As a person who played all Zelda games, including the original in the gold cassette, Link is not Trans (preview)
Today we host a living funeral for the modern man who is forced to go to his well-paying job and come home for lunch to play with his dog but there's sad music playing over it. We can't help but wonder if he wouldn't be happier having his limbs sawed off on the battlefield or perhaps living a more traditional agrarian lifestyle (eating breastmilk ice cream) ALSO: Fox Business transvestigates the new Zelda game to find out if trans people can identify with its protagonist (no!) Sign up for the full episode & hundreds more at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult
Saw a wonderful story in a couple different places.
So did you hear that Fox Business reached out to Nintendo to make sure that Link from Zelda was in fact a cis man?
I love this one.
Did you guys render a penis under there?
I need to know.
I need to know if this is a cis man or not.
I'm not going to release it to the public.
You can go off the record.
I just need to verify it.
I just need to know if Link has a cock or not.
Does Link got a little sausage Link down there?
I just need to know about this video game character.
It's very important.
I love that they put... This isn't just Fox News, it's Fox Business.
Fox Business.
Male protagonist in, quote, Legend of Zelda hailed as non-binary trans icon by media, comma, gamers.
Nintendo game designer said Link is, quote, definitely a male, but also sometimes, quote, gender neutral.
You know what?
Shout out Nintendo for doing that.
That's really funny.
Well, it's just one guy.
It's just one guy they talk to who's like... Isn't that one guy just being awesome?
Like, just like, well, I mean, I may as well fuck with you guys, like... No, he means it.
I think he's being sincere.
Oh, good.
Either way, it's awesome.
I love, I love just like going to DeviantArt and reporting.
This is like, this is like the Reddit Lies account.
I keep saying Link cosplay, but Link's pretty busty.
He's got giant titties.
That's what I keep seeing on my feed, so I need to know what's going on with Link.
Did you know that some fans and gamers are saying that Link can wear Metroid's armor?
Whoa.
Whoa.
Chill.
The blaster and everything?
Yeah, the blaster and the helmet's on.
The helmet's on.
So you could be like, I love Metroid.
And then all of a sudden, he takes that helmet off and you're like, what the fuck, man?
Metroid was being gender neutral the whole time?
Fuck.
It's not right.
It's not right at all.
I think blue highlights on the skin.
I wouldn't have picked Blue Highlights if I knew.
Male pretend, yeah, I already read that.
OK, let me read from this story again at Fox Business.
Multiple transgender or non-binary gamers reportedly I did reportedly like they're reporting themselves when they blog about this or when they write an article for Kotaku about it.
It's so funny.
Multiple transgender or non-binary gamers reportedly identified.
We did some studying.
We investigated the matter.
Reportedly identify with the male protagonist in the popular Legend of Zelda video game series, claiming the fictional hero helped them to assume their identity.
Some on social media have pushed back against the assertion, claiming that associating the fictional hero with transgenderism is a stretch.
Link, the game's elf-like hero, has served as a, quote, egg cracker, which refers to something that reveals a person's transgender identity to them, according to multiple transgender gamers who spoke to Gizmodo.
The first Zelda video game debuted in Japan in 1986 and North America the next year.
The games which tell the story of Link, a young elf-like boy who saves a princess named Zelda, have since grown into a franchise that spans 29 titles.
Tears of the Kingdom, the latest installment, was just released, yada yada.
It is inevitable all of us will see something of ourselves within Link, a gamer named Koroblin, who identifies as transmasculine and agender, told the Tech Outlet.
We're an active participant even when we can't make narrative decisions because we get to decide who Link is.
It's easy to discover yourself and see your gender through a character like this and to make trans readings as the lack of traditional gender roles Creates maybe for the first time you've seen a world where all you have to be is kind and brave Yeah, that doesn't none of that sounds insane to me like I like this character because I identify with you know the way they're dressed or the way they look or the way they're like hand handling themselves and
It's just so funny.
Imagine reading that statement and being like, we gotta get to the bottom of this.
This can't be right.
Being nice and love is not, that's not enough.
You gotta have a cock.
Also.
Gotta have a dick.
People were enjoying this video game on a personal level.
That can't be right.
First I've heard about this.
First I've heard of anybody interacting with art or content this way.
I don't like that.
No.
A transmasc non-binary individual told the outlet that Link exhibits, quote, reckless non-toxic masculinity characteristic of transmasc people.
Uh, and so that's interesting because I would have thought that it was like Link is a trans woman is, is like, I don't know what it would head in people's head cannon like link is like an androgynous trans woman, but transmasculine individuals are the ones who are claiming link.
So that's cool.
I didn't I didn't think of it that way.
That makes sense, too.
Well, yeah, I think it makes sense because I think that, you know, I think there are parts where I'm sure when there's parts where you're playing Zelda, we're like link is gendered.
So it's like you're going to.
with Link, you know, the character and be like, oh, well, I guess that's part of it.
Well, another big thing is you haven't, you didn't play breath of the wild, right?
No.
Oh my God, dude, it's, it's so fucking funny.
And I say yet, I say I haven't played it yet.
Yeah.
So right here, Link has always been an androgynous reflection of the player argues an article on gaming site, the gamer quote, most games allow him to act, dress, talk and express himself in ways that rally against cisgender normativity.
I mean, yeah, like even his like supposedly masculine attire is a Peter Pan costume, like she's like got a short skirt on.
Yeah.
And like, I mean, literally like an elf cut.
You know, that's like literally the haircut most.
Yeah.
He is never once destined to exist as a symbol of heroism bound by masculinity.
The freedom of expression is liberating, liberating.
Okay, but in, I don't know where it is, so I'm just going to say it.
One of the funniest responses to this is people are like citing how Link cross-dresses in Breath of the Wild as like an eye-opening moment or an egg-cracking thing of like, whoa, that's me or whatever.
Or whoa, you know, Link is trans or whatever.
They're like, actually, he was only forced to wear the women's clothing because he had to sneak into Gerudo Town, which is a matriarchal society that's run by women and no men are allowed there.
So actually, it's so fucking funny.
So so if we continue down this path, we're all going to be forced to wear dresses just to exist in the society.
Yeah, but it's we still won't be trans.
It'll just be like part of our part of our adventure.
Yeah, exactly.
We have to do.
OK.
Longtime Zelda producer, Aiji Aonuma, probably mispronouncing that, told Time in 2016 that he wanted Link to be a gender neutral character, but that he is male.
Um, I love this so much.
This is like, Fox loves doing this, man.
Like, this is just Megyn Kelly saying, I'm sorry children, Link is just male.
Link is a, we don't say sis because that's a slur, but Link is just, he just is male.
Yeah, and it's under like the same, the same guides too of, you know, Santa Claus is a real person.
Like Link has real canon, okay?
I have to respect that, yeah.
And that canon is male.
Don't, don't fuck with it.
It's so funny to see people experiencing fandom.
How are you on the internet?
At all?
You've never experienced people with an avatar that's a twist on a popular character?
What?
That's not the Batman I know!
What's going on here?
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