#I feel like the calamity happening was a wake up call to him in AOC | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

smilesrobotlover · 5 months

Text

Ok this has been bothering me all day. I saw a post talking about how Rauru and Sonia did more for Zelda than Rhoam did and… I’m once again going to defend Rhoam, cuz that’s a very unfair thing to say and a horrible comparison to make.

Rauru and Sonia helped Zelda with her time powers and learning about the secret stone. Rhoam didn’t help her with her sealing power. Why? Cuz he has no magic and he clearly wasn’t the one who had it. Her mother was the one who had the power and was the one to teach her. Rhoam had no idea what he was doing, he didn’t understand the magic, and he hoped that if she dedicated her life that it would awaken so that the calamity wouldn’t destroy their home.

Well he should’ve tried to help her anyways right? Well, yes it’s easy to say that, unfortunately Rhoam was put in a very bad position of being king with the looming threat of the APOCALYPSE!!!! I think it’s implied that Rhoam married into the family, since his wife had the sealing power from the blood of the goddess or whatever, and seeing how he’s Hylian, he wasn’t a prince from another kingdom since all other kingdoms in this world have small round ears. For all we know, he was a prince consort who was never raised to be king. We don’t know what he was doing before, but with his wife’s sudden death and the responsibility of protecting his kingdom, he didn’t make the right choices. Which isn’t an excuse, but in his position, it’s an explanation. Rauru and Sonia didn’t have an apocalypse threatening to happen, in fact, they were in an era of peace and the future seemed bright. Of course they had time to hang out with Zelda and have tea parties with her. They seemed to be relaxed and having fun, which makes sense seeing how there didn’t seem to be much of a threat to their kingdom, minus Ganondorf, but I don’t think either of them saw him as a huge threat, seeing how they were absolutely blindsided by him.

It’s implied in AOC that Rhoam shouldered all of the responsibilities of the kingdom, and it seemed that he was under a significant amount of pressure during the calamity. And I feel like he mostly did that so Zelda could focus on awakening her power. She didn’t seem to have many responsibilities as princess save for awakening her power and helping out the champions. She is barely 17 so it makes sense that she’s not ruling the kingdom, but I do feel like Rhoam did all that stuff so she could focus on the calamity itself. And I’m sure in his stress he grew frustrated whenever Zelda focused more on the machines than awakening her power. Which was not the right thing to do, but come ON the world is literally about to end and the ONLY piece of the puzzle they need is Zelda!!! Some people forget that she HAD to awaken her powers otherwise the world was going to be destroyed! And it almost was cuz they were awakened too late! They were in such an unfair situation! And it’s not fair to compare him to Rauru and Sonia who were not in the same situation he was in, who were lying around in the grass and drinking tea because the calamity wasn’t there.

Rhoam is such a well written character that acts the way you’d expect someone in his situation to act. And he has so much regret over some of the things he’s had to do to protect Hyrule. You can read it in his journal where he finally gives up and desires to act more like a father to Zelda, you can see it when he takes Terrako away from Zelda, and you can see it when he’s a ghost 100 years after everything is destroyed. He’s so guilty but he did what he thought was best so that Zelda could not have a throne to nothing, so that Hyrule will be safe. And there’s a lot of things he could’ve done better, but people don’t act rational under that much stress. Like come on, would you? Don’t lie you absolutely wouldn’t.

And this post isn’t meant to diss on Rauru and Sonia, I like them in their own ways. But it’s kinda dumb whenever people love complex characters and then turn around and hate on characters like Rhoam and make them completely one-dimensional when they’re not. Y’all are completely unfair to Rhoam.

