[center][h1][color=00BFFF]Link[/color][/h1][/center]

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...Wow, that laughter really did sting more than a blunt rejection. Most of the time ladies had just commented bluntly on it and left him alone, but this was mockery a whole nother' level. Of course, it seemed his attempt at battle banter had...at least failed successfully though? Failed successfully. One could even say "successfully failed". So if Zelda asked him about this moment in particular, that's what he'd say about it. 

[color=00BFFF]"What can i say...i was asleep for 100 years in a resurrection chamber...it was a lot of time,"[/color] the Hero of Hyrule muttered under his breath to himself for a second, sheathing the Master Sword once more with small flourish of the blade, then sighing before he looked again to his new acquaintance more pleasantly and offered a hand, [color=00BFFF]"My name's Link, by the way."[/color]

Maybe he could get off to a better start. That 100 years and the amnesia had, if memory recalled, done him some good in being around people at least. Not that the stoic look didn't stick...that had been ingrained for quite a long time before he'd even been put in the Shrine of Resurrection.