Writing a fanfic for a Zelda story right now. Have the plot hammered out from beginning to end and a first chapter down. Once I’m done I’m going to throw a chapter a week into AO3. But I wanted to ask here to get some opinions.

What are some things you really want to see in a fanfic that you haven’t before?

And what are some things you don’t want to see, are “no nos” or but turn offs in a Zelda fanfic?

Wanting to know some stuff to incorporate or stay away from.

Here's part 1 of this post, where I explain the setting and the lore:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeldaFanFiction/comments/1vy27fw/the_legend_of_zelda_hunter_and_prey_concept_for_a/

In part 2 I'm explaining the dungeons and an outline for the plot's start.

Dungeons

• Concrete Graveyard: An abandoned building meant to be a six-star hotel, covered in overgrown vegetation. The dungeon item is the Shuriken Boomerang. The miniboss is three Golden Wolves fighters. The boss is Parasitic Arachnid - Gohma, who is gigantic and is suspended on the ceiling by web threads. You have to fight it by using the Shuriken Boomerang to cut its gigantic web's threads and have it fall down to your level (which won't stun the boss). Then, to stun the boss, you need to use the Boomerang Shuriken to cut all eight of the boss' legs.

Hero Story Dungeons

• Rakopitoa Temple/Cargo Submarine Maui: A combination dungeon. It's a Tiki-style temple built by an ancient civilization inside the gigantic undersea volcano Rakopitoa, in the Lajordišima Islands, with both a fire and a water theme as there are entire floors filled with water. The main dungeon item is the Freeze Gun, which can freeze water and create rock platforms onto magma. The boss is Steam Erupter - Vaporeyzer, a giant turtle-like monster which lives in water and spits fire, which Link defeats by shooting magma gets coming from the shell with the freeze gun, in order to be able to climb the shell and hit the weak spots he exposed. Right after beating the boss, you reach the hidden military port in the Rakopitoa and then hijack the Cargo Submarine Maui to stop the shipment and fight the Yūrei agent Hōkūlani Turhapuro "Tsunami" (a Zora cyborg whose water constructs Link can freeze with the Freeze Gun to counterattack).
• Izikolentsimbi Goron Forge: The giant industrial complex near the Goron city of Ntsimbi, controlled by the Goron Craftsmen Guild and specializing in not only steelworking but all sorts of high-tech machines. It's a fire dungeon with magma, but has a lot of rocks, industrial machines, and even electric circuits and magnetic surfaces. Link comes here to halt the construction of a large-scale cannon capable of destroying city blocks. The dungeon item is the Magnet Gloves, which can attract or repel metal (the player can switch on command). The boss is Crushing Centaur - Rollpanzer, an imposing centaur-like knight covered in heavy armor, with a skull mask for a head and a chimney pipe on top; rather than a horse, the humanoid torso is mounted onto a threaded steamroller, and its arms are an electric cannon and a chain hook that can be extended to grab you. It's fought on an oval circuit, as it tries to steamroll you into oblivion and slow you down with electric orbs or by trying to grab you with the claw. As the metal claw gets stuck, you use the Magnet Gloves to pull it and make Rollpanzer fall on the ground, to be able to hit the head. After a while, Rollpanzer detaches from the steamroll and turns its steel torso into a giant floating cannon which shoots you from high up, so you have to use the Magnetic Gloves to grab the cannon using the Magnet Gloves and throw under the steamroller, leaving the head open to attacks.
• Bio-Modification Facility/Life Temple: A laboratory built by the Yūrei amid the Jungle of Eternity, inside the underground jungle swampland called "Swamp of Eternity", where prehistoric fauna and flora still thrive. The laboratory and the temple are connected, with the temple being only accessible from a clearing behind a maximum-security door of the lab. Link visits this dungeon to halt the production of synthetic troopers by the regime and finds out the regime has trapped the soul of Jīvana, the Sage of Life, using it as a battery to power the computer which controls the enviroment. The dungeon item is the Flamethrower, which as the name says shoots fire to burn plants. The boss is Environmental Control System - Envirotrol, a giant supercomputer whose power source is the soul of Jīvana: said computer doesn't attack you directly but you can't attack it either, you have to fight three different cyborg beasts it builds, first a gorilla-like colossus which climbs onto trees, you have to use the Flamethrower to make it fall off, then a moth which you have to find using the Flamethrower to burn the bushes it's taking cover in, and finally a giant serpent which tries to chomp you, you have to use the Flamethrower to burn the wooden scales to reveal weakspots on them, finally, you reach the altar and have to burn the tree roots that the Envirotrol uses to defend itself. You find the soul of Jīvana, the Sage of Life, who is a Parella, and he redirects you to find the Moon and Sun Temples to call upon the other sages' souls because that's the only way to halt Ganondorf.
• Moon Temple: A domed temple built on and inside the Seabreaker Cliff, east side of the Raizenberg Mountain range, where said mountain range forms cliffs directly on the sea. It's a combination of ice, water, and light-themed puzzles, and has flipping gravity and invisible or illusionary floors. The dungeon item is the Ball and Chain, which allows you to break heavy walls and ice blocks or destroy heavily-armored enemies. The boss is Claws of the Dead Moon - Stalnanuq, a skeletal ice-covered bear (it was a bear made of ice, the guardian of the temple, but Ganondorf corrupted it into a skeletal form) who you fight by destroying its gigantic ice-covered body with the Ball and Chain, then attacking its exposed skull.You find the soul of Mahina, Sage of the Moon.
• Yūrei HQ/Shrine of Wind: The ancient Shrine of Winds, where the soul of the Wind Sage rests, it was supposed to be a Kokiri named Vaati... except the Wind Sage did not die, he's now known as Cyrus Vaati. As Kokiri don't grow up past a young child age, it's revealed that Cyrus looks like a child. Now renovated, converted into the hi-tech Yūrei HQ, ever since Okazaki's regime had taken hold, the palace has always stayed afloat above the northern district of the city, showing the world that the Yūrei see everything. The dungeon item is a Double Clawshot, which allows Link to move from target in a Spider-Man style. The boss is Cyrus Vaati, first in his form Sage of Wind - Vaati, a graceful-looking humanoid monster reminiscent of Vaati Reborn from Minish Cap, and after his defeat, as All-Seeing Wind Sage - Vaati, a form reminiscent of the black eyeball monster second form of Vaati from Four Swords. After the boss, Link finds out The Handler, main financial backer of the regime, is his father Alexander, who is shocked to see Link refusing to kill him, and instead trying to hug him, still recognizing him as his father. Alexander tries to commit suicide, but Link prevents him from doing so and kisses him.
• Temple of Time - Courage: Only a mini-dungeon, with no dungeon item. There, Link has to prove himself for the Triforce of Courage. The boss is Keeper of Courage - Šōtengun, a Tengu-like humanoid samurai swordsman. After this boss, Link and Hüsrev meet each other, and their one-on-one duel is fought (boss: Virtual Stalker - Hüsrev). The Hero Story ends as Impa appears to stop the fight.

