#basically revali is beind a weirdo and looming all the time and hylians find it offputting as all hell

[avenin7]

Could you elaborate on Revali's territorial behaviour in regards to Link and how it varies from how Hylians respond to prospective romantic rivals?

I feel like hylian’s are doing an elaborate mental game of chess when it comes to romantic rivals, where as rito are a more- physical- people. I feel like hylian’s are out here saying “my house is bigger than your house!” “my house is bigger than your house!!” over and over where as rito are like, “Let me get that for you!” “I’ll take of that!” “Here’s some food I made!” Rito really said “my love language is acts of service, physical affection, quality time.” and hylian’s said “I have better assets!!” {though now thinking about it I wanna think about how rito and hylian’s differ in how they court people and how rito take lifestyle into account more; where as hylian’s take security into account more. anyway.}

so when it comes to being territorial over Link he’s playing an entirely different game than everyone else. On the external it’d probably look like those unhealthy boyfriends who don’t let their girl go anywhere haha. just looming menacingly over Link at any given time. Revali doesn’t seem to be one to sit back in his uncomfortable feelings, even if he doesn’t always know where they stem from he’s sure as shit going to do something about it! Verbally undermining whatever the romantic rival is saying, being more flashy in general in front of Link (especially if someone else is around), very “look at me! look at me!” I think most hylian’s find it weird and off-putting to have someone getting in their space and business (hylian’s seem like a people who have Too Big a space bubble) so they mostly back down cause they think Revali is weird. Thankfully Link is into the ‘weirdness.’ It’s also probably the only time Revali is ever verbally nice to him to his face.

but to anybody who knows anything about how rito express themselves Revali is essentially holding a giant sign above his head saying “HEY I LIKE THIS ONE! LEAVE HIM ALONE!”