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Trahald
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Next Week's User-Submitted Article!--MM's Friend

Greetings everyone!

The next user-submitted article will answer the question "Who is the 'friend' Link is looking for at the beginning of MM?" I selected this for our next subject, because this thread comes up again and again in the forums. This time, I would like you to follow a specific format. I would ideally like to receive at least one submission from each of the following three viewpoints:

1. The friend is the Skull-kid.
2. The friend is Saria.
3. The friend is Navi.

The idea here is to give voice to all of the main positions.

In your article, you must not only argue for the positive evidence for saying that the "friend" is your chosen character, but also respond to evidence you've seen given in support of the other choices. That way there is continuity between the three articles expousing the three opposing viewpoints.

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Six rules about sending them in:

1. They must be sent in by next Wednesday evening, at 6 PM EST.
2. Please send the articles in the body of the e-mail itself, not as an attachment.
3. Almost anyone can submit articles, including mods.
4. I'm not picky about length. Just make sure you've presented your arguements adequately.
5. Come up with your own title!
6. Please send me the pseudonym you wish to be known as, and if you mind having your e-mail address at the end of the article.

Also, please be aware that your article may be edited slightly for grammar. My own articles aren't syntatically perfect, so no, I won't be THAT picky, but nonetheless, it should sound like good English.

Thanks, and happy article writing!

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*Bump*

I should have made this sticky.

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Your a mod and your breaking the rules?

Harsh....

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Yeah, I made a double-post. It had to be done since the thread has not been advertised in the news as Anakin had originally said it would be (I don't fault him though . . . he had a lot to do before he left for vacation).

Believe me though . . . next time I'll make this sticky rather than double-posting to keep this up high in the list. Pretty soon I'll probably make a post in the general forum about this topic, and make that topic sticky. The reason I have to do this, of course, is because it's a function of the main site and I've only gotten one article submission so far, perhaps in part becuase not many people haven't seen this thread. In the end, I'll probably have to extend the deadline a week, which I don't want to do (but it just might be necessary).

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I submitted by article a few days back, I think this is a really good section of the site and allows visitors to have a go at getting some of their articles read by other members of the community, ace idea Trahald.

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Though I am aware the Trahald probably will NEVER post any article I create, no matter how "damn good" it is, I'm gonna go ahead and write one to you anyway.

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I'm confused. Isn't the friend that Link's looking for Epona? She's the one he loses, and then has to look for.

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... no, it's DEFINATELY not epona... Link only loses her while he's out in the misty woods searching for someone else...

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Saying that he's looking for a friend doesn't have to mean that he's looking for that friend THEN. The best stories are often non-sequential. It seemed blindingly obvious to me that he was yet to look for that friend, I mean- he doesn't go on the 'journey' until after the story-bit, does he?

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...o_O

quote:

In the land of Hyrule, there
echoes a legend. A legend held
dearly by the Royal Family that
tells of a boy...

A boy who,
after battling evil and saving
Hyrule, crept away from the land
that had made him a legend...

Done with the battles he once
waged across time, he embarked
on a journey. A secret and
personal journey...

A journey in search of a
beloved and invaluable friend...

A friend with whom he parted
ways when he finally fulfilled his
heroic destiny and took his place
among legends...



that's the exact quote from the game's opening...

chasing after a lost horse, in my opinion, which he quickly found again, isn't exactly "a friend with whom he parted ways"

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Well the article I submitted argued that it was Skull Kid, but yeah, if that get's posted on the site you'll hear all about it so I won't go into specifics, all I want to say is that the friend is not Epona, that's pretty much for certain.

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Fair enough- you're right, I'm wrong.

I didn't know it word for word, although it's possible that because it was translated from Japanese, and the translator most likely didn't know the context of the game, that's how iit came out, to seem 'poetic' in Western language.

I don't see how it could be skull kid AT ALL though, and Saria he knew the whereabouts of, leaving only Navi, which we see leave him at the end of OoT. But why look for her if she left him of her own free will? And if that's the case, wouldn't it make more sense for him to find her, rather than team-up with Tatl?

Thoughts?

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Just wondering Trahald, will you be posting one article for each viewpoint on the issue? This way people will see all sides to the arguments instead of just one. Just an idea.

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... exactly, there's your argument...

though let me say that he really didn't team up with tatl so much as she started following him... and link appeared to be searching for "whoever" for quite some time before tatl even came onto the scene...

and hold on, i'll look up the japanese text dump and post the romanji here... (though i know akie knows everything about the japanese version of mm...)

edit - ok, yeah, the formatting for the only mm japanese text dump i can find is all screwed up... sorry bout that...

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