WARNING: LONG RAMBLING FROM THE AUTHOR
This isn't vital to the story line at all (except near the end, which may contain SPOILERS), but I just have to say some things that I don't think would be appropriate to just attach at the beginning or end of a chapter.
I didn't want Miyako to end up being a character that everybody hated, but I didn't want to try really hard to make her someone everybody loved, which would be impossible, since a lot of people are *exclusively* pro-Link/Zelda or pro-Link/Malon. And that's just fine, but... I never really pictured him with either of them. I wanted to make her a little bit of a virago (heroine) but not a full-blown "I don't need men, they're all stupid" feminist or something. A little independent, but still very much a girl. I hope it worked out all right. I have no idea where the name 'Miyako' came from, it just popped into my head one day, like all of the others, and I didn't get it from any anime that I've seen. I'm trying not to inject this story with Japanese words and phrases as though it were an anime fanfiction, because there are TLoZ fans out there that don't know what anime is or don't like it. (If you want the actual truth, though, there's going to be a LOT of Latin later on. Muahahaha.)
I hope that not many people are reading this novella fanfiction and then saying, "This is crap! You suck!" just because Link does not get with Zelda, Malon, Ruto, Saria, Sheik, or Ganondorf. (You fans of yaoi, you. XD ) I'm just trying to take these characters and have them act realistically. Yes, Zelda will undoubtedly have the hots for Link, as will Malon, Ruto, and Saria. Sheik... a lot of people liked "him," and I do too, and I still do, but Sheik is Zelda and Zelda is Sheik, and moving the story to an alternate universe is a bit of a big jump (although I do happen to think it's a nifty idea). While I'm a fairly average fan of yaoi (if there's such an thing as an average fan of yaoi), there's good yaoi and tasteless yaoi, and the latter is never worth reading or even thinking about.
Though this may be elitist, this is what fanfiction should be; taking the game and moving it in a direction unrelated to the original plot. Isn't that what fanfiction means? Using the characters of an already made show or game or anime and then putting them in different scenarios?
SPOILERS AHEAD (?)
Later on you'll read that Link is still having trouble getting over Zelda, even though he was the one who didn't want to get married, but isn't it like that? We make choices we regret and then pray it was for the best. I don't want to throw Miyako in anyone's face and say, "She's the best!" or something, because love is never about two people made for each other. It's about attraction for the things we want in ourselves that we see in others. And (this is a SPOILER, but I bet you saw it coming from miles away) I don't want to turn it into something like Romeo and Juliet and have it be love at first sight or at least in the first two weeks between Link and Miyako. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither is love. As for the whole *(im)possible* Link/Lance scenario, I leave that completely open to any yaoi fan willing to take my atrocities on.
I feel like a bit of a heretic for injecting all these new legends and countries and legends into the Zelda world, but... I've not played many Zelda games. I've played one of them for the original Nintendo, I misremember which one, plus OoT and MM for N64, and then the GameBoy Color one with the Windfish thingy, but I didn't get very far, as I kept stealing stuff then getting killed by the store owner. XD
All right, enough of this. Get back to the story, Faithful Reader, and thank you for braving out this rant. ^__^
This isn't vital to the story line at all (except near the end, which may contain SPOILERS), but I just have to say some things that I don't think would be appropriate to just attach at the beginning or end of a chapter.
I didn't want Miyako to end up being a character that everybody hated, but I didn't want to try really hard to make her someone everybody loved, which would be impossible, since a lot of people are *exclusively* pro-Link/Zelda or pro-Link/Malon. And that's just fine, but... I never really pictured him with either of them. I wanted to make her a little bit of a virago (heroine) but not a full-blown "I don't need men, they're all stupid" feminist or something. A little independent, but still very much a girl. I hope it worked out all right. I have no idea where the name 'Miyako' came from, it just popped into my head one day, like all of the others, and I didn't get it from any anime that I've seen. I'm trying not to inject this story with Japanese words and phrases as though it were an anime fanfiction, because there are TLoZ fans out there that don't know what anime is or don't like it. (If you want the actual truth, though, there's going to be a LOT of Latin later on. Muahahaha.)
I hope that not many people are reading this novella fanfiction and then saying, "This is crap! You suck!" just because Link does not get with Zelda, Malon, Ruto, Saria, Sheik, or Ganondorf. (You fans of yaoi, you. XD ) I'm just trying to take these characters and have them act realistically. Yes, Zelda will undoubtedly have the hots for Link, as will Malon, Ruto, and Saria. Sheik... a lot of people liked "him," and I do too, and I still do, but Sheik is Zelda and Zelda is Sheik, and moving the story to an alternate universe is a bit of a big jump (although I do happen to think it's a nifty idea). While I'm a fairly average fan of yaoi (if there's such an thing as an average fan of yaoi), there's good yaoi and tasteless yaoi, and the latter is never worth reading or even thinking about.
Though this may be elitist, this is what fanfiction should be; taking the game and moving it in a direction unrelated to the original plot. Isn't that what fanfiction means? Using the characters of an already made show or game or anime and then putting them in different scenarios?
SPOILERS AHEAD (?)
Later on you'll read that Link is still having trouble getting over Zelda, even though he was the one who didn't want to get married, but isn't it like that? We make choices we regret and then pray it was for the best. I don't want to throw Miyako in anyone's face and say, "She's the best!" or something, because love is never about two people made for each other. It's about attraction for the things we want in ourselves that we see in others. And (this is a SPOILER, but I bet you saw it coming from miles away) I don't want to turn it into something like Romeo and Juliet and have it be love at first sight or at least in the first two weeks between Link and Miyako. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither is love. As for the whole *(im)possible* Link/Lance scenario, I leave that completely open to any yaoi fan willing to take my atrocities on.
I feel like a bit of a heretic for injecting all these new legends and countries and legends into the Zelda world, but... I've not played many Zelda games. I've played one of them for the original Nintendo, I misremember which one, plus OoT and MM for N64, and then the GameBoy Color one with the Windfish thingy, but I didn't get very far, as I kept stealing stuff then getting killed by the store owner. XD
All right, enough of this. Get back to the story, Faithful Reader, and thank you for braving out this rant. ^__^