vatheon | Siren's Call

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Siren's Call

Who: Siren!Zelda and your unfortunate male characters
Where: Vatheon, anywhere she decides to appear (but usually just out of reach)
When: February 10th, all day
Style: Either
Status: Open

[Zelda has finally lost most of herself to the curse. She doesn't know why, but she feels like she has to sing for anyone that will listen. If approached, she doesn't stop, she just backs up slowly and keeps singing...]

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[Zelda looks up from her playing with a very out of place grin playing across her lips. She stands and dashes just out of reach, continuing the song.]

[There's something off here, something wrong, but Link isn't going to let Zelda out of his sight. He follows after, noting the song sounds familiar but off. Almost... backwards.

That's it, isn't it? Stopping mid-stride he pulls his ocarina from his hat and begins to play the song the right way around. Her song; Zelda's Lullaby. It seems like the thing to do, perhaps to break the spell she seems to be under.]

[She stops in her tracks and stares at him silently, her intention to lead him off a cliff completely forgotten. It's Link. It's not Sola, it's the real Link, and he's playing her song just like Impa taught him. She drops her precious harp in shock.]

Link...?

Zelda, you're alright. [He smiles in relief and half walks, half runs up to her now that she's not retreating.] I was worried. If there's monsters around that means Ganondorf is too, but I haven't seen any other sign. I'm glad I found you before he did.

[What he really wants to do is cup her cheek in his hand and embrace her, but he's far too shy. They've only spoken a few times, after all, and mostly to send him on the right path, but he still cares for her, still drawn to her in some inexplicable way. There's a connection he's convinced has to be more than just his imagination, but too nervous to ask if she feels too. It should wait until Ganondorf is defeated, anyway.

Instead of touching her, he bends down to pick up her harp and hand it back.] Don't worry. I'll keep you safe.

[She takes it back. With her mind in such disarray, she doesn't think to question why Ganondorf would be here. Wherever... "here" is.]

He is here, then? We must not allow him to gain control of the Triforce!

[Zelda holds her hand out to him.]

Come. I have a place that I've been staying.

[He's about to reach out and take her hand when it suddenly dawns on him.

She's naked.

Completely nude. In the buff.

Her hair may be hanging strategically (was it always that long?) but it doesn't leave much to the imagination at all.

Turning a brilliant shade of scarlet, Link whirls around with his back to the princess and digs in his hat for his blue tunic, holding it towards her without looking and his arm stiff as a rod.]

U-uuh I think you should p-put this on first!

[What was that?]

[OH GODDESSES SHE'S NAKED WHY IS SHE NAKED?!]

I-I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!

[She pulls on the tunic hurriedly, tugging it to be sure it falls properly so she doesn't flash Link.

Again.]

I'm, ah, I'm dressed now... I don't know how that happened, this place is so strange.

[And for some reason she's recalling a unicorn telling her to put on some clothes and a blond man with strange ears blushing and looking away. Curious.]

It is. I mean, it's Hyrule but it's not. Ganon's done something to it. [He shakes his head, finally turning around.] We need to get you somewhere safe so I can get to the bottom of this and set things right again. You said you were staying somewhere?

[Zelda stops and looks to him hesitantly. This isn't Hyrule. Hyrule is her life, she would know it no matter what sort of curse she was under.]

This is not Hyrule, Link. This is... Vatheon...

[Her brow wrinkles up in confusion.]

This must be a curse. One of Lamufao's curses. Yes, this one was about fairy tales, about a prince and a princess who forgot who they were...

[And only a kiss would break the spell. She steps over to him with her jaw set. Does she love Link? She's not sure. It's something beyond love, something that echoes through time and space - but if they might be the pair that need to find each other, she won't hold back. Zelda takes hold of both of his hands and looks up at him quietly.]

[Link's breath catches in his throat as she takes his hands. The look she's giving him, it's one he doesn't recognize, but somehow makes his stomach do mild flips anyway. Not necessarily bad flips, but flips all the same.

A prince and a princess? Sure, she's a princess, and she hadn't seemed to know who she was when he found her, but he's no prince. He's just... Link. from the forest. Just a fairy boy adventurer, no one special.]

What's a Lamufao? [He shifts his feet nervously under her set gaze, glad for his gloves because he can feel his palms starting to sweat.]

Close... your eyes, alright?

[It's too hard to do with him looking right at her like that. It's also too hard to clarify what she's about to do, so he'd best not ask.]

[Zelda has never steered him wrong before and so Link simply decides to listen and closed his eyes, trusting in her completely. He fully expects for her to lead him somewhere she doesn't want him seeing the location of, but especially with his eyes closed he's acutely aware of how close she is...]

[She leans up and kisses him lightly. It's a brief, chaste kiss, but it's a kiss nonetheless. She's smiling to herself a bit when she leans back again, though something felt just a little off about that.]

[A kiss. She kissed him. She kissed him.

He moves in again, unthinking, just wanting to feel the soft press of her lips against his again, feel her stand close to him, know how she has to stand on her toes to reach. But he stops just short of recapturing that moment.

No... She kissed Link.

And he's... not Link.

Sola snaps his eyes open, taking an immediate step back. That face she's making, that kiss, that... love. It's not for him.]

I-I'm sorry, Zelda, I... I thought....

[She's still smiling when she opens her eyes, but the light fades away. It was Sola? But how? He looked like Link, really like Link...]

I-I see! The curse made you into Link...

[He stands there like a deer in the headlights for an interminable moment and then takes another step back away from her, eyes on the ground between them. He wants to run and hide, crawl in a hole and never come out, but with Vatheon the way it is right now, he has to be sure she's alright. Zelda's safety is always paramount to everything else.

...is that his own thought, or Link's? Sola can barely tell the difference anymore.]

D-do you need help?

I am alright.

[She toys with the hem of the Zora tunic.]

There is still a princess out there, though. I'm sure you can find her. We must end this curse...

R-right. A princess. I'll start looking. [Swallows] The castle that's sprung up in the city would probably be a good place to start, right?

Yes, that would be a good place. I will look around as well.

[She starts to reach out to take his hand, but stops. It doesn't seem like the right thing to do right now.]

[In fact, it seems to scare him. He recoils from her hand and offers a shaky nod, turning to go on his own way. He knows he should stay with her, that he should make sure she remains safe, but if the curse takes the both of them again...

No, his heart can't take it.]

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Siren's Call

And looks like him too!

This is gonna have the worst fallout after the fact.

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