Updates/Details
[ooc: Below is more detailed description of Linksha's gear, and updates on what's changed since his arrival.]
Clothing:
Traditional: comfortable brown breeches (laced at each side, from a hand-span down, up to the waist), 3/4-sleeve turtle-necked brown shirt, forest-green tunic, floppy green cap, and sturdy brown boots and belt. Wears his sword sheath belted over the right hip. A Magic Pouch -- which can shrink SOME items, like enemy boomerangs, bombs, and rupees, to about 1/2" size (the items shrink upon touching the lip of the pouch, then return to normal size when retrieved) -- is strapped to the belt, on the front left. A thin satchel lined with various small compartments and pockets is clipped beside the sheath, nearer the front. A larger, compartmentalized pack is strapped to the belt, along his back. The quiver, bow, and shield are belted diagonally across his back. The Handy Gloves hook to the belt on the back left, next to the Magic Pouch.
Alternates (organized by most likely combinations):
-traditional brown breeches and boots with red-and-tan plaid sleeveless tunic, and wide-sleeved white, collared shirt OR 3/4 sleeve fitted, ivory shirt with red-brown decorative stitching.
-traditional forest-green tunic, light-green, drawstring capris, and above-mentioned white shirt, with khaki-colored suede sandals.
-cobalt-blue breeches with white lacing on the crotch, short, black boots, above-mentioned white shirt, and long, navy-blue jerkin, tied at the waist with a white sash.
-russet leggings and traditional boots, with either short, burgundy, sleeved tunic (belted) OR above-mentioned ivory shirt (untucked).
-knee-length, emerald-green shorts (NOT suitable for swimming) and above-mentioned sandals.
Jewelry:
-malachite and gold circular locket on a 22" gold chain. Is actually a locket with thin glass slides that flip outward. Each slide contains a picture: Linksha and his twin sister, their parents and baby brother, current picture of his twin sister, picture of his era's Zelda. It's engraved on the back in Calatian script.
-Power Bracelet: looks like a bright, copper-colored cuff bracelet with a twist design and endcaps shaped like a pyramid with cutaway centers -- think David Yurman bracelet with stylized Triforce end caps.
-Blue Ring: simple gold band with a high-mounted, blue, gemstone-like orb of indeterminate material.
Useable Items:
- "White Sword" (it's actually the "Magical Sword" from in-game; Linksha just didn't like the name and decided to use his previous sword's title). Functions just like the Master Sword, despite the difference in appearance (simpler, curvier hilt -- glossy blue and red enameled -- with golden gems on the guard ends and hilt, and the blade's metal has a faint, golden cast). Has a matching sheathe, worn over the hip. Someone with the proper Magic ability and inclination CAN use it to project power beams. Anyone tainted by evil or aligned with darkness/shadow WILL be burned, if they touch either hilt or blade.
- Cross Shield (resists fire and Wizzrobe spells)
-Warp Whistle: (inside the satchel) calls a magical tornado to warp the user and anything attached to them to 13 destinations, all sequential -- you can't pick a specific warp to go to, and you HAVE to go through them in order (map and details in the "Ride the Skies!" post)
-Blue Ring: (worn) Protects wearer from harm, absorbing half damage (see "Jewelry" above, for visual description).
-Red Candle: (stored inside Magic Pouch.) Lights with a Word; use like a Lantern to set things on fire. Never melts down or consumes wick. (Note: unlike in-game, this thing CAN flare up and burn you, if you're not careful! Linksha's got the scars to prove it.)
-Handy Glove: can slice through trees and rocks, but, ironically, can't be used as a weapon.
-Power Bracelet: (worn) Gives wearer the strength to pick up and hurl boulders (see "Jewelry" above, for visual description).
-Bow and Quiver of 50 standard and 10 Silver arrows. Silver Arrows are unbreakable, and can be cleaned and used again, if retrieved.
Inside Magic Pouch: several Bombs and cheap, small boomerangs -- like those carried by Goriyas (Note: Bomb fuses light up AS SOON as they're retrieved!), rope ladder, a wallet (containing, sadly, only 5 green rupees, since the Anniversary Party), and rope length with a metal hook on the end. The items don't have to scrounged for: simply speak the name of the item you want, or clearly envision it, and it will appear in your hand once you reach in.
