My brain in the shower: Okay, but like. I know in the game Beth and Luda start worrying over Colin after the incident and then Beth starts worrying over Prince Ralis, but what if Colis/Rallin. What if Colin, boy who tries to be good and respectful and wants to be like Link, decides to follow Ralis to his secret spot. He shouldn't. He shouldn't. But Beth says he looks depressed, the others say not to bother, and he can't help but feel a bit restless. Whatever it is that's happening with him, shouldn't he try to help? Isn't that what Link would do? Didn't he (Colin) also dislike suffering in silence? So he follows the Prince to his secret place, does his best to be brave (like Link) as they traverse the graveyard. And it's there, in a secret spot, past a strange rock (that seems to disappear on its own) that he listens to Ralis's silence, his cries, his worries, his mourning, and his reluctance. All in all, the Prince doesn't talk much (largely whispers), but Colin catches bits and pieces of whatever must be making the prince depressed (something about the zoras and his mother and ruling). Perhaps it's Link who does the most substantial work at helping the prince move on, but what if Colin tries to reach out too? What if Prince Ralis slowly lets Colin in, confides in him his fears and bits of his past? What if they bond over their fear of the future, what comes next, and over shared admiration for Link? What if they make a promise to both keep Link's character in mind, and try to be like him when they're older? And then what if, perhaps a decade or something later, Colin is on one of his first journeys (undertaking a delivery for his father), he gets to come face to face with the Zora King (currently single)? He's...perhaps more than a bit smitten, and both of their hearts warm at the rememberence of that promise they shared back then. They both seemed to make it, didn't they? Idk maybe even bonus points if they were pen pals during all of that time apart
