Ultracrepidarian, Vernalagnia, Welter
Ultracrepidarian: What do they think they know more about than they actually do?
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Man, though, like. I just wanna latch onto gravity. Because â so, like, first we gotta get one thing straight. We donât know what the fuck gravity is. We donât know what the fuck a lot of things are (like the Laws of Motion!). The stuff we say about them (again, like the Laws of Motion) are just stories that we make up to help understand what we observe. We donât actually know anything about what they are or why they happen. Itâs just stuff we see.
So the widely accepted story about what gravity is would be that itâs a âspooky forceâ that all mass has. Thereâs also stuff like relativity and gravitons and all that shit, but those are complicated stories that weâre not gonna get into for the sake of the readersâ sanity, because I could go on about relativity for hours. But the story that was told before we came up with the spooky force story was that things fell because they wanted to go home. Rocks fall because their home is in the earth. So do trees, and animals, and people â thatâs why people are buried when they die; they were just borrowing the earth for a little while and had to return it once they were done using it. Water runs down hills because itâs trying to reach bigger bodies of water, like the ocean. And stuff like flames go up, because theyâre trying to reach the sun and stars â thatâs their home. And thatâs probably the story that Link buys into, because who knows if Hyrule, in its medieval setting, actually has a deeper understanding of gravity, and even if it did, Link probably wouldnât understand or believe it.
There are a lot of other things but I just latched onto physics because physics is my life sodihfas â
Vernalagnia: Does their mood or outlook on life change with the seasons? If so, how?
A little bit? He gets a little more subdued in autumn and winter, just because the weather itself is becoming more subdued. Probably more peaceful during those times as well, because he likes the lingering quiet of those seasons. He gets a bit more upbeat in spring, and when it's not too hot out he's pretty friggin' joyous in summer. For none of these, though, is it a drastic change -- it's very subtle.
Welter: What subject will they never fully understand?
I don't know if he'll ever quite understand why he was thrown into the mess that is the Triforce Triumvirate's dumb destiny, or why that's even a thing to start with. He won't ever understand the motivations of Zelda or Ganondorf, and he can't really manage a full introspection of himself, either. He doesn't know what Midna's reasons for breaking the Mirror was, though he trusts that they were good ones.
He really just wonders about these cosmic fate questions a lot, but he'll never find his answers.