This is an experiment I am trying. I hope it will be enjoyed by those that read it and that you all want to read more. Please be aware that this is going to maybe go to some uncomfortable places for some people. Still I hope this little thought experiment is something you all enjoy.
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The Hyrulian Champion and hero slowly opens the door to the house in Hateno Village before making their way inside and closing it behind them. Looking around they take in the weapons mounts on the walls and the bareness overall of the living space. Faint memories play in their head of growing up in this very same house. An attentive mother and a strict father guiding them on their path. Mother falling ill and father never returning from a battle against dark forces gaining strength in the far reaches of the kingdom. A letter calling for Link to report to the palace as the Champion of Hyrule that would save all of them from the coming Calamity.
They make their way up the stairs to a loft room where the bed sits in a corner, dropping sword and shield to the floor with a clamor before falling face first into the soft mattress covered in a quilt. They bring the pillow down and press their face into harshly as memories of the battles fought echo in their head.
'This isn't how things should be. I've lost so much. Given all of myself to this cause and now that it is over.'
A silent sob shakes the prone form and forces their shoulders to their ears.
'Why can't they see me? Even when I,'
Memories of dressing for the mission into Gerudo town and how everyone except the chief saw the person they were. Being treated as a vai by them simply because of clothing, being treated as voe because the chief identified them as the Hero of Hyrule.
Memories flash through their mind once more, memories of the battle in Blatchery Plain where Princess Zelda's power awakened. Their injuries fatal as they fell under the strain of having protected her, protected everyone as best they could from the onslaught of evil that had taken root. They were sure they would die there, but they didn't, they survived thanks to Impa, Robbie, and Purah. They believed that Impa and Robbie had to know but weren't saying anything.
'Those two at least had to have seen, so why aren't they,'
They bury their face deeper into the dampening pillow, trying to make sense of things that no one seems to care about. It didn't matter when they were running all over Hyrule with no memories and the fate of everyone in their hands. Too much was riding on their shoulders to dwell on the fact that no one seemed to know and all of them made assumptions. Now, now that everything was over, the Calamity Ganon defeated and Hyrule brought once more to peace, now Link had time to deal with the consequences of the situation they now found themselves in.
Link lays there for a long while, the sun shifting to low in the sky before they move. As long as they had laid there fully dressed in armor and gear they were now sore and had a crink their neck. Standing they slowly begin to remove everything until all that was left were their pants and their tunic. Link stops as they reach for the edge of the blue tunic that marked them as the Champion of Hyrule, an odor had begun to waft from their person as they had removed things and their nose crinkles in distaste as it seems to linger about them. Deciding it might be best to clean up before going to bed they head out back to the attached bath house and strips out of the remaining clothes there. Now bare in the privacy of their home the gentle curves of hips and the narrow waist that their clothes always covered are revealed only to their owner.
And while the world around her praises his heroic acts, not one person seems to care that they are crushing her spirit and leaving her to forget what she is.
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