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Link (hero_of_time) wrote in the_nexus_rpg,
@ 2011-10-09 19:36:00

Current music:	Hyrule Symphony - Kokiri Forest
Entry tags:	air_avatar, canon_is_god, haganenomore, hero_of_time, shou_toramaru

a hero will save us just in time
There's a man in a brown cloak and green clothes sleeping on the back of a horse that's meandering towards the sign. Epona looked around, snorted, and stopped by the sign rather abruptly, waking the man on her back.

Link snapped awake, blinking somewhat blearily. "Did we get to Termina already, Epona?" he asked, yawning. Then he took stock of his surroundings. "Where are we?" He slid off of Epona's back, one hand on his sword hilt as he investigated the area, Epona sticking close.

Then he noticed the sign. "Ask a question," he echoed, reading out loud. "What, besides the obvious 'where am I'?" He looked around. "All right. I guess this is customary around here, better stick with local customs. Have you ever been away from home for a long time? What's it like going back?"

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	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 02:03 am UTC (link)
	Sarah giggles at that. "Yeah, you really wouldn't, would you? I don't think even I would, and I'm tiny as hell!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 02:05 am UTC (link)
	Link put a hand on her head, towering over her by about a foot. "I don't know, I was about that small when I was twelve and wearing these. Maybe a little smaller." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 02:11 am UTC (link)
	Sob sob. "Sad thing is, I don't doubt that. It's hard to be authoritative when you're shorter than the majority of your students." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 02:14 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, you're a teacher? Good for you," he said with a smile. "I can't imagine it's easy, no." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 02:20 am UTC (link)
	"Yep, substitute teacher, technically. I fill in for other teachers in large schools when they get sick or can't come in for other reasons. And I usually work with kids just hitting the early teen years, so attitude is unfortunately very much a problem. Tsuri's able to help me monitor the class for trouble-makers, though, so it's not as hard as it could be." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 03:46 am UTC (link)
	"Well, that's good," Link said. "You said these children were around... what, twelve?" Link laughed. "They're difficult at that age." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 03:52 am UTC (link)
	She nods with a wide grin. "Yeah, don't I know it. I really want to move onto a position as a art teacher for the higher grades, but it's been hard to find positions." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 04:04 am UTC (link)
	Link looked surprised. "Adults go to school now, too?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

canon_is_god
2011-10-13 04:10 am UTC (link)

Sarah chuckles. "Legal adult age is a bit higher in my home country, eighteen. Law requires we keep going to school and learning higher forms of math and science until you've been in school...twelve years, I think. After that you can still go to college to learn more to prepare for a specific career, but instead of the government paying for your education you pay the school yourself."

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	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 05:06 am UTC (link)
	"Wow. I was considered old enough to be wielding a sword and running around on my own at ten." Link shook his head. "I was an adult at seventeen. That's a lot of schooling." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

canon_is_god
2011-10-13 05:17 am UTC (link)

She laughs. "Well, as time and technology advanced, the world got more complicated to make a living in in if you didn't have enough schooling. I don't remember how long ago the current school system was put in place in my country, but it was mostly the same at least fifty years ago. And there's also the fact that I happen to come from a very fortunate background, since my family was well off and lived in one of the most advanced countries in the world. Until a few years ago, we were pretty much the head of the global economy, so citizens tend to have a lot more luxuries and advantages available to them."

--urk. "...oh jeez, that kinda sounded like I was talking down to you, didn't it. Sorry!"

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	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 05:21 am UTC (link)
	Link shrugged. "Not really. I've lived the kind of life I'm happy with. I don't think I'd be happy with the kind of world you live in, so I didn't take it as talking down on me at all." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 05:25 am UTC (link)
	"Okay. And that's fair enough. My landlord comes from a world that's about a hundred or so years behind mine in technology, and he doesn't like much of the advanced stuff. I tease him a bit for it, but that's because he acts like an old man in a ton of other ways anyway. Me, I'm just too used to having all the pampered stuff by this point." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 05:28 am UTC (link)
	"How old is your landlord?" Link asked. "He must not be very old, of you're teasing him for acting like he is." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 05:33 am UTC (link)
	"Same age as I am, twenty-three. He went through a lot of rough shit in his teen years, though, so he kinda matured at double-time." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 05:35 am UTC (link)
	"Ah, so he feels older than he is. I understand that." Link felt more or less his age, but sometimes, he did feel little old. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 05:36 am UTC (link)
	Sarah nods. "I bet. I know I couldn't have handled a life like yours or his--you're both a lot stronger than I am, and not just physically." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 05:58 am UTC (link)
	"You took it upon yourself to become a teacher, Sarah," Link pointed out. "That's not easy, and it's a very good thing to do. People need to learn and you're helping them do that. So don't sell yourself short." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 06:18 am UTC (link)
	She blushes a bit and grins. "I...well, yeah, I guess. It doesn't feel like it's really all that much, though." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hero_of_time 2011-10-13 06:25 am UTC (link)
	"A teacher's an important thing," he said. "Impa taught me a lot. I wouldn't have been able to defeat Gannondorf without her teaching." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	canon_is_god 2011-10-13 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, that's true. Hehe, I'm just not used to thinking of myself as all that important to most people's lives." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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