Patricia Summersett, who’s greatest recognized in gaming for voicing Princess Zelda in a wide range of The Legend of Zelda video games, has clarified her feedback from 2023 about Zelda and Link being “in a relationship.”
She told IGN that she has “all kinds of private theories” in regards to the nature of the connection between Zelda and Link, however she believes there may be “one thing stunning” about issues being left ambiguous.
“If there are romantic undertones, it is left in an unrequited state. There’s clearly a deep friendship and a protectorship between the 2 of them. It is a attractive relationship and it continues to evolve and be left open in so many iterations of this,” she defined.
What this implies for Summersett as an actor who represents Zelda at fan conventions is that folks come as much as her with varied interpretations of “what they suppose Link and Zelda are.” Some folks take the romantic route and others have a good time Zelda and Link as particular characters. “It will possibly imply sort of something, and I like that it lives in that house,” she mentioned.
In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it seems Zelda and Link reside collectively in a home with one mattress. Summersett laughed and mentioned, “Hopefully it is a very snug mattress.”
She additionally touched on her “unrequited” remark, saying she did not imply something particular.
“I’ve to watch out with that phrase unrequited. That is likely to be one interpretation of what their explicit sort of relationship is–and relationship that means that they might be buddies, they might be warrior buddies, they might be a princess and a soldier, they might be a lovership, or people who find themselves destined to be collectively even in a non-romantic approach, however for his or her life they’ll have this lifelong friendship,” she mentioned. “It might be something. And even for many who do put an apparent romantic tinge onto it, it will nonetheless be actually on the nostril to abruptly have Link and Zelda, as a result of they’ve this deep relationship, having to get collectively in a romantic sense. As a result of that is not the way in which life works. I feel that I favor that it isn’t so on the nostril as that, personally.”
Additionally within the interview, Summersett addressed the theories that Nintendo got here to her and requested her to make clear her comments–that is not true. “No, no person’s ever mentioned something to me,” she mentioned.
As a substitute, Summersett mentioned she needed to make clear her feedback about Zelda and Link as a result of folks took it as undeniable fact that she confirmed they’re in a relationship–but that’s not the case and never what she was attempting to say.
“It is actually tough while you’re attempting to do these sorts of interviews and folks take one thing fully out of context for the sake of clickbait. I used to be getting used for clickbait and I am like, ‘That is exactly not what I mentioned,'” she mentioned.
Her authentic feedback had been taken out of context, she mentioned, and he or she mentioned that was “fairly angering to be trustworthy.”
“I attempted to cope with it as greatest I might, nevertheless it’s exhausting when issues blow up on-line. That is been an fascinating factor to navigate in the previous few years, simply being a easy voice actor attempting to remain in my lane and be open to anyone who would possibly come to me to have a good time the collection, representing a personality however not representing the corporate,” she mentioned.
Summersett voiced Zelda in Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and Age of Imprisonment, and Tears of the Kingdom.