hauntinghyrule:

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!