Shadsie
Sage of Tales
X-Posted to North Castle, in response to a thread questioning what rupees really are and where they come from.
I was just reading a fan fiction today that treated the recovery hearts rather blantantly, as in the game - Link was hoping to bust a box and find recovery hearts to ease his aching muscles. I never really thought of using them so blatantly in a story. This was a serious type of story, too. I've seen this used in a pardoy/humor story, but not in a serious story like that before (that I recall in recent memory).
It got me to thinking... what do you think the recovery hearts in the games are *really?* I've always ignored them when writing serious fan fiction stories and figured them to be a purely gameplay aspect, not a story aspect and that they perhaps represent strength. Or, maybe they represent random food that Link finds while cutting grass and such - a fruit or vegitable he can eat to keep up his stamina. (Maybe I'm just getting this idea from Smash. Bros. - where food recovers the fighters). Perhaps they even represent medicine, as in, he's cutting through some grass and weeds and discovers some aloe which he can take and put on cuts and scrapes he's suffered.
I have my own opinions on the Heart Containers - which are in the Heart Containers thread. This is about the little recovery hearts.
If they are supposed to be like food - why would food be inside a rock, for instance? I can see medicinal plants being in among grass...
In the end, I think it's just a gameplay aspect that doesn't much affect any kind of "reality" of the world as far as story.
So, what do you think?
I was just reading a fan fiction today that treated the recovery hearts rather blantantly, as in the game - Link was hoping to bust a box and find recovery hearts to ease his aching muscles. I never really thought of using them so blatantly in a story. This was a serious type of story, too. I've seen this used in a pardoy/humor story, but not in a serious story like that before (that I recall in recent memory).
It got me to thinking... what do you think the recovery hearts in the games are *really?* I've always ignored them when writing serious fan fiction stories and figured them to be a purely gameplay aspect, not a story aspect and that they perhaps represent strength. Or, maybe they represent random food that Link finds while cutting grass and such - a fruit or vegitable he can eat to keep up his stamina. (Maybe I'm just getting this idea from Smash. Bros. - where food recovers the fighters). Perhaps they even represent medicine, as in, he's cutting through some grass and weeds and discovers some aloe which he can take and put on cuts and scrapes he's suffered.
I have my own opinions on the Heart Containers - which are in the Heart Containers thread. This is about the little recovery hearts.
If they are supposed to be like food - why would food be inside a rock, for instance? I can see medicinal plants being in among grass...
In the end, I think it's just a gameplay aspect that doesn't much affect any kind of "reality" of the world as far as story.
So, what do you think?