I have a headcanon that I wanna share about the Links in relation to fear. Cause I have a lot of thoughts on it.
But I think the same way each of the Links takes on aspects of the wholeâs personality, they also take on aspects of personality to fill in the cracks (like jurrasic park scientists using frog DNA to fill in the missing pieces of the dinosaur genome). And I wanna focus on fear thanks to the original thought that had me sharing.
Blue and Redâs fear responses are obvious: fight and flight, rage and run away. Blue getting combative to anyone and everything because thereâs danger everywhere and his allies are idiots (ignore that heâs also an idiot). Red ran away from a lot but also some of his bright and chipper attitude can read as him being naive by some and as him putting on a front by others.
Now Vio and Green need a few more examples than just⌠pointing vaguely at the manga as a whole.
Vio has fawn: the fear response that leads to anxious people pleasers. But this coincides with him being stoic and hiding a lot of his emotions behind a mask anyways, so it doesnât come off that way, but: Look at the whole scene with him and Shadow in that forest, the scenes between him and Shadow following.
He sees the obvious points: Shadow is stronger than him, Shadow is in his element, Vio is weakened by fighting presumably all day with minimal rest the previous night, the forest is trying to kill him.
With no ways out. Vio chooses to fawn. Let Shadow see what he wants to see, and if Vio can shape this less than ideal situation to work in his favour- all the better!
Then thereâs Green. Green who freezes when the group has to fight armour of their allies and still thinks thereâs people they know and care for under it, when the eyeball rock brings him to the dark world, when theyâre fighting their dad.
When he fights an opponent he physically canât touch, and has self deprecating thoughts, and a more lethargic (for lack of better term) attitude towards it.
These guys are trained soldiers, so their coping mechanisms to fear are more in tact, with Blue and Red having heightened emotional responses for being Linkâs emotional centres, and Green and Vio just having moments before quickly recovering and moving on.
I donât know. Still figuring that out. Though currently I think heâs a mix of the four.