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Ganondorf Ruins Everything
Now that I can think about it in retrospect, my Contemporary AU Breath of the Wild fic Malice was good, actually. The premise was excellent.
“A young woman in precarious financial circumstances who hates corporate lab work but can’t afford to quit suddenly finds her research funded by a mysterious investor with sinister motives” is a good premise to begin with.
“The young woman wants to research ancient technology that is possibly magical but has been hidden by the government, and she is the estranged daughter of a high-ranking government official, and she is possibly magical herself, and the mysterious investor is a secret wizard” makes the premise even better.
“The secret wizard investor wants to fund the young woman’s research because he is a horrifically nonhuman creature created by ancient magical technology who wants to understand where he came from and how he’s connected to the researcher’s family” is the twist that gets you.
“And then they kiss” is superior-class, god-tier narrative gold.
I was incredibly lucky that Breath of the Wild was so enduringly popular. It generated an enormous creative fanbase that sustained itself for several years, and the story illustrations I was able to commission were consistently excellent. A few of the people I worked with became pros and now charge more than a thousand dollars for commissioned artwork between gigs as animators and comic artists. Like I said, I got really lucky with the timing, at least in terms of illustration commissions.
I think my disdain for the story comes from the fact that I got to a point where I was like, “If I have to type the word ‘Ganondorf’ one more time with my own ten fingers I am going to die of shame.” Malice absolutely wouldn’t have worked if it weren’t Breath of the Wild fanfic, but I still think this is fair. The concept of Ganondorf is interesting, but the actual character is more than a little silly.
“A young woman in precarious financial circumstances who hates corporate lab work but can’t afford to quit suddenly finds her research funded by a mysterious investor with sinister motives” is a good premise to begin with.
“The young woman wants to research ancient technology that is possibly magical but has been hidden by the government, and she is the estranged daughter of a high-ranking government official, and she is possibly magical herself, and the mysterious investor is a secret wizard” makes the premise even better.
“The secret wizard investor wants to fund the young woman’s research because he is a horrifically nonhuman creature created by ancient magical technology who wants to understand where he came from and how he’s connected to the researcher’s family” is the twist that gets you.
“And then they kiss” is superior-class, god-tier narrative gold.
I was incredibly lucky that Breath of the Wild was so enduringly popular. It generated an enormous creative fanbase that sustained itself for several years, and the story illustrations I was able to commission were consistently excellent. A few of the people I worked with became pros and now charge more than a thousand dollars for commissioned artwork between gigs as animators and comic artists. Like I said, I got really lucky with the timing, at least in terms of illustration commissions.
I think my disdain for the story comes from the fact that I got to a point where I was like, “If I have to type the word ‘Ganondorf’ one more time with my own ten fingers I am going to die of shame.” Malice absolutely wouldn’t have worked if it weren’t Breath of the Wild fanfic, but I still think this is fair. The concept of Ganondorf is interesting, but the actual character is more than a little silly.
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