Who is the one called Dark Link? - VGF

LightLink3 · 08-19-2005, 08:38 AM

Has anyone ever wondered exactly who Dark Link is and where he comes from? Well, I have a whole story about him that may seem a little strange, but is really cool: Dark Link, Link's Shadow as some say. What if there was more to him? What if he was an actual person? Dark Link Dragmire, Prince of Darkness and Evil, is his real name. Born to the Great King of Evil, Ganondorf, and his wife (whose name is unknown) Dark Link was infused with the power to control darkness and lightning. A Gerudo warrior by birth, Dark Link quickly learned the art of swordplay by the time he turned sixteen (Dark Link also believed that he was the greatest warrior that ever lived). After years of being forced to stay in Gerudo, Dark Link finally left Gerudo and ventured out into the more populated world, finally finding himself in Hyrule's capital, Hythorlo. There he heard folk talking of a boy who supposedly was the greatest warrior that ever lived. Infuriated by this talk, Dark Link asked what this boy look liked, and after gaining the right information, Dark Link went searching for this boy, whom the people said that his name was Link. After years of searching for him, he finally found him and a companion called Fyru, near the Great River Zora. After knocking unconcious Fyru, Dark Link challenged Link to a fight. After the vicious fight, Dark Link appeared victorious. Although Dark Link wanted to kill him, he realized that he had defeated him and that he truly was the greatest warrior that ever lived. Dark Link returned home, but he could never get over his act of "kindness." So after Dark Link talked with his father and told him of the boy's name, Ganondorf became angry and gave Dark Link the order to kill Link. Dark Link accepted this order with great pleasure and set out to fufill his duty. He met Link and Fyru again on the plains of Hyrule and once again engaged in battle. Not long after the battle began, a Hylian scouting party came into view. Dark Link knew he had to kill Link somewhere where no one was, so he dissapeared right before Link and Fyru's eyes. Dark Link thought that the scouting party was part of an army that Link commanded, so he sent a Gerudo messenger to his father with a note saying that Dark Link felt it was time that Dark Link constructed his own castle and that he be given his own army to control. Ganondorf agreed to this and gave Dark Link everything he asked for: a castle near Ikana canyon and a huge army of Gandorfians (evil, heartless beings created by crossing Ikana's and Moblin's. After seven years of building Dark Link finally had waht he wanted. Little did Dark Link know that his father had already began to wage war on Hyrule and that Link really had been given an army of Hylians....

[TML: See my post below.]

[ August 20, 2005, 12:39 AM: Message edited by: The Missing Link ]

Ms.Stanczak · 08-19-2005, 09:54 AM

^you have some good imagination there sonny

N Kong · 08-19-2005, 01:25 PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Chronos · 08-19-2005, 01:39 PM

Dark Link is the corporeal manifestation of Link's doubts and fears. His first appearence was in Zelda II, when Link attempted to recover the Triforce of Courage. In order to claim it, he had to defeat his inner demons.

Dark Link's appearence in Zelda 64 is similar to Phantom Ganon in the Forest Temple. He was a magical creature created by Ganondorf, using his dark arts and the Triforce of Power. So, once again, Link had to fight and defeat his inner demons.

Masamune · 08-19-2005, 01:44 PM

Dark Link comes from this evil mirror thing in FSA.

Serial Miller · 08-19-2005, 07:58 PM

Dark Link is an overplayed video game element that Nintendo falls back on in lue of creating original content.

Chronos · 08-19-2005, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by GROIN OF JESUS:
Dark Link is an overplayed video game element that Nintendo falls back on in lue of creating original content.

Really can't argue with that.... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The Missing Link · 08-20-2005, 12:37 AM

Light Link 3, you've posted on this board three times so far. In each of your posts, you've either posted a link to your script or you replied to someone talking about your script. I'd be more of a mind to overlook this if you'd actually... you know, post in a way that simply wasn't an oh so obvious plug to your script. Simply put, don't expect to post here just so you can plug your script to us. I won't allow it.

