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unexpectedstormy · 2 months
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Skyward Sword Skyloft Aesthetic
I love the aesthetic of Skyloft so let's analyze it and see what makes it tick. This will be a long post with lots and lots of photos.
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First of all, In Skyloft there are two very different styles of architecture:
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Ancient architecture, which are the stately grey stone structures like the light tower in the plaza and around the Statue of the Goddess (as well as various locations on the surface)
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And the Skyloftian architecture, which is much more round, colorful and whimsical than the ancient architecture. I will be focusing on the Skyloftian architecture.
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Skyloftian houses are built underground with one exposed side facing out. The roofs are flat and often have paths or grass growing on them in order to maximize surface area and places to walk. Each house is unique and is personalized to the occupant.
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Non-house buildings like the bazaar, knight academy, and the Lumpy Pumpkin are built above-ground and have varying kinds of roofs, from wood to bamboo, to tented rugs.
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Interior walls generally follow this pattern: the walls are painted (or possibly frescoed) with a primary color--it's not a solid color, but with a dappled 'paintbrush-stroke' pattern. Decorative stones or tiles of a contrasting color are placed in a horizontal wavy line in the bottom half of the wall and in another line near the ceiling.
At the base, is a layer of stones of a different color. Structurally, this is likely a foundational base on which the walls are constructed to protect them from groundwater damage, like in cob (a certain kind of mud-cement) house construction.
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Buildings and rooms tend to be curvy or round and often have whimsical features built in, like the oven in the kitchen and the bird faucet and tiled round bathing pool in the bathroom of the Knight Academy. In houses, sinks and counters are sometimes built into the wall. This is another feature you see frequently in cob house construction.
In fact, the Skyloftian style of architecture seems to have taken heavy inspiration from cob house construction. Cob is a building material that is made of local mud with additives to turn it into cement with hay or grass mixed in. The cob is mounded up into the shape of the walls and sealed with sealant and plaster. It is very quick to construct cob buildings and they are highly customizable. Building made of cob tend to be whimsical--look up images and see for yourself.
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Furniture is made with wood and often has decorative tiling, painting, or carvings in them.
In terms of decorations, the most common motifs are geometric designs, floral and plant designs, and bird-themed designs. Bright colors are preferred, and almost everything in the whole game, but especially in Skyloft, has a pink or purple tinge/undertone to it.
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One thing Skyloftians love are ornate rugs. Every room and every house has a rug, usually multiple rugs. Each rug is unique, brightly colored, and usually geometric in design.
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There is even an entire (unmanned) shop in the bazaar full of rugs and other textiles.
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Other decorations you might find in homes and buildings are pots, vases, bottles, and plates with colorful designs
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Lace, stuffed animals, decorative pillows
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Turkish lamps, wall hangings, table placemats or a table runner
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Mobiles and decorative ceiling hangings
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Remlit tree
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And some rooms/houses are themed, for example, Fledge's room has a tropical island theme.
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Outdoors, the village is decorated with multi-colored banners, buntings, pinwheels, flags, and flowers.
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Together all these things construct the aesthetic and style of Skyloft: rounded and curvy buildings, cob-style construction, geometric, floral and bird designs, bright colors, ornate rugs, pots, Turkish lamps, stained glass, wood carvings, and lots and lots of whimsy.
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luimagines · 1 year
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I had a little idea, imagine if the hero of courage reader met the chains reincarnations (animal) or ghost as a kid and grew up through their advice as well as gained bits and pieces of the chain’s era. Like casually dropping an embarrassing thing that one of the links did and realizing how a machine/ object worked before the others do. (Ghost legend teaching hero!reader how to be on their toes and teaching some easy magic spells or maybe an older wolfie (could be centuries old, who knows) playing and protecting them from danger until hero!reader is old enough to protect themselves.
