she won't shut up; also, heading to amatomnes

[shattered_the_mirror]

Not the "game" I was expecting to get dropped in, but given how your thought process works, I shouldn't be surprised.

Time will only tell if I'm one of the luckier ones for going into a game, rather than collecting dust.

[She taps her fingers against her cheek thoughtfully.]

I'm not bothered by the requirements of this place, [Actually, she is, but she won't admit that.] but I am a little curious about the many Links that seem to be running around there. Two, so far, with possibly three. As if one wasn't enough.

[Which leads her to one concern:]

How are we supposed to differentiate between them?

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[last_wolf]

[Well, that's an odd sight. Imp in a Mayan-ish mask.]

You sure that's wise? I mean, I've heard of that place and you seem a bit...diminutive. That is, the...[What's the right way to say it?]...rigors of that place might not be easy for someone so petite.

[shattered_the_mirror]

I am no longer in that imp form, or at least I won't be when I'm sent there. My mun is an idiot, but not that much of one.

[last_wolf]

Ah, gotcha'. That's a relief. I mean, it still sucks to be stuck in that situation, but at least it's a small blessing.

[shattered_the_mirror]

We'll see how much of a blessing it is once I'm in. I'm not holding my breath though.

[timezone]

We do look different, you know.

[shattered_the_mirror]

Hardly. And how am I supposed to differentiate between you two - or you three - in a conversation? Maybe I'll just assign numbers to you lot.

[timezone]

We do too! Our hair is different, and our ears, and how we wear our clothes! And our voices sound different, too!

[And some were more childish than others. This particular Link stuck his tongue out at her.]

You'd probably get the numbers wrong.

[shattered_the_mirror]

I wouldn't get them wrong if I assigned them. Or perhaps to make sure, I could tattoo them on your foreheads?

[Ahahahaha, this Link is so much more fun to tease than the one she knew.]

[timezone]

We already know who is first, second, and third to arrive. If you assigned them, you'd still probably get it-

What? No!

[He brought his hands up to cover his forehead protectively.]

That's not a good idea!

[shattered_the_mirror]

I think it would be. [She's teasing completely, but he's making it so easy.] Not just for me, but everyone else in that place.

[timezone]

They can tell the difference!

[Well, most of them could.]

We don't need tattoos on our foreheads.

[shattered_the_mirror]

And I thought my Link was touchy. You're going to be fun to talk to if and when I get in there.

[timezone]

I'm not touchy!

[He totally was sometimes, particularly when he got worked up about something.]

[timezone]

...but you're really going to try?

[shattered_the_mirror]

[She can't help but chuckle at him. Oh yes, he was going to be very, very amusing.]

Yes. My application is already done. I'm sure the mun will give it another look before it's sent in.

[timezone]

Oh! That's great! My Goddess Mun is really excited about seeing you. Are you really a princess, too?

[shattered_the_mirror]

['Goddess mun'? Yeah, that's never gonna be a thing with her.]

I wish I shared her excitement, but yes. I'm the chosen ruler of my people, the Twili.

[timezone]

[The Gods controlled his fate back in Hyrule, the Goddess Mun controlled his fate here.]

You're pretty.

[When she wasn't making fun of him.]

[shattered_the_mirror]

[:|]

So I hear.

[There's a smile, but she looks a bit surprised. She wasn't expecting to hear that from him.]

[timezone]

[/shrug. He's mostly cool with it.]

Oh. That was pretty dumb to say, then, if you hear it all the time.

[shattered_the_mirror]

No, not dumb. It's not like I hear it every day, and I won't pass up such a compliment when it's sincere.

[timezone]

Does that mean I should say it again?

[shattered_the_mirror]

Why say it a second time? I got your meaning just fine the first.

[timezone]

Ah... right.

[He'd thought since she didn't hear it all the time and that she wouldn't pass it up, she'd want him to say it again. That was pretty dumb. Subject change time!]

Do all your people have red hair like yours?

[shattered_the_mirror]

[This Link is a very curious sort.]

No. Many do not have hair at all.

[timezone]

[He always has been.]

Are they all women?

[Other than the skin color, her beauty and hair reminded him a lot of Nabooru.]

Are you part Gerudo since you have hair and many of them don't?

[shattered_the_mirror]

No, we have men. How else would we reproduce?

[These questions are getting stranger and stranger.]

I don't even know what a Gerudo is, so no.

[timezone]

The Gerudo are all women except for one man born every hundred years. They have babies by finding boyfriends among the Hylians. Gerudo all have really red hair, dark skin, rounded ears, and really long noses. And all the women are really, really pretty.

[shattered_the_mirror]

We have nothing like that in my world, although-

[It sort of sounds like Ganondorf's description, to be honest. He was from the desert, if she recalled. The sages never did say what he was.]

-although I am not from Hyrule itself, so I could not say with any certainty. My people are descended from Hylians, although we are quite different from them now.

[timezone]

Do you know how that happened?

[shattered_the_mirror]

Our ancestors tried to establish dominion over the Sacred Realm a long time ago. The Light Spirits of Hyrule, by the goddesses' instruction, stopped them and they were banished to the Twilight Realm. That place became their home, and their descendants have lived there ever since.

[timezone]

[His expression became a little harder, more closed off as he processed that before asking one last question.]

Do you or your people still want to do that?

[shattered_the_mirror]

I have no interest in it, nor do my people. My realm is a peaceful place.

[timezone]

Then you can come back and visit.

[shattered_the_mirror]

[Ouch. Just... ouch. But it's not intentional, so she just smiles sadly.]

It's not that simple.

[timezone]

[He gave that some thought.]

Because you're in a different world now and you lost the door? It's not Termina, is it?

[shattered_the_mirror]

No, it is not Termina. And it's more like I destroyed the door.

[curse_of_power]

[Just have a Gannondorf smirking and chuckling to himself.]

[shattered_the_mirror]

Laugh it up. At least the place will be better, without you stinking it up.

[curse_of_power]

I find it a fitting place for one such as yourself. All that time you spent riding a beast through Hyrule would serve you well in a place of such... instincts.

[shattered_the_mirror]

You would take something like that and twist it. How crass.

[deliciousdissonance]

Ehehehe.. I'm sure that they'd be easy to tell apart, wouldn't they? Just because they have the same name doesn't mean they're the same person!

[shattered_the_mirror]

Different people, yes, but how am I to tell them apart in a conversation?

[deliciousdissonance]

Do they really look that alike? I think if you looked at how they acted maybe that could help?

[shattered_the_mirror]

That's not what I meant. Say you're talking to someone and you go, "Link did so-and-so." They ask you which Link you're talking about.

Short of giving them numbers or nicknames, I have no ideas.

[deliciousdissonance]

Oh!! That makes perfect sense then!! Hmm, but are you sure they'd want you to do that? Maybe nicknames would work...

[shattered_the_mirror]

I suppose something will be worked out.