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ザ行方不明リンク悪いユウモアの賢人

Ms.Stanczak · 08-20-2005, 06:07 PM

^and thus his bubble bursts into a thousand heart broken shards, so cruel, yet such a nessasary evil...

ZIPPYDIPPY19 · 08-20-2005, 06:26 PM

At least he's consistent.

Chunky Kong12345 · 08-20-2005, 10:43 PM

WALL OF TEXT'D

Get some paragraphs in there.

Serial Miller · 08-20-2005, 11:24 PM

Quote:

^And thus, his bubble bursts into a thousand heart-broken shards: So cruel, yet such a necessary evil...

Darn kids need more schoolin'.

[ August 20, 2005, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: GROIN OF JESUS ]

Chronos · 08-21-2005, 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GROIN OF JESUS:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> ^And thus, his bubble bursts into a thousand heart-broken shards: So cruel, yet such a necessary evil...

Darn kids need more schoolin'.

</font>[/quote]It's also grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with the word "and." [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ms.Stanczak · 08-21-2005, 08:42 AM

^not when you have some thing*brain goes dead*...some thing about the rest of the sentence... shoot...and just like that in one summer, 8 years of english are forgotten...stupid shift buttons fault, i knew that button was the work of the devil...i don't even know what i'm saying...eat cucumbers...

LightLink3 · 08-21-2005, 02:12 PM

[quote]Originally posted by The Missing Link:
[QB] Light Link 3, you've posted on this board three times so far. In each of your posts, you've either posted a link to your script or you replied to someone talking about your script. I'd be more of a mind to overlook this if you'd actually... you know, post in a way that simply wasn't an oh so obvious plug to your script. Simply put, don't expect to post here just so you can plug your script to us. I won't allow it.

So sorry. That was actually posted by my annoying friend, Robert (who's obssesed with Dark Link) who is helping with the script. I gave him a good few punches for it. Won't happen again.

***CaptHayfever*** · 08-21-2005, 08:27 PM

^^^It's frowned upon, but not forbidden.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

The Missing Link · 08-21-2005, 09:05 PM

Technically, it is grammatically incorrect. The word "and" makes the clause a dependent clause, and in the absence of an independent clause, it's grammatically non-kosher.

But that's all besides the point of who Dark Link is.

Zelda: The Grand Adventures | Triforce MUCK
ザ行方不明リンク悪いユウモアの賢人

Serial Miller · 08-22-2005, 03:43 AM

Whether or not a sentence beginning with "And" may be grammatically incorrect is irrelevant. The words are in the context of speech, but are simply without audio. I just ask that people make a decent attempt to use proper punctuation and spelling. If you can't figure out how to spell something, you shouldn't be using it. This is the internet. Go to dictionary.com if you need to.

And to appease TML, I preferred the AoL and the Four Swords Dark Links to the OoT Dark Link. However, I find many things that they simply reuse without any plot involvement to be lackluster. I'm for making a powerful feeling to each game, not making shallower and shallower incarnations of the same world.

[ August 22, 2005, 04:04 AM: Message edited by: GROIN OF JESUS ]

Koga · 08-22-2005, 05:00 AM

There's a difference between prescriptive grammar (textbooks telling you how to use language) and descriptive grammar (describing how language is actually used). Starting a sentence with 'and' is an example of something ungrammatical according to the former, but grammatical according to the latter. Other examples are not ending a sentence with a preposition (Who are you talking to? 'should be' to whom are you talking) or not splitting an infinitive (to not do something 'should be' not to do something).

Chunky Kong12345 · 08-22-2005, 11:51 AM

Grammar shmammar.

