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revivalproject2023-06-10 09:23 am
newmemorywhodis) wrote in revivalproject2023-06-10 09:23 am
[Calibrations] It's dangerous to go alone, take this
WHO: Link and you!
WHERE: Link's Calibration room
WHAT: Calibrations
WHEN: June 10th to July 10th
WARNINGS: CW for death in the pool memory
On first appearances, Link's room is the inside of cosy little cottage.
There's rustic wooden furniture - that will appear to many as old fashioned - and Link is humming away as he cooks something at the small corner that serves as the kitchen. Propped up on the wall next to Link and the kitchen is the Sword the Seals the Darkness, a blade that many will recognise as the one that has been a constant presence on Link's back.
Draped over the back of one of the dining table chairs is the Champion's tunic, a distinctive blue garment. Sitting on that same chair, hidden partially by the fabric of the tunic, is the Sheikah Slate, a rectangular device that's sitting on one of the chairs. Atop the table itself sits the Thunder Helm.
In one corner, there's a small bookcase. On the shelves are a few assorted objects: a massively large scale, and a whistle.
There is, however, something odd that happens in this room. Sometimes, if you tilt your head at just the right angle or look out of the corner of your eye, the appears of it shifts - like a lenticular image. The cottage will be gone, and Link won't be humming away at the kitchen anymore. Instead, it will be a mysterious underground space, lit by soft blue glowing lights and faint orange constellations on the walls.
In the middle of this space is a small pool, or perhaps a kind of tub. It's filled with a bright blue water - and inside, as well, is Link. He's completely under the surface, dressed only in a pair of boxers, eyes closed. He's not moving.
To one side of the chamber, a picture hands on the wall.
On the other side, a pedestal - out of which grows a single silent princess flower.
And if, while within the mysterious underground space, if you tilt your head and gaze in just the right way again, there will be another shift. This time, it's strange in a different way. Large sections of the space seem to be just...gone, leaving behind only a blank white nothingness. In between those blank spaces are what is perhaps stone walls, something that might - maybe? - look like a room in a castle. But the details that do exist are so fuzzy and indistinct, it's hard to really tell.
There are a few pictures on the walls. But they feature only people with blank, featureless faces.
No matter what you touch, or interact with, there are no memories to be found here. And Link isn't anywhere to be seen at all. From this place, he is absent.
WHERE: Link's Calibration room
WHAT: Calibrations
WHEN: June 10th to July 10th
WARNINGS: CW for death in the pool memory
On first appearances, Link's room is the inside of cosy little cottage.
There's rustic wooden furniture - that will appear to many as old fashioned - and Link is humming away as he cooks something at the small corner that serves as the kitchen. Propped up on the wall next to Link and the kitchen is the Sword the Seals the Darkness, a blade that many will recognise as the one that has been a constant presence on Link's back.
Draped over the back of one of the dining table chairs is the Champion's tunic, a distinctive blue garment. Sitting on that same chair, hidden partially by the fabric of the tunic, is the Sheikah Slate, a rectangular device that's sitting on one of the chairs. Atop the table itself sits the Thunder Helm.
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In one corner, there's a small bookcase. On the shelves are a few assorted objects: a massively large scale, and a whistle.
There is, however, something odd that happens in this room. Sometimes, if you tilt your head at just the right angle or look out of the corner of your eye, the appears of it shifts - like a lenticular image. The cottage will be gone, and Link won't be humming away at the kitchen anymore. Instead, it will be a mysterious underground space, lit by soft blue glowing lights and faint orange constellations on the walls.
In the middle of this space is a small pool, or perhaps a kind of tub. It's filled with a bright blue water - and inside, as well, is Link. He's completely under the surface, dressed only in a pair of boxers, eyes closed. He's not moving.
To one side of the chamber, a picture hands on the wall.
On the other side, a pedestal - out of which grows a single silent princess flower.
