#there is never anmention of her parents. as far as we know they're dead and she was simply waiting until she was of age to be crowned queen

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in my free time i'm typing out a little post-adventure of link story from loz 1 zelda's perspective on link bringing this OTHER princess zelda who was apparently asleep for centuries (and thank you SO much for the WARNING that he was going to be DOING this, IMPA [<-entirely sarcastic]) back to the castle and the acclimatization of everyone to the whole situation and it's genuinely so fun. loz 1 zelda's standing there like alright how do i gently break it to my relative from the distant peaceful past that she has to learn how to fight in this time period or she's going to get ripped to shreds by monsters. and then she says exactly that and when aol zelda predictably looks mildly freaked out about the subject and is just standing there internally screaming like yep! okay! sure! death and destruction is rampant in this world and it kind of makes me wish i'd never woken up at all! when do fighting lessons start! loz 1 zelda is just standing there like. hm. was that not gentle enough. i feel like that wasn't gentle enough.

#it's about the severe disparity between their times. #when you grow up in a golden era of peace and you are a literal princess and your father is. iirc the correct wording used in the manual. #a child of a man. you are not going to learn how to fight. ESPECIALLY when you have an older brother who'll be the successor to the throne #when you are the princess in a time of peace then everything is going to be about image. about perfection. about being everything #the people expect from a daughter of royalty. a status symbol of ultimate proportions. so it goes #but when you are a princess in a time of complete and utter destruction. when you are a princess in a time where it is a miracle to even #survive the day sometimes. what good is image? what good are expectations? #the people of your land are survivors. they survived for a reason. lord yourself above them and there is every chance they could #destroy the last drop of royalty they have left. there is no manpower in the form of an army of knights. #and you are a survivor too. you shattered your birthright and fought your way across the land and through dungeons #to hide the pieces and you were captured and held within a cage of flames for god knows how long #and still you survived. so even though your people bite and rage you love them because you did the same. #there is never anmention of her parents. as far as we know they're dead and she was simply waiting until she was of age to be crowned queen #(<-a mention*) #so she is no status symbol. there is no perfection with her. the people begrudgingly look to her to lead them out of the hell #that has become their world and by god is she going to do it. and there is nothing left she can offer these people but brutal honesty #which is the only honesty this world has to offer anyway. it's only honesty everyone knows. #no pussyfooting around like rich people do with their speech where they say one thing and mean another. a habit i'm sure #would only flourish in peacetime. none of that. if you are not clear with your words and intentions in a land where everything wants you #dead then that's a one-way ticket to getting yourself or someone else fucking killed. #so it's like. the two main aspects of how they were raised kind of clashing full force with each other #you can only be so gentle when you grew up in a land devoid of it. you can only shape yourself into a fighter so much #when you grew up with the concept of it being foreign to you. yknow #gestures incoherently at them. blorbos truly....... #txt