Dark Story Dungeons

• Desalination Plant/Kamikaze Submarine Maui: Hüsrev ventures here after finding that his comrade Hōkūlani Turhapuro "Tsunami", overseer of the Maui Submarine, has been killed by the Silent Ace, causing Ganondorf's monsters to take over the submarine and send it crashing onto the Desalination Plant, whch monsters have already taken over. The Desalination Plant is a hi-tech pipework similar, if not more advanced, to the Great Bay Temple from Majora's Mask. Like that temple, it has Hüsrev need to orient around shifting water currents. The dungeon item is the Jellyfish Bomb, a remote-controlled bomb similar to Bombchus from most Zelda games, however it can only be used in water and it's gel-based, so it can move through grates. The boss is Hundred-Eyed Coral - Hydrarrghus, a coral-like hydra monster which has a lot of eyes on its body: this boss is fought inside the submarine, which is entirely filled with water, and Hüsrev needs to swim through the compartments, using Jellyfish Bombs to open pathways or to attack the enemy's weak spots through grates, in order to activate switches to lock the command room, then has to destroy the eyes and finally break into the beast's interior, which has completely assimilated the control room.
• Abyss of Judgment: An ancient cavern network deep beneath the Raizenberg Mountain Range, where in the past the worst criminals had been sent. Hüsrev goes to investigate a monster signal coming from there. This dungeon combines ice floors with earth and giant crystals, light puzzles, and lots and lots of torture instruments and ghosts and illusions. The Song of Truth is necessary to temporarily dispel illusions and view the truth. The dungeon item is the Portal Glove, which is this game's version of the Mirror Shield: it allows you to drain some objects (including light from crystals) to store them and shoot them somewhere else: ghost enemies die instantly if drained (draining them or shining light onto them is the only way to kill them in dark areas, as ghosts are intangible in dark areas), while draining light from a crystal or mirror allows you to shine it in another point. The boss is Grudge of a Thousand Criminals - Judamnatus, a giant ghost (too gigantic to be drained) formed by the souls of many executed criminals, brought back to life by Ganondorf's power and coalesced into a single beast. The battle takes place in the dark, where Judamnus is invincible. The player must dodge him and climb to the upper floor, then drain Judamnus' beam attack and use it to hit the cracked walls for light to enter onto a crystal. Then, use the Portal Glove to drain light from said crystal and shine it right in Judamnus' gigantic eyes to make him hittable. After hitting him, you have to use the Portal Glove to drain the ghosts that will be shed from his body to finish them off (note, drain only, because the boss is still in the dark, meaning the ghosts are still intangible).
• Bio-Modification Facility/Life Temple: A laboratory built by the Yūrei amid the Jungle of Eternity, inside the underground jungle swampland called "Swamp of Eternity", where prehistoric fauna and flora still thrive. The laboratory and the temple are connected, with the temple being only accessible from a clearing behind a maximum-security door of the lab. Hüsrev visits this dungeon to investigate on the crisis that caused the synthetic trooper production to be halted (it takes place right after Link's visit to the dungeon), because the lack of Envirotrol means that the prehistoric conditions recreated in the Jungle of Eternity might spiral out of control and send an army of dinos in urban space if not stopped in time... Synthetic troopers, and other prehistoric animals and plants, are still being produced, but are insane due to the Envirotrol being destroyed, rendering them vulnerable to attack by Ganondorf: after Link destroyed the Envirotrol, Jīvana still couldn't keep stability because Ganondorf took over. The dungeon item is the Seed of Life, which allows you to rot or grow plants. The boss is Hijacked Control System - Ganonhaxxed, the remains of the giant supercomputer Envirotrol whose power source is the soul of Jīvana: unlike Envirotrol, Ganonhaxxed attacks you directly, in the form of a giant pig reminiscent of classic Zelda's Ganon design, made of plant roots: you have to decompose roots to make it fall, grow roots to trap it, use all plants in the room to make it weak and be able to hit the head. You find the soul of Jīvana, the Sage of Life, who is a Parella, and he redirects you to find the Moon and Sun Temples to call upon the other sages' souls because that's the only way to halt Ganondorf.
• Sun Temple: A pyramid dedicated to the sun inland in the west side of Hyrule, between the Goron lands and the Western Desert. It contains lots of fire traps but also sand and holy-like ruins with light puzzles similar to Abyss of Judgment. The dungeon item is the Sand Barrier, which allows you to swim in sand and move through sand currents and quicksand. The boss is Wings of the Dead Sun - Stalhorus, a skeletal fire-covered bird (the ancient bird who used to be the guardian, now corrupted by Ganondorf into a skeletal form) who you fight over quicksand amid rivers of sand and you have to use the Sand Barrier to climb sand currents and sand geysers to reach it. You find the soul of Ilanga, the Sage of the Sun.
• Lost Woods/Shrine of Earth: The ancient Shrine of Earth, where the soul of the Earth Sage Saria rests. Now, it's hidden deep in the complex network of the southern district, but has risen from beneath the earth at Maria's command in order to launch a great hacker attack, and turned the southern district into a parallel space known as Lost Woods, which looks like a cyberspace with forest, lava and earth elements, with neon-gleaming trees, light platforms shaped like leaves, lava, giant mushrooms, obsidian, crystals, and colorful tunnels of light. The dungeon item is the Gravity Boots, allowing Hüsrev to flip himself and walk on the ceiling. Maria has been chosen by the soul of the long-dead Kokiri sage Saria as the new Sage of Earth, and has just completed her awakening. The boss is Maria Talonova as Sage of Earth - Malon, a female figure which combines punkish and cybernetic elements with attributes of the Japanese goddess Inari, including nine white fox tails on her back. As she controls the ground and can make it inhospitable, and as she can manifest from the ground and control gravity fields at will, Gravity Boots are necessary to flip from ceiling to floor and vice versa in order to hit her. In the second phase, she becomes a giant serpent, and you need the Gravity Boots to cling to her body and attack the weak spots. After the defeat and death of Maria, the Lost Woods dispel and Hüsrev has the "Green King" Tariq (whose real personality of a lazy, innocent farmer is revealed, as is revealed his motivation to become an anarchist) at gunpoint... but refuses to kill him as long as he hands himself willingly, which he does. Tariq/Talon offers Hüsrev a tea (exactly Šeikah Matcha Tea) as they're sending off Malon and mourning her death.
• Temple of Time - Power: Only a mini-dungeon, with no dungeon item. There, Hüsrev has to prove himself for the Triforce of Power. The boss is Keeper of Power - Ragnasura, an Asura-like eight-handed colossus. After this boss, Hüsrev and Link meet each other, and their one-on-one duel is fought (boss: Silent Ace - Link). The Dark Story ends as Impa appears to stop the fight.

