10 Things You Didn't Know

[notlewis]

That's it. It's Sunday, I'm bored, it's time for a meme that I stole from xi_rpg.

RULES
1. Post with your character
2. Post ten things that you believe are true about your character that people might not know - nobody cares if you use headcanon, it's up to you.
3. Watch as others do the same; comment IC or OoC!
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

Comments

[redeyes_andblue]

One set for each! This is, like, entirely headcanon.

For Zelda -

1. Her mother died when she was a baby, from an illness. Zelda has no memory of her, so she doesn't actually MISS her, but she did spend a lot of her childhood wondering what it'd be like to have a mother.

2. She taught herself to read at the age of three.

3. Possibly as a result of this, she always had a vocabulary level at least five years above her actual age.

4. Because of this, even though she spent three and a half years of her adolescence unconscious, she still has a mental age reflective of her chronological age (seventeen), if not a little higher.

5. She despised most of the other little girls she associated with as a child - they were generally pampered shrieky little brats who had no time for either reading and learning, or playing in the garden.

6. She once accidentally dropped a lizard she had found during a huge banquet. It ran up a duchess's leg and made her upend her part of the table (the duchess was a... hefty woman).

7. Impa started teaching her archery when she was six. She's no master archer, but she's pretty good with a bow. She can charge them to use Light Arrows, but won't so long as she and Sheik share a body, because it'll burn his hands.

8. Her prophetic dreams have been occurring for as long as she can remember, but Impa had always urged her to keep silent with them.

9. When she and Impa escaped from the castle, they circled around the ranch then headed for a hidden pass in between Zora River and Kakariko Village. It led to the other entrance of the Shadow Temple, and that's where Impa asked Sheik for his Contract.

10. She had always known that Link would be sent back to his own time - that's why, even though she found him sweet and attractive, she refused to develop feelings for him. Anyway, someone else had caught her eye.

[redeyes_andblue]

For Sheik -

1. Strictly chronologically speaking, even though he's physically and mentally only nineteen, he's a few hundred years old. He's just happened to have spent most of those four-hundred-odd years dead.

2. Consequentially, he's seen a hell of a lot of change, whenever he was brought back - he's seen Kakariko Village, for instance, go from a little Sheikah community along their usual travel routes, to a stable Sheikah town, to a small Hylian village. That last change took place only ten years before he was brought back this time, and he's still not used to the idea of Hylians in Kakariko.

3. When he was younger, he trained as a musician, but instead, he was one of those selected to become a Royal Guardian when he was thirteen (he left a little after his fourteenth birthday - technically it was a great honour, but he resented it for at least a few months).

4. His death at the age of nineteen, in saving the Prince of Hyrule's life, was actually preventable (had the Prince just used the red potion he had in his pack). But it was a clean, relatively non-traumatic death, and he was still fairly lucid even after being run through with a sword, so the Prince found it best for Sheik to be sworn in as a Shadow Guardian instead.

5. His role as a Shadow Guardian means that he can be brought back by members of the Royal Family to serve, in between stints on the River of the Dead. It generally only lasts a few months before the magic decays, but if he's sustained with another's form, like with Zelda, it can be maintained for years. He doesn't know the upper limit of that.

6. 'Sheik' isn't his real name - it's the name given to any Sheikah who's either a) a royal servant (this later changed so that higher-ranked servants, like Impa, could use their own names), or b) Shadow Guardians. Sheik has been both of these, and has no idea what his original name is.

7. Two or so hundred years ago, he had a short, intense affair with the princess he had been brought back to protect. The contract ended and Sheik returned to the River before he found out she had fallen pregnant. The princess miscarried a few months later, which was... probably for the best, as red Sheikah eyes tend to be a dominant trait.

8. As a rule, Shadow Guardians aren't supposed to remember any of their previous lives. But the longer these lives last, the better chance there is of remembering ones that came before it. Having been around for seven years this time, he's started remembering... a good number of these. The only one he has absolutely no recollection of is his first, living flesh-and-blood life.

9. As a result of remembering dying a few dozen times, sometimes quite painfully, he has a few... uh, issues. This mostly manifests in the form of bad nightmares - Zelda is learning how to suppress and soothe these for him, since she'd share them as well.

10. He had always known that Link would be sent back to his own time - despite that and the notable handicap that he won't live to see the end of his quest, he still has feelings for him. Oops.