12-12-2016, 12:47 AM
So ... this is kind of a random question to be asking 18 years after the fact, but I've been listening to the Grumps Ocarina of Time playlist lately, and I am really curious ...
How many of you were actually fooled by Sheik the first time you ever played the game? What I mean is, how many of you actually did not suspect, or at least strongly suspect, that Shiek was Zelda in disguise the entire time prior to the actual reveal?
I ask because in all honesty, it was apparent immediately off the bat for me. I can recall playing the game the first time with my sister watching, and when Sheik showed up on screen for the first time my sister was all "That's gotta be Zelda in disguise, right?" and I responded something like "it's gotta be, she's literally the only other blonde in the game aside from Link". (Which technically isn't true; there are some blonde kokiri, but that is pretty irrelevant).
But I think it helped a lot that I never realized that Sheik was supposed to be a boy in that disguise? Sheik has always looked like a girl to me and it literally did not occur to me that it was supposed to be a male disguise until something like my 7th play through the game, when I finally noticed that in one line of dialogue Ruto referred to Sheik as a "young man". I think my failing to realize this might have a lot to do with not growing up with anime and thus not being familiar with their very common effeminate male trope.
BUT THE POINT IS: Didn't realize Sheik was supposed to be a dude. Never doubted that Sheik was Zelda. I'm just wondering if anyone else had similar or dissimilar experiences.
How many of you were actually fooled by Sheik the first time you ever played the game? What I mean is, how many of you actually did not suspect, or at least strongly suspect, that Shiek was Zelda in disguise the entire time prior to the actual reveal?
I ask because in all honesty, it was apparent immediately off the bat for me. I can recall playing the game the first time with my sister watching, and when Sheik showed up on screen for the first time my sister was all "That's gotta be Zelda in disguise, right?" and I responded something like "it's gotta be, she's literally the only other blonde in the game aside from Link". (Which technically isn't true; there are some blonde kokiri, but that is pretty irrelevant).
But I think it helped a lot that I never realized that Sheik was supposed to be a boy in that disguise? Sheik has always looked like a girl to me and it literally did not occur to me that it was supposed to be a male disguise until something like my 7th play through the game, when I finally noticed that in one line of dialogue Ruto referred to Sheik as a "young man". I think my failing to realize this might have a lot to do with not growing up with anime and thus not being familiar with their very common effeminate male trope.
BUT THE POINT IS: Didn't realize Sheik was supposed to be a dude. Never doubted that Sheik was Zelda. I'm just wondering if anyone else had similar or dissimilar experiences.