just randomly thinking about how nintendo’s best selling zelda game— tears of the kingdom— all but confirmed that zelink lived together in hateno village, and that there’s nothing anyone can do to change that, on this fine thursday.
just found out the devastating news that tumblr losers are criticizing rauru and sonia for putting zelda in a “revealing outfit” which is just a mid-length strapless dress
this is so obviously intentional by the devs at this point like what do you mean there’s a single silent princess and blue nightshade surrounded by forget-me-nots
The silent princess and her blue knight, surrounded by a symbol of true love, devotion and remembrance
A beautiful metaphor
#zelink
#リンゼル
#TearsOfTheKingdom
#ゼルダの伝説ティアーズオブザキングダム
botw 2 better have a cutscene of link reacting to zelda’s haircut..... UNLESS he’s the one who helps her cut her hair, then.... i would like to see that
i’m going to open a can of worms saying this cause she is a cute & nice character and all BUT she had potential to be a great character if nintendo didn’t primarily focus on her feelings for link when developing her. and it’s not mean or slanderous to point that out. 😭
it’s so tiny that u always have to zoom in to see it but i like how link is more expressive with zelda in the memories than he is with anyone else. when u account for the fact that he canonically only opens up to her about his burdens, it makes it more meaningful…
just found out that in the german translation instead of saying “i haven’t”, link says “i’m not telling you”. makes me wonder what he says in the japanese version since the german translations are usually more accurate than the english ones.
i can’t believe the zelda team really sat down and said “let’s have zelda sob in link’s arms and then have him die in her arms”, would really love to thank them for that
all 3 of her mother figures dead. father dead. bad relationship with father. all her friends dead. her kingdom wiped out. boyfriend dead and then resurrected. locked in stasis for 100 years. boyfriend loses his arm. becomes a dragon. in stasis again for 10000 years.
what do you mean there are forget-me-nots surrounding link and zelda in the reunion/ending cutscene. what do you mean those flowers are called forget-me-nots in the game files confirming this.
can you guys think for like two seconds and stop using the whole “but no one in hateno recognizes link” rebuttal against zelink living together there? beetle doesn’t remember link. hetsu doesn’t remember link. BAZZ doesn’t remember link. no one recognizes that boy anymore. 😭
so much discussion today about shipping zelink in every game and i’ve come to say they are romantic across every lifetime to ME. do i think they end up together every time? no. but do they spend the rest of their lives yearning and wondering what could’ve been? absolutely.
people who haven’t played skyward sword and have no knowledge on it are already making “i hope there’s no zelink in this game” tweets…. moment of silence for them 😭
“if you played breath of the wild in it’s entirety AT ALL, you would understand how zelink makes no sense” the game where zelda’s love for link awakens her powers? that breath of the wild?
what if this is a scene when they’re watching link and zelda interact with each other and the guy has his hand on his chin like he’s about to say “they remind me of us” to his lovely goddess wife who is smiling as she watches them (i’m delusional)
so much happening in the zelda fandom because of a va just voicing her (CORRECT) opinion on a ship. imagine the turmoil if aonuma confirmed zelink LOL.
ALSO please note how i said “all but confirmed”! as in nintendo put in heavy implications without outright confirming it! yes there is nothing that is explicitly definitive but there is way more clues supporting that they live together than there is supporting that he moved out!
just found out the japanese version of the ‘creating a champion’ book implies that link CHOSE to continue protecting zelda after the events of botw while the english translation of the book implies that he continues to protect her because it’s his duty... i’m sick of noa
i feel like people overestimate how mean botw zelda was to link pre-calamity. in the sense that she just silently glared at him most of the time and yelled at him once but people will say “she was constantly shitting on him!”
here come the annoying totk haters with their dissertations about how totk losing goty equates to it being a bad game even though it won best adventure game
so you’re telling me that the japanese version of botw MIGHT potentially imply that link would sneak zelda out of the castle at night since the king forbade her from adventuring? so link may have intentionally went against the king’s orders to make zelda happy?