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Some day I’m going to have to come up with a crack headcanon about what exactly is up with the body types in Hyrule’s royal family.

I mean, yeah, it’s probably just dramatic license, but if you take it as fully diegetic, King Hyrule is a straight up beast of a man.

Ganondorf is Gerudo, so there’s at least some textual justification for him being a lanky ogre-man, but what’s King Hyrule’s excuse?

He’s like eight feet tall, and about three feet broad at the shoulder; his fist is the size of an ordinary man’s head!

And yet his daughter consistently has totally average proportions.

There’s something funny going on with the royal bloodline, is what I’m saying.

@dovsherman replied:

Zelda is very young. Give her another ten or twenty years and she may grow to look a lot more like her father.

Okay, this is hands-down my favourite response, even if it is facetious. I absolutely need to see fanart of a thirtysomething Zelda who’s inherited her father’s inhuman proportions.

We’re thinking all wrong here. This has nothing to do with family bloodline:

In Zelda games, fully grown adult rulers are just bigger than everyone else. You gain a position of authority, and you get big.

The kings of Hyrule? Great big fellas. Ganondorf? Huge. The Zora kings? Gargantuan. The zora queen’s ghost? Far bigger than any living zora in Twilight Princess. Headmaster Gaepora of the Knights’ Academy in Skyloft? Towering. King Bulbin? Absolute unit. Kaneli, the owl leader of the Rito? Biggest bird in the village. The leader of the ancient robots or the Parellae? Literally dragons. Midna, once restored to her throne? Statuesquely tall. Elderly Impa? The largest Sheikah if you include her hat, which is a moral imperative.

So a Zelda who takes the throne WILL be larger than other Hylians, but not because of genealogy, but because it’s part of the job description. The only possible alternative is that I’m confusing cause and effect and Zelda will never gain political power because of her lack of extreme girth.

Here’s a quick comparison of a typical species member:

And here’s a leader of the same species:

Now there’s a fun idea. I wonder if you gradually grow into it, or whether our hypothetical Queen Zelda will just don the crown and instantly “power up” to full imperial stature, like Mario picking up a mushroom?

@ultimatwilight9001 replied:

*looks at r34* well internet, you know what to do

Nah, Rule 34 artists would screw it up –
either

they’d give her biceps-like-sacks-of-boulders bodybuilder physique, or else they’d just make her really fat. Neither of those particularly reflect the Standard Hyrulian Imperial Build, at least not for Hylians.

Did anyone say giant, middle-aged Queen Zelda? Because that is a delightful concept.

And for the record, biceps-like-rocks and/or fat sounds awesome too, and I’d love to see it drawn!

All I wanna do

Is see you turn into

A giant woman

It’s interesting, because young or recently chosen leaders tend to be about average size for their species, maybe even a little smaller than average. Look at Gerudo Chief Riju in Breath of the Wild, or the Deku Tree Sprout in Ocarina. Or hell, Tetra’s the unquestioned pirate leader in Wind Waker, and some of her crew are three times her size there.

So I think it can’t be an instant effect, but rather a mark of maturity. Over time, as they learn and gain experience with leadership, a leader will
quite literally

grow into the position. Language usage reflects this, and metaphors in Hyrule often have is a more physical truth underneath them. For example: the crown is heavy, and a monarch must be sturdy enough to bear it. Ganondorf was said to throw his weight around, politically. After the death of an old and beloved ruler, people might say of the new one that they have some big shoes to fill.

Anyway what I’m saying is the Deku Tree was able to get big because he’s in charge, but he’s the size of a building because he’s also usually hundreds of years old when we meet him, so if Zelda lives that long she could definitely also get as huge as that.