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OHH?? MY GOD??????

I love this, I love this so much, I cannot hope to put into words how much I love this!!!

Thank you SO MUCH!!!

Inspired by (no specific scene from) Like a Bayonet Against My Throat by @silverne-nonsense (pretty sure that's the right Tumblr please let me know if it isn't!) I really enjoyed this fic. Always down for more Four and Legend fics, especially such lovely ones as this.

The colors marks didn't really survive the filter process but if you know what to look for they're there!!

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DO NOT APOLOGIZE!! I love your addition!!!! It’s the cherry on top, we needed the fluff!!!!! And you’re such a fantastic writer! :DDD THIS WAS SO GOOD!!

guys, I think the captain is possessed

based on this :)

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MIRY.

Wind shoves his back against a crumbling wall, fumbling for his bag. His sword and shield are gone, knocked out of his hands by clever and precise blows, his magic armor won’t last more than a few seconds due to his nearly depleted magic, and the others are caught up in their own fights.

Wind is on his own.

Bombs and the hammer are a no-go. The Deku Leaf would knock his opponent down, but it without a proper weapon, it doesn’t do anything else for him. The hookshot would do more harm than good, and his grappling hook would be sliced apart if he missed. An ice arrow might do the trick, but that would mean…

His hand brushes against his boomerang. It’ll have to do! He just needs to buy enough time for the command melody. From there, everything will be okay! It will be!

Wind clutches his boomerangs to his chest with both hands, ears perked up as he listens. His namesake weaves around the ruins, stirring up dust and sand alike. Boots pad in his direction, crunching sand and gravel underneath its weight as his opponent hunts for him.

The sailor sucks in a deep breath, holds it, exhales. Here goes nothing.

He leaps from his lackluster hiding spot, eyes catching on golden hair and automatically aiming. His boomerang flies from his hand effortlessly, carried by the wind towards its target—!

Quick as a flash, Warriors swings his sword up and knocks Wind’s boomerang out of the air. It falls to the ground in two pieces, rendered useless by a single well-timed slice.

Uh oh.

With his heart in his throat, Wind scrambles back and reaches for his bag once more. Warriors doesn’t give him a chance to grab his bow, lunging after him and easily closing the space between them. His shoulder slams into Wind’s stomach, punching the air from his lungs and knocking Wind to the ground. He wheezes for breath, fingers digging into the dirt to push himself back up, but a hand on his shoulder shoves him back down.

Warriors looms above him, dull red eyes locked onto Wind in a glare. The usual gleam in the captain’s eyes is absent, leaving his gaze empty of any true anger. What pulls his expression into a glare is mere muscle memory rather than Warriors himself or whatever entity is currently controlling him.

Even knowing that, being pinned under the captain still sends a terrified shiver down Wind’s spine.

Warriors holds his sword in his other hand, fingers wrapped tight around the hilt and the point aimed at Wind’s face. He sees the way the captain’s arm stiffens, pulls back just a smidge—and he knows that blade is about to slice through his neck.

“Wait!” Wind gasps in a last ditch effort to save himself. “Captain! It’s me!”

Warriors’ dead glare deepens. The sword lowers towards his neck.

“It’s your brother!” Wind cries as the sword begins to bite into the fragile skin of his jaw. Oddly enough, it scrapes over his chin instead of down the side of his neck.

Is the entity just toying with him now? Tears prick at the corners of Wind’s eyes. Is this how he’s going to go, his face carved open by the hands of his own brother while the both of them are rendered helpless?

No, Wind decides. No. This is not how he’s going to go.

His fingers curled around the sand and into fists. He allows his face to scrunch into the upset look he normally tries to hide, the tears spilling from his eyes and down his cheeks.

“…don’t you know your own brother?” Wind shakily croaks, pleading for an opening, for a miracle.

And to Wind’s surprise, the sword pulls away from his neck. Warriors’ blank expression grows almost pained, and while it’s still dull and stagnant, there’s almost a hint of life to it in the tears that begin to well up in the captain’s eyes.

Now or never!

