It doesn't seem to matter. It. Just. Is. The reason we often saw silent protagonists was so that the player had a way to imprint onto the character without giving them a voice. What a fucking profound choice, then, to give these characters a home life that isn't idyllic. 4/8

It reminds me a lot of why Ocarina of Time hit me so hard as a little neurodivergent kid. How could I not relate to the strange kid that nobody understood and everyone made fun of? He wasn't one of the Kokiri, despite living amongst them. Yet it was HE who broke free and 5/8