The Tether

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The Tether App

After the raging success of their previous code push, the creators of The Tether have decided to push their app again, an app intended for helping new arrivals find Tethers.

Unfortunately for those who don't want to participate, the prompt for the application will keep popping up on their screen until they fill out the mandatory fields and post their profile. If you don't want to participate, it might be best to fill in the blanks with prank answers!

Once posted, the app creates a profile that looks like this:

	The Witch
«		»
	Age: ageless Gender: female Interests: three interests About: 30 words or less
	base code by photosynthesis
	Tian
	« ✘ ✔ »

It is a simple swiping type app like many dating apps, swipe left to ignore a profile, swipe right to initiate an instant messenger conversation with the person in question on the app's proprietary chat program, complete with emojis!

NOTE: This meme is game canon.

The Code

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NAVIGATION

Comments

Link | Breath of the Wild

[newmemorywhodis]

	LINK
«		»
	Age: 118?? Gender: Male Interests: Horses. Cooking. Sand seal surfing. About: I fight things.
	base code by photosynthesis
	HEBA
	« ✘ ✔ »

[Has Link bothered to update his profile? No. No he has not.]

[bladebabysitter]

I'm aligned with Heba too, so I can't keep you alive, but if you need some balance I'll provide as best I can.

[newmemorywhodis]

I won't die


You want to tether?

[bladebabysitter]

So long as you have a Tian tether, in any case.

I have one myself, but if balance is beneficial, I could use another Heba partner.
So yes, I would.

[And honestly she has no idea how well Link gets along with anyone else, so she might be doing him and them a favor. Or perhaps she's wrong and it's superfluous. Better to play it safe, though.]

[newmemorywhodis]

I have two

Okay

[Link honestly hasn't thought too much about tether balance, and whether he needs it. But if Elma needs it...well, then he should help her out, shouldn't he?]

[bladebabysitter]

You've been busier than I have. It's a deal, then.

[newmemorywhodis]

Rokuro took a long time. Luke didn't.

[Mainly because while Luke and Link just went to a market stall and called it a day, Rokuro had wanted something more...elaborate. And now Link was wondering: which would Elma prefer? A quick visit to the market, or the big ceremony?]

[bladebabysitter]

[The fact that he even needs to wonder says so much about how bad he is at reading people.]

As far as I'm concerned, there's no need to delay.

[newmemorywhodis]

Okay

Me and Luke tethered at a stall in the market

[bladebabysitter]

That's basically what Codi and I did as well.
Call me crazy, but I don't feel like the whole pseudo-marriage ceremony really works in a circumstance like this.

[newmemorywhodis]

It made Rokuro happy

[which was the main reason Link, baffled as he was by the whole thing, was still happy to go along with it. Also, he got to dress up like Rhondson.]

I'm going to the market now

[bladebabysitter]

I'll meet you there.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link doesn't reply - now that they've decided, he doesn't really see much need to keep looking at the conversation. Though really, he's not all that used to planning to meet up with people at all. Usually Link just shows up.

He's also wasn't exactly close to the market at the time, so it takes a while for him to make his way to the market. The fact that he makes several detours along the way - for mushrooms, for some moths, for some pretty yellow flowers - also doesn't help.

If Elma's already there when he arrives, he'll seek her out. If not, he'll find somewhere to sit and start work on her flower crown. Those yellow flowers should be nice for that...

[bladebabysitter]

Elma is far faster, being focused and undeterred by detours. Fortunately, she's also very patient -- there's a lot to be learned just by watching the market and how all the people interact, despite their circumstances and origin.

When Link finally does make it, though, she lifts her hand slightly in his direction to signal that yes, she's noticed him.

[newmemorywhodis]

Patience is good. She might need it, with Link.

Although after today, she'll know exactly where he is at all times - so perhaps that will help.

Link spots her quickly enough, and makes a beeline for her once he's in the market. "I need to make your flower crown," he tells her, as he taps at his Slate to pull out one of the yellow flowers. "Look!"

See, it's nice, isn't it? Elma should look nice, with these flowers in her crown.

[bladebabysitter]

Elma looks at him evenly for a moment.

"I thought we weren't doing a ceremony," she says, after she's thought about it long enough to conclude that she has yet to see Link evince any understanding of the concept of humor.

[newmemorywhodis]

"The lady who tethered me and Luke said everyone needs flower crowns."

Which means Link had been under the impression that, regardless of whether you kept things quick and simple or went the whole nine yards, flower crowns were a Requirement.

[bladebabysitter]

Elma considers.

She can debate this, since she has irrefutable evidence that they are not required. Or she can just go along with it.

"I suppose I can't argue with that."

The choice really isn't that difficult.

[newmemorywhodis]

At the very least, Link looks happy to be making it for her - he soon finds an empty bench, sits down, and starts pulling things out of the Slate and fashioning them into a flower crown.

There's those yellow flowers, of course. And a few other assorted herbs and flowers he's picked up in his various travels in the jungle. But there's a few other not exactly floral items he throws in as well - such as a few mushrooms, and some shiny stones and rocks.

"I can make one for me too. If you don't want to," he says as he works - since Elma hadn't really seemed too keen on the flower crowns.

[bladebabysitter]

"It's not a matter of wanting to, so much as that I have no idea how. Skills like this aren't anywhere near what I've learned and needed over time."

Once everything had settled down -- once humanity had found its footing on Mira, the Lifehold located and secured and NLA functioning, then she'd always planned to try to practice some skills that weren't just combat. Now, it looks like that time will never come, not on Mira, not here.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link hadn't really thought of making flower crowns as a skill. It seemed more like a think you just...did. But then, maybe it was a bit like his skills will weapons - something he'd learned before, and now didn't have to think about much, even when he didn't remember learning.

"You just kind of...tie it all together?" he says. Then he holds out the crown he's working on, so Elma can see how he does it.

It's not exactly neat. Or particularly sturdy - it's the sort of thing that can only be worn once, before it falls to pieces. He's not going to be winning any craft awards. But it is still a flower crown.

[bladebabysitter]

It is.

"Did you just start trying these one day and found out it wasn't hard?" For him, anyway. Link is... definitely odd in many ways, such that having a talent like this seems very understandable. Whereas Elma's oddities are hidden deeper.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Yes." And actually, he'd only made the one before - the one for Luke.

But then he briefly stops working on Elma's flower crown, reaching to pull out a handful of other flowers from his Slate. Rather than yellow, these are a pale blue colour. He holds them out to her, saying nothing - but the question is implied all the same. Does she want to try?

[bladebabysitter]

...She doesn't, but she's going to anyway, because she recognizes that figuring things like this out are beneficial for her in the long run. So she accepts the flowers wordlessly, then begins attempting to knit them together.

[newmemorywhodis]

As Elma works on hers, Link finishes off his own. It's maybe not exactly standard, seeing as in addition to the yellow flowers he also adds some tiny mushrooms. And it's a little lopsided. But he's happy with it.

Then he sits, and waits. If Elma wants it, he'll help. But he won't insist if she wants to do it herself.