#ooc: she is Not fine but sad bean denies everything

[prayers-to-hyliarceus]

Zelda, with all due respect to royalty? You need to get your ass to a therapist. There are MAJOR problems here to work out and something tells me we haven't seen the half of it.

But if this version of you is close to one I know? Your father was cruel to you. He left serious scars that show to this day. Not physical, but behavioral. Emotional. Your constant need to do everything right or you'll break down. The incessant over-explanations. There's so, so much more.

I can't force you to go. But if you truly are trying to get better, please. For both your sake and Link's? Go. To. Therapy.

...It's also entirely possible you have some kind of unmedicated psychiatric disorder as well, but one step at a time.

I...

You-- I-- listen. Father was... he was trying to help me. He was under a lot of pressure as well, what with his failure of a princess unable to do the one thing she was needed for on top of all of his kingly duties. I wish I could go back and apologize-- I didn't see just how hard he was working back then.

Maybe it's not fair, but I wasn't born into fair circumstances. I'm not allowed to be like this. I'm not allowed to be weak, because then the kingdom crumbles if I am. I can't be, not when I was already weak for the first seventeen years of my life.

I don't have the means to go to therapy, regardless. I wouldn't particularly want to, even if there was something wrong with me. Mental health wise.

It's fine. Really. I'm fine. It would be best if the matter is dropped entirely. If I don't think about my past, it slips out of sight and out of mind. And then there's no issue!

zelda please.

What?

this person just took all the words out of my mouth. you need help.

I don't-- look. I just... want to study Pokémon and travel around this world because it is really fascinating. Now can we please stop talking about this?

i hate to do this but... you can't even hear the word 'guardian' without flinching.

Stop. Just stop.