Female Link

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Category: Meme Status: submission Year: 2019 Origin: Twitter Region:

Type: Character

Tags: link japan 1980s

About

Female Link refers to a piece of 1986 art from the Japanese magazine Shonen Captain that depicted Link from The Legend of Zelda as a woman. The reason for the cross-gender depiction is unknown, but after it was rediscovered and reposted to Twitter in March of 2019, Twitter users celebrated the interpretation and stated they would like to see a game with the character.

Origin

On March 29th, 2019, Twitter user @kazzykazcom^[1] posted pictures of a female Link as depicted in a 1986 issue of Shonen Captain. The tweet gained over 4,800 retweets and 10,000 likes (shown below).

カジコム/kazzycom @kazzykazycom THE LEGEND OF ZELDA △ 1986年に発売された、ある雑誌の一部。発売したばかりなのにリンクが女体化さ Follow ) ﹀れているの伝説 ? (勘違いしたのかな) #ゼルダ Translate Tweet てんかめいきゅう地下迷宮 LEVEL.1-3 かんぜんしょうかいだの全ツレ伝気, 1 紹: 1説洛弾, ヒろリのも割れぅアうもはレずけすちつにどるはや地1, 1、、デづも、のすもつ1 ろやはベゃあの 8:33 AM-29 Mar 2019 . なル

Spread

GoNintendo^[2] wrote an article about the discovery on April 2nd and tweeted^[3] a link to the article (shown below, left), helping expose the character to western audiences. Twitter users such as @L_Vermi joked that the character was "Zelda," referencing a common mistake made by people unfamiliar with the series that Link is Zelda (shown below, right).

GoNintendo Tweet @GoNintendoTweet Follow Japanese gaming mag from 1986 mistakenly depicted Link as a woman gonintendo.com/stories/332205 2:33 AM 2 Apr 2019

Megalomaniac64 @L_Vermi ( Follow ) ﹀ It my red haired goddess, the female MC of The Legend of Zelda; Zelda! GoNintendoTweet @GoNintendoTweet Japanese gaming mag from 1986 mistakenly depicted Link as a woman gonintendo.com/stories/332205.. 10:11 AM -3 Apr 2019

Others joked about the character in a similar way to recent Nintendo gender-bending memes like Trans Luigi and Bowsette. User @LouisaTheLast^[4] joked "Link is trans now," gaining over 110 retweets and 500 likes (shown below, left). User @thejoaum^[5] joked "Bowsette 2.0 is coming" (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Daily Dot.^[6]