#can you tell the hero of the minish is my favorite link. my ultimate blorbo. mc i love youuuuuuuuu

[fourswords]

headcanons are so fun because i can connect everything related to the four sword back to the hero of the minish and absolutely nobody can stop me. the reason the sword splits the heroes that come after him instead of just making translucent copies like it did in his game is because he was a little kid during the events of the game (potentially even younger than oot link because it was a whole PLOT POINT that only good CHILDREN can see the minish. that's why they sent LINK in the first place) and he had to do everything by himself (ezlo can't fight. obviously) and it isn't too far of a stretch to assume that he might've wished that he had somebody to help him on his journey. and the four sword responded. it couldn't help him (as powerful as it is, it was still newly forged at the time), but it could help all those who came after him.

and then let's keep on this tangent about echoes of the hero of the minish in the power of the four sword and throw in the fact that his grandfather was a smith and he was learning to be one, too. fire, in their case, was an aid. they couldn't forge without it! so of course the hero of the minish would view it as something positive, even when fire itself is stereotypically viewed as destructive and something to be feared and is usually attributed to people with brash or abrasive personalities. you know what he probably wouldn't like as much? water, even though it's ALSO used in a forge (quenching). when you're as small as a minish, raindrops hit you like boulders and hurt like hell. even though water is stereotypically viewed as the element of tranquility and deep emotion and whatnot.

and then you open up the four swords manga and who's the fire guy? red! the crybaby with the sweet and happy (and mischievous) demeanor! who's the water guy? blue! the overconfident loudmouth who'll fight anyone at the drop of a hat (and wields a damn hammer)! and obviously, this isn't all either of them are—the entire point of the manga is that they're all distinct, separate characters with complex personalities. the hero of light has nothing at all to do with the hero of the minish except for the sword he wields and one of the enemies he fights. but thinking about the initial split of the four sword being a result of an echo of the first hero who wielded it (as the four sword, since only one hero—the hero of men—technically wielded the picori blade) associating fire with warmth & happiness & home and water with Getting The Shit Beaten Out Of Him is fun and hilarious in equal measure. there's cases to be made for green (wind element) and vio (earth element) too of course but then this post would get too long.

ultimately i just like the idea of one hero saying an indirect "hello" to the next one across generations. the hero of men says hello to the hero of the minish with every minish village he visits and every moment he carries what once was the picori blade. the hero of the minish says hello to the four-who-are-one and the hero of the light when the four sword splits them into four. and sometimes saying hello means the sword you left behind splits up the wielder's soul based on the associations YOU had with the elements. y'know?