Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20171224010250/@comment-27416494-20180106031550

Mostly silent protagonists (silent as in having no directly spoken lines) hailing from two long running action/rpg/adventure styled franchises that debuted only a year apart from one another. (That would be 1986 for Zelda and 1987 for Ys)

Both heroes are famous for achieving countless feats of bravery and heroism as they travel across the lands in search of adventure. In most games, they tend to start off their journeys with a simple sword and shield combo, but as they continued to struggle through numerous swarms of enemies and unexplored dungeons, they have gone on to collect a large assortment of magical items and artifacts to further bolster their abilities...

Most, if not all of these items are then promptly lost in some way or form whenever either hero begins a new adventure, forcing them to rebuild their inventories from scratch. (Though most of the time, both franchises tend to have a fair justification for this, since most Zelda games feature different incarnations of Link and Adol has a poor reputation for getting shipwrecked)

In any circumstance, the two of them will gladly go out of their way to help anybody in need, and they have managed to gain the implied affections of numerous important female characters that they've saved (usually princesses or goddesses) across the years as a result of this. In spite of being mundane humans (or a mundane Hylian in Link's case) with no innate magical abilities of their own, both are quite well known for defeating dark gods, eldritch abominations, and other world ending catastrophes that have been plaguing the lands in pretty much every game they've appeared in.

I could probably go on, but I think I've pretty much laid out all of the important information at this point.

Oh yeah, I am pretty sure Link is one of the most wanted returning combatants out there, but at the same time, I will have to admit that Ys is a fairly obscure franchise, even compared to most of the other JRPGs constantly featured on my page. But since this is one of my favorite ideas at the moment, I'll see what I can do on this front.