I keep thinking about Loft and one of my headcanons for SkSw Link in general is that after everything he probably becomes one of those people who kill enemies as quickly and efficiently as possible without giving them time to say anything bc what if it’s someone with power. What if they cast another curse. He can’t afford to let someone attempt to talk their way out of death bc what if he becomes responsible for another long string of disasters as the result of his hesitance in killing someone. Like what is this, a storybook? No, it’s a damn battle. It’s life and death. He doesn’t like taking the role of an executioner, but he can’t give someone time to monologue, enemies need to die fast and that’s just good common sense. (Trauma. It’s trauma and an insane guilt complex.)
Idk. I’ve just. Been thinking abt it. Is Loft like that at all?
that’s a good headcanon! Loft is a lot like that, at least with monsters. That was actually one of my goals with the opening of ch 1— to show that in battle he’s, well, kind of brutal. The idea of killing people still makes him squirm though, which is why that encounter with the Yiga bothers him.
He’s definitely adverse to letting any enemy get the last word considering what happened the Last Time he let that happen, but he also just sees monsters as instruments of Demise, aberrations, blights on the land that need to be removed. As opposed to Slate, who can imagine a world where monsters are just sort of there, minding their own business.
as a sidenote to this conversation, this is a side of Link that I find to be really interesting. We as the players are meant to have fun killing monsters, but what about Link? Does he find it it fun too, or is it just a duty he takes no pleasure in? It’s something I’m hoping to explore a little with each character in the comic, but for Loft, I think he secretly finds it exhilarating at the very least, and isn’t sure how he feels about that.
