{@linkswaifu}
"Cia tells me legends that thousands, upon thousands of years from now, one of my descendants will one day become engaged to the current incarnation of the hero. Do you know if that's happened yet? I've been traveling through time just to meet this Zora and get some relationship advice."
Well THIS was a surprise. A zora who claims to be a princess from the Era of Myth? And who is this "Cia" she is referring to? Still, the current era's princess couldn't be too suspicious of this story since her own brother literally traveled 100 years from the future to save her life.
"I um, that would be me your friend told you about, although Link and I aren't exactly 'engaged', as of yet. I am Mipha, daughter of current king, Dorephan and princess of the Zora. May I ask your name, my ancestor?"
((IDK how familiar you are with the translation convention trope, but it’s usually understood that the characters are speaking Hylian, which is then translated into the language the game is released in. Hylian, being mostly like Japanese, but written in romaji, only using a fictional alphabet. In any case, this explanation is going to sound like a subtitled anime or a manga, who couldn’t translate a pun or something. It’s up to you whether Mipha fully understands the context, or if these things have been lost to time.))
“What? Oh, right, sorry! My name is Princess Ruto, daughter of King Zora De Bon XVI. That’s ru as in Ruri*, and to as in Hokuto, like the constellation*” she clarified. “I hope I’ve ‘made a splash’ in the history books, so to speak, but I’d rather doubt it. I’m just one of the seven sages, so I bet I’m given like one sentence in passing.”
((A native Japanese speaker would probably(?) pick up on the meanings of these names, due to their cultural significance.
瑠 (ru) The name Ruri is a girl’s name of Japanese origin meaning “lapis lazuli”. Naming babies after precious gems as a protection against evil spirits is an ancient Japanese tradition.
都 (to) by itself translates to ‘capital’ but further investigation suggests she’s named after a unit for measuring rice/grain, or hokuto, which is also what the Japanese call ‘the Big Dipper.’ Which is one of the constellations that you can see in just about every Zelda game that has stars in it.))
