The Great Desert (Fan Fiction)

[Shadsie]

I wanted to provide an example of how one might handle a fan fiction, in this case, off-site, since this particular one has many chapters and is already a completed work. This is also for people to read, should they want to.

This is a PG-13 rated story. (Possibly R rated in some parts, your milage may vary). It is Western, Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

I wrote it based upon the ideas of both myself and a friend, Sailor Lilith_chan. It is a story that takes place in a "future Hyrule" - that is, in a time beyond all of the canon game eras. It is an original-era story with a new Link, a new Zelda and a Hyrule that's become semi-modernized and is being covered by desert. Link becomes a gunslinger as well as a sword-slinger, though swords and swordplay remain vital to the story.

Also important to consider is that this story takes place along its own Timeline - that is, the history of the Hyrule of this story runs upon a linear Timeline (that is explained a little as the plot goes on). It ignores the Timeline (split) theory that is the most widely accepted as being canon by the Zelda fan community. I did this quite on purpose - mainly because I wished to reference both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess events.

(Most fan fiction posted here will probably not have to come with such lenghty notes and warnings, "The Great Desert" does only because it is a very un-conventional Zelda fic).

Anyway...




Chapter 1: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/1/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 2: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/2/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 3: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/3/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 4: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/4/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 5: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/5/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 6: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/6/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 7: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/7/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 8: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/8/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 9: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/9/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 10: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/10/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 11: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/11/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 12: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/12/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 13: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/13/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 14: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/14/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 15: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/15/The_Great_Desert
Chapter 16: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4665742/16/The_Great_Desert

[Badwolf47]

wow these are good! I love them. I hope you become an author I would read your book! ^.^,... I wish I was good as you! I am not good. =../

[ottobot]

i read this a wile back, its really good. i really like how you make the goddesses scientists. i ha d a speculative thought. mabye ( you don't have to answer i yuo dont want) that the goddesses are from a futuristic version of earth.

[Shadsie]

Originally Posted by ottobot

i read this a wile back, its really good. i really like how you make the goddesses scientists. i ha d a speculative thought. mabye ( you don't have to answer i yuo dont want) that the goddesses are from a futuristic version of earth.

They are meant to be from Earth, yes.

It was actually Sailor_Lilithchan that came up with that idea.

[Waker of winds]

Shadsie, you're amazing, you know that?

This particular fanfic feels...special. I've read a lot of other fanfics, but this one is the most hardworked of all. You did a great effort. It's more like a novel than a plain fanfic...

Also, I want to apologize from the other day. I became confused because, you know, it's the westernest fanfic I've ever read, too.

Anyway, please keep up the good work!

[Arkatox]

I started it and it was pretty good (finally someone writes some good fanfiction!), but before I get to far, I'm wondering: Why would some parts be rated R? I want to know if it's gonna be worth reading the whole book.

[Shadsie]

Originally Posted by Arkatox

I started it and it was pretty good (finally someone writes some good fanfiction!), but before I get to far, I'm wondering: Why would some parts be rated R? I want to know if it's gonna be worth reading the whole book.

It gets pretty violent in some parts, but if you've read up through Chapter 3 already, you'll proabably be alright.

Mostly, though, there's a scene in one of the later chapters that is... um... a non-detailed bed scene between the principal villians. I don't describe it *too* much, but people are naked and enjoying it. It's brief, though, quite brief. I'm not into the "hot-n-heavy." It's an important scene, though, because the characters have a conversation regarding power and play their politics off each other.

[Arkatox]

Hmm, there's a problem. I could still read it, I'd just have to make sure my mom or someone like that isn't reading over my shoulder. You could just have the same conversation, only in different circumstances, you know. Ah, whatever.

[Shadsie]

No, no... it wouldn't have had the same effect. I didn't write TGD for kids. The scene needed this creepy power-play vibe. It's not very detailed, it's not porn or anything, it's just fairly... adult. Think of a random segement out of a Stephen King novel. I really preferred telling this part of the story in a creepy and mature manner. It's no worse than most movies, R-rated or even PG-13 rated.

It's the very first segement, first paragraphs before the ____ break in Chapter 10 if you want to scroll down when you get to that chapter and avoid it. You can understand the rest of the fic without that scene.

To summarize the important part of it without anyone reading over your shoulder about the nekkid or the creepy: It's mostly just villianess Cecelia and Ganondorf in her chamber talking. Ganondorf cautions her on her foolishness because the sacred Crystal of Ice (Nayru's Love) which she carries in her body/right arm is turning her body cold and threatens to overcome her and turn her into ice unless she is able to regulate and balance the magic. Otherwise, the scene shows that they really don't have love for each other, are rather disdainful of each other, and really are only using each other to gain power, even as they've just done something that many people associate with "love." It's written to be more political than "sexy."

[Arkatox]

Yeah, I understand that if you wanted to change the scene, you would've. Oh well. I haven't gotten very far. I may as well start rearing. . . .

[Arkatox]

Ugh, this would make a cool movie, but the rating would either be R or halfway between PG-13 and R. It's pretty . . . gruesome? Is that a good word for it?

[Shadsie]

Originally Posted by Arkatox

Ugh, this would make a cool movie, but the rating would either be R or halfway between PG-13 and R. It's pretty . . . gruesome? Is that a good word for it?

Yes, "gruesome." A bit of gruesomeness and morbidity are trademarks of my writing across stories, fandoms, and into my originals. I've written a few cute and fluffy things, but, generally, it's a part of my style.

Which is why I don't think any of my Zelda fanfictions will actually ever be made into an official game - the blood, among other things.

[Arkatox]

Yeah, like really, when was the last time you saw someone eat a human (sorry, hylian) heart? That's kind of gross . . . but it's also kind of like you. I forget what chapter I'm on, 'cause I haven't read it in a couple days. I'm like just at the part where they enter the bone temple.

[Shadsie]

Originally Posted by Arkatox

Yeah, like really, when was the last time you saw someone eat a human (sorry, hylian) heart? That's kind of gross . . . but it's also kind of like you. I forget what chapter I'm on, 'cause I haven't read it in a couple days. I'm like just at the part where they enter the bone temple.

Hey, Ganondorf is evil. He takes human sacrifice in the games (in AoL, it's said that Link's blood will revive him. In the Oracles games, Twinrova try to sacrifice Zelda to him).

[Arkatox]

Yeah, yeah, I know. Some people are just extremely evil.