Animation Events Tightly Coupled to One Object?

I have a quick question about animation events. I have an animation. On frame 13 I want to execute some code. I've tried doing this by adding an event to my animation but in order to fire the event Unity wants me to provide a Unity object on which to fire the event. I'm not sure what object to put in the "Object" field. Do I put my character in there? That is the object that contains the script that contains the code I want to execute when the animation event fires. If I do that though, now this animation is tightly coupled to that character, which feels weird, but I guess I won't be using the animation clip outside of that character anyway.

Here is the relevant page in the Unity documentation.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationEventsOnImportedClips.html

 

I don't think the Obeject field is required.

 

Interesting ...

But how would it know what code to call when the event fires then?

 

function name

 

OK, hmmmm, but how would it know which script to search for that function name?

 

Wow, nevermind, it's, somehow working. I have a single script attached to my character and Unity was able to find my function. I'm not sure how it would if I had multiple scripts, but perhaps it looks through them all for it.

Thanks for your help @LaneFox

 

It's sends the function call to every script on the animators gameobject.