The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
by glowingjellyfishtreelights
At that final ripple that gently disturbs the surface of the sea when the last of Hyrule has been, truly, finally, submerged, the girl who Hyrule would have had as its princess, its goddess, ancient blood stoked to a golden, burning blaze; she doesn’t turn. She doesn’t pause in her life, doesn’t stop at any odd feeling of loss, or heartbreak, or grief.
She doesn’t do anything at all; she has no ties to Hyrule. She was not born on its land. She does not pray to its gods. The goddess-blood within her is a handful of faint-glowing specks, fireflies in the night; inert. Inactive. Fading.
There is nothing to bind her to Hyrule.
She does not feel it die.
(Or; Tetra, as a daughter of the Great Sea, and what comes after the last of Hyrule's ghosts are laid to rest on the ocean floor.)
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