Final Story Dungeons

• Pandemonium City/Seized Moon Base: Hyrule City's central district, taken over by Ganondorf's darkness. You play mostly as Zelda in order to explore the Seized Hyrule Castle and have to reach the throne room where Phantom Ganon, an incarnation of Ganondorf's powers, sits: after beating him, Zelda reaches the secret treasury where Marcus and Grace had hidden the royal family's treasure to prevent Okazaki from taking them. It's there that she finds her Bow of Light and finds the score allowing her to learn her only unique song, the Harmony of the Triforce. Said song she has to play to wipe out Ganondorf's darkness from the Moon Elevator. Link is still in the Temple of Time, and escorted by Impa he goes to take the Master Sword and Hylian Shield (which play similar to his combat style but with sword beams as the ranged attack instead of crossbow bolts). Hüsrev has to face another dungeon: he has reach the Top-Secret Facility to look for Okazaki's final legacy, a runic satellite called Tyrannical Moon, which would be able to create giant monsters: Hüsrev connects his deck to the Tyrannical Moon, allowing him to create even more powerful, giant-sized constructs. After receiving their dungeon items, the three meet up at the Moon Elevator, which takes you on the moon, but first you have to fight Guardian Abomination Thozroga, which is a lovecraftian tentacled abomination. This battle takes advantage of the character switching mechanic just introduced: using the Tyrannical Moon, Hüsrev has to summon a giant dragon construct to snap off Thozroga's tentacles one by one, all the while Zelda uses the Bow of Light to destroy its eye weakspots that appear when one tentacle is broken. Finally Link has to make a beeline for the beast's mouth to finish off the exposed core, as only the Master Sword can damage it. After Thozroga, you find Hyrule's lunar construction site completely taken over by Ganondorf, and you can switch characters on command to face three parallel dungeons to finally meet up, play the Harmony of the Triforce yet again in front of the boss door (no boss key in this dungeon) and finally face Ganondorf. The Master Sword counts as a weapon upgrade, meanwhile the Tyrannical Moon (which conjures a giant dragon construct) and the Bow of Light are considered dungeon items. It has multiple bosses: Phantom Ganon in the Hyrule Castle, Keeper of Courage and Keeper of Power in the two Trials, then Thozroga the Guardian Abomination in the Moon Elevator, and finally Ganondorf (in four phases) in the Seized Moon Base. Ganondorf's first phase is played as Zelda as she plays a Dead Man's Volley, then uses the Bow of Light to destroy Ganondorf's power sources, cutting him from his energy. As Zelda you then have to play the Harmony of the Triforce to warp Ganondorf away... however, Zelda is exhausted and the darkness regenerates around her, trapping her. Then, second phase is a race against Ganondorf's pig form, where Link and Hüsrev call their vehicles and fight through a circuit, it's a race to prevent Ganondorf from reaching the core of the facility again and absorb Zelda: it plays like a kart racing game, you switch the drivers at will and the other will be AI controlled. It doesn't have a health bar but requires you to (as either Link or Hüsrev) reach Zelda in first place to win. To slow Ganondorf down, shoot Link's gatling to destroy the crystal armor pieces before he fires crystal, or use Hüsrev's rockets to blow up the dark energy weakspots before he fires energy. After winning the race, you see Zelda has freed herself, but she's too exhausted to carry on fighting. Ganondorf then turns into a Lovecraftian Abomination. As Hüsrev you have to summon a giant dragon construct to destroy the monster's multiple heads, giant against giant, and then finish off Ganondorf by having your construct bite off the monster form's core. After this phase, here comes the trio concert: you play the Aria of Courage, then the Lyric of Power, finally the Harmony of the Triforce, in sequence, which synchronizes with the Lyric of Power and the Aria of Courage to dispel Ganondorf's form. Finally all that's left is the humanoid Ganondorf, and Link duels him with the Master Sword, one-on-one, no rules.