Inside thin satchel: assorted small, natural gemstones: uncut ruby, amethyst, rose quartz, and a shattered clear quartz crystal point, each in its own small compartment on the outer pocket, along the flap. Also, an ink pen with a small lever to stop the ink flow (failure to use this lever properly WILL result in either copious ink stains or being unable to write), compass, Warp Whistle, and Red Candle, all in their own interior pocket compartment. Retractable hunting knife and rolled scraps of parchment, in either narrow side-pocket.
Inside back-facing pouch: reinforced rope length, spare shirt (brown, cotton), spare breeches (darker brown, thicker cotton), First-Aid Kit in a metal box (bar cleanser, liquid disinfectant, salve, curved needle and heavy-gauge thread for sutures, clean washrag, gauze, wrap bandage, water-proof adhesive tape), and Repair Kit in a wooden box (regular straight needle and small spools of green and brown thread, chemically-treated polishing cloth, chamois, mechanical oil, spare bowstrings), all distributed across the interior divisions. Also, there's a small journal hidden under bulkier stuff. It's got fine parchment pages with faint guide lines, and the first 2 pages are torn out. The rest is being used as a sketchbook. Any and all notations on the book are written in Calatian script.
Journal: As you flip through it, front-to-back, there's:
-several practice sketches of a map of Hyrule, as Linksha knows it in his time, with notations all around
-a large, meticulous map of his Hyrule, with inked edits and notations of the new features of THIS Hyrule overlapping
-a partially filled-in map of what he's explored, so far, of the current Hyrule.
-sketches of three elegant women
-well-drawn landscape images of the area around Kakariko and other places he's seen
-a few drawn attempts at recalling Vaati in his Minish form (though, if you've never seen Vaati as a Minish, you'll just think it's *A* random Minish OR, if you don't know what Minish are, a cute little doll with big, adorable, cartoon eyes and mage robes)
-sketched attempts at drawing his housemates -- some attempts better than others.
-an unflattering (but funny!) cartoon of Ganondorf lying hog-tied in the muck after their fight.
Toward the back of the book, presumably in an attempt to hide the pages with their odd position in the otherwise-linear progression:
-clear attempts at drawing Vaati's face, hands, and some close-up details of his outfit, with small notes all around, presumably making an observation of what details need tweaking. The attempts get better with each page, although it's clear that portraiture isn't as much Linksha's strong suit as landscape and mechanical drawing.
WAAAAY toward the back:
-a delicately-drawn and hauntingly sensual image of a very slender man with long, fine hair (I think we can all guess who), nude, and sleeping on a large cushion. The anatomical detail isn't perfect, but shows promise, and it's clear he's gone to pains to make the drawing beautiful. The adjoining page is filled with script that might be a journal entry.
Most Prized Possessions:
-Locket
-White Sword
-Power Bracelet
-3 small wood carvings of The Three, commissioned from George (shadygeorge )
-Sketchbook/Journal
Current Residence:
Now lives at the easternmost room at the corner of the upstairs floor at the former Kakariko Inn. The room has one door, leading to the hallway, and two windows, on the NE and SE walls, the SE window facing the village square, the NE one facing the windmill where Vaati lives. The room came with a simple, but comfortable, bed, some short bookshelves under the NE window, a small area rug, a trunk with a busted lock (now containing some much-needed changes of clothes, underwear, and the carvings of The Three), some hanging pegs on the wall, and a wall-mounted rack with a clothes-hanging rod attached underneath and those wood-and-metal hangers you get at hotels -- the kind that slide around, but can't be removed from the rod. Since moving in, Link's only added the spare clothes and a big, burgundy velvet floor cushion (snagged from the former Gerudo fortress), and placed -- rather snuggly -- in the corner under the empty hanging rod, between the bed and the door, in front of the bookshelf under the windmill-facing window.
The inn, itself, is the 2-story building at the back of Kakariko Village, facing the village square on the front and the gate to Death Mountain Trail on the back. It was wood floor, white brick walls, and wooden rafter beams on the ceiling.
Upstairs, there's five bedrooms, occupied by Jewel (jewel_of_hyrule ), Ashei (ashei_yeah ), Shad (twilit_scholar ), and, most recently, (LA) Link (koholint_hero ). The bathroom has a copper-glazed tub with a small brazier that can be lit from below to heat the bath water and has a sturdy hinge that helps tilt it so the water can be emptied (no plumbing, therefore the water has to be poured in and poured or scooped out), a flushable latrine (again, water needs to be poured in, to "flush") with a metal pipe running to an underground collection bin (there's crates atop the trapdoor outside leading to it). There's one barrel/water tank with a tap in the bathroom, next to the small washbasin on a stand, and a wooden bucket and glazed ceramic cup, for water collection and transferal. A narrow hallway closet beside the bathroom holds towels on a high rack, and a wooden bucket with a scouring pad, mop, feather-duster, cleaning rags, scouring pads, and wide short-bristle broom, on the floor.
