it will always be exactly my shit that the OOT link is a guy who saved two different worlds, was forgotten by both of them because he saved them So Good that the bad guy essentially never existed, then ended up as a pile of bones to teach a much later Link some cool sword tricks and that was it
like, that kicks ass. hero's journey shit but turned on its head - not only can he not go home, he was never even a hero, everyone forgot him. he's just some kid who cosplays as an elf and can play a mean ocarina solo. he's so god damned sad because the only other person (faerie) who knew what happened has disappeared, that in his sadness he falls into a god damned hole and into another dimension, a dimension absolutely fixated on the eventuality of death and ruin.
and even in the alternate timeline where adult link saved the world, it eventually got fucking flooded by the gods because he left to save his original timeline ! ganon came back!! you weren't there to save them!!!
the hero of time kicks ass. what a huge waste of time his life was.