#he’s not a tyrant or an evil person or an oath breaker or loved Link more than Zelda or an abuser or stupid stuff like that #give him a break #I cant look at the AOC tag cuz all I see are people being stupid about his character #I feel like the calamity happening was a wake up call to him in AOC #and he realized some things about Zelda and the Sheikah technology #and I’m AOC he seems to be giving Zelda some of the responsibility of leading since she’s leading the army now #like HOW do people hate him AOC you people have no taste #it’s sad cuz they didn’t seem to be talking to each other much before the calamity #and when Rhoam was going to just. hang out with Zelda #he wasn’t given the chance #I cant imagine the guilt he felt in those 100 years #losing quite literally everything #ok I’m done ranting about this #I’m so done with Rhoam slander it’s STUOID #ITS SO STUPID #totk #totk spoilers #breath of the wild #age of calamity

115 notes · View notes

moirastuff · 3 years

Note

Hello, could I request hcs of what Revali would be like with a reader that happens to be links sister? Maybe she’s a champion too or something. Quiet like him (but just out of shyness), but certainly talks more then him and is very positive and kind. Maybe Revali try’s to just keep the crush secret, revealing it later?

(I haven’t finished Age of Calamity yet, i just finished the part where Zelda went to the spring of courage. I know Revali is still a butthead, but he’s still a favorite. I actually play his character Quite a bit. I find his play style easy)

I'm SO sorry if this took time, I was so busy with work, but now I'm kinda free and ready to write this.

And don't worry about AoC, I can use it as example but at the same time, no, you will understand it later.

Revali

At first, he thought you will be the same as Link.

You didn't talk that much and you were always behind Link

He thought that maybe you were worst then him, that you were even uncomfortable being near him.

But then... You speak

OH SHIT

THE FAMILY OF LINK CAN ACTUALLY TALK

It happened after the ceremony on the Hyrule Castle and the group photo.

Revali and Mipha fell due to Daruk, you almost fall too but you we're saved for Link.

Being fair, the big guy doesn't know how stronger he is, don't blame him.

After the scare, you we're worried for Mipha and Revali, Link helped Mipha to get up and you helped Revali.

“Are you okay? Are you hurt? Daruk, please do not to that again without warning, please, you probably hurt Revali and Mipha”

Revali at first is impressed, there's people that really care for him.

And then he realized, your voice was BEAUTIFUL.

You sounded so kind and sweet.

He was so perplexed by this new acknowledge that he didn't even realize he was staring at you.

“Revali... You are staring”

Haha feathers go FLUFF

He was embarrassed, like, REALLY EMBARRASSED

He make an excuse to go and he just flew away fast as he could.

The next few days he couldn't practice, the only thing that que can concentrate was your voice.

Extra extra! The Rito Champion is in love!

He wanted to hear your voice again, but there is a problem...

You didn't wanted to go even near to the other Champions, even if you were one of them.

Revali make multiple attempts to get closer to you, none of them work.

Well, yes and no.

His attempts of trying to show he was really skilled in archery, didn't work.

But when he attempt to ask you if you wanted to practice together, and accept, he felt like a dumb ass.

He just realized that you weren't interested on the character that he created it, you were interested on the real him.

Time passes and you two get more closer.

Yes, that also implies that the crush of Revali to you increases.

Sometimes you give him company when he is practicing and take care of him.

You don't like too much the cold of the Hebra Mountain and the nights on Rito Village are freezing.

So Revali let's you hug him, because feathers.

One time you fell asleep on him, he didn't move a muscle until you wake up.

Yes, he sometimes stares at you.

When you're not around, Urbosa makes fun of Revali for his obvious crush.

Link is going to take care of it, don't worry.

“Link, what are you going to do with the master sword? Link? LINK NO”

Link is ready to kill a b*tch that dares to hurt your heart or hurt you at all.

And so is Revali, he will snipe the sh*t out of anyone who dares to make you sad, upset or hurt you.

Or dares to flirt with you.

Revali is jelly jelly.

If you think that the destruction machine you have for brother already causes a lot of people to not talk to you for fear.

Now imagine Revali.

It's the same but he will destroy any person who tries to flirt with you eloquently.

He is really new for this crush thing and doesn't know what to do, he also does not know if you share the same feelings.

And that scares him ✨✨✨

It goes to his deepest insecurities, not being good enough.

So he will flirt with you much as he can until you get it.

But, not flirt like really annoying.

He is not much of compliments, he is more of actions of care.

Like: “Don't forget your things”, “Be careful, you can get hurt”, “I will help you with this” and more.