Wind’s fist swings upwards, fingers unclenching to launch a handful of sand and dust and gravel into the captain’s eyes. Warriors rears back with a yell, his free hand clawing at his eyes.

Wind slips out from underneath him just in time to dodge the sloppy stab the blinded captain aims at him. He shoves Warriors’ shoulders, pushing his brother to the ground in a poor mockery of Wind’s own position just seconds prior. The sword slips from his grip, and Wind kicks it away before Warriors can grab it. He shoves his other hand into his bag once more.

Red eyes, now irritated from the debris, meet Wind’s seafoam green as the possessed captain pushes himself up on his arms. Wind thrusts the Wind Waker in his face.

Left, center, right, center.

The wind swirls around them, humming their song as their waker conducts them.

Left, center, right, center.

Wind’s eyes roll into the back of his head. He feels it when his spirit nudges itself against Warriors’, feels the sting of dark magic as the entity controlling his brother screeches in outrage.

Get out, Wind hisses, Warriors’ own voice echoing him.

The entity bellows in response. Warriors’ hands claw at his temples, as if trying to dig Wind out of his head.

Get out! Wind shrieks, Warriors’ own voice pitching high. Wind throws himself at the entity, and it stings and it burns but Wind doesn’t care!

Get out of my brother!

The entity wails as Wind batters it with everything he’s got, quailing and cowering as Wind shoves it further and further away. It lashes out, desperate, but Wind hardly feels the burn of its magic. He won’t let this thing hurt him or Warriors anymore than it already has, he won’t!

With one last screech ripping itself from Warriors’ throat, Wind gives the entity a mighty shove and severs its connection with the captain.

It’s quiet. Warriors’ spirit remains dormant under Wind’s presence, the magic of the Wind Waker lulling him into a relaxed and pliant state.

With the captain asleep, Wind uses his eyes to take stock of himself.

Wind’s body stands in front of him, a concentrated frown on his face. Blood weeps from the cut in his jaw and chin, running down his neck in rivulets. Burns mar his cheeks and hands in angry red splotches, the result of throwing himself headlong into dark magic.

A small price to pay, in Wind’s opinion.

He loosens his grip on Warriors, allowing his spirit to slip back into his own body. Immediately, his whole body lights up in pain, fire shooting up his arms and down his chest.

In front of him, Warriors slumps forward and catches himself on his hands. He groans as he presses his head to the ground, shoulders heaving as he sucks in breath after breath.

“…Captain?” Wind hesitantly mumbles. Is he…

He flinches as Warriors’ head whips up, instinctual fear squeezing at his lungs, his heart.

Electric blue eyes meet his seafoam green. They flick down to the cut on Wind’s chin.

The captain swears. “Are you okay?” He drags himself over to Wind, trembling hands reaching out for him only to retract when Wind shrinks away.

Warriors’ expression crumples. “Gods, guppy, I’m so sorry.”

Guppy.

Wind bursts into tears. When Warriors reaches for him again, Wind throws himself into his arms, ignoring his burns in favor of clutching at his green tunic and blue scarf. Warriors folds him into his embrace, one hand cradling the back of his head.

“I’m so sorry.” Warriors presses his face into Wind’s hair. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”

guys, I think the captain is possessed

based on this :)

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/63616750

I have literally been working on this fic since October. And it’s finally finished!

Please enjoy the most self indulgent piece of work I have ever written, clocking in at 29k words!

Plenty of angst and hurt/comfort for your enjoyment ;)

Summary below the cut!

The camper stands, and Four’s own hand immediately darts to grip the hilt of his blade, a reflection of the stranger before them. His potential opponent doesn’t unsheathe his blade, but his gaze follows Four’s movement carefully as he twists around to keep all of them out of his blind spot.

As he does so, Four finally gets a good look at the strangers front—and suddenly he feels sick to his stomach.

The silver glint he saw earlier isn’t a necklace like he thought it was.

It’s a handprint.

