[ To start with, they need to remove all the gear they're wearing, from the top down. The sword, the shield, the Silver Gauntlets, the different and innumerable bags containing all the items they'd collected, the bow and quiver, even the boots down to only their socks... and finally, the Kokiri tunic is also removed and placed on Link's bed, all just for this.
... Thankfully, Link wears rather plain underclothes, so this isn't SO awkward, it merely reveals the plain white pants (not really just tights, thank you!) and shirt under it, and better shows the Hero of Time's build as... not what you might expect.
Without the tunic and all the gear on, it's a little easier now to spot something that, truthfully, most do not notice: just how Link's body is actually shaped. It is, in reality, rather more curved than you would think of an adolescent male's. Oh, there is muscle, and plenty of it, but it is hardly of the bulky type you'd think to see in a swordfighter who was also a man, right? In fact, the shoulders are not as broad as they might at first appear, and rather more curved than straight. Link is a little bit shorter without the boots, too, only slightly taller than Zelda herself.
If that is not revealing enough, and she has not gotten the hint by now, there remains... one final thing that has to be done, here. With a small inhale, Link reaches under that shirt, still facing away from Zelda (because it would be too embarrassing to do this any other way), and slowly unwraps the white bandages hidden under it. This all happens with silence, still, but Link presses on, until the bandages are fully removed, which remain in their hand.
Some of this may be oddly familiar to Zelda herself, even. ]
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... Thankfully, Link wears rather plain underclothes, so this isn't SO awkward, it merely reveals the plain white pants (not really just tights, thank you!) and shirt under it, and better shows the Hero of Time's build as... not what you might expect.
Without the tunic and all the gear on, it's a little easier now to spot something that, truthfully, most do not notice: just how Link's body is actually shaped. It is, in reality, rather more curved than you would think of an adolescent male's. Oh, there is muscle, and plenty of it, but it is hardly of the bulky type you'd think to see in a swordfighter who was also a man, right? In fact, the shoulders are not as broad as they might at first appear, and rather more curved than straight. Link is a little bit shorter without the boots, too, only slightly taller than Zelda herself.
If that is not revealing enough, and she has not gotten the hint by now, there remains... one final thing that has to be done, here. With a small inhale, Link reaches under that shirt, still facing away from Zelda (because it would be too embarrassing to do this any other way), and slowly unwraps the white bandages hidden under it. This all happens with silence, still, but Link presses on, until the bandages are fully removed, which remain in their hand.
Some of this may be oddly familiar to Zelda herself, even. ]