[gender switch] For Alistair

[hylianqueen]

It had been a while since Zelda had woken up with the heavy feeling that she was no longer in her own body. When she had first become Sheik, it had taken a while to get used to the way his body felt, the way things felt different from Zelda's body and after a while, Sheik felt more like home than Zelda ever did. It was an old, familiar friend,

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[a_royal_bastard]

Alistair has learned, in his year and handful of months, how to sleep in. He'd been completely out cold, a hand hanging off their (admittedly still a-bit-small-for-two) bed, when the sound of Zelda speaking roused him.

He was first greeted by the sight of Duncan staring at him oddly from his place on the floor. Then he turned his head to look toward Zelda, and -

"Dear Maker! Who are you?!"

The lack of space didn't allow him to move away from the strange man next to him, but in his surprise he forgot that fact. He tumbled out of bed, limbs tangled in the light sheet he had on top of him, and that's when

"What's - what is this?!" he exclaimed, startled, as he looked down at himself. Or at least he thought it was himself, because usually the view didn't include slim arms, long hair (which nearly covered his face), and breasts.

Duncan whined, looking between the two, about as confused as Alistair was.

[hylianqueen]

"It's me, Alistair, it's Zelda." She had been considerably less alarmed at waking up in this state but, again, it was one she had been intimately familiar with before coming to the island. She tried not to look too closely at the body Alistair had. It felt like cheating, in a way.

"Our genders are wrong. Does the island normally do this?"

[a_royal_bastard]

"I - I don't know," he said, lifting a lock of his new, much longer hair and staring between it and the man claiming to be Zelda. "Is it? Is that it? Because it's not funny!"

He gathered his sheets around him to cover his body, less from Zelda but more from himself.

[hylianqueen]

"Hmm. Well, I can prove to you that I'm Zelda, somehow, and you can prove that you're Alistair? If we get that squared away, at least we can trust one another."

She tapped her mouth, thinking. What was something she knew that nobody else did?

"You were raised by a man named Eamon before you went to the Chantry as a child. Duncan's what's called a Mabari hound. You told me you loved me by the waterfall. Is that enough? It's me."