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Yet Another Zelda Roleswap (the masterpost)

✨what's this AU?

Check THIS POST I DID that started it all and also the AU’s tag

✨in this au, the previous legends about the triforce are the same, aka “zeldas are princesses links are heroes and ganon/ganondorf is always the same guy and the big bad”! BUT THIS TIME DESTINY DID AN OOPSIE and ganondorf forgot all about his previous lives while link is the one who remembers them all!!! zelda just wants to travel and read cool legends and didnt expect to be part of one

✨ZELDA STUFF

-trans girl, found the name zelda in very very very old royal records

-she's like 16 or something

-seventh heir to the throne who wants to prove herself, so she goes on an adventure to save the world!!!!

-adventurous and impulsive and naive

-main weapon is bows, she also knows magic and sheikah techniques

-has six siblings who dont really pay attention to her. shes probably the youngest

-her point of view is very black and white at first

-even when she gets in the middle of link and ganon’s story she still doesn’t believe she is The Zelda of legend

-how could she she’s just a zelda, one among many, just a kid playing at being a princess

-(she IS the zelda)

-she gets a bird AND a white horse!!!!

-if she sees a weird cave she WILL go into it

-would probably eat moss if dared

✨LINK STUFF

-genderfluid, uses he/they

-hes in his early twenties

-a man zelda meets during her travels, who seems to know a lot about old legends

-he can see koroks and fairies, who can’t be seen by most people

-gets all his past lives' memories after he gets the master sword, over a period of a day or two

-maybe link does remember his past deaths along with his past lives, but past deaths are maybe more muted…. less like he experienced them and more like someone told him about it. still fucks him up tho

-i feel like he’d be pretty nice and sleepy all the time, until you mention something that has to do with his memories (aka, ganondorf, but also like “oh ive heard some hero in the legends went back to being a kid to save the world or whatever) and he’d get this super serious, focused look… something like that, little things that would make zelda go :^?

-he just really wants to kill ganondorf ya dig

-SO MANY BOSS FORMS probably one per main title (kinda like xant’s battle in TP) (strongest/hardest to fight is majora’s mask link), and final form is definitely some twisted looking fierce deity

-as for his past selves he has all of their memories and its kind of… they’re not him, he’s him, they’re just memories that he has, but when he is very very stressed its “memories become actual personalities for a sec” time. 99% of the time its just him and then ganondorf is there and its like WILL EVERYONE SHUT UP IM TRYING TO MAKE A MURDER HERE

-he’s not controlled by malice or anything because it would feel like a deus ex machina to me

-in the end he doesnt die and he gets redemption because he didnt hurt anyone he just tried to kill ganondorf a few times hes good, and also zelda is his friend and an heir to the throne he’s got immunity. poor guy just needs help processing all those lives and needs a cabin in the woods with some fairies!!!

-re: his past lives, oot link SUPER HATES ganondorf while ww link is more sympathetic. links who havent fought ganondorf are ambivalent about him

-endgame ship is either with ganondorf OR beedle. beedle is the secret ending

-will eat moss

✨GANONDORF STUFF

-he's in his twenties i promise he just has resting old man face

-zelda’s old childhood friend

-doesn’t remember anything about his past lives

-gerudo king, very serious but fairly well loved

-lets not talk about malice it either doesnt exist/this ganondorf doesnt have any/this ganondorf knows how to control it. either way its not gonna affect the story

-”what are you wearing today king” “oh, just whatever” (its not whatever he spent hours finding the day’s outfit)

-found out about his past lives while reading a very very very old book, probably read it and stayed in his room for a week and then promised himself to never ever ever turn out like that

-genuinely a good person

-would never eat moss

✨RELATIONSHIPS STUFF

-zelda and ganondorf actually knew each other as kids! Both being royalty and all. legends do talk about a hero a princess a beast or whatever but don’t use link or ganondorf’s names since it’s been so long- it takes zelda and ganondorf both finding old, old books on their own to be like “AH OOPS”!!! Ganondorf learns about his past lives much earlier than zelda, who finds out during her adventures, and she goes from seeing ganondorf as a dear friend to being like “…but what if he’s really bad though”

they’re old childhood friends, you know, the kind that were best friends before and then grew up and saw each other less often (different kingdoms and all) so they kinda grew apart, and then zelda starting her quest made them reconnect again! Ganondorf is a little older than zelda so he always saw her more as his little sister who just jumps into mud because she totally saw a sword there i promise, and zelda sees ganondorf as her cool older brother who actually pays attention to her, unlike her actual siblings

