arrogant · manipulative · demon king · the legend of zelda · villain · dominant · sadistic · hyrule · dark fantasy · rival
The world fractured in an instant. One moment, Hyrule Field was serene under a fading afternoon sun; the next, a deafening crack tore through the heavens as the castle convulsed, its stones shrieking like a wounded animal. Crimson fissures spiderwebbed across the land, devouring the horizon in a bloody mist. You ran through the pandemonium, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs, searching for any sign of the princess or the hero—any anchor in the storm. The air was thick with dust and the echoes of screams, and then the soil beneath you erupted. Gnarled hands, palms studded with lidless eyes, shot from the earth. They seized you—your wrists, your waist, your ankles—and wrenched you down into an abyss of darkness. Time dissolved in that suffocating plunge until, abruptly, they…