#it really twists back into making zelda sympathetic in the eyes of the viewer by making her actions towards link something 'she's aware of' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

doomed-era · 1 month ago

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no actually you're so right

"zelda kneww in her heart that hating link because of her own insecurities was wrong and oooh she just couldn't get him off her miind and—" BOOOOOOORRIIIING GIVE HER A BETTER JUSTIFICATION FOR IT 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

#that's the core of the issue to me #why do you need to make her self aware????? boring as hell #it makes me wonder if a person like that dislikes the idea of zelda being flawed and human when like?#why do you even LIKE her if you don't like the very point of her character. what </3 #the devs state over and over and over again that they wanted to make this zelda feel human.#we can argue about whether they succeeded all day but I think--given that this is their intent--#it doesn't make *sense* for zelda to be self aware about it. because realistically a character like that wouldn't be #and she just doesn't act self aware. also quite frankly (referencing another post)#self-awareness shouldn't be the default for a given character. just bc the subtext in botws cutscene story with regards to zelda #doesnt mean shes aware of how shes acting. it just means the writers have gone out of their way to make something obvious #<- wearing my 'I hate it when characters are aware of how they're acting 24/7 unless this is acknowledged as a character trait' shirt #cause like? high self awareness can be so neat if it's utilized properly (vaguing one of my friends' ocs)#anyway. anyway. characters should have ideally have varying levels of self awareness and i've always hced botw zelda's as fairly low #is she nervous about how she's perceived? yes. otherwise that speech rhoam made wouldnt have worked. BUT. fearing how you're perceived #is not the same as being aware of how you act/are perceived #ALSO YEAH LIKE? I love taking a trait thats supposed to look 'sympathetic' and then going 'yeah no this has some pretty severe downsides'#idk idk im just nodding very emphatically to all this #also agreed. link is annoying and i will throw hands if you think he isn't #it really twists back into making zelda sympathetic in the eyes of the viewer by making her actions towards link something 'she's aware of'#which is dumb! why do we need to cater to an audience that is that biased so hard that any actions towards link need to be that padded?#as if her actions weren't already pretty tame

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