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#5

How about something Pre Calamity? Link getting jealous over the Sheikah poet for saying/doing something that just doesn't sit right with him

Hey there Anon! I hope you like your 400 words of Link vs Sheikah Poet. 😆

This was fun. Big thanks @drsteggy and @zeldadiarist for taking a look at making a few suggestions.

Patience

Link could barely breathe because he used his strength to grit his teeth instead of turning the pretty smile before him into a toothless grimace. 

"A handkerchief with embroidery of a Silent Princess, how attentive!" Princess Zelda sang, clasping her hand around the poet's forearm.

The bastard bowed. "Everything for you, my Princess."

Link's teeth made an alarming noise, and Princess Zelda raised an eyebrow at him. "Anything the matter, Hero?"

He shook his head, turning his gaze skyward. 

No, nothing was the matter. Only that the bastard pretended the token Link had left in her room as a peace offer was his. No wonder she was as cold as White Chuchu Jelly towards him!

Link corrected his stance when the man gave him a self-satisfied smirk. A good warrior had patience. He was the best warrior, his time would come. Focus and wait.

Two months and a gaze shifting from relief to adoration in the desert sands later, everything had changed. 

Everything? No.

She still gushed over the handkerchief when the poet was around, but Link was patient. He would strike soon.

The next day, he remained silent when the poet joined them on her stroll through the garden. Lurking.

"Oh!" Zelda greeted the Sheikah, holding up an Ancient Core. "Is this another gift of yours?"

"Uhm… Yes. I thought you'd like the… pretty… glow."

Link huffed. The idiot didn't even know what it was.

"I love it!" 

And now she did what she always did when she found a new core. She opened it. 

"A hidden message!" She giggled.

"For your research…" Zelda raised her gaze to him. "Yours, Link…"

Link nodded, his grin turning smug.

"It's from you?!"

"Yes."

Oh, the stupid poet had it coming. "You pretended it was — oh, I can’t believe you!" She poked her index on the man's chest and he fled.

Link blushed when Zelda stepped closer and waved with the handkerchief, his smugness dwindling with every inch that shrunk between them. “Is this from you, too?”

"It is, Princess."

"You should have said something!"

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145 notes - Posted March 22, 2022

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#3

Just a little reminder that the German description of the memory "Blades of the Yiga" translates to this:

"After Zelda declined Link to accompany her to her research about the ruins, the Yiga-Clan attacked her. She fled, but was stalemated. In the very last moment, Link appeared and saved her."

So. Zelda explicitly told him to leave her alone. He disregarded her orders (again) and stayed close enough to get to her in time, but not so close that she knew he was there.

I think that says a lot about his character. He must have followed her to guard her without making himself known or otherwise her desperate flight doesn't make sense. He respected her wish to be alone as long as he could. And she didn't spend her time praying or with other princess duties, but he let her do her research (!) although he probably knew the King wasn't too fond of that.

This way, her surprised and admiring reaction makes a lot of sense, too. Zelda realizes at this moment that he must have been there for quite some time and has gone out of his way not only for her safety but for letting her follow her passion, too.

295 notes - Posted June 3, 2022

#2

Speed-run Link is fun and all, but can we take a moment to appreciate that Link canonically tames the descendant of Zelda's horse? If he completes one of the main quests of the game, finding all memories, a secret cutscene is unlocked where we see them both traveling to Zora's Domain together and Zelda has the white horse with the royal gear.

So when Link remembers Zelda, he hears of the rumor about her horse and invests time to find it. One day in the early morning hours, our hero sneaks through the wet grass to tame a horse for no other reason than to make Zelda happy.

341 notes - Posted July 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Have you ever wondered about the seemingly random cooking pots in BOTW? Not the ones next to stables or bridges, but sometimes you just mind your business in the wild and stumble over a cooking pot. 

What if these cooking pots are leftovers from a campsite Zelda and Link visited 100 years before? What if the two of them sat exactly here, Link quietly pressing a bowl with stew in Zelda’s hand? At some of them she might have stared into the fire, trying to ignore his looming presence and the sword. But what if it was here where she apologized for being so cold to him after the Blades of the Yiga memory? Or where he reluctantly opened up to her, bonding over a shared meal? She might have called him a glutton exactly here for the first time.

Maybe Link only remembers bits and pieces at first. A snapshot of him at the fire and a glimpse of blonde hair. A smell that comes from the cooking pot that stirs something in him. Later when he’s able to put more together, he seeks them out because he knows a memory will come back to him. It’s not always something good, but often enough, it’s a quiet memory of someone who understands him. Towards the end of his journey he begins to avoid them if possible because they remind him of his loneliness and how lost he is in this big, scary world.

And then, the first thing they do when Zelda is finally free, is setting up camp. Link passes a bowl of stew to Zelda and when their fingers brush, he asks,

“Do you remember?”

377 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

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