YMMV / A Tale of Two Rulers

• Can't Un-Hear It: Once you've watched the parts of the comic that have been voice-acted, you won't be able to unhear the voices given to Ganondorf and Zelda in the rest of the comic.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Ganon and Zelda's character arc as a married couple has vitriolic (and realistic) shades of this.
  • The mother-daughter relationship between Zelda and Rinku.
    • After the latter's head injury, Rinku asks her mother if it's okay that she comes any time she needs her after a nightmare. Zelda warmly and sincerely assures her she's never too busy. Rinku bids goodnight to her sibling-to-be, showing she optimistically holds no hard feelings against the unborn child.
  • Ganondorf motivating the Goron Prince to stand up to his abusive, abrasive father. Granted, he's doing it to keep Rinku from going into a horribly mismatched duel, but still.
  • The return of Midna, now as an old woman. Judging by the smile when Zelda introduces herself, she's positively delighted to see her old friend once again.
  • Oddly enough, Zelda and Vaati, of all people. Though he starts off as an Abhorrent Admirer who tries to force his "affections" on Zelda, and the two later get bitterly snarky with each other, they seem to bond over the portal project and Zelda outright tells Vaati she wants to give him a chance to be better and hopes to become friends with him. Vaati's response is very telling.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Twilight Princess manga actually has Ganondorf propose an alliance with Zelda in a private meeting with her. She refuses, of course, but still.
• Ho Yay: Ghirahim has a deep love for Ganondorf. He enjoys brushing Ganondorf's hair, is visibly upset when he learns Ganondorf and Zelda are sharing a bedroom, and looks close to tears whenever Ganondorf rebukes him. Ganondorf's feelings in return appears to be platonic, but his response to Ghirahim's betrayal show that Ghirahim was perhaps the person he was closest to.
• Moment of Awesome: The prologue alone has Zelda single-handedly convince Ganondorf to peacefully accept her marriage proposal even at the threat of death, just by asking "Are you a man or a pig?"
• Moral Event Horizon: Zelda's old tutor took advantage of his then-thirteen protegee, and used her for ladder climbing and carnal pleasure. Heck, it really shows how much a monster the bastard was that Ganondorf, the King of Evil, and Hyrule's resident Satanic Archetype, has a moment where Even Evil Has Standards, and swears to hunt him down, and rip his balls off.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Rinku regaining the memory of the time she, as Link, fought Majora.
  • Any time Ganondorf is truly enraged, complete with Glowing Eyes of Doom.
    • Special mention to the scene when Ghirahim goes behind his back to poison Zelda. Ganondorf's wrath towards his old friend's betrayal cannot be understated.
      Ganondorf: How DARE you carry out this murder without my permission?! How DARE you kill my wife!?! You have overstepped your boundaries, Ghirahim! Overstepped them to the point of treason!
      I should KILL you for this! RIP YOU TO SHREDS!! PUT YOUR HEAD ON A SPIKE!!!
    • Somehow, the fact that Ganondorf is so calm and unaffected by Zelda's accusations after publicly exposing Vaati in front of a crowd of nobles that start to jeer and bay for his death is somehow scarier than his catastrophic rage. This petty, jealousy-fuelled cruelty has left Ganondorf feeling cheered.
  • Dr. Featherton's transformation.
    • It turns out later Vaati banishes it to Tamriel (specifically during the events of Skyrim and specifically at Winterhold). He then later explains what exactly the black flame does, revealing that, in all likelihood, it has caused a Class 6-level apocalypse, and it potentially infected the Dragonborn himself, meaning Alduin eating the world would basically be a Mercy Kill. And the Three Goddesses are responsible for this, as they were trying to manipulate Vaati into unleashing it during Zelda's baby shower, with the only reason this doesn't come to pass is because they told him the coordinates but nothing else, so he decided to try and take a sneak peek first, which turned out to be a fairly smart idea. Once he finds out, Vaati immediately stops trusting them.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Skull Kid's backstory. His struggling family began to struggle even more when his mother had a child. His father went to work in factory far away, while his mother was overworked. One evening, Skull Kid got lost in the woods, dying and waking up in his current spirit form. He was scared to death that Rinku would go through the same thing he did once her new sibling was born, forgetting that his circumstances are different than hers. Doubles as heartwarming, as Skull Kid was just concerned for his friend, and Rinku was more than willing to comfort him afterwards.
  • Followed shortly afterward by Skull Kid accidentally triggering Rinku's memory of the carnival in Termina.
  • Rinku has sworn to kill Link after hearing stories about him from Ganondorf. Skull Kid is visibly agonized by the irony, and the fact that he has to keep it secret that Link and Rinku are the same person.
  • When Ganondorf realizes that a previous incarnation of his burned the last written records of Gerudo language and culture when that incarnation sacked and burned Hyrule City five hundred years ago. He then resolves to search his memories to recover what was lost.
  • Ganondorf exposing Vaati's true form, publicly, and holding him up to an entire crowd to be mocked and humiliated; Vaati isn't always the most pleasant person, but this is still sad to see. The tags on the post even call it "Gan at his worst".
    • The next update makes it worse: Ganondorf asks the crowd if he should kill Vaati and they start offering suggestions. Zelda intervenes, but Vaati tearfully, silently begs Zelda not to look at him, before leaping out of her hands and fleeing in shame and fear.
• Ugly Cute: Little One, the Bokoblin/Bulblin that serves as Ganondorf's valet. Helped immensely by his eager, happy attitude and his complete blindness to the super-charged political atmosphere.

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