thinking abt how ocarina of time era hyrule is essentially a segregated society
the civil war, which happens before the events of the game, and is the reason link grows up on kokiri forest at all, has no canonical explanation of why it happened, only that one it was done, the non-hylian races of hyrule kept to themselves. link had to get permission from the royal family to contact the zora and goron. we know for a fact ganondorf gave the hylian royal family gerudo territory when he swore fealty to them, though its likely hylians had been encroaching upon their land for some time before. like, why else would a civil war break out if not for hyrule exploiting/stealing/suppressing other racial groups?? we don't see a diverse military force until botw.
it seems to be a theme, that the races of hyrule only come together (under the crown, specifically) when a threat arises that endangers EVERYONE. to assume ganondorf started the civil war is, in my opinion, the easy, “don’t think about it” answer. and even if that was the case, it was most likely a Hylians vs. Everyone Else situation, meaning ganondorf took advantage of frustrations that had already been mounting for some time.
in twilight princess, which takes place a few hundred or so years after ocarina, things have gotten better (we see hylians living closer to other racial groups, more collaboration), but there's still a significant degree of separation, ie, hylian-only military (the resistance is hylian only, too). we also see a complete lack of gerudo, their desert a barren wasteland and the only surviving proof they existed being their writing, most of which is found in arbiter's grounds, a... PRISON... if the losing sides of the civil war were forced to swear fealty (the gerudo seem to be the only group that gave up land, as hylians can't access death mountain/zora's domain without permission), the punishment for trying to overthrow the hylian royal family...! banishment at best, mass execution at worse. probably both!
like. there's so much interesting shit that is brought up in ocarina. i'm not even touching on the sheikah/shadow temple and the implications of THAT. its so incredibly interesting and, shocker, when a world/government/people/whatever are deeply flawed instead of of blandly benevolent and Good Because We Say So, it actually is Good Worldbuilding. do i think zelda writers did this on purpose? i dont fucking know because they never bring it up again. hyrule is just portrayed, over and over and over again, as this pure, holy kingdom that has never done anything wrong in its entire existence, despite IN GAME! IN TEXT! evidence to the contrary. like, the games we play feel like hylian propaganda. AND ISNT THAT INTERESTING???? imagine if we could unpack that? totk could've been a perfect opportunity. (but they dropped, the ball, as always, who is shocked)
its no accident. that our heroes are blonde with blue eyes. that our main villain is a caricature of Evil Brown Man. fans do not like to talk about it, they do not want to admit it. but there are clear themes staring us right in the face and it blows my mind that no one seems to want to do anything with it. the idea of hyrule being a deeply flawed land whos history is defined by conflict (stemming from its own citizens oftentimes) is extremely interesting and makes it unique. i want my stories to be gray. i want my characters to be conflicted. my GOD.
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Ayeeeee thanks to everyone who joined again! It was super fun :>
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Having to go back home and deal with my homophobic family for 24/7 is exhausting my god I can’t even
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People criticize BB for Jax and Lily dying and not many people liked book 3
yeah i do get that it just seems a bit weird to try and pit bb and id against each other when they honestly couldn't be any more different like aside from them both having vamps LMFAO
it being set to like lily or jax dying was a rlly weird choice i always thought it should have been dependent on the li u had the least amount of romance points with you know, like it would have gone a bit better i think if they did that instead or (this would have been what i wanted bc i live for angst) rheya killing our li and then mc bringing them back but ! we can only dream yk ...
and the final book in any trilogy is always a rough spot for pb like they either try n do too much or too little and i feel like . the bb defender lover protector supremacist in me wants to be like bb3 was the best we could have gotten when in all honesty it could have been heaps better
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Ima discontinue the “911” fanfic I have on here, moving solely to Wattpad for the foreseeable future. Again, my account over there is fisHead (or XaviPalacios3) so if you rly wanna read it, and you also have Wattpad, there ya go. If not, cry me a river. I find posting it here is just too much effort the ways I know how to, and it makes my head hurt, cuz literally the only reason I got Tumblr in the first place was for writing prompts, and then I fell into the rabbit hole of cool art and funny shítposts and “911” fanfiction so, yea. Tumblr is ok, and I’ll still be here, but I won’t be making any of my fanfics here unless I level-up my basic functions that I’m too stupid to do. Idek if I’m using the to’s and too’s right. I’m very likely not. Don’t correct me, Ik I’m dumb. So, yup. Came here to post that I’m not posting my fanfic here anymore and started a rant. Wow, me.
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Honestly it's so fun that when you enter the Life Makeover page the announcement Is like "Explore the truth with romance!" and seeing the six portraits you could think that these are the love interest? But the truth Is that these are:
The four (men) LI
Your sister
A random girl that gets almost killed and doesn't appear after CH3 (Sorry Annie but it's true!!!)
And It sucks! Because most of the girls are so cute but aaaagh, it's probably so they can Sell you their outfits in the gacha, I love this game but never felt so baited in my life........ maybe I'm ignorant in this type of games or I'm stupid and IDK why I expected this type of romance in this kind of game but lol
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