The Wind Waker, Part Seven - When Your Role Model Is Evil

The older I get, the more I sympathize with Ganondorf – not only what he's trying to accomplish, but also how he goes about accomplishing it. Despite the fact that the King of Red Lions blames just about everything bad that happens on him, there's almost no evidence to support these accusations, and not even the demigods whom Ganondorf has supposedly cursed mention his involvement in their various misfortunes. To me, it seems that Ganondorf is patiently and methodically going about solving a problem of an almost unthinkable magnitude. Even though he's out of sync with the current world (interestingly enough, the language he uses in the original Japanese version is strikingly archaic, so much so that I can't help but wonder how old the intended audience was supposed to be), he almost seems to be taking care not to cause undue harm to anything in it.

Of course, Ganondorf is kidnapping young girls at the beginning of the game. There's really no way around that, but one can't help but wonder what sort of desperation would drive such an otherwise sane and rational man to such an extreme course of action.

I have my theories, of course, but I'm also delusional.