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so i was rereading @minas-linkverse, and i wanna talk about just what kind of fascinating character feathers is. i'm basing my analysis on the panels above/their updates as well as this update. feathers is such a great character and there's a lot of details that showcase it but they're woven in so cleverly it took a re-read to catch them.

he's so. link in the way that he seems to take everything onto himself. it's self destructive in a way. he's like a candle burning himself out to keep everyone else warm. he can't relax at night he has to think about everyone and how he personally can manage to help them. it's clear that his journey changed him to be like this like. adventure isn't in his bones. he probably didn't long for far off lands. but he loves down to his core and he's the sort of person that wouldn't shuck any responsibility even if he wanted to. there's this ongoing thread that might be summed up as: is being a hero a choice or a curse? the answer for some of them might be, a little bit of both. like for masks and legend it's probably a curse. but for feathers it feels like it was a curse he decided to take on if that makes sense. like he knew it would curse him but he walked into it anyway.

i think there's parallels between this link (feathers) and fi. because as he crafts fi and slowly refines her, he is likewise crafting himself into a sword. he's getting sharper and dedicating himself more to a singular purpose. and he succeeded, obviously. but you can't go back to being iron or steel. he can't undo the process that made him into a hero, even if it may or may not have been in his original nature to become something that sharp. and so i think it's like after the war is over he's struggling to go back to having a soft edge, but he wants to. he wants to fit back into the niche he left but their shapes don't align anymore. even him taking on the task of delivering granny's letter to sailor just so he would take on the burden of the negative reaction. he manages everything he's struggling with by focusing outwards: if he only sees other people then he doesn't have to see himself.

this isn't sustainable of course. it's also not very obvious at first glance. like feathers looks like he's got it all together. but of course he doesn't - this whole trip involves people with massive unresolved traumas. if legend is like "I'm the one who always has to fix things" then feathers is "I'm the one who is responsible for all the things." and it's like a slight difference but it changes the way they see themselves in a major way, and how they feel their failures reflect back onto themselves and that's just neat!

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in: oracle of ages

when you visit the sea zora, one of them calls the river zora savages and vulgar. the river zora have racial coding that the sea zora lack.

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in: the oracle games

the true villain who orchestrated the plot of the games are twinrova, a pair of "gerudo witches" who are separately old ladies or can merge into a younger form. they have bulging eyes, prominent hooked noses, and this design causes their behind the scene pulling the strings role to have racist coding. the villains having ethnic features is already an issue. making it a manipulative plot calls further to racist coding

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in: hyrule warriors definitive edition

the concept and design of the main antagonist is mired in racism. cia is dark skinned and sexualised. originally the character called cia was white skinned. due to an incident her morally good "light side" split from her, leaving her morally evil "dark side" behind in the form of the antagonist cia. it is blatantly racist to create the evil version of a character brown when the original and good version are both white. the coding surrounding cia is also an issue. her overly sexual design calls to how brown and black women are over sexualised. she is obsessed with link which codes her as predatory. while some aspects exist in the "original form", the design choice to use metal cuffs on her wrists and thigh, bangles, and excessive jewellery is linked to a long history of orientalism and the fetishism of the 'belly dancer/slave' archetype. she has been given a "tribal" style tattoo. her skin tone is inconsistent in game.

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if Nintendo can break away from link's classic green hat I'm sure they can have a 3d animated link that isn't blond. it won't kill him

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in: oracle of ages

to get to symmetry city you must pass a bridge. it's unfinished when you arrive because all three workers have decided to take a break. their supervisor calls them lazy. the workers noticeably have big lips. when you hunt them down and force them back to work they finish the bridge immediately. this character design choice, combined with the workers being reluctant and lazy indicates antiblack stereotypes

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in: oracle of ages

queen ambi forces all the people of lynna to work. all the sprites of all the people doing physical labour are bald and noticeably have big lips. the people supervising them (and the guards) do not. this is antiblack coding

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i'm going to start keeping track of all the racism in zelda games

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in: multiple zelda games

as with multiple tloz designs, the enemy zora design makes use of prominent red lips. a common zora trait is round black eyes rimmed in white. a sharp contrast between the white round eyes, face, and bright red lips are traits that call to historically racist antiblack imagery.

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in: the oracle games

when you meet the large goron you see the intended designs of the gorons. he has round eyes spaced far apart and large lips. this goron design can be linked to antiblack caricatures.

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the gorons are all friendly. they spend their time playing games or sleeping. they are unwelcome to outsiders coming and going until you complete a simple task upon which you gain a brotherhood token. to resolve an issue of a rock slide they decide to mindlessly punch the rock. this contributes to the coding that they are careless, lazy, dimwitted or without complicated thoughts, and tribal, which are made relevant by the large goron design.

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