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rawliverandgoronspice · 2 months ago

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anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT

#thoughts #twilight princess #tp #tp ganondorf #ganondorf #sorry I am quite frustrated by the Discourse #there is a middle ground between evil bad evil bad and uwu baby!!!!!!! and it's the most interesting reading!!!! aaaaaa #even him not mentioning the gerudos being immediately taken as him not caring about them is veeeery frustrating to me #like #imo the three arguable arguments about what happened to the gerudos are #1) they left hyrule because fuck that shit (real and valid) and he would have felt betrayed #2) they collaborated with hyrule to subdue him (??? that seems weird to me but sure why not) and he would have felt BETRAYED #3) they were genocided because they stood by him #and of course we could assume he doesn't care (even if he drapes his execution sword in gerudo patternings which)#(not gonna lie is probably artists not really paying attention to motives but it's still interesting and noticeable)#but wouldn't that be like. deeply traumatic either way.#would you talk about your people to the enemies you hate. would you remind them of what they took from you #in ww they are children and he is old and had time to reflect #in tp he suffered nonstop and then rejected all connection and all community and is feverishly obsessed by what almost was #and they are not children there is no generational thing happening they are all royalties (and link!!! hi link!!) the beef is genuine #and EVEN IF he doesn't care that would at least be a massive wound to his ego #he had an ego collapse followed by a massive ego surge that's literally his canon character arc #so of course he would be weird about the gerudos!! how could he not be weird about the gerudos!!#again we are always assuming lack of interiority by default for ganondorf and that annoys meeeeeee #especially when there could be unbelievably interesting and tragic interpretations from what we get

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