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3	[[WMG: Dark Lord Ariakas will be HijackedByGanon.]]
4	One can see it coming a mile away. Especially once you know there's [[HeAlsoDid a "sequel-fic" with Ganon arriving and causing trouble]] but no sign of Ariakas.
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6	[[WMG: Dark Lord Ariakas will ''not'' be HijackedByGanon.]]
7	Sure, it's a fanfic of [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the franchise]] that [[TropeNamers named that particular trope]]. But it's also serious CanonDefilement. It would be more respectful of the canon if the story ''did'' get HijackedByGanon. So you'd have to think it won't.
8	* This would be in line with ''My Inner Life'''s tendency to have its own new characters and concepts replace, overshadow, and outperform canon characters (such as Jenna herself essentially taking everything from Zelda including potentially the throne of Hyrule and Epona being sidelined in favor of a new horse). Ariakas being "Ganondorf but more powerful" would be 100% on brand for this story.
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10	[[WMG: Dark Lord Ariakas will ''not'' be HijackedByGanon....but Ganon will appear anyway.]]
11	After all, you don't make a character like [[GodModeSue Jenna]] just to allow the main villain to be [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains waylaid by a more powerful villain]]. She's gotta have the opportunity to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp]] the villain herself. Then Ganon will show up and she'll kill him, too (none of that SealedEvilInACan crap the ''Zelda'' games usually do to him).
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13	[[WMG: Jenna is an obsessed {{Fangirl}} of Link's who's locked up somewhere.]]
14	She became obsessed with Link the second she saw him, albeit not the way the fic has it. After a couple of years of [[StalkerWithACrush stalking him]], she deluded herself into thinking they were a couple. She got a horse and followed him around on it, pretended to summon elements so he'd see her as a strong woman like his canon love interests, and tried to cozy up to Zelda and pretend to be her best friend. None of that caught Link's attention, but getting too close to Zelda did catch the attention of the Royal Hylian Mounted Police, which is how Jenna ended up in prison. The fanfic is Jenna's ongoing elaborate delusion, and Zelda's demotion to babysitter and midwife is a subconscious revenge fantasy, because Jenna blames Zelda for locking her up.
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16	[[WMG: [[CharacterizationTags Fic!]]Link is actually an [[WebVideo/BenDrowned Elegy Statue]].]]
17	It explains why he has [[FlatCharacter so little personality]] and just [[RelationshipSue follows Jenna around everywhere]].
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19	[[WMG: Link is secretly trying to get Jenna killed, but she turned out to be unexpectedly powerful.]]
20	Link realizes that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's married a girl who's extremely possessive and deluded]] and [[RelationshipSue slowly warping reality so that he'd stay in love with her]]. He can't break up with her directly because he doesn't think she'd take it well and doesn't know (or want to know) what she'd try. When Dark Link shows up and Jenna goes to fight him, Link sees an opportunity -- he'd let Jenna fight him alone, wait for her to lose and get killed, then show up and kill Dark Link himself. He'd then pretend to be a grieving survivor, having showed up too late to save his "beloved" wife, and resolve to raise his son the right way -- without Jenna's evil influence. Only problem was that Jenna turned out to have [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands hidden special powers]] and actually won the fight. Although she's unconscious after the battle, Link thinks it's too risky to try to kill her outright because the emergence of Jenna's powers means the scene will be inspected for sure; he has to try again later. His next chance is in the final chapter, when the bat-creature attacks -- he didn't even follow his pregnant wife upstairs to fight with her.
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22	[[WMG: The ending would have been incredibly stupid and predictable.]]
23	The king would die for no apparent reason, probably after some poorly-written battle with Dark Lord Ariakas. Zelda would refuse to take the throne, instead letting Link and [[TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone Jenna]] become king and queen of Hyrule. Ganon would reappear, there would be more drama, Jenna would have more babies, and her power would just continue to grow unchecked.