-when link and zelda meet, zelda’s like “weird dude but probably harmless” and link is like “weird girl but probably harmless” and then she’s like “oh my name is zelda” and link goes “ah just likeWAIT” and he kinda observes her to… gauge her abilities? My Zeldas Were Better kinda thing. i guess during their final battle he’s like “you’re really a zelda, after all” and its bittersweet

the second zelda figures out link is also part of those legends she goes full hero worship mode, which makes link’s fall from grace… really… hard on her. ive been admiring you and wanting to be a hero like you all this time, turns out you’re not a hero and also Not Okay

-re ganondorf and link, after everything that happened uuuh

human brain: it probably takes them both a long while to get used to each other, given that one was almost killed by the other and the other has vivid memories of having their world(s) destroyed by the one, but after a while they probably bond over their shared uuuuh memories i guess. link visits gerudo city once in a while and they catch up and become friends and

lizard brain: after 100k words they DATE

no i wont write how it happens you will NOT make me embarrass myself in front of everyone because i earnestly wrote about how link visits ganondorf every time he’s in gerudo country and at first link just passes by to give ganondorf news about how zelda is faring as queen and news about the world, and as time goes and years go by they start talking about their lives and struggles and just taking walks across the desert together and having sand seal races and everyone in ganondorf’s court is like “so when’s that little voe coming back” and ganondorf is like “i neither know nor care that its been three months since his last visit” and everyone’s like (smirk) “okay” and when has he even started to look forward to link’s visits anyway how did this happen and then link comes back and smiles gently and shows ganondorf this cool rock he found that looks like ganondorf’s face and ganondorf is smitten

takes them both Y E A R S to realize their feelings and then date tho. slow burn or bust

✨WORLD STUFF

-takes place in a time where the games’ adventures are only known as legends where they didnt even write down ganondorf’s and link’s names

-now that im thinking about it it wouldnt happen like THOUSANDS OF YEARS after any game because then ganon and link wouldnt be that worried about their destiny??? so maybe like 100-200 years after a game??? and the ppl writing down the legends were just terrible bookkeepers who couldnt even think write down link and ganon’s name

-(smash voice) EVERYONE IS HERE!!!!!!!! tingle and agitha the bug princess and sidon and especially groose who is uuuuum zelda’s rival who is totally not in love with her

-i think in botw its implied koroks are only seen by people like link and zelda??? so id say only people with uuuuh magical power??? can see them???? so koroks are just doin their thing, playing pranks, helping people without them knowing, and, in the case of makar, playing romantic music around couples

#Yet Another Zelda Roleswap AU #zelda #ref #im gonna put most questions ive answered on private so this tumblr remains pretty much art #but i might as well do a post with all the stuff ive said!!!!#i LOVE your questions and i still have some to answer but i usually put ask tags on private after a few days so #PLEASE SEND ME MORE QUESTIONS IF YOUD LIKE!!!#will update this post as time goes on

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Upcoming Movies in October 2020: Theaters, Streaming and VOD

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October looks a lot different than it did only a few weeks ago. As the month many movie theater owners were hanging their hats on with the hope of a weekly deluge of new movies , October has recently been vacated by high profile features that include Wonder Woman 1984, Death on the Nile, and Candyman.

Yet if you’re a cinephile or movie lover who is desperate for new stories and visions, it is not all doom and gloom. Between the streaming market of Netflix, VOD, and other platforms, as well as some smaller films willing to roll the dice on a limited theatrical release, there are still more than a few things to see in October 2020…

2067

October 2 (U.S. Only)

A high-concept science fiction setup if we’ve ever heard one, 2067 is the story of Ethan Whyte (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young man born in a dystopian future where he learns that he might be the savior of humanity… at least that’s what people from an even more distant future are saying. In a plot twist that sounds, at least on paper, akin to a reversal of The Terminator, messengers from the future say Ethan is the key to saving the world and wish to transport him via time machine to an unknowable destiny. Chaos ensues. It’s a big idea, but we’re always game for someone swinging big in this genre.

Death of Me

October 2 (November 23 in the UK)

Darren Lynn Boseman, director of Saw II through Saw IV, returns to the horror genre again alongside Nikita’s Maggie Q and Westworld’s Luke Hemsworth. In this VOD release, the pair play a vacationing couple who wake up on an island with a horrible hangover. Yet a video on their phones seems to suggest the night before was even worse: Neil (Hemsworth) spent the evening brutally murdering his wife, as per the screen in their pockets. Nevertheless, here they are now, left with a lot of questions of what happened yesterday… and what can happen today.

Black Box

October 6

The first of Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Productions’ “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour’s Black Box has a tantalizing premise. Nolan (Mamoudou Athie) survived a car accident that took his wife, but it also took large swaths of his memory of her. So in order to regain his memory, and regain a sense of stability for his young daughter, Nolan undergoes an experimental treatment where his psychologist uses hypnosis to thrust him into his subconscious where he’ll be able remember his past and face his personal demons. Literally.

