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Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote2025-06-22 08:02 am

Found the canon on Tri's gender in TLOZ:EoW

Trivia, for the record, as I'd wondered about it here before:

As you may know, Tri is the companion character in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom: a floating ball of primordial golden energy, a bit bigger than a softball, with some immobile black markings that suggest a face (but may actually be characters in a language, or just stripes, spots, whatever Tri's kind has), and a tail (or ponytail) of triangles that measure out Tri's magic. While the in-dialogue evidence for Tri's gender and/or sex, if any, is scant and conflicting, one of the quest log screens uses "they/their" for Tri (Tri uses "I/my" when speaking). That's canon enough to make a call on which pronouns to use for the character, until/unless other evidence comes.

(Translation is often a lingering and fascinating issue in Zelda games. It's the whole focus of [youtube.com profile] QuestWithAaron.)