nintendo is allowed to age up their characters for horny reasons but they pulled it off a lot better with purah is all i’m saying
@aescling that, or botw zelda edited it in to the story, take your pick
@aescling the deep lore cut i’m setting up here is that the reason why botw zelda’s mom called her “little bird” (a nickname later adopted by urbosa) was because it was a hereditary nickname stretching back to the first zelda, who was called that just because her dad was a large man with long eyebrows
@aescling well, you see, four chapters in is when gaepora’s wife gives birth to zelda
i’m giving this fanfic an intentionally complicated history so it will be impossible to tell which parts actually happened, which are interventions on the part of hylia, which are interventions on the part of a certain zelda, which were added to drum up sales…
@coriander also zelda games have always had large casts of characters whose names you will never remember but it used to be fine because everyone was playing for the dungeons anyway, and characters served clearly functional roles like “lady you bring the bugs to” or “guy who gives you the bomb bag in the earth temple”
@coriander i don’t think they do want to; i think they want to present a large number of marketable blank slates that fans can project onto
in all fairness this is a fanfic about zelda which doesn’t even introduce her until like the fourth chapter so realistically it’s gonna bomb no matter what i do
i keep being like “okay, this is enough, let’s keep it simple” and then i reread it and NO it is NOT enough i need to take it slower and dig into more detail
@coriander this is how u stay hydrated
@coriander other fantasy authors, apparently, since they seem to struggle when emulating that bit
@coriander stephenie meyer wrote a Twilight from Edward’s perspective and all the reviewers were like “yeah so I hate him now”
@coriander see the thing that Twilight fans know is that this trope only works when it’s not the protagonist
@coriander or is the danger not from inside the house
i guess if it's other people it's batman
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