#i start and abandon way too many saves lol but I'm committed

[theeseanymph]

Meet the DuBoise Family! 🤎

After her husband had passed, Etta (Ettie) Allen-Duboise had made the move from Copperdale to Brindleton Bay, in hopes of setting up a good stable life for her 2 girls. Ettie put her all into raising Rose (top-right) and Marie (bottom-left) to be educated, hard-working, and self sufficient young women. She ran her own business, worked an extra job, volunteered and did small gigs here and there.

The girls are much older now. Marie and her husband James both working freelancers, are expecting their first child together, a baby girl! Although Rose isn't as settled as her older sister is, she's got a decent job, a boyfriend, and a solid group of friends keeping her busy living a care-free life!

[medianox-astrum]

that's cool, don't be sorry i love the long post and talking to another zelda fan :) i haven't played botw either! i think he's portrayed most sympathetically in wind waker. ocarina of time also does make it clear he's gerudo but mainly portrays him as greedy rather than slighted. i think it comes up in twilight princess too (i'm thinking of the flashback to his imprisonment), but i never finished that one. admittedly what i'm talking about is some extrapolation, because nintendo does not (1/2)

(2/3 sorry i wrote too much lmao) care about dark skinned or brown people lol. because to them the blond, pale-skinned hylians are way more sympathetic, so they write him as king of the gerudo who live in the desert w/o resources, and in WW he laments the hand the gerudo had been dealt, but like, as the player you are never encouraged to spend time with his grief or consider whether this endless reincarnation cycle is just furthering the damage. sigh

(3/3) so, like, while the building blocks for a sympathetic/tragic angle are there, i see him as sympathetic partly as a result of me being brown too and doing the critical thinking that nintendo doesn't want to do lol. (if you've seen FMA, i would say that his position is somewhat analogous to scar's role, but FMA is far FAR more sympathetic to scar than nintendo has ever been to ganondorf)

No worries! That’s all really interesting :o the most I remember from Twilight Princess when they got to the backstories was Zant showing up and the struggle between him and Midna, so I’m pretty sure I missed anything they said about Ganon

I haven’t seen FMA unfortunately, but I’ve only heard good things about it! I can totally imagine they went way more into depth about that kind of systemic power dynamic 

I think it would be really cool if they delved into deeper and more complex narratives and character arcs in Zelda, a lot of Nintendo games are so simplistic and Zelda seems perfect for richer story telling like JRPGS. And it’s not like they’d have to abandon the simplistic stories for Zelda either, there’s so many different worlds and styles, they went darker and more serious with TP so why not have one game where Ganon actually gets something deeper especially if there’s that groundwork there

But sadly I can definitely see them not wanting to challenge the good just Hyrule Kingdom nor make their perfect hero Link have to grapple with the cause he’s fighting for, even if he can save the world and still be more critical of the system he’s in. It feels like they started trying to hint at deeper and more complex narratives than just Good Guy and Bad Guy but didn’t want to fully commit.

And yeah making their villain’s origins from a darker skinned desert dwelling people and hinting that he’s rising against the pure white monarchy because his people have been treated badly by them but no he’s totally just pure evil is Big Yikes, I think it’s totally a valid take on it though despite how poorly they’ve handled it. At least it makes a lot more sense, and you can sympathize with a villain without like completely flipping it around with a surprise twist of now you hate the hero situation.

I think ultimately Nintendo really wants to market to and makes games for children, even though there’s a huge fanbase of adults (mostly now the ones who you know, grew up with their games and never stopped liking them) it seems like a lot of their decisions revolve around not supporting adult fanbases and i can see them keeping their stories very simplistically Good versus Evil because of that, at least for the properties that they’ve decided are for kids. that’s just pure speculation though, and again I don’t know how deep BOTW goes into world development and lore