botw 2 inspired me to finally get cracking on all my botw ideas! this one’s a ganon-centric au on whether we become what we are expected to, amongst other fun things
people be like “i stan villains and DARK, DANGEROUS, COMPLEX characters. i hate moralistic goody-two shows characters who never make mistakes, give me DARKNESS, i CRAVE the SHADOWS” and then you click their blogs and it’s wall to wall essays about how their fave villainous/ antagonistic character is actually just an innocent uwu harmless baby who never did anything wrong and “they didn’t mean to blow up that planet or burn that village, it was the trauma and the sad childhood!”….fascinating. so you don’t, in fact, enjoy dark characters…
Here’s the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don’t actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness
The problem is not the goodness or badness of the character, the problem is the extreme disconnect between telling (by the narrative, not other characters) and showing
knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then
what if i wasn’t allowed to love you. what if i loved you anyway. what if you knew and i knew but we wouldn’t dare to take that step. what if we made meaningful eye contact as i knelt at your feet and devoted my whole being to you. what if i whispered your name for only you to hear
“my lord” is actually something that can be so personal
what if i said “my lord” but i actually meant “my love”