Like something out of Christopher Nolan’s Inception, this horror movie shows how scary being trapped in dreams really is if all that’s in them is the stuff of nightmares…

The Lie

October 6

The second Amazon/Blumhouse feature is more of a psychological thriller than a straightforward horror movie. Originally premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, The Lie follows a father (Peter Sarsgaard) who discovers his daughter Kayla (Joey King) accidentally killed her friend… until she admits she may have actually murdered her.

How far will he go to cover-up his daughter’s sins? Well, that’s the logline, and it seems to be a gripping one, albeit reviews from TIFF were less than kind two years ago.

Hubie Halloween

October 7

Last year Adam Sandler warned the Academy that if he doesn’t win an Oscar for Uncut Gems he’d make a film so bad that it’d make “you all pay.” Well, he wasn’t even nominated and eight months after the ceremony, here we are with Netflix’s Hubie Halloween. It remains to be seen whether this is actually the bad one—for starters it filmed before Oscar nominations went out—but it is still very much a Happy Madison production, complete with major supporting roles for Kevin James and Rob Schneider.

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In the movie, Sandler plays Hubie Dubois, the town loser of Salem, Massachusetts. A lonely fry cook obsessed with Halloween, Hubie spends all year looking forward to decking out his home and town the same way Clark Griswold anticipates Christmas. But on this particular Halloween, the town appears besieged by actual supernatural forces, and finally Hubie will have his time to shine. Eh, it looks more amusing than The Do-Over and The Ridiculous 6?

Books of Blood

October 7 (U.S. Only)

Who doesn’t love anthological horror? Hulu certainly does, as they’re releasing Books of Blood, the latest adaptation of Clive Barker’s multi-volume series of short stories by the same name. Previous tales from Books of Blood have been adapted into movies as beloved as Candyman and as decidedly not as Rawhide Rex. In this film version, three stories are created for the screen by co-writer and director Brannon Braga. Here’s hoping it lands closer to the former?

Saint Maud

October 9 (UK Only)

The UK will be the first to get A24’s only horror movie this year. Lucky. The feature directorial debut of Rose Glass, Saint Maud follows an unhealthily repressed and zealous young woman: Maud (Morfydd Clark). Maud is technically a caretaker by trade, looking after people in hospice. But she also imagines herself to be something of an apostle, sent to save godless folks from their sins, particularly Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), the woman she’s living with as the in-home nurse.

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It’s already a tense situation, even before Maud starts hearing voices and having images of ecstasy and Heaven, and demons and Hell. Rich with atmosphere and grueling anticipation of something horrible happening, Saint Maud is a great debut for Glass and a potential star-maker for Clark, who is skin-crawlingly pious as Maud, the young woman who’s wound up tighter than a jack-in-the-box.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow

October 9 (U.S. Only)

Debuting in theaters and on VOD, The Wolf of Snow Hollow is Jim Cummings’ follow-up to Thunder Road. That earlier, underrated movie was a delightful mix of comedy and drama that won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize. So the sophomore effort being a werewolf comedy-horror movie is intriguing. Indeed, Wolf of Snow Hollow is the rare lycanthrope yarn that’s told from the point-of-view of the would-be wolf hunter, Sheriff John Marshall (Cummings).

Following a series of grisly murders every full moon, the residents of Snow Hollow become convinced they have a wolfman on their hands, even if the frustrated sheriff refuses to accept the obvious. The film also marks the final performance of Robert Forster as John’s crusty mentor.

The War with Grandpa

October 9 in the U.S. (October 16 in the UK)

For most people, having Robert De Niro as a grandfather can be an imposing experience. But kids these days! That’s at least one amusing takeaway from The War with Grandpa, the delayed family movie that sees De Niro’s grandfatherly Ed enter into a prank war with his grandson Peter (Oakes Fegley) after upsetting the youth by moving into his old bedroom—Peter’s mom and Ed’s daughter Sally (Uma Thurman) forced them into the arrangement.

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Soon shaving cream reveals itself to be foam sealant stuck to De Niro’s face, and Peter’s oral report announces he is a louse. Oh, and there’s a dodgeball battle in which De Niro is aided by a squad of screen legends like Christopher Walken, Cheech Marin, and Jane Seymour, to squash the pups. Now things are getting serious…

Nocturne

October 13

The first of Amazon and Blumhouse’s next batch of original movies, Nocturne is the tale of a hellish rivalry between sisters. Genuinely. The feature debut from director Zu Quirke stars Sydney Sweeney as Juliet, the younger sister of fellow musician Vivian (Madison Iseman). While both young women are gifted pianists, Vivian is a prodigy and the center of Juliet’s envy. That is until Juliet finds the diary of another child prodigy at their prestigious conservatory who killed herself. The book includes all the late pianist’s hidden compositions… and symbols and incantations.

Ever heard the story of Faust? It seems like Juliet is about to get an up-close modern example.

