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Sidon Stories (2): Not Revali Related

SidBazz Developing After the Calamity:

After the Calamity returned Sidon at first was in denial that his sister was gone. When his father finally told him straight out, “Mipha is not coming back,” Sidon didn’t know how to react. He swam off. Sidon was distraught, he just wanted to see his sister again. Why did that stupid knight that always shows up and steals his sister away have to convince her to pilot Vah Ruta. Then he felt guilty, Link was very nice, and Sidon knew that Link and Mipha both were doing what they thought was best to help people, even if Sidon didn’t understand the gravity of the Calamity returning.

As Sidon was swimming through the Zora river, lost in his thoughts that were driving him crazy, he found a little opening going into the side of the mountains. Sidon decides to check it out. Inside the water from the river forms a small pool with both a shallow and deep part. Sidon, not being the best swimmer, due to his oversized tail making him run out of energy very quickly, sits in the shallow part.

Sidon begins to lose all emotion. He feels hollow. Like an empty shell of sadness. He stares at the wall watching the reflections of the water and finds that he is unable to talk. He is overwhelmed with his grief, he is exhausted, and he misses his sister. He falls asleep.

When he wakes up he starts to notice the relaxing beauty in the cave. He finds it quite calming. Then he remembers that he ran off and probably gave his father a figurative heart attack. He does his best to swim upstream to return to Zora's domain but runs out of energy and passes out in the water.

The next thing he sees is Muzu standing over him looking angry. “You have every warrior in the domain looking for you! Why in Hyrule would you run off like that?” Muzu scolded. Muzu didn’t seem to be worried, only angry.

Sidon is beginning to feel anxiety rising in him when he hears “Did you find him?!”. Sidon looks up to see his friend Bazz running towards Muzu. “Yes, I found the little delinquent,” Muzu answered unamused. Bazz immediately helps Sidon up.

Muzu, being annoyed, decided to swim back to the Domain. Bazz starts walking towards the path and motions for Sidon to follow. “Monsters?” Sidon asks, with his limited speech. “Yeah, but they’ve all been killed, and even if there is one there are warriors all over looking for -” Bazz paused, “Sorry, you’ve been gone all night they are just worried.” Sidon is feeling really guilty and acting annoyed and angry, and runs away from Bazz. Bazz kept up but didn’t say anything else.

They return to the Domain and after being scolded countless times, things finally go back to normal. Or at least as normal as things can be without Mipha there.

Sidon at this point was still a small child. He did not have the ability to dress himself. Mipha usually helped him, not that his father wouldn’t but just because Mipha enjoyed taking care of her baby brother. But now that Mipha wasn’t here and King Dorephan was in a very bad mental state, Sidon was left all on his own.

King Dorephan didn’t completely neglect his son, he made sure he had the necessities, but their relationship had changed from the second Mipha left for the Spring with Princess Zelda, and the Calamity returned. Dorephan began doing the bare minimum and became completely unaware of Sidon’s struggles, including getting dressed.

If it weren’t for being the prince, Sidon’s morning routine would be simple, but instead he had to wear multiple decorative pieces to show that he was part of the Zora royal family. Sidon would do his best to get ready. His shoulder pads crooked, his sash sloppily tied, and the headpiece that annoyed him so much to put on. He could never put it on correctly. It always felt loose and the feather would always droop to the side.

The one item of his wardrobe that he made sure to always have on his was his whistle. The whistle was given to him by Mipha. Sidon was not the most talkative person. In fact, he only talked when he felt it was absolutely necessary, and never in complete sentences. Talking just seemed to overwhelm him and was hard to do. The whistle was Mipha’s idea to help keep Sidon safe. If Sidon ever found himself in a situation that he needed help, or was lost, or stuck, he could blow the whistle to get the attention of someone nearby who might help him.

One day Sidon did his best to get ready and went to spear fighting class with Seggin. Seggin was brutal with training. Sidon, while trying his hardest to not let his royal gear fall off, was struggling to do a spin attack followed by a block. Everytime he didn’t block quickly enough, Seggin would strike him with the blunt end of his spear.