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25	[[WMG: Link Jr. will defy his parents in the future.]]
26	There has to be a reason why the sages gave him those weird personality-based powers at his blessing. With an enhanced intelligence, kindness, and whatever, he'll realize how stupid everyone is being. He'll redeem his BumblingDad, return Zelda to her [[RightfulKingReturns rightful place on the throne]], stop his [[BitchInSheepsClothing evil mother from usurping the throne]], and save his siblings and the kingdom from her bad influence. Thus he will be known as the "Hero of Ideals". Oh, and he will [[MeaningfulRename change his name to something a bit more epic.]]
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28	Indeed, ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' already showed this; he joined the group under the name LJ Silverblade.
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30	[[WMG: Jenna is {{blackmail}}ing the King.]]
31	Why is the King treating a "merchant" like his daughter and not giving his ''real'' daughter the time of day? Said "merchant" must have some dirt on him. Perhaps she caught the King doing something inappropriate when she was a young child. (Perhaps ''she'' was [[WifeHusbandry the victim of said impropriety]].) She uses her leverage on the King to be granted the life of a princess, secretly reveling in her special treatment.
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33	[[WMG: Jenna is a shadow of Ganon.]]
34	In Nintendo's chronology of the franchise ([[ContinuitySnarl such as it is]]), in one of the three [[AlternateTimeline timeline branches]] after ''Ocarina of Time'', Link doesn't return to his childhood. In this timeline, with no hero to stop Ganon when he returns, he floods all of Hyrule (leading to ''Wind Waker''). But ''Ocarina''-Link's removal from the timeline doesn't necessarily mean there could be no other heroes -- some [[LegacyCharacter other Link]] to stop Ganon, like always. So why were there no other heroes? Because of Jenna.
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36	Jenna is a manifestation of Ganon he created in his absence. She's the latest of Ganon's shadows, cast out when he's [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in the proverbial can]], possessed with supernatural charisma for the purpose of manipulating the royal family -- like Agahnim in ''Link to the Past'' or the wizard in ''Adventures of Link''. This time, Ganon tries a different tack -- he makes a RelationshipSue to dull the hero's power and ensure that his descendants are too weak to stop him. No hero from then on would be worthy of the Triforce of Courage.
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38	Notice how Jenna just pops into the universe. She didn't exist before the beginning of the story; she just came into being with a full set of memories. She conveniently lacked a family or indeed anyone who would vouch for her. But the innate magic of her existence convinces everyone that she's always been there and is beloved. She seduces and marries Link, the hero who had just defeated Ganon, and neuters him with her RelationshipSue tendencies; now, his entire existence revolves around his relationship with Jenna. And now, as she is possessed by the shadow of Ganon, so too are all of Link's descendants. She isn't even aware of what she's doing; she thinks it's all just a part of her normal, storybook life, when she's really messing up the setting's cosmology and breaking the cycle of heroes who can stop Ganon. And they don't -- Ganon succeeds in flooding Hyrule.
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40	There are two upsides to this. First, by wiping out Jenna's descendants but not ''everyone'', Ganon does allow for an even better Link to show up -- the hero of the ''Wind Waker''. And second, Ganon successfully drowned every trace of ''My Inner Life''.
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42	[[WMG: The entire fanfiction is a single dream of Jenna's.]]
43	She's not having ''recurring'' dreams of domestic bliss with Link. She just had the one, but she found it fascinating. It wasn't enough to spin a whole story, so she had to extrapolate some bits from what she could remember. But she wasn't that great at extrapolation; she hoped to have another dream of Link, but none came. Her plan was to eventually reveal InUniverse that it was AllJustADream.
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45	[[WMG: Link's Queen didn't dream ''any'' of it.]]
