[ sidon is one of the few who wishes emotionshare week were back.
she does think he's sincere. the problem is how sincere he is. ]
I wouldn't apologize for my feelings.
[ she has too much teenage indignation for that. ]
But there are things people shouldn't have to see. [ not that she thinks sidon can't handle that kind of content or that she doesn't think sidon hasn't had his own share of hardships but she keeps enough close to her chest. she has trouble being honest when it counts. ] ... I relive it enough in my sleep that it makes little difference. The timing was what shocked me the most.
I see... I'm sorry you have to experience it so often.
[ he doesn't mind seeing these things—in a way, it helps frame people's hardships for him in a context he'd never understand otherwise. it is a lesson in empathy. but it's hard enough to watch once. he doesn't have to relive it countless times. ]
I'm sure you know this, but it wasn't your fault! You were only a child—your mother was very brave. [ he says all that, but it feels neutral. the thing that's really weighted is the little smile he offers at the end. ] Though it's hard to get the hard to accept the reasoning of the mind.
[ shouxue believes she let her mother die. she's lived with this as her truth. she could have moved, but she didn't. ]
I lived because it's what my mother wanted. [ she lived to atone. ] My mother hoped my life would be better, that my hair color would bring me blessings. My name has her hopes and wishes for me.
[ it's always been hard for her to be logical about anything regarding her mother's death. ]
I know it was because the Flame Emperor was paranoid and unjust, but I can't help but think I could have done something.
[ sidon is so earnest and sincere. she doesn't have many walls built up against this brand of sincerity.
somehow, it's always sidon who makes her cry after years of not. there's a sheen to her eyes, but no tears fall yet. ]
You....
[ she has no words to reply with for how much what he said touched her. the acknowledgment for her mother matters more to her than her own acknowledgment. ]
[ sincerity is the only reason to keep him around. ]
Oh! Don't cry, Shouxue!
[ he says that, but it'd be fine if she did. he rests his hands on her small shoulders. ]
I'm sorry if I misspoke! I only mean that... you both did what you could. And that effort is—it should still be respected. [ her mother's decision was brave, even if truthfully he sympathizes more with shouxue. surviving that, living with the memory, it isn't easy. ]
[ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'LL GET THERE... SOON....... ]
Nothing is fair here.
[ he's a warrior. maybe he should've gotten more distance from her, but he'd also worried what would happen if he left her alone. altogether—it was just another cruel situation. how can he blame her? how can he blame people who vote at trial, or raise their swords during execution? he does not see himself as a victim, not unless they all are. ]
The only thing we can do is be good to one another, because this ship won't be. [ he'll offer her a hand, the non-prosthetic one. ] Isn't the best, most defiant outcome that we become friends?
[ that they support each other, even through these difficult memories? ]
[ he quickly and firmly grasps her little paw in his hands. ]
It isn't hard. It's not complicated at all!
[ and okay, the void starts taking shape. the sky forms, thick with clouds, rain starting in a trickle, then a storm as they're plunged into the cold water with a big elephant mecha, and a scene starts. you can just watch for a couple seconds to get the gist of it, it's a boss fight. the boss's name is...
It's name is Vah Ruta—a title in honor of a Zora Princess of old, made from technology just as ancient and beyond all modern comprehension. This towering beast was meant to stave off the apocalypse, one of four Divine Beasts, and instead it was—blighted. Corrupted and overtaken.
Now, it brings sorrow. Endless rain. Memories that scar your people, a century old yet so firmly rooted in their long-lived minds. Mipha, your beloved elder sister, died in the heart of this machine, and her soul, you expect, is trapped still within all that metal and wire and regret. Because Mipha was supposed to save Hyrule. And in that failure, both her and Vah Ruta are mired here—until either the Calamity returns and destroys Hyrule for good, or something forces their way inside and lodges her free.
