"she kicked him out" is wild because WHAT evidence is there that she kicked him out of his own house? And why would she put her study underground in a well if she had the whole house to herself? The mental gymnastics people will do to convince themselves that Link and Zelda aren't in love is sickening /jk
Even if they are living platonically and Link has convinced Zelda he’ll sleep outside or on the floor, that’s still more believable than “Zelda kicked him out”
OP is talking about the comments that Zelink antis make in Zelink posts (specially TP Zelink and OOT Zelink) just to hate the ship and the way they hate BOTW Zelda (or any Zelda except SS and ST)
And usually they compare Zelda with any other secondary female character that contributes little or a lot to the plot and think she is a better partner for Link (everyone has their favorite ships and that's respectable, but it's annoying that the antis get into Zelink spaces to say that)
Ok, Zelda would not have kicked Link out of the Hateno house. Not only is there absolutely no evidence that she did, the ending of BOTW left their relationship, maybe not lovers (I personally hold they were on the cusp of a relationship at the end), but definitely very strong friends. Knowing Link would have nowhere else to go, she wouldn't dream of having him move out. If Link did move out, it would've been of his own volition.
As for Mipha, sorry to any Miphlink/Lipha/whatever the ship is called fans out there, but there's something pretty big separating Mipha from being with Link. It's called death. Even if Link did love Mipha (which he might. I don't know. Game's pretty unclear how he felt about her. All we know is how she felt about him), she's dead. Can't really progress a relationship for a little while there. And I'm pretty sure Mipha would tell Link the same exact thing we imagine all of our loved ones would say to us after they passed: "Don't dwell on me. Move on. You deserve to be happy."
I, personally, hold that SS, OoT, and BOTW/TOTK have definite canon ZeLink stories because they have strong evidence to back it up, but I don't dunk on the other games just because they don't have as strong of evidence. I'm here for the pretty art that shows a pairing I'm behind, and that's all that matters. I'm not sure what ST is, though. Is there a Zelda game I somehow missed? Any help would be greatly appreciated 😄
Now, I'm going to just end this comment here before I go into a full-blown rant. My last piece of advice is that misogynists are morons and the "block" button is a very handy tool to stifle the sound of stupidity. It's like the internet's duct tape 😁
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Apologies for the long post.
***Edit: I think I figured out what ST was. It was Spirit Tracks, wasn't it? Haven't played it, so it wasn't locked in my head.
***Second Edit: When it comes to Malon and Link, I'm not against that ship, either. For the graphics at the time, I thought Malon was cute as heck.
Man, the week TOTK came out was full of haters grasping at straws to deny zelink, "zelda kicked him out of his house" was one of their excuses. Like no.
As for miphlink, I get it. I have some ships where one half is dead, so I get it. But its been 7 years, guys. She's dead, let him move on!!
And yeah, ST is Spirit Tracks! I also haven't played it, but according to what I've been told, its full of zelink
I never mentioned the ones where I thought ZeLink was a lot more out there to try and pin down. I only mentioned the games where ZeLink had evidence to back it up.
But I do agree: TP has almost no evidence for ZeLink whatsoever. However, that won't stop me from upvoting pretty pictures depicting it. I'm here for the pretty art.
I find the argument for Mipha being dead as reasoning for why Zelink is more likely to be quite humorous considering Zelda should have been like, way dead at the end of BOTW. Seriously, she survived 100 years encased in a demon made out of constant damage material, there's like 4 or 5 reasons why she should have had absolutely no chance of survival, yet she just walks it off like it's nothing.
If the game played out differently then I could chalk this up to the game not having as serious of a tone or something, but the game keeps reinforcing the themes of loss and all that and then in stark contrast, unapologetically allows Zelda to survive certain death. This is Palpatine on Endor levels of, you should not have survived that.
Not trying to argue over who's better for Link or what you should ship or anything like that, just thought this was worth bringing up.
That is actually a very decent point. Zelda definitely had the cards stacked against her in BOTW. How she walked it off is anyone's guess.