It depends on how old hero!reader is but I’m going with the idea of at least a 10yr old based on what I’ve put
Ghost time could be a menace with the cuccos and teach hero!reader how to fly with them for a bit, probably teaching them about the
Wars would help them practice with a wooden sword and guide the proper way to hold it but will also read to them if asked (I live for older brother wars headcannon sue me/j)
Sky would most likely take naps and tell the small hero about skyloft as well as the loftwings, explain the sword on his back and fondly talk about fi, maybe throw in a few stories about himself and his friends to calm them down a bit
I feel like Wind would play pirates with hero! reader and get them in all kinds of trouble that’s it, either that or actively get them to sail in a small pond nearby or get them to build a tiny boat (that’s absolutely not made of paper and lots of tape) to see if it’ll float
Wild and Hyrule would probably help them explore more and have fun that way while also keeping them safe (and even make friends with a few fairies); Hyrule being the most protective because “holy shi- how do I not let them die” or him delving into his insecurities and thinking the kid is bored and wants to leave only to be proven wrong when they ask what the fairies are saying/doing with a giant grin on their face
Legend would try to be protective and/or leave them alone, at least until hero!reader reaches out to him and drags him off on an adventure around the house/ village (it only lasts until hero!reader gets hungry and has to go home)
Four would most likely teach hero!reader about the Minish / Picori as well as explain what happened to them, probably showing them how to find kinstones (igf they’re around in hero!reader’s hyrule)
First would probably be awkward around hero!reader for a bit or at least watch over them while they play with their toys until hero!reader looks at him and offers to play/ draw with them
If hero!reader sees the master sword for the first time and reaches out, I feel like one of the chain members would try to stop them (leaning towards time/ wild) so they could live out their childhood and have fun a bit longer
This kinda stemmed from my thoughts from a few posts of work with a few of the ghost Zelda’s and links meeting and talking to Flora and Wild mixed with a fic where wild encounters the ghost version of the chain and meets with them when the events of linked universe take place, same with reading through the “little link” tag on your blog mainly based off the second and third reasons. Anyway have my little brainrot
(If it’s okay, can I be bird anon if there isn’t one already? If there is I could be mushroom anon if it helps)
Bird or Mushroom work! Very few anons actually have given a tag for themselves so it's all for the picking. (like- there's Avi anon but if you just wanna go by Bird, then that works)
And oh my goodness, Ghost! Chain looking over Reader. My heart...
I bet it freaks out the village though. They chalk it up imaginary friends until little Reader knows something in history tat others haven't been able to figure out despite the clues.
But just... I want soft moment of the Chain looking after the next generations... even if they know there's nothing they can do to stop the flow of time- even if the moment to take up the mantel comes before either of them know it.
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skyward-children · 2 years
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I���m really bored so wanna hear a really weird and far-fetched headcanon/theory I have?? If you do or not I’m still giving it so let’s gooo
(More headcanons)
K. So. Take a look at the photo below.
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Look carefully! Nothing unusual about it, right? (Except the man with the terrifyingly huge eyes). But otherwise, it’s pretty normal! Just another Skyloft house! Right?
WRONG.
I think perhaps you missed these—
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—the display of purple crystals to Sparrot’s right.
What might those remind you of, I wonder? Maybe—
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—these?
Look at the two. The only real differences are their shades of purple and the fact that the crystals in Sparrot’s house do not have symbols etched on them. Now, getting into my far-fetched theory…. The symbols etched on all timeshift stones we see in-game could be to control the amount of time the crystals can control. For instance, the allowed time change for the crystals in-game would probably be back during the time they were first excavated. The symbols were carved on them to keep anyone from venturing to any other period of time, to keep them “trapped” in their own time (for their own good). But what would happen if a timeshift stone was NOT etched with symbols? Then maybe it would have uncontrollable power, able to transport whoever struck it to whatever time period they desired. And that could be dangerous, enabling the user of the uncarved stones to possibly change the past or future, which is why all the stones were etched into when they were first excavated, to keep anyone from using them for evil.
