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Accidental characterisation is my favourite characterisation.
Admittedly, that statement's assuming quite a lot- for all I know, all this stuff which I think is unintentional might've been very well planned out by the writers and they just didn't think to draw attention to it, and I'm being an asshole, but shit son- I love it when gameplay or timelines or just some random stuff leads to a picture of a character with some unlikely traits.
By far, my favourite one of these is Hylia. According to the dialogue, Hylia is rather short-spoken, to the point, and less poetic than one might expect. She doesn't waste words.
According to the gameplay, Hylia thinks that the best way to gain 'spiritual growth' is to send a child with nothing but the clothes on his back and about twenty insta-kill robots that chase him down with cold, unfeeling gazes. And that she should have him do this four times. It absolutely tickles me. If you're like me and assume that the blue/purple/sheeny stuff in Skyward Sword is also connected to Hylia, then she seems to be a bit of a techie in general- good with building strange machines, bad with metaphorical ideas rather than literal ones.
And then if you factor in Fi, it's even funnier, bc Fi looked at BOTW Link and decided, "you know what? Hylia had a point." and then leaves you in a huge trial, naked and afraid, until you git gud.
"I offer you this trial, that it may please Hylia"
The monks took over because no one wanted to let Hylia design another trial.
Admittedly, that statement's assuming quite a lot- for all I know, all this stuff which I think is unintentional might've been very well planned out by the writers and they just didn't think to draw attention to it, and I'm being an asshole, but shit son- I love it when gameplay or timelines or just some random stuff leads to a picture of a character with some unlikely traits.
By far, my favourite one of these is Hylia. According to the dialogue, Hylia is rather short-spoken, to the point, and less poetic than one might expect. She doesn't waste words.
According to the gameplay, Hylia thinks that the best way to gain 'spiritual growth' is to send a child with nothing but the clothes on his back and about twenty insta-kill robots that chase him down with cold, unfeeling gazes. And that she should have him do this four times. It absolutely tickles me. If you're like me and assume that the blue/purple/sheeny stuff in Skyward Sword is also connected to Hylia, then she seems to be a bit of a techie in general- good with building strange machines, bad with metaphorical ideas rather than literal ones.
And then if you factor in Fi, it's even funnier, bc Fi looked at BOTW Link and decided, "you know what? Hylia had a point." and then leaves you in a huge trial, naked and afraid, until you git gud.
"I offer you this trial, that it may please Hylia"
The monks took over because no one wanted to let Hylia design another trial.
