At the beginning of the Four Swords manga, after Shadow kidnaps Zelda, he takes the center piece of her decorative armor. He tosses it to the Links the next time he sees them, presumably to taunt them with the proof of the Princess’s capture.
(It’s a bit needlessly dramatic, to be honest, considering they watched it happen. They know he has the Princess! Then again, “needlessly dramatic” is pretty much Shadow in a nutshell, so…)
Well, I was looking up costume references for Zelda, and it occurred to me to check whether Zelda was still missing the armor piece in later appearances. And as it turns out, she is! Throughout the rest of the manga, she’s depicted without the center piece of her armor.
A+ attention to detail, Akira Himekawa!
But you know who didn’t pay quite enough attention to detail?
Vaati.
When he disguised himself as Zelda, he included the armor piece, despite the fact that she wouldn’t have had it at that point. None of the other characters catch the hint (the Captain wouldn’t have known she’d lost the piece, and the Links were too distracted to notice) but I think it’s cool that Akira Himekawa included a detail like that!
This! This is why I start cursing like a sailor the minute someone brings up aaaallll the things we the people can do to stop climate change.
Spoiler: it’s nothing. Oh, sure, you can recycle your trash, but that doesn’t mean much when it all ends up getting burned anyway because our economy doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to deal with the sheer mass of trash, and no interest in doing so. Like, “sure, our company could switch to environmentally friendly packaging, but that’d mean we’d have to change things and it might cost us a whole cent more per article and that’s just not viable you know, so sorry.”
Or, yes, you can absolutely bike to work instead of driving, but your CO2 emissions are nothing against what big companies blow into the atmosphere every second. Nothing.
Or, yes, you can absolutely grow bee-friendly plants in your yard, but that won’t save them.
By all means, be environmentally conscious! In fact, I strongly encourage you to be! But let’s be real here, our individual footprints on this planet aren’t what’s killing it. Big Industry is.
Same with food/water waste!! It annoys me so much when commercials and gov’t campaigns emphasize individual waste when corporations are doing the OVERWHELMING majority of the wasting.
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