It’s going to get even crazier now.
What if Sparrot himself is not from the era of Skyloft? What if he is from the past, during the time of Hylia? He heard the rumors of war just like everyone else, but he was afraid. So he dug up a small amount of timeshift stones, stole them from Lanayru, stole a crystal ball decoration from the Earth temple, and used the unetched timeshift stones to transport himself to a safer era in the future— Skyloft. He then set up an identity for himself as Sparrot, fortune teller— he used the timeshift stones to explore all over the future, and then memorized the information he had viewed, pretended to “see” it in his crystal ball, and reported it to any customers who it would be of interest to. But he didn’t go into too much detail with his reports— if he did, that might be suspicious, and it would also give away too much. So he gives away very vague information, vague enough to keep vital information hidden, but specific enough that it might help in some way. That way, he makes money and has a safe place to live, away from the war— although technically, he could go back to the war with just one strike to the timeshift stone. But no one on Skyloft knows that, and he will never tell. He’s a double-dealing fortune teller, in more ways than one, and his secret will go with him to the grave.
Again, I’m really bored and I had this idea the other day (I firmly believe the crystals on his shelf are timeshift stones, and have for a while; I didn’t develop the headcanon till recently though) so please don’t attack me!
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musashi · 3 years
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are there any stories/facts about your job/coworkers you can comfortably share? maybe something cool they did/you did with them recently? anyone that stands out in particular among them, without getting too specific for. clear reasons?
what's cheeseburger up to atm? any notable stories or anything about him recently, or has he been just living his best life as usual?
which of the skyloft NPCs do you particularly like? for arguments sake, this is excluding the more story relevant ones, so no groose + his gang, no zelda obviously, etc.
as an opposite to that, talk about groose! i've always loved him as a character, and the bits you've said about him and his relationship with link and zelda is always great! also, any notable kin memories you have of groose? especially things that occured after he left skyloft, or even after the demise fight. what did he get up to after the credits rolled?
fun stories about your loftwing? were there any traits you and him shared notably? or any that were more opposite?
what are some of your favorite things about your favorite iterations of zelda? what i mean by that is like... what do you like best about tetra/wind waker zelda? what about skyward zelda? botw zelda? they're similar but all unique people, so what endears you the most about each of them?
i know this is a lot, so don't feel like you have to answer in any specific time frame. take as long as is comfortable, and i hope this helps!! ~🍄
these are so many!!! thank you for being so generous!!!
are there any stories/facts about your job/coworkers you can comfortably share? maybe something cool they did/you did with them recently? anyone that stands out in particular among them, without getting too specific for. clear reasons?
most of the ppl i work w are. kinda rude to me all the time so i mostly just drown them out so i don’t go insane. but there is this one kid who is just, like, a ray of sunshine every time he walks into a room. and he works so hard and he cares about his work and i feel like he’s the only bitch who gets me. we vibe over zelda and will just get into debates about the lore on the clock and i look forward to seeing him a lot. 
what's cheeseburger up to atm? any notable stories or anything about him recently, or has he been just living his best life as usual?
he’s just doin he. he sleeps a lot. sometimes in boxes. sometimes under beds. sometimes directly on top of me.
a few weeks back i went to the ER for what i figured out was a kidney stone and while i was literally on my bed writhing in pain trying to hold out until my grandparents got there cheeseburger just like, jumped up on top of me and immediately starting pissing on me, as if to say haha, check this out. i can urinate better than you.
which of the skyloft NPCs do you particularly like? for arguments sake, this is excluding the more story relevant ones, so no groose + his gang, no zelda obviously, etc.
i love all of them so much oh no... everyone i love i love for kinnie reasons like i am tempted to say jakamar cause even though he’s kind of a sleazy dude he, as previously mentioned, smuggled me woodscraps to whittle fsdgjkfsgh
but parrow gives good hugs. and henya always has snacks hidden somewhere. and pumm will give you soup on the house sometimes if he can tell you’re in a rough mood. and and and........ i wuv skyloft. this is all kinnie bullshit actually.
