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Looking at Link Post Majora’s Mask is Basically Staring Into the Abyss

Link is this smol child that’s survived stuff like the Shadow Temple and the Termina time loop. I feel like at some point he might just … stop caring.

Like, sure the stuff is scary but he has to do it anyway because he’s the HeroTM and what else is he going to do? Go home? He can’t go back to the Kokiri Forest and even if he did he wouldn’t fit in the space he once lived in. Not quite a man, not quite a child.

So he fights. He beats back the darkness no one else wants to touch.

He pushes himself through quest after mind scarring quest until one day being the paragon of Courage isn’t a matter of overcoming fear but just … abandoning the emotion all together. He becomes a battered, twisted version of the Hero of Hyrule he once was.

It gets to the point that villains laugh at the idea of this kid being their undoing until they see his eyes and just … freeze up.

Some villain: I’ll show you what true fear feels like!

Tiny Link with the gaze of a Redead: There’s no nightmare you can dream up that I haven’t already killed.

Villain: 

Villain: *Backs away slowly and spends the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder*