me a homosexual?
idk if this has been said before but a headcanon of mine (from my ✨personal✨ collection) is that before Hyrule met Legend he thought that he’d have a sort of Heman (He-Man???) build
Like this ^ before meeting him bc the legends were always saying stuff like “The hero of Legend could lift BOULDERS with his bare hands!!! He could run faster than an arrow 😤”
and poor Rulie always felt like such a fraud bc he was using power cuff and rings to aide himself
when he finally meets Legend and finds out he’s a slight malnourished twink that’s also been using magic items to aide himself he’s so happy and relieved.
there’s also something so special about being able to see yourself in your hero and finding out they’re not some perfect alpha chad but a genuine person who wasn’t ready to fight but had to blah blah blah
I hope so bad that there’s more bbh centric fanfics in the future 😭
I know he doesn’t have a nonzero amount but UGH, I just need more, I’m greedy I know
like last stream he did??? That’s content gold right there. Please, like there could be so good whump fics out of that, hurt/comfort type stuff
Honestly, there’s so much good bbh content that I feel like that goes unnoticed on unused
I stg that I would write fics but I am never happy with my work 😭 words do not flow for me
if I made an ao3 thing of just fic ideas and headcanons would people like that??
Everything I maladaptive daydream is so self indulgent and project-y, idk if people even want to see that T~T
I always feel bad for want to see my favs in a whump or hurt/comfort but I think it’s just me wanting the part where they’re taken care of? I personally don’t enjoy fluff without any pain, no pain no gain y-know??
It’s deffo just older sibling projection, like he takes such good care of everyone, I just wanna see people take care of him 🥺 all I need is one good sickfic to tide me over for winter 💔
I would ask for fic recommendations but I think I’ve completely exhausted the bbh tag on ao3, tbh at this point I might go back to wattpad 😭 any recs there??
when I make these posts I feel like I’m stranded in the desert, pls I need to know if other people share my thoughts. Even if you don’t pls comment 🥺 I see likes come in and it makes me happy but I’m always like: “what exactly are they thinking tho???”
Dw I know that’s a lot to ask for I am needy
but like, I’ve gotten to the point where I will read fics where bbh is a good side character to get my fix 🥹
he’s just my favorite Minecraft guy and my brain is probably a little funny if you’re picking up what I’m putting down
just meowing out to the void
pls tho, touch base if you’re feeling thoughts
you guys ever read a fic and just think to yourself
“damn this person really saw the egg arc different than I did”
😭😭😭
I know bbh is my baby girl but pls 😭 if I see another wild mischaracterization or paper villain version of him again I will scream cry myself to sleep
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Minecraft (Video Game), QSMP | Quackity SMP Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Rafael Lange | Cellbit & Darryl Noveschosch | BadBoyHalo Characters: Rafael Lange | Cellbit, Darryl Noveschosch | BadBoyHalo Additional Tags: Survival Games (Minecraft), Found Family, Cannibalism, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Darryl Noveschosch | BadBoyHalo-centric, Rafael Lange | Cellbit-centric Summary:
I really wanted to write a fic about Badboyhalo and Cellbit's time in the Survival games. Unfortunately I got really busy. I had the entire fic outlined, however, and decided it would be better to post what I have than rather to never let it breath. I really hope everyone enjoys!
Minecraft and Zelda FanThey/She/He (idc which one)I'm LivEnjoysLiving on ao3Adult
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