Yukari Yakumo
Countless Violet Clouds
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Food for Thought: Should FemLink Be A Thing? An OFFICIAL Thing?
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Celestefey
どうでもいい
Well I think it would be a bit silly to go change Link's gender now, but I think a game where you could play as Zelda and fight as her... And actually have HER be the main protagonist would certainly be cool! 
There's no reason to.
And the entire "Link could be reincarnated as a female" is bs, since that hasn't happened for ANY character in the zelda franchise. Zelda has always been a female, Link a male and Ganon a male.
As for the thread title, it's impossible for it to be an "official" thing, since Nintendo has stated on several occasions that the incarnation of Link we see in the new Wii U title is a male.
And the entire "Link could be reincarnated as a female" is bs, since that hasn't happened for ANY character in the zelda franchise. Zelda has always been a female, Link a male and Ganon a male.
As for the thread title, it's impossible for it to be an "official" thing, since Nintendo has stated on several occasions that the incarnation of Link we see in the new Wii U title is a male.
Yukari Yakumo
Countless Violet Clouds
As the video says, I don't see how Link being female is a really a change seeing as Link is multi-incarnate. If Link is reborn again and again, odds are that Link could be female are in there somewhere.Well I think it would be a bit silly to go change Link's gender now, but I think a game where you could play as Zelda and fight as her... And actually have HER be the main protagonist would certainly be cool!
Lady Timpani
sway
Link being a girl would definitely be an interesting mixup that I wouldn't mind, but I just don't really see Nintendo going with it. I think I can see them making a game where Zelda is the protagonist sooner than a game like this. Either would be a refreshing take, though, imo.
Yukari Yakumo
Countless Violet Clouds
zero-suit fox...
a furry, alien, amputee in a sesy skintight suit is more to your taste than a simple gender-swap of a character who we've seen in quite a few crossplays already?
I don't mind the idea of a lady Link in theory. I know that the lore of Zelda sort of leaves it open to be a possibility, plus I like playing as female characters when given the choice, so it would actually make me very happy to see it!
I think the only thing I wouldn't like though is her being refereed to and seen as *insert female pronoun* Link, which is something that will happen even if she has her own name. To me, it just makes the character feel like a cheap knockoff or that she's simply there to bring in some diversity but not much else. Most of the time, it simply makes me feel like I've made the 'wrong' choice by picking female in the first place (especially when those games have characters who still refer to your character as a guy, reminding you that that's the intended 'default' option...).
Pretty much like with Mass Effect's fem Shep and how she's pretty much there only as a token option for some diversity, whilst we all know that man Shep is the real protagonist. Or how X-23 is still refereed to as 'female Wolverine' by most people despite the fact she actually is her own character (she's not even an alternate version of Wolverine or something like that, they literally co-exist at the same time in the same universe).
I don't know if I'm being clear with what I mean (I don't think I am?), but I just want a female option to be more than just an option shoehorned in 'just because' or somebody who's never seen as more than a cheap ripoff. I would want them to be their own character, just like Link is...And for the love of God, please don't let that character be named 'Linkle', it sounds so stupid!
Though I don't see why we couldn't just use Zelda either. I mean, she's a great character really. She's been everything from a helpless/useless Princess and a skilled magic user to a Shinobi and a pirate captain. If there's any character deserving to take on the role of 'female option', it's her. Imagine the gameplay possibilities with a character who changes so drastically in most incarnations!
Not that it has to be Zelda, she's just an obvious choice, it could be almost anybody else really. Heck, just make a new character entirely who isn't 'female Link' and doesn't have a piece of the triforce at all, she's just a young girl who's somehow been dragged into saving Hyrule.
I think the only thing I wouldn't like though is her being refereed to and seen as *insert female pronoun* Link, which is something that will happen even if she has her own name. To me, it just makes the character feel like a cheap knockoff or that she's simply there to bring in some diversity but not much else. Most of the time, it simply makes me feel like I've made the 'wrong' choice by picking female in the first place (especially when those games have characters who still refer to your character as a guy, reminding you that that's the intended 'default' option...).
