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im going to have an anneurysm because while marin and zelda are indeed meant to be parallels, NOTHING IN ALTTPS CANON, BASE GAME, INDICATES ZELDA WOULD WANT TO "BE FREE" OF BEING A PRINCESS. WHILE YES IT SUCKS THAT SHE DIDNT HAVE MUCH INVOLVEMENT WITH LINK ACROSS THE GAME OR POST GAME, ITS SUCH A FORCED AND BORING INTERPETATION OF ZELDA! ANY ZELDA!!!! marin is shown/thought to be a LOOKALIKE to zelda, yes, but nothing about zelda or marin personality wise is similar at all. nobody really does this for oot zelda or many other zeldas??? people do it for tp zelda but honestly thats its own conversation about what people see in the zelink there. she mourns her people and choices but doesnt shy away from her duties and doesnt have anything about "being free" from being a princess, despite the state she put her kingdom into. same with oot zelda, she disguised herself as sheik to help with her choices and then rebuilt hyrule after the events in the adult timeline branch. alttp zelda has NOTHING GOING ON THERE (UNFORTUNATELY! it does suck she doesnt have agency) and people want to throw everything about MARIN and HER uniqueness onto zelda because "heeho who cares shes not real and was just part of a dream anyway, link can just go back to zelda and work on setting her free of her royal duties" do you hear yourselves ever? think before you all speak? jesus christ. just because again, unfortunately, alttp zelda is basically a standard "stolen away princess in danger" trope, and alttp at large doesnt have that much going on, people want to make everything about links awakening and paste it onto alttp. and while yes, its fun to link them together (stale pun somewhat intended) and infer about link himself based on things that happen on koholint.... it doesnt necessarily mean its a 1:1 complete translation to anything alttp related.