Downstairs is a kitchen and dining/common area and two doors, the NE one being the main entrance, the NW one leading to a small vegetable garden. The kitchen has an island counter that separates kitchen from dining area, large wood-burning stove, plenty cabinets, hanging baskets for food, and cutlery drawers. The common area has three tables with chairs and a hearth. The chimney of the hearth travels up through the bathroom upstairs, and keeps that room warm in the winter.
Latest Developments:
His first day in this strange world, he met Wind Sorcerer Vaati (sorcerer_vaati ), who teleported him down from the tree he'd somehow ended up on top off. The two (remarkably!) ended up getting along like a house on fire. Unfortunately, Link was so busy oohing and ahh-ing over his new friend's neat repertoire of magic skills, that he cheerfully bid adieu and allowed Vaati to leave before remembering to ask : "Hey! Where AM I?!". Jewel, to the rescue! Thanks to the Triforce mark on her hand reacting to his, Link was forced to acknowledge that, no, Jewel WASN'T a cos-player in some elaborate game of Hero and Princess. Upon learning he'd somehow been sucked into an alternate universe or somesuch, along with a bunch of other guys called Link and girls named Zelda, Link decided to stick with the nickname he'd given Jewel (an old, seldom-used moniker from his boyhood days in school), and thereby became "Linksha" to the general populace.
Shortly thereafter, after a miserable night's sleep (courtesy of a bug-infested mattress), Vaati once again showed up to help out, offering Link a place to clean-up while he continued house-hunting. And, yet again, Jewel to the rescue. Noticing he boy was famished, she took him in for breakfast, heard his tale of creepy-crawlies on the bed, and offered to let him use one of the spare bedrooms.
A week later, on the day of the festival, several things happened. For starters, Link commissioned three small carvings of his Goddesses, for help in meditation and prayer. Second, he danced with two pretty girls -- sweet, sisterly Jewel, and the exotic, half-naked Midna -- and managed to impress both. Third, he got heckled and then challenged to a fight by some tall, fat weirdo in a dress (in reality: Ganon in his robes, but Link never DID learn the man's name). The guy was tougher than he'd expected, by a LOT, but Link not only won, but -- in the name of making sure the guy didn't try and make trouble as soon as he awoke -- hogtied and hurled the guy into a nearby horse pen, where he landed in a mud pile. Needless to say, Link's got himself a new enemy -- and he doesn't even know it. The fourth thing that happened is he dance, once again; this time, with Vaati, of all people. After some cultural exchange of dance steps, the two head off for some fishing, somehow end up with Link giving Vaati an amateur therapy session, and then with Link asking Vaati to accompany him on a journey he'd been planning to make for some time: to map out the geography of this strange new Hyrule, in the hopes of making sense of when in time he could conceivably be. The journey ended up rather more, erm, INTERESTING than either Link or Vaati had planned on... As of the moment, the two are... not exactly "boyfriends"... maybe "involved" suits better? In any case, there's copious amounts of intense making-out, although, funny enough, the two have yet to figure out how, exactly, two men go about having actual "sex".
Enter, the day that Vaati's spell goes awry! Yes. Dear, sweet, adorable, INCREDIBLY naughty and devious Vaati tries to cast a spell to swap Ganon's clothes for women's dresses... and ends up accidently cursing half the current population of Hyrule into swapping clothes and gear. This is how Link ends up in Ganondorf's robes, how Vaati ends up in Midna's shirtless dress, and how Link ends up finding the *ahem!* "romance" novel in the robe of Ganon's pocket, which MAY just solve the problems he and Vaati have been having -- an especially big problem now, since, well, Vaati looks frickin' HAWT in that sarong (and, though he doesn't know it, Link looks pretty dang smexy, himself, in those robes)!
Thus far, the only person who knows of their relationship is Jewel (jewel_of_hyrule ), who was kind enough to agree to let Vaati teleport into the house in order to use the bathtub, since it's almost impossible to hold the magicked outfit in one hand white maneuvering soap and bucket of water in the other. She'd been empathically sensing an unusual level of warmth and peace from Linksha, the last several weeks, and the feeling multiplied tenfold when Vaati visited the house, and she noticed similar vibes coming off of the sorcerer.