as an opposite to that, talk about groose! i've always loved him as a character, and the bits you've said about him and his relationship with link and zelda is always great! also, any notable kin memories you have of groose? especially things that occured after he left skyloft, or even after the demise fight. what did he get up to after the credits rolled?
talked about him a lil bit in my last ask hehe
fun stories about your loftwing? were there any traits you and him shared notably? or any that were more opposite?
aepon & i were the kind of pair where we seemed really dissimilar on the surface but i think if anyone actually knew us they’d be able to discern pretty quickly that we were 100% twinning. like at face value i was a pretty calm and quiet person who was just, like. spacey and sleepy and vibing while things happened around me, and aepon was this absolute speed demon who had the biggest, loudest presence any time he entered a space. ppl in skyloft called him my red terror.
but the thing about my bird is that he was stubborn to a fault, and recklessly brave, and he just didn’t. stop. and he loved fiercely, the second i was awake in the morning i’d hear him circling overhead and shrieking his happy little shriek, he’d fill my head with all his thoughts of hanging out with me while i was trying to concentrate on work. all those things, we had in common, but i wouldn’t have been able to tell you that. someone like zelda probably would have. 
i think the best representation of it is at the beginning of everything when the tornado took zelda, the both of us just. dove right in. nothing else mattered, no conflict existed within either of us, i didn’t have to steer him in or send my intentions into our shared headspace, he just turned into an arrow flying straight into danger, and i went with him and we were one living being. like that’s our core. we are very opposite, until shit gets real, and then we are this beautiful unity tearing through the clouds. 
what are some of your favorite things about your favorite iterations of zelda? what i mean by that is like... what do you like best about tetra/wind waker zelda? what about skyward zelda? botw zelda? they're similar but all unique people, so what endears you the most about each of them?
HOW DO I COUNT THE WAYS I LOVE ZELDA AHHHHH
oot!zelda’s determination to defy fate... the way she refuses, from the start, to give in to darkness even though she’s only a little girl. the way she sees my commoner ass just waltz up into her private garden after breaking into her house still dressed in my stupid forest clothes and shes like. oh fuck yeah, wanna help me overthrow the gerudo king? and we’re, can’t stress this enough, ten. she’s so confident like she never worries about being powerless or out of her element, she never for a second believes this isn’t something she can fight. and when everything goes to shit she just keeps fighting!!! and still has the time to remind me that i can keep fighting too!!! literally where did she get that personality i love her so much!!!!
tetra’s fucking... simmering fire. her perfect balance between action and thought. like you can tell she’s pissed off and wants to start throwing punches but she always has the self-control to assess if it’s the thing to do in the moment. I CAN’T DO THAT!!! i’m pissed off i want to swords!!!! that motherfucker over there is PROVOKING ME!!!!! and tetra has the same fire inside her but she’s always just, like, “shut the fuck up, link. put your sword away. we need to get the jump on him.” and im like, AHHHHHHH because she’s always right. literally always. i don’t know how she does this but i think about it constantly. i love her level head and her scheming heart and her choice to carve her own destiny. i like how she finds out she’s a legendary princess from an age long past with sacred blood and shes just like ‘that’s cool but actually i’m tetra and i like to cuss and steal.’ and just does that forever. it resonates with me especially because even though the gods acknowledged me as the hero of winds i, like, wasn’t a ‘true’ incarnation of the hero. it’s just what i decided to be with what i was given. she and i are two sides of that coin and there is something beautiful abt that i don’t have words for. in a lot of ways she was my inspiration.
