A/N: Linktober. Prompt: Goddess. So like 20 years ago I came up with this idea for the Goddesses and I'm finally using it. More notes at the end.
There are two rules to their method of madness.
One: she and her sisters don't get involved, adopting a rather hands-off approach when it comes to the universe they've created. And two: each Hero is only called once. A perk, if you will, for saving Hyrule. The least that they can do, all things considered.
Farore has watched dozens of Heroes come and go through the ages, each one working just as hard as the others, as they do their best to vanquish the evil that lurks in the darkness.
They don't always succeed. Not in the way that she wants. Were it a perfect world, none of them would ever die but—
Well, there are rules and she and her sisters have always stood by them. Until now.
Farore bites at her thumb as she watches her little hero traipse through the Lost Woods. Sighs as he steps closer and closer to that dreaded edge of his new destiny. She's about to break her covenant, and willfully so.
Feels a little sick about it.
It's for the good of others, she tells herself, like it'll make a difference. It doesn't though, and the twisting in her gut gets worse and worse. She isn't supposed to have favorites, isn't supposed to think of the Heroes as anything more—
But how can she not? The Hero is of her own, calling her power to his fingertips with every incarnation. They're tied together through eternity whether she wants to be or not, and Farore knows that it's the same for her sisters and their respective own.
Even Din and her desperation when it comes to Ganon, and how she wishes he'd for once, see good.
Link did his duty, he'd gone forwards and backward in time. Saved Hyrule and sealed the darkness away for now— and for what? To come back home and lose his only friend in a carefully orchestrated plan?
Farore frowns as she watches him reach the edge of the realm. The poor boy doesn't even know, he can't even fathom, this new journey he's about to embark on.
Termina belongs to them too, another small blip in the whole of their creation, but unlike Hyrule, it has no one to protect it. It's never needed anyone before. But that's the funny thing about giving your creations free will— inevitably they'll fuck up your carefully curated, intelligent design.
And so, Farore ushers her beloved Hero in its direction, figuring that if anyone can change the hopeless, it'd be him. She sighs in resignation as she watches from the heavens. Link is knocked out cold and the Skull Kid sets in motion his next adventure.
"I'm sorry, young one," she murmurs as the clock starts ticking and Termina takes its hold.
Farore has never begged for forgiveness before. Feels so foreign to an almighty being such as she.
And yes, you're right, the Goddesses do bring the great flood to Hyrule once the Hero doesn't show up to stop Ganon. That's a big oopsie on Farore's part, ain't it? Is it her fault? You decide.