#alexa play the truth untold by bts

[amiharana]

just so obsessed with the idea of revali silently loving link and pining so much for him, but holding back because he's already created this facade that he despises link, because zelda and mipha already loved him first, because why would link ever choose him? so revali keeps it all inside and tries to display his bitterness at unreciprocated love as jealousy and arrogance at the imbalance of their roles, and tries desperately to fall out of love with link.

but it's as though the little hylian won't let him.

link, who practically insists on staying by revali during battle, who stares at revali with that wide blue-eyed gaze, who naps peacefully with his head in revali's lap when they're alone. and revali should be ecstatic at how close they are, but it hurts more than anything. this isn't fair to him, to be so tantalizingly close to link but to never be able to have him more than this. it's so suffocating, revali doesn't think he can stand to do this any longer, or else it might kill him.

but he continues to let link do whatever he pleases; silently tagging along after revali to the archery range, sitting beside him at mealtimes and letting him sneak more bites from revali's plate as though revali doesn't see him, even going as far as to let link sleep with him in his hammock after what revali assumed to have been a very bad nightmare. no one says a single word when revali and link arrive late to breakfast, with link clinging sleepily to revali's wing and revali looking strangely peaceful.

try as he might (he's not trying at all), revali can't say no to link (and neither does he want to), so he supposes he might as well endure this suffering a little longer.

"why do you let me do all this?" link whispers to him once, in the dead of the night, wrapped around revali in his hammock. and revali is silent for a moment, trying to come up with some sort of answer that could defend his actions. but he can't.

"i don't know," he says simply. he can't tell link the truth.

"does it bother you?"

"do you think you'd still be in my bed practically choking me to death with how tightly you're wrapped around me if it did?" revali winces at how biting his words are, but link just hums and snuggles deeper into revali's neck. he doesn't stop link.

"if it bothered you, you'd tell me, right?" the little hylian murmurs.

revali thinks about it for a moment. and he decides, no, i wouldn't. if you wished to be warm, i'd let you use my body as fuel for a campfire.

"go to sleep," he says aloud instead, softly, gently. he couldn't tell link that either, and he probably never would be able to. he wouldn't ever have the chance. "we have battles to prepare for in the morning."

revali wraps his wings snug around the blond, and link practically purrs in content, dozing off immediately into the warmth. like this, the rito almost smiles. if burning himself alive was the only way to have link, even for just a moment that couldn't always be guaranteed, then revali would just have to make sure he stayed alight; to be the bonfire keeping link warm throughout the night.

#revalink #loz #botw #loz botw #legend of zelda #amihan's revalinkverse #this is a draft from APRIL folks. finally finished it up #alexa play the truth untold by bts #revali coming up with every excuse why link shouldn't ever love him back #and link refuting all those excuses with a solution or straight up saying he doesn't care #revali: we can't be together we're not even the same species i can't give you blood kin #link: that's okay i'm fine with adopting #to #revali: we can't date because ah. Uh. erm. ah see there! that spot on your neck! #i hurt you so deeply it left a mark it MUST mean that we weren't ever fated to be! #link: .... revali that is a hickey i willingly let you give me because i wanted it. #i was initially going to stop the post right before the dialogue #but i think it's very revalink of them to acknowledge all of it but continue as is #link thinks that they're fine and that their relationship doesn't need a label #meanwhile revali is straight up going WHAT ARE WE??? WHAT ARE WE LINK????? #q

[studying-bts]

I always try to stay ahead of everyone else because I’m so scared of being left behind

#a lil sad today #text #text post #sigh... #alexa this is so sad play the truth untold by bts

[thebiggesthitonthisstage]

real things ive heard in response to ‘i like kpop’ (and my reactions)

“but you can’t even understand it?” so? you don’t (or at least I and the millions of other kpop fans) don’t need to understand a song to like it. and, if you’re so adament about understanding the song, there are such things as lyric videos, closed captions, and literally just doing a three second google of the english lyrics. 

“so do you find all asians attractive?”  no. absolutely not. do you find all white people attractive? no. there are attractive ones and less visually appealing ones. like any race.  

 “which one do you find attractive? that’s why you like them, right?” 

their talent is what I find attractive, that’s why I like them.

