I hope that ending didn't suck too much. I don't want to write
tragedies anymore. They're just so.tragic.
Well, after you've put up with 24 chapters, you don't have to read my author's notes. But I hope you do, because they might explain some things. Ahem.
This story is actually just the last and best incarnation of a lot of stories, all with a common purpose: to send Link back in time with a better reason. Let's be honest here: Ocarina of Time was a great game, but the ending sucked. I mean, come on. Now, I realize that Majora's Mask wasn't released entirely on the runaway success of OoT, and perhaps something bigger is going on at Nintendo (we hope!), but as of my ant-on- the-chessboard position right now, the ending sucked. However, being who I am, I did like the idea of Link having to go back in time and leave his one true love, Zelda (because I am fully L/Z), so I went on a literary quest to find a better explanation.
My original idea was that perhaps Link created some sort of disturbance in the time-warp continuum, and he had to go back or Hyrule would be jumping around in time forevermore. That story (called "An Appropriate Time," I believe) originally took place at Hyrule castle, but into planning a little bit, it hit me.Hyrule castle is kind of not really standing. So, I moved the story out to the Spirit Temple, which actually worked well because the Gerudo would present a conflict. The way I saw it, Link had three months before he would hit his eighteenth birthday, and Hyrule's time sort of condition would worsen continually until it just kind of fell apart on that happy date. However, writing on a specific timetable was deceptively hard, because I had to keep accurate track as well as writing it so that readers could keep accurate track too. Plus, I didn't really like how the romance was going. It was, but it wasn't. The story's life ended after nine pages of my ramblings.
After that, I kind of gave up on my quest for a while because I had just gotten A Link to the Past, and I was quite wrapped up in playing that. I became very interested in the Book of Mudora, and I found that a lot of gamers like to add their own input to the Book that you could often find online if you went to Yahoo and typed the Book's name. During one such search, I ran across a tale that mentioned a fourth Triforce, Ambition, and I was intrigued. And then I remembered my quest, and Link's going back in time because the Triforce must be set to rest.and it all fell into place! (A note on the Book of Mudora: the actual Book itself is written in LttP by Sahasrahla, three hundred years after the end of OoT. I had to break some rules. I'm sorry, send me to my room.)
I was certainly not going back to the Spirit Temple again, so I gave Hyrule a month to get the castle back together, and put the story there. This time around, Link and Zelda were not going to be friends first; no, they were going to fight! Have a relationship that started out argumentative, then evolved into a warm friendship with something missing, and then...love. I also wanted the romance to be as impossible as I could make it, so I engaged Zelda to Harlan, prince of Calatia. (Link and Malon came in later on a spur-of-the-moment author's block desperation thing.)
And speaking of Calatians! One of the points I wanted to cover with this: Most fics make Calatians look mean, evil, stuck-up, snotty, greedy, jealous, lustful, or otherwise unpleasant. I didn't want them to be. I wanted them to be like Zelda's extended family! That was what made it so hard for Zelda to come back to the castle and kind of be deceiving Harlan, because she did love him, but as a brother, as a best friend. Plus, he's in love with her, and she doesn't want to hurt him.
It was about this point that it hit me: once they get back to the castle, it's basically all downhill from there, so that when Link goes back in time, you just don't care anymore. And that's when I had this bright idea! I was going to have Link and Zelda married! Just to give one a little bit of hope before the end's final, um, ending.
Another thing I wanted to make sure I got to was the Malon issue. Now, most L/Z fics make Malon look like a country bumpkin, and most L/M fics make Zelda look like a spoiled brat. I didn't want any of that; I didn't want it to look like a victory for Zelda, because she couldn't help falling in love, and I didn't want Link to look like he was cheating, because he never meant to. Zelda and Malon are both good people, but they're both different people, and Link falls in love with Zelda. I really hated writing chapter sixteen. Heck, it made me want to do a M/L fic!
As far as the characters go, the original models for Link and Zelda were, respectively, to be King Mongkut and Anna from The King and I (which is a fine film that I highly recommend). Link was supposed to be strong- willed but endearing, and Zelda was supposed to be proper but understanding. They still show touches of those aspects in the story, but before too long Link and Zelda began to form their own personalities. Link was passionate; he never said everything he was planning; he needed someone to talk to; he always said everything on his mind, for better or worse. Zelda was a romantic; she liked to have things lain out; she was compassionate; inside, she did like the fact that they were breaking rules. And somehow, they clicked.