skyward!zelda’s um. everything? everything. i am so in love with her. i am so in love... with her. i am finding it harder to describe her than everyone else here which is so silly because she’s easily the person i was closest with. she’s just, like, made of fire and love? of passion. everything she is stems from what she loves--she loves old legends, and cliche romance stories, and stargazing, and going on adventures. zelda romanticizes everything in her life, she’ll stop mid-sentence to make you look at the sky because it struck her as particularly beautiful today, meanwhile i’m just like. thats the sky i see it every day i live here. and she’s so brave, so fierce, so resilient--there’s literally nothing that could scare her, i’m certain she got to the surface and immediately started spitting curses at blins, if ghirahim had actually found her alone she would have tried to come at him clawing and spitting. i was always so chill because all my anger was Stored in The Zelda, she’d just fight half my battles for me before i could register they were battles. idk. zelda was such an optimist who took everything in stride and believed, no matter what, that she could make it her own and make it beautiful and find something to adore within it. i might have had a quieter disposition, but she was always better at dealing with change than me. it was calming. i love her so much.
botw!zelda’s passion and inquisitive heart, oh my god, oh my god. i’m going to fucking fight everyone in the kingdom who ever made her feel like she talks too much. god it enthralls me, the way she just talks and talks and talks and LETS ME LISTEN, she lets me just SIT THERE and BASK IN IT like some kind of COLD REPTILE ON A ROCK. i literally cannot comprehend how she can fit so much knowledge about so many different things in her brain, and the way she’s ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT, literally just getting together with her techie friends and building whole ass machines when she was like 6 years old. shes looking at me like ‘oh this child prodigy curse my shortcomings why cant i be pulling enchanted swords when IM 12′ and im like PRINCESS YOU’RE FUCKING COOLER THAN ME LIKE CONGRATS I TOUCH A SWORD SOMETIMES AND YOU COULD LITERALLY MAKE A ROBOT TO DO THAT FOR YOU oh my god the way she doesn’t see how incredible she is makes me go insane i feel insane just thinking about it she’s the coolest fucking person i’ve ever met she’s the coolest person in hyrule the kingdom is too good for her i want her to take apart hyrule castle brick by brick and just leave a note behind that says ‘im too cool for you’ and then she gets on my ancient magic motorcycle and rides off into the sunset to some paradise far away and if i’m LUCKY she takes me with her. i love zelda
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legendofzelda4life · 3 years
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Congratulations!
I was going to write this yesterday to honour Skyward Sword coming to switch (the direct was on the 18th for me bc of how far ahead I am from PT so todays the 19th lol), the fact these two made it really makes me wanna cry because they’re finally getting the remake they deserve. I didn’t end up writing it though because I didn’t really have a good idea.
It would be quite rude to do that to Link and Zelda lol.
So yes, today is some SS Zelink (with a side of Groose of course) and I hope you guys enjoy.
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“Zelda?!” Link called, walking into a little house.
Him and Zelda had decided to rebuild Hyrule on the surface. Zelda didn’t want anything too big so they only had a little house. No big castle or anything. In the last ten years since their quest finished, they had established a new knight’s academy, houses, shops, even festival grounds.
“Zelda??!” Link was growing more worried. She usually comes downstairs before he even gets through the door.
“Link, hi!” She sounded startled. “You okay?” Link asked wearily. “Yeah, sorry I was sorting something out.” Link looked behind her to see packed bags and cocked a brow.
“Goin’ somewhere?” He asked with a smirk. Zelda just laughed. “You’re coming too, I am not going through this alone.” Link was still confused and put his hands up. “Wait. Wait! Where are we going, exactly?”
“To Skyloft.”
Link’s eyes widened and, before Zelda knew it, he jumped in the air, exclaiming in excitement. “Hell yeah!” Zelda chuckled at Link’s childishness. “It’s so hard to believe it’s been ten years.” Zelda said, looking at the sky.
Suddenly Zelda stopped in remembrance. “Right, Link. The reason we’re going - I forgot to tell you this before…” Zelda trailed off and Link looked at her, concerned once more. “What’s wrong? Are you hurt? Did something happen while I was gone?” 