“but Asians aren’t attractive.”  I beg to differ. have you even seen sehun or jaehyun, or solar or irene? bro, you’re missing out on attractive Asians. 

“why are there so many people?” (mostly in response to nct)  well, nct is split into units that do different things. and, the more the merrier. more members, more to like and fall in love with. though, I somehow don’t see 21 as too many as I know and love every member. 

“does everyone sing?”  kpop is more than just singing, there are also dancers and rappers. but, yes, (unless it’s a band), most of the time, they all have at least a line. 

“ew, are the guys wearing makeup?”  first of all, it’s korea. it’s different. just because it’s not what you’re used to doesn’t mean it’s weird or gross. second of all, most, if not, all, male celebrities here wear makeup too. it’s just a thing. it covers up acne and scars and makes their eyes stand out. that’s it. 

“but they don’t play instruments.”  idol groups don’t because they’re busy dancing and being amazing. but, there are a lot of bands too, that play instruments. like day6, the rose, n.flying, onewe, and a ton of others that you should check out if you really need instruments.

“get your head out of korea.”, “can you stop with the kpop thing?”, etc. no. end of discussion.  

“but all they have is hype and party songs.”  actually, there are a lot of chill or sad songs in kpop. while there are a lot of party and edm songs, that’s one genre. it’s like saying every song in English is a country song. it’s just not true. if you want softer or sad songs, they’re easy to find. like loser and bad boy by bigbang, untitled 2014 by g-dragon, timeless and coming home by nct u, and butterfly, the truth untold, and spring day by bts, just to name a few. 

“but they don’t have meaningful songs.” and “but all they sing about is love.” absolutely not. just no. some are just party songs, but there’s also songs with lots of meaning. like basically every song listed above. as well as hellevator by stray kids (about depression and fighting your way through it), wannabe by itzy (about accepting yourself for who you are), noir by sunmi (about losing yourself to an addiction with social media and likes), and n.o by bts (about the messed up education system of south korea. and again, that’s just naming a few. 

and now, let’s end with a banger 

“they aren’t talented, that’s why they’re in a group, they would never make it on their own.”  let’s take the latter half of this first. ‘they would never make it on their own’. but they do. soloists exist. some are from a group that disbanded or they just left, or they’re doing solo stuff on the side of their group activities (like hyuna, sunmi, chungha, etc). others debuted as a soloist and are also very successful (like eric nam, iu, alexa). so no, they’re not only in a group because they’re not talented enough to be on their own (what the statement implied).  second of all, they are mega talented dude. before you call someone untalented, you have to know, let’s say, anything about them. please, before you assume their talent, listen to exo and mamamoo sing, stray kids and blackpink rap, and see seventeen and nct dance. now, those were only a few of my favorite examples, there are soooooo many more very talented people, but this would be too long if I listed them all (it’s already long though sorry).  sorry if this is too long or if I made any mistakes. this is my first post. i was gonna split it into two but then I just decided to make it into one. thank you.

#kpop #rant #day6 #the rose #n.flying #onewe #bigbang #gdragon #nct u #bts #stray kids #itzy #sunmi #exo #mamamoo #blackpink #seventeen #nct #jay's ted talks

[jikooki]

bts: fail

vlive: this is so sad alexa play the truth untold

#bts #sdkfjs i had to #don't repost... but credit if you do lol #1k

[euph-rias]

This is so sad Alexa play the truth untold by BTS ft. Steve Aoki

#ellefteria speaks #bts #🔊BUT I STILL WANT YOU #💖💖💖💖

[amiharana]

NOO IM CRYINg i found these bittersweet prompts AND?? 9 AND 10 GOODBYE that's basically canon revalink and im so sad now

user crow cryiling wants me to die y'all

9. “We won’t grow old together, will we?”  “No, but we made memories that’ll outlive even us.”

for the longest fucking time, i've been wanting to write a fic where revalink is some level of established before the calamity, and they talk right before link is about to leave to go fight ganon at the castle. there are so many different ways i could write it go down but for this prompt... while everyone else is hopeful that they'll be able to beat calamity ganon, revali and link are much more perceptive of their fates. the calamity ganon is a beast unlike any other monsters they've faced together, it's a pure incarnation of an ancient evil that not even the heroes of the past have ever conquered. the other champions haven't gained full control of their beasts yet. zelda's powers have still not awakened. hell, link still has yet to tap into the full potential of the master sword. they were never going to have enough time, this battle was never meant to be won by them; it was never meant to be.