I had about a zillion influences for this fic. There were a couple of songs that I listened to during the writing (mostly "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne and "Mourning" by Tantric), but mostly I used movies. A lot of movies. Everything from The King and I to Time Share to Moulin Rouge!. Well, really, it was more the music of Moulin Rouge! than the plotline. For example, Christian's little piece during the Tango was an influence during Zelda's dinner with Harlan, and "The Show Must Go On" was the whole mood of most of the epilogue. (By the way, Moulin Rouge! is the honestly the best movie I have ever seen and I recommend it to everyone.) I can't remember everything, but those were the main ones.
"Dreamer's Sky" is not a story about the Triforce. It's a story about love. But, if you'd like to keep track of what was actually happening with the fourth Force, I will now sum it up for you:
There was always a fourth Force, of Ambition. No one knows how it got there; the goddesses didn't put it there, and since they didn't it was slowly forgotten by people throughout time. When Ganondorf touched the Triforce and caused it to split, the fourth Force went too; however, there was no heir to it, for the line had been broken during the wars prior to OoT. So, it just sort of drifted about, and the power that it radiated awoke monsters, but these monsters went unnoticed in the wave of the Imprisoning War. After the battles of the war were done, though, and monsters still appeared, it was evident that something had to be done, and as all of you OoT freaks (like me) know, the only way to set the Triforce (or Tetraforce, I suppose) back to right was to send Link back in time to before Ganondorf got into the Sacred Realm, and nothing would ever have happened. There is no other way it can be, and if the Force wasn't dealt with it would haunt Hyrule forever, so heart-wrenching as it may be Link is history... literally.
Well, school is a-starting soon, so I might have to take a break from fics for a while. Of course, I also don't have any ideas..aah! Well, actually, I have one half-baked idea for an original novel, the plot points of which are still bubbling away, and also a fully-baked novel idea. One or two ideas for Zelda stories, maybe an FFX..whatever. Right now I've got to handle Barrington's Honors English. Well, my sincerest gratitude for reading my little ficcy here. Please do review.
Until we meet again, Valkeyrie
Well, after you've put up with 24 chapters, you don't have to read my author's notes. But I hope you do, because they might explain some things. Ahem.
This story is actually just the last and best incarnation of a lot of stories, all with a common purpose: to send Link back in time with a better reason. Let's be honest here: Ocarina of Time was a great game, but the ending sucked. I mean, come on. Now, I realize that Majora's Mask wasn't released entirely on the runaway success of OoT, and perhaps something bigger is going on at Nintendo (we hope!), but as of my ant-on- the-chessboard position right now, the ending sucked. However, being who I am, I did like the idea of Link having to go back in time and leave his one true love, Zelda (because I am fully L/Z), so I went on a literary quest to find a better explanation.
My original idea was that perhaps Link created some sort of disturbance in the time-warp continuum, and he had to go back or Hyrule would be jumping around in time forevermore. That story (called "An Appropriate Time," I believe) originally took place at Hyrule castle, but into planning a little bit, it hit me.Hyrule castle is kind of not really standing. So, I moved the story out to the Spirit Temple, which actually worked well because the Gerudo would present a conflict. The way I saw it, Link had three months before he would hit his eighteenth birthday, and Hyrule's time sort of condition would worsen continually until it just kind of fell apart on that happy date. However, writing on a specific timetable was deceptively hard, because I had to keep accurate track as well as writing it so that readers could keep accurate track too. Plus, I didn't really like how the romance was going. It was, but it wasn't. The story's life ended after nine pages of my ramblings.
After that, I kind of gave up on my quest for a while because I had just gotten A Link to the Past, and I was quite wrapped up in playing that. I became very interested in the Book of Mudora, and I found that a lot of gamers like to add their own input to the Book that you could often find online if you went to Yahoo and typed the Book's name. During one such search, I ran across a tale that mentioned a fourth Triforce, Ambition, and I was intrigued. And then I remembered my quest, and Link's going back in time because the Triforce must be set to rest.and it all fell into place! (A note on the Book of Mudora: the actual Book itself is written in LttP by Sahasrahla, three hundred years after the end of OoT. I had to break some rules. I'm sorry, send me to my room.)
