Lenzo
Template:Character Lenzo is the master of picture-taking in The Wind Waker.
Biography
In his earlier days, Lenzo sailed throughout the Great Sea, taking pictures of mystical beings and strange sights, but he has now settled on Windfall Island. Lenzo has been studying pictographs and everything about them ever since he was young, so he possesses knowledge about Picto Boxes that no one else has.[1] He also has a strange hobby of sneaking up behind people when they least expect it. When Link first meets him, Lenzo is reluctant to trust him due to the fact that one of his Picto Boxes was stolen from him[2], and prompts the young hero to leave. However, when Link shows him the Picto Box he found, the pictograph master urges him to look around his gallery upstairs, and even asks him to become his research assistant to develop a box with "incredible pictography capabilities".[3]
After Link helps him with his research material, Lenzo will tell him that he is looking for a color pictograph box, which is capable of taking high quality, color images. If Link brings him a firefly from the Forest Haven, Lenzo will improve the young hero's Picto Box and make it so that it can take color pictures. In The Wind Waker HD, the Forest Firefly is not required; Lenzo gives Link the Picto Box directly after completing all the "research" tasks.[4]
Lenzo also sells Legendary Pictographs, and Link can receive them by paying a fee of just 50 Rupees per photo. Minenco, the woman who has a keen interest in pictography, can be often found discussing the topic with Lenzo.
Theory
It is possible that Lenzo is Link's grandfather. Upon inspecting a picture of Outset Island in Lenzo's photo gallery, Lenzo states that he once met a "young lass" there a long time ago, and remarks that she is probably quite old by that point.[5] Link's grandmother, meanwhile, is the oldest woman on Outset, and therefore the most likely candidate for the girl he met. It is thus possible that the two conceived one of Link and Aryll's parents. However, it is noteworthy that Lenzo makes no specific mention of a relationship between them, and so they may have simply been acquaintances or friends.
Trivia
- Lenzo's Japanese name, Genzō, is a pun on the Japanese word for film developing, Template:Japanese. Likewise, his English name is likely a reference to a camera lens.
- His Japanese title is also a reference to the magic lantern, an early image projector.
- One of Lenzo's pictographs in his gallery depicts a bunch of ChuChus, this picture was actually taken in an unused room that can still be found with cheat codes.
References
- ↑ "You see, young sir, I have been studying Picto Boxes since I was but a lad." — Lenzo (The Wind Waker)
- ↑ "Once, long ago, I rented a room out to a traveler for a single night. The next dawn, my precious Picto Box was stolen..." — Lenzo (The Wind Waker)
- ↑ "My lifelong dream of creating a box with incredible pictography capabilities is at long last nearing fruition. Young sir, I hesitate to ask, but... Could you perchance become my research assistant?" — Lenzo (The Wind Waker)
- ↑ "You have completed all of the tasks I set you to. My doubts about you have been all cleared up! I shall hereby be proud to call you my assistant, Link! And... No assistant of mine will be seen going around taking pictographs in monochrome! Not in a million years! So here. Allow me to present you with this Picto Box." — Lenzo (The Wind Waker HD)
- ↑ "It is the most delightful of fishing villages, innocent and rich with nature's bounty... It was there I met a beautiful young lass... Although I suppose she is probably not as young as she used to be these days..." — Lenzo (The Wind Waker)
 Names in Other Regions 
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Japanese | Template:Japanese |
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French | Autofocus |
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German | Fotomeister Immanuel Kogfa |
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Italian | Olivio il catturatore di immagini |
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Spanish | Don Obturo |