Polygon’s latest clickbait claims Link is a “gay icon,” pushing the false narrative that The Legend of Zelda series has “queer themes.”
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The editorial came from Samantha Puc in her first piece for Polygon. She had previously written for The Mary Sue, FAT and QUEER, and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East.
The editorial isn’t based on discussions with the LGBT community, assessing if the series has major themes of loving or being who you want, or analysis if the fan base has an especially large LGBT demographic.
Puc opens her argument, that one of Nintendo’s most iconic characters resonates with the LGBT community, with the prevalence of fan-fiction, noting that over 17,000 pieces of fan-fiction featuring Link submitted to Archive of Our Own, with a small fraction depicting Link as transgender.
“Among those stories, more than 300 are tagged with ‘Trans Link,’ and nearly 2,000 feature Link in a romantic relationship with Prince Sidon (or Ganondorf, for the enemies-to-lovers fans),” Puc pointed out.
Respectively, these would account for 1.76% and 11.76% of Legend of Zelda Archive of Our Own fan-fiction.
Puc continues, emphasizing fans have supposedly been “speculating on Link’s gender and sexuality since at least 2009,” highlighting a similar 2009 editorial from fan website Zelda Dungeon. This would be 20 years after The Legend of Zelda series started in Japan (1989) and...
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