#she is blaming the sandy soil for being poor and Link just keeps bringing her delicious pies in shame

[sobdasha]

can't have your pie and eat it too

trying to clean up my salvaged WIPs and put them onna ~cloud~ before the next inevitable computer death

anyway I will never write this age'd Spirit Tracks Pushing Daisies AU but I would like to preserve, for myself, the only part I care about, with edits for clarity and IM typos corrected:

what if Old Niko has been hanging around so dang long because Link brought him back to life and they just haven't touched bare skin again whoops

and what if Zelda was the victim of a successful coup by Cole

and Link just happened to happen upon her and her ghost (he can see her because he is special and she is special)

so in the course of a royal pie delivery, Link gets invited into the princess' chambers and finds Zelda face-down in a plate of pie. Chancellor Cole had come in to gloat and stabbed Zelda in the back, but he cleverly (?) covered it up (?) by putting some poison in the pie to frame the pie maker for murdering the princess. Look I have seen the quality of the castle guards in these games.

anyway Zelda is pissed about the coup and Link is like "no wait I can fix this" and touches her

and she's like "that's pretty damn excellent"

they're plotting how to expose Cole for murder and keep Link from getting framed, except that exactly a minute into it they hear "OH MY GOD THE CHANCELLOR JUST DROPPED DEAD"

and Link's really guilty like "whoops"

and Zelda is like "..................holy crap you are BRILLIANT"

and then grabs him to smooch his cheek enthusiastically as you do

and uh

well

that ends

as it does

and she is "what did you do why didn't you tell me this would happen link I AM GOING TO HAUNT YOU FOREVER"

on the bright side Cole didn't get the throne??? so yay for what that's worth!

anyway Link sneaks out of the castle to go home and bake some pies before he gets arrested for murder and treason and etc, and Zelda comes with him because what else do you do when you're a lingering ghost whose life was saved and then promptly revoked by a humble piemaker from Aboda. Also he's the only one who can see her so he is the only option for hijinks.