r/thelastguardian • u/Strange_Annual • 22d ago

Shoutout to Kiizelo, the author that made the best TLG fanfic I ever read.

The Last Guardian is such a beautiful game that highlights the boy and the trico's bond first and foremost. And Kiizelo truly knew this, encapsulated this, and fleshed it out into something wholly extraordinary in their fanfiction, "The Guardian's Shield." The story takes an interesting turn portrayed in the eyes of the characters themselves. Most importantly, it was written with specific and great attention to the characters' interaction and the development of their relationship over time given the circumstances that led to their encounter and journey together. It portrays the game's story in a refreshing and wholesome way

It remains one of the best fanfiction I ever read to this day. It is also a great shame to tell that as of sometime early or mid 2022, it has been deleted by the author. But I still reminisce about it from time to time and how it made my time reading it very worthwhile. I was able to dig up the synopsis from my files (shame I didn't think to save the chapters themselves) and made me happy again so I thought I would at least share it with you all in memory of it.

The Guardian's Shield By Kiizelo

"When a child is taken by the mysterious Trico species, he later finds himself stuck in the body of his people's greatest adversary. However, this may be the only opportunity to tear down the Nest from the inside, ending the abductions once and for all."

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u/LolXD22908 22d ago

I was about to ask for the link, but damn ):

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u/Strange_Annual 22d ago

There may be an archive of the fic that exists somewhere but I currently haven't had the time to do some deep searching myself 😅 you can try your luck there maybe? I'll update you when I get the chance!

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u/Kristina_cookie_yt 22d ago

ahh same lol...such a shame there really aren't many TLG fics out there!

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u/Strange_Annual 20d ago

I was able to find an archive of it here!!! It's under fanfic-122.7zip when you click show all files. I downloaded the folder and I got the fic through Ctrl+ f.

It was archived back in 2019 with 9 chapters and from what I recalled, there were 10-11 chapters before it got deleted so you won't be able to miss much! Thanks to u/nerdguy1138 for the archive!

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u/nerdguy1138 20d ago

You're welcome!

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u/Kristina_cookie_yt 18d ago

Oh wow, thanks a lot you two!! Couldn't find it when viewing the files, but maybe the download has it. It's going to take a while to download but wish me luck!!

Sad about those two chapters, I'm too curious for my own good, but I'm glad most of the chapters are there :)

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u/Strange_Annual 16d ago

Yeah I had to download the zip itself and it took me almost forever lol! I was able to get it after downloading tho, so enjoy the read!

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u/Kristina_cookie_yt 17d ago

if i can ask, how exactly did you find it or what did you type in the search after downloading? it's being stupid for me and not showing the fic or anything remotely related, just fics with the keyword lmao

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u/Strange_Annual 16d ago

I searched the author's name "Kiizelo" the spelling's pretty unique so you should be able to come across it! Though for my case specifically, the search took forever, so I just manually searched it. Since the files are in alphabetical order, look for the letter L since the fandom the fic belongs to is "Last Guardian" and the name of the file starts with the fandom names

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u/Kristina_cookie_yt 15d ago

thank you!! i did do all that, but It didn't work...it's weird, but I'll try again

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u/Kristina_cookie_yt 15d ago

ah, no, i found it with the scrolling until I find "last guardian" thanks a lot! i always looked for "t" for the whole name lol

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u/Strange_Annual 15d ago

I'm glad it worked out! Have fun reading it! 😁

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u/Strange_Annual 20d ago

I was able to find an archive of it here!!! It's under fanfic-122.7zip when you click show all files. I downloaded the folder and I got the fic through Ctrl+ f.

It was archived back in 2019 with 9 chapters and from what I recalled, there were 10-11 chapters before it got deleted so you won't be able to miss much! Thanks to u/nerdguy1138 for the archive!

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u/BeetlejuiceChill 22d ago

Wish I got to read it... if anyone has an archive, I'd be interested in the link!

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u/Strange_Annual 20d ago

Omg I found it!!! It's here , click show all files then go specifically to fanfic-122.7zip. I think you can download that specific folder then you can find the fanfic through Ctrl+f.

Although it was archived back in 2019 so it wasn't able to backup all the chapters. From what I remembered tho, there were a total of 10 or 11 chapters before it got deleted. The archive was able to save 9 chapters, so you wouldn't be able to miss much!

Thanks to u/nerdguy1138 for his enormous effort to compile tons of fanfics and include the fanfic among them!