Tells spooky stories to scare the other: Midna starts it when the power goes out during a storm.Accidentally gets lost in a corn maze: "I’m very good with mazes!“ Proclaims Zelda, who gets lost about ten minutes in.Steal’s the other’s candy: Midna keeps reporting on kitchen emergencies that aren’t really happening because by god, she WILL get her hands on the Kit-Kats.Makes a cozy bed-fort to cuddle in: Midna starts it, hoping for it to be a surprise, only to end up being surprised herself when Zelda starts helping out of nowhere.Matching costume idea: Daphne and Velma.Gets scared and clings the other in a haunted house: Midna fakes it a couple times for a laugh, and Zelda rolls her eyes… until she (Zelda) gets scared for real and ends up practically jumping on Midna for safety.Carves the pumpkin:Midna insists on showing off her knife skills… which end up being nonexistant, as the resulting face looks, at best, cartoonish.Chooses the pumpkin: Zelda found the perfect one by tripping over it.Keep reading racism orientalism anti blackness It would probably be helpful to read this first, and perhaps go through my Gerudo tag. going into every line of dialogue from every NPC). (I am not black, so I won’t go too much into the anti-blackness here)Īlso, I’m aware the creators of this game are Japanese, for those of you who come crying to me about how “they’re not white! they’re Japanese! they can’t be racist!!! *sad boner*” and if you honestly think that I’m as uneducated as you that I wouldn’t know the goddamn creators of the franchise I’ve been playing since I was seven, and you really think that Japanese people can’t be racist well…this conversation is entirely too advanced for you.Īnd lastly, note that this is supposed to be a concise criticism (and it’s still so long, oops) so I will cover every topic, but I won’t go into every detail (ie. Note, that the Gerudo have both “Middle Eastern/South Asian” and black coding, so the stereotypes for those two things will overlap in this analysis. Then again, what do I expect from a fandom that’s continually been exotifying the Gerudo and calling it “empowerment” for the last 2 years? This is the same fandom that jumped on Jim Sterling for giving botw a good score but not a good enough score, so apparently it’s littered with people who can’t stand anyone criticizing their favorite video game. In fact, my brain feels like it’s going to herniate through the base of my skull from how oblivious people are to this. This is going to be an entire breakdown of every racist piece of shit thing going on in botw and believe me, there’s a lot of it. A.k.a. “Wah, wah, the brown girl is oppressing me because she dares talk about a serious issue that she noticed when she was 7″