“The Legend of Zelda is monarchist because the royal family is treated as perfect and like they have a divine right to rule.”
They’re really not.
Rauru thought letting Ganondorf close would make it easier to prevent him from causing problems but it didn’t. Rhoam pressured Zelda so much that he may have unintentionally sabotaged her by psyching her out. The Hyrule Royal family isn’t put on a pedestal where none of them ever fail or make mistakes.
There was even a king of Hyrule who was just plain bad; the one who was a jerk to the Sheikah and caused the resentful splinter group of the Yiga to form. The lore literally shows one of the major flaws of monarchy as a system: if the hereditary heir to the throne turns out to be a tyrant, the people suffer.
The divine descent of the royal family explains their superpowers, but it doesn’t make them inherently good or always right.
The focus of the games isn’t to maintain the power of the royal family, it’s to rescue the people of the land. Listen to how Ganondorf never shuts up about control and ruling and then compare that to everything Zelda says about protecting and uplifting the people.
Hyrule’s royal family very clearly aren’t being depicted as divinely infallible rulers and monarchy very clearly isn’t being romanticized as a perfect system of government.
Zeb: I will put my “A” down to make “A” Ezra: I will add to your “A” to make “AT” Chopper: I will add onto your “AT” to make “RAT” AP-5: I will add onto your “RAT” to make “BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC”. Chopper: [flips the board]
The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, I’d have two quarters. The Ring: Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Of all the bearers of Sauron’s ring, 4 of them were hobbits.
I was wrong. It’s 5. Not 4
The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.
Sauron.
Isildur
Deagol
Sméagol
Bilbo
Frodo
Samwise
I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds
He held it for the rest of of his life!
[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying “but something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.” End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.
From the ring’s perspective:
1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.
2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.
3. What the fuck is you?
4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.
5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.
6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop.
7. FUCK
8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally.
9. (Smeagol again) YES it’s you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUU…. *fzt*
you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!
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