Title: 'The Fragility of Time'
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda
Author:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Rating: G
Challenge: #61: Tina Turner Song Titles ['We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)']
Warnings: None
Spoilers: 'Tears of the Kingdom'
Notes: Crossposted to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Summary: Both eras are in grave danger.
Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
The Hyrule of the past is so strange. It's so different from the Hyrule of Zelda's own time. And, at the same time, it's so strangely familiar. How bizarre it feels, to be so far removed from everything that she knows, while still knowing this land, and what it will become.
To meet her own ancestors face to face, to have identities that go with the ancient stories that she's studied since childhood, is something that she never would have expected. To see how adroitly Rauru and Sonia handle their duties as King and Queen of this younger land, while balancing those duties with their affection for each other, is a beautiful surprise. Zelda hopes that, if and when she returns to her time, she'll be able to rule her own Hyrule with the same grace that they possess.
Love and compassion
Their day is coming
All else are castles built in the air
Yet what seems the most striking is the strange fragility of Time. In the stretch between this era and her own, Zelda knows that Hyrule will face numerous hardships, and make both mistakes and strides. But she's never been more aware of how delicate everything is. Even the tiniest misstep in the here and now could wreak overwhelming devastation in the far distant future. Lives yet unlived might never be. All that she's known could come undone, like threads being unraveled from a dainty tapestry.
Zelda doesn't know just why the Goddesses have sent her here. All that she's certain of is that Hyrule, both past and present, faces a dreadful threat. Both eras are in grave danger.
Perhaps it's a mistake, to try to intervene. She might do more harm than the good that she longs to do. But Zelda is still Hyrule's Princess, however temporally displaced. Her duty to this land is sacred. She owes it to her people to see that the future is safeguarded.
Rauru and Sonia deserve to know that the Kingdom they've shaped will be inherited by one who loves it as they do. By one who will do everything in her power to protect it.
But will there ever come a time when Hyrule is not under some horrible threat? As much as Zelda prays for a positive outcome, she fears that such a thing may never come to pass.
All the same, she knows she's got to try. Even if it costs her everything.
Even, the Goddesses forbid, if she should fail.
And I wonder when we
Are ever gonna change
Living under the fear
'Till nothing else remains
~*~ Tina Turner
'We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)'
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda
Author:
but_can_i_be_trustedRating: G
Challenge: #61: Tina Turner Song Titles ['We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)']
Warnings: None
Spoilers: 'Tears of the Kingdom'
Notes: Crossposted to
genprompt_bingoSummary: Both eras are in grave danger.
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
The Hyrule of the past is so strange. It's so different from the Hyrule of Zelda's own time. And, at the same time, it's so strangely familiar. How bizarre it feels, to be so far removed from everything that she knows, while still knowing this land, and what it will become.
To meet her own ancestors face to face, to have identities that go with the ancient stories that she's studied since childhood, is something that she never would have expected. To see how adroitly Rauru and Sonia handle their duties as King and Queen of this younger land, while balancing those duties with their affection for each other, is a beautiful surprise. Zelda hopes that, if and when she returns to her time, she'll be able to rule her own Hyrule with the same grace that they possess.
Their day is coming
All else are castles built in the air
Yet what seems the most striking is the strange fragility of Time. In the stretch between this era and her own, Zelda knows that Hyrule will face numerous hardships, and make both mistakes and strides. But she's never been more aware of how delicate everything is. Even the tiniest misstep in the here and now could wreak overwhelming devastation in the far distant future. Lives yet unlived might never be. All that she's known could come undone, like threads being unraveled from a dainty tapestry.
Zelda doesn't know just why the Goddesses have sent her here. All that she's certain of is that Hyrule, both past and present, faces a dreadful threat. Both eras are in grave danger.
Perhaps it's a mistake, to try to intervene. She might do more harm than the good that she longs to do. But Zelda is still Hyrule's Princess, however temporally displaced. Her duty to this land is sacred. She owes it to her people to see that the future is safeguarded.
Rauru and Sonia deserve to know that the Kingdom they've shaped will be inherited by one who loves it as they do. By one who will do everything in her power to protect it.
But will there ever come a time when Hyrule is not under some horrible threat? As much as Zelda prays for a positive outcome, she fears that such a thing may never come to pass.
All the same, she knows she's got to try. Even if it costs her everything.
Even, the Goddesses forbid, if she should fail.
Are ever gonna change
Living under the fear
'Till nothing else remains
~*~ Tina Turner
'We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)'
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