Chapter 6 congrats! Your a princess

I'm certain I didn't hear that right. PRINCESS? ZELDA? HYRULE?

I was frozen with shock. I didn't pay attention to the celebration around me, i didn't notice as my father handed me off to granny to be fed, bathed, and put to bed. The world was spinning around me. DIN? NAYRU? FARORE? HYLEA!?

That couldn't be right! Suddenly little things started to click, words that i hadn't been translating correctly corrected themselves in my head. Princess wasn't just a cute nickname granny and spots had given me, it was tittle.

I wasn't just some elf looking species, i was a hylian. Oh my god.

Staring up at the dark ceiling and listening to the muffled sound of revelry below, Never have i wished more to be old enough to talk.

I needed to curse.

Violently.

Princess ZELDA?

Of all the fictional series, i'm in LEGEND OF ZELDA!

The only series that literally has hundreds of iterations of princesses, heroes, and villains named the exact same thing, and I end up in it!

Am I in twilight, skyward sword? Wind waker, spirit tracks?

Ocarina of time?

Oh please don't let me be in the downfall timeline! Or the adult timeline! Or the cdi game! Actually none of the games are particularly fun for zelda, trapped in a crystal, trapped in an eternal sleep, fighting Ganon on her own without rest for 100 years!

Oh my god I'm going to dieeeeeeee! AGAIN!

Of ALL the characters! ZELDA!? WHY HER? I could have been LITERALLY anyone else! Malon! Linkle! A random unnamed N.P.C!

Wait,

MAYBE I AM AN UNNAMED NPC!

All of the hylian princesses are named zelda. How likely is it that I'm a game zelda? There are like 15 games and hundreds of unremarkable generations of zelda's outside of that! How likely is it that I am a game zelda. Most game Zelda's are elegant, powerful, intelligent, magical princesses, and in no world am i elegant. I'm probably some forgotten insignificant zelda in a line of majestic queens!

Wait, I need to calm down and think about this rationally. Take a deep breath, and start again.

What do I know. I am a teenage girl nam- i am an infant named Zelda who has memories of her past life. My mother and father are important people who have servants and can afford to live in a richly decorated home and throw lavish parties to celebrate the birth of a healthy baby girl, maybe royalty- ill get back to that. I have two nursemaid's named… I have two nursemaid's nicknamed spots and granny who both call me princess. I'm not human anymore and am a race with pointy ears, better hearing and even features. I… i… ok that's good enough for now for what i know.

What do I suspect, I might be a princess. my new mom and dad might be royalty of some sort. I might be in a world similar to the legend of zelda games. I might be a unimportant zelda in the royal lineage.

Why do I think that I am a princess? I am called princess, we have servants, spots and granny bow when they see mom and dad, and We live in a richly decorated manor or castle of some sort.

Why do i think that i'm in a world similar to legend of zelda? I'm not human anymore, my new race appears strikingly similar to how hylians are depicted, mom mentioned the video game goddess din, nayru, farore, and hylia, and my new name is zelda.

Why do I think that I'm an unimportant zelda? I am not supernaturally wise- wait no i have the mind of a teenager as an infant cross that out. I am not an elegant princ- I am not elegant, and, and… I don't want to be a game zelda.

What's impossible, what's possible but unlikely, what's feasible, and what's certain?

What's not possible that I am the human I know anymore.

What's possible but unlikely, I might just be a noble with the nickname princess. I might be on earth centuries in the future. I might be insane and dreaming this all up in a coma. I might have misheard my mother.

What's feasible? I might be a princess. I might be in a world like the legend of zelda. I might be an insignificant zelda. And… and i might be a zelda mentioned in one of the games.

What's certain? I don't want to die again. I'm not in the world I knew. I'm terrified. I'm slightly calmer than I was before.


My thoughts were still racing but i was slightly calmer than before, and i was exhausted mentally physically and emotionally but i can't stop now, i need to plan. Now that i'm thinking semi rationally i realised that there is no assurance that i'm NOT a game zelda. It's unlikely but possible. I was a casual fan of the games in my last life the only game that i had really invested myself into was breath of the wild, but i had been pretty involved in the legend of zelda fandom.

My memory for the games wasn't perfect but let's see what i can recall…

I can't be in wind waker or skyward sword zelda wasn't a princess in either of those, princess zelda wasn't in link's awakening, majora's mask, or triforce heroes, but both majoras mask and triforce heroes are technical sequels to games with princess zelda in them so they don't count.

So in what games am i a possible zelda in… all of them except 5… great.

So what games do i remember? Twilight princess, in which zelda is a prisoner and almost dies several times. Fun. the first one in which she is captured for the Triforce. Yay. four swords and where she is kidnapped to be the bride of a creepy wizard. Twice. Minish cap where she is turned to stone, or was it incase in crystal? Either way YIKES. Hero of Hyrule kidnapped again, several other kidnappings. Ocarina of time where she has to disguise herself for years and STILL ends up kidnapped. Sleeps for like a hundred years in one, is turned into a ghost! I don't even want to think about the tragedy that is princess zelda's life in breath of the wild. And I'm panicking again.

Is there even anything i can do if i am a game zelda?! I don't know the games well enough outside of a few to know the warning signs and what to do to avoid them! The games I do know well enough are literal worst case scenarios! I am literally helpless as a baby right now!

Flipping over I muffle a scream into my cot.

Calm down meg- calm down Zelda. You have literal years to plan. Even if i am in the legend of zelda world, which i'm not certain about, Even if i am a game zelda, which is unlikely, even IF this game takes place when zelda and link are children, which are few. I have Years to plan. At least 6 or 7 and at most like 17!

This is fine. I am fine.

(i was not fine)