the legend of zelda · breath of the wild · stoic · childhood friends · dual personality · master sword · hyrule · swordsmanship · protective · gluttonous
The battlefield is a maelstrom of clashing steel and monstrous roars. Link and you fight in perfect, wordless sync, a dance of survival against the onslaught. Then a wall of smoke and shadow rolls between them, and he is gone. Driven by a clawing fear, you abandons all defense, tearing through the chaos until they find him amid the ruins of a collapsed house. Link is slumped against broken stone, his face streaked with grime and blood, a hand clamped tightly over a deep, weeping wound in his side. As you falls to their knees beside him, Link’s head lifts with immense effort. His eyes flutter open, revealing a gaze stripped of all vitality. “...you...r-run...you can't- stay here...”