#even with no memories you know midna would be all sass

[brainlessbaguette]

Zelda brainrot has begun! I was thinking about how comfy the Ordonian clothes looked and wanted to try my hand at giving Zelda and Midna some. Honestly criminal that we only got that outfit on Link during the tutorial and sumo scenes and never saw it again, I would've played the whole game like that.

[rastro-writes]

Scars left by Love

Day 7: Scars

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They laid in bed together, snuggled close, enjoying each other’s company. Twilight was ecstatic to spend time with his love.

“Have you…” Twilight started.

Wild turned his head sleepily toward his fiancé. When he didn’t continue, Wild hummed a question.

“Have you… ever talked about the scars people left in your life?” Twilight finished.

Wild turned in their bed to face him. Twilight was face up staring at the ceiling like it would reveal the secrets of the universe.

“What do you mean?” Wild asked.

“People, like our adventures, leave us with pain. Scars, even. Do you know what I mean?”

“A little bit. Have you?”.

“Not really. I’ve thought about it, but never talked about it,” he turned to face Wild, “but I’d like to, with you, Wild.”

Wild had a comforting smile at the trust Twi was placing in him. He’s told him about his past, but he never really talked about how it affected him before.

“I… my village was really small and quiet. You know, you’ve seen it. There was this girl I liked, she was sweet, comfortable, so patient. More than I deserved, really.” Twilight reminisced. But his expression turned dark.

“But then there was a monster raid, Bulbins, they took her and all the other village kids, I ran after them into the woods, and into a wall of darkness. A hand-“ he reached his hand out above him for emphasis-“reached out of the wall, grabbed me, and pulled me in. All I remember after that was feeling more tired than ever before, then agony as my wolf shape took over for the first time. Then when I woke up I was in a cell, with Midna watching from the shadows.”

He paused, calming himself from the memory of terror and pain.

“She was- a piece of work, at first. She seemed selfish, self focused, and manipulative. Which. To be fair, she absolutely was manipulative. But her self centeredness was how she worried about her people. So I eventually understood it at least.”

He turned back to face Wild.

“But she opened up my own world to me. We escaped that prison below Hyrule castle. She got me home. I saved the Light Spirit of Faron Woods, they purged the darkness from me, and returned my body to me, with that green tunic and chainmail. It took so long to do what I set out to do. To save the kids of my village. Ilia had lost her memory, somehow, along the way. I wonder if that was a blessing in disguise. My entire adventure was about pushing me further out of my zone, out of my control. Having to do more and more ridiculous and treacherous things with Midna’s help, along most of the way.”

His breath hitched as Wild listened, cobalt blue meeting cerulean.

“Sometime along the way. Probably when Zant tried to kill her. I realized. I didn’t want her to die. I cared about her. She was important to me, by then. And feeling her clutch to me back, paler than I thought possible, and dying. Even as Dusk gave her life force to Midna, all I could feel was relief at Midna being better. It wasn’t- it wasn’t until she left that I realized. I loved her. And her leaving hurt, so damn much. I couldn’t stand it.”

Wild brought his hand up to Twilight's face, as tears pooled in his eyes, threatening to fall.

“You don’t have to keep going, Twi.”

Twilight smiled up at him, even as tears fell down, turned his face to kiss Wild’s palm.

“I want to, now. To show you how much you mean to me… I never thought I’d fall in love again. Ilia was the comforting girl back home, Midna was the girl that showed me the world with her sass and snark as I gawked like a tourist, while also fighting to not get flattened by any number of things. After Midna I didn’t expect to love again. Then I had those dreams as a Wolf, wandering an entire new world alongside you. And I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was the same. I fell for you, little by little. And then when, against all the odds, impossibly, we met again when the goddesses dropped me in front of a Talus, I never wanted to let you go again. Even before I realized I loved you, I still never wanted to let you go.”

Wild was tearing up a bit now, too, “I remember how handsome you looked, when you woke up at camp and looked up at me like I was the most important person you’ve ever seen, right then. I didn’t even get why, but it’s not a look you forget.”

“Goddesses, I made a fool of myself. I blame the concussion.” Twilight lamented, covering his face with his hands, the heavy mood dispelled for a moment.

“Blame whatever you want, that moment is living in my head forever.”

Twilight smiled under his hands, dropping them to see Wild still looking at him, smiling himself.

“It took way too long to realize what I was feeling was love…”

“But you figured it out. And so did I, luckily.” Wild added.

“Ugh, you were so much better about it, though.”

“Hey, you didn’t even know that was an option, give yourself some slack.”

“Do not remind me, Legend gave me shit for weeks.”

They both laughed at that, Wild remembering some of the truly awful jokes leveled at his then-boyfriend for his obliviousness.

“But, the important thing for me…” Twilight started again, “was that I loved you, and realizing you loved me back. The pure joy I felt right then, nothing else mattered. For weeks, I could just look at you and think ‘that’s my boyfriend’, and anything else that was wrong, exhaustion from a fight, boredom from a long walk, the soreness of a bruise, would vanish just by seeing your face, hearing your voice, or holding your hand… Midna left me with a scar over my heart that I never thought would heal. A scar that would just ache and burn, until it killed me inside.”

Wild’s smile faded from the idea he was hurting that much inside even when they first met. “But you saw me. A messed up, gawking weird though I was, literally dogged-” Wild chuckled at the terrible joke, “-and totally out of my world, and my element, and you helped me find a new reason. And it was good to help you again, too.”

“And finding love again…” Twilight took Wild’s hand, a hand that felt so familiar, but felt like electricity, even after all this time, “it was the most exciting adventure of all, and I’m so glad I got to share it with you, Wild. And I want it to be an adventure we share, for a long time.”

Twilight lifted his face to Wild’s hanging over his, and Wild brought his face down, their lips meeting in a gentle caress, and a loving embrace as they twined their hands together, enjoying each other, and the love they share.