Sheik's Gender
To start off, I'm not sure if this is in the right forum, but I'm assuming that it should go into the World of Zelda instead of Zelda Theory since this is no longer a discussion of a theory.
This year I decided to play through all the
Zelda games in the official timeline order and to 100% them all. As such, I'm using the walkthroughs on this site so that I can 100% the games as fast as I can during 2014.
I've been playing
Minish Cap as it's the second game in the official timeline and when I opened Zelda Dungeon I saw it.
It being the official confirmation of Sheik's gender. On one hand I'm so very pleased because now I don't have to stumble into discussions on Sheik's gender, because I always find those long drawn out and intense. But on the other hand I'm... amused, in a way.
When I first beat
Ocarina of Time for the first time I was twelve and in seventh grade. As most people know, twelve year olds are pretty emotional people, and I was starting to fall into my depression and I developed a crush on Sheik. When Sheik was revealed to be Zelda I was shocked; I spent months questioning my sexuality. But the truth is I should have been questioning why I had a crush on a video game character.
Something that made me believe Sheik to be male is that the facial structure was more male as well as the body type. This was not much to base on seeing as the game was from the 90s and the graphics weren't so good back then.
When I get past the initial shock of finding out Sheik's official gender, I got a bit confused. After I got older I came to believe that since Zelda is a sage, she had some form of magic where she would be able to transform herself into the male Sheikah, Sheik.
But another thing that I realized as I grew older was "When has there been a male Sheikah?" Before the official timeline came out, I never thought of where anything fell into place, but I always assumed that
Twilight Princess was in the same timeline as
Ocarina of Time.
When it came down to it, I acknowledged that the three games that had Sheikah were
- Ocarina of Time
- Twilight Princess
- Skyward Sword
The Sheikah that we are shown are
- OoT - Sheik and Impa
- TP - Impaz
- SS - Impa
If you play all three games, when you get to
Skyward Sword you might look back to the two other games with Sheikah you will realize that almost all the Sheikah are female, except for one. The one that
isn't female is later confirmed to
be a female.
So I guess what I'm going about in asking is
- Did you always believe Sheik to be female?
- Were you shocked by this confirmation?
- What were your beliefs about Sheik when you first played Ocarina of Time?