He might even call you with a nickname, but is kinda embarrassing for him when someone else is around.

I like to think that Revali will call you songbird or morning bird, it depends really what's your personality and interest

If you hug him without warning, his feathers will go puff

“Excuse me, when I give you permission to hug me? It's not even cold”

“But... Your feathers are so soft, I think I can hug you all day”

And that's how you reset a Rito.

Days passed and Revali still doesn't confess, so he decides to do it.

He prepares everything in order to make it perfect.

Then he confesses to you.

He is really worried and nervous, but he hides it really well.

Well... No but yeah

He can't help but just look at you all the time.

Normally I will put something like it doesn't matter if you reject him.

But in this account we simp for Revali, so we are legally obligated to NEVER reject his confession.

He is a happy short bird boy.

Of course, Link won't be a problem because he respects your decision.

Even if is his bird rival.

Cuddles for life?

Yeah... Cuddles for life.

I swear, I can feel the fluff from over here.

He normally doesn't let anybody enter Vah Medoh, except for the princess, but he makes an exception for you.

Now you know how to snipe the sh*t out of everyone with the bow.

He normally is really cocky with everyone, but also sweet and polite except Link, in some occasions.

But you? You have all his soft side

Cuddles? Of course, appreciation? Don't even ask, love? TAKE IT ALL

247 notes · View notes

corpsentry · 3 years

Text

WHEN THE WAR IS OVER AND I AM LYING AMONGST ANGELS, WAITING FOR YOU TO FIND ME: a spoiler-filled addendum

because i buttfucked the timeline harder than nintendo and That’s Mildly Concerning ao3 link

q: what the fuck is this a: this fic is the answer to the question, ‘how can i reconcile the events of breath of the wild and age of calamity into a coherent narrative?’.

q: what the fuck happened a: age of calamity was a dream zelda had while partying in ganon’s apartment for a hundred years.

q: [you point a nerf gun at my head and smash my knees in with a hammer concurrently] what the Fuck happened a: link has a line near the end of chapter one which goes something like ‘my mother used to say dreams are the memories of people from another world’. this is the core concept of the story. while age of calamity is a dream to botw zelda, who saw it unfold over the course of a hundred year nap, it’s also real. in my incredibly fucked up version of things, it happened- just not in the same universe as botw. when botw zelda settled in to drink cheap beer with ganon for a hundred years, her consciousness drifted across time and space to the age of calamity timeline, where she proceeded to live out someone else’s life for a few months. are the other characters in aoc aware of this? link is. at the end of chapter two, when he pleads with zelda to ‘rebuild the old world with [him]’, he falls out of character. he betrays the real purpose of this timeline and his place in it, which is to salvage what botw could not.

q: what the fuck is up with the space-time continuum thing a: inspired by the multiverse theory (note that i know nothing about multiverse theory apart from the fact that there are multiple verses), i decided it would be fun if i added a third dimension to the botw/aoc pair. the inhabitants of this third universe are aware of the existence of multiple worlds. they are also aware of the prophecy of calamity ganon’s return, but for the purpose of this essay it does not matter if calamity ganon will rise in their world. the primary concern of zelda in this third dimension is whether she can engineer a universe where link does not die. as she says in chapter two, there are a thousand possible outcomes, but only two fulfill her requirement: the outcomes that constitute botw and aoc. we can assume she went to enormous lengths to uncover these universes, as described by impa, who says with some disbelief ‘you destroyed the space-time continuum for a boy?’. zelda destroys the space-time continuum. she moves through timeline after timeline, tweaking dialogue and moving the hour-hand ever backwards, and at the end of it all, for all her suffering, what does she actually achieve?

q: okay so what the fuck is up with the scene where link kisses zelda and is like i had a dream where i died and then nothing happens a: first of all, you’ll find this scene near the end of chapter two if you’d like to take a second look at it. as for who exactly this zelda and this link are, it’s unclear. maybe after botw zelda woke up, the original aoc zelda and aoc link lived happily after the war. maybe the zelda in the third dimension missed a positive outcome in her thousand-bullet-pointed list. maybe this, too, is a dream someone had, while lying in a field of flowers somewhere. your call.

