Do you have any time to speak at the moment? I would like to ask you more about what you mentioned to me after the siren rescue. About video games.
-Zelda
[ it'll be a little easier to take in his explanations over text, or so she hopes. it hasn't slipped her mind in her contemplation, but she's not sure yet what the consequences or meaning of it is. ]
My apologies for the delay. I've been pondering it a lot on my own.
[ not so much the video game portion, or the technicalities behind it that he tried to elaborate on. it's more that he recognizes her world from his, even if that should be impossible. ]
You told me back then that there are stories of my country Hyrule in your world, through these video games. Do you think you can tell me about one of them? The basics will do.
[ the last line added in because she knows michael has a tendency to ramble. a lot. ]
nah it's cool. i DID spring a bombshell on you back there it was a shock for me too but still. i wasn't thinking
anyway so the tl;dr for most of them is pretty similar actually like, Hyrule's in trouble, it's usually Ganon's fault, you play as the hero and have to thwart his evil plan. the details are different but the broad strokes stay the same in one of them you can sort of time travel? you're told you have to get the Master Sword except when you pull it out you get stuck in the Sacred Realm for 7 years cause you weren't ready yet. then after you wake up from your 7 year long nap you have to get all the Sages together to help seal Ganon away
sorry this is super weird, i have no idea if i'm talking about stuff you already know or not
[ so it's not just hyrule. he knows about ganon, link, herself. there are things he mentions no one could just throw out randomly without understanding hyrule's long ten thousand year history. ]
It is incredibly bizarre! However, I must say I'm fascinated all the same. You needn't apologize. I'm actually very interested in learning more.
The story you recount bears some similarity to a fable recounting one of my ancestors. In the story the Hero must throw himself adrift through time to protect the realm, aided by seven sages. The last sage is the princess, who aided the Hero in secret under the identity of a Sheikah warrior. Together they defeat the Mad King and save the realm.
It's just a fairy tale though. I'm surprised something so innocuous could possibly traverse realms!
omg. yeah, that's basically exactly the same story except you put it WAY better than i did this is so weird! i mean considering where we are and how everyone got here, maybe it's weirder that nothing like this has happened before now. i still don't really GET how it's possible, but since the town was able to drag us all here in the first place idk maybe everything was always more connected than we thought. it seems too much to be just a coincidence that something that's ancient history for you is a story on my planet too, right?
[ except nothing comes to mind when formulating an explanation for it. how does such a legend make all its way across realms? and for what purpose - the triforce surely cannot exist outside of hyrule, so this 'game' can't even be used as a guide to obtain it. ]
The fable has multiple versions. Sometimes there is a flooded world. Other times it is up in the skies above. Many variables, but some few constants. The Hero and the Princess are two of them.
this is actually getting spooky i know the flooded world one pretty well! [ it's a classic, but for once he has enough sense not to say that. praise be for the way seeing the stuff you type in front of you makes you think about what you're saying. ] i never got round to the sky one, but i've heard of it
so yeah about the princess thing that's you right? or someone with the same name as you?
It's me. It's also my mother, my grandmother, and so on. All of us were named Zelda since the beginning.
[ it annoyed her a lot as a child. she didn't like having the same name as the other women in her family. but in age she actually likes it. it's an honor. ]
Is it really spooky to you? I've been thinking about it and I'm more wracked with curiosity. It can actually serve as a clue to our own dilemma. It proves a connection between us that should be impossible, but exists nonetheless.
wow yeah that takes "runs in the family" to a whole new level is this a good time to mention that all the stories have your name in the title too?
[ is there EVER a good time for that, Michael... ]
question: why not both it's totally spooky and weird! but in a super exciting and interesting way?? now i think about it a lot of the stuff that exists for real here in Chroma is stuff that's only fairytales or legends back on Earth too. like unicorns and sirens? so there's definitely some kinda precedent here for ideas crossing over even when people can't.
That makes a great deal of sense, so yes to both. It makes me feel like we're all the more connected. That our lives are intertwined in a way that begets fate.
[ she loves it honestly, even if it's so very strange to think people far away from her realm know her name, know her country, and the stories she grew up with. it feels humbling though. ]
Can I ask what the name of these stories are then? If my name is in the title, I'm curious now.
i don't really know if i believe in stuff like fate but this place sure does make me wonder sometimes. maybe that's just another thing that's different from universe to universe
but yea ofc ya can so all of them together are the Legend of Zelda not super flashy!! but it's got a strong ring to it
I like it. Your storytellers have good sensibilities.
