The implications of Aemond coming to her room, Helaena's expression lighten up the moment he enters the room and then trying to conceal it , his soft expression staring her too, the intimacy of it.
The whole framing of this exchange is intentional but subtle focusing on these two although Alicent is right there too.
The way he stands up straight for her.
Their chemistry is ethereal with just barely subtle looks. The subtext is here.
"It is our fate to crave always what's given to anothe. If one possesses a thing, the other will take it away."
This quote itself coming from Helaena, the way it be implemented in more ways than one, the double meaning of it, it is intentional.
Aemond being the father of her children is high likely. Even if he is not, he is definitely the father these children never have.
It will add so much depth, intensity, angst and tragedy in the upcoming seasons.
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It's amazing how weird people are being about the house in Hateno and being so adamant that Link doesn't live there.
Like...People can have whatever headcanons and interpretations they want...but it's not exactly rocket science as to Nintendo's intent, here.
There are a lot of nods to BOTW in TOTK but almost all of them are incredibly vague and subtle. The overarching plot is only kind of generally mentioned and interactions with NPCs who had sidequests in BOTW tend to be 'thanks for helping me last time' instead of saying what Link did.
This is clearly because Nintendo are trying to keep BOTW spoilers to an absolute minimum. So that if anyone wants to play it who hasn't (or if you've missed things and you plan to play it in more detail later) then the experience is affected as little as possible.
I think the only side quest I can think of that is kind of spoiled is Kohga mentioning Link throwing him down into the depths. And that was more because it was difficult to explain what he was doing down there otherwise.
So the reason why Link's ownership of the Hateno house isn't mentioned? Because it's a BOTW side quest. That's it.
They could have had Zelda living anywhere. Even in one of the new houses just on the other side of the bridge. She could have been living with Purah or something. They chose to have her living in the house Link brought. And not because Link's ownership has been erased. But because Link's ownership is bonus knowledge for those who played BOTW and it adds to the tease of the ambiguity of their relationship status.
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there's like, an entire other side to this I had planned but I spent way too long trying to figure out how to do it exactly so I'm decidedly done wrestling with this for now. Might clean it up and post again later?
*chanting* TKITN TKITN TKITN TKITN TKITN
also yeah return of the manbun/half up hairdo that seems to just. attach to 2/3rd of my designs for this man. I have no explanation for this. Manbun. (???)
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Act 2 Nasosi is looking pretty cool. I'm glad the devs let a commissar character keep the red sash around the belt, though I'd love an option to hide armor just like you can hide helmets. The default outfits for all the classes look so good, and the armor hides so much of it.
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