“Dear Goddesses... no, Link! You’ve been gone for like ten minutes, chill out.” Zelda laughed as Link sat on a chair. “Alright, I’m chill. Tell me!” Zelda took in a deep breath.
“I’m pregnant.”
And suddenly she was in the air and spinning. “OH MY GODDESSES THERE’S GONNA BE A MINI YOU RUNNING AROUND!!!!!” Link yelled before covering Zelda’s face with kisses. “Or a mini you…” She said quietly, causing Link’s eyes to widen before he inhaled harshly.
“Yeah, I hate to break it to you Z, but you can’t handle two of me.” Link said, looking Zelda in the eyes as she rolled them. “One is too much already.” She giggled, shoving Link away.
“Now c’mon, to Skyloft we go.” Zelda practically dragged Link outside and whistled loudly. A blue loftwing came down and a red one following shortly after.
“They’re still alive?” Link asked, astonished.
“YOU LITERALLY FED THEM YeStErDaY.” Okay, Zelda is officially done with Link’s bullshit.
“Oh yeah… hm…” Yeah, Link’s an idiot sometimes.
They got onto their loftwings easily and were up in the air.
“WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!” The pair yelled as adrenaline filled them.
Ten years…
That’s how long Link hasn’t done this for.
But he was still a natural.
They reached Skyloft extremely quickly and were welcomed by many people.
“Link! Zelda! Hi!” Link looked up.
“Groose!”
Okay, they had seen Groose once since leaving but that was like eight years ago. Link was actually surprised they recognised each other.
Suddenly, the pair from land were picked up.
“I’ve missed you guys!” Groose cried as he held them both tightly.
After maybe two minutes, he placed the pair down and grabbed their wrists. “Come, I have to show you everything.” 
They walked around for about twenty minutes before Groose took them to the house he shared with Cawlin and Strich.
“This is my place, Cawlin has that room, and Strich has that one. They should be in the kitchen though.” The three walked into the kitchen and, just as Groose said, the two boys were indeed in the kitchen.
“Link!” Cawlin exclaimed. The five of them talked for a bit before Zelda gave Link that look. Link nodded and took Zelda’s hand.
“Guys… Z and I have something to tell you…” Link trailed off and Zelda smiled. “I’m pregnant!” She exclaimed.
“Fuckin took long enough!” Groose said with a laugh. “Oh congratulations!” Strich said. They spoke about baby names for a while. Groose was very persistent on naming it Groose jr. whereas Cawlin wanted to give the baby a gender neutral name.
Yeah, you can very well guess who Link and Zelda sided with.
Suddenly someone barged into the house.
“Captain Groose! Danger! Demon! Help!” They said before leaving.
Link started laughing.
“Captain now I see?” He asked. “Yeah, I was appointed the position a couple years back. I still haven’t gotten used to it.” Groose sighed causing Link to roll his eyes. “Oh you will.” He paused. “Eventually.” Groose groaned.
“They said danger.” Zelda said flatly. “Anyway we can help?”
Suddenly the roof was blown off by what looked like a walking ball of malice.
All the boys’ at the table pulled out their swords.
“Yep.”
Link gave Zelda a smile before they jumped at the monster.
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This actually went a lot better than I thought it would lol. I hope you guys liked it.
The original idea was to save this for Zelda’s 35th (that’s why I didn’t post it yesterday) but I have something else in mind lol.
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Avenging Angel: Part 27
Summary: You’ve spent the last five years on a dangerous mission to solve the crime that wrongly imprisoned your father. When the Winchesters find you half-frozen on the side of a mountain, they make it their own mission to save your life and make sure you stay alive. But after five years of uncovering horribly dark secrets, you’ve learned not to trust anyone. Especially people who seem like they have good intentions.
