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The funny thing about playing botw and Totk is I don’t hate or scorn the Yiga at all. I actually think they’re so well within their rights to be super bitter and angry bc of what the king of Hyrule did to the Sheikah over 10k years ago. I need Kohga to know I am also anti monarchy and we should talk to Zelda about establishing a democracy or at least not giving absolute rule to the Hylian monarch. We should also let the yiga be members of society again and not continue to outcast them when they were actually again SO RIGHT to oppose the crown and refuse to be subdued and have their culture and technology destroyed

Ocarina of Time made me such a Hylian Royal Family and Royal Knights of Hyrule hater hjdgnlsdjnfjlsd

#like I love you Zelda but please abolish the monarchy immediately there’s better ways to rule than giving one person ultimate ruling power #that led to the Sheikah being used as dogs over and over in history and we should put in protections to prevent that from happening again #I think Zelda is a great leader and I’m so sure that the people of Hyrule would absolutely vote her to lead the country #but again it’s like… look at why the hylians have done to the Sheikah over and over like this shouldn’t happen again 😭 #I get so worked up over this fjkdojfdwkon it’s bc I’m sheik and OOT impa’s no 1 fan #okay that’s enough ranting 💀 #tloz #totk #souppe blurb #zelda souppe blurb

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There’s def a lot I wish to be in Tears of the Kingdom, especially things like regional/diverse enemies. But the thing I really wish to see is Link express negative emotions. And not just “he’s angry at fighting enemies” but rather he’s angry and tired and upset and confused at his situation. He has followed orders from the king the moment he touched the master sword as a CHILD. We don’t even know if he truly got to be a child because his whole life has been about duty. And I’m pretty sure in this timeline he was descended from the Hylian knights so who knows how long he’s been training to just be a standard knight before the master sword.

Link SHOULD be angry that he’s stuck in this cycle of rebirth. Even when he died, the fall of Hyrule was blamed on him and he didn’t even get to stay dead. He was woken up and had to finish his duties while also being constantly reminded that his death is what lead Hyrule to look like is does. He should be angry, angry at Ganon and Demise and at the Hylian Royalty for forcing him into this situation over and over and over.

And this is exactly why I hope TOTK is similar to Majora’s Mask. Not because Majora’s Mask was scary. But because it dealt with the grief and isolation and depression Link had to face after going through an incredible traumatic journey, and then losing all of his friends as a result. Most notably losing the ONE friend who was with him the entire time. Who completely understood everything Link went through because she experienced the same thing. And she was the entire reason Majora’s Mask even happened in the first place, because Link was desperately searching for Navi because he was scared to be alone. I want TOTK to explore these hard and brutal emotions for both Link and Zelda. I want them both to be scared, angry, and distraught. I want them to cry over themselves and be selfish. I want them to do something impactful that isn’t for the sake of Hyrule. I hope there’s conflict with the Goddess Hylia. I hope they reject her outstretched hand after she has burdened two children to sacrifice themselves for the good of Hyrule.

I want there to be a good resolution to TOTK. I want both Link and Zelda to choose their own path even if that means leaving Hyrule. But I want the path to resolution to be painful and really explore Link’s true emotions. He is stoic and mute because he is burdened with the weight of the world. What good is a knight who talks when he is judged based on his actions and ability to use a sword.

With Zelda’s warning that she thinks that even Link can’t succeed, I hope we do see helplessness in Link. Again to Majora’s Mask we did get to see Link helpless. He was transformed into a small Deku Scrub with no weapons, no horse, and was an outlier in a town filled with humans. But he learned to work through that helplessness. He embraced the spirit who had to give his life for Link to look the way he does and figure out new ways to fight and communicate. He later became grateful for the Zora and Goron who let him use their spirits to aide his journey. He was able to confront Majora’s because he was never truly alone. Everyone he’s ever met has given him strength even if they aren’t with him presently.

And that’s what I hope to see in Link in TOTK. A helplessness due to his isolated burden, faced against something he could never win against alone. And thankfully we did get that to an extent in BOTW with the champions and even Zelda. But even then, fighting the divine beasts was optional. Link in a sense could have faced Ganon alone. Hell people even fight Ganon with no clothes and only carrying sticks.

