#which sorta makes her seemingly ignoring zelda really sad but let's not worry about that rn

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totk rant anon again! elated to be getting a good grade in infodumping about my fave, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

revali's part in the true ending credits is absolutely another of my many favorite revali moments! one detail i really like is that he actually watches terrako the entire time it's climbing up to where he is (his head tilts very subtly to follow its movements) but he turns his back as soon as it gets close. is he being tsundere? playing along and letting it boop him first? hard to say, but it feels like a very revali thing to do regardless.

(in part just because he tends to turn his back on people a lot for... varying reasons! i have an entire analysis about it in my head that i've never gotten around to writing out. but it's a lot.)

fun aoc revali fact: he's the only champion who's 100% guaranteed a rematch with his blight! with most other blight battles in later missions it really depends on who you put in your party, but since windblight flees at the end of its initial fight (incidentally proving botw revali right when he says that it plays dirty) and revali (+ teba) have to fight it off in the vah medoh battle immediately afterward, there's no way to continue the story without letting revali have a victory of his own against windblight. just goes to show that he CAN win against it under the right circumstances! (the right circumstances being in daylight. though being armed with a huge laser cannon probably helps too.)

and one other thing about the sidequests that i think is interesting: most characters' sidequests for getting extra hearts involve something happening around them that makes them happy. the one notable exception is link, who gets his through goddess statues, same as in botw/totk. however, not counting the quests that boost all characters' hearts (which also involve statues), there are two and only two characters other than link who get hearts from a goddess statue-related sidequest: mipha and revali. mipha gets one extra hp and revali gets two.

there are two possible explanations i can think of for this. the first is that link goes up to the goddess statue the same way he would in botw and is like 'okay so i want some more hp. but not for me, for my friend.' but he only does this for mipha and revali. the other possibility is that the Goddess Hylia Herself (or whatever other force might be powering the statues) personally concludes that those two specifically are worthy of being granted heart containers despite not being link. either way, the implications are interesting!

also, the rito village goddess statue is the only one that gets two sidequests based around it (one is for link himself), validating my personal gameplay choice to use that particular statue most of the time when i'm playing the other games. link really does seem to like it!

WHWHWHWHHW i haven't actually gotten to the true ending on my own playthrough but you can bet i'm gonna be keeping a watchful eye on that when i get there. i need to study him under a microscope.

ALSO VERY TRUE that's something i've taken note of as well!! he really does it a lot (most notably at the end of revali's flap, in his champion's ballad memory and when he's thanking link for aiding in defeating windblight). his body language is so interesting here as he's hiding his face and doesn't want to look at who he's talking to, and all three of these examples show him being vulnerable to an extent, even though he tries to hide it.

NOTICED THAT AS WELL!! i know you do get to fight the other blights again in optional missions, the fort hateno mission and the siege on hyrule castle but you're not forced to use the champions in any of those fights, unlike this vah medoh battle. there's even the option to do a second medoh fight with windblight appearing after the credits. glad he gets to tear the bitch apart like he deserves.

WAUGHGGHGGGGHH i. gotta admit i've only really been reading the text for revali's missions but i went back and looked at all of the link and mipha missions as well and omg. i like also that revali gets two specifically while link and mipha only get one. there's probably something to analyze there too but honestly i'm just comparing it to how my brain works whenever i get a botw kick. like yes i adore link and mipha but my love for that stupid bird is on another level. also true i've always found the garland for her rito village statue to be really adorable. and i think with totk implying that farore, din and nayru are in the spring statues then it's safe to say that you can communicate with hylia directly with the statues.