You can bet this boy would be doing everything in his power to stop Warriors from fading, begging him to tell him anything that could help! You need me to track down the time witches? I'll do it bro, just stay with us!!!
But when he realizes that Warriors is fading too fast for them to reach his Hyrule in time, Legend just breaks. He keep doing everything possible to help, but one evening, when Warriors is just kinda hovering because he doesn't even have feet anymore, Legend sits down next to him and asks Warriors to tell him something.
"What?" The captain asks.
"Everything." The veteran answers.
And Warriors does, he tells Legend everything; how he grew up, about training, about the wra and the army and the battles he fought. About meeting Time and Wind and Ravio and Marin and so, so many others. And Legend listens. Legend writes every word in a book that's his, and it's real, and when Warriors finally fades it's with his three boys all close by, Time and Wind each doing their best to hold his hand and Legend perched by his head, book in hand, writing out the Captain's final words to them all.
The pages of that book are tearstained and smudged, and Warriors has watched night after night as the vet weeps over the book and his friend, unable to do anything to help because he can't even touch them anymore.
And when they come to Warriors' time, one where everyone's hearts break at seeing the familiar castle, at seeing the people and the animals and the places all the same, but without the traces of a war that will never be remembered, for now it has never happened. Time and Wind struggle because their memories are fading, but there's a leather bound book that Legend reads over every night, falls asleep with it in his arms, that helps them keep track of who it was that they fought with and what they did here.
And then they come to a tailor's shop.
Warriors' scarf, the only thing left, something they all take turns wearing and which is wrapped around their tree youngest at night, has been damaged, and they decide to visit the shop to either have it repaired or find some materials to do it themselves.
When they walk in, they're met with a too familiar smile as eyes the same hue of the beloved scarf flash over to them.
"What can I do for you fine gentlemen?"
There's happy tears everywhere, but they quickly fade to sobs for some of the younger ones when they realize that this Warriors, no, Link, who is only a common tailor, knows nothing about who they are.
Most of them have to leave, have to spin about on their heels.
A few stay. Warriors' boys stand and ask for the scarf to be mended, and even if it's not the same, will never be the same, it brings a little comfort to see him holding the scarf and inspecting it like the Captain did after so many battles.
"A favorite clothing article I see." The Warriors look alike jokes, and Legend nods.
The tailor smiles and agrees to mend it, and asks questions about what happened.
When they visit a time that once belonged to a courageous captain, three heroes will always visit the tailors, and while the man there is always confused as to why he's asked to tend to the same item, especially when there's so very much more that clearly needs mending, he agrees, even if the item in questing is never damaged. He tends it with the utmost care, and in the meantime, listens excitedly to the stories read from an old leather tome held by a pink-haired veteran, one that glitters with gold lettering the same shade of a certain hero's hair with the words "The Ballad of Warriors". And once or twice, he even prompts a tune or two from the three young men.
It's strange, even though he knows so little about them, they feel like brothers.
