Talk:The Hero/@comment-7706473-20140621115348/@comment-1196539-20140713004226

The story isn't necessarily a reflection of my personal code of ethics, either. But, more important is that I hope it came off as one that a character growing up in this kind of scenario might realistically develop. Certainly one can understand his desire to overthrow a king who takes no action as his people all suffer from plague and misfortune--and as far as the princess goes, I hope you don't think it makes more sense in a monarchy for rulership to be determined by blood than by competency, because that I would have to sorely disagree with. That was admittedly an example of my own ideals slipping in. I'm not sure I understand how his coup could be considered as bad as the king's rule, when you consider that, in an absolute monarchy, he had absolutely zero options in trying to change the system from within, leaving him only two: Stage a coup himself, or rally the townsfolk and risk all their lives mounting a rebellion. The mountain tribes were just an example of his struggle between a great good and a greater good--even for the sake of his goals, he couldn't bring himself to commit an attrocity the likes of which the Gorons were requesting. He likely knew he would be denied the stone of fire from the start, but his conscience got the better of him.

At least, that's my take on all of it. I legitimately did my best to make him out to be a good guy, while still remaining true to the game's events (if not its dialogue). In any case, I'm glad to get some other perspectives--I was worried it might be a bit too easily-decipherable, but all I had to go on was that friend of mine, who despite being in on the whole "Ganondorf the hero" joke, didn't realize what this was about until the end. Then again, he likes a lot of medieval fantasy stuff, so he could have thought it was any number of things.