08-19-2005, 08:38 AM	#1
LightLink3 Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 889.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,389.00 Donate	Has anyone ever wondered exactly who Dark Link is and where he comes from? Well, I have a whole story about him that may seem a little strange, but is really cool: Dark Link, Link's Shadow as some say. What if there was more to him? What if he was an actual person? Dark Link Dragmire, Prince of Darkness and Evil, is his real name. Born to the Great King of Evil, Ganondorf, and his wife (whose name is unknown) Dark Link was infused with the power to control darkness and lightning. A Gerudo warrior by birth, Dark Link quickly learned the art of swordplay by the time he turned sixteen (Dark Link also believed that he was the greatest warrior that ever lived). After years of being forced to stay in Gerudo, Dark Link finally left Gerudo and ventured out into the more populated world, finally finding himself in Hyrule's capital, Hythorlo. There he heard folk talking of a boy who supposedly was the greatest warrior that ever lived. Infuriated by this talk, Dark Link asked what this boy look liked, and after gaining the right information, Dark Link went searching for this boy, whom the people said that his name was Link. After years of searching for him, he finally found him and a companion called Fyru, near the Great River Zora. After knocking unconcious Fyru, Dark Link challenged Link to a fight. After the vicious fight, Dark Link appeared victorious. Although Dark Link wanted to kill him, he realized that he had defeated him and that he truly was the greatest warrior that ever lived. Dark Link returned home, but he could never get over his act of "kindness." So after Dark Link talked with his father and told him of the boy's name, Ganondorf became angry and gave Dark Link the order to kill Link. Dark Link accepted this order with great pleasure and set out to fufill his duty. He met Link and Fyru again on the plains of Hyrule and once again engaged in battle. Not long after the battle began, a Hylian scouting party came into view. Dark Link knew he had to kill Link somewhere where no one was, so he dissapeared right before Link and Fyru's eyes. Dark Link thought that the scouting party was part of an army that Link commanded, so he sent a Gerudo messenger to his father with a note saying that Dark Link felt it was time that Dark Link constructed his own castle and that he be given his own army to control. Ganondorf agreed to this and gave Dark Link everything he asked for: a castle near Ikana canyon and a huge army of Gandorfians (evil, heartless beings created by crossing Ikana's and Moblin's. After seven years of building Dark Link finally had waht he wanted. Little did Dark Link know that his father had already began to wage war on Hyrule and that Link really had been given an army of Hylians.... [TML: See my post below.] [ August 20, 2005, 12:39 AM: Message edited by: The Missing Link ]

08-19-2005, 09:54 AM	#2
Ms.Stanczak Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NAMU! Posts: 433 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 2,091.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 2,591.00 Donate	^you have some good imagination there sonny

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Chronos Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 285 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 3,496.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 3,996.00 Donate	Dark Link is the corporeal manifestation of Link's doubts and fears. His first appearence was in Zelda II, when Link attempted to recover the Triforce of Courage. In order to claim it, he had to defeat his inner demons. Dark Link's appearence in Zelda 64 is similar to Phantom Ganon in the Forest Temple. He was a magical creature created by Ganondorf, using his dark arts and the Triforce of Power. So, once again, Link had to fight and defeat his inner demons.

08-19-2005, 01:44 PM	#5
Masamune Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Indiana Gender: Posts: 4,935 Thanks: 18 Thanked 8 Times in 2 Posts Points: 2,037.46 Bank: 510.00 Total Points: 2,547.46 Donate	Dark Link comes from this evil mirror thing in FSA.

08-19-2005, 07:58 PM	#6
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08-20-2005, 12:37 AM	#8
The Missing Link Professional Lurker Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: New Hyrule, Washington, US Gender: Posts: 15,573 Thanks: 80 Thanked 183 Times in 110 Posts Points: 5,553.15 Bank: 51,115.11 Total Points: 56,668.26 Donate	Light Link 3, you've posted on this board three times so far. In each of your posts, you've either posted a link to your script or you replied to someone talking about your script. I'd be more of a mind to overlook this if you'd actually... you know, post in a way that simply wasn't an oh so obvious plug to your script. Simply put, don't expect to post here just so you can plug your script to us. I won't allow it. Zelda: The Grand Adventures \| Triforce MUCK ザ行方不明リンク悪いユウモアの賢人

08-20-2005, 06:07 PM	#9
Ms.Stanczak Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NAMU! Posts: 433 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 2,091.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 2,591.00 Donate	^and thus his bubble bursts into a thousand heart broken shards, so cruel, yet such a nessasary evil...