I was certainly not going back to the Spirit Temple again, so I gave Hyrule a month to get the castle back together, and put the story there. This time around, Link and Zelda were not going to be friends first; no, they were going to fight! Have a relationship that started out argumentative, then evolved into a warm friendship with something missing, and then...love. I also wanted the romance to be as impossible as I could make it, so I engaged Zelda to Harlan, prince of Calatia. (Link and Malon came in later on a spur-of-the-moment author's block desperation thing.)
And speaking of Calatians! One of the points I wanted to cover with this: Most fics make Calatians look mean, evil, stuck-up, snotty, greedy, jealous, lustful, or otherwise unpleasant. I didn't want them to be. I wanted them to be like Zelda's extended family! That was what made it so hard for Zelda to come back to the castle and kind of be deceiving Harlan, because she did love him, but as a brother, as a best friend. Plus, he's in love with her, and she doesn't want to hurt him.
It was about this point that it hit me: once they get back to the castle, it's basically all downhill from there, so that when Link goes back in time, you just don't care anymore. And that's when I had this bright idea! I was going to have Link and Zelda married! Just to give one a little bit of hope before the end's final, um, ending.
Another thing I wanted to make sure I got to was the Malon issue. Now, most L/Z fics make Malon look like a country bumpkin, and most L/M fics make Zelda look like a spoiled brat. I didn't want any of that; I didn't want it to look like a victory for Zelda, because she couldn't help falling in love, and I didn't want Link to look like he was cheating, because he never meant to. Zelda and Malon are both good people, but they're both different people, and Link falls in love with Zelda. I really hated writing chapter sixteen. Heck, it made me want to do a M/L fic!
As far as the characters go, the original models for Link and Zelda were, respectively, to be King Mongkut and Anna from The King and I (which is a fine film that I highly recommend). Link was supposed to be strong- willed but endearing, and Zelda was supposed to be proper but understanding. They still show touches of those aspects in the story, but before too long Link and Zelda began to form their own personalities. Link was passionate; he never said everything he was planning; he needed someone to talk to; he always said everything on his mind, for better or worse. Zelda was a romantic; she liked to have things lain out; she was compassionate; inside, she did like the fact that they were breaking rules. And somehow, they clicked.
I had about a zillion influences for this fic. There were a couple of songs that I listened to during the writing (mostly "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne and "Mourning" by Tantric), but mostly I used movies. A lot of movies. Everything from The King and I to Time Share to Moulin Rouge!. Well, really, it was more the music of Moulin Rouge! than the plotline. For example, Christian's little piece during the Tango was an influence during Zelda's dinner with Harlan, and "The Show Must Go On" was the whole mood of most of the epilogue. (By the way, Moulin Rouge! is the honestly the best movie I have ever seen and I recommend it to everyone.) I can't remember everything, but those were the main ones.
"Dreamer's Sky" is not a story about the Triforce. It's a story about love. But, if you'd like to keep track of what was actually happening with the fourth Force, I will now sum it up for you:
There was always a fourth Force, of Ambition. No one knows how it got there; the goddesses didn't put it there, and since they didn't it was slowly forgotten by people throughout time. When Ganondorf touched the Triforce and caused it to split, the fourth Force went too; however, there was no heir to it, for the line had been broken during the wars prior to OoT. So, it just sort of drifted about, and the power that it radiated awoke monsters, but these monsters went unnoticed in the wave of the Imprisoning War. After the battles of the war were done, though, and monsters still appeared, it was evident that something had to be done, and as all of you OoT freaks (like me) know, the only way to set the Triforce (or Tetraforce, I suppose) back to right was to send Link back in time to before Ganondorf got into the Sacred Realm, and nothing would ever have happened. There is no other way it can be, and if the Force wasn't dealt with it would haunt Hyrule forever, so heart-wrenching as it may be Link is history... literally.
Well, school is a-starting soon, so I might have to take a break from fics for a while. Of course, I also don't have any ideas..aah! Well, actually, I have one half-baked idea for an original novel, the plot points of which are still bubbling away, and also a fully-baked novel idea. One or two ideas for Zelda stories, maybe an FFX..whatever. Right now I've got to handle Barrington's Honors English. Well, my sincerest gratitude for reading my little ficcy here. Please do review.
Until we meet again, Valkeyrie