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• Okay, let's talk about the ending of Link's Awakening. Why does the Wind Fish just leave Link behind?! Link just went through loads of dangerous battles to save the Wind Fish from endless sleep, and had to cause Dream Apocalypse in the process... the Wind Fish even says that the island will continue to exist in Link's memories, so why not give him a ride home so he can tell people about it?! Stupid inconsiderate whale.
  • Give the guy a break, he just woke up. Are you rational and intelligent when you wake up? The way I see it, Windfish is halfway to [presumably] Zora's Domain when he remembers he left The Hero out in the ocean, at which point he figures that if Link was gonna drown he woulda done so already, so too late to go back.
  • I attribute it to the Windfish being a Semi-Divine Jackass. (Is that a trope?) He considers assisting him a great honour in iteslf, and thus doesn't feel like he needs to help the insignificant Hylian after all Link went through.
  • We don't know he left him in the middle of the ocean. For all we know, Link woke up near an island or something.
  • This Troper liked to joke that Link grabbed some driftwood, started paddling while singing "Row Row Row Your Boat" to the tune of "Marin's Song".
    • The manga adaptation actually does end with Link grabbing some driftwood and paddling away towards the horizon.
  • Maybe the WMG about how the game was Link's dream, not the Wind Fish's, is actually supported by this ending?
  • Literary Agent Hypothesis would solve this. Link obviously had to survive in order to tell somebody about the story. If Link had died without sharing the story, we wouldn't know about it. Or maybe I misunderstand the trope.
• Are Marin's ear's the pointy elf kind, or are they more human like? All the official art of her has her hair covering it so it's hard to tell. And consider that with differing art styles, the length of a Hylian's ears can vary so just saying their round because if they were elf ears, they'd be longer is not the end of the discussion.
  • Presumably she just has shorter pointed ears, given how Marin is supposed to be a Zelda Expy and Zelda does have pointed ears.
  • Even in the manga where there's a lot of art of Marin, her hair is always covering her ears. Apparently, it's part of her character design. Nonetheless, all of the other natives of Koholint Island have rounded ears so presumably Marin would as well.
• Why does Marin want to be a seagull of all birds? Seagulls make horrible-sounding squawks, right?
  • But the point is that they can fly across the sea, which is Marin's dream.
    • But I thought seagulls only went out to sea to die.
• We all know the infamous shopkeeper, who kills you with his super lightning spell, if you steal? Why isn't he the one saving the day? Couldn't he just walk into all the dungeons and fry every monster inside leaving the easy part?
  • Because he's not real. Link is. So, apparently, is Prince Richard (although it could be argued that he is meant to be a reference to Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, rather than a literal appearance by the character, in which case the above would not be true).
  • Well, he only does that if you steal. Perhaps he just doesn't care about saving the day because the monsters aren't stealing from him, so as long as they don't bother him specifically he's not going to do anything about them.
  • A major part of the characterization of the islanders is that they don't really know what's going on and that they're blissfully ignorant of Link's quest and the island's true nature.
• Why did the developers remove the ability to skip the text from common dungeon items? (keys, compass)

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