Who am I?

A young boy sits by a still pool and gazes at his reflection. He sighs.

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Tell me who I am.
Once, I thought I knew.
But... today I'm not so sure.
Call me by my name.
Call me Link.
But - what does that mean?

Am I the lonely child?
Lost, abandoned in the forest...
The outsider.
'Mr. No Fairy' -
But I've had two so far.
Never a Kokiri -
But I don't know how to be a Hylian.

Am I the hero?
Thrust through time
To a future that no longer exists.
Destined to be a fighter,
The one who saved the world
From a fate worse than destruction.
But that's me no longer.
I've been sent away.
Back in time
To a childhood that maybe was never mine.

Am I...
Something more?
Today - I tasted something else.
Fate breathed down my neck
And whispered in my mind.
'Wear the mask, young adventurer...
And tell me where darkness ends
And light begins.'
So I did.
For one second... Power.
But it's gone.
Cast from the tower, I fell
Back to myself.
If this is myself. I don't know.

But... now. I think. I wonder.
One hand raised to my face...
But what about the other I so recently bore?

I never removed the mask, did I?
Somewhere, inside...
Am I still...
More than I am?

So tell me. What am I?
Child adventurer?
Hero of Time?

Fierce Deity?

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