Even if you don't believe in fate, I'm still glad we met. You, the reader, and I, the one in the story, share a bond we couldn't have expected to come. It's a good thing. I thank you for telling me all of this.
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Do you have any time to speak at the moment? I would like to ask you more about what you mentioned to me after the siren rescue. About video games.
-Zelda
[ it'll be a little easier to take in his explanations over text, or so she hopes. it hasn't slipped her mind in her contemplation, but she's not sure yet what the consequences or meaning of it is. ]
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yeah we did let that one slide for a while huh
but i got time now! what do you wanna know?
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[ not so much the video game portion, or the technicalities behind it that he tried to elaborate on. it's more that he recognizes her world from his, even if that should be impossible. ]
You told me back then that there are stories of my country Hyrule in your world, through these video games. Do you think you can tell me about one of them? The basics will do.
[ the last line added in because she knows michael has a tendency to ramble. a lot. ]
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it was a shock for me too but still. i wasn't thinking
anyway
so the tl;dr for most of them is pretty similar actually
like, Hyrule's in trouble, it's usually Ganon's fault, you play as the hero and have to thwart his evil plan. the details are different but the broad strokes stay the same
in one of them you can sort of time travel? you're told you have to get the Master Sword except when you pull it out you get stuck in the Sacred Realm for 7 years cause you weren't ready yet. then after you wake up from your 7 year long nap you have to get all the Sages together to help seal Ganon away
sorry this is super weird, i have no idea if i'm talking about stuff you already know or not
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It is incredibly bizarre! However, I must say I'm fascinated all the same. You needn't apologize. I'm actually very interested in learning more.
The story you recount bears some similarity to a fable recounting one of my ancestors. In the story the Hero must throw himself adrift through time to protect the realm, aided by seven sages. The last sage is the princess, who aided the Hero in secret under the identity of a Sheikah warrior. Together they defeat the Mad King and save the realm.
It's just a fairy tale though. I'm surprised something so innocuous could possibly traverse realms!
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this is so weird!
i mean considering where we are and how everyone got here, maybe it's weirder that nothing like this has happened before now. i still don't really GET how it's possible, but since the town was able to drag us all here in the first place
idk
maybe everything was always more connected than we thought. it seems too much to be just a coincidence that something that's ancient history for you is a story on my planet too, right?
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[ except nothing comes to mind when formulating an explanation for it. how does such a legend make all its way across realms? and for what purpose - the triforce surely cannot exist outside of hyrule, so this 'game' can't even be used as a guide to obtain it. ]
The fable has multiple versions. Sometimes there is a flooded world. Other times it is up in the skies above. Many variables, but some few constants. The Hero and the Princess are two of them.
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i know the flooded world one pretty well! [ it's a classic, but for once he has enough sense not to say that. praise be for the way seeing the stuff you type in front of you makes you think about what you're saying. ] i never got round to the sky one, but i've heard of it
so
yeah
about the princess thing
that's you right? or someone with the same name as you?
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[ it annoyed her a lot as a child. she didn't like having the same name as the other women in her family. but in age she actually likes it. it's an honor. ]
Is it really spooky to you? I've been thinking about it and I'm more wracked with curiosity. It can actually serve as a clue to our own dilemma. It proves a connection between us that should be impossible, but exists nonetheless.
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yeah that takes "runs in the family" to a whole new level
is this a good time to mention that all the stories have your name in the title too?
[ is there EVER a good time for that, Michael... ]
question: why not both
it's totally spooky and weird! but in a super exciting and interesting way??
now i think about it a lot of the stuff that exists for real here in Chroma is stuff that's only fairytales or legends back on Earth too. like unicorns and sirens?
so there's definitely some kinda precedent here for ideas crossing over even when people can't.
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[ she loves it honestly, even if it's so very strange to think people far away from her realm know her name, know her country, and the stories she grew up with. it feels humbling though. ]
Can I ask what the name of these stories are then? If my name is in the title, I'm curious now.
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but this place sure does make me wonder sometimes. maybe that's just another thing that's different from universe to universe
but yea ofc ya can
so all of them together are the Legend of Zelda
not super flashy!! but it's got a strong ring to it
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I like it. Your storytellers have good sensibilities.
Even if you don't believe in fate, I'm still glad we met. You, the reader, and I, the one in the story, share a bond we couldn't have expected to come. It's a good thing. I thank you for telling me all of this.