Evil Eye

October 13

As the final Blumhouse effort to be released on Amazon Prime in 2020, Evil Eye hails from directors Elan and Rajeev Dassani and presents itself as both a psychological thriller and supernatural chiller. The truth of which it really is depends on how much you believe the eye of Usha (Sarita Choudhury).

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For this mother of Pallavi (GLOW’s Sunita Mani) is convinced her daughter is necking with a new boyfriend (Omar Maskati) who’s the spirit of an evil abusive ex Usha escaped in her youth. Is he the vestiges of a half-remembered curse or the potential victim of a mommy dearest prone to snap judgements? Tune in to find out for yourself…

The Trial of the Chicago 7

October 16

“The whole world is watching.” That’s the chanted refrain of protestors in Aaron Sorkin’s second movie as director, but it might also apply to the level of anticipation regarding this major Netflix release and potential awards season darling. The movie itself is an old-fashioned legal thriller like Sorkin cut his teeth on with scripts like A Few Good Men, but Chicago 7 feels urgently (and depressingly) vital.

Following on the heels of the Chicago riots during the Democratic National Convention of 1968—riots later deemed to have been started by the police—eight men categorized as “the far left” are rounded up for a show trial by Nixon’s Justice Department where they’re charged with conspiracy.

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The film features the same blistering abundance of dialogue Sorkin has become famous for, as well as his penchant for breezy fast-paced editing. But the political heft of the subject matter and the movie’s deep bench of an acting ensemble that includes Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Rylance, and Frank Langella is what makes this one of the most thrilling movies of the year.

Honest Thief

October 16 (U.S. Only)

Liam Neeson plays a thief who wants a second chance. A bank robber willing to turn himself and $9 million in to be with the new love of his life. But then crooked FBI agents (Jai Courtney and Anthony Ramos) steal his money and frame him for murder instead. So he’s left with one thing to do: menacingly hiss over the phone, “I’m coming for you.” We imagine that trailer-ready threat was what Honest Thief was sold on during its elevator pitch.

Rebecca

October 21

Remaking Alfred Hitchcock remains a tricky proposition that has thwarted many filmmakers in the past. Readapting the only one of his movies to win the Oscar for Best Picture, Rebecca, appears all the harder. Yet everything we’ve seen from Ben Wheatley and Netflix’s luscious adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier novel is highly encouraging.

With a winning cast that includes Lily James as the new Mrs. de Winter, Armie Hammer as her husband Maxim, and Kristin Scott Thomas as his menacing housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, the film opens with the young bride trying to step into the shoes of Maxim’s dead first wife, Rebecca. An apparent light of his mansion that has been long snuffed, Rebecca’s flame burns still if only because of Mrs. Danvers’ admiration for her late mistress… and maybe the ghost who prowls the house. This is archetypal Gothic horror, and with screenwriter Jane Goldman apparently keeping the novel’s original ending, we already feel seduced by the imagery.

On the Rocks

October 2 in the UK (October 23 in the U.S.)

Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray work together again. For the first time since their luminous Lost in Translation (if you ignore the ill-considered A Very Murray Christmas), the director and star are collaborating on this visibly intimate tale. It’s about an adult daughter (Rashida Jones) and her famous father (Murray) spending a weekend in New York City on an adventure after years of estrangement.

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The film, which also stars Marlon Wayans, premiered to a largely warm reception at the New York Film Festival and is already being written about as a spiritual successor to their original collaboration. Once more a woman in the midst of an existential crisis is aided by Murray between glasses of scotch. Who doesn’t want to pull up a seat and order another round?

Over the Moon

October 23

You probably don’t know Glen Keane’s name but you should. The longtime Walt Disney Animation Studios animator oversaw the design and animation of Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin in Aladdin, and Rapunzel in Tangled. With Over the Moon, he steps away from the Mouse and toward Netflix as a first-time co-director, alongside John Kahrs (an animator on Tangled and Frozen).

The trailer for the film is like a Georges Méliès fever dream from as a little girl named Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) builds a rocket ship to take her to the moon. But once there, Fei Fei and friends meet a mythical moon goddess (Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo) who takes them on a candy-colored odyssey through the cosmos.

Synchronic

October 23 (U.S. only)

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Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are two of the most intriguing new voices in science fiction. If you don’t recognize their names, go watch The Endless right now. One of the strangest and cleverest sci-fi yarns of the last decade, that film is now being followed up by Synchronic, another original tale that stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. The specifics of the film remain vague other than it is about two New Orleans paramedics who investigate a series of murders caused by a new, bizarre designer drug. But we already know we can’t wait to watch what horrible side effects come from these poor bastards taking it.

