Whew, just woke up from a nightmare. I dreamt that I was attending an interview with Aonuma and the interviewer was asking him all these great questions about why Link was male in every iteration, and I could only sit helplessly as Aonuma deflected every question with some subtle sexist bullshit about "adventure values" and the story being "a boy's journey" and everything else you'd expect to hear from a dude born in the 1950's/60's.
Anyway, the interview ended and I asked Aonuma--who for some reason, spoke perfect, unaccented English--to wait a minute while I showed him something. I then spent the next fifteen minutes experiencing my two real-life nightmares at once: using Yahoo search and trying to type with a samsung touchscreen keypad, all in an attempt to pull up this wonderful image, drawn by Alderion-Al
Some artists piss me off in that they can just whip up something I would slave over, seemingly without even breaking a sweat. Anyway...
I finally thought I found the image and caught up with Aonuma as he stood in the courtyard of my old high school, but the artwork gradually dream-changed at the last second to something that looked like this:
"Haha," Aonuma laughed, "no."
"Wait! That's the wrong one!" I could only wail as Eiji signaled to his chauffeur. I'd made him wait twenty minutes for nothing, and he was probably more resolute than ever against a female protagonist in Zelda.
In conclusion, what I guess all this means is I'm bummed by the delay after all.
