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LOZ Character Analysis/Rant

Hero of the Wild 3 || The Champions

There are only two things I dislike about Link’s character in BoTW.

The first is that the wild child doesn’t use a shield in any of the memory cutscenes...and this one here. The second is his detachment from the Champions and any friends/family he might have had.

I don’t just mean the blank stares he gives everyone in memory cutscenes and after fighting the Blights, I also mean the fact that in the story he purposefully keeps his distance from them.

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Cinnamon Fishfinger

Don’t @ me, but I prefer to ship Link and Mipha. I’m a sucker for childhood friends okay? There are so many ways relationships can change over time and that’s something I personally love to explore.

So, Mipha’s known Link since he was 4 years old, as stated in her diary, ‘a Hylian child of only about four years of age,’ as he went to Zora’s domain to train. To her he was a reckless, talented ball of sunshine, full of smiles and with the largest roundest eyes known to man. In short, he was a cute kid or in her words, ‘...adorable.’

He also seems to have a fascination with healing magic too. As he grew up it would gradually become less special to him, like most things from childhood.

It is suggested in her diary that there was a period of time, maybe a couple of years, where the two didn’t see each other because Link stopped visiting the domain. The quote ‘He no longer resembles the child I first met,’ suggests that it’s been a while and that she’s now starting to see him in a new light. She also lists his recent accomplishments, is shown to be very proud of how far he’s come and has always believed in him. It’s not clear what prompted him to stop coming, but Mipha is aware that something changed in Link. He was still the ‘kind soul’ she knew, but spoke less and smiled rarely.

Not a fan of the ‘I feel he is ever looking past me, into the distance beyond...’, since it suggests that he could have turned to look at her, but he’s choosing to keep looking forward. It’s poetic that she attributes it to his ‘newly acquired height’, it’s a pretty metaphor for how she won’t ever be able to understand what he sees...because she’s smol. It’s also a cute nod to her attraction to him.

What hurts is that she tried. She tried to her him to tell her what was wrong. She tried to understand his pain but he wouldn’t let her in. Plus their duties as Champions meant that they couldn’t spend much time together hence her bittersweet dialogue during her memory cutscene in BoTW. But even still Mipha made and effort to reconnect with him.

It’s literally no secret that Mipha was in love with Link. Well, somehow it was a secret to everyone in Zora’s domain and even her father, with only her brother Sidon figuring it out decades later. Mipha was a very shy person, so I doubt she would have told anyone about her feelings and therefore the only way for people to catch on is if she slipped up. I think Urbosa caught on and maybe Revali too, if he spent enough time with the Champions. Daruk and Zelda not so much...

Which leaves Link. Gonna go out on a limb here and say that he didn’t know she was in love with him. He knew he meant a lot to her, but wasn’t aware those feelings were romantic. This is because (for obvious reasons) Mipha’s feelings would have blossomed fairly recently- possibly due to Link not visiting Zora’s domain and coming back different each time. And since in the year or so leading up to the Calamity, Mipha and Link had been spending less time together, it’s fair to assume that Link just didn’t notice.

All of page 5 of her diary just gives me the warm fuzzies. The fact that Link came to see her is huge! Mipha didn’t say that he came to check up on the soldiers or to fight the lynel, he came specifically to see her. Perhaps this was after her request to see more of him or it was this visit that made her want to spend more time with him. Either way this shows he cares about her, he enjoys her company, maybe being with her is like a break from all the intense training, plus being at Zora’s domain means he doesn’t have to deal with prying eyes in Hyrule Castle.

‘He insisted he would be fine on his own,’ the fact that he asked her to go back when she followed him to fight the lynel because he wanted her to know that he could do it by himself is precious. It’s sounds more like to me that he worries that she still sees him as a little kid and wants to prove himself. It can’t that he doesn’t think she can help, I’m sure he knows and respects her as a warrior and he wouldn’t be too worried about her getting hurt, because she’s a healer who can kick ass.

They argued about it! They were both that stubborn. I can just imagine them trying to one up each other while blushing like idiots. Mipha’s never had a problem with getting Link to talk to her, as shown by page 5 he speaks to her just fine.

Also they way she describes his fighting style and resolves to use one of his techniques the ‘spin attack’, is again too cute. I wonder if Link did all those fancy moves during the lynel fight just to show off a bit.

Mipha went through the trouble of making the armour in secret meaning that she knew she had a chance. I’m under the impression that she would have given the armour to Link after the Calamity, because giving it to him before would just be a selfish and really insensitive thing to do, even if he did accept her proposal. The fact that she jumps straight to engagement is a testament to how close she feels she is with him.

I think he might have accepted her feelings...in AoC, not so much in BoTW. There was just too much going through Link’s head and so much that Mipha wasn’t privy to that he wouldn’t accept her proposal before the Calamity. Afterwards he might have, but...uh...she’s a ghost now. Bummer.

Would’ve been nice to have had baby shark as a brother-in-law. Doo doo do doo do doo.

Lightning my Queen

Urbosa was the Champion Link was the least close with. She wasn’t really anything to him other than a work colleague with some motherly tendencies. Think about it, Link is too over qualified to be any sort of mentee (apart from leadership advice), they don’t have any history prior to being made Champions and Urbosa cares way more about Zelda than she does him.

