Written in ~40min for a combination of @flashfictionfridayofficial's prompt #FFF355 - A Curious Connection and Revalink Week Day 6: Rupees.
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Back when @heleentje and I were working on Moonlight, we (& @coconi) had a running joke about Robbie (somehow) spotting Revali's 'ghost' during the Loop 5 Roadtrip, and trying to get him to pay back an old debt.
On the maths: if two apples used to cost 1 green rupee, as Revali claims, and now you're looking at one apple costing 12 green rupees... Hyrule has an inflation problem.
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"Tell me," says Revali, "how much an apple costs these days."
Link looks up from the Sheikah Slate. "Buying or selling?" he asks. It's a pretty important distinction. "Depends on the season. I can sell them for three rupees when they're in season. Five rupees in winter." By early summer, when the stocks from last year's harvest have run empty, somebody might even pay seven. "I usually cook them first. Then people pay better."
Though not everyone's as deep-pocketed as that honeymoon couple that were staying in Rito Village before.
"And if you happened to run out of apples"—Revali throws a dubious look at the Sheikah Slate, as if realising how unlikely that situation is to come to pass—"or lost that thing, I suppose... How much would somebody charge you to buy an apple from them?"
Link has to think about that a little harder. "Twelve," he says after a moment
"Twelve?!" Revali all but yelps; then, when Link glances at him, he coughs to cover the crack in his voice. "That is simply extortionate. 'Two reds for a green' - that's what they used to sell them for in Castle Town Market..."
Link must be misunderstanding him somehow. "Forty rupees for a green apple?"
"Two red apples," Revali snipes back, "for one green rupee."
That still doesn't sound right to Link, but he doesn't remember the minutiae of the market place from a hundred years ago, so he'll have to defer to Revali's memory.
"It's daylight robbery," Revali continues to grouse, frowning at the slip of paper he'd had Link pin against Vah Medoh's foot with a rock. The winds up here are so strong, Link's surprised it hasn't yet been snatched away. He had tried reading it himself, but the penmanship is too small for him to make out. "And so is this. Tell that ancient buffoon that I don't care what mathematical contortions he's put these numbers through. He won't get anything out of me."
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"He's still on this plane of existence, isn't he?" Robbie retorts, when Link relays Revali's answer back to him. "Then he's extant enough to pay off his debts. Research doesn't happen in a vacuum, and progress isn't cheap!"
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"You only have his word to go on that I owe him anything at all!"
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"He's had the summary. I've got the receipts to prove it. Plus a century's interest on top-"
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"Interest? What is he on about, interest?"
Link doesn't know either. "Purah said it's something banks charge."
"Since when is Robbie a bank--"
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"Well I can't go charging his debts back to the treasury!" Robbie eyes Link speculatively. "Unless you're willing to settle it for him..."
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"And end up owing you? No. I refuse."
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[six time loops later --
Robbie: so, you were alive after all! pay up. | Revali: I was kept alive against my knowledge. Take it up with Medoh. | Link, thinking: can Divine Beasts pay in rupees when I already looted them of all their contents?]
BOTW Alternate Universe | Ganlink | transmasc Link
Kinks:
ABO / Omegaverse
Multiple orgasms
Breeding
Cervix Penetration / Womb fucking
Crying
Overstimulation
Creampies
Dirty talk
Link, wearing his Gerudo disguise, infiltrates Gerudo Town under orders from Zelda. Unfortunately, his method of heat suppression wears off while meeting with the King, Ganondorf...
The King’s eyes light in recognition, then they crinkle with amusement. “I knew you weren't some random vai. You’re the man of the hour, aren’t you, Link?” Ganon laughs. “To send you here— how mundane your princess is.”
Link breathes heavily.
“I shall have my fun regardless.” Ganon then speaks in that deep register again. “On your knees, Link.”
i wish my writer's block would go away so i could write the fic i wanna write where link takes yona out to see some farm animals in person after she off-handedly mentions never getting to do that even after she became an adult (reasons being a mixture of arranged marriage duties making her somewhat sheltered plus zora are literal fish people so they don't really leave the water/their domain etc) except link is peak heart of gold Dumb Of Ass and manages to trespass on the land of a farmer having a particularly bad day so now link and yona are in an itty bitty amount of trouble with the local law cueing zelda and sidon having to bail them out of the local jail they landed in which includes a lot of zelda and sidon bonding over their shared anxieties of being good rulers + making sure their kingdoms prosper + their best friends being utterly stupid goofballs
some more breath of the wild animal pals! currently available as individual stickers on my store, and preorders are open for the full kiss-cut sticker sheets !
7. What do you love most about being a fic writer for your fandom?
The weary, shared camaraderie of "Oh, this scene/chapter/fic is being a $%$?! to write" and your writing peers knowing, with 99% chance of being exactly right, that it's that blasted birdman again.
(Sometimes the specific combo of bird+discount elf, but usually the bird manages it all by himself...)