after daruk is finished delegating tasks to the other champions at mount lanayru, link turns to face revali and they both already know. this is it, this the end for them now.

link barely takes one step towards revali before the rito strides forward and wraps the little hylian tightly in his wings. link can barely take one breath before his vision is full of navy blue, his skin smothered in a warmth he's never going to be able to feel again, and the emotions he vowed to never show swell in his chest and rise from his ribcage up his throat, until link is choking back tears into revali's neck.

"it's alright, little jewel," revali murmurs into his hair, still holding him tightly. "we did what we could."

"i know," link whispers, blinded by his own tears and navy blue feathers. "i know. i'm still scared."

"the hylian champion and the wielder of the sword who seals the darkness? scared?" revali tries to tease, but even his voice betrays him. he's just as terrified as link is, with the barest tremble in his feathers.

link breathes in deeply, shutting his eyes and trying to will his tears away. "i wish we had more time," he mumbles into revali's neck. then, he looks up at his lover, with the same wide blue-eyed gaze for the last time. "we won't grow old together, will we?"

"no," revali replies softly, cupping link's face, "but we made memories that'll outlive even us." he presses their foreheads together shutting his eyes, and link holds revali's face in both hands to press a soft kiss to the middle of his beak.

"i love you," link whispers, voice cracking. "i love you so fucking much. i wanted everything with you after this."

"i as well," revali says, brushing link's cheek with a gentle thumb. "in another life, i hope the goddesses will be kinder to us. i'll meet you there in our next life and we can do everything we always wanted, alright? for now... fight that old beast like hell for me, darling." "as if i'd go down without a fight," link mutters, jaw tightening. "even if it kills me, i'll make sure it'll hurt him a hundred times harder."

footsteps approach and revali looks up to meet eyes with zelda, who wears a remorseful expression. he takes a breath and gives her a nod, before slowly, painfully, beginning to let go of link.

"it's time for you to take-off, songbird," revali murmurs. "give him everything you've got. and when you're ready to return, your heart will know where to find me."

link sniffles and pulls away, wiping his eyes with his sleeve. "he won't know what hit him," he says shakily. "til the next time, 'vali. i'll see you there."

"don't be late," revali replies softly, gaze ever so endeared upon link. "i'll be waiting for you, my love."

(they're right; the champions fall within their beasts, and as revali finally collapses to the ground from windblight's attacks, he faces hyrule castle swarmed in horrid, pulsing malice.

"return to me safely, songbird," he whispers and shuts his eyes, taking his final breath. revali can only hope that link will.)

10. “You’re only a memory to me now, but you’re my most cherished memory.”

for this one, i'm imagining link returning to vah medoh after he clears his final divine beast, the night before he plans to fight calamity ganon. i've always leaned towards the idea that link doesn't recall all of his memories and the memories you receive in-game are only flickers of a past link doesn't ever really get to remember so...

he doesn't remember what he had with revali pre-calamity per se, but he's the only ghost of the past that gets more than just flickers of memories. there was more to it than this, link knows it in his soul. it's been bothering him since impa first mentioned the divine beasts, since he saw the floating mechanical bird in the distance, since he stepped into rito village and laid his eyes on the landing... ever since he finally met revali atop vah medoh. link needs to know if there was more than just the facade that revali is playing.

"you're here again?" comes revali's voice when the warp finishes solidifying link's body. the little hylian looks up and the rito's ghostly green figure stands a couple feet in front of him upon the cold rock of the rito pillar, his arms crossed and his brows eternally furrowed into an expression of irritation. "don't you have better things to do rather than loitering around medoh? perhaps, oh i don't know, defeating calamity ganon once and for all?"

