#ooyuhhh man

[petrichormeraki]

i am thinking about the estimated 2-3 years after botw before totk. do you think link took a while to stop following zelda wherever she went, never letting her completely out of sight? do you think when zelda cut her hair she cried because her father wasn't there to tell her off for it? do you think zelda spent nights without sleeping, pouring over the history that had happened over the 100 years she was fighting? do you think link had some nights where he woke up in a cold sweat, hand already on his sword to fight the nightmare he already beat? do you think zelda spent the first week free constantly in link's arms, desperate for any kind of touch that wasn't hostile? do you think zelda took that long to explore the tunnels under hyrule castle because even looking at it filled her with so much grief it would swallow her whole? do you think they ever got used to the looks that came their way, as the fabled long-dead princess and her swordsman, back from the dead after 100 years? do you think they ever had to fight to be listened to, even after the century they spent dying and fighting for this world they saved, because they still looked like kids?