>>3460280(1/2)
I will answer the questions you asked of me in a sec, but I want to tell you something. Something that I've just realized, more like admitting to myself. If you were to ever really read anything I've said to you up to this point, this should be what you focus on.
I've really been thinking about this a lot lately. I am in love with Sheik. I fell in love with her gradually over time. While I like to say it was simply the OoT Sheik that made me fall in love, that's not entirely correct. I've detailed on here many times in great length how I fell in love with her, so I won't post it all again. But I had many experiences with Sheik prior to me falling in love. The Smash games and Hyrule Warriors had shown me their versions of Sheik well before I fell in love
So can I really claim with 100% honesty anymore claim that I fell in love with OoT Sheik and that was the sole Sheik I fell in love with? I would've said 'yes' a week ago, but after answering all of these questions recently, and really thinking about all of this again, I don't think I can say that anymore. I think after reexamining everything, I think I have been lying to myself. You see, I value purity quite a lot. I think I had felt that if I had loved each version of Sheik just as much as I loved her OoT iteration, it would devalue that love. Since each version of her is similar, but different in their own way, I thought I should love them, but not as much as I loved her in OoT
This includes the one I have pretty much neglected in my mind up to this point: Sheik, without any Zelda influence. That is, Sheik if she had her own body. I had previously decieved myself that these are two seperate people. That a Sheik that didn't experience what happened in OoT, was not Sheik at all. But I can't go on thinking that anymore. Sheik is Sheik. She does not need Zelda to be Sheik. She does not need the triforce to be Sheik. That is just a lie I was telling myself to justify a flawed thought process. (Cont.)
