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Things about Fierce Deity!Wild:
Background!
Wild put on the mask, and due to a combination of him being already more than half insane, having a whole lot of space due to not having any memories aside from ones he made (and possibly the 13 memories), and being unwilling to die more out of pure SPITE than anything else, the mask only filled in gaps in him but was unable to convert him fully into the Fierce Deity entity. Instead, it acts as a power boost. He doesn't see any reason to take it off, and instead can just take off the armour and replace it with other sets.
His meeting with the group is sometime after beating the calamity, maybe 1-3 months.
Appearance!
Wild has worn the mask for a really long time, so his appearance and the Fierce Deity's have started to merge.
His hair is a mix of blond and white, but not in a 50/50 split way. Different parts of his hair are clumps of white or blond strands. His hair style is in his LU form, for simplicity reasons.
He wears a black Hylian hood with an extension (not as far down as assassins creed) to cover his face from the sun, but that also has the effect of making his face dark and mysterious. Win-win for him! His eyes are a blank white, but if he focuses hard enough he can change their color temporarily and/or make them glow. The markings on his face are the same as they are on the mask. The white hood is stored in the Sheikah slate.
He doesn't feel entirely worthy of the champion's tunic, so he usually wears either the dark green Hylian tunic, or the full armor set of whatever "fits" the scenario, such as the full rubber set during a thunderstorm (because he already returned the thunder helm), the desert voe set in the desert, or the armor set from a village (such as stealth in Kakariko village, snowquill set in Rito village, ect.) The fierce deity armor is in the Sheikah slate.
He just wears Hylian trousers. The fierce deity boots are in the Sheikah slate.
If he knows he's going into a battle situation, he switches to the Fierce Deity set before hand.
Other things! (Will 100% be extended / changed later)
He either acts like a leader, would give someone an indepth explanation on how to launch yourself over a wall with a bomb and a shield, looks like he's about to commit arson, or scare the $#it out of people for fun, depending on his mood or just randomly.
Can't think of more at the moment, but I will be back to update this!
Excerpt:
Looking away to eye the edge of the forest, Sky stood up and walked over to the small pile of wood that Legend had gathered, then began placing pieces on top slowly. As he sat back down, he continued watching the fire. As he stared, though, his vision slowly drifted just a little bit higher.
A familiar face stared right back at him, covered in markings. It seemed to vanish as quickly as it appeared, accompanied by… some kind of strange feeling.
Jolting back in surprise, Sky narrowly avoided falling on top of the sleeping Four before hurriedly standing back up to look for what had been staring at him. When he didn’t immediately see anything, he walked to the other side of the fire, then stared into the woods, his mind trying to identify where he had seen that face before. A loud snore interrupted his thoughts, and he stared at where it had come from. Identifying it, he sighed. Time always snored loudly only once during first watch, and usually at the same time. Sky smiled fondly, thinking about the first time it happened. He was about to look away when something on Time’s face caught his eye. Sky slowly walked over to get a better look at the other side of his face. He stifled a gasp when he realized what it was.
Half of Time’s face matched perfectly with the markings he had seen on the face from the other side of the fire. He groaned. It was going to be a long night.
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It's finally here!
So, this is my first time posting a link onto Tumblr, so regardless of if it simply works and has a nice rectangle box around it (best case scenario) or if it pulls a Tumblr (derogatory), the link should go straight to the fic on Ao3. Like I said, I've never done this before, so feedback is appreciated! I wish the excerpt was a little more clear, but (just as a heads up,) I have thoughts™️ about the chain, and so I'll bring them up at the bottom notes whenever they become relevant.
I feel like from what I have written so far the story progresses to fast, but I'll fix that and get better at it as I go (I hope). Enjoy it, and I'll try and keep it updated... whenever. No ideas for any sort of reasonable schedule yet.
Also, I have some prequel chapter segments that I have written as a backstory but if that goes up, it would probably as intermission chapters or something, although if there's ever any interest I could have another work up on Ao3 with the equivalent of dev-commentary. Who knows, though.
Since ToTK is out now and the idea I had for finding the masks is now irrelevant, I decided to share the basic idea of what kind of backstory I had come up with for how Wild got the FD Mask, cause I really liked what I had come up with but couldn't figure out the best way to implement it or the precise order of things happening.
In chronological order of appearance:
Link wakes up, gets told, "Hey, Link, you are this very specific character and your sole purpose is to go save Zelda"
Link doesn't really like this, but hey, what can you do?
Does the basic line of plateau to Dueling Peaks Stable to Impa to Purah to Impa, gets told to go follow the memories, finds the one with the DP in the background and the rock and is really disappointed in how it seems the princess, supposedly the most kind soul in Hyrule, basically directly insults Link's worth.
Thinks "Wow, that's what she thought of me? I must have been an asshole. Damn." and decides that if that's who he used to be, he didn't want to remember his past and risk becoming that again.
Awkward blank period I hadn't figured out leading into the Gerudo quest, where Link gets the Vai outfit and realizes, "Hey, everyone treats me like a different person now! This is pretty nice!" and begins questioning Gender among other things (now referred to as they).
Link goes into Gerudo town, does stuff, and eventually visits the old woman next to the goddess statue who points out the fact that Link is a voe. From Link's negative reaction, she feels slightly bad and decides to chat with them for a bit. This leads to her telling them about a stash of ancient masks that her family had been in charge of guarding for a while, but that her grand-(aunt? something) had lost the map with just a riddle left. Her reasoning for wanting it was that one of the masks would make the wearer seem like a Gerudo, and that espionage would be easy with it. She asks like to find the cache or the rotted/destroyed remains of the cache, and return the Gerudo mask to her.
The riddle was smart sounding and I liked it, but also could have been better as it just meant "shoot an ice arrow through that big skeleton's eye and the cache will show up," so Link thanks the woman and marks it down on the slate as a quest.
After some amount of time, Link goes to the skeleton and does the action, revealing a large crate with a fancy seal for a lock on it, used to hold the magic that made it rise, removes said seal, and opens the crate. Inside is a whole bunch of masks which bear resemblance to the masks from OoT and MM. I didn't get around to fully planing out this part, but this was the sort of vibe I was going for.
Link casually loots it all and puts the masks in the Sheikah Slate, for delivery to the old woman.
They return to Gerudo town and hand over the Gerudo mask to the old woman, who thanks them, and denies the returning of the rest of the masks as they would probably get more use of them than she would. She casually drops the existence of stage plays, which is the first Link has heard of them, and then explains they're where actors pretend to be different people to perform. This catches links attention.
Link eventually starts experimenting with this idea, wearing different masks or outfits and acting like completely different people, and because he is partially rejecting the idea of their only goal being to stop the BBEG and save Hyrule, they are usually more vocal, with exceptions (this doesn't mean they totally ignore their duty, and eventually leads to them beating Clammy Gan).
Eventually, Link visits the Deku tree and hears his (t)request. However, he notices something when Link later climbs up and talks to him from the StumpStool. This basically conveys the idea that the longer magic tools rest in place, the stronger they become.
This is how much I had thought out, and while I might finish this idea, due to the fact that there is now a Misiko quest that has you finding the pieces around Hyrule, I think I will have to revamp the story in order to fit ToTK better and to boost my interest again.
I dont know how much of the original plan will still be implemented, but I think there is enough stuff that I can carry over the ideas from into the new version. And so I will do this!
Eventually. . .