Word Count: 1526
Warnings: None
A/N: Links aren’t working on this part, so here’s the URL to the series Masterlist: https://imagining-supernatural.tumblr.com/post/158422944355/avenging-angel-masterlist
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 -- Part 9 -- Part 10 -- Part 11 -- Part 12 -- Part 13 -- Part 14 -- Part 15 -- Part 16 -- Part 17 -- Part 18 -- Part 19 -- Part 20 -- Part 21 -- Part 22 -- Part 23 -- Part 24 -- Part 25 -- Part 26
Celeste looked over the reports that came back on your blood tests to see if you had the genetic marker. You watched her carefully, looking for any sign.
Her eyebrows drew together and you saw her eyes skip back to the top of the page to look over the data again.
“What is it?” you asked with apprehension.
“It’s… It’s nothing I’ve ever seen before.” She tilted the papers so you could see them too. As she explained, she pointed to various diagrams and words that had no real meaning to you. “It looks like you have a partial marker here, but I’ve never seen someone have only part of that marker. And that, my dear, isn’t even the strangest part.”
“Do I wanna know what the strangest part is?”
She flipped through a few more papers. “Well, it doesn’t matter whether you wanna know or not because I don’t understand what is happening here. This right here shouldn’t look like that. And these numbers are far from the normal range.”
Celeste lifted her eyes to yours. “I think we should run another test. Just to make sure everything is kosher.”
Slowly, you took the papers from her hand and looked at the gibberish on the pages. “Okay. Maybe it was just a lab error or something.”
“I’m sure that’s what it was.”
After she drew more blood, you left to go check on your storage unit and wait for word on the results. Those results never came back, though, because Celeste called you a week later to tell you that her house with all of her tools had burnt down.
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“Mr. Winchester here has led quite the exciting life,” Mr. Covington confirmed. “But I was disappointed that you hadn’t confided in him.”
“About what?” You hedged, wanting to know exactly what he was talking about before you gave anything away.
“The information I require from you.”
This didn’t make any sense. Dean knew about the research. He knew where it was, and he’d read through most of it. Therefore, George should know about it too, since he’d downloaded all of Dean’s memories. So why was he acting like he didn’t know?
Well, if he was gonna act ignorant, then you were too. And a quick glance at both Sam and Dean showed you that the three of you were on the same page.
“You require from me? I’m not just going to roll over and give it to you. I may not like my dad too much at the moment, but I still put him way above you and two guys I met just over a month ago. Why do you want the research anyway?”
Victoria sat forward. “Because he could twist it to make his pack practically invincible, isn’t that right? Once your father and I realized the full extent of what George and his family could use our research for, we stopped immediately."
"You're the reason my family got killed that night," George bit out angrily.
Victoria didn't back down. "Your family died that night because they got careless. Don't blame me for your incompetence."
"Unless you want me to tell Y/N exactly why you left, I suggest you shut up."
Cold, dense tension surrounded the booth so much so that even the waitress looked nervous to come take everyone's orders. As soon as she left, you picked the conversation right up again. "Why you really left?"
"He's just trying to bait you, honey."
"Don't call me honey. Why did you leave?"
"I thought you wanted to keep our relationship strictly professional," Victoria said coolly.
You crossed your arms and leaned forward. "And I thought you wanted to fix our relationship."
“I never said that,” she countered.
Her words hurt more than you could let her know. Sure, you didn’t want her to act like your mother right now. It would just make this meeting harder. But hearing that she didn’t want to fix what she did to you?
“Why are you here, then?” Sam asked in the silence you’d created.
Victoria’s eyes slid to the man she had caught her daughter in bed with and narrowed slightly. “Y/N is my daughter. We share blood. That makes her a part of my pack. I wanted to protect her from the Covingtons.”
“You didn’t seem too concerned for the past year,” you muttered insolently.
“You were untouchable for the past year. Especially after you moved in with Braxton.”
