Marmio. marmio my bromthr give kiss. “im not borother to you we aranat relate!!” mamio give me the minch put the pucker to meee. 10/10 give him the minch mariom
I’m onboard with this TEN BILLION PERCENT. And perhaps he’s trying to prevent Link from progressing in his quest as well. Just in a SUBTLE way though… nothing too overt.
And when that doesn’t work, he could just slowly usurp the important characters, too.
The real reason Bruce Wayne keeps training kids is so that there’s eventually a gradually cascading order of vigilantes protecting Gotham. When you defeat one, there’s a slightly smaller one just behind, ready to pick up the slack.