Overgrown
Linktober 2022 prompt #10/31
Word Count: 1,432
Incarnation: Breath of the Wild (pre-calamity)
Trigger Warnings: None Applicable
“It’s overgrown,” Purah said as she looked into the microscope. “I think your hypothesis is correct.”
Of all the moments for Robbie to finally acknowledge he had feelings for the zany young woman from Kakariko, this was probably the strangest one. She was hunched over the mechanism, her left eye practically glued to the cylinder that allowed her to observe upfront how the blue flame affected plant life. It was weird how quiet it was as she withdrew to jot down her notes. Of all the situations over the past month of them studying here at the Akkala Citadel, the shouting matches, the accidental spills, this was a rare bout of silence, a calm realization that made Robbie lightly smile.
Purah’s ink-dipped feather froze mid-sentence and she furrowed her brow. Robbie’s expression turned to one of alarm and confusion when her head turned to him.
“Are you feeling okay?” she asked.
“Y-yeah,” he stammered, shifting in his seat. He felt heat in his cheeks. Was this blushing? He had no idea. “Of course I am.”
“It’s just you love being right so I expected a big ‘ha told you so’ when I confirmed your hypothesis,” Purah explained.
“Ah yes,” Robbie said, standing up with his hands on his hips. “Ha, I told you so.”
Purah narrowed her eyes, the skepticism in her brewing like steeped tea.
She stood up.
“Are you sure you’re not running a temperature or something,” she asked as she came towards him with a hand ready to check his forehead, yet he ducked out of the way of it before she could, with a nervous chuckle as he swooped around her.
“I am not,” he said, his hands held out as if she were a Lynel. “Everything’s fine.” He forced his nervous laugh into a smile that he gestured to. “See?” he asked as he backed away.
“Is this about the other day?” she said. “I am really sorry about slapping you with an Octorok tentacle. You said it didn’t hurt.”
“I did,” he stammered. “A-and it didn’t. Just don’t worry about it. Keep working, okay?”
Purah was flabbergasted as he watched him scurry off, and soon she felt the presence of another scientist next to her. Purah saw him out of the corner of her eye. With crossed arms Budoh, a fellow researcher that was twice the age of Purah, eyed the oddity that was Robbie.
“I bet I know what that’s about,” he remarked. Purah had no idea what he could be on about, and so she looked over eagerly.
“What?”
Budoh hesitated, his lips warring with themselves as to whether or not he should divulge his knowledge. This was Robbie’s bunkmate, after all, so Purah hung on to every second.
“He got a letter a few days ago,” Budoh explained. “The King is very pleased with our progress here, so pleased that the construction in North Hyrule Plain is meant to be a new lab. He wants Robbie to run it.”
Purah didn’t know what to say at first, stuttering over her vowels and consonants.
“Well that’s amazing!” Purah exclaimed. “Why didn’t he tell me?”
“He hasn’t told anyone except me because the King told him he can bring along whoever he wants. It’s going to be the forefront of Sheikah tech research and if he’s acting like that around you, then he probably feels bad because…”
“Because he didn’t choose me,” Purah finished, Budoh nodding.
“If it makes you feel any better, Robbie’s probably not going to choose me either. My rupees are on Nashi and Kyu.”
“The strongest mathematician and the smartest engineer,” Purah agreed with nods. “Yeah that checks out, I wouldn’t blame him. I’d probably do the same.”
Purah hugged her arms close as Budoh left her to her thoughts, letting her heart think of what she would do in his place. It wasn’t long, however, until her thoughts drifted to her own inadequacies. Had she known about this opportunity she would have spent the last month proving her worth, heck her invaluableness at that. Or had she already? She was, after all, a nobody from Kakariko, who hadn't touched an ancient screw until the King permissed it last month. What could she offer him, a guy who had been illegally researching Sheikah tech with his parents basically his whole life.
Later, when tears began to fall where she sat in her designated quarters, she told herself she was overreacting. Akkala was a very nice place, and there were far worse problems in the world than her not getting what she wanted. Calamity, just a few years ago a thirteen year old had pulled the Master Sword, not to mention the poor princess living with the pressure of not yet accessing her sealing power since before she reached double digits.
A few knocks rapped at her door and she quickly composed herself, wiping away her tears and making herself look presentable.
“Robbie,” she said in a breathless surprise when she opened the door.
“Hi,” he said. It was all he said. Whatever he had come to talk to her about flew over his head.
“Look, I���” Purah bowed her head. She looked back up. “You don’t have to say anything, it’s okay.”
“What’s okay?” Robbie asked, confused as to how she could know.
“The Royal Lab,” Purah specified. “It’s okay you aren’t taking me. I understand.”
“Goddesses, of course I’m taking you with me,” Robbie said, as if she were crazy. “You’re one of the best people here.”
“Well, Budoh…”
“Budoh?” Robbie interrupted. “Budoh doesn’t believe the world is round. Never listen to Budoh.”
