Random Headcanon: Link’s androgyny isn’t just an artefact of the Zelda franchise’s art direction – and neither is it particularly unusual. Sexual dimorphism among Hylians is legitimately much lower than among real-world humans; if Link and Zelda swapped clothes, you’d never be able to tell who was the girl and who was the boy.
Consequently, Hylian society depends heavily on clothing to establish gender roles, to the extent that it’s a severe faux pas to question someone’s gender presentation. If they’re dressed like a girl, then they’re a girl – even if they were dressed like a boy yesterday. That’s why nobody ever remarks upon the fact that Zelda and her heroic alter-ego Sheik are different genders; it’d be gauche at best to bring it up.
Good post op
explains why i can be banned from gerudo town, change clothes in front of the guards, and then be welcomed with open arms
shit, this absolutely provides an explanation for it that isn’t just “lazy game mechanism” and is honestly such a solid demonstration of how people should approach genderfluidity.
doesn’t matter if the first time you met the person they presented as male, if they present as female now that means they’re a woman and they’re welcome into gerudo town no questions asked
Also, Link and Zelda 100% do swap places often and you can’t tell me otherwise.
“Princess Zelda, Ganon has made his way into the kingdom! What should we do?!”
THANK you for acknowledging it. They have the same nose AND the same endearing “maybe if I play dead the film crew will go away” approach to PR.
I’d like everyone who’s been claiming Andre Burakovsky is somehow Nicklas Bäckström’s son to acknowledge the one true heir
LISTEN have you SEEN this boy??? Literally Nicky reincarnated. Like. Look at him. He and Nicky have the same look in their eye. Djoos will take time for his look to turn into “murder” like Nicky, as his is more “dissociation” right now (that’s how it be with this generation).
And he and Nicky have the same fluffy hair, AND they have the exact same reaction to Andre: they’re tired of his shenanigans but they love him. That face Djoos pulls in Andre’s “DjoooOOOooOoOoos” videos? I have absolutely seen that face on Nicky before.
Andre may be Nicky’s son, but Djoos is straightup Nicky’s clone.
The idea that Djoos will need time to mature into the full-flavored murder stare, like wine or something, is the greatest thought I’ve ever heard.
One day he’ll look up and make unwavering eye contact with the camera for the first time and blossom into a beautiful flower of silent violence
GOD how could i possibly have forgotten THE MOST OBVIOUS EVIDENCE??
GROUNDBREAKING scientific research here my friend
At the same time, this is getting scary and I do NOT like how they’re both looking directly through the camera at me, I KNOW THEIR SECRET NOW
this is all very good investigative journalism and high caliber analysis however the wording that djoos is nicky reincarted implies that nicky is already dead, which would in turn mean that he’s been dead at least since we acquired djoos, or maybe that he’s been a ghost/poltergeist/malevolent spirit all along???
You are not making me less scared. You all’re gonna get me Mysteriously Disappeared and you’ll have to live with that (for as long as They allow you to)
Also, being raised in the same town (Gävle) they have some very…. similar….. career choices.
Well, if I die for this information tonight, at least it’s thoroughly referenced
just moving along like everyone else 