Friend's words, not mine.

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Hasnain and Hail were taken as babies from their mother after the bandits realized what they had. Hail was only kept thanks to the kindness of a half gerudo woman. Hail was raised doing menial work around the camp, rarely getting to go on raids while Hasnain was being trained constantly to be a god among fighters. One day during a robbery of a noble, Hasnain gets into a fight with a powerful knight. The noble meanwhile berates and complains of his knight's smallest flaws. Eventually the knight stops fighting, steps back, and slays his master. Hasnain takes in this new concept of the strong breaking free of the weak, along with the disustingness of humanity the noble exemplified. He turned towards his own leaders, people that had raised him to be a killing machine, and took their lives. And then after that one day, Hasnain comes up and says ["survival of the fittest but you'll always be beneath me"] before murdering him

Rough concept

So while Hasnain saw and was raised on the principles of "win by any means necessary" and "survival of the fittest but you'll always be beneath me," Hail was raised with a bit of mercy and honor from the gerudo side of his adopted mother yet still absorbing that criminal energy.

HASNAIN SHOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF DOMINION OVER MONSTERS

LIKE OUT OF FEAR AND RESPECT LIKE THEY DID WITH GANONDORF

I feel like Hail's gonna need some character development before he gets the balls to challenge his brother

Plus, Hasnain probably took the sacred stones by force, broke into the temple of time, and stole the master sword and it's pedestal sheathe thing

And this ends not with the help of some kind of mcguffin

But with Hasnain's triforce of courage being ripped away from him in the final battle, and given to Hail who earned it for standing up to his brother

His brother who had everything. Every weapon available to crush his competition, every spell from the great fairies, every monster under his hand

And Hailey standing up, with his second best weapons, and his second best tools, and his second best clothes, proving his own courage by standing up to the man who was born with it all. Proving he's just as good

And earning that stupid little triangle

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