[ SECRET POST #3039 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3039 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Starsky and Hutch]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm indifferent. Certainly there's been references to "human" before, but I reckon that sounds more distinct in English than the Japanese "ningen". I think LOTR and the lot have trained us to racially categorize fantasy people into a clean HUMAN or ELF category.

Link has pointy ears, ergo he is not a human like real life humans. By our standards he is essentially an elf. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, right? But since there are no non-pointy eared humanoids in Zelda (that I recall) it becomes kind of moot. If elves are a category "other" than human, then without humans the definition is pretty meaningless.

Anyway, it wouldn't jar me to have someone describe Link as an elf because he ticks the boxes. But Hylian is better. Or just person. Or lose the epithets completely.

[diet_poison]

In Twilight Princess there are a bunch of humans without pointy ears, mostly from Ordon. I sort of assumed it was a regional thing.

Anyway, maybe I'm being really nitpicky but "elf" isn't just a physical descriptor; in every canon I can think of that has them it is an actual species. Looking like something doesn't make you that something automatically, especially since literally the only box he ticks is pointy ears (and that's about the only thing that elves across different canons are guaranteed to have in common, anyway).