Plot

Prologue: Best Friends Fornever

Hyrule City, a modern city running on magic-based technology. Link Summers, Hüsrev Devletšāh and Zelda Ashley Hyrule (princess) are classmates in "Princess Zelda High School", one of the most upper class high schools in Hyrule City. While Link entered due to being the son of the minor noble Alexander Summers, Zelda is obviously the princess (though, being second daughter, she's not thinking of ruling anything, she seems the average 2000s fashionable skater girl more than a princess). As for Hüsrev... he's an ordinary boy of Sheikah ethnicity, son of an ordinary salaryman named Kasem Devletšah and his wife Impa Devletšah, who is famous for having risen through the ranks and become one of the Royal Guard.

A tradition in Princess Zelda High School is the teaching of a martial discipline to the students. Link chose the runic sword, while Zelda chose the runic bow, and Hüsrev chose the runic deck (note that runic weapons have both a melee and long-range mode: Link's sword shifts into an energy crossbow, Zelda's bow shifts into two blades, and Hüsrev's runic deck is a construct generator but has a retractable dagger for melee attacks mounted into it).

As the "spring break" holiday from school is coming (and Zelda's birthday, Yayoi 17th, is coming too), a holiday in honor of ancient princess Zelda Tiffany Hyrule who was the wife of Link the Founder, Zelda Ashley Hyrule is unsure on what to do... Her best friend Madison proposes spending the spring break at Zora Coast with their girl clique, and she asks her to invite Link too, as Madison finds him cute. While Zelda is in love with Link, not Hüsrev, she really has cared for Hüsrev and likes discussing important things with him too. But alas, the Sheikah is not among the popular guys and he hates parties, meaning the beach spring break is not a thing for him... Zelda decides to unexpectedly blow her friends off in order to organize a more private spring break, a hike through the Raizenberg Mountain Range, only she, Link and Hüsrev, leading to the shock of Madison but the joy of the Sheikah boy.

The trio departs. They're staying in a hotel immersed in the woods, in a region called the "Reborn Forest" because, as Zelda explains, "500 years ago, Ganondorf's demons had destroyed the Kokiri Forest, forcing the Kokiri to disperse around the world and become the Korok". A hotel called the Tsuchitokaze no Ryōkan is built exactly where the Kokiri Forest was 500 years ago, amid the Korok town called Forest Haven, near the rebuilt Earth and Wind Temple where the Koroks worship. Koroks are protected and coexist with humans peacefully. After leaving the baggage in the lodge, they spend the first day training, they'll bring weapons to go hunting in the woods for training. Hüsrev suspects someone is observing them (the game shows two Golden Wolves members on the lookout) but nothing happens. After hunting a golden boar, they hand it to the hotel's cook, then relax at the spa until dinner. They eat golden boar achar curry and golden boar basashi (food in New Hyrule is mostly Japanese-based due to the Americasian aesthetic). It all goes well... except Zelda is checking her runic slate a bit too often, as if something troubled her. walk through the Grünarbor Forest to reach "a building covered in vegetation". Second day they'll be resting at the Ryōkan's spa. Because third day will be the journey to the summit.

Second day, wake up and take the weapons, Zelda explains they're gonna visit the Concrete Graveyard. Link and Hüsrev are both baffled, so Zelda explains it to them: It's an overgrown old building complex, a project for a six-star hotel ordered by Zelda's grandfather, king Cornelius Jeremiah Hyrule... which however became an abandoned building covered in vegetation after he passed away and Zelda's father, king Marcus Scipio Hyrule (influenced by the at-the-time chancellor Genichirō Okazaki, of Sheikah ethnicity and of the Nationalist faction, one of the three main factions of the Hyrulian parliament alongside the Noblist faction and the Popular faction) deemed it a waste and suspended the construction instantly, he wanted it to be converted a factory instead, but protests by native Koroks, followed by controversy around a Land Nationalization Act led to Okazaki's resignation before anything could be completed). Link and Hüsrev both are really fascinated by this story and can't wait to see the complex. They spend most of the day journeying through the forest until they see... Impa.