Update on above: Yes, the book DID help! Problem? Solved! Virginity? GONE! Official relationship status? Lovers.
Clothing:
Traditional: comfortable brown breeches (laced at each side, from a hand-span down, up to the waist), 3/4-sleeve turtle-necked brown shirt, forest-green tunic, floppy green cap, and sturdy brown boots and belt. Wears his sword sheath belted over the right hip. A Magic Pouch -- which can shrink SOME items, like enemy boomerangs, bombs, and rupees, to about 1/2" size (the items shrink upon touching the lip of the pouch, then return to normal size when retrieved) -- is strapped to the belt, on the front left. A thin satchel lined with various small compartments and pockets is clipped beside the sheath, nearer the front. A larger, compartmentalized pack is strapped to the belt, along his back. The quiver, bow, and shield are belted diagonally across his back. The Handy Gloves hook to the belt on the back left, next to the Magic Pouch.
Alternates (organized by most likely combinations):
-traditional brown breeches and boots with red-and-tan plaid sleeveless tunic, and wide-sleeved white, collared shirt OR 3/4 sleeve fitted, ivory shirt with red-brown decorative stitching.
-traditional forest-green tunic, light-green, drawstring capris, and above-mentioned white shirt, with khaki-colored suede sandals.
-cobalt-blue breeches with white lacing on the crotch, short, black boots, above-mentioned white shirt, and long, navy-blue jerkin, tied at the waist with a white sash.
-russet leggings and traditional boots, with either short, burgundy, sleeved tunic (belted) OR above-mentioned ivory shirt (untucked).
-knee-length, emerald-green shorts (NOT suitable for swimming) and above-mentioned sandals.
Jewelry:
-malachite and gold circular locket on a 22" gold chain. Is actually a locket with thin glass slides that flip outward. Each slide contains a picture: Linksha and his twin sister, their parents and baby brother, current picture of his twin sister, picture of his era's Zelda. It's engraved on the back in Calatian script.
-Power Bracelet: looks like a bright, copper-colored cuff bracelet with a twist design and endcaps shaped like a pyramid with cutaway centers -- think David Yurman bracelet with stylized Triforce end caps.
-Blue Ring: simple gold band with a high-mounted, blue, gemstone-like orb of indeterminate material.
Useable Items:
- "White Sword" (it's actually the "Magical Sword" from in-game; Linksha just didn't like the name and decided to use his previous sword's title). Functions just like the Master Sword, despite the difference in appearance (simpler, curvier hilt -- glossy blue and red enameled -- with golden gems on the guard ends and hilt, and the blade's metal has a faint, golden cast). Has a matching sheathe, worn over the hip. Someone with the proper Magic ability and inclination CAN use it to project power beams. Anyone tainted by evil or aligned with darkness/shadow WILL be burned, if they touch either hilt or blade.
- Cross Shield (resists fire and Wizzrobe spells)
-Warp Whistle: (inside the satchel) calls a magical tornado to warp the user and anything attached to them to 13 destinations, all sequential -- you can't pick a specific warp to go to, and you HAVE to go through them in order (map and details in the "Ride the Skies!" post)
-Blue Ring: (worn) Protects wearer from harm, absorbing half damage (see "Jewelry" above, for visual description).
-Red Candle: (stored inside Magic Pouch.) Lights with a Word; use like a Lantern to set things on fire. Never melts down or consumes wick. (Note: unlike in-game, this thing CAN flare up and burn you, if you're not careful! Linksha's got the scars to prove it.)
-Handy Glove: can slice through trees and rocks, but, ironically, can't be used as a weapon.
-Power Bracelet: (worn) Gives wearer the strength to pick up and hurl boulders (see "Jewelry" above, for visual description).
-Bow and Quiver of 50 standard and 10 Silver arrows. Silver Arrows are unbreakable, and can be cleaned and used again, if retrieved.
Inside Magic Pouch: several Bombs and cheap, small boomerangs -- like those carried by Goriyas (Note: Bomb fuses light up AS SOON as they're retrieved!), rope ladder, a wallet (containing, sadly, only 5 green rupees, since the Anniversary Party), and rope length with a metal hook on the end. The items don't have to scrounged for: simply speak the name of the item you want, or clearly envision it, and it will appear in your hand once you reach in.
Inside thin satchel: assorted small, natural gemstones: uncut ruby, amethyst, rose quartz, and a shattered clear quartz crystal point, each in its own small compartment on the outer pocket, along the flap. Also, an ink pen with a small lever to stop the ink flow (failure to use this lever properly WILL result in either copious ink stains or being unable to write), compass, Warp Whistle, and Red Candle, all in their own interior pocket compartment. Retractable hunting knife and rolled scraps of parchment, in either narrow side-pocket.
