Heroine Legends
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I could write a blog post, and maybe should, about how much I love Zelda in Breath of the Wild. I’ve just beat the Champion’s Ballad, and so much of it was beautiful and amazing ( if maybe a bit short).
I wish Nintendo would give us more DLC to tide us over until the next game. But right now I just want say how much I love Zelda. Honestly, she might as well be the main character of the game with how much the narrative focuses on her. (Note, there will be light spoilers). It still bugs me that Anita Sarkesian would dare to sum her up as “another damsel in distress” continuing the dated series tradition, when especially this time around she is so much more than that.
Zelda is the young woman, forced to sacrifice her passions, life, and personal freedom to her royal duty, which requires her to awaken her powers and save the world from the impending return of Calamity Ganon. A duty that grows into an unbearably painful burden as she’s stuck with the insurmountable wall of having no idea how these powers are supposed to work, while being ordered to go everywhere and try everything to see if the key can be discovered with enough mud thrown against the wall. And it’s all the more tragic that if she’d only had a little more time, Mipha might have given her the key after everything else, and she would have been able to repair her relationship with her father. But instead the triumphal moment is overshadowed by desperation and the urgency of taking care of Link and confronting Ganon before he can destroy the world. But I digress, I’m not here to summarize the story, but to explain why what I admire most about Zelda is her strength, and how the writing of the story and her character elevate her to being the best incarnation of Princess Zelda yet. Possibly more than Link’s adventures that we experience in the present timeline, Zelda’s story has her overcoming more poignant, personal obstacles to try and claim her birthright. Dealing with her (intentionally and painfully self-aware) overbearing father, leaving behind her passion for field work and studying ancient shiekah technology, and continuing to go on and not give up while being faced with failure at every turn takes amazing strength.
The story of her personal struggles and adventures could easily be put into a 300 page novel, and she would be a worthy heroine. And yet that’s only the beginning of her story.
The moment of her awakening arrives in the process of trying to save Link’s life, and though she succeeds, her boyfriend his injuries sink him into a coma, and Zelda is left to think on her feet, swallowing her own panic to direct the start of Link’s recovery and quickly putting things in order before she goes to stare down Ganon. We don’t know if she was hoping for the backup of the Champions, but she would have realized very quickly it wasn’t coming. But she still stood up, took the master sword to the Great Deku Tree, and likely then marched on Hyrule Castle with her head held high to meet fate, determined to do what she could to save the world. And hers was a horrifying fate. Staying bound up with that hideous beast Calamity Ganon for a hundred years, keeping him suppressed with her powers, takes enormous strength. Even if she was a disembodied spirit in a state of suspended animation, there must have been the knowledge that the great king of evil was right there next to her, and the wondering how long she would be able to hold on before he escaped her grasp, if Link would awaken and come to save her and Hyrule, and if even after all this they would really be able to avert the end of the world.
(I don’t even want to get in if she was physically conscious the whole time. Other than, how the hell did she not go mad?! That would take the horror levels up to eleven.) Despite all this, she holds on, she buys her kingdom time. And after Link wakes up, possibly the most impressive part of all is how she talks to Link. Never after he awakens does she break down and plead for him to come save her. Not once does she tell you to stop blowing up your thousandth fucking bokoblin and get your ass to the castle. You could be forgiven if you thought Impa felt things more urgently.
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Her tone throughout your adventures is calm, gentle, supportive, and encouraging. Celebrating in your achievements and your steps towards regaining and surpassing your old strength. Even as she’s still barely holding herself together in the tower, slowly losing her grip on Ganon and the fate of Hyrule, knowing she’s now at her limit and he could escape at any time. I can’t help but think that shows even greater strength than any of her prior achievements.
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BotW honestly has such a beautiful story, and is even managing to overtake Twilight Princess as my favorite entry in the series. But while the exploration and freedom are incredible and unprecedented in an adventure game, Zelda is honestly like 75% of why I love this game so much. Because even as each entry in the series has given us better story and deeper characters, this new incarnation stands head and shoulders above all of her past incarnations as one of the strongest and most beautifully written women, not just in the Legend of Zelda series, but honestly even in video game history as a whole. Because you would be very hard pressed to write a better heroine than this, who took an active role in her own story and continues to actively play a passive but necessary role in the current one. How to ship the canon ship always- Like the King! A mini-series of text posts to get back into the swing of this!
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Mostly narrative, video game/media shipping and ltd break-downs and analysis. Mostly made for my own amusement but if someone else gets enjoyment from seeing these posts then- cool! Warning: I will tag this with ship names and seriously not give a fuck if you don’t like it because you ship A but not B. This is about canon and narrative similarity and nothing else, and no matter how narratively similar two or more ships are my point and intent is anything but “saying they are exactly the same” it’s more like I’m saying the creators have similar narrative impulses which resulted in narrative similarities- and nothing more. Please keep walking with that 2nd grade level strawman because I just don’t care. Also: SPOILERS: Naruto, Bleach, DBZ, Final Fantasy, and The Legend of Dragoons narrative are all intimately referenced on Expert Levels of understanding.
That’s all my rules, just don’t be daft and miss my points and we’re solid! Lesson One: Finding the Heroine and/or Love Interest in a media with an LTD or divided ship base: for dummies edition! Just wanted to make a quick appreciation post for Laiha Toba played by Chihiro Yamamoto in Ultraman Geed.
She is just amazing and I love that she doesn’t care one bit about being fashionable, she’s just into comfortable clothes and things that allow ease of movement for maximum butt-kicking. I also adore that she doesn’t take crap from anyone and doesn’t hesitate to punish people for being jerks (as in the pic above cutting out the chair from under a guy who called a little girl with pyrokinesis a ‘freak’). I also wanted to thank for reminding me that Chihiro Yamamoto also played one of Dr. Pacman’s henchpeople in the Kamen Rider Heisei Generations movie. Apparently, when tokusatsu producers want a woman who can totally wreck you with a sword, they know who to call!