(Blink is attempting to get his new Game Boy Color to work, but to no avail... likely because it lacks a cartridge. Or batteries. Literally just a Game Boy Color.)
(He groans in frustration, stashing the item away in his Slate... but then he notices he's got mail.)
...
>(Read.)
(Don't read.)
...
(Intentionally Exagerrated Throat Clear)
As he opens it, Blink notes that the quality of the handwriting varies throughout — greatly. At one point neat, chicken scratch at another. There's a dried spot where water once hit in the middle.
"2/7, 1:19 am
"This letter is in part confession and in part catharsis. No one here will know about it but you. It's your choice what to do with its contents but I beg you not to share it with anyone else. If you must, please read it in full, carefully, before doing so. Writing this is difficult. I cannot bear to imagine how difficult it will be for you to read it.
"I must explain my behavior last night, in particular when I said my heart did not match the Hero's heart. I still believe this in good faith. I must explain why. Be warned that I intend this letter to be frank, matter-of-fact. I write it because to try and dictate it would be too painful for the both of us.
"For as long as I can remember until only relatively recently, I was a soldier of the Hylian Army. I can remember no time in the past when I was not. The first years saw me learning how to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic. Later, we were transferred into infantry. They wanted to see how we would fare in combat.
"I was good. Too good. Like a machine, as they wanted. I advanced quickly within my ranks even at a young age. By the time I was a teenager I was the youngest second lieutenant in the history of the entire Army. This meant that I had more of a central role in attack missions, sorties, among other things.
"There can be no doubt that my superiors pressured me into orders that I otherwise would not have wanted to perform. I could have refused them, and yet I did nothing.
"What did I do? I will spare you the details in this letter and ask that you come find me when you are finished if you want to know more / are not utterly disgusted. Murder. Of families, of people. Driving people out from their rightful lands. I allowed psychological and physical torture. All voluntarily. I allowed my men to do worse where I would not stray.
"I did this until one day, I was imprisoned for accessing the Hylian Army Hall of Records without clearance. I was attempting to find anything they had on me, some inkling of my past, whose presence within my mind even now is fogged. The General of the Armies Thrydwulf had a study there. He found me. Tried to set an example with my execution.
"Obviously that failed. The New Front broke me out two years ago. I am forever in their debt. Not just theirs, but humanity's.
"I am nineteen years old now. I cannot, now or ever, wipe away the atrocities that I committed and helped to commit in those nineteen years. My actions will live with me for the rest of my life, natural as breathing. I do not know if it is a just punishment on its own. I want to do more. I want to ensure that no one is in a position to commit them again. I want to ensure comfortable lives for all that the Republic targets. I want a better world. It just so happens that I want these things in tandem with all the baggage I carry.
"Why do I believe that I am not the Hero? That is why. My actions.
"I want to become the Hero. That is a more difficult process altogether. I do not know if at this point it is even possible.
"If you believe it is, you will know where to find me.
"— Link"
dead devotion...Mm.
(Link folds up the letter neatly, then scans it on the Slate to store it.)
(In a way, he feels... relieved. This is proof that the Hero can't be perfect. Like those apocryphal Heroes who were never heroic, such as the Hero of Night... the ones that people refuse to venerate. If only his past self could see this...)
(...Come to think of it, his past self would have just ended up in the same place, had he been born into those boots. Pointing and stabbing at what people say... it just so happens that past Blink's designated target was the Calamity Ganon.)
(He'll find Rink later, though. For now, he's got a mission of his own.)
Eh, about 30%. The other 70's the whole lazy attitude and ignoring a girl trying to get your attention.
Main Room (Young Aichi)
-So what you want to do with your life and how you want to treat people? Aichi's still not quite sure what she means, but...-
"...I think you should be nice to people."
-...Well, Aichi's just a kid so maybe he doesn't realize the intricacies of the questions Monika is posing, but at least he's giving his honest answer to the question of 'what's the right way to treat other people?'.-
edited 7th Feb '18 10:58:38 AM by CrystalMemoria
Main Room (Young Aichi)
-He doesn't seem to notice Monika being amused with his statement.-
"You think so too?"
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Roof (Aichi)
-Aichi's just looking towards the horizon. He's still thinking about what he heard yesterday...-
"..."
-There's apparently a younger version of himself running around... Aichi really isn't sure how to handle it. He hasn't met him obviously, but the fact that there's a kid version of him running around this place scared and alone actually terrifies Aichi.-
-It's been a long time since he was just a kid, but he remembers how he felt then. He remembers being scared, sad, lonely...-
-... He doesn't like remembering all of that, but he also doesn't want this other version of himself to be miserable here...-
-...So he can't help but wonder if he should do something. He shouldn't talk to him himself. What would he say to the kid? Not to mention that meeting an older version of himself would probably be really weird for the kid.-
-...Aichi's got a lot going through his mind right now...-
edited 7th Feb '18 11:17:48 AM by CrystalMemoria
Main Room (Young Aichi)
"Bullies don't..."
-...-
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Roof (Aichi)
-Aichi turns to face Sthesia. You can tell he's not exactly at his highest point right now by looking at his face.-
"...Sthesia..."
-She seems unhappy...-
"...Is something wrong...?"
-Apparently despite being rather upset himself he's still concerned about Sthesia because of her expression.-

Main Room (Young Aichi)
-So a bunch of people way back then were reading the story he is now... Wow, that's actually really neat!-
"Wow...! Do you think people a hundred years from now will read these too?"