It sits just underneath his chin, and with the stranger directly facing him, Four gets a clear view of the way the fingers and thumb frame his jawline, of how they curl inward. The palm of the handprint is right over the windpipe, the thumb and fingers digging into the pulse points at the curve of the jaw.

It looks like… the stranger’s soulmate was… trying to strangle him.

And it’s silver. That’s… that’s Four’s color.

“Who exactly are you guys?” The camper demands, purple eyes ice cold and locked right onto Four.

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In which soulmates are represented by colored handprints, and Four finds his mark around Legend's neck.

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My boyyy :(

“I’m so tired, Captain,” Legend mumbles into his arm. He squeezes his eyes shut, but forces them back open in the same breath. He can’t close them—he can’t. The backs of his eyelids are just a canvas for his memories to torment him. Every time he closes his eyes, he sees a destroyed ship or a trident wreathed in blue flames or his uncle—

His breath catches in his throat. His eyes burn something fierce, but he refuses to blink the irritation away. Frustration wells up in his chest. So he’s had a bad night, big deal! He’s had plenty of those and far worse during his life, so why is this one hitting him so hard?

Beside him, the table creaks as Warriors braces himself against it with one hand. His fingers peek into Legend’s vision. “It’s still early,” his companion assures. “You can still get a couple hours of rest.”

He could. He could curl up in his designated bed on the second floor of the inn, and he would be out like a light the second his head hit the pillow.

But what waits for him in his dreams… Legend is a warrior, a reincarnation of the Spirit of the Hero, the embodiment of courage. But right now, he doesn’t feel like any of those. Right now, he’s ten years old struggling to get a proper grip on a sword slick with his uncle’s blood. Right now, he’s fifteen years old baking under the unforgiving sun after having sentenced an entire island population to death. Right now, he’s sixteen years old and trapped in a wall unable to move or breathe and left to rot.

Right now, he’s seventeen years old, and he can’t sleep.

His frustration dulls into something heavy and aching. He glares at the mahogany table, tracing the grooves in the wood.

“I can’t.” He doesn’t mean to admit it, he doesn’t mean for his voice to sound so hoarse and raw, but it slips out anyway.

“Nightmares?” Warriors asks, still impossibly gentle.

And it’s not quite true. What Legend dreams of aren’t conjuration from a too active imagination, but rather his memories. No, nightmares take the shape of shadows that torment the local deities and heroes—and even then, the nightmare haunting the Windfish still twisted Legend’s memories against him.

He nods anyway. He doesn’t have the energy to explain.

He resigns himself to a sleepless night and an exhausting day. He hopes for a skirmish with some monsters, just to burn what lackluster energy remains. If he can tire himself out enough, he won’t dream this next night.

But then a hand settles in his hair.

It brushes his strawberry blond fringe away from his face, neatly tucking it behind his ear. Fingers sweep back and forth through the strands of hair, nails lightly scratching at his scalp. Legend’s eyes begin burning again. He blinks harshly, swallows around the lump growing in his throat.

“You are so stubborn,” Warriors murmurs to him. “You can ask for help, you know.”

Legend squeezes his stinging eyes shut.

“It’s okay if you need the help.”

He inhales a shuddering breath. Holds it even as his lungs protest at the pressure.

“It’s okay to cry.”

Golden Goddesses damn you, Captain!

The first tear slides down his cheek unimpeded, soaking into his sleeve and leaving a cold trail behind.

The second tear has Legend swiping at it with a watery scowl.

The third tear, and those thereafter, forces Legend to hide his face in his arms entirely. His shoulders and chest tremble with the effort to keep his cries silent, but he can’t fully stop the small hiccups and sniffles that escape.

Warriors is right. He knows he’s right. But for so long, Legend has been on his own with nobody to help him. Since he was ten years old, Legend fought tooth and nail to make things right without anyone to fall back on. His uncle is dead, the rest of his family is missing, his friends and his princess rely on his protection to live in peace.

For him, showing weakness isn’t an option. There’s no time for that. There’s no room for that. There’s no point. Nobody is coming to help him but himself.

Legend has long since come to terms with this. He has been happy, even.

But meeting his latest companions has… changed a couple things.

