100 Themes, 100 Words, 100 Days.
This is a challenge brought upon to me by a dear friend over at deviant art. However, I don't draw. At all. In fact I pretty much can only do stick figures. So I decided to take the one word challenge and make it into a story challenge. All of these stories are either one-shots, or a continuation of a long plot line I've had rolling around in my head for a long time.
However, all of these stories are up for adoption. If you'd like to expand on one of the ideas I've created just send me a message! I don't have an actual computer anymore, so I can't get to it right away but do note that I will eventually get to it. :3
Thanks!
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1. Life
Everytime he awakes, another hero is born. For each crisis, there must be one of courage. He does not see the differences between the heroes, he only sees the emblem.
"It is time now, I can feel the seal weakining. We must bring back the champion."
He does not know how hard the hero has to work to be that emblem.
Every challenge, every near death. All heroes have scars. Some from creatures that lurk beneath the floor boards; some scars from falling great magnitudes of heights. But each one tells a tale of woe and hardship.
"He's tired, cant you see that? What good is a hero if he doesn't want to be it anymore. Release him from his binds! Give him back his life!"
And of the courage the heroes must posess.
The heroes are always male; for the goddesses chose it that way. And to offset him, the heroes must always be male.
"It doesn't work like that Princess! You know it to be true! They chose him, just like they chose you."
"Well maybe I don't want to do it anymore either!"
"Well excuse me Princess."
"Oh don't even bring up that incarnation."
For the human male is the best for acts of courage. They do not complain often, and they are solitary. They bear their burdens with pride; as marks of how they are human. How the hero is different from him.
How he will always be different than him.
"You, of wisdom, are immortal. He, of courage, is reincarnated. And him, of power, takes new bodies to his whim. It is a never ending cycle. And it always will be. You know this Princess."
"I only wanted him to be happy. I always only wanted that."
"I know Princess."
"Is he really coming?"
"It is weakening day by day."
"Then we must call upon the Godesses. Reincarnation for the hero... For Link."
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A/N: I always believed that the Goddess' embused some sort of immortality-based power upon each bearer. Because it's the same three people every freakin game, not their descendants, no one else but Zelda, Link, and Gannondorf. Each power has to do with their piece of the Triforce they got.
-Zelda, in her infinate wisdom, got normal immortality. That way she could rule her kindgom till the end of time.
-Link, in my mind wants to live a life to fufilment and that includes getting old and dieing... So I figure reincarnation.
-Ganondorf keeps getting shoved into subspace, which I believe stops his growing older - which is how he can live the 700-something years in between OoT and Twilight Princess.