No, I want Link, even in the most powerful armor with the most powerful weapon, to be helpless. And I want him to be angry about it. And upset. And hurt. Because he has earned the right to express every painful emotion for his circumstance and he deserves to be able to express his frustration. It is okay if he isn’t the hero.

#Sorry for the long post but there’s just so much about TOTK I am hopeful for #There’s a reason OOT and MM are tied for my favorite Zelda games #It’s because they truly dive into these same topics #And I think the reason so much has been left out of trailers is because this game will explore really hard truths #I want this game so badly to prove to all the people who think it can’t get better than BOTW that this game will be so much more #totk #tears of the kingdom #tloz #the legend of Zelda #legend of zelda #loz #link loz #Zelda #majora's mask #majoras mask #ocarina of time #botw #breath of the wild #souppe blurb #Zelda souppe blurb

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I love the theories about Rauru being a physical caretaker of Link while he’s in the spirit realm

Trimming his hair and piercing his ears even down to mending/making his clothes

Like one thing I love to draw on OOT link are larger stitch marks on his clothes to either suggest he had to mend his clothes himself after a nasty fight or from rauru hand stitching the clothes to be larger to fit him when he’s 17

Because in OOT his green clothes have one of the most important significances to his identity, they communicate who he grew up with and how he was raised. He might not ever be able to go back to being a Kokiri and living with the forest children again, but that’s all he’s ever known in life before being thrust into the cruel hands of fate. He doesn’t reject his Kokiri upbringing, he cherishes it and clings to it in a time where he’s learning that a lot of his life a been a lie and he has the weight of saving the world on his shoulders.

And rauru saw this in Link, for why else would Link still be wearing his Kokiri clothes in the future? Even to a new world, to Termina, he kept his clothes because he was clinging on to the hope of returning to a time where he was with his best friend again. To be the fairy boy with his fairy friend. In a world of familiarity and unfamiliarity, his clothes represent just that. The familiarity of his kokiri childhood yet the unfamiliarity of his Hylian nature, one he can never return to and one he must learn to accept.

Rauru helped link retain a sense of identity in a time of incredible turmoil, both within link and throughout Hyrule.

#going crazy over OOT again!!!!! #tloz #oot #ocarina of time #rauru #this genuinely started off so simple and idk how I always end up writing essays 😭😭😭 #OUGHHHHHHHHHHH #I’m normal again #(or am I 😭) #souppe blurb #zelda souppe blurb

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I’m always such a big lover of phantom ganon from OOT bc he’s the original and he has a really cool design, and he has one of my favorite boss mechanics/fights

But the more I study WW phantom ganon the more I’m just so obsessed with him

The blue stylized lines with solid black color. The skeletal limbs with stylized smoke pouring out. The Majora’s Mask reference on his really cool sword (not to mention the reference is of the blacksmith who makes my favorite sword in all of Zelda- the great fairy sword). Dead man’s volley. The lopsided horns. The floor masters that are stylized just like him. Holy shit this design is incredible yet also so simple due to its stylization. 10/10

#tloz #wind Waker #phantom ganon #souppe blurb #Zelda souppe blurb

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Hhhh I love tloz games where it shows that Link’s blind loyalty and trust can be way more harmful than good and it causes Link to forge his own path. That the goddesses never have his best intentions in mind so he learns to trust in himself

#like how wind Waker link doesn’t save Aryll for prophecy but bc she’s his sister and she’s the most important person to him #and how he’s also the more skeptical Link #or how OOT/MM Link has been betrayed by those he trusted blindly so he leaves Hyrule and everything he has known to find his friend #and of course this was inspired by me reading the Ravio analysis oughhh that was so good #reject the knights! become your own person! tell the gods to fuck off! #tloz #souppe blurb #zelda souppe blurb

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God I just absolutely love how important music is to ocarina of time and how most of the music isn’t just like ambient/environmental

It’s integral to the characters and the story and the music is ever present to everyone. Of course at a basic level you have link with his ocarina learning new tunes to aide his journey, but he’s learning and performing with people he meets and knows.