Because only a few months ago, Legend would have taken a bad night and shoved it to the back of his mind and went about his merry way.

But now here he is, soaking his sleeves with his tears while Warriors—a fellow hero, his companion, his friend—offers him comfort.

And Legend… well, he’s always been a little greedy. He chases the hand, the warmth, the comfort. He dislodges the captain’s hand to bury his face in his tunic, his hands curling into fists to grip the soft green fabric.

Warriors doesn’t miss a beat. That hand returns to carding through his hair while Warriors wraps his other arm around Legend’s shoulders to tuck him closer.

“You’re safe,” the captain tells him, and maybe—just maybe—Legend can believe him this time. Maybe it’s finally his turn to seek refuge and find it. Maybe he can recognize that he’s no longer all alone.

"It's ok to cry"

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OOHHHHH I didn’t even think to count the bottom of the well or the ice cavern!

So for sure, 14 dungeons, 18 if you feel like counting the ice cavern and co.

I personally think it’s worth considering? If I’m counting optional dungeons like the Color Dungeon and mini dungeons like the Royal Crypt, then I don’t see why not?

But that’s just my opinion :D

Legend really be out here doing almost as many dungeons in just his first quest as most of the others have done in two!

Both Four and Wind have done 15 altogether. Hyrule has 16 under his belt and Time has 19. In 2 separate quests!

In JUST ALttP Legend does 13!

So like....can the chain please listen to the poor guy? Like seriously this kid knows what he's talking about.

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You got me thinking about the total number of dungeons and uh… well, here’s a list from least amount of dungeons to greatest amount of dungeons:

Warriors - 0

Obviously, he hasn’t done any lol

(If you wanna count the water temple level and the Wind Waker DLC, then technically it’s still only 1 because canonically, Wars didn’t go to the water temple, Impa did lol)

Wild - 5

Four Divine Beasts, and then Hyrule Castle

I didn’t count the shrines, since those are more like little puzzles than a full fledged dungeon with a boss.

Sky - 7

Two dungeons in each Surface area, then Sky Keep

Twilight - 9

Three to find the pieces of the Fused Shadow, Four to find the Mirror Shards, the Palace of Twilight, and then Hyrule Castle

Time - 9 (OoT) + 5 (MM) = 14 Total

OoT has the three dungeons to get the spiritual stones, the five to get the medallions, and then Ganon’s Tower

MM has the four dungeons in each segment of Termina, and then the Moon if you don’t decide to skip right to fighting Majora (which Time doesn’t do since he has Fierce Deity’s mask)

Idk where you got 19 from tbh, am I missing something?

Wind - 7 (WW) + 8 (PH) = 15 Total

Wind is a little tricky due to two of his dungeons being done in multiple parts

WW has Forsaken Fortress round 1, Dragon Roost Cavern and Forbidden Woods to get the pearls, Tower of the Gods to open the way to Hyrule, Forsaken Fortress round 2, Earth and Wind temples to awaken the sages, and then Ganon’s Tower.

I counted Forsaken Fortress as 1 dungeon since Wind does it in two parts. I personally like to picture it as Part 1 being the segment before the mini boss (Phantom Ganon) and then Part 2 being the mini boss through the rest of the dungeon

PH has three dungeons to find the spirits of Power, Wisdom, and Courage, the Ghost Ship, three more dungeons to find Pure Metals and forge the Phantom Sword, and then the Temple of the Ocean King

Like Forsaken Fortress, I counted the Temple of the Ocean King as 1 dungeon since Wind completes the dungeon in parts

Hyrule - 9 (LoZ) + 7 (AoL) = 16 Total

LoZ has eight dungeons to find the pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom, and then the last dungeon to confront Ganon

AoL has the six palaces to place the crystals in, and then the Great Palace to find the Triforce of Courage

Four - 6 (MC) + 11 (FSA) + 5 (FS) = 22

MC has the four dungeons to get the four elements needed to repair the Picori Blade, the Royal Crypt in order to get the golden kinstone piece, the Palace of Winds because Four got duped and had to do another dungeon to get the wind element, and then Dark Hyrule Castle

FSA is separated into stages, but there are eleven of them that are specifically dungeon themed (some even called Temples in the level name).