Inside back-facing pouch: reinforced rope length, spare shirt (brown, cotton), spare breeches (darker brown, thicker cotton), First-Aid Kit in a metal box (bar cleanser, liquid disinfectant, salve, curved needle and heavy-gauge thread for sutures, clean washrag, gauze, wrap bandage, water-proof adhesive tape), and Repair Kit in a wooden box (regular straight needle and small spools of green and brown thread, chemically-treated polishing cloth, chamois, mechanical oil, spare bowstrings), all distributed across the interior divisions. Also, there's a small journal hidden under bulkier stuff. It's got fine parchment pages with faint guide lines, and the first 2 pages are torn out. The rest is being used as a sketchbook. Any and all notations on the book are written in Calatian script.
Journal: As you flip through it, front-to-back, there's:
-several practice sketches of a map of Hyrule, as Linksha knows it in his time, with notations all around
-a large, meticulous map of his Hyrule, with inked edits and notations of the new features of THIS Hyrule overlapping
-a partially filled-in map of what he's explored, so far, of the current Hyrule.
-sketches of three elegant women
-well-drawn landscape images of the area around Kakariko and other places he's seen
-a few drawn attempts at recalling Vaati in his Minish form (though, if you've never seen Vaati as a Minish, you'll just think it's *A* random Minish OR, if you don't know what Minish are, a cute little doll with big, adorable, cartoon eyes and mage robes)
-sketched attempts at drawing his housemates -- some attempts better than others.
-an unflattering (but funny!) cartoon of Ganondorf lying hog-tied in the muck after their fight.
Toward the back of the book, presumably in an attempt to hide the pages with their odd position in the otherwise-linear progression:
-clear attempts at drawing Vaati's face, hands, and some close-up details of his outfit, with small notes all around, presumably making an observation of what details need tweaking. The attempts get better with each page, although it's clear that portraiture isn't as much Linksha's strong suit as landscape and mechanical drawing.
WAAAAY toward the back:
-a delicately-drawn and hauntingly sensual image of a very slender man with long, fine hair (I think we can all guess who), nude, and sleeping on a large cushion. The anatomical detail isn't perfect, but shows promise, and it's clear he's gone to pains to make the drawing beautiful. The adjoining page is filled with script that might be a journal entry.
Most Prized Possessions:
-Locket
-White Sword
-Power Bracelet
-3 small wood carvings of The Three, commissioned from George (shadygeorge )
-Sketchbook/Journal
Current Residence:
Now lives at the easternmost room at the corner of the upstairs floor at the former Kakariko Inn. The room has one door, leading to the hallway, and two windows, on the NE and SE walls, the SE window facing the village square, the NE one facing the windmill where Vaati lives. The room came with a simple, but comfortable, bed, some short bookshelves under the NE window, a small area rug, a trunk with a busted lock (now containing some much-needed changes of clothes, underwear, and the carvings of The Three), some hanging pegs on the wall, and a wall-mounted rack with a clothes-hanging rod attached underneath and those wood-and-metal hangers you get at hotels -- the kind that slide around, but can't be removed from the rod. Since moving in, Link's only added the spare clothes and a big, burgundy velvet floor cushion (snagged from the former Gerudo fortress), and placed -- rather snuggly -- in the corner under the empty hanging rod, between the bed and the door, in front of the bookshelf under the windmill-facing window.
The inn, itself, is the 2-story building at the back of Kakariko Village, facing the village square on the front and the gate to Death Mountain Trail on the back. It was wood floor, white brick walls, and wooden rafter beams on the ceiling.
Upstairs, there's five bedrooms, occupied by Jewel (jewel_of_hyrule ), Ashei (ashei_yeah ), Shad (twilit_scholar ), and, most recently, (LA) Link (koholint_hero ). The bathroom has a copper-glazed tub with a small brazier that can be lit from below to heat the bath water and has a sturdy hinge that helps tilt it so the water can be emptied (no plumbing, therefore the water has to be poured in and poured or scooped out), a flushable latrine (again, water needs to be poured in, to "flush") with a metal pipe running to an underground collection bin (there's crates atop the trapdoor outside leading to it). There's one barrel/water tank with a tap in the bathroom, next to the small washbasin on a stand, and a wooden bucket and glazed ceramic cup, for water collection and transferal. A narrow hallway closet beside the bathroom holds towels on a high rack, and a wooden bucket with a scouring pad, mop, feather-duster, cleaning rags, scouring pads, and wide short-bristle broom, on the floor.
