Venn diagram showing 100% overlap between people who name him Link and people who only play as Mario in Mario Kart
This is my scenario. I was a dumb kid that didn't know better. Then Golden Sun shook me when I casually named Isaac "Alex" only to find there was an antagonist named Alex right at the start, and boy did that make dialogue scenes confusing.When I was a child I did.
Keyword there being, when I was a child. It is the only logical excuse.