I just couldn’t resist the urge to draw something based on this by @samthecookielord 😂 Isn’t that comforting 😂

Yeah man that’s crazy

dont ask me about the context for this, there is context i just think its funnier without any

Do they know?

Stumbling upon a Yiga hideout in the depths and then seeing Yiga soldiers coming after me in their own fan planes.

when night falls in hyrule do you think the yiga clan all sleep together like woodland critters in a nest or do they clock out from work and go home to their wife and kids like any other, hang the mask on the coat rack like ‘whew tough shift today’ and the wife, doubtful he even has a job as hyrule’s minimum wage is well above the measly 2 blue rupees + 1 green he brings to the table, snaps back with ‘don’t think i didn’t notice the blonde hairs on your suit. you’ve been out with that HUSSIE again haven’t you?’ and he’s like ‘rebeega (sheikah form of rebecca) it’s not what you think but there are certain parts of my line of work i can’t ever explain to you.’

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I was watching a video analysing how the Yiga clan were handled in botw and how the person analysing it lamented the fact that Kohga was a joke character who totally destroyed the much more threatening image the yiga clan had all throughout the game. Although I do understand the sentiment (I felt that way for a long time) I’ve come to realise that we might not be viewing it in the right perspective. I ended up writing a comment under that video explaining how I saw things, and realised that maybe it could interest people here too? So here is the fleshed out version of it:

I think part of why they made Kohga extremely goofy compared to a way less goofy clan of literal assassins is to emphasise how even though the clan originally held some understandable beliefs, it has become a cult of personality over the years, and like most cults, the leader is way less charismatic than his followers make him out to be. Indeed, from the outside, it seems absurd how anyone could take Kohga seriously, let alone kill under his command, but from the inside, Kohga is the Beloved Leader That Guides Them Towards Victory, and anyone threatening him deserves to die.

In a way, yiga clan members feel like vulnerable, impressionable people who were enrolled into a cult and given a Big Family and a purpose (and a lethal weapon) by their lovable Master Kohga who wants the best for them… Except if you want to get out, then you’re a filthy traitor who also deserves to die. It’s especially visible when you beat him and they all get personally mad at you for killing him. They didn’t care about Ganon, they didn’t seem to actually understand the bigger picture, they only cared about Kohga.

It also shows how, like the rest of Hyrule, the Yigas are very much disconnected from their own history, seemingly holding on the grudge their ancestors held more as an excuse to continue to enact violence and perpetuate the cult of personality than fighting for a “noble” cause. Only Kohga seems to actually care about Calamity Ganon, and the rest of the yigas seem to be just tools to him. Wether or not he’s actually conscious of what he’s doing is unclear. Is he a fully aware con artist, or is he purely another product of Yiga indoctrination?

So yeah, to me it feels like a parody/critic/mockery of cult dynamics. It shows that this gang of assassins are indeed a real menace, but for seemingly no reason other than “that one lunatic they admire told them to” and “if they go away they get killed”. The reason why the clan was originally created becomes almost anecdotal. Under the current leader, no one is required to actually know what they’re doing, they just need to follow orders.

In the end, I think it is the intention the developers had because cults are a rampant problem in Japan. At the very least, even if it’s not a actually conscious critic, it’s a concept that is much more present in their cultural landscape than ours and that almost certainly influenced how they handled the Yiga clan. Basically, cults are not cool and can even be dangerous both for the public and their members. Cult leaders especially are not cool and often are con artists. Therefore, Kohga couldn’t be badass, he had to be a doofus getting beaten in the most unexceptional way possible.

has anyone else done this

Day 18: Boss

Link was raiding a Yiga hideout when he saw this portrayal depicted of himself:

I love these little details in the game xD

Why do they adore him so much?

"Her little "appointed swordsman" 🙄" Bro the Yiga totally know

They're goin to the park