The Craft: Legacy

It cannot be Halloween without at least one more horror movie coming out the week of. Thus enters The Craft: Legacy, Sony Pictures and Blumhouse Productions’ legacy sequel to the original 1996 The Craft. Like its predecessor, this follows an outsider who is the new girl in school (Cailee Spaeny). She may be ostracized by the popular kids, but she befriends fellow students who have alternative tastes… like witchcraft.

The original is a touchstone for millennials and Gen-Xers of a certain age, and this reboot looks to push the story into a more complex understanding of friendship. And if it doesn’t, it’s still a Blumhouse effort so it should have plenty of spooky jumps!

Relic

October 30 (US Only)

Dementia is at the heart of this very eerie chiller where three generations of women convene in an old family home which seems to be rotting from the inside. Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote star in a slow build drama which delves into the horror of losing your sense of self, as Nevin’s matriarch goes missing for days and can’t remember what happened while her house is filled with odd notes, black mould and snippets of a life slipping away from her grasp. This is the feature debut of Australian-Japanese director Natalie Erika James and it’s a stylish, chilling and confident first feature with a final act that veers into full blown horror. Out already in the States on VOD it has a UK theatrical release in the UK.

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The Other Day at Hot Topic: Sea Salt

The unlikely pair approach a tiny, circular wooden ice cream kiosk strung with tiny rainbow Christmas lights and frosted with fake cotton snow. As they join the brief line, Axel explains to Roxas his lifelong mission to sample every single flavor, of which, a glance to the wall-length menu, tells Roxas there are upwards of twenty-five.

It doesn’t seem humanly possible for such a skinny man to consume that much ice cream, but Roxas is reluctant to divulge this and crush Axel’s dreams.

“They only have a box of each kind and then you’re S.O.L. until their next shipment,” Axel is saying. “I’ve been trying to get my paws on a paopu one for months, but, well,” he waggles his eyebrows, lips pursing, “you know the legend.”

“Ugh.” Roxas nods. “Yeah, my little brother’s kind of the hopeless romantic type. We used to go looking for paopu trees all over the play island.”

It’s adorable, like everything else about Roxas’ younger brother, but Roxas would never admit it to Sora.

“Not your thing, huh?” Axel’s gaze shifts from the ice cream stand to his new companion, curious.

“Eh, I dunno. It’s a bit much, right?” Roxas frees a hand from his pocket to gesture vaguely, “Destiny. Like, I want to control my own fate, you know?” Roxas can feel his intensity thrumming in his throat but can’t seem to deescalate it. “I don’t like the idea that my path is set and I can’t change who I am, what I do, who I love. Isn’t that the entire point of it all?”

Axel’s takes this in, his colorless clothing redirecting Roxas’ attention back up to thoughtful jade green eyes. “Atta, boy.” His hands clasp Roxas’ shoulders again, squeeze. “Fuck destiny. Blaze your own trail, Roxas.”

It sounds teasing, almost condescending, but when Roxas glances up, there’s a look in his eye like he means it and a purr to the way he says his name like nobody else says it. Like he likes the taste. Roxas’ head goes fuzzy.

Shit. Because a day one crush on a manager is just what any new Hot Topic employee needs.

The line moves forward and Axel and Roxas follow.

Axel’s still watching him, so Roxas searches for a less existential conversational thread. “Uh, so, what’s been your favorite flavor so far?”

Axel laughs at the abrupt shift, his fingers smoothing a gelled red spike of hair. He grimaces like Roxas asked him to name his favorite band or hair product. “Well.” Then he has a thought, smirks. “You’ll see.”

Roxas feels his nose crinkle. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You’ll like it. You’ll see.”

The line moves up again and before Roxas can ask for more details the ice cream saleswoman is hanging out her window waving with both hands. “Axel! Hey, babe!”

“Hey, Yufe! Shop looks cute.” Axel smiles and nods toward the lights, the snow. “Very festive.”

“Thanks!” Yuffie claps her hands together, her tone and expression so super charged with enthusiasm Roxas feels like he’s standing next to Sora. “Put them up myself.” She rests her arms on the counter. “Haven’t seen you in a while, red! What gives?”

“No, well…” Axel rubs the back of his neck, frowning and flipping open a worn wallet. “The boyfriend is on a diet, so...”

Boyfriend. Of course. Biting at his bottom lip, Roxas tries not to visibly deflate. Axel had flirted with Demyx, Luxord, and Saïx, so, of course he was comfortable with himself and in a happy relationship.

Boyfriend. Of course. Good for him.

Yuffie blanches, brows drawn up. “Neither of you studs needs a diet. Tell him I said so.”

Axel brushes this off with a flick of his wrist like he’s too polite to argue. “Nah, it’s important. But, not to worry, I’ve nabbed a new ice cream hostage.”

Taking this as a cue, Roxas tentatively steps up beside him, “Hey, Yuffie. So, what’s good here? Axel’s been cryptic.”

Axel places a hand over Roxas’ mouth midway through, “Just two of the usual, please.”