FS is weird. Like FSA, it’s separated into stages, but each stage is kind of a mix of a dungeon and overworld shenanigans? But each stage has a boss at the end and features some keys to unlock portions of the stage, so I guess all of FS is a series of dungeons lol

Legend - 13 (ALttP) + 1 (Palace of the Four Sword) + 8 (LA) + 1 (Color Dungeon) + 10 (OoS) + 1 (Moblin’s Keep) + 11 (OoA) + 1 (Room of Rites) + 12 (ALBW) = 58 Total

58 Dungeons. Holy shit.

ALttP has Hyrule Castle to rescue Zelda, three dungeons to get the pendants, Hyrule Castle again, the seven Dark World dungeons, and then Ganon’s Tower.

I counted Hyrule Castle as two dungeons due to Legend accomplishing his goal both times he went to Hyrule Castle (unlike Wind, who got thrown out of Forsaken Fortress and didn’t have the resources to fully complete the Temple of the Ocean King)

Palace of the Four Sword is in ALttP as well, but only in the GBA version. For those that want to count it, that brings Legend’s initial journey housing 14 dungeons total.

LA has the eight dungeons to get the instruments to wake the Wind Fish

The Color Dungeon in LA is optional, so for those that wanna count it, that’s nine total for LA

I didn’t count the Egg itself because it’s basically the site of the final boss? There’s barely anything to the Egg, it’s got one maze and it’s tiny.

OoS has Hero’s Cave, which serves as a tutorial dungeon, and then the Eight Dungeons to collect the Essences of Nature, and then Onox’s Castle.

Moblin’s Keep is an optional dungeon.

OoA has Maku Road, which is another tutorial dungeon, the eight dungeons to collect the Essences of Time, and then Black Tower.

OoA also has Great Moblin’s Keep that serves as an extra dungeon Legend needs to go through for progression

Room of Rites can be in either Oracle game, it’s an extra dungeon that only appears when you link the two games together. This dungeon is where Kotake and Koume kidnap Fable in an attempt to resurrect Ganon.

ALBW has the Eastern Palace where Legend tries to save Osfala, two dungeons to get the Pendants of Wisdom and Power (again), Hyrule Castle, the seven Lorule Dungeons, and then Lorule Castle

I didn’t count TFH because I’ve never played it and I don’t think it’s canon to LU?

Which makes Legend’s grand total number of dungeons 58

So uh, yeah, listen to this kid, he knows exactly what he’s doing.

Legend really be out here doing almost as many dungeons in just his first quest as most of the others have done in two!

Both Four and Wind have done 15 altogether. Hyrule has 16 under his belt and Time has 19. In 2 separate quests!

In JUST ALttP Legend does 13!

So like....can the chain please listen to the poor guy? Like seriously this kid knows what he's talking about.

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for ask requests, is it possible to have Fairy Hyrule interacting with Legend or Wind?

You caught a fairy in your bottle!

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These are the scenes that came to my mind when Hyrule first met Legend. I assume Legend doesn’t know yet that he has a successor or that Ganon won’t revive after he kills Ganon a few times. And Hyrule idolized Legend as a hero before him

How would you feel if you met someone from the future who MAY know your history?

And how would you feel if you met the -legendary- person who became your idol for the first time?

sorry if my English/tenses are wrong.

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in retrospect it is just a bit fucking weird that like. you start up albw and link wakes up and you just See majora's mask on his wall. first of all where did it even come from. what's the history of it ending up on that wall. second of all this is an entirely different timeline so majora is still just In That Thing. no hero of time in the fallen hero timeline after all! does albw link know he's in there. are they chill. what's the fucking deal

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FOLLOW-UP!!! CRITICAL!!! COEFFICIENT MULTIPLIER!!!!!!

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I wrote this for the LU discord weekly prompt. I wasn’t able to finish it on time, so I’ve posted what I had completed. More to come soon!

