Either its a world where bi/homosexuality is considered normal and uncontroversial or Link is just canonically the hottest man in Hyrule
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None of this even takes interpreting, this is all surface level lol
I think "Link is a gay icon" maybe leans hard into the theory that IRL gay people have adopted Link as an icon. I haven't seen much of that. LoZ imagery tends to spam the dorky gamer artistic space, rather than being particular to a given disposition.
At this point, Link is more a Rorschach test for the audience's sexuality. Given the fact that this young man has literally never fucked, despite being hit on by every Goron, Zora, and Sheikah in eye-shot, I'm prone to declaring him a pure Ace with tease tendencies.
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I think "Link is a gay icon" maybe leans hard into the theory that IRL gay people have adopted Link as an icon. I haven't seen much of that. LoZ imagery tends to spam the dorky gamer artistic space, rather than being particular to a given disposition.
At this point, Link is more a Rorschach test for the audience's sexuality. Given the fact that this young man has literally never fucked, despite being hit on by every Goron, Zora, and Sheikah in eye-shot, I'm prone to declaring him a pure Ace with tease tendencies.
Given the fact that Link's house in Hateno is now referred to as Zelda's house in TotK and there's still only one bed, they were definitely fucking.
Zelda is also a volcel
They're a volcel couple
Ok that works too, ace couple non-sexually cuddling
Yeah, he unambiguously gets queer coded stuff, but I don't feel like I e ever seen him become an icon because of it.