And if, while within the mysterious underground space, if you tilt your head and gaze in just the right way again, there will be another shift. This time, it's strange in a different way. Large sections of the space seem to be just...gone, leaving behind only a blank white nothingness. In between those blank spaces are what is perhaps stone walls, something that might - maybe? - look like a room in a castle. But the details that do exist are so fuzzy and indistinct, it's hard to really tell.
There are a few pictures on the walls. But they feature only people with blank, featureless faces.
No matter what you touch, or interact with, there are no memories to be found here. And Link isn't anywhere to be seen at all. From this place, he is absent.
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If Dustin wants any answers about what he saw, he's going to need to get more specific.
As for the meal, Link does not hesitate or hold his food tentatively before eating: instead, he just goes for it. As Dustin would already know from their shared explorations with Felwinter, Link certainly likes to eat.
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Plus, it's actually really difficult to be angry about much of anything when the food he's eating is so damn tasty. Dustin makes a concerted effort not to look too eager as he tucks in for another heaping forkful of mash, and for a few minutes, he's content to just power through his plate like he hasn't eaten in his entire life. Some of this is probably being driven by his actual, real life hunger, he imagines. The food replicators in the Calibrations room provide enough protein to keep him going, but the output is so dense and flavorless that it feels like he's barely eaten anything at all.
It's not until he's scraping the mashed potatoes from the bottom of his plate with the side of his fork that, urged by some remaining curiosity, Dustin speaks up again. He's had time to think, and now he has a theory.
"...Do you remember your time in the castle?" he asks, glancing up with a slow arc of his eyebrows.
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He remembers the castle in ruins. He remembers crawling over malice-infested hallways, dealing with the monsters that had taken up residence. He remembers making his way to the Sanctum, and fighting Ganon.
Apart from that, however, the really isn't much of anything at all. Just one memory, of Zelda and the King on the ramparts outside her room. A handful of vague feelings and impressions, that he hadn't really been able to make much sense of yet.
"...Not really."
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"Amnesia," Dustin declares. "After the fight, and the stasis pool...trauma-based?"
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"The Shrine of Resurrection took my memories." A name that Dustin hasn't heard before - but it doesn't even take as someone as smart as he is to connect those dots.
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Either way, Dustin is not as surprised as he probably should be. "Being unconscious for that long can really fuck with your brain, yeah," he shrugs while scooping another heaping lump of mashed potatoes onto his plate. "Sometimes I wonder if..."
He pauses, staring off into the middle distance.
"...Never mind." A quick shake of the head, hurriedly stabbing a pair of sausages to add to his meal. "How...complete, is it? The amnesia I mean."
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"For a hundred years," he says softly. "Didn't remember anything when I woke."
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"...A hundred...no." This is his limit, apparently. Dustin sets his plate down so he can show appropriate disbelief with his hands, crossing them rapidly in front of himself while he shakes his head. "No no no. I don't care what kind of suspended animation bullshit you have where you're from, that--it was just fuckin' water, man. How--?"
Slowly but surely, Dustin seems to have talked himself back around. He squints with heavily furrowed brows.
"...You're sure that's how long it was?" he asks.
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"It's what they told me," he says. For obvious reasons, the exact passage of time wasn't something he could personally attest to.
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"Who's 'they?'" he asks. The briefly abandoned plate of food is reluctantly picked back up. "Who told you?"
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"People you would want to take on authority, I'm sure," he says, just as blithely. "And the event was probably significant enough that it would be verifiable in records or oral histories..."
Dustin slumps into a chair and gives Link a flat look.
"...Anyone ever tell you that your shit's really fucked up, Link?"
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"...No." Funnily enough. Although perhaps that was because not that many people in Hyrule had actually realised who Link really was. They'd just thought he was another adventurer, a nameless face traveling the land.
And then after the Calamity, people had tended to pay a lot more attention to Zelda than him.
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He is that weird.
So he says, "...Yeah." And does not even attempt to deny it.
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Perhaps he'll get the opportunity sooner than he thinks; the unspoken Calibrations time limit has been reached, and as Dustin tucks into the second plate of delicious food, it and his surroundings slowly fade away into the haze of regular slumber.