“But I’m not as smart as Kyu or Nashi or…anyone really.”
Robbie grabbed both her shoulders and locked her eyes into his, making sure she understood.
“You overgrew this place after your first day here and you don’t even know why.”
Purah pursed her lips and a lack of knowledge danced in her eyes.
“You’re insanely creative,” Robbie said. “And ruthlessly inventive. You come up with ideas I wouldn’t have dreamed of in a hundred years, and in an hour you already have a prototype. You’re the most hardworking person here. When I got that letter, you’re the first person I thought of. I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want it getting out how quickly I picked you. If I let the letter breathe a bit and then announced my picks, then people would think I really thought about it.”
“Then why were you acting so weird earlier?” Purah asked.
“I really wasn’t,” Robbie said in defense, sliding his arms off her shoulders.
Purah tipped her head and smiled, and just that made Robbie blush.
“You’re hiding something, that’s for sure,” Purah said, “your face is so red you look like a blossoming daisy with that hair.”
“I’m not hiding anything,” Robbie insisted, playfully this time, turning around.
“Come on!” Purah exclaimed, catching up with him and bounding onto his shoulders. She turned him around and Robbie let her. “Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!”
She was jumping up and down like a child, and yet Robbie’s eyes followed her lips. He went for it, closing his eyes and daring. He caught her nose instead, and Purah backed away slowly, shocked.
“Did you just try to kiss me?” Purah asked.
Robbie inhaled to respond, but there was no good excuse for what he just did. No smudge on her nose that he couldn’t have just wiped away with a thumb, no cut on her nostril that he could say he was trying to heal (she wasn’t five, after all).
“I love you,” he said. He shrugged his shoulders. “That’s my only excuse.”
Purah looked behind her and then back to Robbie.
“Come on,” was all she said, grabbing his hand and dragging him goddesses knows where.
“Uhm…where are we going?” Robbie asked, ignoring the fact that he had literally confessed his love for her and she didn’t dare a response in return.
“We’re almost there,” she said, before opening a closet and shuffling inside.
“Purah, what are you doing?” Robbie said. The closet was so small that their chests were practically touching.
“Eliminating any impression people might have that you choosing me for the Royal Lab was because of bias.”
“It’s not, I told you, I–”
Purah interrupted him with a kiss. She had to lift herself onto her toes, but she didn’t care, breathing into the exchange much like Robbie was beginning to. He cupped her cheek gently, and by the end of the night, Robbie was wiping cherry-colored lipstick off of his pale neck.
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So hey, I haven't drawn much lately, been taking a break, keeping an eye on my health, taking it easy, at the same time doing the complete opposite and letting difficult OoT romhacks get on my nerves, and so on. (Friendly reminder to do so for yourselves as well, keeping an eye on your health, not the part of playing irritating mods).
But hey, while I'm resuming my art now, that doesn't mean I didn't get much done before that, it's just that what I was doing probably doesn't seem as interesting, given the majority of the content I post here.
Like refining an OC of mine, for example. I hope you want to see more of him in the future.
Or more of them teef.
Dunno if I'll delete post later or not, but hey, I should be back on track this week, but other stuff I was working on I can't really post here, so if you're not interested in the saucy stuff, you can stop reading now.
Aside from some anatomy practice, I also did some shading practice using the Sheikah dorks as my test subjects. And here you can see:
Just some achromatic stuff, following some advice I neglected for so long, lmao.
More noticeable here, but here I'm more proud of how I'm drawing her hair now.
With all of this said, I did end up making a saucy tweet-er account, and I plan to upload all of this over there periodically (it's gonna be mostly Purah+Robbie for now, so do be warned about that), if you want to follow me, all you gotta do is find it, because I'm not linking it, just dropping hints.
Thanks for reading, and remember to take care!
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In fact, I have many favorite characters: Impa, Urbosa, Sidon, Link after all. But the choice fell on two very cool scientists - Robbie and Purah (yes, I had to break the rules a little😅), and I decided to show them from a pretty unusual side.
Context: This is part of my "Hyrule Park: Afterlife" mini-segment, which revolves around Sheikah trio and Aryll. Here, Purah feels guilty towards all those who died during the calamity, because she activated the guardians and beasts, because of which it all began. And Robbie is trying to convince her that they can bring Link back to life. In the end, it was thanks to Purah that Robbie was able to become a great roboticist when he was 12. Since then, they have become even closer to each other.
*Record scratches* Okay, Linktober. Now let me break the rules again, and as a bonus, post a couple more of the Purah and Robbie sketches I drew earlier. One drawing with these two is simply not enough for me. I swear this won't happen again. Maybe.
Here I just drew them in Daft Punk helmets, because I like to associate this duo with their music.
Here, for the first time, they unite to fulfill the request of the queen, who wanted a little guardian for her daughter. Purah here is 10, Rob is 12.
I drew this one when I found out that these two will be playable characters in the AoC DLC.
And this one I drew right before the release of Age of Calamity on November 2020.
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