Much as I don't have a super invested interest in ZeVali - I do love watching the cutscenes of botw and aoc from the perspective of envisioning Revali as behaving the way he does because he has a massive crush on the princess because that is so funny to me.
Dude is just showing off trying to impress a girl. He's just peacocking. He's only mean to Link because he's the only other teenage boy around and he's jealous that he's the princesses personal knight because like - Revali is CLEARLY better, he could totally be a better personal knight if she wanted or whatever.
It just cracks me up imagining Zelda has zero concept of this. Oblivious. Autistic queen energy. She's like aw it's nice he's so protective of me :) Sure am glad to have so many new friends around me.
I think it would be fun to write some ridiculous fanfiction some day with other interactions they've had where he's just super blatantly trying to show off and get her attention and thinks he's doing a great job because she praises him sometimes or laughs at things he says like wow I'm getting such a good grade in flirting she's obsessed with me. Meanwhile Zelda is just like wow what a nice outing with my friend, I love getting to study him while he works, it's so interesting to learn about the champions and their spiritual powers. :)
And Link just watching, blank faced but extremely amused by the whole thing.
