Let’s talk about the word ‘elasmobranchophilia’. Elasmobranchophilia is the term for a sexual attraction to sharks, and other similar elasmobranchs like rays and skates. The very existence of the word elasmobranchophilia is fucking terrifying.
Now let’s talk about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the recently released entry in the wildly popular Nintendo series. Breath of the Wild is the first proper landmark game for the new Nintendo Switch console, and in the new game is a ‘Zora’ (shark) character called Prince Sidon.
Since the game’s release, Zelda and elasmobranchophilia have improbably collided, in scenes that Twitter at large is quite happily encouraging. Zelda players are sharing tweets, memes, and… other demonstrations of their attraction to Prince Sidon: elasmobranchophilia in motion. And, because we thought you should know, we’re going to look at some examples now.
It starts pretty mild. Like: Sidon’s just a great, positive guy, no?
Motivation quote of the day pic.twitter.com/f0Egx0SI90
— Motivational Sidon (@BotW_Sidon) March 8, 2017
But then Link and Sidon start sharing looks
wow find someone who looks @ u the way link looks at prince sidon pic.twitter.com/4ohZ2Zks0a
— lui (@peterparkered) March 11, 2017
I'M IN LOVE???????!?!??! ?❤️❤️❤️ #BreathoftheWild pic.twitter.com/PA1pEZ2gQ8
— ????? ? (@nonixnil) March 12, 2017
Before you know it, Prince Sidon is ‘bae’ and people are having elasmobranchophilic thoughts about him.
PRINCE SIDON IS SOO CUTE YA'LL OKAY HES BAE #BreathoftheWild #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/hbFk7LJKxj
— adrienette ♡ QoN void ♡ watch miraculous?? (@feysandarling) March 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/Veedramon/status/837895024176205824
And then it gets weirder. Like, rings get involved.
sidon: breathes
me: pic.twitter.com/lpoOt2B1As— ? Ros ?@ post lads depression (@BlGFROGS) March 10, 2017
I don't know about anyone else but
but in my copy of BTOW THEY GOT ENGAGED!?
THERE WAS A WEDDING AT THE END AND EVERYTHING #Sidon #link #LOZ pic.twitter.com/m12dykHbur— Bloatedcrayon (@BLOATEDCRAYON) March 9, 2017
And love stories start to emerge.
I'm sorry I have so many feels about these two//mainly Sidon. Plz excuse mistakes I made this too quick;;;; pic.twitter.com/s8jtHOCpR4
— ⭐️✨Prom✨⭐️ (@Promsienn) March 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/FIGHTBEAST_/status/840543419298697216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
So now we’re at the stage where some shark fans are considering taking up Zelda just to experience time with Sidon.
Is the shark prince man going to be the thing that finally gets me to play Zelda
— Keezy Young ?? It's Ghost Time (@KeezyBees) March 13, 2017
And this type of thing has become vaguely normal.
NSFW as usual I guess, been playing a whole lotta Breath of the Wild and uh… wow, Sidon is pretty hot. I couldn't resist. >w>; pic.twitter.com/dnATOJfjKR
— ? See pinned tweet please! ? ?️⚧️ (@SPELLBL4DE) March 7, 2017
Forgive me just this once pic.twitter.com/GUGoIGfhyD
— Kimo Force | Mao Mao EP02 (@KimoForce) March 11, 2017