Yuffie jumps a bit, grins. “Hey, it’s Roxas from AP Bio! How’ve ya been, Rox?”

Axel drops his hand as Roxas bats at it, gaze shifting between the two.

“Great, well,” Roxas reflects on the past month. If he could have put coffee in an IV, he would have. “Okay. College, finals, you know, exhausting, so, okay. And you?”

They exchange a couple more pleasantries about Sora and Yuffie’s sports medicine program and mutual friends, as Yuffie rings up two ice cream popsicles, and Axel makes good on his offer to pay.

“Well,” Axel accepts the popsicles and presses Yuffie’s hand in parting, “looks like you know my ice cream buddy better than I do. Guess I better work on that.” He leans back from the counter and Roxas follows suit.

“Hey, go easy on him, Axel,” she calls as they turn to go, “he looks like a punk but he’s a huge sweetheart.”

“Yuffie,” Roxas all but growls, ears flushing, fingers dropping halfway through fixing up his hair. She just laughs and waves them off.

Axel salutes her with a popsicle. “I’ll be a perfect gentleman, as always.”

Roxas bumps Axel in the shoulder as they walk and Axel grins again, passing him an ice cream.

Roxas examines the dessert through its packaging, tilting it up toward the light. “Blue, huh?”

“Blue.” Axel peels away the soft paper as they walk, exchanging with Roxas and doing the same to the second. “Like the ocean.”

They settle themselves on a seat shaped like a ten-person ottoman with a hideous print. Axel’s lanky legs hang over the edge, and Roxas sits cross-legged, examining the light blue sheen and savoring the gentle scent of vanilla.

Roxas takes a tentative bite and finds the consistency softer than expected.

“Well?”

Roxas sees that Axel hasn’t touched his, distracted, waiting to gauge his reaction.

“It’s salty,” he frowns twirls the stick in his hand, smiles, “but sweet. Like you said. Like the ocean. It’s…”

“Yeah?”

“It’s kind of amazing.”

“Yeah.” Axel smiles, stares up at the glass panes in the ceiling two stories up where the sun floods in. “It is, isn’t it?”

Roxas looks up as well, face warming, throat blessedly cool. “Thank you.”

“Ah,” Axel shrugs a shoulder, flutters his hand, “it’s just ice cream, Roxas. Gees.”

And saving me this morning, and coming back, and not treating me like an outsider, even though you know everybody in the place.

“Yeah,” Roxas mumbles, “still.”

Ice cream finished, Axel leans onto his back and stares up at the sunlit windows. He asks Roxas about the rest of his first day, and Roxas shares Demyx’s antics, Saïx’s freak out, Luxord’s clever, early exit.

Roxas lays back beside Axel, and Axel tells him about the rest of the staff, the good and the bad. Larxene who eats grown men for breakfast, Zexion, a diehard biology student, never without a textbook, Xaldin and Lex the strong, silent types, Aqua, mom friend extraordinaire who can still kick ass, Vanitas who would be fired a thousand times over if his uncle didn’t run the place, his uncle, Xemnas, the sexiest man alive.

As Axel pulls out his phone to prove this final point, he winces at several rows of missed messages.

It occurs to Roxas he hasn’t asked or learned much of anything about Axel—let alone the name of his man.

Roxas pushes himself up, throat a bit dry, “I should probably get going too.”

“Oh.” Axel turns to him, a bit wide-eyed, or it might be the sheer amount of eye makeup he’s wearing. “Alright.” He sits up as well, watching Roxas adjust the laces of a combat boot, and smiling. “Just know that if you continue to drip ice cream all over yourself like that, I’m going to continue making you my ice cream buddy just so I can make fun of you for it.”

“Hey.” Roxas wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, leaving behind a self-conscious frown. He’d had no idea how fast the thing would melt, but he’d licked most of the blue streaks off of his hands and lips after a cackling Axel refused to do a napkin run.

But the kiosk is all the way over there, Roxas. Just be a man and use your tongue.

“C’mon,” Axel looks up from the message he’s tapping out, lips tipping up, “you don’t know how to say no to ice cream.”

God, his eyes are pretty.

“Damn,” Roxas doesn’t want to smile back or agree, but he feels himself doing it anyway, “you’re right.” He forces himself to get to his feet, and then to check his own phone, nothing from his brother yet, though he should be off by now.

He glances up to find Axel thumbing through his own, mumbling, “Yeah, I am definitely penning ‘ice cream with hot mess’ into my calendar. When’s your next shift?”

Roxas’ arms cross and Axel stands, smile sweetening, phone tucking away.

“You’re a dick.”

“You’re welcome, Roxas.”

“Thursday.”

“Okay. See you Thursday, Roxas.”