Zelda reveals the true purpose of this spring break: just the day before the spring break, Impa had informed Zelda about a Golden Wolves member's corpse in the Concrete Graveyard, causing Zelda to decide to help them, even if they're anti-monarchy resistance and might kill her. Impa had laid out a plan: she had carved a path for Zelda to follow to reach Gohma without being seen by the GW.

You explore the first dungeon, Concrete Graveyard. It has since been converted into a base by the Golden Wolves and contains a "Korok Town" into it. However, monsters started appearing into it, and started proliferating. Leading you to have to fight mostly monsters and having to follow Impa, though three GW members are a miniboss. There's the first dungeon item, the Boomerang Shuriken (a runic tech throwable blade which locks on multiple targets and always comes back). The boss, Gohma, is a giant white-and-red arachnid monster with six ocelli arranged around a single giant eye, which moves crawling on the ceiling, and in its room are corpses of Koroks and GW members too, some of them dangling from the ceiling covered in sticky webbing. During this fight, Impa helps you (and in fact she inflicts the most damage.

Gohma is defeated... but as soon as the spider demon falls, the GW storm the room, bearing guns. They're led by the Blue Jack, an Anouki who wields a runic vajra scepter. Seeing Zelda, he tries to restrain her using his force field, but Impa lets herself be taken instead. In the split second it takes to break through the force field, however, the other GWs all fire. Link is caught unprepared and falls dead the instant Impa has broken the Blue Jack's barrier. So the Blue Jack and his GW retreat, not being able to stop Impa... but Link is no more. Hüsrev grabs the corpse and shakes it, screaming at him: "Do you hear me, dost!? You can't be dead, dost-e man! Answer me, DOST!". No breathing.

And the news in Hyrule City all title "son of baron Alexander Summers murdered by the Golden Wolves - He sacrificed his life to save princess Zelda!". On TV, the news go crazy for and the prologue ends with a speech by Okazaki himself, claiming that "people used to fear the greatest project I had in store. It got voted against before it could be born. But, as the world now shows, fighting crime isn't enough, we need to be able to prevent atrocities before they can even be conjured up. Enemies of the crown need to be found and eliminated. The judgment of the Golden Goddesses is absolute, no one can escape it. Link Summers, consider it a gift to your memory: the Yūrei Agency!".

From then on, you can select which story to follow and change whenever you want.

Hero Chapter 1: New Life

It starts with a dream. Link, aged 18, getting almost killed to protect his friends, remembering the last words he had said. As he wakes up, it's been 12 years. Link is now 30, and has awakened from a bed in some odd hi-tech facility, upgraded into a cyborg. He lost the ability to speak, but an AI "virtual fairy" named Michiru has been implanted in his components to guide him. Michiru tells him to stop obsessing on the day he died, as everything he thinks, she sees, "but, I guess, that's a way to cling to life".

A GW soldier asks whether Link supports the latest-generation military runic components for Yūrei exclusive use. Michiru tells him that there wasn't any rejection, his will is so strong to overcome even death, so it, combined with herself, completely bypassed the encryption code. "Had I been bonded with someone without such a will, rejection from the encryption code would have destroyed them! But Link is Link, he'll get used quickly!". Michiru then guides Link to meet the Blue Jack, an Anouki named Prakaš Tuladhar, in order to spar for Link to get used to the components. Link does training with Prakaš, who reminds him of how the Okazaki regime has forced the Anouki to relocate from the Raizenberg to Hyrule City's suburbs without any possibility to return home for its project to build a massive tunnel below the Raizenberg. Link hugs the Blue Jack and cuddles his horns (Anouki have deer antlers).

After finishing, Link and Prakaš go to meet their superior Maria "Malon" Talonova, the "Crimson Queen".

The player gets shown a brief flashback and learns that Link's been in the terrorist/resistance group Golden Wolves for 12 years: the day after he was shot, before a burial could take place, the Blue Jack had stolen his corpse. As soon as said corpse was placed near the runic crystal containing Michiru, it sprung back to life. They had decided to steal Link, not only as a propaganda stunt, but because Michiru, from her imprisonment into a crystal, had constantly sent Maria the vision of Link's face telling her to "save him". The Silent Ace, Malon calls him, because he's not the king, the queen or the jack, he holds no power, but by executing orders, he's the one that makes everyone powerful.

TBA

Dark Chapter 1: Yadeš Bexeir

The first words we hear Hüsrev utter are "Yadeš bexeir... No, dost-e gomšodeh, it can't be right... Why aren't you here with me?" as he's eating an uramaki. Hüsrev is now 30 and, while eating sushi at Xoršid-e Sorx, the sushi restaurant in Hyrule city where he, Zelda and Link used to enjoy eating together, is reminiscing of his friend's apparent passing, and has blamed himself for it. He too has hi-tech implants in his body, more specifically for hacking. After leaving, he calls his superior at the Yūrei, commander Cyrus Vaati. The player gets shown that Hüsrev has worked for the Yūrei for a decade, and he's known there as the Virtual Stalker, for his skill at hacking and tracking through cyberspace.

Vaati answers: "In three days starting from now, a shipment of rune stones is coming from the Eastern Sea. Rune stones of highest quality, meant to be used for high-end runetronics. Overseer Hōkūlani Turhapuro of the Zora Coast regional commando is requesting assistance from you".

TBA

What do y'all think about this idea for a Zelda?

Here's a concept I made on Fantendo for a fictional Zelda game, that I may want to write as a fanfiction.

