#i love the ship in any other context but lu has ruined malons character for me

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so can we talk about how LU!Malon is a Trade Wife or am i just meant to not realize how gross it is that in a LOZ au the only major female character is a Trade Wife.

bc i already knew a a majority of her portrayals in fics were grossly misogynistic like yall only include her to give Time a baby or give the LU boys a mother. if we r lucky she gets to just be Time's wife but i have RARELY seen even popular LU writters make her more than that. But im realizing that its a lot grosser than that bc she is weirdly out of character in LU to be more of Time's domestic wifey and the boy's defacto mother like she is in fics. She is only added to 1 give Time something to care about 2 give Time a family(sometimes give Twilight a family too) 3 be the adopted motherly figure to make everything alright for the other boys.

I can not think of a time off the top of my head a LU fic included her as a character where she wasnt there to be a character motivation for Time or the motherly figure for the boys. Malon in oot is not fucking like that. She was an airhead and a horse girl but she was never explicitly a caring person and certainly not motherly. She was stubborn and strong wiled like how some fics and even LU tries to portray her but still they lean more into her motherly role and love for Time as her major character traits if they ever let that part show.

This is misogyny i dont know why this is such a widespread thing other than the comic itself is misogynistic which i already knew but the LU fandom tends to curb a lot of the worst writting in LU and this is something i havent seen combated much in fics at all, if anyhting this interpretation of the Trad Wife Malon has been wholeheartedly accepted w/out critical thinking. That feels weirdly gross to me that the most significant woman character in LU is only an extension of her husband and a wife first then mother then character and it seems no one else is rlly talking about that or curbing that in their fics

(if anyone has a fic recc where malon isnt just an extension of Time or Twilight or any of the boys send it over btw!!)