Happy Friday! Have some plotless fluff :)
Link stared at the gift, awed and bewildered at the same time. He looked up at the princess once more. “F-for me…?”
Princess Zelda nodded eagerly, her little cheeks flushed with excitement. “I can never thank you enough for defeating Ganon and saving Hyrule, Link. But I… I know you love to travel and I wanted to be sure you were safe while doing so. I made this tent myself! It should keep you dry and warm from wind and rain.”
Link looked at the folded tent once more. He’d never had one of these before. He usually just found a good cave to hide in and get some brief rest. Or a tree if he was desperate enough, but those weren’t his best option after the last time when he fell out of one in his sleep (he figured out that he needed to tie himself to the tree after that, but that wasn’t really comfortable).
He was too shy to ask how it was supposed to work. Instead, he smiled and bowed gratefully. “Thank you, Your Highne—”
Zelda grabbed him by his wrist and started to run down the hallway, dragging him. “Come on, we can test it out in the gardens!”
Link stumbled and tripped over his feet, but he recovered before he could bring the princess in pink down with him. The sun was setting, and the idea of sitting in a tight space with the pretty princess was making his skin tingle and his heart race far more than any fight with Ganon could. He didn’t understand why, though.
The pair of eleven-year-olds ended up in the middle of the garden, and Zelda snatched the tent out of Link’s hands.
“Now, let’s see, how do we set this up?” she wondered aloud.
Link watched her, bewildered, but the longer they both stared at it the more awkward it got, so Link helpfully offered to try and set it up.
Zelda pouted a little. “Impa told me the pattern to make it, I should know how to set it up.”
Link smiled. “It’s ok, m’lady, I don’t know either.”
Oh, whoops, he didn’t mean to say that. Princess Zelda stared at him a moment and he blushed, and then she laughed.
“We’ll figure it out together, brave hero,” she said reassuringly.
The pair set to work, and by the time the sun had finally given its last light to the sky for the day, they had something set up. Link could only assume it was what it was supposed to look like, but the material sagged a lot as the two wiggled their way to the interior.
Link suddenly realized how close he was to the Princess of Hyrule and he coughed uncomfortably, shifting away until he hit the wall of the tent. Should a simple traveler like him even be allowed this close to the princess?
Princess Zelda giggled. “I think it works!”
Discomfort forgotten, Link laughed in reply. “It could stop the rain and the wind—”
The tent shifted and the entire thing collapsed on top of the pair as the two yelped. Tangled, Link squirmed as the princess practically squealed, thrashing about and landing a smack on Link’s nose.
Link grunted, and Princess Zelda immediately said, “Oh, was that you, Link? I’m so sorry!”
“It’s ok,” Link said in a very silly sounding nasal voice as he pinched his nose.
“Oh this is—I messed it up!”
Link could hear that the pretty princess was upset, and he opened his mouth to reassure her when she interrupted his attempts.
“Stupid tent!! You’re stupid and I’ll fix you!!”
Link blinked. Then he laughed. He wasn’t sure why, but something about the fancy Princess of Hyrule yelling at a tent was really funny to him.
Link’s giggles were infectious, and before they knew it both were laughing hysterically under the tent’s collapsed frame.
Which is how Zelda’s elderly nursemaid, Impa, found a lump of canvas wiggling and giggling in the middle of the garden. She shook her head good naturedly. Honestly, these children.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU SO MUCH
I AM GRINNING SO MUCH RIGHT NOW THIS IS ADORABLE AHHHHHH
AFJLKSDJFLKSDJFLKSJFLKD
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Princess and the Pauper but it’s Zelink and Ilia/Sidon. 👀 Don’t ask me how that would work, but I’m reliving my Barbie childhood and I am a girl like you is living in my brain now.
Rhoam’s a shitty dad, anyway. Probably wouldn’t even recognize his daughter’s hired a stunt double, he’s so focused on the goddess powers. Slap a blond wig and some colored contacts on Ilia and he couldn’t tell the difference. 🤣
Honestly, Ilia’s biggest problem in this would be trying to walk in heels to make up for the fact that Zelda is taller than her… while Zelda is just having the time of her life checking out the towns and hanging in the local libraries.
ELEVATOR/MONSTER BOOTS, BWAHAHAHA.
Ilia/Sidon at the end reveal-
Ilia: “I have something to tell you. I’m not only not Princess Zelda… but…”
Sidon: “What is it, my love!?”
Ilia, stepping out of her boots so she goes from five ten to five two: “I’m… short.”
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