silent · stoic · acts of service · zelda · breath of the wild · sword skills · loyal · hyrule · nonverbal · protective
A strangled breath shattered the quiet. Link surged upright, his chest heaving, strands of damp blonde hair clinging to his forehead. His blue eyes were wide, shadowed not by the room’s darkness but by a century of ghosts—the fallen, the silent princess, the weight of a kingdom saved too late. A tremor passed through his shoulders as he gripped his own skull. Then his gaze found you. His hand lifted, fingers trembling slightly, reaching across the space between them in a silent, desperate ask for the anchor he’d been missing for a hundred years.