Excuse you, mundane!

[zelda_hylia]

What do you mean, I am too noisy? You are the one who insisted on dragging me to that wretched city in the first place. Is it any surprise to you that I've become acquainted with people and I end up having a lot of things I am involved with? It's unacceptable for you to pretend I don't notice things simply because you "don't have the energy" to reply to everything!

Now stop complaining and allow me to complete the duties that you signed me up for.

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Have an AU Link

[desert_fate]

Glad to see you sticking up for yourself for once Princess.

[Something about this Link just screamed Gerudo. His tanned skin, the accent in his voice and the way he carried himself. The more showing clothing didn't hurt the theory either.]

Sorry <3 ilu? :3

[halfhearted]

Your mun is right. You are rather noisy. What's the matter princess, can't get all of your gossip?

[zelda_hylia]

[Complete and total shock. What...

...what is Link wearing...]

Link?

[zelda_hylia]

She has signed me up to greet all the newcomers to this city, but refuses to allow me to complete the duty. I wouldn't mind terribly except... well, I am signed up now. It's only proper to keep your word!

[desert_fate]

That is my name, yes.

Why do you seem so confused?

[halfhearted]

Talk about a boring job. Don't you have some subjects you can get to do that?

[zelda_hylia]

[Momentary confusion is pushed aside. He looks like Link, his voice SOUNDS like Link, but the way he's speaking isn't exactly right, either...]

I apologize. I think I may not be the Zelda that you know. The Link that I know tends to run about in a green tunic and hat...

[zelda_hylia]

I'm afraid this isn't my kingdom. Regardless, it's not a job that I mind terribly. People are often quite confused upon their arrival. The sooner they know what's going on, the better. If we're lucky, one of them will even know a way out.

[desert_fate]

Not the Zelda I know?

[He was momentarily confused himself until he realized he and this Zelda weren't quite at each other's throat like he and his Zelda were.]

That makes sense. I'm guessing your Link is also pale like you?

[zelda_hylia]

[Sorry, evil Link, your hero-princess is in another castle.]

Yes, he is. Are you a Gerudo?

[What twisted sort of alternate time stream would involve Link being brought up in the Gerudo desert?! Actually, it's not impossible. His mother fled to the forest during the war, didn't she? She could have run all the way to the desert instead.]

[desert_fate]

[Oddly enough he's still a hero.]

Not biologically. My mother fled to the desert and gave me to the Gerudo women thinking they'd take me in based on her request as a woman.

It managed to work out since I'm not dead and I was raised by the best women in the world.

[zelda_hylia]

Is that so? I'm glad that you weren't harmed.

[It seems as if she genuinely means it. Regardless of the timeline, she cares for Link's well-being a great deal.]

If you don't mind me asking, what of Ganondorf?

[desert_fate]

Thanks.

[Though he seemed to genuinely accept her caring his features changed to something more angry at the mention of Ganondorf.]

If you mean when I arrived, the girls were smart enough to kick the nut out when I was a kid.

If you mean now? I don't really know what they did with his corpse when I beat him.

[Of course the regular Link wanted to get Ganondorf too but there was just something about the way this desert-born Link was talking that suggested that his fight with Ganon had more of a vendetta than jut rescuing Hyrule.]

[zelda_hylia]

[Of course he would react more strongly if Ganondorf hadn't changed. He wasn't kind to the Gerudo that didn't listen to him - he even went so far as to wipe the minds of some of them completely and turn them into nothing more than fighting machines. If Link considered those women as sisters...]

I see. I do hope that he was sealed away, though. The Triforce of Power is aptly named, even in death he can be a threat if not properly neutralized. Take care.

[desert_fate]

[And some as more than sisters. Namely Nabooru.]

Of course he was sealed. All the sages worked hard to do that.

[zelda_hylia]

[She looks relieved at that. Him saying he didn't know what they did with the corpse... that was worrisome, all right?]

With you there, I hope that there can finally be peace between the Gerudo and the Hylians. I am attempting it in my own timeline, but it is rocky at times.

[desert_fate]

It's as good as it'll ever get I think. I mean some of the more idiotic Hylians might need to get it through their skulls that they don't work for that bastard but that's about it on your end.

As far as mine the girls just need to calm down their passions. They can be a bit aggressive towards Hylian men.

[zelda_hylia]

Some of my people think they work for Ganondorf? Goddesses, I would hate to see that. We all rejoiced when he was overthrown.

[Oh. Their passions. She turns slightly red.]

Yes, well, that is the problem we've been encountering. Some of the men do not mind it terribly, but it would be nice if they would at least attempt to avoid married men. The kidnapping is not appreciated either... cultural differences are difficult to overcome.

[desert_fate]

I'm just glad I was immune when I came of age, well immune in that they'd only flirt. And yeah you might need a go-between to get them to stop doing that or set up a system where men can volunteer.

[zelda_hylia]

Do you think they would accept volunteers?

[She's a bit (okay, a lot) prude, but Zelda has thought this over on her own a bit. Wouldn't men that volunteer be... well, not quite as good? She knows the Gerudo mainly behave as they do so that they can have children, and a strong, healthy child is a legitimate concern.]

[desert_fate]

Obviously it would need to be some better specimen of man than we think will volunteer but we might be surprised about just who volunteers.

I hate to suggest this but in the future it might actually be a good idea to try to match make a member of Hyrulian nobility with a Gerudo. Obviously no forced marriages but it wouldn't hurt to give him the option.

[zelda_hylia]

Perhaps we could encourage it within the military as well... is the main concern healthy children? What traits would a Gerudo woman be seeking?

[Her embarrassment has faded somewhat, replaced by genuine curiosity. It's easier to speak about this with Link. With Nabooru, it tends to devolve into Zelda being teased mercilessly.]

[radiantwingedone]

Are others not assigned the same duties? I am not part of the organization that greets, so uncertain.

[desert_fate]

Mainly it's health but obviously it's going to vary from Gerudo woman to Gerudo woman who she finds attractive.

The only issue I see is convincing the men to go in there unarmed.

[zelda_hylia]

They are, but I haven't seen others doing it frequently.

[Huff.]

Besides, I was outdoors that entire day! I would have seen those people, she should let me talk to them!

[Duke her life is suffering, don't you understand?]