Summary:

The right end of the hallway has a sharp bend, only going in one direction. The left end of the hallway splits in two on either side. Legend tries his luck with the right side, pausing at the corner and listening for a brief moment for any wayward enemies or traps. When he hears nothing, he sticks his head around the corner.

A deadend. The hallway continues for maybe three feet beyond the corner before abruptly ending–no rubble, no bottomless pit, no doorway, the hallway just simply ends as if it were designed to do so.

Alright then. Legend walks to the left end of his initial hallway with a scowl. He peers down one side of it first and very nearly groans at the sight that meets him.

Yet another hallway, but this one has the pleasure of housing many, many other pathways branching off from it. A glance to the other side shows the same.

Legend’s stomach sinks. He’s in the heart of a maze–and a massive one at that–with no memory as to how he ended up there.

Or:

Legend finds himself lost in a temple. That’s the least of his problems.

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TOGETHER WE SPIRAL 🤝🏻🤝🏻🤝🏻

Because yes, exactly, why show an update about a fairy if there’s nothing to gain from it?? With how much time and effort is put into these updates, no way it’s not important! If the comment Malon made from MalonPT5 about Twi getting hurt came back to bite us, this is DEFINITELY coming back!!

I also think we are well overdue for the slate and charm connection to be brought up?? I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t come up sooner? Other than the initial doodle, it’s been weirdly absent—especially since the group has split up before?

(Don’t tell me there’s a reason it hasn’t come up yet. don’t. I don’t need to spiral FURTHER shdhfjfndhdnf)

But like?? There are so many instances of Jojo either referencing herself or alluding to future events. THE FAIRY IS COMIN BACK

I am personally subscribed to the “it’s the action itself, not the fairy” theory, but it could be anything. It could literally be anything. There’s no right answer until it HAPPENS, WE’RE JUST STUCK SHDNFJDVDJDCN

Chekhov INDEED has his gun pointed at our foreheads, he’s just waiting on Jojo’s order to pull the damn trigger

You got me overthinking about that damn fairy too.

It’s 100% coming back to haunt us, no way it’s not.

But WHEN??

Is it gonna be in the temple?? Is it the GIMMICK of the temple???

Or is Wars gonna keel over and Wind will need to give him the fairy? Or vice versa? Or someone else entirely???

Or maybe someone else without the fairy gets put in a bad spot and remembers that Legend proved it’s possible to change antifairies into regular fairies??

Is it even relevant to the temple?? Is this a long play????? Is this gonna come back like the damn mailman; in an entirely different arc of the comic?????????

Chekhov’s gun is a menace to society and I hate it (I love it, I live for the drama)

My life got so much worse ever since I learned what the chekhov's gun principle is cause now I consume media analyzing EVERYTHING and overthinking every little thing (I'm lying I love doing this lmao)

Ok but I'm so glad I'm not the only one plagued with the idea that the fairy WILL come into play, like why go through the trouble of showing an entire update centered on a fairy just to never bring it up again??

I am 99.9% sure wind caught her, so like going with that idea, wind is in possession of the fairy rn and we don't know if the others have fairies too or not

Jojo hasn't brought the pirate's stone+slate connection up in the main comic, I don't think, so with the group separated like this it's an excellent time to do it!

OR as u said, the showing of the antifairy being turned into a fairy via magic is the relevant thing and not the fairy itself

If say, wind didn't catch the fairy, we did see four really getting worked up over not knowing u could turn antifairies, so like maybe something happens to the only trio and four goes into action looking for an antifairy

AND OHMYGOD DON'T SAY THAT if it doesn't happen now I WILL be STILL thinking about it like that fairy is relevant it HAUNTS ME

CHEKHOV HAS HIS GUN POINTED AT MY FOREHEAD RN THIS IS MAKING ME INSANE JDBDKDN

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Guys windy boi is back

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no one is making the picture so here is my phone doodle while I try to brush my teeth really fast because I’m late goodbye

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MAKE IT WILD

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little doodle based on the new LU chapter