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Hating on someone for a ship they have is weird in almost any situation.

Like, if the ship is really problematic, like it’s hyper toxic, abusive, incest, pedophilic, or something else that is obviously bad, I get it, but I feel like when I have a ship in a fandom, and I go to look up fan art by tags, I see a bunch of toxicity about a ship that isn’t toxic or controversial, or in some cases, is literally so sweet and chill.

An example is that of some of the popular ships within the BotW fandom, specifically, with Link. I’ve pinned down four more popular ones, that get a lot of chit chat going, good or bad.

Now, there is probably a statical analysis that I could do and stuff, but I’m lazy, so just from what I’ve observed, four of the more popular ships with Link in BotW include; Miphalink, Zeldlink, Revalink, and Sidlink.

I ship one of those, BUT, I have absolutely no beef with anyone who ships anything else, including ones that aren’t on the more popular and talked about side. However, for conciseness, I will be specifically talking about the four mentioned earlier.

I’ll get this out of the way now, I personally ship Sidlink. I think it’s wholesome, adorable, and frankly fluffy as heck. Those two work so perfectly as a couple in my opinion, which is why I ship them.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean I hate the other three.

I think Miphalink makes complete sense, one-sided, or going both ways, and I think it’s fair to like to, due to it probably being closest to canon. Mipha canonically had a major crush on Link, and I think it’s fair to ship the two.

Zeldlink is also fair. It is referenced a few times that Zelda had strong feelings towards Link, and it is specifically stated at least once by Kass when he is singing his teacher’s song in Rito, that Zelda loved Link. So again, completely fair to ship it.

Now onto Revalink. This one I think is more likely to been seen as more toxic, but I think also has complete potential to be great if you understand how to ship a rivals-to-lovers ship. Being rivals involves respect, and I think it is evident Revali saw Link as a rival. Being romantically involved also involves respect, which makes a rivals-to-lovers work well.

In short: Miphalink most correlates with canon, and makes plenty of sense. Zeldlink also correlates with canon, and also makes a lot of sense. And I love a rivals-to-lovers any day of the week, and Revalink is a great example of one such dynamic.

All four of these ships are completely fine to ship, which is true for most any ship in most any fandom. And you shouldn’t send hate to people for shipping something that can be reasonably argued, is perfectly okay to ship. People are allowed to have opinions, especially when it comes to shipping fictional characters, so before you make that hate post on Franmaya, or send a rude dm to someone because they like Link and Paya together, ask yourself, ‘why is this ship so bad? Why should I get to tell someone that they can’t ship it?’

(If I made some sort of mistake in this post, grammatical, spelling wise, or just go something factual wrong, please tell me. Constructive criticism is important, and I will take any of it completely seriously and fix the issue as soon as possible)

Anyway, if you read that whole thing, thanks, means a lot that someone looked at my attempt at addressing a topic like this.