#tsundere bird uses his special ability to keep his wingless bf in the sky with him

[amiharana]

good afternoon revalink shippers, today i'm thinking about how some of the dialogue options when asking the old man for the paraglider during the great plateau sequence are oddly pushy and rude, and how the paraglider has the same symbol as the one on revali's landing

there's no reason for link to be a little asshole when he just woke up, unless he also lost his ability for decorum and inhibition with his memories in the shrine of resurrection. but perhaps when he wakes up, the word "paraglider" is a keyword to link , one that resonates so deeply to him and he knows has to have it, it needs to be with him because... because... he doesn't know why! but it's supposed to be his and no one else should be touching it! and that's why some of link's dialogue options are so demanding.

regarding the paraglider symbol, you could easily say that it's just the symbol of the rito. but i logged into the game to have a look at all objects with the rito crest on it, and to my knowledge, pretty much anything with the crest on it only includes the body and not the wings like on revali's landing. unless i missed something, i'd like to propose the idea that revali added the wings to the crest to represent the achievement of creating his gale since canonically he's the only rito who can fly (by proper definition) due to his ability to harness updrafts.

if we designate the winged rito crest to be a symbol of revali in particular and consider its placement on the paraglider, we could say revali himself made the paraglider. i know it's already been said and used in fic like revali made it as a courting gift for link (ily btw if you have ever written or drawn this), but it's nice to use in-game evidence to explain it!

now if we could figure out why the old man had the paraglider on the great plateau... he couldn't have known that revali made it for link, could he?