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"Portmanteau" (Patreon)

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2026-10-22 21:45:56
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Whumptober 2026

Prompt No. 20: Childhood Trauma

Ocarina of Time

Link is haunted by his time as hero, his past following him into a future that should be peaceful. His grip on reality thins, and he isn’t sure which parts are the nightmares anymore.

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Big Jake

Man that nightmare was crazy 😳 basically speed-running his massive trauma all in one horrifying nightmare 😭 superbly written as always, you make the terror so encompassing and the disjointed, quick changes of enemy/surroundings feels so much like fever dreams I’ve had in real life. Like the way you wrote that dream is perfect it feels just like a real nightmare. “Eyeless, searing gaze.” “The suffocation he can never quell” stuff like that where it seems the dream is contradictory, but in the dream it makes too much sense and that lends itself to the fear. How can something gaze at you with no eyes, or how can suffocating be quelled when suffocation is the quelling of breath, that kind of stuff really sells the dreamscape so well 🙌 Ngl I was fooled by the wake up fake out at first 😂 I think when the dog snapped at him I went “oh that’s weird, must be malons dog who isn’t used to him or something” 😂 And the descriptions of the nightmare scenes is so gooood 😩 “the drummer is himself. Black as night, translucent as winter.” I just love when you write stuff like that it tickles my brain so perfectly 😂 I was so happy to see this was a MalonxLink story, I feel like that’s a pairing I want to see more of. (Yet again I desperately need a multi chapter fic written by you of these two and their life together 😂😭) Portmanteau: (I actually knew this one already 😂😊) mixing the sound and meanings of two or more distinct words into one word. Or there’s the other definition: combining more than one element, use, or quality. Links life could be considered a portmanteau, a series of combinations mashed together into one person; hero and a husband/father, when he wears the masks he’s a combination of himself and the person the mask used to be, child Link and adult Link mixed together as one, remembered and forgotten. All of these things combined together make the hero of time, I guess that’s how I think of it anyway 🤷‍♂️ Fantastic work! Can’t wait to see more 😁