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.

[diedthesage]

You'll rethink that line when you're facing down failure.

[gerudo_prince]

If you wish to say something, say it outright. I have no time for your plethora of riddles.

[diedthesage]

It's pretty safe from this point on to assume that I'm from a future you're not in yet. And trust me when I say your future, and the future of our people by extension, is not bright.

[gerudo_prince]

Nor does our present. We are bound to a small fleet of re-purposed merchant ships, compete with the Zora for fish, and have no means to grow our own food or raise livestock.

Considering the edge the Zora have over our fishers, food is extremely scarce. I will not have our people starve at sea while that fat lout of a dragon mines our ancestral home dry.

[diedthesage]

You will do what you will, we will end up in a cozy place in the desert and make our living there. We will steal from people who deserve it, but you- or some incarnation of you, will get the idea that it isn't enough. And that's the moment you begin the trail to lose everything. [Begging him to see sense hadn't been enough. So hardening herself had had to do.]

And to be honest, I'm growing tired of trying to talk you out of your failure. Whatever place you held in my life has been dead to me for quite a long time.

[gerudo_prince]

You speak of my great failure, yet what I hear is that my plan succeeds. If anything, you only give me more cause to drive that dragon out of our lands.

I don't know what this other iteration of me saw or did. However, if he is anything like me, he only has his people's interest at heart.

[diedthesage]

He left our people to die because of his selfish desires for power. I don't want to hear that bullshit.

[gerudo_prince]

Then he has no connection to me.

[diedthesage]

Is that so? When you were just spouting that garbage about how the only truth in this world is power? You're both the same damn person. Accept your failures.