08-20-2005, 06:26 PM	#10
ZIPPYDIPPY19 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,663 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 3,202.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 3,702.00 Donate	At least he's consistent.

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08-21-2005, 08:42 AM	#14
Ms.Stanczak Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NAMU! Posts: 433 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 2,091.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 2,591.00 Donate	^not when you have some thingbrain goes dead...some thing about the rest of the sentence... shoot...and just like that in one summer, 8 years of english are forgotten...stupid shift buttons fault, i knew that button was the work of the devil...i don't even know what i'm saying...eat cucumbers...

08-21-2005, 02:12 PM	#15
LightLink3 Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 889.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,389.00 Donate	[quote]Originally posted by The Missing Link: [QB] Light Link 3, you've posted on this board three times so far. In each of your posts, you've either posted a link to your script or you replied to someone talking about your script. I'd be more of a mind to overlook this if you'd actually... you know, post in a way that simply wasn't an oh so obvious plug to your script. Simply put, don't expect to post here just so you can plug your script to us. I won't allow it. So sorry. That was actually posted by my annoying friend, Robert (who's obssesed with Dark Link) who is helping with the script. I gave him a good few punches for it. Won't happen again.

08-21-2005, 08:27 PM	#16
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08-21-2005, 09:05 PM	#17
The Missing Link Professional Lurker Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: New Hyrule, Washington, US Gender: Posts: 15,573 Thanks: 80 Thanked 183 Times in 110 Posts Points: 5,553.15 Bank: 51,115.11 Total Points: 56,668.26 Donate	Technically, it is grammatically incorrect. The word "and" makes the clause a dependent clause, and in the absence of an independent clause, it's grammatically non-kosher. But that's all besides the point of who Dark Link is. Zelda: The Grand Adventures \| Triforce MUCK ザ行方不明リンク悪いユウモアの賢人

08-22-2005, 03:43 AM	#18
Serial Miller Retro Nintendo Supermod Art & Literature Mod Metroid Mod Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 15,679 Thanks: 416 Thanked 1,046 Times in 585 Posts Points: 14,294.59 Bank: 1,556,398.07 Total Points: 1,570,692.65 Donate	Whether or not a sentence beginning with "And" may be grammatically incorrect is irrelevant. The words are in the context of speech, but are simply without audio. I just ask that people make a decent attempt to use proper punctuation and spelling. If you can't figure out how to spell something, you shouldn't be using it. This is the internet. Go to dictionary.com if you need to. And to appease TML, I preferred the AoL and the Four Swords Dark Links to the OoT Dark Link. However, I find many things that they simply reuse without any plot involvement to be lackluster. I'm for making a powerful feeling to each game, not making shallower and shallower incarnations of the same world. [ August 22, 2005, 04:04 AM: Message edited by: GROIN OF JESUS ]

08-22-2005, 05:00 AM	#19
Koga Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: The Netherlands Gender: Posts: 17,094 Thanks: 105 Thanked 177 Times in 119 Posts Points: 103,469.41 Bank: 17,752.41 Total Points: 121,221.82 Donate	There's a difference between prescriptive grammar (textbooks telling you how to use language) and descriptive grammar (describing how language is actually used). Starting a sentence with 'and' is an example of something ungrammatical according to the former, but grammatical according to the latter. Other examples are not ending a sentence with a preposition (Who are you talking to? 'should be' to whom are you talking) or not splitting an infinitive (to not do something 'should be' not to do something).

08-22-2005, 11:51 AM	#20
Chunky Kong12345 The Eternally Overlooked Outcast Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: ogmftwbqq Gender: Posts: 16,296 Thanks: 61 Thanked 202 Times in 146 Posts Points: 1,011.58 Bank: 87,837.51 Total Points: 88,849.09 Donate	Grammar shmammar.