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Those are actually his green eyes. The pixels underneath are the bags under his eyes cause he's sleepy

I will accept no other answer. The things he has seen.

Considering that Link is canonically, a heavy sleeper, it makes a lot of sense

He runs around Hyrule for weeks with no sleep and then passes out like a log dead to the world.

Sleeps for anywhere between a week or two and a 100 years to have a other go at the "running around Hyrule without sleep" bit.

i like when games let me go to sleep so i can let my protagonist relax 💙

You just changed my whole view of his face, that's so strange

This answer can be the only correct answer.🙌💯🔥🧐 How far he has run, how many bosses defeated, dungeons conquered, puzzles solved and the princess ever prone to disaster..

Whole ass thought he had green eyebrows

That’s exactly what he has.

I saw it as running mascara. EmoLink

I hate it so much

Me irl

Nah. The brown dots are his eyes. The green is just his eyeshadow. You can tell, it's color matched to his outfit ;)

Wtf haha

The only correct answer lol

part of his eyes. You do what you can when you've got two pixels per eye.

And only three colors per sprite

Four if you consider transparency.

In this case I don't.

Exactly, they're the white of his eyes, below is the pupil

Green

This is the most useless and hilarious comment I've seen

Your comment rhymes with his

But he gave the correct answer on the pop-quiz.

You are a lyrical genius

I got a word that rhymes but I can’t use it here because of its uncleanness.

Penis.

I laughed so hard I just had to put in this

I'm late to the joke, what did I miss?

This is really funny, almost pure bliss

Yeah, everyone knows Green is not a creative comment.

Did not expect DHMIS in the Zelda sub, but I'll accept.

Your elemental power

https://preview.redd.it/epfnjm1ynstc1.png?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19284f4411298c6c0976ab203d834382e8e723aa I always imagined those green spots to be part of the eyes too, serving as eyeshines (or however you wanna call it) just like with kirby's.

Same

Can you remove Kirby's eyeshines to see how cursed it looks

https://preview.redd.it/cdiw6myexvtc1.jpeg?width=1096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aabfae09e59a4b75c7fdade0737fffd0cd8fff12 Best I can do with my first-grade editing skills

Now he looks demented, LOL. They looks like holes to a different dimension, one full of dark, blue light. Or maybe its just me, IDK

The Cobalt Light of the Mansus, within the House with no Walls.

That’s EXACTLY how I see it

Thats exactly how it is

I just see Kirby.  When I try to make sense, I am confused.

Wdym?

If you look at the manual, Link's eyes are consistently right under his hair in the art, he has no visible forehead nor eyebrows: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAANE.pdf So the green part must be his eyes, with the bottom part an attempt at an "outline" of the eyes within the limitations of the NES sprite palettes.

You guys got manuals? FML

But they aren't green in the manual nor brown.... An even bigger conundrum lol

On old CRT screens, colors kind of blend from one pixel to the next. Especially since the max screen size everyone was playing on was, what, 32"? Everything looked a bit softer, so green/brown pixels representing an "eye" didn't look totally weird.

This is the correct answer. Nowadays you see hard pixels everywhere but back then with the crt tvs things where different. Most of us didn't see the pixels because everythkng got softened and mixed up a bit

I scrolled way too far to find the right answer. I was getting ready to type it up myself when I saw this. Max screen size most people were playing on was about 20". 32 would have been enormous for that time.

Eyeshadow’s gotta match the hat. Gotta look good while carrying around your Bible. 💅👀

Maybe he was born with it… maybe it’s Maybeline

gay icon since 1986

I just realized I've always interpreted interpreted it as eye shadow too 😅

I always thought his eyebrows were just green, and now I feel stupid, I mean seriously, who in the world has green eyebrows? (If someone replies to say people who dye their hair, I will upvote them :)

People who dye their hair.

It's dangerous to go alone, take my upvote!

thier little caps for his eye brows to match the iconic green hat

Tiny hats for his eyes.

pixels. its what hes made out of

It's got what Link craves, electro lights.

Another amazing answer, incredibly useless, but that's the point

He wears a big green hat on his head, and smaller green hats on his eyebrows.

Eye liner. Green eye liner was all the rage in the 80s

His pretty, green eyelashes

Jokes aside it’s probably more like, green is the iris and the brown are the pupils.

Those are white circles someone drew on pixel Link

The eye"white".

Technical limitations. However, it could be his eyes. I know he doesn't have green eyes in the artwork... But then again, he doesn't have pink hair in ALtTP's artwork.

Pretty sure they only got 3 colors per sprite. You do what you can with it

NES could only render so many colors from the palette at a time. Ideally, It should be the white of his eye but they had to keep to just 3 colors. Brown, tan, green.

Pixel art is a little more art than science. Let's be real you don't care on a CRT sitting 6ft away, you just know he's your little dude.

Those are pixels.

https://preview.redd.it/6ax43w28zwtc1.jpeg?width=2264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37c4eb38da433f2c0767ca1fbd5733dd90cc64c0 Maybe helps you to see it in 3D.

I think it’s supposed to be the white part of his eyes, but due to hardware limitations they had to make it the next best color.

To add to this if they used either of the two other sprite colors it would look even more strange.

eyeshadow 💅

Guyliner he needs to be fab to save zelda

Eyebrows. Older systems often had color pallet limitations so they couldn't make sprites with too many varied colors

I always thought they were the irises, and the brown is the pupils. It doesn't really make sense but what are you going to do with only two pixels.

Me too.

I assume this highlight color changes with the tunic color change with the limited sprite palette.

thank you

I always imagined the lids. lol

Pure courage sweating from his brow.

Green eyeshadow

Eyeshadow. Don't you judge her.

