Introduction: The She-Elf

Halloa! I am the She-Elf. Welcome to Zelda: Epic Failure. This blog - well, it says what this blog is about, under the name.

I told myself, repeatedly, that I wasn't going to do this...

How could I, mewling, tiny, insignificant elf that I am, possibly think it wise to go against a Titan like Ryuu-Atrineas?

He's so well-loved! Surely there must be some reason for it. His art is perfect, his characters are wholly original and impeccably crafted. His writing and role playing is vibrant, lively, and deeply engaging. The games he makes are incredibly entertaining and amazingly well crafted and original, as well.

Also, all of those things are lies.

Yet, he has this troublesome fanbase that he could summon with a wave of his hand to rise against me and crush me, and I am but one elf armed with only her wit and a few snarky friends.

And I founded this blog, anyway, to criticize and mock - yes, mock, as horrible, rude, and biased as that sounds.

I am not an evil person, as I'm sure Ryuu's fans will label me. I am capable of pleasant critique. I like to help. I'd even like to be able to honestly say Ryuu's a good guy at heart who just needs a little help.

I might've been pleasant, if I felt a little criticism was welcome on his page - and, to be honest, I don't think it is, the way he puts conditions on it as though it MUST be sugar-coated. At least he admits he's thin-skinned. It is a virtue to understand one's failings. It is a better virtue to try to correct these, but I will not begrudge a man's minor flaws.

The final straw that made me decide that was it, I was going to make this blog and I wasn't going to be all smiles and rainbows about it, was that Ryuu is a bigot. He is homophobic. This does make me more biased than usual. This does make me a bit more aggressive. This does not make me more unfair.

Look at it, this way: if someone were racist, anti-Semitic, or something else bigoted, and you knew of it, would you be as kindly disposed to that person? Some flaws taint the way we see people.

I do not hate him - certainly not. It takes much more for me to invest such a dark feeling in something. However, I do not like him and I cannot respect him - for both his bigotry as well as his theft of characters to make his "original" characters.

He is not the only one with rude mistreatment of a fandom for his superspecialawesome characters, no. But nevertheless, he is the one that was picked. So, here we are - here I am.

As a warning, I am quite insane.

I'm sure you gathered that.