Well, the answer to that is obvious, isn't it? After all, it's not as though there's only ever been one Princess Zelda.
The realization hits him like a brick as he stares back at Zelda, frozen like a statue. She's... emotional - angry, maybe - in this tight, restrained way that hardly befits the pride of a royal, but that only registers on the periphery of his consciousness. His eyes, flicking frantically across her face as if seeing her anew once again, reflect the chaos whirling through his mind as he turns over everything he's ever known.
She's... Zelda. Both of them are. They're... fami--
His hand still hovers in front of his face, the tanned and callused fingers of a Sheikah warrior poised as though to continue the melody. His eyes drop to it, then back to her, and then he's dropping into a kneel, that hand balled into a fist to keep it from shaking.]
For... Forgive me, your highness--! [The title stumbles out of his mouth like a toddler learning to walk, awkward and new.] I've... interrogated you unfairly, though I don't know how this is...
[Veiled by his bangs, he stares hard into the floor of the balcony. If something called "Calamity Ganon" was in their history books, he would know, he's certain of it, even as a precocious child who knew too much for their own good, that would have never escaped notice after Ganondorf's arrival to the castle. So if the past is not an option, and the present is impossible, that only leaves...]
... Please, tell me. Is it possible for this place to connect to more than one point in time?
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What does it mean if she knows the song?
Well, the answer to that is obvious, isn't it? After all, it's not as though there's only ever been one Princess Zelda.
The realization hits him like a brick as he stares back at Zelda, frozen like a statue. She's... emotional - angry, maybe - in this tight, restrained way that hardly befits the pride of a royal, but that only registers on the periphery of his consciousness. His eyes, flicking frantically across her face as if seeing her anew once again, reflect the chaos whirling through his mind as he turns over everything he's ever known.
She's... Zelda. Both of them are. They're... fami--
His hand still hovers in front of his face, the tanned and callused fingers of a Sheikah warrior poised as though to continue the melody. His eyes drop to it, then back to her, and then he's dropping into a kneel, that hand balled into a fist to keep it from shaking.]
For... Forgive me, your highness--! [The title stumbles out of his mouth like a toddler learning to walk, awkward and new.] I've... interrogated you unfairly, though I don't know how this is...
[Veiled by his bangs, he stares hard into the floor of the balcony. If something called "Calamity Ganon" was in their history books, he would know, he's certain of it, even as a precocious child who knew too much for their own good, that would have never escaped notice after Ganondorf's arrival to the castle. So if the past is not an option, and the present is impossible, that only leaves...]
... Please, tell me. Is it possible for this place to connect to more than one point in time?