Downstairs is a kitchen and dining/common area and two doors, the NE one being the main entrance, the NW one leading to a small vegetable garden. The kitchen has an island counter that separates kitchen from dining area, large wood-burning stove, plenty cabinets, hanging baskets for food, and cutlery drawers. The common area has three tables with chairs and a hearth. The chimney of the hearth travels up through the bathroom upstairs, and keeps that room warm in the winter.
Latest Developments:
His first day in this strange world, he met Wind Sorcerer Vaati (sorcerer_vaati ), who teleported him down from the tree he'd somehow ended up on top off. The two (remarkably!) ended up getting along like a house on fire. Unfortunately, Link was so busy oohing and ahh-ing over his new friend's neat repertoire of magic skills, that he cheerfully bid adieu and allowed Vaati to leave before remembering to ask : "Hey! Where AM I?!". Jewel, to the rescue! Thanks to the Triforce mark on her hand reacting to his, Link was forced to acknowledge that, no, Jewel WASN'T a cos-player in some elaborate game of Hero and Princess. Upon learning he'd somehow been sucked into an alternate universe or somesuch, along with a bunch of other guys called Link and girls named Zelda, Link decided to stick with the nickname he'd given Jewel (an old, seldom-used moniker from his boyhood days in school), and thereby became "Linksha" to the general populace.
Shortly thereafter, after a miserable night's sleep (courtesy of a bug-infested mattress), Vaati once again showed up to help out, offering Link a place to clean-up while he continued house-hunting. And, yet again, Jewel to the rescue. Noticing he boy was famished, she took him in for breakfast, heard his tale of creepy-crawlies on the bed, and offered to let him use one of the spare bedrooms.
A week later, on the day of the festival, several things happened. For starters, Link commissioned three small carvings of his Goddesses, for help in meditation and prayer. Second, he danced with two pretty girls -- sweet, sisterly Jewel, and the exotic, half-naked Midna -- and managed to impress both. Third, he got heckled and then challenged to a fight by some tall, fat weirdo in a dress (in reality: Ganon in his robes, but Link never DID learn the man's name). The guy was tougher than he'd expected, by a LOT, but Link not only won, but -- in the name of making sure the guy didn't try and make trouble as soon as he awoke -- hogtied and hurled the guy into a nearby horse pen, where he landed in a mud pile. Needless to say, Link's got himself a new enemy -- and he doesn't even know it. The fourth thing that happened is he dance, once again; this time, with Vaati, of all people. After some cultural exchange of dance steps, the two head off for some fishing, somehow end up with Link giving Vaati an amateur therapy session, and then with Link asking Vaati to accompany him on a journey he'd been planning to make for some time: to map out the geography of this strange new Hyrule, in the hopes of making sense of when in time he could conceivably be. The journey ended up rather more, erm, INTERESTING than either Link or Vaati had planned on... As of the moment, the two are... not exactly "boyfriends"... maybe "involved" suits better? In any case, there's copious amounts of intense making-out, although, funny enough, the two have yet to figure out how, exactly, two men go about having actual "sex".
Enter, the day that Vaati's spell goes awry! Yes. Dear, sweet, adorable, INCREDIBLY naughty and devious Vaati tries to cast a spell to swap Ganon's clothes for women's dresses... and ends up accidently cursing half the current population of Hyrule into swapping clothes and gear. This is how Link ends up in Ganondorf's robes, how Vaati ends up in Midna's shirtless dress, and how Link ends up finding the *ahem!* "romance" novel in the robe of Ganon's pocket, which MAY just solve the problems he and Vaati have been having -- an especially big problem now, since, well, Vaati looks frickin' HAWT in that sarong (and, though he doesn't know it, Link looks pretty dang smexy, himself, in those robes)!
Thus far, the only person who knows of their relationship is Jewel (jewel_of_hyrule ), who was kind enough to agree to let Vaati teleport into the house in order to use the bathtub, since it's almost impossible to hold the magicked outfit in one hand white maneuvering soap and bucket of water in the other. She'd been empathically sensing an unusual level of warmth and peace from Linksha, the last several weeks, and the feeling multiplied tenfold when Vaati visited the house, and she noticed similar vibes coming off of the sorcerer.
Update on above: Yes, the book DID help! Problem? Solved! Virginity? GONE! Official relationship status? Lovers.