Link is very well-behaved, signs some documents, then starts to snap a little bit.
Epona is looking for a sign of her master and ends up supporting local business.
Were it not for the dire circumstances and the need to get to the only available shrines up here, Rauru would have kept Link far, far away from the Ultrahand. Zelda had warned him and Sonia that Link meant well but was a natural disaster all on his own. Rauru kept watching Link and noting how very calm he was. This, given how Zelda described the knight's personality, made Rauru more than a bit nervous. Link had studiously read each sentence of the Terms of Service on the Ultrahand. He spent a reasonable amount of time using the new power within the shrine instead of going completely nuts the moment he was let loose.
The Ultrahand was proving to be too much for Link's curiosity to reign itself in. Rauru was now watching Link build for a Korok. It was nothing short of over-engineering overkill.
"Link, this should be enough?"
"It's got to be absolutely safe for him." Link said as he added another stick to the safety railing. The hook was attached to the Korok but before Link set the little guy on the rail, he found supplies to build a bridge underneath it. Deciding the Bridge was not nearly safe enough, Link had constructed safety railings on either side in case a freak wind gust came along to throw the Korok off into the sky. Link hooked the Korok onto the railing, then walked with him on Ultrahand across the gap with the utmost care. He set him down ever so gently and smiled at the happy little spirits.
Once satisfied with the Korok reunion, Link then dropped the bridge onto the nearest soldier construct and did a rail grind across the yawning chasm to get to his next destination. Rauru knew the predicted downhill sanity had begun and it was time to supervise.
Addison's arms burned but he refused to abandon the President in his hour of need. He desperately clutched the post and wondered how he was going to escape this predicament. He needed help lest an unforgivable crime be committed against the stoic wooden countenance.
Addison heard the hoofbeats and turned his head to see a horse. It slowed to a stop and looked judgmentally at the man.
"Um, where is your rider? I'm sorry if they need help, I can't hold out much longer myself!" Addison felt he needed to explain himself when the horse tilted her head ever so slightly. "You see I need to stay focused. President Hudson might topple over if I don't give him my full support! Er, could you not bother me if you don't need help?" Addison saw the horse trot off and enjoyed a moment of peace before realizing he was still very much having no improvement to his problems.
Soon the mare returned dragging a wagon with some wood beams and barrels on it. She nudged it forward to rest under the sign, then shoved a rock under the wheel to keep it from rolling backwards. She turned her stare back at Addison.
"What? Are you going to support him Ms. Horse?"
Epona flicked her ears encouragingly at Addison.
"All right! I'll let go!" Addison let go.
He waited anxiously while Epona waited calmly.
"How is the president standing!?" Addison lashed the supports to the sign while Epona nibbled grass. "Sorry I don't have much to give you. Do you want this stuff anyway? I'll put it in your saddlebag."
Epona trotted off with some cash, some herbs, and a new bomb flower.
Link hummed to himself as he skimmed the User License agreement for fuse. He checked the box at the bottom without truly paying attention to the details. Rauru stood by Link with his lips pressed into a tight and thin line of anxiety.
"Why is Fuse limited to a single fusion?" Link asked Rauru. Rauru did his best to explain but he wasn't Mineru and the Purah Pad's translator simply was not up to the task. It came across as a very weak reason to Link. Something about fragility. Rauru watched Link fiddle in vain with the arm trying to bypass the limit.
"Link, you can't get past the one fusion limit. It's a built in limitation for safety."
Link stuck his tongue out in concentration as he prodded the long stick-stick into the third stick he brought into the shrine.
"You should move on, remember Zelda is waiting." If Link hadn't been susceptible to that reminder he would absolutely have spent days in the Ultrahand shrine testing every last thing he could.
Rauru, confident in the lack of user interface, let his attention wander as Link kept prodding. He then heard a happy cry from Link, followed by a warbling whine. Rauru turned his head to see why Link was celebrating and what was that noise. His eyes grew wide with fear and his ears folded back when he saw Link had succeeded. "Link, listen to me very carefully. Make no sudden moves."
Link froze in place with the long stick-stick-stick.
The best way Link or Rauru could have described the long stick-stick-stick was that it wobbled. Three sets of molecules violating the laws of physics seemed to be shifting between moments with a high-pitched grating heard in some other dimension outside of existence. It was possible it was coming from the outrage of Nayru herself.
"Okay, put it down as gently as you can, then we back up and leave the shrine as quickly as possible." Link followed Rauru's command to the letter. He exited with as much haste as he could while taking care to not stomp too hard on the ground next to the long stick-stick-stick. He moved around outside the pocket dimension of the rock to the summer night breeze. then leaned against the opposite side of the door.
"Hey, Rauru? Do you know what is going to happ-"
Bang went the shrine. It vibrated for a moment before settling into the gravel ever so slightly off center. Link noted that Rauru had a third eye open when startled that badly. They crept around the side to see the doorway there looking the same as before. Link cautiously stepped inside the shrine, and noted the cracks on the stone. Link quietly collected the orb of light, and resolved to listen to the safety lectures more closely in the future.
Rauru shook his head. "Link... my sister would have either locked you up or adopted you immediately. Maybe both.
This is largely based on how I started Tears of the Kingdom. I started determined to play like Link was a dignified hero engineer of Hyrule. By the time I reached Lookout Landing I was absolutely throwing together things with that had little to do with practicality and everything to do with fun. I have a few ideas for Epona doing sidequests. If you have ideas for sidequests a horse can do, please tell me! I'm deciding once again to go more for updates rather than perfection but if there is a particularly horrendous flaw please tell me.
Also Link, no. Don't break the laws of physics like that!