Which doesn’t mean that she doesn’t care about him at all, it’s just that everything to do with them related to Zelda. Since it was announced that he would be Zelda's guardian knight she wanted them to get along. She knew why ‘Zelda was... uncharacteristically cold toward Link,’ but didn’t hold it against him.

Page 6 of her diary is interesting. She seems to take a backseat approach in getting Link and Zelda to be friends- seeing it as ‘none’ of her business. Plus she doesn’t seem to have much of an interest in him outside of Zelda. That feeling is mutual as Link seems to see Urbosa the same way, asking her to help him get to Zelda after she ran off without him and hide in Gerudo Town.

Btw I don’t like the line ‘He tells me Zelda exploited our law that restricts men from entering town to slip away from him,’ because it kind of contradicts his confusion at Zelda’s rage when she snaps at him at the shrine- like, either he knows what’s going on with her or he doesn’t. And that line heavily suggests that he knows she’s avoiding him. If the King directly ordered him to go to her then I could see him still being in the dark. Also...this was really early into his job as her knight and was taking his duty seriously and of course had no reason to suspect that she hated him. But I digress.

She wanted them to ‘get along’ ; didn’t see much use in giving Link advice when Zelda would be a much better confidant. Outside of getting the teens to get to know each other, Urbosa never really took much of a personal interest in Link. And he didn’t seem to fussed about getting to know her either. Both Urbosa and Daruk are the golden oldies of the group, where Urbosa took the laid back aunt method, Daruk was a much more hands on sort of uncle...

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Page 3 reveals the first meeting between Link and Daruk, which occurred before he officially became a Champion. Daruk thought Link was being attacked by monsters but when he got close Link killed them all and then saved Daruk after a stray monster jumped him. He was impressed with the tiny Hylian’s ‘Goron-like strength’ and even had a dopey expression when Link saved him, like he couldn’t quite believe it. I like to think Link did notice, it would have made him warm up to him much faster.

Goodness, page 4′s ‘He liked it so much he was speechless’, is hilarious. Like, no Daruk sweetie, the poor boy was probably suffering indigestion. But the use of ‘speechless’ was pretty interesting, it leads me to believe that Link spoke to Daruk freely. Daruk also doesn’t say that Link is unusual or quiet, so Link probably feels more relaxed around Daruk.

The two of them became brothers for life due to two things: Training and eating. Daruk fed him rocks and Link was happy to share combat tips with him.

Page 6′s quote ‘I hadn't talked with Link in a while’, is also really cute. Even after not seeing each other for a while they still get along like a house on fire. Link probably spent as much of the inauguration ceremony with his Goron brother as possible. Much better than chatting up upperty nobility.

‘I asked Link for advice, but he just shoved me into the Divine Beast so I could explore it aimlessly all day,’ from page 7 irks me. Not the advice bit, that’s cute af. I love that Daruk goes to Link for advice. Either he thought that Link would have some knowledge the Divine Beasts from hanging around Zelda or he just wanted some simple advice from the homie. It’s the fact that Link so easily, wordlessly and literally pushed Daruk into the solution. As I said in the previous post, I believe that this incarnation of the hero is relatively emotionally aware, not that he’s this observant guy who knows you better than yourself.

Just...where was this perceptiveness when it came to Zelda or Revali?

That being said I don’t think that’s what made Link do what he did. Daruk writes, ‘Little guy's strength must come from workin' hard and never givin' up,’ which means that Link’s advice stemmed directly from how he trained himself/ what he feels is the best way to learn. Link’s way of doing things? Face it head on! Don’t run away, don’t hide, just deal with it.

Zelda has the opposite attitude towards her Sacred duty and Revali has never addressed his animosity towards Link head on either. Maybe that’s why he was less eager to become friends with them.

This is actually pretty perceptive on Daruk’s part, maybe that’s why Link likes him so much, Daruk can understand him without him needing to spill his life story. He was also a chill drama-free friend, the complete opposite to everyone’s favourite salty birb...

Rev it up

I love Ravioli a lot, so I did a whole ass analysis of his character:

Link here

I will say though, I think Link disliked Revali. And I don’t mean that he felt intimidated by him or was too shy to reach out or he was too caught up in his knight business. I mean that he actively went out of his way to avoid him and had no interest in getting to know him.

That’s all because Revali made the worst possible first impression during that memory cutscene. When Revali says, “[...] let’s not- pardon me for being so blunt,” you can see Link actually step back from Revali when he gets closer. That may just be Link being awkward since it’s their first meeting, but as shown in BoTW Link is a ball of sunshine when meeting new people. So Link isn’t being awkward or shy here, he’s just decided that he didn’t like the birb and didn’t care for his attitude.

It’s a real shame. They could have been really good friends if they had taken the time to get to know each other. If Revali had a change of heart like Zelda did and became nicer to Link, then I’m sure he would have responded positively. As things stand though, they didn’t even have a rivalry. Revali tried to initiate something but Link wasn’t having it.

Also, Revali is an introvert. After Link ignored him he flew off to find solace in Medoh, i.e. being around people is mentally draining for him.

Where Daruk if proud of Link for his job as the Princess’ Knight and Mipha is jealous that the two will spend much time together, Revali just finds the whole affair annoying.

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