Sidon was getting frustrated and started to form tears in his small eyes. Seggin just got angrier and the hits got harder. Eventually Sidon decided to yell “STOP!”. Seggin rolled his eyes. Began yelling at Sidon, “You’re just not trying! Either that or you’re just plain dumb!”

Sidon was overwhelmed. Almost no one seemed to care about him. He dipped his head to show he was sorry and walked away from the area they were training.

He was holding it all in. But as he walked back into the domain, towards the throne room to spend some time with himself, he tripped on the last step. His headpiece went flying across the floor. Sidon couldn’t handle it anymore. He started crying and was thinking “I can’t do anything right. I can’t even get dressed on my own.”

As the headpiece had flung across the floor it had hit Bazz on the foot. He then heard Sidon start crying. Bazz took a moment to decide whether or not he should help, after how Sidon had gotten upset when he was found a few weeks ago and Bazz tried to talk to him. After a brief moment of consideration, Bazz decides he can’t leave Sidon sitting there crying, he had to at least try to help.

Bazz walks over with the headpiece, with Sidon acknowledging him with his eyes, he shows the headpiece and slowly puts it on Sidon. Sidon is still upset but seems okay with Bazz’s action, so Bazz fixes his shoulder pads, reties the sash, and straightens his neck piece.

Sidon looks up at Bazz and after a moment of eye contact, hugs him. After this morning, even when Sidon became able to do it on his own, Bazz would help Sidon get his royal gear every morning. They began to get closer everyday.

As Sidon got older he was worried that Bazz would one day leave him, as everyone else had. He knew that his meltdowns might be the thing that caused this. By the time he was a teenager, Sidon had begun using the cave he found as a child to hide during his meltdowns, as he had begun “growing into his tail”, as Bazz put it, and could swim upstream back to Zora’s domain.

One day Sidon was attending another practice with Seggin. Sidon had improved greatly, but Seggin didn’t care. Seggin began constantly comparing him to Mipha. After failing at a complex move for the seventh time, Seggin says “Mipha could do this with her eyes closed! Too bad we lost her and not your pathetic excuse for a prince.” Sidon immediately started tearing up.

He couldn’t even try to hold it in. He ran away from the training area and as quickly as he could, swam to his cave. Little did he know that Bazz was nearby practicing his fighting skills in a fast current.

Sidon began having a meltdown. He was screaming, crying, and thrashing. He was distraught. He began to completely lose connection to what was happening around him. Nothing else mattered. All he wanted to do was hide his face from the light and see nothing but the darkness from covering his face.

Bazz, hearing Sidon, finds the cave. Sidon is completely unaware of his arrival, even when Bazz says, “Sidon?” He realizes that with how Sidon seems to be feeling, touching him would likely not be any help, and might make things worse. Instead he stays as quiet as possible and uses leaves and algae to plug up holes in the rocks that extra light may be coming through.

As the time goes by Bazz keeps watch. He assumes that Sidon is here in this cave to avoid people seeing him like this, so Bazz wants to make sure no one else comes into the cave.

Sidon is slowly becoming aware of Bazz but is still unable to show Bazz that he acknowledged him. As more hours pass, Sidon becomes quiet, unable to talk, curled up in a ball, and looking straight forward.

Bazz practices his spear balancing and technique, while shooting Sidon a smile every so often. During this time Sidon falls asleep. Bazz continues practicing for a while, but eventually becomes too tired and also goes to sleep.

Sidon wakes up before Bazz. He is still exhausted from the meltdown but he does feel slightly better. He looks over to the other side of the cave and sees Bazz sleeping, his spear pushed against the wall. Sidon slowly remembers that Bazz had found him in the cave the night before and had done what he could to make Sidon more comfortable while he was in such a vulnerable state.

He watches Bazz sleeping and acknowledges how lucky he is to have Bazz in his life, and that he had been attracted to Bazz for quite some time. He goes over to where Bazz is sleeping and gives him a hug. Bazz wakes up and says, “I love you”. Sidon responds, hugging him tighter, “I love you too.”

