Mun is slowly refining his character, starting with his beliefs.

[gerudo_prince]

So that is what you have decided? I'll admit, I have no trouble adhering to those tenets, considering the views I had on Hylia herself. It is very logical to me, at least. However, if you believe this gives you power over me, let me dispel that particular delusion.

I bow to no man, woman, god, or goddess. I am the Prince of the Gerudo. None have any power over me or my people. We refuse to be bullied around by the so-called 'gods' of Hyrule any longer. The same goes for you, 'Mun.'

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[diedthesage]

Ech. [It's an utter noise of bored distaste. And she looks much the same herself.] All of you sound the same no matter how you cut it. Don't you have anything better to do than spouting this garbage over and over?

[gerudo_prince]

[Have a very confused looking prince.]

...These are the beliefs you instilled in me. Ever since I started my training with Kotake and Koume that the only real truth in the world was power. ...Have I done something to upset you, mother?

[diedthesage]

Mother? [Oh please no.] I think you have some things mixed up. But listening to those hags isn't going to do you any favors. [Well if he's young let's start early. Maybe things don't have to get so messed up.]

[gerudo_prince]

Yes, you are my mother, unless you and the rest of the tribe have played an elaborate trick on me all these years.

[He snorts.] The hags have their purpose. They've taught me well how to manipulate energy in its purest of forms.

Why are you acting so strange, mother? This is very unlike you.

[diedthesage]

Surely you're not so crass that you're going to start pulling the 'all Gerudo women look alike' line are you? [Hylians might be scum and racist pigs but that was no reason to destroy the entire land. Or kill women and children. Or any of the other things Nabooru didn't like that Ganondorf did which was pretty much everything.] I'm not your mother.

[gerudo_prince]

Do not insult me like that. I would know your face among a sea of faces.

[He rolls his eyes and crosses his arms. He may be a tad power hungry, ambitious, and upset that Lanaryu kicked his people out of their ancestral home, but he's not ready to go slaughtering innocents and burning towns to the ground. ...Yet.]

Fine, though. If there's anything I've learned, I cannot win an argument with you. So if you are not my mother, then who are you?

[diedthesage]

My name is Nabooru and you'd better learn it quick. You'll regret crossing me and leaving our people to waste later in your life.

[gerudo_prince]

So you look like my mother, sound like my mother, and share a name with my mother, and yet claim to not be my mother? I don't know what sorcery has affected your mind, but you are indeed my mother.

[Just have a look at that last part though.]

Leaving our people to waste? What are you talking about!? My only desire is to reclaim our ancestral home from that tyrannical dragon.

[Something occurs to him though...] It's Hylia, isn't it? She's done something to your mind. Figures, she always had looked down on us for not conforming to the lifestyle she imposed on the rest of the world.

[diedthesage]

Those hags teaching you about power are riling you up. And once you give in you're going to incite a war and throw the full blood of all our people behind it. But you don't give much thought to what happens to them when you fail. [And she's unable to help them. Zelda can only delegate so much. How can the people of Hyrule learn to like people they didn't even like in the first place when they'd been enslaved by a Gerudo supposed King? They won't. And Nabooru will never forgive him for that, most of all.]

[gerudo_prince]

If Hylia refuses to restore our land to us, then yes, I intend to incite war. It is a war we can win, however. I do not seek all of Hyrule, just the Lanaryu province, where our ancestors found their first home!

Hylia is the tyrant here, not me. Because we chose to adhere to our own way of life, we were cast out of our land, doomed to wander the seas while that dragon stripped our land of crystals that made living off the land possible!

Now, she does not have the threat of Demise to hide behind, and has no reason to keep us from what is rightfully ours. She stole our lands, our heritage, our very identity, and I intend to win it back.

I do not know what has gotten into you, but I assure you, my mother supports my plans whole-heartedly!

[diedthesage]

Then it should be obvious to you that I'm not your damned mother, you little brat. [Ugh. She has a headache.] And I have no idea what you're talking about.

[gerudo_prince]

It's times like this that I start to wonder why I try to converse with you at all. You are so stubborn.

[diedthesage]

At least you know something that's true.

[gerudo_prince]

Everything I've said is true! I've seen it with my own two eyes! I am no fool, mo-Queen Nabooru.

[diedthesage]

I'm no queen. And wherever you're from, it's not where I'm from. So there's no point in arguing, or trying to save your ass.

[gerudo_prince]

I need no saving to begin with.

[reflectionofsin]

[He's getting a bit of a weird vibe from you. Obviously he's not as good at reading Ganondorf as he'd like to be, but there's just something that makes him think something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

And when Dark sees a thread out of place he pulls.]

What's with all the bloated self righteousness? Where's my favorite power hungry warrior king?

[gerudo_prince]

[Ganondorf will just give you a look of utter disdain. He's well enough versed in the dark arts that he knows you're more of a reflection of someone than the actual person just by your aura alone, but who, he doesn't know for now.]

Watch your tongue, shade. The King of the Gerudo does not suffer insults.

[reflectionofsin]

[An exaggerated sigh. Well the stick in the mud mentality hadn't changed. But he can work with this.]

I watch it go where it pleases. Now tell me, since when did you bother pretending to have a noble agenda?

[gerudo_prince]

Since I was entrusted with the well-being of my people.

[He's really glaring at you now.]

[reflectionofsin]

[That earns an eye roll and a hearty scoff. This guy is too rich.]

So you're telling me you aren't solely bent on brutally achieving personal gain?

[gerudo_prince]

[Have a glare worthy of any Great King of Evil.]

Of course I'm not. You, however, are starting to wear on my patience.

[reflectionofsin]

[Have an eager cackle in response. He's all about tearing down Link's obnoxious self deluding optimism, but never had he dared to hope he'd get to do it to Ganondorf.]

Yeah it's what I do. But you are just starting to interest me.

[He puts his fingers together and smiles the sharpest shit eating grin he can muster.]

Let me get this straight, you legitimately believe you are benefiting all your people this way?

[gerudo_prince]

By taking back my people's ancestral home from a tyrannical dragon? Yes. I do.

[His hand goes to where his twin scimitars are sheathed at his side, resting on one of the hilts.]

[reflectionofsin]

Well by all means go for it! Far be it from me to oppose violent insurgence. But be warned, the you I know is pretty bent out of shape about being stuck in a windy, inhospitable, death trap of a desert.

[He lowers his voice to a conspiratorial stage whisper and raises his eyebrows while tapping one of his own temples.]

It does things to him, y'know. In the sanity department.

[He pays no mind to the threatening gesture, fully confident that he'll be able to acrobatics his way out of any sword slinging situation he might wind himself in.]