Wisdom be upon thee just not here

So Legend stares at the state of his home, of Ravio’s merchandise carelessly thrown onto the ground, frames on the walls now shattered on the floor, furniture pushed over, and splatters of blood on the carpet Ravio loves so much. 

He can hear everyone around him freaking out, he can hear words being exchanged, a plan being formed, he can hear the sound of Twilight’s transformation magic. 

Someone touches his shoulder, and he looks to see Hyrule looking at him with so much concern. Legend should probably reassure Hyrule. He really should.

He doesn’t know how to without it looking like a lie to the fairy shifter. He’s pretty sure everyone’s convinced themselves that Legend will always lie when he needs comfort, so in a situation like this… without the full context of who Legend’s lover is.

Legend doesn’t think they would believe him if he said he was fine.

So he doesn’t bother. He turns his gaze back to the mess and thinks about where to start with cleaning it. The glass, for safety reasons, obviously, he doesn’t want the blood to stain, so he should get started on that as soon as possible. The magic items need to get picked up, but who knows, with his lover, he might charge him for touching his precious merchandise.

Knowing Ravio, he will whine if Legend doesn’t pick it up, though. There’s no winning with that guy. He knows they have a rule on finders cleaners with the messes these situations leave behind, but Legend really does not want to clean. 

Legend sighs.

“You know what, let’s just go.” Legend says, causing everyone to freeze. “Go? Go where?” Four questions. “I don’t even care, anywhere that’s not here. I do not want to be here when Ravio comes back.” Legend states as he walks out of the house, he hears people protesting, mumbling concerns to each other about his mental state. It all falls to deaf ears when Legend sees who’s at his gate. So he was too slow to escape. Legend crosses his arms as Ravio spots him. “Mr. Hero!” Ravio greets excitedly. “Welcome home!”

“How was the kidnapping?” Legend asks with a growing smirk. “Oh, it was the usual, revenge plot against the hero of Hyrule who dares ruin their evil plan. Good old classic bait role.” Ravio rambles as he practically skips over to Legend. The others are dead silent behind him, probably in shock. Legend can’t be bothered to look, staring at the hooded man in front of him.

“So how’d you squeeze your way out of it this time?” Legend asks as he slips a finger under the hood to pull at it. Ravio slaps his hand off, but pulls the hood off just as Legend wanted. No obvious injuries at least. That’s good. “Didn’t have anything good on me, so I just snuck out and bombed the place,” Ravio says as he grabs Legend’s hands and fidgets with the rings on them.

“Oh? That must have been fun.” Legend says and watches as the expression on Ravio’s face brightens. “It was! Got to test a new bomb!” 

Legend blinks, and he looks at Ravio with wide, curious eyes. “It’ll be 300 rupees per pouch!” Ravio answers his unasked question, and Legend can only click his tongue at the price. 

“Are they flirting in front of us? Ew. Someone make them stop.” Wind’s voice chimes out in an annoyed teenager tone. “It’s sweet.” Time replies. 

“Ew.” Legend can’t help but reply. He does not need Time to make any type of comment on his relationships.

“Well, great job on escaping. We'd better get going. I’ll buy the bombs next time I’m around. I don't have the budget right now.” Legend says in a rush now that the mood’s been broken. Ravio blinks and nods dumbly. “Okay? See you soon then?” Legend nods before giving a quick peck on Ravio’s cheek and rushes off, the others following him at a slower pace, if not confused. 

Legend makes it close to the forest entrance before he hears Ravio yelling at him. “YOU DIDN'T CLEAN!” 

A pretty blonde, shimmering a strawberry blonde when the sun hits it just right, sometimes Ravio swears it’s more pink than blonde, but she’s pretty sure that’s just from the red reflecting off Ravio’s counter.

Ravio stares, chin in her hand, as Link starts talking about a puzzle in a dungeon. Ravio’s eyes trail over her girlfriend, from moving lips to her eyes still focused on some old quest item in her hand that started this conversation to begin with. Ravio’s gaze travels to Link’s hyrulian ears, a tad shorter, pointed up rather than down like her own. Slowly, her eyes return to Link’s hair, always such a pretty shine to it.

“Why do you keep staring at my hair?” Link’s sudden question makes her eyes snap back to Link’s face, now staring at Ravio with nicely flushed cheeks. Ravio leans forward, closer to Link. Her free hand pushes a strand of hair away from Link’s hair. “Your hair looks just like sunshine in Hyrule,” Ravio says and watches Link's face go brighter. She stammers something incomprehensible before huffing at Ravio and leaving the shop in a hurry. Ravio giggles to herself. Her girlfriend is so cute.

It’s days after that interaction that Ravio finds out why Link has always been so vague about her first quest. Ravio stares at Link from the front door. Groceries clutched to Ravio’s chest as she stared at the scene she walked into.

Her courageous, strong, beautiful girlfriend is in tears. Huddled in a corner, trying to make herself small. 

Ravio walks in and gently sets the groceries down before slowly crouching in front of her girlfriend. She can see her shoulders shaking, can see long furry pink ears flat on her head, her pink head, so very pink. Not a trace of blonde hair to be seen. Not even a trace of Hyrulian ears to be seen. 

“I-It broke…” A muffled sob followed the broken voice. Ravio snaps out of her curious examination and focuses on her girlfriend’s distress. She slowly and gently places a hand over Link’s shaking hand.

“What broke, love?” Ravio asks in a soft whisper. Link takes desperate breaths. “Ring,” she manages to say. Ravio blinks at the statement and moves her hand to see Link’s fingers. Link had a few rings, but there was one she never took off, even during the quest they met on. It was a simple gold ring with a pink opal. An opal with a crack in it. 

“We can see about getting it fixed, love,” Ravio says gently. Opal isn’t that expensive nor uncommon. She’s sure they can fix it quickly enough. Link sucks in a breath. “Doesn’t matter… you’ve already seen me like… like this.” Link says with obvious disdain. Ravio stares for a moment, trying to process things.

“Like this?” Ravio probes when Link doesn’t elaborate. “With this hair and the ears!!!” Link yells before shrinking into herself even more. Ravio blinks at the outburst. “What about them?” 

Link shudders. “You like me blonde…” She mumbles. Ravio stares. “Your hair looks like the morning sky in Lorule. It’s beautiful. Just like you always are.” Ravio says, and Link looks up at her in shock. “Did the ring hide this?” Ravio asks, Link nods. “I’ll get it fixed for you if that’s what you want. But I do hope one day you’ll show me this beautiful view again.” Link's face goes pink, and Ravio can’t help but stare, so much pink. “Adorable,” Ravio mumbles out. Link freezes before grumbling something similar to a curse word in Lorule, maybe a Hyrule curse word she hadn’t heard yet, before dragging Ravio forward and crashing her lips into Ravio’s. Ravio is quick to lean into the kiss, hands finding their way into pink hair. 

“You’re a doofus…” Link says, pulling away from the kiss. Ravio pouts at that but quickly makes a comeback. “You’re a rabbit.” She says, causing Link to shove her away a little with a huff. “Shut up.” Her girlfriend grumbles. Ravio pulls up her hood, tilting her head.

“We’re matching.” 

Link pauses, staring at her in disbelief, before she snorts. “You’re such a dumb rabbit.” Ravio smiles as she stares at the small smile on Link’s face.