#midna is probably not the best person to ask about this sorta thing tho

[evintide]

You did say that adapting to Twilight’s atmosphere makes you feel more comfortable. How did you and your people manage to handle it?

" magic, obviously. " with a beckoning motion a tome glides out from a nearby shelf to come and flutter open just above her grasp. the pages turn on their own to a passage that the queen has deemed relevant to her interest, eyelids lowering in temporary concentration to pick something from its contents.

" 'lo these so called fields can nary be considered a pasture akin to that of the realm of light. no sustenance can be brought forth from their ashy soil, nor any light to bring our seeds to fruition-' blah, blah, blah... " with a derisive tsk the woman rolls her eyes, the pages flipping wildly to another passage, though she barely gives it a glance before a mordant smile creeps across her face.

" on it’s own the Twilight Realm isn’t particularly harmful, but living here without having been… let’s say, an ‘original resident’ wasn’t easy, " the still floating tome lifts along with her hand, a gesture to indicate why she had brought the apparent diary out. " if you didn’t adapt, you didn’t survive. simple as that. as the queen i have the honor of having access to these personal accounts… very few of which are pleasant, hehe. "

her snicker is equally as skewed as her expression, though its sharpest edges dull oh-so slightly when her gaze returns to the book. the once hard curl to her lips softens to hide her fangs, the sight of which had only offered a dangerous edge to her smile. despite her obvious derision towards it's previous owner, the twili seems incapable of maintaining disgust. or, perhaps, she has more history with this tome than one might automatically assume.

with a hum she finds something else that grabs her attention inside, but it's contents remain a mystery to all that do not hold it.

" but our ancestors were tenacious. what couldn’t be found was made, even if it was feeble. and over time their new home changed us as we changed it. " her other hand lifts so that a finger may trace something across the book's pages, as if following a line to one side to the other, dipping occasionally to follow a possible turn or curl. once it reaches the other side, the corners of the queen's mouth lift again, though it lacks the severity of it's earlier iteration.

the hand below closes, and with it the book snaps shut with a slap of finality.

" of course, all of that took place a long time ago. not that light dwellers would find our home unpleasant, but we twili have made the most of our realm, and it to us. "

#ic » ask #hc » behind the veil #this took five years to long to get to #i am so sorry for that #but thank you for your curiosity anon!! ;0;/ i love building on twili hc's! #midna is probably not the best person to ask about this sorta thing tho #if only because a lot of this stuff was drilled into her head as a kid #and returning to it now is like #eugh. homework. AGAIN? #imo though the interlopers were so engaged and enshrouded with magic that their abilities essentially changed them initially #even before coming to the twili realm #and as a place that is basically like #more in tune and/or suffused with magic itself #the first twili were morphed alongside their home to better suit it #along side what they created as a means to survive #sorry if my wording is abstract #in simpler (hopefully) terms i imagine the first people were much like the humanoids you see in hyrule/the light realm #and as time went on the shadows of the twili realm essentially became PART of the interlopers #kind of like how they influenced the land to be more like the light realm #sort of a symbiotic relationship #anyway i could try to delve into it more but i thinkkkk....??? i did a little on a previous hc #and my tags are gonna be whack #BUT THANK YOU AGAIN AAA ♥♥♥