The Hero

[timeforcourage]

HI!

tl:dr?

One of Gaming's Best Heroes is here...or might be coming. I'm not sure if I can sustain enough activity for three characters, and making Link's app will take up a bit of time too, but I'd like to go along with this someday.

So, we have Link, a boy of humble upbringings (most of the time?). He doesn't seem special until he is swept into danger by the forces of evil. In every incarnation, a lot of faith is placed into Link to save people, go through various dungeons, and fight darkness.

I could use some ideas for integration, and maybe a good friend or two. A mentor? You know you wanna be friends with Link, YES YOU DO! Or a rival?

Someone or something has to lure him into becoming useful/important ^_^;

Here are the current few ideas that I have:

Hylian: The entire population of the game series's settings, most of them aside from Kokiri, seem to look at Link as a common person (human), or am I wrong? Canonically, Hylian seems to be just "human" with a unique ancestry right? What should I do? Also, where should Link live?

Should Hyrule be a Kingdom over the sea?

Nature/Ethnics:
Green clothes symbolize a hero among Link's family and friends because of the ever familiar legend about the Hero of Time vs the Thief King (GANONNNNNN!). Members of his family may be Imperial knights. If we see this as Windwaker, they could've crossed the sea to spread peace and fight the Rift?

Role:
Since there are lot of mentions of spirits on LOZ, I thought of getting Link to intervene with the Holy Grail War so that no one can use it for the wrong reasons. So I had to read...because I'm ignorant with Type Moon/Fate stuff ;_;

What I clearly understand from Let's Plays Thanks Prof is that Servants are heroic spirits with identities based on popular people from folktale, myth, IRL, etc. However, apparently the Grail is corrupted? And from it, more evil servants appear. Looks like the best plan is to get rid of it. Would it be wrong for non-servants to fight Servants? What if he had a Master Sword-equivalent weapon to help him do that?

Another idea is Anti-pirate forces, which occasional fights evil forces such as dark servants.

I can't figure out how to obtain the Triforce of Courage relic. Might be an IC quest.

Since Link has many heroic titles (ie: Hero of Time, Hero of Wind, Chosen Hero, etc), maybe he can adopt the powers of a Servant or is one himself?

Others/weapons
Yes, he's going to talk ^^; And he can carry a bunch of items which I'm still deciding over. Of course, the bow, sword, hookshot and boomerang?

Artifacts:
- Skyward Sword's red Loftwing or just Epona. Maybe Epona.
- A boat or a train?

Throw all your LoZ Geekiness and ideas, and criticisms at me.

Comments

[in_a_nest_of_vipers]

Any paticular incarnation you're going for? From the icon it looks like windwaker, but you also mention the skyward sword and Epona.

[timeforcourage]

No particular inclination. All I have is Young Link and I haven't played much of the games. I'm just trying to read into the titles as much as possible for ideas. Not sure if he'll travel time, cross seas, have amnesia, etc.

He's just quite good with adventuring and fighting baddies.

[in_a_nest_of_vipers]

Interesting take. A sort of fusion of the various Links.

[timeforcourage]

Yep! Hope I can do it.

[not_that_shady]

Just a boy?

Pity, that.

[timeforcourage]

You're lookin' for a slave aren't ya?

[not_that_shady]

I wouldn't call it a "slave." More of a... "helper."

That basically fights all the bad guys and does all the work.

[timeforcourage]

I guess we could make up something.

[crimson_pinnacle]

This interests me.

Also, follow me if you will.

While there is one "Link", Perhaps there's a small corps of like individuals(the Links from the various games.) that have one defining trait, Courage.

The Triforce can perhaps be the whole group's goal, with the knowledge that only one of them can successfully claim it, but who can is unknown to their own numbers, just a youth with light hair, and a green outfit(vague uniforms ala Skyward Sword anyone?)

Hyrule should be a kingdom across the sea, as there's lots of eastern themes lately. And, perhaps the Link you have in question can be a Heroic Spirit that the entire group is modeled after, just incase the power of the Triforce is actually needed again.

Evil Red...

[timeforcourage]

A bunch of green-garbed "Links" running around? With the Triforce being a coveted item.

(XD) For a kid, making him a praised as a HS seems like a lot. That'd probably give him a lot of fans or Grooses

IF there's any Skyward Sword references, I am not familiar with them at all except with the Loftwing animal and the fact that there is a kingdom (?) in the sky. Never played the game ;(

Very evil Red...

[crimson_pinnacle]

Well, I can tell you this without spoiling things.

Link's outfit in the game is the uniform of graduates of the knight academy he goes to, different colors for every year, and surprise, it's green for his year~

Re: Very evil Red...

[timeforcourage]

Oh-hoooo. I see.

[crimson_pinnacle]

Yes!

Another reason I can't help but to want more Links is how different they all are.

OoT was kinda sheltered and a bit slow with how the world worked.

TP was gloomy and sullen for a lot of it, but TP is a kinda gloomy and sullen game during large stretches.

SS is actually kinda hot-blooded! I'm a little surprised, but he's a little lazy, and like I said, hot-blooded.

WW is a bit silly, but that's also the style of the game.

[timeforcourage]

Oh I see. I'm not particularly basing this Link on a single canon, so I can probably mix him up. When I thought of picking him up, I mostly thought of "silly" and "determinator".

Besides, it'd be hard to find more Links wouldn't it?

[crimson_pinnacle]

Well, the thought has crossed my mine, to be honest, but as you say, getting more Links to actually sit down and go through with it is another thing entirely, as I've already promised my 4th slot, and I shouldn't have to begin with...

That aside, I am totally down with a mish-mash version! I think he should have the Beetle from SS (Just like in the demos; remote control thing that flies and picks things up.) and he could easily have lots of fun with that.

But, any good suggestions would have to wait until I hear more of what you've definitely decided is going to go into this version~

[timeforcourage]

New charries appear out of no where. Sometimes, we get real excited and pick people up in a haste.

I looked up the 'Beetle" and it looks cool. A pick-up machine, and something to put on a person's head I guess ^^; May be a replacement for the boomerang?