Something, or someone (cutscene up through 4:30:51). You and Link, the Hylian hero who your sister had once so loved, have brought Ruta to kneel, adrenaline still soaring to even the tips of your fins. Everything buzzes in you. It is a fight against sheets of rain and raging water, a lamentable machine, ancient ice magic, and a Hylian sent way up into the air, armed with only arrows and his own strength of spirit. A hundred years have passed for this moment. Ruta seems to be a creature in and of itself, in pain, waiting to serve its true purpose and help this world. You cannot board it—that was a task for Mipha, and now one for Link—but.
The rain has finally stopped. The sky opens. Light dawns with it as Ruta raises its head. And you believe fully, with your whole, huge heart, that Link can do this. You haven't even the faintest shred of doubt in him. He is going to save your home, Vah Ruta, Zora's Domain—
And that means, someday soon, that Mipha may finally find some rest too. ]
[ the mecha beast is out of her realm of imagination even after being on this spaceship for weeks. there is understanding from what she's been told of what this means to sidon. the eudora is nothing like the vah ruta, in purpose or structure, but both are still blighted and corrupted machines that bring sorrow.
it's a memory that leads to a kind of hope. she hopes it's not a false one. sidon, with his huge heart, deserves to have that hope. ]
That means your sister will find peace, doesn't it?
[ oh, this isn't a bad memory. it is laced with a sort of grief and melancholy in pieces, but generally—the feelings within it are adventurous. hopeful. ]
Maybe not just yet, but she will! Link will end the malice corrupting Hyrule. Of that, I'm sure.
[ he still has moments of self-doubt about it, but he trusts link wholly and unconditionally. ]
...Vah Ruta still needs to fulfill its duty. And thus, so does my sister. So she cannot pass on just yet. But I do believe that day will arrive sooner, rather than later.
[ it is a good and hopeful memory for sidon, but the context it gives shouxue makes her feel guilt. this isn't about her, though, so she nods. ]
I did not know your world was under such strife, but if this Link [ and you ] is working to end it, I am sure your home and your sister will see the peace and freedom it deserves.
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she does think he's sincere. the problem is how sincere he is. ]
I wouldn't apologize for my feelings.
[ she has too much teenage indignation for that. ]
But there are things people shouldn't have to see. [ not that she thinks sidon can't handle that kind of content or that she doesn't think sidon hasn't had his own share of hardships but she keeps enough close to her chest. she has trouble being honest when it counts. ] ... I relive it enough in my sleep that it makes little difference. The timing was what shocked me the most.
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I see... I'm sorry you have to experience it so often.
[ he doesn't mind seeing these things—in a way, it helps frame people's hardships for him in a context he'd never understand otherwise. it is a lesson in empathy. but it's hard enough to watch once. he doesn't have to relive it countless times. ]
I'm sure you know this, but it wasn't your fault! You were only a child—your mother was very brave. [ he says all that, but it feels neutral. the thing that's really weighted is the little smile he offers at the end. ] Though it's hard to get the hard to accept the reasoning of the mind.
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I lived because it's what my mother wanted. [ she lived to atone. ] My mother hoped my life would be better, that my hair color would bring me blessings. My name has her hopes and wishes for me.
[ it's always been hard for her to be logical about anything regarding her mother's death. ]
I know it was because the Flame Emperor was paranoid and unjust, but I can't help but think I could have done something.
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[ choosing between cowardice and powerlessness. ]
Your mother was clearly an incredible woman. ...You weren't given any real choice in that situation. I'm sorry.
For what it's worth, I'm grateful for what you have chosen: to live.
[ even if it's to atone. ]
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somehow, it's always sidon who makes her cry after years of not. there's a sheen to her eyes, but no tears fall yet. ]
You....
[ she has no words to reply with for how much what he said touched her. the acknowledgment for her mother matters more to her than her own acknowledgment. ]
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Oh! Don't cry, Shouxue!
