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autumnoakes · 6 months ago

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man... rhoam's "redemption" in aoc really sucked, huh?

like botw SHOWED us, several times, how much pressure rhoam put on zelda to unlock her powers, despite her telling him, several times, that it wasn't working. he got angry and banned her from doing not only something she saw as useful, but something that she was clearly very interested in and passionate about because she "wasn't dedicating enough time to her prayers." yes, his diary expresses regret for it, but at the end of the day, if zelda saw that it wouldn't mean much to her. the actions rhoam took, and the way zelda grew up under so much pressure that she nearly died as a child in one of the springs (this is in urbosa's diary, iirc) mean so much more than his regrets and his intentions. it took him nearly 10 years to realize that he fucked up, and by that point it was too late. the calamity had returned, and rhoam had lost any chance he had at making things right with zelda.

meanwhile, in aoc, all that's there is some half-hearted scene in the temple of time that's supposed to make everything better? yes, aoc had a very different and arguably better outcome than the calamity that led to botw, but the damage was still done by rhoam. it's still the same hurts and abuse and trauma that he put his daughter through all because of the prophesized calamity.

#legend of zelda #breath of the wild #hyrule warriors age of calamity #sorry i just. i don't know what nintendo meant to do with rhoam #i guess they were trying to make him into a guy who did bad things for a good reason but still #i think the action matters more than the reason because the action is what impacts others the most #when someone is hurting and they lash out what people remember most is them lashing out #that scene in aoc really felt kinda empty and half-hearted (even kohga crying during the scene kinda felt forced)#yeah i guess they were trying to make him into a stern father who we were meant to sympathize with because he didn't want to do #what he had to do. but it kinda... fell flat?#i don't think he was a good king either. he wasn't a tyrant for sure but also what kinda king puts the fate of his entire kingdom #on the back of like 6 people. 4 of whom are considered kids or young adults by their society's standards #(urbosa also mentions this in her diary and she hates that she and daruk are the only seasoned warriors of the champions)#(her diary is full of worldbuilding gems because of her relationship with zelda and its worth a read if you have the DLC)#don't think i forgot about link in all of this either. he was like 12 when he pulled the master sword and he wasn't much older than zelda #if he was older at all. and he was already a knight as a teenager. he was a child soldier who rhoam personally appointed #because he was able to wield the master sword #and maybe revali has a point there. maybe he didn't deserve any of it but not in the way that revali thinks #i don't think that's a writing mistake. revali is a very flawed character and he's young and brash and impulsive. he's very harsh on link #because he thinks he's being overlooked for his skills while link gets all of the pomp for doing the bare minimum #which isn't true but there's also not really anyone proving otherwise to him. link himself doesn't talk a lot #BUT I DIGRESS this post is about rhoam not link and revali #yes i have sat on this for 3 and a half years. what of it #i think rhoam could have had a redemption if he didn't like. deliberately lie to link at the beginning of botw. several times.#like.... these are flawed characters and it would take a LOT for rhoam to shift his world view like that #if he had come to the conclusion he did earlier and listened to zelda maybe things would have been a bit different #but he didn't. he missed his chance to speak with his daughter and tbh the fact that it took him about 10 years to realize this #says a lot about his character i think #post brought to you by the copious amounts of hades i've been playing (zagreus and zelda are an interesting point of comparison in my mind)#(like yeah rhoam and hades are two completely different parents but they both had similar outcomes with their children)

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