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vatheon2012-01-05 01:53 pm
replicatedcourage) wrote in vatheon2012-01-05 01:53 pm
Entry tags:
Identity Crisis
Who: Dark Link and anyone who comes across him
Where: The park
When: January 5th, dusk
Status: Open
It hurts...
Not the park bench to the face, though that had dislocated his nose and given him two black eyes, causing him to look like a raccoon until he discovered Vatheon's version of a fairy's fountain, the coral.
No, he was fine now, physically, and he was safe here, camped out under the trees, even if his sword and shield had gone missing. What hurt was something else.
She knows everything. She knows about Hyrule, and magic, and everything I don't.
He fought to put the breaks on that train of thought, terrified of what lay around the next cognitive bend. But, as trains do, his thoughts rolled irrepressibly onward.
What if she's right? What if I'm not Link?
A long pause as his whole being fought tooth and nail to keep away from the looming question.
...if she's right, then what's the point of me?
Where: The park
When: January 5th, dusk
Status: Open
It hurts...
Not the park bench to the face, though that had dislocated his nose and given him two black eyes, causing him to look like a raccoon until he discovered Vatheon's version of a fairy's fountain, the coral.
No, he was fine now, physically, and he was safe here, camped out under the trees, even if his sword and shield had gone missing. What hurt was something else.
She knows everything. She knows about Hyrule, and magic, and everything I don't.
He fought to put the breaks on that train of thought, terrified of what lay around the next cognitive bend. But, as trains do, his thoughts rolled irrepressibly onward.
What if she's right? What if I'm not Link?
A long pause as his whole being fought tooth and nail to keep away from the looming question.
...if she's right, then what's the point of me?
no subject
He pauses, considering his phrasing. That sounded like he doesn't believe he is. Is it because Zelda keeps denying me? Zelda is the key, he decides. Zelda is whose mind he needs to change to validate his existence. Zelda has to believe he's Link as much as he does or else...
Or else...
...what?
Dark Link's not certain. He doesn't want to harm her, despite her being a deceitful witch according to his master. But that couldn't be right, either. Zelda is beautiful and knowledgeable and someone with those qualities can't be bad. And he needs her for him to be the hero. The hero gets the princess, that's the way the story goes.
So he has to convince her or else, and he'll worry about the "else" later.
"I am Link. It's not me that needs help understanding, it's her."