"i will," link replies, his voice soft and nearly carried away by the night wind. "tomorrow, i'm going to hyrule castle and i'm going to beat him."

revali stares incredulously at link for a few moments, searching his face as though he told a joke of some kind, before he relaxes. "well," revali says, looking away. "it's about time."

link stares at him, watching the way the ghostly green flames flicker around revali's body. "will you still be here when i defeat him?" he whispers, almost hoping that revali wouldn't hear him.

and he almost thinks he doesn't until revali turns to look back at him. he's silent for a couple moments just staring at link until he speaks. "i don't know," revali says finally. "our spirits have been chained to the divine beasts for a century, because we haven't fulfilled our role in assisting you defeat ganon. if you truly plan on fighting him tomorrow... our roles will have been finally fulfilled. i don't know if our spirits will remain here any longer."

"oh," link says and a freezing unease fills his gut. "oh. okay."

revali searches his face again. "why would you want us to stay?"

"well, i mean," link starts. "it's— i wouldn't actually care for anyone else to stay but you." he averts his eyes and swallows. "everyone else... i only remember a few things about them, nothing solid. i sometimes feel like those memories don't even belong to me. but with you..."

link looks up and meets revali's gaze. "every day since i've woken up, i always felt like there was something missing. and even after i relearned how to fight and speak and traveled to try to remember all those things, it still felt like something was missing. until i tried to remember you and— and it felt right, like you were all the missing puzzle pieces this entire time. there had to have been more, right?"

"there wasn't," revali replies stiffly. "we were champions, you were the hero, and there was nothing more."

"oh come on," link says, breathless and almost irritated. "there had to have been more than you just being an asshole to me all the time. please don't lie. you wouldn't have done that to me back then, would you?" and that's what gets the rito.

"don't do this," revali whispers, his arms dropping to his sides. his voice breaks and something in link tells him to reach out to hold the rito in his arms, to hug him tight and never let go again. "we can't do this. you can't try to remember me now, what we had, it's not worth it to put yourself through this pain. i'll only be a memory you can never recreate."

“you’re only a memory to me now," link says, resolve returning to his voice, "but you’re my most cherished memory. you're the only one i can remember like this, revali, you're the only memories i have. so please tell me; did you love me back then?”

the rito is silent for a while, but he eventually responds. "i did," revali whispers, staring mournfully, regretfully. "i'm sorry."

"don't be," link replies, taking a step towards him. "i think i loved you too. i wish i could remember."

"it would be better if you didn't," revali says and looks away. it stops link in his tracks, his heart pounding and his confidence crumbling.

"if you don't stay after i beat ganon," the little hylian whispers, staring at the ground and clenching his fists, "then i want you to know... i would have liked to make more memories with you. i would have liked to see where we would have ended up together. if we had more time together..."

he looks up at revali, who has since returned his gaze back onto link with an unreadable look in his eyes. "i'm sorry for coming back to torment you like this," link says instead. "you should be allowed to rest after waiting for me to free you after all these years. after i defeat ganon, i hope your spirit will rest well. goodbye, revali. i'll avenge you well." then, he turns and runs, jumping off the edge of the rock pillar unfolding the paraglider to glide back down to the village.

and revali lets him go, watching after link as he leaves again, every step translating into a piercing pain in his own ghostly chest. "i would have liked that too, snowdrop," revali whispers, placing a hand over his heart. for the first time in a hundred years, he feels it, that overwhelming feeling that threatens to spill from his eyes and shake his soul so deeply he shatters into a thousand pieces, lost and never to be whole again. "i would have, too..."

#revalink #loz #botw #loz botw #legend of zelda #amihan's revalinkverse #ask #cryiling #TEEHEE ^_^ #babe wake up new revali pet name for link just dropped #tbh i've had 'snowdrop' as a pet name for link in my revalink concepts for a while #pet name debut! #try reading these as if they're part of the same fanfic lol #to be honest angst is my favorite genre but more specifically angst WITH A HAPPY ENDING. #i want them to have a happy ending so bad they already canonically have the most tragic circumstances for a relationship #but AGHHHH it's so easy to write angst for them teehee #alexa play 'the truth untold' by bts #because revali can never tell link how much he loved him back then #what if i wrote a revalink fanfic based on the story that inspired 'the truth untold' hehe #i already wanna write revalink fic inspired by bts's 'film out' 😭 #crow actually never specified for me to write anything but i did it anyway for funsies bc i was tired of hw #so i hope u guys like these or something idk