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newmemorywhodis) wrote2023-02-10 05:34 pm
newmemorywhodis) wrote2023-02-10 05:34 pm
Entry tags:
The Revival Project: Application
OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Blue
Contact:
Other characters: NA
Reserve: Here
Referral: Thalia, Aya
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Link
Character journal:
newmemorywhodisSeries name: Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Canon notes: Post Breath of the Wild
Species: Hylian (aka human, but with pointy ears)
Age: Technically, around 118-ish. But 100 of those years were spent being in stasis in the Shrine of Resurrection, so physical and mental age is somewhere around 18.
Arrival Condition: Healthy!
History: Wiki link
Personality:
Link's single most defining trait is that he's courageous. It's in the whole job description of being the 'Hero of Hyrule', after all. But it's one that Link embodies, even when he doesn't have any memories to drive that courage. He wakes up, not even knowing who he is or why the fate of Hyrule should be important to him, but he still agrees to fight and work towards stopping Ganon without any hesitation. He knows it's dangerous, and he eventually learns that it's a task that's also already killed him once before. But because he knows it's important, and he's the only one who can help, there's no question for him as to whether he should be involved.
The dark flip-size of Link's courage is that he's reckless, and self-sacrificing. Both Mipha and Zelda have described him as such, and the fact is that his explorations of Hyrule involve a generally inadvisable amount of leaping off of cliffs, bombs, and setting things on fire. Personal safety is not always a consideration that factors heavily into Link's decision making. It's a bit different when other people are involved, though - it's himself that he will casually put at risk, not others.
He also happens to be woefully lacking in social skills. Before losing all of his memories, Link tended to rarely speak - the result of him feeling like he had bottle up and hide any concerns or worries he might have, due to his role as the Hero of Hyrule and the near to 'appear strong'. After losing his memories, Link has basically been spending all of his time alone in the wilderness. He doesn't even remember what the normal rules of society are, and as a result he's rather naive and tactless and abrupt in his responses to people. He's woefully unprepared to deal with living in any kind of community.
But at the same time, he's also very much someone who likes to be useful and to help people. If someone says they need something - whether that be ingredients for a meal, a camp of enemies that need to be cleared out, or building an entirely new town, Link will want to help. Sometimes this is because he's been promised something in return, but in most cases Link just wants to have a task to complete and a way to help someone else out. This even includes people he doesn't like all that much - although nothing says he has to be polite while helping someone out.
And something that comes in handy when he's undertaking his various quests is the fact that Link is highly pragmatic, and a problem solver. If he's outclassed by an enemy, he'll sneak around or use underhanded tactics to whittle them down from a distance before engaging. He'll use his puzzle-solving skills to make his way through the various shrines and challenges scattered across Hyrule, sometimes using quite unorthodox approaches to do so. He's still very good at the general hack-and-slash approach, and it's one he employs frequently - but he's not one to approach all of his problems with brute force.
And lastly, he's also a bit of a hoarder. Link collects stuff, wherever he goes. Mushrooms, bugs, gemstones, various slain monster parts. He will get sidetracked from whatever he's doing by the need to go and pick up a bunch of flowers. For the most part the fact that he can store all of this in the Slate makes this fairly benign, but if there's an object someone else has that he wants - or worse, that someone has promised him - Link will get very insistent about getting that object. (See: the paraglider, the snow and sand boots, the Thunder Helm...)
Abilities:
- Fighting skills
As a trained knight, Link is highly capable in combat. This includes abilities such as:- Melee weapons: Link can wield a wide range of melee weapons, including swords, clubs, spears, and axes. He's also been known to improvise weapons where needed - such as mops, soup ladles, and tree brances.
- Archery: he has expert marksmanship, and can be highly precise with a bow
- Shield: In addition to being able to use his shield generally for defense, he can also use it to parry blows - and in some cases, reflect them back upon the attacker
- Strength and agility: Link's strong enough to push boulders around, but also agile enough to dodge enemy bows through backflips and fancy footwork
- Melee weapons: Link can wield a wide range of melee weapons, including swords, clubs, spears, and axes. He's also been known to improvise weapons where needed - such as mops, soup ladles, and tree brances.
Link has also the ability to manipulate time, to a small extent. This mostly takes the form of him being able to briefly slow down time - allowing him to move much, much faster than anyone else.
This effect never lasts more than a few seconds, and manifests in two ways:
- Flurry rush: When dodging an enemy attack, Link is able to briefly slow down time. This allows him to get in 4-10 hits (depending on the type of weapon), before the enemy is able to react.
- Slow motion bow: While using a bow mid-air - either from paragliding or jumping down from somewhere - Link can slow down time while aiming, allowing him to line up his shot. How often he can do this depends on how much stamina he has available, as doing this using up his energy very quickly.
In addition to his own natural abilities, Link has four other powers that were gifted to him by the spirits of the fallen Champions. These include:
- Mipha's Grace: If Link is injured to the point where he drops unconscious, Mipha's spirit will appear to heal and revive him. Once used, it requires eight hours to recharge.
- Daruk's Protection: A red crystal sphere appears around Link and protects him from all attacks. After taking a certain amount of damage, the crystal will break - with the spirit of Daruk's briefly appearing for one last moment of protection. This can be used three times, after which it requires six hours to recharge.
- Revali's Gale: The spirit of Revali appears to create an updraft that lifts Link into the sky. This can be used three times, after which it requires two hours to recharge.
- Urbosa's Fury: A sphere of light appears around Link, before the spirit of Urbosa appears along with a burst of electricity, damaging and stunning everyone within the sphere. This can be used three times, after which it requires four hours to recharge.
Personal Item: Link's personal item will be the Master Sword, a divine weapon also known as the Sword that Seals the Darkness.
Relevant abilities and powers of the sword in this iteration are:
- increased power/damage when in the presence of evil & malice (whether the source of that is a particular enemy or location) - this is accompanied by a glowing blue aura
- while Link is uninjured, the sword can shoot forth beams of energy to attack at a distance
- after a period of use, the sword will need to 'recharge' before being used again
- the sword is bound to Link's soul, meaning that he's the only one who can wield it
Sample: TDM thread
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CANON UPDATE
Lost abilities:
Link will no longer have access to any of the Champion Gifts listed on his app. This includes:
New abilities:
Link's right arm has been replaced with the arm of Rauru, the long-dead Zonai king of Hyrule. This arm gives him access to special Zonai abilities. These include:
The Sages are the keepers of the powerful Secret Stones, which they have been able to use to gift Link with some of their own power. This power allows Link to summon all of the avatars of the Sages - ghostly blue projections of the Sages, that can fight alongside him and aid him with their unique abilities. These avatars are not the Sages themselves - they don't have any real intelligence or personality. Additionally, each unique ability can only be used after a short cooldown - Link can't just spam them endlessly.
This is one last ability that Link technically had in BotW, but
I forgot to include itit became a little bit more prominent in TotK. Namely, Link has the ability to see spirits that would otherwise be invisible. This takes the form of him being able to see forest-spirit koroks, dragons, and also 'poes' - little blue wisps of light that are heavily implied to be the spirits of the dead.Personal item
Link has the same item, but the Master Sword has now been broken by Ganondorf's Gloom - and then restored by the spiritual energy of Zelda's dragon form over thousands of years. Mechanically, it's largely the same though - probably just not a bit more durable, and better able to resist damage from highly corrosive and evil dark forces like Gloom.
It's also a great weapon to Fuse things to - though unlike other Fused weapons, it doesn't change appearance (except when attacking, where the Fused item will appear as a ghostly image briefly).