46	She was lying through her teeth. She did so for two reasons: first, to make herself look more impressive as a lucid dreamer; and second, to deflect criticism for such blatant display of her PerverseSexualLust for a fictional character by blaming the fic on her subconscious. No, there was no way she could remember her dreams in such vivid detail; her conscious mind came up with all of it. In the end, she came clean and admitted that [[OldShame the fic "was a stupid story [she] wrote out of idiocy."]]
47	* '''Confirmed;''' the author has admitted in an interview that she never actually had recurring dreams.
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49	[[WMG: Jenna and Link shall make the best painting in the world.]]
50	It will be a culmination of all the paintings they made while having sex.
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52	[[WMG: Jenna Silverblade is the mother of Atlantiana, the MarySue from ''Fanfic/ForbidenFruitTheTempationOfEdwardCullen''.]]
53	Tiaa's mother was a "whitch", and it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the superstitious Jacob the Werewolf King could have mistaken Jenna Sueblade's Silverlite powers for witchery.
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55	[[WMG: The fic [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] with the Franchise/DisneyPrincess films.]]
56	Several elements are borrowed from various films in that canon, including the Spring Festival (mentioned in ''Cinderella II''), the Blessing Ceremony (from Aurora's christening in ''Sleeping Beauty''), and kicking horses in the leg (probably a common misinterpretation of a shot from ''Beauty and the Beast'' -- she's actually gently squeezing the horse's ribs like she's supposed to). Notice also how Jenna completely skips over Link's service in the war, as most films of this nature would never actually show the heroes killing enemy soldiers on screen, even if it's clear that they would have.
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58	[[WMG: Jenna's family were once nobility.]]
59	Most surnames of the era were [[IAmXSonOfY patronymic]], [[NamedAfterTheirPlanet toponymic]], or [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep occupational]]. Where the heck did "Silverblade" come from? It's not likely to have belonged to a family of merchants. The more likely explanation is that they were once a noble Hylian family -- wielders of the Silver Blade, a weapon of such renown that an entire dynasty was named after it. But they lost it at some point in history, along with [[ImpoverishedPatrician their prestige]]. Jenna is aware of her family's history and wants to get back to where her ancestors were, which is why she's so obsessed with earning the favor of the royal family and why they might be a bit more inclined to hang out with her.
60	* Silverblade is actually supposedly ''Link'''s [[NamedByTheAdaptation surname]]. Jenna got it through marriage, and her maiden name is never stated.
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62	[[WMG: Before becoming a DeadFic, [[InterspeciesRomance Zelda/Dalamar was supposed to become a canon pairing.]]]]
63	There are several things pointing to this conclusion:
64	* Zelda catches the bouquet at the wedding, and the text helpfully reminds us this means she'll be the next to marry.
65	* It's mentioned that Zelda will only take the throne if she gets married, otherwise Link is next in line and Jenna becomes the queen. In all of the numerous sequel and spin-off fics, Link and Jenna still live in their house in the Lost Woods, and Zelda is clearly serving as a regent. The latest fic chronologically features all four of Link and Jenna's children, set thirteen years after the beginning of the story, yet Zelda is ''still'' acting monarch while the king is not mentioned at all. This suggests that Link did not become king after all.
66	* [[DefrostingIceQueen Dalamar]]'s expressions soften when he looks at Zelda from the moment they meet. Compare this to his suspicion when he first meets Link and Jenna; Zelda is the first character he seems to truly warm up to, as slight as it is. He also stays in Zelda's castle during the night, rather than going with Link and Jenna to their own house.
67	* Zelda's face is described as "rosy" when she looks at Dalamar, when normally she's described as "white," "fair," and "pale." Either Link's Queen wanted to try a new descriptor... or it's a subtle way to say she's blushing.
68	* [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent The griffins]] are said to be distrustful of humans, but the griffin council know of Hyrule and of Zelda, teach their children about Link's adventures, and keep stating they hope that someday griffins and humans can learn to trust one another and get along someday. What better way to do that than with a marriage bringing the two people together?

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