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hylian_courage

Song 27 :==audio==

May 12, 2009 21:39

Mother's Day... I'd never heard of any holiday like that before now. It got me thinking.

[It made his emo more persistent for a few days too, but that's besides the point.]I never met my mother... I don't even know her name, or my own family's name. But I still feel like I love her ( Read more... )

adult's body, my dad was a tree, link needs a big goron hug

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yousoundblue May 12 2009, 15:50:15 UTC

[Ooh, ooh, Lika knows this one!]

Link, I think you love the idea of your mother.

It sounds like children staying with their genetic parents was the normal family pattern where you're from? And you didn't? So it's natural that you feel a sense of loss about it, especially if your society places great stock in family ties.

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 00:09:02 UTC

The idea... [Thoughtful pause.] ...I guess that would make sense.

Um, well, I'm not actually sure what's normal for Hylians... but a lot of children are missing a parent, because of the war. Even so, families and villages are pretty important, yeah...

tag after a million years yousoundblue May 13 2009, 21:01:19 UTC

It's not necessary to have a conventional upbringing to have a healthy, integrated psyche, but it does help, developmentally.

[Wait, Link probably didn't follow that. Talking to people from other cultures is hard.]

...Link, it's entirely normal to wonder about what could have been, but you can still be healthy and happy even though things were harder for you than for your peers.

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 23:26:25 UTC

Ah... I'll try. Maybe when I go back to Hyrule, and all of this is over, the people in Kakariko can help me. Find a place to stay, I mean.

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thenotmagician May 12 2009, 19:10:20 UTC

Nah. I'd say you were just crazy.

[Zeke, stop teasing the poor people]

But cheer up, Bucko. Least you had a mother and you didn't come from a bucket or something.

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 00:09:30 UTC

Bucket...? Huh?

thenotmagician May 13 2009, 20:23:23 UTC

...Nevermind.

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 23:27:11 UTC

... okay.

Fanon go! not_a_rock May 12 2009, 20:26:10 UTC

I think that's really sweet.

Mother Calindra raised me... my parents gave me up to the temple when I was very young. I don't think about my real mother often... the temple was so good to me I have no regrets.

wee! hylian_courage May 13 2009, 00:12:11 UTC

Thanks, I guess, Ki. [Smile.]

Oh, so... you'd think of her as your mother, or your parents, then? Instead of your real ones?

not_a_rock May 13 2009, 05:24:24 UTC

Well, sure! The temple raised me. How much more "real" can you get?

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 05:48:22 UTC

That makes sense.

[Another sigh. Why doesn't he feel as at peace about it?]

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nantokanare May 13 2009, 03:36:14 UTC

At this rate I don't think you'll ever cheer up.

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 03:38:59 UTC

What reason is there really to be happy, here?

nantokanare May 13 2009, 03:41:47 UTC

There isn't one.

What will you do about it?

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 03:44:49 UTC

What kind of question is that?

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seagullmun May 13 2009, 07:41:23 UTC

When we get back, let's go looking for your mom together! I got real got at finding things since we met. Mimmi can go too!

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 15:38:09 UTC

Ah... it's okay, Lenny. My mom's dead. I forgot to mention that, I guess.

Still... thanks a lot for offering to do something like that. I mean it.

seagullmun May 13 2009, 17:43:54 UTC

Oh... Um... we could go find you a mom, then! We don't even have to wait to get home- the Major can be your mom! Have you asked her?

hylian_courage May 13 2009, 23:27:51 UTC

[...fffff]

I don't... I don't think that would go over very well.