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UnfairRepresent posted...

I always thought Link being a personality-lacking mute was the point.

He's a self-insert for the player into this fantasy world. Christ his name is literally "Link" for fucks sake.

It's not like Ellie from the last of us where it's just a bland character with no interesting personality. He's supposed to be a blank slate.

That was my interpretation anyway

Right but like I said, despite being a self-insert, you can change nothing about him to reflect that. RPG/Adventure games that are meant to have a player serve as the main character let you customize their appearance. Up until BotW you couldn't do that to Link at all, and even now, you can change his clothes slightly.

You a girl? Self-insert yourself onto this dude. You're Black? Self-insert yourself onto this light-skinned character. That's my point. Like I said in OP, he's stuck in an awkward position between sort of character, and sort of avatar.

Hell, the fact that people have said both "He's a stand in" and "Nah I don't think he's a stand in" in this thread is a good example of it lol. Nintendo doesn't know what they want him to be.

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