Random idea I had from an unrelated discord server: what if Gen and Rune suddenly had to deal with the wrong type of guardians (aka, guardians from the other Link's era)? (does this happen to them pre-chain? post-chain? I'll leave this one up to you.) Anywho, have a nice day!
Oddly enough, the answer for both of them is 'sprint away in a panic'.
Gen, already not being fond of spiders, is deeply unappreciative of the many legs that these new Guardians have. Also, there's lasers, which - what??? How is he even supposed to deal with that, that's a nope, that's a hard nope, he's just gonna leg it as fast as he can. At least they stop chasing him after long enough.
Rune, meanwhile, has literally not slept in three days because these new Guardians? They never stop. There's a constant metal pounding just on the edge of his hearing and no matter where he goes or what he tries, they find him. They also seem to be immune to... everything. At one point he found this flower that seemed to make them stop, but then he hopped into the river to cross and that woke them all up again, for some reason, and he can't find another flower so this is. Fine.
And I think, post-Chain, but pre-Sequel, just for the maximum confusion potential