Pumpkin Soup Stories

I've thought about this way too much so I think I'll just dump every single intelligent thought I've had in my life here. There's three main ideas that I have regarding this and you could really just pick and choose the ones you agree with most, choose one that makes the most sense, or say that they all happen at the same time. I'm just a rando on the internet. You don't have to pick up what I'm putting down.

Okay, first things first, the most obvious answer is that there's probably just been a whole lot of chaos going on since the Calamity first emerged 100 years before the events of BOTW and far beyond TOTK. The entire kingdom was decimated by the Calamity and most of Hyrule wasn't able to properly rebuild until the end of BOTW when Calamity Ganon's influence was sealed/destroyed. During this time, I'm pretty sure most people either thought Zelda was dead (don't trust me on this, I don't really remember for sure) or knew that she'd sealed herself inside Hyrule Castle but at that point, there isn't much they can do to recover her. Formalizing her title as a queen probably wasn't their priority or even much of a possibility until she returned. And that brings me to my second point.

So not only was it kind of impossible or at least not worth it to change Zelda's title during the Calamity but I also think there would have been bigger priorities after she returned. This is probably the closest to your theory, in which there's just been so much going on between BOTW and TOTK that no one's really been that concerned with Zelda becoming the official queen. In this new post-Calamity Hyrule, it's very likely that people just accept Zelda as some sort of a leader figure regardless of her title not only because she's the last of the living royal bloodline but she also basically saved them all by sealing Ganon. Between that level of respect and the fact that there's so much rebuilding and healing to do across Hyrule, I think it makes sense that everyone's got enough on their plates right now without dealing with authority figure dilemmas.

The last point is probably the most important one to me and it's that Zelda probably doesn't want to be so tied up in royalty and titles anymore. We can see in the flashbacks in BOTW that she clearly grew up her entire life not being given a choice in accepting her predestined fate. This fate essentially had two facets: being the next Princess Zelda in a long, long, long, line of descendants of the goddess, and being able to seal the Calamity Ganon. It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that she sees those two things as very tightly connected traumas. And after sealing Ganon, she's free. She is heavily implied in TOTK to be living as normal of a life as possible in Hateno. For the first time in her life, she has the freedom to be whoever she wants to be and do whatever she wants to do.

So yeah, I'd like to think that Zelda chooses to keep her old title not out of fear of responsibility but simply out of respect for the past and also chooses not to be Hyrule's queen because she knows that Hyrule is different now. She's changed and grown as a character and her role in leading Hyrule has also grown as the people she leads have changed over the 100 years she was stuck in Hyrule Castle. She will forever be 'Princess Zelda' to some people and 'just Zelda' to others and I think it's beautiful that she gets that second choice to live her life the way she wants to live it.

can anyone who knows the lore better tell me why (at least in the botw/totk era) princess zelda is still princess when technically she should be queen since king rhoam's death or does the ascension of royalty in this universe's monarchy different i'm genuinely curious

(i mean, i suppose, the events of botw and then totk might have been the reason why she isn't queen yet)

(also, on a completely different note, tell me why i saw someone on twt say that, and i quote, "link canon wise is christian")

lol I was so confused why 'pumpkin soup stories' was doing better than 'skydiving safety 101' so I reread both of them and dang I was cooking with soup. like the pumpkin motif coming back at the end and my random moment of genius linking ss and botw/totk agriculture? for reference I spent like 7 hours writing skydiving and like 2 on soup. yes it's kind of sad.

i WILL live to see the zelda movie in 2 years

people who don't experience hyperfixation don't know what it feels like to hyperfixate so much on something that it becomes not only your subject of obsession but also your source of happiness and literally the main reason why you still keep going; literal source of strength and life.

shoutout to my favorite fictional characters, favorite people, favorite ships, favorite movies, favorite tv shows, fanfics and archive of our own

hell yeah legend showing he cares by screaming in ravio's face and then both of them immediately breaking down I LOVE IT THIS IS SO IN CHARACTER YES *screams cries throws up yeets self to pluto*

Requests? Not sure if that was old or recent but just in case, Ravio and Legend??

If not, no worries at all!

Hey!

Thanks so much again for the request. Sorry it took so long... But I'm finally here to show it off!

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YES!!! JUST LET HER BE EXCITED ABOUT A DAMN FROG AND DON’T MAKE IT CREEPY!!! IT’S NOT THAT DEEP!!!

I don't like it when I'm watching someone playing/discussing breath of the wild and they sexualise the moment when Zelda turns around to grab the frog in the "Silent Princess" memory. At that point in time, she's still 16 and watching more of the video makes me feel icky and I immediately stop watching.

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RGB HELL YEAH

Rgb siblings in fulll

The first thing I thought of was link’s final smash in ssb. And how I MISSED IT THE FIRST THREE TIMES I EVER GOT IT. Anyways.

tribute art for breath of the wild's 8th Anniversary ❤️✨ this game will forever have a special place in my heart

( yes i know i'm a little late— i'm so sorry ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ i have this trip next week with some friends and i've been really busy organizing everything )

What do you mean??? Random 30 second sleet attacks in April are so nice!!!

Day 267 - i hate hate hate korean weather so much

Ooh hugs :)

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reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺

please someone tell me the phrase “batting your eyes” is confusing af for you too. like bro chill out don’t go hitting yourself in the eyes with baseball bats as a flirting technique???