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Do you have examples other than Link? I use Link for all Zelda games because the character literally is just Link but other games I will happily self insert.

I give dumb names like Vin

What happens when you encounter a game that does not provide or otherwise tell you the default? Yet canonically there is one. See Phantasy Star 2 for example.

I suppose the canon name is used.

Yep, I just look up their canon name online. For example: Persona. The only game I don't do this in is probably Animal Crossing

I suppose that makes me an old man living in one of those horror films that would be solved in 10 seconds by a mobile phone.
"There I was, visiting a house without internet, genecyst dripping blood menu glowing softly as the Phantasy Star 2 menu asks me to name the main character." "Years later I would learn it to be Rolf in the manual but that was something I could not have known at the time".

i call the green boy zelda because it's the name of the game and he's the main character

@Scarlet I thought Zelda was the small glowing one with wings that said "Hey, listen!" right?

aka navi

aka Zelda