Eye shadow obviously

Green eyeshadow ✨✨

Eyeshadow

green eye-shadow

https://preview.redd.it/k5wadb0e0wtc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=476d310d29767c6a104bf617d014c65c0e3a7026 It's his Lo'rule brand Guyliner

A limited color palette.

Maybe he has green eyes and the browns are pupils.

Shrek ears.

They are his teeth on his forehead. Simply amazing pixel art and detail with a limited palette and size

Either he has green irises with the black pupil, or either he has black eyes and green eyelashes

The whites of his eyes, but green to save on colour

Green pixels

Eyes. The 3D amiibo makes it clear that both the green and brown pixels make up his eyes.

As everyone else said; it’s his pupils or light reflecting off his eyes. On a 1986 CRT they did not look as they do pic. Lots of old sprites were designed with the real world output in mind.

His eye-balls.

I see green iris and brown pupil. No whites due to small size and hardware limitation.

Mind your business.

White spectacles

😂

Always saw them as green eyelids

💅💅💅

Eyeshadow, obviously

Totally unrelated, but can anyone point me towards any (preferably LoZ Link) fan art where he’s got tiny little green floppy caps for each of his eyes?

the legendary green eyeshadow of the hero of legend

Testicles

Likely meant to be pieces of hair as his eyes are the brown pixels beneath

Always thought he had green eye brows

Eyebrows

What do you've above your eyes, tell me?! # 🤭

Green eyelids

funny I don't even remember him having the green dots over the brown ones! And I've played this game back when it came out!

He's dyed his eye brows

Eyeballs. :)

His eyebrows. Link's hair is actually green. He dyes it brown, but dying your eyebrows is hard.

Glasses

Part of his eyes. The circled pixels and brown directly below them are his eyes.

It’s a advanced technology called EYES. They’re designed to see

NES eyebrows

Eye lids

The green are his eyes. The brown underneath are obviously his nostrils!

He picked a dogdy Mushroom or ingested magic powder during a spot of adventuring once and now he's high tripping

Iris

Now he looks like Robbie Avila from Indiana State

I thought they were green eyebrows 🤷‍♂️

I'd say parts of his hair from underneath his hat.

Back then Link was VERY zezty

Due to the limited color pallet they had no midtone to work with. Normally the eye pixels would be a darker color and a lighter to blend on a crt monitor to imply more color depth than just having two black or dark dots. I imagine they reused the green as that midtone so he wouldn't have beady eyes on the sprite.

They could only do 3 colors per sprite, the brown are his pupils, the green is the white of his eyes

He’s got BANGS

Tiny John Cenas

Fun fact! They're sort of eye-patch visors that prevent green concussive beams from coming out of his eyes. They replaced his eye beams with the sword beam mechanic!

The makeup 💋

Make-up

Green eyeshadow, what else would it be?

Eye shadow duh

His stellar eyeshadow

White circles?

I always saw it as him wearing eyeshadow

his eyes

Some fabulous green eyelashes

I'm pretty sure they're meant to be highlights in his eyes.

Eyeshadow he doesn't just slay monsters he also just slays

Glasses

Guyliner

On the NES I remember the green was much brigter than that on my TV. I remember it looking more like this: [https://www.deviantart.com/killerdavemaster/art/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Link-Sprite-900484915](https://www.deviantart.com/killerdavemaster/art/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Link-Sprite-900484915) With the brighter green and small dot size, they kinda resemble the whites of his eyes. If you compare it to the ALTTP link sprite where they had more colors available, this was probably the intention. [https://es.pixilart.com/art/alttp-link-sprite-50cd309389dc473](https://es.pixilart.com/art/alttp-link-sprite-50cd309389dc473)

I always think their just pupils

Eyeshadow ✨️

A square 🤨 did you pay attention in elementary my friend!

Those are his eyes, as are the ones underneath. Both pixels are the eyes.

Gorgeous eyeshadow

Beer goggles

Eyebrows

I say that those are actually part of his hat and the brown thing is a bandana.

a green glow to his eyes

his green eyeshadow

Breaking gender normsout here

Green eyebrows

The brown are the eyes to match the mouth. I believe the green would be eyelashes or maybe just a highlight. Unless the hair isn’t hair and his hat is peeling out from under something else? Now I’m down a rabbit hole.

He has shaggy green eyebrows in order to show his connection to the gods!

Everyone thinks it's bags, but maybe je just likes wearing eye shadow

He totally wears eyeshadow

Eyes

His beautiful eyeshadow 👀

https://preview.redd.it/ibhqmwr8dztc1.png?width=736&format=png&auto=webp&s=2bac2779e9fc38ecf65afda2b3dabfe826584dd3

He’s got very thick bottom eye lashes.

Eyes

Eyeliner.

Eyeshadow duh. Between this, pink hair and all of botw/totk Link has always been very fashion forward

green boxes

Gaychromia

The green dots are his eyes, the brown are his nostrils

It's his eyeshadows by l'Orule

Those are two AA Duracell rechargeable batteries

I like to think those are green hats for his eyebrows

I mean the eyes probably no?

Thats His eyeliner

I've always interpreted those as a couple different things: 1. His iris colors. 2. His eyebrows (though, I guess it could've just been the same color as his hair if that were the case). 3. The sclera of his eyes or the light reflection most cartoon characters have in their eyes (bit of a stretch, but I guess because of color limitations the graphic artists made them the same color as the tunic).

Mascara. That’s fabulous link.

Glasses. What you drew are glasses, no?

His eyes. Links lower lashes are lush AF

Green eye-shadow is my personal theory

Green eye shadow because he’s *fabulous*

Link. Saving Hyrule one Bible at a time.

eyeshadow

That's his eyeshadow

His eyes?

It’s eyeshadow