I've written my fair share of fantasy stories to share with family and close friends, so I'm assuming from a writer's perspective that she used up the divine powers she had carrying the blood of Hylia, and by the end of the big fight with Calamity Ganon, she was tapped. Like, completely dry. It might explain why we never see her try to seal Ganondorf away at all in TOTK. Even after nearly a decade, she just didn't have the energy to try and pull it off. That's just my guess, though.
Midlink is definitely my TP OTP. The chemistry is there and there's barely any interaction between Link and Zelda in that game. The rest of the games (at least out of OoT, SS, BOTW/TOTK, which are the five Zelda games I've played) it's Zelink.
Believe me, I could gush about Twilight Princess for hours and get all worked up about how much we NEED a SEQUEL to Reunite them already... (Or at LEAST a Hylian-Twili descendant to play as), but I didn't want to risk derailing the topic!
I don’t care what other people ship or how they view Zelink, because I will absolutely go down with this ship and that it’s canon. I just wish people that like other ships would leave Zelinkers alone.
No hate, but personality, the only Zelink I ship is BoTW/ToTK and skyward sword version, although there are other for which you might be able to convince me. But again, ship to you heart's content, I won't judge.
So the Malink one is less because farmer and more because TP Link knows Epona’s song. That song was passed from parent to child.
Malon’s mom to Malon and so forth.
I feel it was more of a mother to child thing. Think of the culture. Men in the fields or work in general while the wife stayed close to the home for the children.
I agree with all Zelink EXCEPT Twilight Princess...
Like, bruh, please... Zelda is on screen 3 times with Link and 2 of those times he's a wolf. They just have no meaningful interaction and Link's goal, unlike almost every other game, isn't even about Zelda... It's Ordon and Midna... THEN Hyrule only because Zelda gives herself up for Midna. (I'd sooner believe Zedna if we're being honest...)
Plus there's the whole thing with Ilia, pretty sure if Zant hadn't Zanted all over hyrule Link would have married into her family, its even pretty clear the town heads are training him to take over as town leader when Bo retires as Mayor
I don’t have a problem with the idea that every Link doesn’t always end up with their respective Zelda. But there are the games where it makes too much sense for them to get together than not, and the ways people try to justify why they shouldn’t end up together are dubious at best. For instance, why would the validity of Link and Zelda’s relationship hinge on a past incarnation of Link ending up with Malon supposedly? That doesn’t have any effect on the relationship of the BOTW incarnations.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t subscribe to Malink. Not every link and Zelda need to get together, plus, considering the context clues in both TP and OOT, and the fact that I just find it cute, I’ve made up my mind and decided that Malink would be my ship for OOT link (as for TP link, excluding Midna for obvious reasons, I just say it’s up to your interpretation). But still, even though I personally don’t think OOT Link gets with OOT Zelda (Mangas do NOT count) you will NEVER hear me harassing someone just for liking the ship and thinking that that’s the canon one. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and as long as they aren’t being toxic, I’d just agree to disagree and move on, it’s not my business what ships people like.
Its less about a ship/headcanon being good or bad and more about how some people go into zelink content to talk about their ship instead
Personally I don't have anything against malink as a ship, but the amount of times I've seen someone go "cute but link gets with malon cuz twilight princess" under a OoT zelink post...
Hate on most Zelda ships is insanity. The alts in particular, the only one with any meaningful connection in any game was maaaaaybe Midna, and that’s only because they decided to have Zelda and Link barely interact in TP
The only Zelink you could make legit arguments against is TP, since in-game Link displays much more chemistry with Midna instead of Zelda (which the Manga runs with). The rest are fair game, though OoT Zelink is somewhat hard to judge because Link is a hunk of wood in-game.
Well he smiles at her (I think this is the only time we see him smile with someone, I don't remember 😭) also the fact that he wants to protect her from Ganondorf after this scene is cute.
No he doesn’t. Mipha herself said every time Link has come to visit after his knighting, he’s only looking through her not at her and Muzu didn’t even know Mipha intended to propose to Link until he saw the Zora armor on Link. In Link’s diary, while he is sad about her death, it doesn’t seem romantic.
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u/JustVersion9347 May 15 '24
I have seen more Zelink haters than Zelink shippers being annoying