So, let’s take in concept that the technology of Hyrule advanced itself very quick in a century, to the point the society became a democracy rather than monarchy. Though a discrimination has grown during that century to the worst outcome; Gerudos and Gorons were treated like garbage while the people from Rito and Zora were treated with a more cruel outcome; no longer were they seen as people. If anything, they were treated as if they were in the animal kingdom.

A century passed and while people from Rito hide in the highest of mountains to the point of being freezing, Zora people lived in a underwater cave, only surfacing up to only retrieve with little food and very poor ressource. One night, prince Sidon, now king, had finally decided to explore outside for himself. He couldn’t bear seeing his people with such low nourishment. He only swam up to be snatched by poachers and almost killed at the process. It was only after the government of Hyrule managed to “save” him and instead put in an aquarium in Hylia where he was labelled as an “endangered species”.

Meanwhile in his captivity, a young “just-came-out-from-university” unemployed hylian stumbles over the aquarium, his degree being marine biology and more specifically studying sea creatures. He was born with dysarthria, thus the only way he can communicate is either by writing, signing or give a simple (yet still difficult to speak) sentence.

And they meet.

. . . I call it the Aquarium AU