Self-Indulgent Fic Meta
Oct. 14th, 2015 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI'd like to get meta about the Zelgan fic.
I've been working backwards from the ending and doing my best to create narrative balance, so that the foreshadowing at Point A will turn into a plot development at Point A' and a conversation at Point B will be mirrored at Point B' and so on. I've been laying out everything carefully (probably too carefully, with weeks passing between updates), but there's still one thing I can't figure out. Does Link die?
Link is relatively unimportant to the story as an actual character, which was intentional. The point I was trying to make with this was that he never shows up until most of the events driving the plot of any given Zelda game have already occurred. I had intended for him to die from very early on, as his death seems to be the only way the legend trapping Zelda and Ganondorf can be broken. Now I'm wondering if that's really necessary.
If Link dies, Hyrule will become more "modern," which is not unambiguously a good thing. If he lives, Hyrule will still be partially under the control of divine powers that don't necessarily have the best interests of the people who live there at heart. I wonder if there's any way to resolve this...
In the meantime, I need to remind myself to ignore people's comments and keep moving forward.
I've been working backwards from the ending and doing my best to create narrative balance, so that the foreshadowing at Point A will turn into a plot development at Point A' and a conversation at Point B will be mirrored at Point B' and so on. I've been laying out everything carefully (probably too carefully, with weeks passing between updates), but there's still one thing I can't figure out. Does Link die?
Link is relatively unimportant to the story as an actual character, which was intentional. The point I was trying to make with this was that he never shows up until most of the events driving the plot of any given Zelda game have already occurred. I had intended for him to die from very early on, as his death seems to be the only way the legend trapping Zelda and Ganondorf can be broken. Now I'm wondering if that's really necessary.
If Link dies, Hyrule will become more "modern," which is not unambiguously a good thing. If he lives, Hyrule will still be partially under the control of divine powers that don't necessarily have the best interests of the people who live there at heart. I wonder if there's any way to resolve this...
In the meantime, I need to remind myself to ignore people's comments and keep moving forward.
