I have not finished the game yet and do not remember the ending from when i was a kid so I may be wrong here but I've been having a lot of Insane Tboughts and now I can articulate them a little better, some of the implications of Spirit Tracks drive me UP THE WALL (or up the spirit tower, as it were)
- No royal family aside from Zelda and everything with Chancellor Cole at the start makes it seem like he's very much running the show
- Zelda mentions in papuzia village that she went there as a kid and wants to go again when they get her body back so at one point, presumably when there was a royal family, Zelda did get to leave the palace but that was a LONG time ago
- So return to the Chancellor Cole point, it looks like some kind of regency. Zelda's parents likely passed when she was young and this guy runs the kingdom to the point he's shut down her independence so severely she cannot leave the castle.
It never stood out to me as a kid how wild it is that you have to sneak Zelda out past her own guards.
So anyway on to what's been making me sick --
The adventure with Link is the first time she gets to see her kingdom, everywhere, from every angle, likely her first taste of freedom in so many years and she can't talk to anyone
They're helping people all over Hyrule and her commentary frequently seems like she's more excited about some side quests than Link (the bunnies being my fave for this, she's so happy to see the sanctuary fill up) but all the regular townspeople see is Link.
Also thinking about when they get her body back and how agonising it must be to feel like you know people personally when to them you are the Princess / Queen that they are just now meeting
Like the mayor of Mayscore (forest town, I think has another name in US version?) mentions his wife at an event and Zelda is there. Knowing full damn well she helped set them up.
I hope I'm making sense but she makes me so sad. The more I think about her finally getting out of the castle only to be unable to actually touch anything or speak to anyone but Link and the lokomo the more miserable I get
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