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Part 1 of The misadventures of Link
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Light World, Icewall, Humor and Comedy
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Published:
2020-05-24
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2020-05-24
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Link: What evil lurks (plus map)

Summary:

What do you do when you're being driven mad in increments by reality gone mad itself?  When your every attempt at a normal life is thwarted by some insidious evil, laughing at you from behind the shadows?  When every waitress's hand is against you, and not in a good way?

(World map below, more-local composite-Hyrule map in chapter 2.)

Map of Light World, for "Seize the Deity".

Approximately concurrent with the Zelda/Peach romance series “Love against the Darkness”, and the Necroscope-inspired story “To be” set far to the east.

NB:  What used to be the third chapter of this fic is now a separate fic of its own, linked (no pun intended) as a series.

I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!

𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️

Notes:

Chapter 1 is just a prologue, to set the stage; we run into Link's first adventure in chapter 2.

NOTE: “Primordium,” as introduced herein, is a powerful entity (primordial, as you might have inferred); while we don't see much of it directly, and its hand shows only in the actions of its less-powerful minions in Link's life, some attention is given to it (among quite a few others) in a related study of scaling characters' relative power levels in writing and games, titled “Superheroes: Powers and Principalities”.

As for Link's continuing adventures, there are more ideas in the works than just these chapters on AO3 so far, and I'll get around to adding them here and there over time, but they are as yet only the barest snippets and one outline — too minimal for me to include (with any dignity) even a draft form here.  If you really wish to check them out anyway, then you can find them in “What evil lurks” at my Google drive:
▐► https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BG7P_sVezz8Dn5b8js_34yeAjSBhfN0v

NB:  If you're wondering how to make a series on AO3, please see my tutorial “How to make and fix a series on AO3” (in a series with another tutorial on CSS work skins for fonts, which made that link become blue ink highlighted in yellow [assuming that your browser settings, site skin, and third party apps didn't prohibit it]; it also covers how to circle things, view fics' work skin rules, and similar such).

Chapter 1: Primordium

Chapter Text

In the beginning, there was darkness, and chaos strode the lands.


The darkness stirred, waking to the new things crawling within.  A brittle point of light, a focus so tiny as to go unnoticed were it not for the unceasing itch, the burning irritation that it caused.  Whatever issued forth from this sugar glass burr must be unmade.

Turning inward, the darkness consumed itself with an intense yearning, stoking the currents that flowed across eternity, plucking the threads that guided all things, searching for the weak spot to harry.

If it could have smiled, then this moment would have been one of supreme satisfaction...

 

 

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