Legend of Zelda fans have long read Lk as gay or transgenr, even if his character is not nonilly queer. Fans have foced on shippg Lk and Sidon and drag readgs of the Gedo qut Breath of the Wild.
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LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
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AO3 may not be the only metric for how many Zelda fans terpret Lk as gay and/or transgenr, but ’s one of the biggt. In art, ’s mon to see queer-d monsters and pecially queer-d villas, particularly bee of how the Hays Co prohibed pictns of homosexualy on screen. This qut fails trans Zelda fans major ways, but much like Aonuma’s nial that Lk is gay, also prents players wh an opportuny.
Even if Lk is never nonilly intified as gay or trans, fan ntent for The Legend of Zelda is everywhere, and queer fans pecially seem to produce ntent drov. For many, Lk is gay or trans or both, and that’s a powerful thg that n’t be taken away. Correctn (May 22): A prev versn of this story rrectly ntextualized a quote om a 2015 terview wh Kotaku, which Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Tgle is “not gay.
NkayGAYo) when the youngt of the pair turns 18, soulmat swch bodi for a day. For many, Lk is gay or trans or both, and that’s a powerful thg. Lk is a gay in, and Zelda fans know [Polygon] “The Legend of Zelda’s beloved and inic protagonist, Lk, is tagged more than 17, 000 piec of fanfictn on Archive of Our Own.
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In a 2015 terview wh Kotaku, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Lk is “not gay.
There remas a stigma and prejudice that eher nstras the characters to normative packag (“the gay bt iend”) or lims their inty to a one-dimensnal label (“bury your gays”). The romantic pairg was shortened to “K/S”, which gradually rmed the slang for fictnal gay romance, as wrten fanworks, as “slash” is likely where the nnotatn of fanfictn wh homoeroticism began; as “slash fictn” grew, began to rporate other inti and exprsns.
But this is also where the negative associatn of fanfictn wh lewdns or distastefulns; n’t be a cince that fan-wrten works sudnly gaed a negative associatn when a large group of fans favored a gay romance. “Slash” or homoerotic works fill gaps created by Hollywood’s own bldns to s misogyny, heteronormativy, and machismo.