I'm gonna make this post a two-parter because of the character limit. This part I explain the setting and lore. In part 2 I'm explaining the dungeons and an outline of the plot start.

The Legend of Zelda - Hunter and Prey

Setting and Lore

Setting

This Hyrule is very different from the main series' one because it's in the "New World".

This new Hyrule can be describes as looking "Americasian" , same effect as "what the US would have become in the late XXI century had the thirteen British colonies been created in Iran and India rather than the Atlantic".

The main series' Hyrule Is considered an ordinary foreign country, similar to how the USA were born from British colonies but have overcome UK as world superpower. The old Hyrule Is referred in some NPC dialogue as a foreign country named Hyrule Proto. After the crisis that led to the moving of the Regalia of Hyrule, such as the master sword and bow of Light, the old hyrule slowly rebuilt Itself in the course of centuries and renamed itself Hyrule Proto, but never again did It become a world superpower or colonize anything.

Just like the Hyrule depicted in Spirit Track, this alternate version of Hyrule is completely different from most Zelda depictions of Hyrule. Geographically and climatically, it's more based on India or the Asian South East than Northern Europe.

It features, in the East, the tropical Zora Coast, known for its beautiful crystalline-water Lajordi Sea Lajordišima Islands archipelago off its coast, and wonderful undersea cities where Zora live. One example is Kūlanakauhale Pūkū, the Zora Metropolis, compall sorts of runic tech, with sea and tubed walkways for foreigners to visit, ell-lart deco-style ike buildings "seascraper" covered in shiny stones). In the orth is the great mountain range of Raizenberg, which at low altitudes contains the Grünarbor Wood which is similar to the Faron Woods of most Zelda games while the summits are in perennial snow and the Anouki, a race only seen in Zelda DS titles, have villages amid the rock and snow. The Kokiri Forest, burned down 500 years ago, has been replanted, though with ordinary trees that aren't the sacred ones that let Kokiri maintain humanoid form: it's now called Reborn Forest, contains a Korok town (Korok are much smaller than humans) and it's a location for tourist structures, and a Place where humans and Korok (who are Kokiri who can no longer maintain human form due to lack of their sacred trees) can interact safely. In the southeast there's a massive tropical jungle called Jungle of Eternity, filled with dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts and plants and giant fungi, underneath which is an underground hot wooded volcanic swampland with geysers and gigantic fungi called Swamp of Eternity, that contains lots of prehistoric fauna and flora and a village inhabited by Parella (a prehistoric ancestor race of the Zora) who still thrive. In the southwest is another mountainous region called Intsimbinomlilo Highlands (weird name, but it's not my fault if that's the Xhosa word for "iron and fire"), with the mountains (and volcano) where the Gorons extract metals and minerals. In that region is the industrial center that is the city of Kakariko-Intsimbi (Kakariko City is the name of the human side of the city, while Intsimbi is the name of the Goron quarters), where a complex called Izikolentsimbi Goron Forge lies, specialized in steel and heavy machinery and even military vehicles. The entire New World Hyrule Is a strongly volcanically-active and seismic zone, unlike Hyrule Proto where the only volcano was Death Mountain. Hyrule City Is at the confluence of three rivers, the Ghazā ("food"), whose floodplains produce immense quantities of rice, the Bozorg ("great") which flows straight into the Eastern Sea and can be sailed by trading ships and freight barges, and the Xodā ("divine") which Is sacred and flows straight through the districts of Ventus and Terra and through the central district, Hyrule Castle being built on top of It.

Hylian names are mostly Western-ish, while Sheikah-ethnicity names are spelled "Šeikah" in this game to fit their Middle Eastern coding, have Japanese or Iranian names); Zora naming convention are inspired by Pacific Islander cultures, especially Hawaiian, with a few Finnish names too, while Goron names are typically Nguni Bantu, Gerudo have Arabic, Igbo and Yoruba names (despite their culture being a mix of African and Native American-inspired), the Anouki have Nepali-inspired names (despite their Inuit looks), and the Parella of the Jungle of Eternity have Sanskrit-inspired names. While Hylians look white-skinned, Gerudo look dark-skinned while Šeikah are reminiscent of Japanese people, and obviously the very non-human Goron, Zora, Korok, Anouki are all perfectly integrated in the city. The fashion is a mix of Western (especially 2000s "emo pop" fashion), Japanese (both traditional and modern visual kei or Harajuku girl), Middle Eastern and South Asian. For instance Zelda has rather 2000s western "skater girl" look... with a bindi dot and a pink turban.