Saria’s song is most recognizable for being the music in the lost woods but that’s because she loves exploring the lost woods and taught her song to the skull kids. Malon loves to sing Epona’s song which not only calls and tames the wild horse, but is a song her mother composed and would play for her. Zelda’s lullaby is not only an important song throughout all of the game but the name implies it’s been passed down through her family to play… well as a lullaby. It’s her song and it’s her music she cherishes when she tries to sleep.

You have the song of storms which has ruined a man’s life through a fun paradox, who wrote the song and who taught it to who first? All the link and sheik scenes have such a sweet intimacy when playing duets together, a familiarity and unfamiliarity between them.

Even Ganondorf plays his own theme as you slowly climb up the castle tower, the music getting louder and louder until you can’t her link’s steps anymore as any sound is drowned out by the organ just behind the door.

And even if music isn’t as prevalent in Majora’s mask, there’s still music to learn from the different cultures in Termina and you even get to play different instruments depending on what spirit mask you wear. Not to mention the entire zora questline is about a band and honestly I think the whole indigogos quest is one of my all time favorites it’s so personal yet so pervasive within the zora it’s so good. OUGHHH y’all I love these games so much ifdndfjfkdwjfdjjfw!!!!!!!!!!

#I love you musical importance in the tloz games you are my best friend I love you games where link plays music #even the very first game he had a flute :’) #tloz #oot #ocarina of time #souppe blurb #zelda souppe blurb

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It breaks my heart that people think the hero of time’s story is just a tragedy

Ocarina of time is absolutely a tragedy, but Majora’s Mask is not

Majora’s Mask is one of the most hopeful pieces of media I’ve ever consumed. It has a bittersweet end, but you finish the game knowing that link will be okay, that he can and will survive on his own. Sure he had to leave his friends behind again, but he CHOSE to do that this time. He knew he couldn’t stay in Termina and he made the choice to be a child again.

I do not for a second believe his entire life is a tragedy, NOT after all of Majora’s Mask. The game specifically designed to be about healing and love. Idk where the theories that link died or became a child soldier (?????) came from but I feel like the entire message of Majora’s Mask was just completely lost on a ton of people 😭

#tiny rant bc sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who understands Majora’s mask 😭😭😭 #no I actually genuinely hate all the theories that link’s life went downhill after Majora’s mask #the entire story is about healing from grief and from wounds understanding your trauma #if link were to die or become a soldier that just spits on the entire message of the game #it spits on people going through similar experiences and tells them their life will never get better #THATS NOT THE MESSAGE AHHHHHH!!!!!!!! #the message is that things will be okay #life is hard now life will always be hard #but there are people who love and appreciate you and you are meaningful to this world #don’t let grief consume you #things will get easier one step at a time #I have so many positive thoughts and feelings about Majora’s Mask it’s genuinely such a great game #especially if you are also going through trauma or grief it really helped me understand my own feelings through both #tloz #Zelda souppe blurb

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It’s a shame Stalkids never returned after Majora’s mask, everything about them and their name is so creepy and mysterious I would love to know the developers intentions with their design

One theory I saw before is that they’re the reanimated skeletons of those who died during the civil war in OOT but also why do they look like that when stalfos look much more human/Hylian. But also they reanimate before ganon comes to power so this also isn’t from his influence, why are they so restless outside of the gates of castle town? And why are they stalKIDS? Are they supposed to be children??

They were soldiers in Majora’s mask but what did they look like before they died? They are intelligent and can speak and play but they still have their long faces and huge teeth and sharp claws…

#I miss the fucked up enemies with absolutely no explanation for them #but sometimes they’re also super silly (dancing ReDead and milk craving Gibdos) #tloz #OOT #Zelda souppe blurb

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No Zelda character will ever be cooler than Granny/Syrup who is just a potion maker who also owns a pet miniature tiger

#a runner up is her granddaughter maple who rides both a flying broom and an alien ufo #it’s also a crime that granny/syrup only makes returns in the 2d games and that maple hasn’t been in a 3D game at all #Zelda souppe blurb #tloz