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rawliverandgoronspice · 2 months ago

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re: last post, but yeah I think there is a way, unintended by the game for sure but still not canon-breaking, to understand TP Ganondorf the very same way we understand WW Ganondorf post mental breakdown, and suddenly a loooot of things start to make a horrible kind of sense

There is a way to make TP Ganondorf, not only not stupidly written, but also utterly heartwrenching

AGAIN YES it's not what the game intended, but literally except for maybe (maybe!!!) Wind Waker, and that reading is being semi-actively dismantled by Nintendo at every turn ever since that happened, when the hell has any zelda game given that dude any kind of grace

#thoughts #ganondorf #twilight princess #it's so compelling to me that I started an animatic series with 11 episodes planned to fully explore it so I will defend that actually #I knooooow the team never wanted to give him that kind of psychological grace #but a LOT of things make sense if you understand him as in full-blown denial delusion mono-thought mode #or like as a spectre focused on his unfinished business to a mind-breaking degree #I don't know.#it's disheartening to love this dude because you're always twiddling the line between connecting dots #and just leaving the realm of canon altogether #or accepting limiting premises as unquestionable which sucks given the inherent values of those premises #he's an unbelievably compelling character stuck in a series that can't handle that complexity and so we're all stuck being mad at each othe #sad :(

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