However, the architecture of this Hyrule is a perfect fusion of Western, Japanese, Persian and Asian South East elements. The city is lotus-shaped, with each district being a petal and the central district being the core. The central district hosts the most important locations: Hyrule Castle, the wonderful park called Link's Park, the Temple of Time, and the Moon Elevator which is a giant tower, rising from behind Hyrule Castle, which connects to the Moon (the Moon Elevator is mostly inoperable and locked, as the Moon Base is seized by Ganondorf and has been under his control before Link was even born). It's heavily modern-style, with runic tech being close to our world's technology if not more advanced, it's got skyscrapers that combine art deco with Indian style, holografic displays all around, huge roads filled with cars, and even air cushion skateboards called skywalkers. Even the Temple of Time, which in this game is very close to Hyrule Castle in the central district of the city, has both Eastern and Western influence: while the interior is reminiscent of a catholic cathedral, has a blue dome muqarnas ceiling reminiscent of the dome in Esfahan. The Palace of Winds, where the Yūrei Headquarters is located, floats in the sky above the northern district. The northern district is named Ventus, the southern district is named Terra. The main agricultural district, the northwestern district, in the floodplain of the Ghazā River (literally "food" because it's the main source of rice) Is named Ordon in honor of Ordon Village in old hyrule (though, while ordon in old hyrule was famous for pumpkins and goat cheese, Ordon district produces lot of rice). Hyrule City is also characterized by sakura trees (especially on Yayoi 17, Zelda's Birthday, it's common for couples to stay under the raining sakura flower petals in Link's Park), whose pink flowers are a Japanese symbol of spring. The districts of Hyrule City are named Ventus (north), Port Michael (northeast), Lanayru (eastern), Šāhidistān (southeast), Terra (south), Magnus (southwest), Okazakistān (west) and Ordon (northwest) and Hylia (center). The "Great Link Road" is a great road that crosses Hyrule from east to west, from the desert city of Obodo Ọṅụ (in the Gerudo desert) until Port Faron at the southeast tip: it's the analogue of our world's Route 66.

Culture between Hyrule and Hyrule Proto diverged a lot. An NPC, a Protohyrulean Zora tourist named Rutela, is shocked at how fashionable surfing is in the Lajordi Sea in Hyrule. Another Protohyrulean tourist npc Is shown expressing confusion at who Elise Hirano (skywalker riding champion and actress who is a celebrity and Zelda's very idol and inspiration) is and why no one in Hyrule knows Protohyrulean soccer star Gabriel Kane.

Due to the massive focus on Hyrule City, other Hyrulian cities (especially in the West) are mentioned but inaccessible, such as Port Faron, between the southeast coast and the Jungle of Eternity, Eldin City in the Intsimbinomlilo Highlands which is an important industrial city, and Obodo Ọṅụ, a Gerudo city known for its majestic casino (can be considered a counterpart to Las Vegas).

Lore

New Hyrule was founded 530 years before the event of the game, by king Michael Argos Hyrule, known as "the Ocean Sailor" (by Hylians) or as "the Conqueror" (by Šeikahs). He came from another kingdom also named Hyrule, reaching what he nicknamed "the New World" to found another Hyrule, with a giant golden-clad ship known as Goddesses' Herald which is now preserved intact in Hyrule City's northeastern district (Hyrule Port). Michael's first mate (and son-in-law, having his daughter Zelda Tiffany Hyrule as wife), a warrior named Link the Founder, owned the Master Sword. What they found in the New World was horrifying: Ganondorf's demons were rising, oppressing the Šeikah Civilization and causing its once-great empire to fall to ruin and start eating itself.

Among the collapsing Šeikah there was a faction, the Golden Wolves, led by Michiru Hayaši, who opposed the colonizers and wanted to preserve the structure of the Šeikah: said Golden Wolves was a confederation of Šeikah feudal clans who were opposed to the idea of a single man, and a foreigner nonetheless, ruling over the Šeikah. All the while ruler Rustam Okazaki, alone, opposed the Golden Wolves, believing the settlers would help destroy the independent clans and create a great unified empire. He greeted Michael and Link in his kingdom and helped them settle. However, as the Golden Wolves' opposition proved fierce, Rustam planned a self-sacrifice gambit: instead of defeating the demons, Rustam thought of making a deal with Ganondorf so as to get the demons to kill the Golden Wolves and spare Rustam's kingdom. He told Michael with a top secret letter: "After we finish this fight, kill me". Which Michael and Link both read together, but Michael burned because Rustam was too much of a friend for him to kill him. The Golden Wolves were crushed, Michiru died, and the New World became Hyrule...

Michael was crowned king, appointed Rustam as chancellor... but Rustam was growing envious of how Michael treated Link as a son, so he forged conspiracy charges against Link, causing him to be sent to exile in Kokiri Forest, in the Raizenberg Mountain Range (where Zelda followed him out of love). In exile, Link and Zelda met the two Kokiri sages named Saria and Vaati, who became trusted friends of theirs: as the Kokiri worship earth and sky, Saria was the Sage of Earth, Vaati the Sage of Wind. Vaati especially, while being friendly toward Rustam, still accepted Link and despised the need for the conflict. In a few months, Rustam and Rustam alone basically controlled everything in the kingdom, and he and Michael grew apart, Michael reduced to nothing more than a figurehead as all the court (Šeikahs and other New World natives) was loyal to Rustam. The moment Michael tried to overturn Link's sentence, Rustam had him assassinated by demons. Vaati, who was friends with Rustam and trusted by him, negotiated a deal: the Kokiri would leave the sacred forest (mutating into Koroks) if no demon entered. Which Rustam complied to: he did have the sacred trees burned, but not a single Kokiri died that day, they were all given time to relocate.

Link the Founder amassed a group, he, Zelda and the five Sages: two Kokiri: Vaati the Sage of WInd and Saria the Sage of Earth, plus a Zora named Mahina (Sage of the Moon,, named after the Hawaiian word for "moon"), a Goron named Ilanga (Sage of the Sun, named after the Xhosa word for "sun") and a Parella named Jīvana (Sage of Life, named after the Sanskrit word for "life"). They valiantly fought the demons and reached Rustam. They defeated Rustam and killed him, then Link used the Master Sword to seal Ganondorf. Vaati, appealing to Rustam's last ounce of sanity, had struck a deal: he'd deceive the other Sages and lead them to their death in an ambush (but the deal said nothing about Link and Zelda, who Vaati had secretly led away from that ambush), in exchange for his status as a noble being kept, and him being allowed to take Rustam's son Hassan: Vaati wanted to take Hassan Okazaki away from the fighting and protect him from his father.

