#and i think you can argue that zeldas just under a lot of pressure during the post-awakening memories

[doomed-era]

like i don't want to complain too much on main but botw genuinely loves forcing female characters to sacrifice themselves and then either wiping their personality (zelda) or them never demonstrably showing much of a personality anyway and getting turned into a saint (mipha.) and considering the one memory where mipha gives zelda advice i really think the narrative is framing mipha's lack of real ambition besides her crush on link and her duty to hyrule and the domain as a good thing.

and i'm not saying that sacrifice is always bad, because it certainly isn't. the problem is that these characters are really not given the option to do anything else, so it doesn't really mean anything. we don't get another side of mipha, and zelda has been primed for most of her life to end up doing what she does. it doesn't really feel genuine to me.

i need to find that one video my wonderful mutual sent me that explains it better but this era of zelda has always had a tendency towards this and it drives me crazy

#glider rambles #and i think you can argue that zeldas just under a lot of pressure during the post-awakening memories #but there is a noticeable personality change imo #and i don't think the narrative was right to reward that #because changing after a character arc is fine but i think zeldas character arc was more about beating her into submission than actual chan #you Will love link you Will sacrifice yourself. you have no choice