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teamcapwasrightandishouldsayit · 29 days ago

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hot loz take: we don't actually know what zonai look like. we know what RAURU AND MINERU look like.

imagine if like... zora. had never been depicted onscreen before. and then when we finally meet some, it's mipha and sidon and no one else.

the fandom would draw from this: zora are red with white markings. zora are shark-like. zora girls are very short and zora boys are very tall. zora have yellow eyes. zora have fins on their shoulders and elbows and waists.

but that's not true, is it? imagine, then, that in that world where we only knew mipha and sidon, there was an item called, idk, the ancient queen's aspect, and when you put it on it turned you into, say, queen oren from albw.

and the fandom would look at this and say, that can't be a zora. sure, she's fish-like, but think of all the differences! she's not red and has no white markings. her eyes aren't yellow. she has no shoulder/elbow fins. she's not a shark! zora are sharks, as we all know. her waist fins look nothing like zora waist fins. does she even have legs? couldn't possibly be a zora. she looks nothing like one!

but she is a zora. we know this, because we've seen many kinds of zora and know they are a diverse species that also evolved a lot over time.

this brings me to the ancient hero.

many people have said this can't be a zonai. zonai are gray, and he's green. zonai have white sclera, and his are black. zonai have three eyes, and he only has two. zonai have human like feet and he has paws. zonai don't have tails, but he does. zonai have big furry ears but his are more hylian. zonai have white hair with coloured accents, but his is red.

but. no. guys.

rauru and mineru are gray. rauru and mineru have white sclera and three eyes and human like feet and no tails and big ears and white hair. rauru and mineru have these things. that doesn't mean every zonai matches that description.

plus, this is, presumably, the ancient hero who fought the first calamity. which was thousands of years after rauru and mineru were alive. i think it's not unreasonable to assume there could have been some evolution there. and even if there was no evolution at all and zonai are exactly the same as they were when rauru and mineru were alive. there is no reason the ancient hero can't be a zonai.

#thank you for listening to my ted talk #totk #loz #zonai #original post #or imagine this is if like. we'd only met teba and tulin and then met medli #'that cant be a rito! she's too human like! she has hands! she's not white and gray! as rito are! which we know from our two data points!'#like. rauru and mineru are siblings. of COURSE they look similar. that doesn't mean their ENTIRE RACE looks that similar #and if you want to say that rauru and mineru and the ancient hero are all from the same game while mipha and sidon and oren are from #different ones and therefore nintendo should be more consistent. i raise you: instead of oren the third zora in this scenario is muzu #i bet you'd still get the 'thats not a zora' reaction #he's green but zora are red. he's a manta ray but zora are sharks. his waist fins are too long. zora have much shorter waist fins.#so this guys is clearly a new race!#like i enjoy the speculative races people make for the ancient hero to be part of. but he's a zonai. he's very clearly a zonai.#he's just not directly related to rauru and mineru (our two data points) and so doesn't look exactly like them.

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