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Originally Posted by Erimgard
Yes, but there is only one male Gerudo.
If you knew that your child was going to be the King, would you name him after someone who was despised?
And in OoT, all the Gerudos except Nabooru loved him, so why wouldn't they name their new future leader after him?
A progression of OoT to FSA makes more sense, because he was loved in OoT and hated in FSA.
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Why does that progression make any more sense? You've still got a new Ganondorf who turns evil and people are surprised that the King of Evil could have come from the Gerudo tribe. Either way, the view of the Gerudo changed drastically.. If you go OoT to FSA, you have the Gerudo going from being hated as thieves (and even more so after Ganondorf becomes the King of Evil), to being loved as people are surprised the King of Evil came from them. If you go FSA to OoT, you have the Gerudo being loved in FSA and hated in OoT. Oh, and it's been a very long time (too long in fact) since I've played OoT. Remind me. Do the Gerudo still love Ganondorf even after he turns the world into a dark and evil place?
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Vaati was given a background story, and featured in 3 games.
This is one line in a game, using a term [demon] that is used frequently of Ganon.
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Here's the problem with words like demon in Zelda. With the translations of NoA, it's hard to tell. The Japanese have several words for demon, and which one(s) pertain to Ganondorf and which ones may or may not is really unknown. Hanging whole thesises on words like demon are not good ideas, as the recent thread about Hyrule and the Sacred Realm in TP by Lex proves. Unless it says King of Evil (something we KNOW is attributed to Ganondorf and Ganondorf alone in the Zelda series), I don't think I can be completely convinced that it means Ganon. Hell, I'm still not entirely convinced that that quote is referring to Ganon in my real timeline, let alone a devil's advocate one.
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As I said before, the King had just reached a state of unity, and the Gerudos were the only tribe he had not yet formed an alliance with.
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The same could be true in my theory.
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The general public in OoT seem to dislike the Gerudos [talk to people using the Gerudo mask] so I'd say the King was trying to secure peace.
When someone uses the power of a forbidden Trident, steals a Dark Mirror, spreads Darkness all over the land, and attempts to conquer Hyrule...you wouldn't think they'd be so eager to make an alliance of any kind with him.
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Like I said, different Ganondorf. Regardless of how terrible the past Ganondorf had acted, one hundred years had passed and the King of Hyrule was ready to forgive the Gerudo if it would mean unity in his country.
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However, the fact that you state it's two different Ganondorfs makes it semi-believable, if Ganondorf II pretends to be more peaceful and diplomatic than his predecessor.
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Precisely.
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But still, I don't think the Gerudo's would name their future King the same thing as the previous one whom they despised...in fact, I doubt they'd even stick to the "the male gets to be King" rule after their previous King brought so much shame to them.
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While this statement has some truth to it, many times the traditions of kingdoms are observed despite the obvious idiocy of it. For example, in ancient China, alchemists who were searching for the Elixir of Life thought they had found it in mercury. For centuries they would feed mercury to their kings in the hopes of making them immortal, even though all it did was make them crazy and eventually kill them. Despite the fact that several of the Chinese philosophers felt that it was the mercury that was causing this, the alchemists ignored this and continued professing it as the Elixir of Life, feeding it to their kings. The point being, that sometimes the previous thoughts and traditions of a society overule the new evidence that comes to light. I think it's very plausible that if Ganondorf was indeed a traditional name that the Gerudo would continue to use this name, despite its bad connotations. They would also continue to let the males be their kings if this was the case.