#kingdom hearts #roxas #axel #yuffie #saix #organization xiii #akuroku #akusai #hot topic au #my writing

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Ivar The Boneless x Reader Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part VI

Summary: Three months have past and your body still isn’t recovered from the birth. Training goes slow and you still sleep to much. But there is your son and his overprotective father who doesn’t want to raid again ... and that makes everything just alright. Words: 2025

You moved your feet to slow, Ubbe everytime knocks you down with a virtual blow. He never hurted you, he just showed you that you had still a long way to go. Three months it has been, three months and your body was still not to his old self. It didn’t frustrated you like you thought it would but it was hard to accept. You had never sat more still in your entire life than the past couple weeks. It was all about resting, trying to walk again, bandages and herbs to get your fever down and to hold back the infection from the wound. It was horrible and you would never truly forget what happend on that day. It took you two months to just start living normal again, all the time therefore you where in bed, sleeping it off. And now that you could do some light training, you couldn’t pull it longer than ten minutes before you get exhausted again. “Enough.” Smiled Ubbe friendly. You leaned on your sparring stick and got over the battle you had with Ubbe in your head. “Don’t beat yourself up about it.” He said. You looked at him, biting your lip. “I’m not, it’s just hard to accept.” You said thinking about all the things you did before this all happend. “Aren’t you far more happier now?” He asked curious. You smiled instantly and nodded short. “But it’s not because I’m not gonna raid again that I shouldn’t stay in shape.” “You have to take things slow Y/n.” He advised you. Ubbe was always concered, not as concered like Ivar … he didn’t even knew that you where here sparring with his brother. “Yes, I will get home now, to rest. But I need to be back in shape if you guys go raiding again. It’s not my only life I had to protect now.” You said quietly, thinking about your son. That was the most happy part of it all. You almost died, he almost died and you both survived. You walked away from the field, Ubbe beside you. “I don’t think Ivar want to leave you both?” He said, saying out loud what you thought for already a while. “It’s his destiny, I will kick him on that boat.” You promised. “You make him happy Y/n.” “No, Sigtrygg does, I have nothing to do with that kind of fatherly love.” You winked. Ivar was not only protective about his son … it got out of hand sometimes. Even you had to go to lengths to have your son with you for a while. Ivar choose the name … it ment victory and sure Sigtrygg was, he overwon, he was already a fighter. If he even looked like his father in personality, sure there will be a lot of victory ahead, so the name sutted the little guy … he was a gift from the gods.

It was the soft strokes from fingers through you hair that waked you up. How long you slept … you hadn’t an idea but you still felt tired, even stiff in your arms and shoulders. You opended your eyes only to meet those blue ones you loved. “You sleep to much.” He said concerned. Your eyes felt on the bed, between the two of you there was Sigtrygg, also sleeping. His chest slowly raising with every bit of air he pulled in. You could watch forever, so small, so little and yet he won all of your love already. You weren’t a warrior anymore, you were a mother, a wife, nothing in the world was better than the sight of your sleeping son between the two of you. Not even battle. “Y/n.” “I had training this morning, that is why I’m tired.” You replied without even looking at him. You knew he wouldn’t raise his voice, because of Sigtrygg. So when you looked back at Ivar he only looked mad. “It wasn’t that long.” You defensed yourself careful. “Why do you even go back to fighting?” “I need to protect myself Ivar, I need to protect Sigtrygg, they need to get over my dead body before they get to him.” You pointed out. You never had the change to protect somebody, not in that way at least. You had helped Ivar many times but it wasn’t the same. He never wanted your help really, Sigtrygg did. “I’m here.” Ivar said. You looked at him and sighed. “And what if you go raiding?” You asked. He stared down to his son who maked some weird noices before he found his peace again. Ivar smiled slightly and you knew he wasn’t in on the subject anymore. You moved your hand, wanted to lay it on Sigtrygg’s little chest but Ivar stopped your movements. “Let him sleep.” “He is my son to Ivar.” You said right away, not letting his father duties walsh over your motherly concern. “I know.” He said softly, his eyes gazing to Sigtrygg while he tried to control something of emotions. “What is it Ivar?” You asked concerned. In the three months past he got through hell and back for the two of you. You were to weak to nurce your son alone and he hardly let anyone nearby. But now you were on your feet again you felt some tension. He pulled his body up in the bed, his back leaning against the wall, just staring. You came out of the bed and walked around it, carefully sit on his lap. He snuggles his face against your neck and you embraced him. “I miss you.” He wispered. “I’m afraid that what happend changed to much to go back to the way it was.” You didn’t need to push him, it came out on his own free will. He pressed his lips against your neck and you closed your eyes for a little bit. “The old me will come back. I lost all my faith in the gods because of what they did,” You pulled your head back and looked for his eyes. “I’m afraid to.” “You almost died Y/n, I don’t want to miss any moments, not of you, not of him.” You both looked to your son who wasn’t aware of the conversation. “What do you want me to say Ivar?” You asked a little skeptical. “That you come with me on the next raid?” “The both of us? Ivar, we can’t. How much I want to go with you. I’m not ready and he,” you felt silent and nodded towards Sigtrygg. “You know we can’t. I’m a mother now, he always comes first before everything else. You of all people should have to understand, your way to protective.” With the last words you smiled a little. He looked at you before looking at Sigtrygg. “I don’t want to loose him.” “Ubbe is not a monster you know, Sigtrygg is completly safe with your brothers, or even Helga.” You teased him a little. And there was that cocky smile you loved so much. “My brothers are idiots.” He said. “Well. Than you have something in common with them, you’re an idiot for thinking that I wouldn’t go back to my old self.” You wispered before pressing your lips against his. He murmured something in that kiss that you didn’t understand, you started laughing. “Hush Y/n.” He said sternly. You pressed your lips together and looked at him, all innocent. “I miss our little games.” He admitted. “Yes me to but I can’t even fight for ten minuts, I certainly can’t,” You felt silent when his hands move under your skirt. “Ivar.” You warned him. He looked at you with that develish grinn on his face. “Be carefull.” You wispered while leaning in on him, kissing him again. “Always am with you wife.” He wispered back. And then there was Sigtrygg stopping your moment together by crying out loud. You smiled against Ivar’s cheek before getting of his lap, but before you could even take your son he was already in the arms of your husband.

