[ SECRET POST #2781 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2781 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Game of Thrones]


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[Kevin Sorbo/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]


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[Transformers: Prime]


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[Darkchylde]






Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #397.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[diet_poison]

From what I think of Link as an adult in OoT, he was too focused on omg must save world now!!! and basically feeling really urgent about it to pause long enough for the emotional turmoil of his situation to sink in.

(If something happened with adult!Link at the end of MM, I'm not sure about it, and I would say I don't care about spoilers since it's such an old game BUT I'm actually in the process of playing it now, so I'll withhold judgment until I see it myself xD)

[cloud_riven]

Ooh MM is fun, albeit a pretty different tone.
I'm going to put aside the part where OOT is the N64 game that is pure classic adventure, and things like this aren't accounted for at all, so basically everything I'm saying is brain fanfiction farts lbr

Even as a kid Link's has this heavy responsibility thrown on him, not to mention a part of his possible identity as Kokiri being taken away from him (or was that revealed after the time skip?). I'd think that he does have to grow up faster than other kids just to compartmentalize and deal. Although a lot of the child characters in OOT are also put through an upheaval, they aren't all forced to turn to violence to defend themselves or others. Link already doesn't have time to fully process every emergency situation and loss before the next; despite the lack of a timeframe between events, you are told everything is urgent so you do the job.

But he's still a kid. As an adult, Link's missed out on several years just to be able to properly wield a sword and wakes up in a wasteland. Getting the next macguffin is what he knows, and he's good at it! But he's gotta be stunted, socially emotionally whatever, because like you said he doesn't get to process.

/arbitraryplotholecement

[diet_poison]

all this is true, and it's good that there's a timeline where Zelda makes him a kid again so he can grow up normally.

It would be really interesting to see fic of adult!Link as he deals with those situations, how he feels when he defeats Ganon, and what happens to him if he doesn't become a kid again and the struggles he has with normal human relationships and other normal things. how he deals with his adult body. how he deals with sexual feelings. how he deals with adult responsibilities. etc. etc.

it would be very, very difficult. I want to read about it now. :B