Of illness, Brawl and Zelda pet peeves

Hey! Guess what? I've got the fucking flu! Isn't that grand? I just love how my head feels like it's been injected with expanding foam, and that it's going to pop at any moment, and how I'm not so much talking as croaking, what with all the larynx-ripping coughing I've been doing! So much fun!

And thus ends the sarcasm.

The only upside to this has been that I've had plenty of time to play Brawl, and oh my piss, that game is more fun than should be allowed! The Subspace Emissary was pure fan service, and it's never tasted sweeter. Let's just say that if this game was a man, I would marry him. Hell, if this game was a woman, I would her! My love for this game transcends pretty much everything.

In lieu of a segue, I'm going to cut straight to my third topic for this post, my Zelda pet peeves. Well, they're more fandom pet peeves than game pet peeves, but let's begin, shall we?

First and foremost, there's the ongoing debate as to Sheik's gender. The three sides of this debate consist of the ones who think Sheik is a girl because Zelda is a girl, the ones who think Zelda used magic to give herself a male body, and those who think that Sheik is an entity connected to, but separate from Zelda. There are also the yaoi fans who want Sheik to be a boy, just so he can have hot buttsecks with Link, but I can't really comprehend the whole "yaoi" thing, so I'm not even going to bother going into it. Let's just call it a subset of the Sheik = Boy option.

Anyway, while I believe that Sheik's a girl, I'm also fine with the Sheik is Zelda in a boy's body option. However, when people start saying that Sheik is an entirely separate entity from Zelda, that irks me to no end. The reason it bothers me so is because it seems like an attack on Zelda's character. It's as though these people are saying that, no, Zelda couldn't have done all the things Sheik did. She couldn't have spent seven years hiding in plain sight, fighting evils as a blue-clad ninja. She couldn't have managed to save Ruto on her own, or follow Link all over Hyrule, or fight monsters in wells, or any of that. She wasn't good or strong or brave or male enough to do all that, so it must have been a guy controlling her! And as a woman, this thought both annoys and angers me.

My second fandom pet peeve is also about Sheik. Well, the Sheikah, to be specific. I just find it annoying how when people create their Sheikah OCs, they always end up putting them in an outfit that looks exactly like Sheik's. Come on, people, be a little more creative! Impa's outfit didn't look like Sheik's, now did it? And they weren't the same colour, now were they? There's a whole rainbow out there! Try something new!

It also bothers me when these Sheikah OCs have eyes that are another colour than red, given that the only three people who have been confirmed as Sheikah, or Sheikah descended, all have red eyes (and by that I refer to Impa, Sheik, and Impaz). I mean, why would Zelda bother changing her eye colour if that wasn't the case? She isn't the only blond haired, blue eyed person in Hyrule, now is she?

(And while this isn't so much a pet peeve as a simple belief, I like to think that when Sheik transformed back into Zelda at the end of OoT, she actually magicked her skin tone from tan to pale, instead of the other way around. This is because in WW, Tetra was just as dark as Sheik was, so I figure that when she gets enough sun, Zelda tans fairly easily. Unfortunately, running a kingdom doesn't leave much time for tanning XD )

And lastly, an actual game pet peeve! Why are all the water/ice dungeons in the Zelda series so very hard/annoying? If there is some sort of logic to this, please let me know >.o