“We gonna raid England again. We split the brotherhood up in five and each take a part of the army.” Suggested Björn. You sat on a rocking chair in the great hall, Sigtrygg on your lap while the brothers where talking battleplans. “An attack on multiple villages at once, I like that.” Hvitserk said while chewing on a piece of chicken. You looked at Ivar who didn’t said much the entire time. “The longer you stay here, the bigger their army’s get.” You said without looking of from Sigtrygg who slightly smiled because of what you said. “The little guy agreed with Y/n.” Hvitserk laughed, waving his piece of chicken over Sigtrygg so your son had to follow it with his eyes. “Stop that.” Ivar said angry. You smiled towards Hvitserk before looking toward Ivar, giving him a comforting smile. “Y/n is right. Should we attact in small groups, of as one big force?” Ubbe asked his older brother. Björn let his fists rest on the table, starring at the plans. “There is already a year past, I don’t know if it’s a good idea to split up.” You said. “Not that I have a say in it.” “Your advise as a warrior is respected Y/n.” Björn said with a soft nod. You smiled and looked back at your son. He grabbed both your tumbs, trying to focus his eyes on you. They were so bleu, that same stunning bleu as his father. Even if Ivar would go, you would forgot those bleu intensif eyes. “We can always changes plans along the way. Ivar his plan worked the last time, maybe he comes up with something new.” Sigurd said. Everybody was now looking at Ivar. “Who said I’m coming?” He asked with a flat face. “Are you staying because of your son?” Asked Björn with a grinn. “It’s not because you let your childeren so easily behind that I’m willing to do that. Besides, Y/n isn’t recovered yet.” He hissed. Your chair felt still while you look between the two. Sigurd didn’t wanted to move, Hvitserk gave his kicken to the dog and Ubbe gave his brother a warning glance. “It’s the men his duty to go raiding, to go conquer, to go battle. Are you saying you're no man Ivar?” Björn was challeging him. “And it’s a husband his duty to be faithfull to his wife. Don’t you think I knew about you and Astrid brother.” Ivar spilled threatening. Björn and Astrid? You looked from Ivar to Björn who pulled all his patience together to not go kill Ivar, your husband. You pushed yourself out of the chair, keeping Sigtrygg as close as possible while walking out. “That my son is one of the things I hope you never will get from your father.” You wispered to you son.

You sat on the stairs before the great hall, the sun warming your face while Sigtrygg was sleeping on your lap. There was much yelling, you heard even the noices of cracked wood. It took a while but Björn came outside, not looking at you and walking straight though Kattegat on his way back home. After that it took Ivar ten minutes to come outside, sitting beside you and grabbing after Sigtrygg. “No,” You slapped his hands away and looked at his angry face. “your not yourself.” “He will make me myself again.” He pointed towards his son. You shook your head, you were not giving Sigtrygg to him if he was in this stage of rage. “Please Y/n. I need him.” He asked. You looked at him, staring into his eyes before giving your son. Ivar held him close to his chest, Sigtrygg protesting about the fact that somebody waked him up. You looked at the both of them. Ivar was relaxing, he didn’t have to open his eyes for you to see it. That was the kind of effect your son had on him and it maked you smile a little. There was more love for that child than Sigtrygg could imagine, and it was all from his father …

#vikings imagine #ivar x reader #ivar imagine #ivar #ivar the boneless

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