That was the flimsiest excuse you’d ever heard. You just spent five years of your life dedicated to getting your father out of prison, where he was relatively safe already. But your mom couldn’t be bothered to get you out of a dangerous situation when your life was at stake?
You trained your eyes on Dean, signaling for him to take over the conversation. If you opened your mouth right now, you were pretty sure that you would start yelling.
“Why are you gathering such a large pack?”
Victoria’s eyes slid toward George for a split second. “For protection.
“From the shifters?” Sam asked, having seen what you had.
“Don’t listen to her,” George cut in. “She’s not making a defensive plan. She’s the one who’s going on the offense. She’s the one you should be worried about.”
“You tried to kill me,” you reminded him.
“She hurt your friends,” he countered. “I wonder what is so important that she’s hiding that she would burn down the house of one of her old colleagues.”
It was always a bad sign when a Covington made sense. At least he was upfront about his intentions. Or, at least, more upfront than Victoria was being.
Your phone vibrated just then, and you glanced down to see that an unknown number was calling you. Probably some telemarketer. Ignoring the call, you turned your attention back at the werewolf and shifter sitting at the table.
“And you seem pretty intent on getting the attention off of you,” you pointed out to George. “I wonder why that is.”
“Self-preservation, dear. I’m sitting in a diner with two hunters. You never know what you say that could set their kind off. Keep that in mind if you foolishly decide to keep breaking bread with them.”
Keep breaking bread with them? Who said stuff like that anymore?
Your phone vibrated again with the same unknown number flashing across the screen. Slightly curious, but not curious enough to step away from this conversation, you ignored the call again. It wasn’t ten seconds later when a text popped up.
Unknown: Answer the phone. It’s important. –t9
As soon as you processed that the number was Braxton’s, a third call came through. Glancing at Sam, then Dean for a second, you excused yourself and headed outside to take the call.
“Braxton?”
“Look, I don’t have much time, Y/N. Have you talked to your dad yet?”
So that’s what this was about. “Brax, your dad is here right now. If he can’t get that research out of me, then there’s no way I’m giving it to you.”
“I’m not working with him.”
He said it so simply that you had no choice but to believe him.
“What?”
“Meet me at the Skyloft in Vegas next Thursday at eight. Alone. No Winchesters.”
“Why would I do that?” You were curious, but meeting Braxton in Vegas? That didn’t seem like a good idea if you didn’t have any backup. Especially since you didn’t know where he stood anymore. At least when you thought he worked with his dad, you had an idea of how to handle him. But now?
“I have answers.” He knew that would get you. “I’ll explain everything. Please, Y/N. It’s important.”
Braxton Covington begging to see you? Not many people could claim that. Still though, you weren’t stupid enough to just blindly walk into whatever he had planned. “Braxton, I don’t—“
“Do you want to meet your sister?”
Your mouth hung open in the middle of your sentence. Sister? You didn’t have a sister. You were an only child. Sure, you’d dreamed of having siblings, but that was never in the books for you.
“Skyloft. Thursday. Eight o’ clock. We’ll explain everything.”
Braxton hung up and you slowly brought your phone away from your ear, staring at the screen. We’ll explain everything. We. Him and your sister? Both of them would be in Vegas? Your eyes wandered back to the table and you could see your mother through the glass, glaring at something Dean was saying. You could ask her if she knew what he was talking about. But for some reason, you trusted Braxton to tell you the whole truth rather than the woman who gave birth to you.
Slowly, you started walking back inside, your mind still swirling with confusion. But one thing was clear to you.
“We’re not getting anywhere here. It’s a waste of our time.” Both Winchesters had questions in their eyes, but you just shook your head. You’d tell them once the three of you were alone. “George, we’ll leave you with the bill. I think you can afford that. And… Can I get my car back?”
Part 28 of Avenging Angel (Links aren’t working here, so here’s a link to Part 28: https://imagining-supernatural.tumblr.com/post/158339510805/avenging-angel-part-28 )
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