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Ok so I've seen numerous female Link pictures and stories for years now. It seems to be one of the big staples with a lot of TG artists. He's not the only one who gets gender flipped actually---loads do. However he seems to be the first to get it done to him officially.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/12/9725838/hyrule-warriors-le...
Yep, Link is now a girl...sorta lol.
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Fandom becomes Canon.
I enjoy Rule 63. This website lives on it.
I have no problems with a TG Link. The fans have been talking about a female Link for years.
And the name Linkle works for a female Link. It is cute.
Thanks for the link. *No pun intended.* ;)
Unfamiliar with the Character
Being unfamiliar with the character and the games, to the point of never having heard of the them (at least to leave remnants in my memories), I kept thinking of "link" as in "URL" -- as was used in the pun. Consequently, everything sounded like gibberish until I read "no pun intended" and also went to the link.
Transgendering links is going a bit too far here.
Also, there was the time when I returned my old UPS battery via UPS.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
Different Spins!
Fans seem to have various takes on it:
Sister, or relative, an admirer who renamed her self after Link, alternate reality,
or.....
Several have pointed out that,
according to what limited lore there is,
"Link is reincarnated as needed in a new body",
so could very well come back as a female sometimes.
We just have not seen that before.
Nintendo has not said.
& Links personalty has always been kind of up to the player.
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This was my favorite take on it:
Link's transition timeline
Funny, but problems with that.
Skyward Sword is, in canon, the very foundation of the whole Legend. The only events in canon to predate Skyward Sword are Creation itself. Incidentally I highly doubt we'll EVER have a Creation game in the Zelda timeline. All future games at this point are going to take place at least after that, though there's room for more filling out at several points on all four timelines within the timelines themselves, just not prior to Skyward Sword. Lately they seem to be content with adding more to all the timelines EXCEPT the original timeline with Zelda's 1 through 3 (3 being a prequel itself, incidentally, while 2 was a sequel). That timeline seems to be an abandoned one at this point.
Also, whilst Ocarina is the foundation of the timeline split that originates with all three timelines to follow it in in-lore chronology, the other games are from two different alternate timelines, date of production not withstanding.
Whoever made that graphic was using date of production to slot things, NOT date of lore.
Abigail Drew.
Game order...
Err, they were just basing the "timeline" on the degree of feminization of Link's face, as opposed to any sort of in-game or out-of-game timeline. Hyrule Warriors is the most recent game of the four on the left: OoT - '98, HW - '14, TP - '06, SS - '11.
An aside...
Dual weilding crossbows - erm, do they have some kind of automatic re-arming mechanism or is she going to be a sitting duck immediately after firing a pair of bolts as she rearms each bow in turn?
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
LOL!
You REALLLLLLLLLLLY don't want to try to make sense out of Zelda mechanics. They just get crazier each new game. Zelda is about being fun and horridly challenging without being ridiculously grinding. The LAST thing on the Zelda teams mind, leastways its creator, is to make SENSE. Sense is a horrid fun-leach and even worse for avoiding grind-based mechanics. You want a semblance of sense, you want turn-based or rts rpg's. Not adventure games. Not that THOSE games always make complete sense either, but they at least try. Zelda's creator doesn't even care. And Zelda is pretty much the definition of the adventure game genre.
Abigail Drew.
Reminds me of
the x-bow in "Hawk the Slayer"
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