music played a huge part in much of link's time in both hyrule & termina - of all the songs he's learned over the years, does he have a favourite ? a least favourite ? did he care for music once all was said & done, or could he have gone without hearing it again for the rest of his life ?
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those darn catchy ocarina tunes that will (and have) haunt link to his deathbed.
link has a complicated relationship with music, for, as seen in twilight princess, he still has a strong tether to its ability to convey emotions, a way of connecting his heart and soul to that of his descendent (tp link), and singing to the world the stories of old.
yet, for all of its merits, there is a melancholic bitterness that accompanies it.
a simplistic tune such as epona’s song still bears its original warmth, bringing to mind the sweet, soft-voiced lullaby malon would hum to him when night terrors roused him from sleep. it carries the scent of sun-warmed hay, the velvety touch of epona’s lips nibbling on his ear, of a summer sky without a hint of clouds in it, and all of the peaceful tranquility that awaited him at lon lon ranch at the end of his long journey.
it is, perhaps, the only song that he learned that has almost no ill-meaning attached to it.
in contrast, the holy song for the door of time, the song of time, is bittersweet.
the heavenly tune connected to the very goddesses themselves reminds him of what childhood was robbed from him, molded at such a young, tender age into a soldier to wage war in a battle that never needed to involve him.
through it, he had forged a friendship with the very princess of hyrule herself---but at what cost?
the countless aged scars on his body outnumber the sweet memories made, and in his death, he still questions if all of his actions had been righteous and his own, or a form of puppetry by the goddesses’ pulling his strings for their bidding, for their own definition of ‘justice’.
saria’s song makes him think of what he had to walk away from, what he could never return to.
the song of healing can only repair so much, bringing only temporary peace and clarity to departed souls, but incapable of bringing back the dead or calming calamity.
the sun’s song, initially a melody so bright and warm, became a weapon against the undead, images of townspeople he had met in brief passing as a child, now forced to walk as corpses under an eternally stormy sky, burnt into memory.
would he choose to forgo these memories, cast them away into a chest and toss away the key?
sometimes, he does.
there is a shame that surrounds those memories that no one else has, the experiences dismissed as nightmares, and melodies so strikingly similar to ones he once played often trigger panic attacks, episodes that have fellow soldiers wondering if he had finally lost his head, townspeople wary of whether or not he could truly serve them, and leaves malon at a desperate loss how to soothe his irreparable soul.
but these experiences shaped him, made him who he was--he would not have met malon nor epona without his journey, his friendship with princess zelda would be nonexistent, and through song, he remains tied in some way to saria, distant as they must now be.
the worst part of it all is simply the inability to pass it down, to tell the stories of his journey, and knowing it must all fade into obscurity, just like him.
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