[LINK | LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM HOURGLASS] (RESERVED)marburusuOctober 1 2010, 10:43:48 UTC
Link is generally well-liked over all, as he is polite and humble in attitude, and he seems genuinely willing to aid people with little tasks here and there. He is a curious boy by nature and quite sweet, something that often attracts people to his presence, as well as the deep level of understanding he seems to develop as he learns more about a person. Thusly, Link can be very empathetic and doesn't have much difficulty comprehending the emotions and internal struggles of other people-- but this can also be a weakness, because Link can easily fall for a sob story as long as it is logical (or as logical as logic is in a Nintendo game) and strikes a sympathetic cord with him.
While Link still has a lot of the naïvety of a little kid, he is not nearly as innocent as he should be due to everything he's had to do during his journey: he's confronted horrible monsters and killed those monsters, he's been nearly killed himself, and he's had to deal with a great amount of abandonment. He was forced to leave his grandmother all alone and fend for himself, which means he had to learn how to be completely independent in not only every day life, but also in the dangerous situations his quest required from him. It is not a far stretch to say that Link probably became home sick often, and alongside that, he also had to deal with the guilt of allowing his sister to be kidnapped instead of being able to protect her as he believes he should. Because of this, it is likely that Link suffers from nightmares, whether about monsters, Ganondorf, Bellum or even just missing his family and friends.
As a whole, Link is a very kind and very friendly child who is always willing to lend a hand to anyone who needs help, or a shoulder for someone to cry on. He is associated most with the goddess Farore (because of his Triforce; this is also why he wears green clothes since it's Farore's favourite colour or something), and it is possible another reason he is identified with her is because of his gentle demeanor, similar to the nature she controls. It is definitely true that Link is also incredibly mature for his age when he is in a serious or dangerous situation-- though he is still a kid, and has the occasional tendency to be a little childish: his gestures, noises and mannerisms are often indicators of just how young he really is.
And as experienced as Link is in life, it only goes so far for him considering his environment previous to this game. He's gained a lot of it from his travels with Linebeck (the islands are much bigger and have larger populations than the sector of ocean his first adventure took place in), but he still has an EXTREMELY miniscule knowledge on actual land-land and how big its numbers usually are. A village of 1000 would literally be like, unfathomably MASSIVE to him, so he'll likely be overwhelmed for a while once he sees how many people there are to interact with. Another example would be the amount of species on the "ocean" (seeing as how this is actually part of the Ocean King's world, it doesn't entirely count as the Great Sea). In Link's "world", the majority of the people living there were all Hylian, but as Link ventured into more distant regions aka another fucking dimension, he found out that his species is in fact, the extreme minority. As it appears from Phantom Hourglass, Hylians are actually extremely rare, and round-eared humans are the dominant race for the most part, besides the Anouki, Gorons and select others. He's probably much more used to being looked at strangely or questioned about his appearance now, so that itself will be less of a shift-- the thing that will throw him off the most is simply how frigging tall they are in Splendor. He's used to being The Smaller One by this point, but he definitely isn't going to used to any like, 6-foot-nine-inched giants coming his way.
While Link still has a lot of the naïvety of a little kid, he is not nearly as innocent as he should be due to everything he's had to do during his journey: he's confronted horrible monsters and killed those monsters, he's been nearly killed himself, and he's had to deal with a great amount of abandonment. He was forced to leave his grandmother all alone and fend for himself, which means he had to learn how to be completely independent in not only every day life, but also in the dangerous situations his quest required from him. It is not a far stretch to say that Link probably became home sick often, and alongside that, he also had to deal with the guilt of allowing his sister to be kidnapped instead of being able to protect her as he believes he should. Because of this, it is likely that Link suffers from nightmares, whether about monsters, Ganondorf, Bellum or even just missing his family and friends.
As a whole, Link is a very kind and very friendly child who is always willing to lend a hand to anyone who needs help, or a shoulder for someone to cry on. He is associated most with the goddess Farore (because of his Triforce; this is also why he wears green clothes since it's Farore's favourite colour or something), and it is possible another reason he is identified with her is because of his gentle demeanor, similar to the nature she controls. It is definitely true that Link is also incredibly mature for his age when he is in a serious or dangerous situation-- though he is still a kid, and has the occasional tendency to be a little childish: his gestures, noises and mannerisms are often indicators of just how young he really is.
And as experienced as Link is in life, it only goes so far for him considering his environment previous to this game. He's gained a lot of it from his travels with Linebeck (the islands are much bigger and have larger populations than the sector of ocean his first adventure took place in), but he still has an EXTREMELY miniscule knowledge on actual land-land and how big its numbers usually are. A village of 1000 would literally be like, unfathomably MASSIVE to him, so he'll likely be overwhelmed for a while once he sees how many people there are to interact with. Another example would be the amount of species on the "ocean" (seeing as how this is actually part of the Ocean King's world, it doesn't entirely count as the Great Sea). In Link's "world", the majority of the people living there were all Hylian, but as Link ventured into more distant regions aka another fucking dimension, he found out that his species is in fact, the extreme minority. As it appears from Phantom Hourglass, Hylians are actually extremely rare, and round-eared humans are the dominant race for the most part, besides the Anouki, Gorons and select others. He's probably much more used to being looked at strangely or questioned about his appearance now, so that itself will be less of a shift-- the thing that will throw him off the most is simply how frigging tall they are in Splendor. He's used to being The Smaller One by this point, but he definitely isn't going to used to any like, 6-foot-nine-inched giants coming his way.
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