for the ask game: 9 for rt and/or explorers?
9. Does your hero ever recover their memory?
(I answered this question for RT here!)
For Explorers, Silent unfortunately never gets his memory back ;;;
Maybe he gets fragments occasionally, such as lingering flashes of the Dimensional Scream, but he never regains them in full. From a character perspective, it's something that he really doesn't like to think about, as lingering on the thought gives the feeling that he's missing a large part of who he is.
From a narrative perspective though, I think the dynamic between Hero and Grovyle is a lot more tragic if Hero isn't able to remember him at all :') I can imagine a parallel of the scene where Grovyle is talking to Partner except he's trying to talk with Hero - two individuals who knew each other to the degree of partners, but are complete strangers now. Except Grovyle can see parts of the person he knew, pieces of the personality he learned, remnants of the bond they shared. And Hero just... can't remember anything.
In this essay, I will-