#loz thoughts

thats her birthday.

like point blank the anniversary of the calamity rearing it's ugly head to desiccate all of hyrule happens on her birthday

her seventeenth birthday to be exact she wasn't even 18 when it happened she was a teenager who had to fight off a calamity for a hundred years inside her own home due to it having burst from her castles floor

“How did that not capsize the boat,” Vio says disbelievingly, looking at a pictograph of the Neptoona.

Wind can only shrug. Can you imagine. He can’t even call on Linebeck for backup because that man has never had an honest reputation in his life.

What if his form shifted from flesh and bones into bark and roots? What if his presence was felt by every stranger that set foot on his soil, looming over them like the gnarled trees. What if he felt ever snapped twig, a hot shiver blazing down -what used to be- his spine as his peaceful home is disturbed. What if the guardian could move through the trees as if they were doorways with such speed that most assume the guardian teleport using said trees.

What if this guardian wore an old tattered cape, once belonging to his old self as protection from the cold, but it is now used for games by kindred spirits who giggle and play among the trees. What if the sword, once belonged to the old army man, is now used as a prop in lively plays as if it wasn’t stained with the blood of the deserving and those not. What if the overgrown, golden armour was used to bring melodies to the quiet forest? What if, everything designed for violence was changed into a symbol of new beginnings?

I mean, Zonite is found almost exclusively in the depths. They have ancient structures in the depths. And if you squint, their evelutionary characteristics could hint at existing at the depths. I'll go over my points to try and be more specific with what I mean.

First of all, the zonite that they almost exclusively use for their machinery is only found in the depths (save for the extremely rare locations elsewhere). Where they use Zonite a lot for their machines, it makes sense that they would actually be from where you find it in the largest quantities.

This is followed up by the point that the Zonai have structures already built in the depths like the temples, mines, and refineries. While I guess the game wants us to think that they descended from the sky, met with Hylians with their technology, and eventually found the depths and made those structures. This doesn't make much sense to me as the only place that has zonite in the sky is the tiny cave system you find on the great sky island. I may be wrong about this, but it's still odd to me that they have such little zonite in the sky where they allegedly already had lots of Zonite devices made to show off to Hyrule.

Now, my more obscure point is that I think it makes sense for them to evolve in the depths. Big ears is my main selling point on this as having large ears to hear when you have less sight to go off of. The earrings could also assist as a tell when another Zonai is approaching. They also have a smaller animalistic nose that would make sense for filtering out and breathing in fewer air particles that the depths are full of. (Which we know are hazards given muddlebuds, puffshrooms, and the general spores you can see floating in the depth air.) The brightbloom seeds are also another thing that aren't in the sky (minus the one cave), and this is relevant because Rauru's design has brightblooms seed patterns in his hair.

My final secret point is that it doesn't follow through with the lore already present in the Legend of Zelda timeline as we know Skyward sword takes place in the sky before and established the Kingdom of Hyrule when they reached the surface. The Skyward Sword erasure bothers me a lot as a SS enjoyer (i am biased it was my first zelda game, no i dont care). If the zonai lied about their origins, then we have a good way to interpret Tears of the Kingdom without it either being an alternate universe or forcing SS to take place in an alternate universe.

recently i just had this Idea that what if

there are male gerudos only every few 100 years becuase everytime ganondorf reincarnates hes just like "im not a vai" transes his gender

or better said hes trans when he reincarnates, and the other male gerudo that arent his reincarnation, since i assume that gan doesnt appear every 100 years, are just gerudos that realize "hey wait i am not a vai"

also

considering that the gerudos are all female i think they may have alot of gerudos that are just trans but never realized it and lived their entire live feeling extremely uncomfortable and they never knew why

since gerudos arent allowed to see any male until they are adults,meaning they mostly dont even know what a man is