AND ANOTHER:

Sidon’s New Armour:

Since Sidon is the only possible heir to the throne, the domain isn’t too eager about sending their Prince into danger. The one exception was when Sidon snuck off to fight the giant octorock.

Sidon was constantly training with Seggin and Bazz and was expected to be amazing with a spear. Seggin would belittle his “sloppy” technique, even if the “sloppy” technique still got the job done. He was not allowed to wear actual armour and all the armour he had was ceremonial or decorational and of no use in a battle.

Despite the fact that Sidon could no doubt handle his own in a battle, he was not allowed to engage in situations that would cause him harm. He had to stay safe, the future of the Domain depended on it.

He could not follow this rule when he heard about the giant octorock tormenting people at Hateno Bay. He rushed off with a simple silverscale spear to take on the beast.

When he arrived it was obvious that he was in over his head. How could he defeat this beast alone? While he was lost in thought, strategizing, the giant beast spotted the Zora prince, and spit a gigantic boulder at him.

Sidon noticed the boulder just in time and dodged out of the way. However, after dodging, Sidon became disoriented and was inhaled into the beast before he could fully reacknowledge his surroundings and get to his feet.

Once inside the beast the stomach acid burned his scales. It felt like his entire body was on fire. He couldn’t breath the acid and the oxygen was limited. If he didn’t pass out from lack of air and water, he would from the pain. Desperate, he grabbed his spear and started repeatedly stabbing the side of the monster’s stomach.

He broke the surface of the beast’s thick skin but it seemed as though he would die before escaping. Sidon slowly begins losing consciousness and begins accepting his fate. The next thing he remembers is feeling the beast heave and being coughed up as the beast was desperate to get rid of the pain causing Zora. After that, darkness, until he woke up in Zora’s Domain.

Now he bears permanent damage and scars across his body, the most prominent being a “t” shaped scar on his head fin, obtained from getting hit in the head by a rock that was also inhaled by the octorock.

Bazz was furious but affection towards Sidon when he returned. “How could you risk dying! I could have lost you! Oh, but you were brave, Hateno Bay is free from that beast now! Don’t ever do anything like that again! But good job, I’m so proud of you!”

Over the next few years, Sidon did well to not engage in any life threatening battles. The most risky thing he did was aid Link in approaching Divine Beast Vah Ruta, something he knew he could flee quickly if needed.

However when he was blasted into another version of the past 100 years ago, one where his sister was not yet killed, fighting for life, but not killed, he had no choice but to fight in horrendous, life-threatening battles, and even if he had a choice, he would have fought beside his sister anyways.

While he helped his sister and the other champions defeat their version of Calamity Ganon, it became painfully obvious with every small scratch that Sidon needed armour. He was too focused on being able to know his sister to really care until he returned back to his own timeline.

He came back with more scars, fresh ones. For Bazz, he had been gone only a few moments, but Sidon had been in the past for months. Bazz immediately became worried and questioned Sidon on what had happened.

Bazz believed Sidon’s tale, even when other Zoras would not. Even King Dorephan didn’t believe it and would scream at Sidon for “torturing” him when the story was told. The poor king was still grief stricken over losing his daughter.

Sidon shared his desire for armour with Bazz. Bazz worked for weeks on an armour that would be both protective and hopefully one where the texture wouldn’t bother Sidon. On the outside the armour looked like a different fit of classic Zora armour. On the inside however, the armour was laced with a fabric with a texture pleasing for Sidon to touch.

The armour was perfect for Sidon! Well… Almost perfect. Being left handed, having a sleeve on armour covering his dominant hand made him feel super uncomfortable and unable to properly use it. To most it would just seem like he was being fussy, but for Sidon, this bothersome sleeve was a real issue.

Of course Bazz understood immediately. He took the left sleeve off and told Sidon it made him look cool. Sidon was very appreciative of Bazz’s kindness and understanding and it helped them grow closer and made their relationship even stronger.

Now, Sidon wears the armour instead of the ceremonial, nonfunctional, armour he wore before. Not only was the new armour more useful but it also reminded him of Bazz.

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