#“but people who headcanon Link as cis is WRONG because it goes against his character 😠

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💛💖🏳️‍🌈?

💛 what’s a popular ship you can’t get behind and why?

Totk zelink, botw zelink, aoc zelink, just that entire zelink. Idk why, there is def chemistry, I just don’t like it. I actually have the entire zelink tag blocked cuz I’m sick of seeing them 💀 I’m kinda on the fence with zelink in general but that specific one I do not like.

💖 what is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

Kinda broad there XD idk, I guess phantom hourglass doesn’t deserve all the hate it gets and it’s not a bad game in general. Sure some can say it’s the worst in the series but to say it’s a bad game? Nuh-uh, that’s just wrong. There are much worse games out there I assure you. Phantom hourglass is flawed but there are so many GREAT things about it! Idk if that’s very unpopular tho, a lot of people have started liking it lol.

I guess a better unpopular opinion is that the ocean king temple isn’t that big of a pain to get through? At least if you know what you’re doing and if you don’t have a guide, it’s actually very fun to explore the temple. But this one I def understand the hate even tho my opinion has changed on it lol

🏳️‍🌈 any characters that are seen as queer but you don’t see them that way?

😳 do I even want to MENTION this? A specific character does not really come to mind truthfully, but I am sick and tired of people saying that Link can’t be cis or whatever. Like yes he’s androgynous for us to project ourselves onto him, and so people have every right to project their headcanons onto him and make him trans, gay, etc. but others also have a right to make him not queer. Now I really don’t have many lgbt+ headcanons about a lot of Zelda characters (save a few) so I ultimately don’t care about others having queer headcanons, and if you want to make Link or any Zelda character lgbt+ then go ahead! I admit I do that with some of the characters that I do have headcanons for! But if you believe that a link can’t be cis and straight because “that goes against his androgyny” you’re actually stupid. Cis people can be androgynous. Straight people can be androgynous. Nobody fits these perfect little boxes. I think we should just be respectful to headcanons and understand that none of them are actual canon, therefore people can do whatever they want 🤷‍♀️ no need to gatekeep or force people to have headcanons that simply aren’t canon, ok?

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Ӝ Finn, Innes, Lukas

Already covered Innes. Got a separate ask for Finn and I will answer that one and link these two answers so as not to affect anyone who has FE15 spoilers blocked, because anyone remotely familiar with my writing prob’ly knows that a Finn vs Lukas compare & contrast was inevitable.

So. Here goes with Part I of Pretty Boy Knights With Sugar-and-Ice Personalities and Questionable Love Lives. Part II on Finn is here.

gender: Hmm. Seen some trans!Lukas headcanons already and if it’s because he’s the “Team Mom” that is not a compelling reason for me. As someone who’s experienced dysphoria all through my life, stuff like “Well he’s the Team Mom so he’s trans” is really eeeeeeeh for me. Lukas basically strikes me as cis male but about as fed up with certain gender stereotypes as he is with classism and I’m sure the treatment he got from his father (no books for you!) & brother plays into that. But it’s his feelings on class that make waves in the male-dominated Deliverance, and he slips easily enough into a rapport with the likes of Clive, Forsyth, and Python– dudes being dudes in the military and whatnot. He’s going through life with the privilege of being a tall, able-bodied, good-looking guy and out of the characters on Team Alm he seems most likely to understand that actually is a privilege and he needs to leverage that to do some good in the world outside of just stabbing stuff. Nothing wrong with being an actual good-ally cismale.

sexual: So I’m playing FE15 and looking at Lukas and going “hmm… I am feeling some deja vu here.” And then I get the Clive support chain and go “Huh, are they really going there?” And then got the Python support and it was like that “MOM HOLY FUCK!” meme going off in my head. Anyway, even before getting the Python support I was receptive to ace!Lukas because Kaga-era characters with Forever Alone endings suit that line of speculation (hi, Cain) and unlike some of the Forever Alone gang outta Gaiden, Lukas didn’t get a spouse thrown at him in his Echoes ending. Or a single good friend. Just lots of mentoring opportunities and “companionship” that sounded like actual friendly companions and not the gossip-column kind. And he seems happy with that. The B-support with Clive did introduce the idea that Lukas wanted something more– specifically to FEEL something more– and was coming to the terms with the idea that it wasn’t ever going to happen and he wasn’t going to experience the “normal” lives of anyone around him. And it sounded like a conversation that might have multiple meanings beyond just Lukas the Icebox. (Digression: He may be “cold” and his logic may go to some alarming places but he’s also quite deft at handling and counseling people– it’s interesting to have the icebox character also be more skilled at people-wrangling than the heart-on-the-sleeve confessional types. Also Lukas is a decidedly self-aware icebox. Hold that thought.)

And then the Python support happened, and what has been seen cannot be unseen, and as @gascon-en-exil put it, the main question now appears to be “gay or ace” and unless another bombshell hits, I think the latter. Lukas/Python is one of the best support chains I’ve ever read but Python’s #1 is clearly Forsyth. I’m sure Python would be very happy to serve as a guide for Lukas into the realm of sexual pleasure and I kinda doubt Lukas ever takes him up on it. Python probably does spend a lot of Lukas’s money along the way, tho.

romantic: The Python support also raises the question of whether or not Lukas is canon aromantic. I’m thinking no, because while he doesn’t love his long-term ladyfriend like that, the whole milieu in Clive’s Fan Club puts a homosocial spin on his character that a) brings up more deja vu or whatever and b) pits him directly against Clive’s highly suspect BFF Fernand in a battle to be Clive’s “confidant” accompanied by Fernand’s repeated fantasies of ripping out Lukas’s tongue so he can’t seduce Clive with cold logic and that voice. And while Fernand is doing some serious projecting, it seems clear enough IMO that Clive’s affection and validation is indeed among the things Lukas wants and isn’t getting, or at least not getting the way he wants (look how hard that “cold observer” line hit him). Add in the dynamic duo of Forsyth and Python to the mix and all the subtext and innuendo and whatnot and I think if Lukas has a romantic bent it’s definitely toward other men, because that’s the sphere he moves in. At this point I just do not see any scenario involving Lukas/Girls as a good-faith romance. Mind, I don’t necessarily see any of the male ships involving Lukas and his fellow Gay Entourage members but at least it doesn’t hurt my brain the same way Lukas/Girls does.

As for Lukas/Leon, we already know what Leon wants and it ain’t Lukas. Sorry.