#this is like my revali says eat the rich post all over again

[junietuesday]

somehow just saw this reblog and. yeah ok. youve unleashed the rambling <3 like wheres that meme of revalink shippers being incapable of shutting up. what can i say revalink drives me crazy 24-7 💚💙

“they’re in love + they have a healthy relationship” -> revali through his own…loquaciousness encourages link to be more open and expressive and stand up for himself. link just genuinely loves revali, not based solely on revali’s accomplishments, which, all revali’s effort has been to be seen as worthy. revali and link are both people who have their self-worth pinned on their martial prowess, but not only are they both equals in that regard and Know how skilled the other is, at the same time theyve seen far beyond just their fighting ability, both the best and the worst of each other, meaning that there isnt that pressure that they both experience from the rest of world, they can just Be with each other without pressure or pretense. they make each other better <3

“they’re in love + they have a tumultuous relationship” -> i probably dont even need to get into this but i will anyway. revali might be in love w link yes but he has to grapple w the idea that link is also a very real representation of fate, the idea that no matter how hard revali works and how much blood and sweat and tears he pours into making himself matter, fate will always supercede it, link was always going to be the main hero bc he was destined to be so - and revali has a hard time separating link from fate until he realizes that link is not as well-served by this situation as revali thinks. link meanwhile has had his only interactions w revali be revali insulting him for several minutes uninterrupted before flying off in a huff, so like, even if he already was attracted to revali by then he’d also be torn bc of revali’s very obvious outward resentment toward him. the same differences that make them so well-suited to each other also serve as barriers to their relationship

“they’re in love + they’re freakishly obsessed with each other” -> this is more on revali’s end of things but come on. literally everything revali says is talking abt link, revali can pretend to himself that this obsession w link is out of hatred but we all know the truth. (if you subscribe to the paraglider theory) he went out of his way to get the paraglider for link, going through all the effort to design and craft and reinforce this thing against damage. hes literally doing everything in his power to get link’s attention, declaring himself link’s rival just to be link’s Something, despite link pretty much just being normal abt it and being here to do his job. revali is insane and i love him <3

“they’re ‘good friends’” -> i mean all of the things ive already written above still apply even if you read their relationship as platonic but also. can you imagine if when theyre teetering on the edge of the “homoerotic” and “rivalry” of their homoerotic rivalry, or when theyve become friends but not yet romantic, and with revali’s codependent tendencies and link’s opening up to very very few people, people see them spending so much time together, and go like “wow im glad those two are finally settling their differences, its good to see that theyve stopped hating each other’s guts and become friends. friends who keep pinning each other to walls in the middle of sparring even tho they fight w a sword and bow. friends :)”

“they fucking hate each other + they have a healthy relationship” -> yeah they may fucking hate each other but the whole end of their canon arc is like, they have a grudging respect for each other, they know where they stand w each other, its more a healthy rivalry than real hostility. they may get annoyed w each other but theyre on the same team in the end and their personal irritation doesnt get in the way of defeating the calamity. like they get on each other’s nerves but they can put it aside bc more than that initial resentment is the understanding that they have just as much in common as different and that those original things that drove a wall between them (fate, lack of acknowledgement, etc.) have now been resolved

“they fucking hate each other + they have a tumultuous relationship” -> this is literally their canon dynamic. revali deals w his resentment at link being the hero by deriding him to lift himself up in comparison, by bragging nonstop that hes way better and that link is the worst. and link doesnt respond to this at all, maybe bc he doesnt want to escalate it further or maybe bc not giving revali attention whatsoever is his only way of biting back, but either way revali does take it as a further snub and hates link even more for not even acknowledging his words or skill or Anything. and so that divide grows deeper and deeper as revali lashes out and link closes himself off further. theyre just two hurting teens w the weight of the world on their shoulders never taught how to deal w their conflicts and emotions…!

“they fucking hate each other + they’re freakishly obsessed with each other” -> ok again this is more from revali’s end of things but come on. as i said he literally talks abt nothing but how much he hates link, his diary is full of “i HATE that stupid knight why wont he notice me”, and. revali’s flap??? just try and tell me that wasnt scripted. no way he didnt write up the whole speech beforehand so he could Perfectly get across the message of how eloquent and talented and amazing he was. you can only revali’s gale up to his landing from a very specific point, so he must have scoped it out beforehand and been waiting there for link to show up so he could make his dramatic entrance. revali is the Definition of freakishly obsessed and i adore him <3

ANYWAYS…