salty-blue-mage:

Ngl I feel like the best, most subtle plot point of BotW is Ganon hacking the Guardians and turning them into an army. The King briefly mentions that Ganon turned everything against them before razing Hyrule and it’s framed as this totally surprising and out of nowhere batman gambit by Ganon (I maintain that the fortune teller who told the king about the Guardians was the BotW timeline equivalent of Agahnim, aka an alter ego for Ganon to trigger the events of the game. If that’s been debunked, oh well. Pry it from my dead hands.).

However, in one of the memories, we see Zelda trying to break into a Sheikah Shrine and she makes the point of saying that most technology has a work around.

It really just reinforces to me that Zelda is fucking smart and could have stopped the tragedy of Calamity Ganon if her dad had just listened to her about the Guardians. She wanted to study them and figure them out and there’s not a doubt in my mind that if she had been given the chance to be her science loving self instead of forced into constant prayer and isolation, she would have prevented Ganon from hacking the Guardians and the events of the game wouldn’t have even happened.