q: rabbit???????? a: the story about the rabbit is a framing device. first introduced at the end of chapter one when link tells zelda a story on the bridge at night, it eventually comes to parallel botw zelda’s experiences, but in reverse. the rabbit is happy in her reality. she has a dream where everyone she loves is gone, becomes immersed in it, and is eventually saved by the voice of some-god-or-another. zelda is not particularly happy in her reality (botw). she has a dream where everyone she loves survives, becomes immersed in it, and is pulled out of the dream by some-god-or-another. the important thing to note here is the second rule the rabbit lays out in the story, which is that you, as the dreamer, can’t tell anyone that you’re dreaming. self-awareness is a sin in these lands, but the greater and far worse sin is to attempt to share that self-awareness with someone else. this is why link is so adamant that zelda not finish speaking at the end of chapter two, when ganon is defeated and they are standing on the balcony. he wants her to stay. he’s in love with her. he doesn’t want her dream to end because in a way her dream is his dream too; they want the same things (peace, living champions and family, each other). unfortunately for him, zelda has to leave the aoc world behind, because even a hundred year nap has to end, and so she says what she has to say, she says it feels like she’s dreaming, and she wakes up.

q: please explain, in plain english, whatever the hell goes down in chapter 2. a: chapter one is a relatively straightforward retelling of the first four story chapters in hwaoc. chapter three returns the reader directly to the botw timeline, where link shoots a glowing arrow at ganon’s ass, killing him instantly. chapter two is the glorious fuck that lies in between. in short, it splices the events of aoc and botw together with overlays and meta commentary from the third universe mentioned above, where zelda is trying to engineer a happy ending, and the ambiguous fourth one where link is the one who sees the dream. i made use of several batshit devices here, but the most prominent one is, i hope, the encore. the [ENCORE] is initially used to signal that a scene will be set in the botw timeline. it makes its first appearance before botw zelda and botw link’s journey down from mount lanayru, which, as we know, does not take place in aoc. this is played straight up until the halfway mark or so, at which point i swap out ENCORE for encore and finally ****** (still says encore though). this distinction is lost altogether once impa begins dragging link’s body up to the great plateau. up until now, ENCORE and [these brackets] have been used to distinguish the botw timeline from the aoc one, which is not an encore and is not in [these brackets]. the next segment, concerning the battle on the great plateau, flips them. now impa and co’s funeral procession is ‘real’ and the charge zelda leads to the temple of time is ‘fake’. i wonder why.

q: ‘the lights are BLUE or YELLOW or PINK’. explain. a: what’s a play? a pretense. what does it take to pretend? actors. what is zelda doing? dreaming.

q: fourth wall breaks. explain. a: the interview segments are an homage to the seven thousand articles about age of calamity i read before playing age of calamity because this game was effectively my reason to live for the months of october and november. sooga talks about google maps because he’s dead (possibly dlc?) and dead people have the right to say fuck-all. every device in this story was implemented for a vaguely coherent reason. and then i fucked it up for fun.

q: what is the state of zelda and link’s relationship? a: in the botw timeline i imagine they’re involved with each other even before calamity strikes. in the aoc timeline i imagine they’re working their way towards something, but several important trigger events in botw don’t take place in the aoc timeline and the stakes overall feel significantly lower, so i’d hesitate to say their relationship develops to the same degree it does in the botw timeline. this is all personal conjecture, so you’re free to disagree.

q: why does the last line sound like a hannibal lecter line? a: [dab] god’s plan

q: why does zelda say there are a thousand possible outcomes, and only one where link lived in chapter 3? a: the first rule of time travel: don’t.

this is everything i can think of off the top of my head that might have confused people, but i did unfortunately write this thing so if there’s something else that made you go ‘the fuck?’ please don’t hesitate to drop me an ask or a line in the replies, i’d be happy to help. also, if it isn’t clear as day, i have a lot of fucking feelings about both of these games, so if you want to talk lore, theories, or just miscellaneous zelink fuckery, hit me up. i’ll go sleep now. take care everyone.

#fic blogging #my stuff

59 notes · View notes