#but i hope it makss you think. i hope you all care her (erune)

[midnapanda]

Erune actually has a good amount of parellels going on with the Links.

When split, the four have each other, but she's an only child. She doesn't like seeing people fight, and this extends to the Links as well. Red also doesn't like seeing the others fight each other.

Shadow Link and she are lonely in ways, and long for company. Shadow seeks out companionship in Vio, and Erune is reluctant to let go of Rosie.

Green even encourages her to keep Rosie, because he can tell she's important to Erune. And this is a bit of a tangent because I'm thinking of the Four Swords manga dub on YouTube, but what Green says in that project is even more evident of a parallel. He says it won't matter how old you are-- you'll miss her regardless. And this is so easily tied to how the Links must be feeling about their dad. Sure, Dad would get on Link's nerves sometimes and vice versa, but they still love and care about each other. The Links don't even know where their father is right now, but they surely miss him and hope he's okay.

Erune's shadow is sobbing on the ground when she is taken to the Dark World and I can't help but think it reflects not only her fear, but her loneliness as well. She has friends of course, but they've all been taken to the Dark World. And people from the outside think she knows more, probably because she's one of the only kids that haven't gone missing yet. They've likely tried interrogating her for answers. She's already worried and distressed by all the fighting in the village so this only puts further strain on her emotional state. And even though she says she's too old to play with dolls, she's still a kid!!

Maybe she feels the need to "grow up" because of the state of things in the village. Abandoning Rosie isn't something she wants to do, but she feels pressured to stop acting like a kid, regarding the upsetting circumstances surrounding her.

I know I'm stretching things a bit in order to get my point across, but Erune just invaded my brain and I wish there had been more time to explore more of her character.