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Newbie Meet N' Greet

Meet n' Greet, smell my feet, gimme something good to eat! Unfortunately, the newbie meet and greet takes place the same time the command staff is congregating, so they might be a little late to the party.

But the crew is there to welcome the newcomers and explain their situation. At the end of the milling and spilling about, the command staff is going to start a general meeting to apprise everyone of their situation and discuss their next course of action:

Getting off the damn ship.

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Have you ever seen a Sheikah do a double-take? You have now.

For a moment, he doesn't say a word - the shadow of his Link had been barely sentient, an automaton with instincts only to kill. But this boy - he's clearly different, clearly possesses his own mind.

Is he still a danger?

"Shadow Link," he repeats softly. "You are the Shadow of one named Link in your time? A Hero?"

And Shadow Link noticed that double-take and started cursing in his head. Stupid, stupid, stupid! It's not like he could even say it was a habit.

He'd been telling everyone just 'Shadow.' So why in all of Hyrule did he say his full name NOW?! What compelled him to do it for the one person he KNEW would be able to recognize the name.

But he wasn't going to appear like he was hiding the fact now. So he rolled his eyes in response to the question. "What other being named Link it gonna be strong enough to get a strong shadow?"

Honestly, he shouldn't be surprised that even by Shadow Link's time, there is still a need for heroes. Hadn't he seen Link's predecessor, all those years ago? The first wielder of the Master Sword, before it had become a legend - he had made it a legend.

"Indeed," he murmurs, "The only other shadow I have encountered was also the shadow of a Hero - you will forgive me for being wary."

Shadow Link raised an eyebrow at that and smirk. "So you're in support of the Royal Family," he finally said.

"I never said that," Sheik points out calmly, "Merely that the Hero's shadow was insane and determined to destroy anything in its path. Alignment did not concern it - it was indiscriminate in its attacks."

[You're not going to tell him?]

[Not until I determine whether or not he's a danger.]

"Did he talk to you?"

"I do not believe it knew how to."

That, and it didn't know they were there. Neither had Link.

"Then it's path would be straight for his owner," Shadow Link said. "We're naturally drawn to our owners."

"Drawn to attack your owners?" Sheik frowns, "Because that is what this one did. And I was under the impression that shadows cannot exist without something to cast them - attempting to kill your owner would be suicide."

"Well, if the shadow is resentful, yes. It wouldn't be a bloodthirsty shadow unless it was, so he had to want to attack his owner," Shadow Link said with a shrug. "And a shadow doesn't require his owner to live. We are born with our owner, but depending on the circumstance, it's quite possible to live beyond them."

"It seems rather counterproductive to me," he muses, then shrugs. "Did you resent your Link?"

Shadow Link was silent at that, looking distant for a minute before he finally answered. "Well...ain't that a loaded question? And here I honestly no longer have an answer."

Silence in response - does that mean he does, or he did, or he didn't but now does?

"It is a bit of a loaded question, isn't it," he says softly. "But you do not seem bloodthirsty."

"I've only bee a truly 'bloodthirsty' shadow twice in many, many years. And at the time, I was very angry," Shadow Link said with a shrug. When Blue threw being a shadow in his face and when he faced off after Vio. "Most shadows are instincts. That's why it's easy to read them. I'm not just instinct. Many would say that my owner is more likely to act on instinct than me."

A thoughtful sound, although he doesn't say anything yet. He can't empathise - not directly - but he can understand, to an extent.

And then he smiles a little. "Acting on instinct is one thing that your Link and mine have in common, then."

"Must be a hero trait," Shadow Link commented. "Of course, now two don't act on instinct, being an optimist and a thoughtful one."

A frown. "Two?" he asks, slightly incredulously, "How many Heroes are there in your time?"

"Four," Shadow Link said. "My owner pulled out the Four Sword. Take a guess what it does."

[...I have heard of that blade,] Zelda murmurs, and tells him what it does.

"It splits whoever pulls it out into four, dividing them into separate personality traits?"

To be fair, he has an unfair advantage in Zelda.

"Huh, so you're clever. Figured out the personality traits with the optimist and thoughtful one. But yes, that's what it does," Shadow Link said.

Actually, the Bearer of the Triforce of Wisdom had told him, but that works as well.

"It isn't difficult to put the clues together," he shrugs, "What were the other two like?"

"The hothead and the leader. The leader was most like the original hero, but a bit less of a hothead and more instinct than thoughtful," Shadow Link explained.

"The Hero, the Warrior, the Optimist and the Thinker," he says quietly - "That sounds like Link, yes."

"I'd worry if the hero is too much like mine. It's amazing what some parts of his personality are capable of."

A small smile. "I imagine the hotheaded one has a habit of not thinking things through and rushing blindly into danger?" he guesses, "Or that the optimist sees the best in everyone, even those who mean them harm?"

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