#Marie liveblogs totk

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Maniacal laughter

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I'm the only person on the planet who cares but they replaced Gan's amber diadem stone with a diamond and that's actually pretty significant

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BEST GIRL BULIARA

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I love kogha so much

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Get oUT OF THE GERUDO HERITAGE SITE YOU CRETINS

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Boy my mute button is getting a workout this run around huh

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A Yiga footsoldier just sold me a car

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Get on with it you edgy bitch this did not need to be a separate memory

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Has anybody explained Plato's allegory of the cave to Addison

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When you've been fucking around off the beaten path for so long you forgot the Yiga existed

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While I wait for this interminable fucking monologue to end, it's as good a time as ever to explain why I have complicated feelings about Gan as a character.

I could go on about how big, endtimes bringer villains don't do it for me like they used to and that's mostly a problem of my age, and that's true. But Gan is campy enough that that wouldn't be a problem, except...

I have two problems holding me back from loving gan the way a lot of my gerudo scholar contemporaries do. For one, I'm intimately familiar with the tribe and just genuinely prefer the company of everyone who isn't him. There's other campy Gerudo, there's comic relief Gerudo, there's Gerudo who are actually so cool, will you give me an autograph ms. seal-champion? I'm spoiled for choice and, since I didn't really get into the fandom until breath of the wild, there's never been a point at which I was chained to him for any Gerudo representation.

The other issue, and this is the one that drives my sarcasm, is that, well, Zegend of Lelda is a video game franchise. Ganon fights, and very specficially Ganondorf fights, have a terrible history of being... Well, not necessarily hard (if you have the right preparation) but just exhaustively irritating. I think my first battle against him in Ocarina of Time took a half hour, but most of it was wrangling the controls and waiting for openings. In four swords adventure, same story, I just had to wait for Zelda to charge up. Now I'm dancing with a bunch of phantoms who have hit me twice (2) and that was AFTER the extended game of hide-and-seek. This is all to say that, whenever I'm dealing with the bastard, I end up more annoyed than anything else, and that's how we get sarcastic Marie.

Again, I love what the fandom has done with him and, if I'm not having to actively engage him in combat, he's an excellent villain! Love to read about him! Will never have any interest in writing him beyond as a tertiary fic character, and that's how the Gerudo multimuse ended up having everyone except the one people think of on it.

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Gan, I know your moms didn't love you, but I never agreed to play tag

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Day fifteen. I have it on good authority that they're here. Waiting to be a problem. Every start to a cutscene is as a jumpscare waiting to happen.

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RHONDSON RECOGNIZES ME ;w;

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Oh poor magda ;w;

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anD STAY OUT