[ he says that, but it'd be fine if she did. he rests his hands on her small shoulders. ]
I'm sorry if I misspoke! I only mean that... you both did what you could. And that effort is—it should still be respected. [ her mother's decision was brave, even if truthfully he sympathizes more with shouxue. surviving that, living with the memory, it isn't easy. ]
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there is more reason to keep him around than sincerity. he is a good zora. she doesn't want to cry any more than she's had. she shakes her head. ]
I appreciate your words. I don't know how to put it in words. It doesn't seem fair.
[ to receive so much comfort from him when all she's ever done to him is send him to his death. ]
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Nothing is fair here.
[ he's a warrior. maybe he should've gotten more distance from her, but he'd also worried what would happen if he left her alone. altogether—it was just another cruel situation. how can he blame her? how can he blame people who vote at trial, or raise their swords during execution? he does not see himself as a victim, not unless they all are. ]
The only thing we can do is be good to one another, because this ship won't be. [ he'll offer her a hand, the non-prosthetic one. ] Isn't the best, most defiant outcome that we become friends?
[ that they support each other, even through these difficult memories? ]
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she hesitates and look at his offered hand for a long moment before she places her small hand in his large one. ]
I... [ she doesn't deserve to be his friend, but the worst part of her wants to be. ] I don't know how to be a friend.
[ even after agreeing to be someone's friend, she still doesn't know how friendship works. ]
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It isn't hard. It's not complicated at all!
[ and okay, the void starts taking shape. the sky forms, thick with clouds, rain starting in a trickle, then a storm as they're plunged into the cold water with a big elephant mecha, and a scene starts. you can just watch for a couple seconds to get the gist of it, it's a boss fight. the boss's name is...
It's name is Vah Ruta—a title in honor of a Zora Princess of old, made from technology just as ancient and beyond all modern comprehension. This towering beast was meant to stave off the apocalypse, one of four Divine Beasts, and instead it was—blighted. Corrupted and overtaken.
Now, it brings sorrow. Endless rain. Memories that scar your people, a century old yet so firmly rooted in their long-lived minds. Mipha, your beloved elder sister, died in the heart of this machine, and her soul, you expect, is trapped still within all that metal and wire and regret. Because Mipha was supposed to save Hyrule. And in that failure, both her and Vah Ruta are mired here—until either the Calamity returns and destroys Hyrule for good, or something forces their way inside and lodges her free.
Something, or someone (cutscene up through 4:30:51). You and Link, the Hylian hero who your sister had once so loved, have brought Ruta to kneel, adrenaline still soaring to even the tips of your fins. Everything buzzes in you. It is a fight against sheets of rain and raging water, a lamentable machine, ancient ice magic, and a Hylian sent way up into the air, armed with only arrows and his own strength of spirit. A hundred years have passed for this moment. Ruta seems to be a creature in and of itself, in pain, waiting to serve its true purpose and help this world. You cannot board it—that was a task for Mipha, and now one for Link—but.
The rain has finally stopped. The sky opens. Light dawns with it as Ruta raises its head. And you believe fully, with your whole, huge heart, that Link can do this. You haven't even the faintest shred of doubt in him. He is going to save your home, Vah Ruta, Zora's Domain—
And that means, someday soon, that Mipha may finally find some rest too. ]
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it's a memory that leads to a kind of hope. she hopes it's not a false one. sidon, with his huge heart, deserves to have that hope. ]
That means your sister will find peace, doesn't it?
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Maybe not just yet, but she will! Link will end the malice corrupting Hyrule. Of that, I'm sure.
[ he still has moments of self-doubt about it, but he trusts link wholly and unconditionally. ]
...Vah Ruta still needs to fulfill its duty. And thus, so does my sister. So she cannot pass on just yet. But I do believe that day will arrive sooner, rather than later.
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I did not know your world was under such strife, but if this Link [ and you ] is working to end it, I am sure your home and your sister will see the peace and freedom it deserves.
He seemed determined.