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Main WMG page: [[The Legend of Zelda
Any and all theories relating to Sheik and the ancient Sheikah race from [[
== Sheik isn't male ''or'' female ==
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...because Zelda's transformation is [[Gender Bender|anatomically correct]].
* Not quite. OOT Zelda is [[Pettanko|pretty flat]] even in her character art, so the lack of breasts isn't that odd. What is odd is that the supposedly male sheik is wearing a extremely skin tight body suit, yet lacks any kind of........ visible bulge down below.
** Yes, and note that the bulge-lack is probably NOT due the game being childfriendly, since even [[Lighter and Softer|TWW Link]] has one down there. Yes. It's visible under his tunic when you're making him crawl.
*** Don't forget Tingle... Freaking Tingle.
** However, it's very clear that Zelda's transformation into Sheik is a magical one, and vice-versa. In [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]], the transformation takes less than a second. In Super Smash Brothers Melee, it's kind of a crouching-spinning thing with magical aura. If the transformation itself is magical, why is it so farfetched to think that it's a gender transformation? Also, if Sheik and Zelda are the same person, why can Sheik fight when Zelda can't? (Admit it. Sheik would have been far, far more useful in the fight against Ganondorf than Zelda was.)
*** Because just because you "can", doesn't mean you should. Also, do you realize the [[Fridge Horror]] that will result if Zelda changed sex for seven years from early age? And changing back would really mess her up badly. And don't forget the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of Zelda being more capable as a transsexual than as herself. As for your other question, if they had thought of a better role for Zelda after the reveal, they wouldn't have [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|wasted a perfectly good plot]]. Let's just hope they don't screw her up in the 3DS remake. Also, isn't her voice already a giveaway of her true gender?
**** Men naturally have more upper body strength. Not to say women couldn't as well--just look at female body builders--but having more natural strength would be an incentive to magically transform into a man. Why bind, pad, and change your eye colour, when you could just as easily turn into a man AND gain more strength without severe training?
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***** The first thing you said is true, but it's Princess Zelda who we're talking about here. I understand the exile thing and all she went through, but wouldn't all that "magical sex change" for seven years add more salt to the wound? As for your last point, sadly this wasn't planned out properly by the creators of the game, because Sheik looked emotionally strong, but [[Character Derailment|not much]] after she changed back. That, and the [[Fridge Logic]] of not using what she learned near the end of the game make things more complicated.
****** Then surely the easiest explanation is... that, however it came to be, Sheik and Zelda have separate minds and personalities, thus explaining their differences in appearances and actions? (And, as a side effect, it means that Zelda is less likely to be 'traumatised' by having a male body for seven years.) It makes more sense that they were intended to be different instead of accusing Nintendo of getting every single little bit wrong.
******* This is why the manga is considered [[Adaptation Decay]], because instead of choosing to [[The Slow Path|survive all those seven years]] [[Character Development|by herself]], [[Character Derailment|she chose to skip them instead and let "someone else" do the surviving for her]]. [[The Easy Way or
*** Wait, what? This is getting very convoluted. There's not really any evidence of separate entities, a magical transformation doesn't automatically equal a gender bending transformation, and, uh...when in the game is Sheik shown to be a fighter?
*** It's a REMAKE. They can change the game superficially, but they can't alter the plot so drastically as to allow Zelda to NOT be captured by Ganondorf. It isn't possible without completely altering the way the endgame plays out.
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== Zelda as Sheik is a [[Gender Bender]] ==
Can 5,246,839 [[Yaoi Fangirl|yaoi fangirls]] be wrong? No, don't look to [[Word of
* And people wonder why there are [[Fan Hater|FanHaters]].
** ''Can 5,246,839 [[Yaoi Fangirl|yaoi fangirls]] be wrong?'' [[Fan Dumb|Yes]].
* Well, that and the fact that Sheik has clearly had a male voice in every game he's appeared in. Not to mention red eyes, where Zelda has blue. [[Schizo
** She doesn't. Sure, she imitates it, but it's clearly NOT male.
** Nintendo Power claims it's colored contact lenses. SSBM says magic (and features Sheik with a very female death cry)
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**** Not quite in the case of Sheik. Remember when she got attacked by Bongo Bongo? That's clearly a female voice, because in this state of pain, she could not imitate her boyish voice.
** The Ocarina of Time manga offers that Impa magically made Zelda into an actual man.
*** The manga [[Canon
*** Nope. Brainwashing her to think she's a dude =/= physically making her into one. No need to bash the manga, either.
*** The manga has Sheik covering "his" chest upon regaining consciousness at one point, and Link noting that Sheik has a much more small and fragile physique than he expected for a warrior. How people figure the manga supports Sheik and Zelda ''not'' being the same person is anyone's guess.
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== The Lokomo are descendants of the Sheikah. ==
When ancient Hyrule was flooded, everybody fleed to the newly created mountain tops, except for Impa and her remaining Sheikah (who were probably not that much anyway), who were instead led to the land that would become new Hyrule by the goddesses. The goddesses ordered them to protect this new land, until the hero and Princess Zelda can arrive and told them to serve this new lands guardian spirits. Just as the people of Hyrule forgot about their heritage over time, the Sheikah left behind their past as servants of the Hylians as well after some time and took on the new identity as Lokomo. What brings me to this theory are three things: First, their incredible knowledge of history and legends and good connections to the royal family (traits that used to be attributed to the Sheikah), second the fact that all of their songs and instruments just remind me on Sheik's harp and, third... Bryne. It was never outright stated, but given that he was Anjean's pupil, I guess that he's Lokomo as well. A young one, OK, but still a Lokomo. And what does he look like? Face half-covered: Like Sheik. Oddly colored eyes. (Maybe the red eyes of the Sheikah faded out to yellow over the generations.) Last, his fighting style: Nobody can tell me, that this is not Sheikah fighting style. And he was taught by Anjean, which means that all Lokomo fight like this when they are not sitting in their wheel chairs. Lastly, he uses a hookshoot. Where did Link in ''Ocarina of Time'' find his Hookshot again? In Kakariko, village of the Sheikah.
** It's pretty heavily implied by Anjean at the end of the game that Byrne is a Lokomo as well, so that holds true. And there's definitely a connection to music - the Lokomo have their songs and instruments, and several in-game songs in Ocarina of Time are implied to be Sheikah in origin - the Nocturne of Shadow takes you to the Shadow Temple, the Song of Storms is learnt in Kakariko, the Sun Song is by Flat and Sharp, who are also alleged to be Sheikah, and if the Sheikah are the traditional guardians (and nursemaids) of young princesses, perhaps even Zelda's Lullaby is, as well. And to add to it, nearly all the races in Ocarina of Time have representation in this timeline. The Hylians and Gorons stay as-is, the Gerudo possibly begin to intermix with Hylians and Humans (you can't tell me Jolene doesn't have Gerudo ancestry!), the Zoras become the Rito, and the Kokiri become the Koroks. What of the Sheikah? Nothing - unless they became the Lokomo.
*** But aren't the Sheikah all dead? Impa is referred to as the "last of the Sheikah", and there's mention by the talking walls in the Shadow Temple about how the Sheikah were killed during the Great War.
*** Then again, the Lokomo could have been descended from a different tribe of Sheikah that was never affiliated with the original royal family and therefore never got themselves wiped out in the Great War.
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