Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

PRO TIP: that first paragraph of a secret world style lore entry befuddling you?

just use bjork lyrics for half of it!

it's fine! it totally works! nobody will notice!*

*until you tell them

because writing lore profiles for your #ffxiv characters in the style of The Secret World's lore entries ( https://wiki.crygaia.org/view/Lore ), is, uhhhhhhh, totally logical, right?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SASpPpX65A--A1olxd6siy40YYd7ce18FTUSXYUFZk4/edit?usp=sharing

@InspectorCaracal well fuck now i'm doing it i guess

@InspectorCaracal that assumes that the ending state of the game is

success.

my one still remaining brain cell: please. nobody will care or understand if you write The Secret World style lore entries for your FFXIV characters. nobody will get it. nobody! please don't waste your time and creative energy on this

me: but what if ...........i did anyway

@InspectorCaracal i mean i feel like the LoZ approach to a cohesive timeline is loosey goosey enough that they'll just make games anyway, and not give a single solitary fuck

also i should mention that if you or anyone else wants to take it on as a plotbunny, feel more than free, just share a cup of smug with me if it turns out we done nailed it somehow and you end up looking fucking clairvoyant on fanfiction.net

just a shameless retoot/reply to this thread as a reminder that if i'm on the money with this BOTW 2 theorizing, i am going to be so incredibly smug, i will transcend my physical form and dominate at least six other dimensions in smuggery

me: well i'm just above celeb drama. i try not to indulge in that, you know

also me: *cues up the 8th video about jacklyn hill's hairy mouldy lipsticks, gets another bowl of popcorn*

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online done and done 💖 🕯️

right whose fursona is this

(picture from We Rate Dogs on facebook, as i am a hack)

listen, i don't know LoZ lore, i'm stretching so much you can call me stretch armstrong, and yet

SURPRISINGLY PLAUSIBLE, I FEEL.

"everyone needs to move forward, because that's how the kingdom will survive and thrive. if you aren't going to move yourselves, though, then i'm going to make you consider the changes."

and ironically that's the same moral that zelda possibly guides the-remains-of-true-champion-ganon to - "living in the past to excess is hurtful. then is not now. begin again."

if this is zelda's test to show she is actually committed to not just repeating the past, there's a point there.

also perhaps the idea of... hyrule of this time rebuilding, but being stuck in the "well back in the glory days". maybe hijacking the divine beasts and guardians was also to say, "y'all can't just rely on shit done thousands of years ago forever and ever. this reliance is holding hyrule back."

what if he's dancing to ganon's tune now? and the ultimately kinda good cause is that we get to reveal how ganon made such strides to break the cycle - a ganon who has a paarthurnax moment, of being good not by birth, but by great effort - only to be betrayed? sure, it's extreme methods, but "a ruler who would betray her dearest friend like that is not fit to rule a kingdom" is also... kind of a good point.

what if the parallels coming up with twilight princess are in the whole... link-is-not-himself. usually he gets to stay human. in twilight princess (if i've got the different games right HNERF) he gets turned into a dog as sort of like... almost faery realm logic, or purgatory, even

he gets pulled into serving a shadowy force, whether he wants to or not. he can put up a token resistance but ultimately, it's dancing to midna's tune

and is he now making zelda prove herself different now, as to break his cycle of rage? is this a test to make zelda - and her kingdom - show that she is worthy of existing, instead of just repeating the same pattern of willingly sacrificing the champion for a momentary break?

if we have an incarnation of ganondorf that grew up gerudo, fought his destiny, and then... realized at the last moment there was only one way to keep the curse contained, and that was sacrificing himself... willingly or unwillingly...

is he so angry now because he remembers a thousand years ago, being made champion, fighting side by side with a princess... who shoved him into the darkness to save herself...?

why's there a shrivelled human form in the ruins?

is it ganon? or is it the remains of ganon after becoming host to an entity that wants to torment link and zelda forever?

and what better way to torment them than to hijack link's body, and drive zelda mad knowing she has to be the one to kill link?