Pretty much like with Mass Effect's fem Shep and how she's pretty much there only as a token option for some diversity, whilst we all know that man Shep is the real protagonist. Or how X-23 is still refereed to as 'female Wolverine' by most people despite the fact she actually is her own character (she's not even an alternate version of Wolverine or something like that, they literally co-exist at the same time in the same universe).
I don't know if I'm being clear with what I mean (I don't think I am?), but I just want a female option to be more than just an option shoehorned in 'just because' or somebody who's never seen as more than a cheap ripoff. I would want them to be their own character, just like Link is...And for the love of God, please don't let that character be named 'Linkle', it sounds so stupid!
Though I don't see why we couldn't just use Zelda either. I mean, she's a great character really. She's been everything from a helpless/useless Princess and a skilled magic user to a Shinobi and a pirate captain. If there's any character deserving to take on the role of 'female option', it's her. Imagine the gameplay possibilities with a character who changes so drastically in most incarnations!
Not that it has to be Zelda, she's just an obvious choice, it could be almost anybody else really. Heck, just make a new character entirely who isn't 'female Link' and doesn't have a piece of the triforce at all, she's just a young girl who's somehow been dragged into saving Hyrule.
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Panazel Maria
(Nameless being)
Well, if the series can have highly dependable females *Points at Hyrule Warriors* then I don't see a problem with a Link incarnation being female. It makes more sense than all the Links being male, actually, since it preserves some realism.
Eh.. I disagree.
Ganondorf is only ever reincarnated as male, because the entire Gerudo tribe is female, until a male is born, who is Ganondorf - and then he's king, which is what makes him so powerful, because he's the only male born in the tribe in X amount of time.
Same goes for Zelda. She's "princess" Zelda, and you don't have male princesses, they're princes. I mean, they could make it "prince" Zelda, but considering the series is called "The Legend of Zelda", I don't think it would work making her become a prince.
As for Link, it can work, because everything I've seen, it's just called a "hero clad in green" or w/e, it's never actually stated whether the hero will be male or female.
That said, I would like if they made a female Link, but it'd probably cause an uproar among fans, so they'd have to make it optional. But I highly doubt they're going to make Link be female for a main series game. And even still, if they did make Link an option to be female, most of the underlying connotations of Zelda games is the subline romantic links between Zelda and Link during the story, so if they made Link female, they'd have to basically code an entire different sub storyline that doesn't have romantic involvements between them, make it be a lesbian romance (which I don't think Nintendo is game enough to do yet), or make Zelda be a prince if you chose the female option, but like I said, I don't really see that happening, because it'd change the games up way too much. If this was only a few years after the first game released, I could honestly see it happening, but the games have been around for like 20 years now, I just don't see it happening.
Basically I'd love to see a female Link but I don't think it's going to happen any time soon (in a main series title, at least).
Yukari Yakumo
Countless Violet Clouds
Ganondorf is also considered to always be the same incarnation. Whereas Link and Zelda are victorious, grow old, die, and reincarnate through various lifetimes to counter his threat, Ganondorf/Ganon has always been the same one since he has never been truly killed since he came into existence in Ocarina, except in very specific instances.
Zelda, by comparison, was explicitly stated to be a goddess, rather than just a deity. The japanese term "kami" is inherently genderless, but Nintendo committed themselves to Zelda being female.
However, as the video says, Link's only defining characteristic is "the multi-incarnate human chosen by the Goddesses to bear the Triforce of Courage and fight alongside the incarnation of Hylia against the incarnation of Demise's hatred(Ganon)."
Sadly, I also doubt Nintendo has the guts to try that. They only just recently decided to have skin tones in AC with Happy Home Designer, and the Tomodachi Life debacle shows how behind the times they are.
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Yukari Yakumo
Countless Violet Clouds
sure you can it's real easy. First, you change a character model, mess with a bit of code, and...
VOILA!
Panazel Maria
(Nameless being)
It's true from a programming perspective. It is easy with a few model touchups. I'd imagine the only difficult part would be reanimating the tunic/hair to match the motions.
Ghost Soda
(he him or they them)
I think it would be interesting but whiny fans will whine.
