alt Hacker NewsThis went completely off the rails, it's actually kind of funny.
Kind of reminds me of JK Rowling backfilling all of that stuff in the Harry Potter books (now there's Luna Love good!.) Or Nintendo retconning Bowser's sons and replacing them with Bowser Jr.
Sometimes there just isn't that much thought behind a character.
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Early Nintendo games were sort of like Osamu Tezuka works. There were "actors" that all had the same appearance and sometimes names used across multiple works that filled the role they needed. Of the first five Zelda games only The Legend Of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventures Of Link have a connected story, and even that's questionable as the beginning of Zelda II retcons the ending of The Legend Of Zelda and rewrites the setting extensively.
They put thought in, it just changes periodically. Like Mario used to be a plumber in Brooklyn. There was a whole TV show and movie, the old one. Then he moved to some fantasy world that always changes and he has an Italian accent.
Sometimes? I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure these games were generally not built with a hefty bible full of inviolable lore. Plot and continuity errors are common enough to show that.
Some people are very invested in making sense of things that just don’t have a ton of intention and meaning behind them.