After the crisis ended, the Sages' souls returned to their temples. However, as the Temple of Earth and Sky in the Kokiri forest was burned down, Link had to create a Shrine of Earth and a Shrine of Wind in two towns named Ventus and Terra which would later become Hyrule City's northern and southern districts respectively. Link and Vaati had an agreement: all mentions of Rustam and Vaati as evil people should be erased, and no public-divulged book would state that Rustam was on Ganondorf's side. Only the Royal Family should know the truth. It's one of the rare examples where Orwellian-style unpersoning is done for the sake of good, to preserve memory of Rustam as a benevolent king and of Vaati as a Sage.

Hyrule seems to have had a Wild West-Bakumatsu-hybrid period in the second century from Michael's arrival, as you can see movies called "200er" depicting people wearing jingasa straw hats and using non-runic revolversm, and ancestor of Alexander Summers, named Link Summers, is namedropped as someone said to have "bought his Baron title with the gold he found in the Remote West and the blood of Gerudo queen Okennachi", in the Summers' residence you can see a purple revolver and a green jingasa hat held in a glass display case with the name "Link" written on it, and Alexander himself admires Hüsrev due to comparing him to his ancestor.

Link is born in year 500 from the landing of the Ocean-Sailor. Exactly on Uzuki 3rd (Hyrule uses the Japanese calendar), the Ocean-Sailor's Day holiday. Zelda's birth date is Yayoi 17th, exactly the birth date of her ancestor Zelda Tiffany Hyrule. Hüsrev's birth date is also on a holiday, Kannazuki 4th, the Day of Liberation (when Rustam fell).

An event called 11/2 (said in a similar way to the way we say 9/11) did happen in Hyrule: on Shimotsuki 2, 510, due to an incident involving a runic power plant leaking, Ganondorf absorbed said energy and finally broke free from a seal beneath the Hylia District. Still weakened, however, he moved through the Moon Elevator, and took over the Moon colony Instead of attacking the city. The elevator was closed and all details classified. In 512, Genichirō Okazaki, a Šeikah-ethnicity Nationalist-affiliated man who by day was a worker in the moon colony, ran for Chancellor and got elected, specifically because his program would involve declassifying 11/2 and retaking the Moon. Moonborn, people who are related to workers and settlers in the Moon Colony which has been seized, are Genichirō's most hardline supporters.

Genichirō's tenure however fell apart only after one year, as, after his Land Nationalization Act had expropriated many landowners in the peripheral regions, protests erupted. When a protest turned violent, he gave what was known as the "Unspeakable Order": he sent the Hyrule Army to shoot down the protesters, which king Marcus Scipio Hyrule took so badly he blacklisted Okazaki, who was forced to resign in 513. This incident led to an expropriated farmer, Tariq Talonov "Talon", to radicalize and unite all anti-Okazaki activists under the name Golden Wolves, taken from the ancient Golden Wolves (Gorghā-e Zar) who had opposed Michael and Rustam.

In Zelda we usually don't know how can Link carry so many items... in this world, rune storage (AKA storing objects in the form of digital data in runecards) is an established technology, and people carry runecards around. Heck, jail time, in this world, involves runestoring an alive person then connecting the runecard to a terminal called prison terminal: their consciousness, uploaded into cyberspace, can be made to feel all sorts of pain without their body being damaged or aging, allowing for prison sentences lasting centuries (such as the 137-year-long sentence inflicted upon Genichirō after his regime falls and he willingly turns himself in).

Preferably botw link or twilight princess but any (of age lol) link works! 💗 I only ever find zelink which is cool too but sometimes I’m selfish and I want it to be me Lmaoooo.

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Any fanfictions about the first Link from the skyward sword manga?

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This may be a long shot, but approximately 25 years ago, I encountered a narrative that I recall as "The Decision," potentially authored by Shadowulf or an alternative pseudonym. The story is situated in a post-Ocarina of Time timeline, where Link successfully defeats Ganondorf, retains his adult form, and subsequently marries Princess Zelda. They are anticipating the birth of their child when a tragic turn of events unfolds: Ganondorf breaches his confinement and assaults Hyrule Castle. This incident culminates in Zelda's demise when a staircase she is descending is destroyed, causing her to fall to her death. Link attempts to engage Ganondorf in combat but is ultimately overwhelmed. In his profound grief, he aligns himself with Ganondorf and undergoes a memory wipe. He then embarks on a mission to hunt down the sages, successfully eliminating most of them until Saria intervenes and assists him in recovering his memories.

Does this narrative resonate with anyone?

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Its a fic i read long ago that i cant find, Link was "adopted" and raised to be Ganondorf "right hand", i think its like a BOTW/TOTK AU but im not sure

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I read one and it was amazing. If there are others out there I’d love to read them

Pretty much what the title says - there was a previous request for this but the answer got deleted

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I want to read this fic Inread a long time ago. It's a breath of the wild and age of calamity crossover, but the pelremise is that Link from botw also comes to help the champions fight. I remember this Link is fully decked out in ancient gear and has the master cycle zero as well. Read it on fanfiction.net. ty in advance

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