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>>6706141
Already too much brown in his sprite, if his hair was also brown it would have looked sucky.

Because he's an SJW. Have you checked your privilege?

his cute girlfriend suggested it.

>>6706141
Artistic choice.

Because he's a sexy little faggot.

>>6706141
To break up the brown.

>>6706141
because bun

Each incarnation of link is a new person. That Link was a cannon faggot.

>>6706224
This. Color palette pink bunny

>>6706224
>>6706234
Head canon trannys

Imagine what kind of microscopic pea brain it takes in order to ponder this question for more than two seconds.

Link is cute!

>>6706561
Stop posting photos from your family album on here, anon!

same reason General Leo is canonically black, but his sprite looks like this

technical limitations. SNES was too fucking weak to render blond hair so they changed it to pink. Only Genesis could render a player character blond.

>>6706151
what privilege?

>>6706141
Same reason the fairy hair is pink in oot. He's a fairy boy. Duh.

>>6706151
*a

>>6706898
ESL

>>6706141
color limitation

>>6706912
IN my head I thought 'social justice warrior' but as an acronym I realized it's ES JAY DOUBLE EW and vowel sound means an rather than a for consonant so yes, i deleted it before I even saw your post. Brainfarts are just a thing.

>>6706141
I always thought that it was a gameplay decision, to make sure the player can easily read Link's position on the screen by having something that clashes against the green on the rest of his sprite.

The modified sprite they used in the Parallel Worlds mod isn't as easy to track.

>>6706770
Does this mean that the Genesis is the true NORDIC ARYAN 16 BIT UBERCONSOLE?

>>6706143
>>6706212
real answer for anyone curious

>>6707139
YES.

>>6706141
Animé fad from the late 80's early 90's.

>>6706224
Dark World should have turned Link into a girl instead of a rabbit.

>>6706224
>>6707228

>>6706603
/thread

>>6706857
Imma need a source for this gif cap’n, she’s too cute.

>>6706141
Rebellious phase

>>6708038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Non_Biyori

>>6707231
What did she mean by this?

>>6707127
at first glance it seems that the hair is part of the hat in that pic

>>6708038
She's Koma-chan from >>6708127

>>6708127
shit anime

>>6708308
Literally all anime reaction images for like a decade and a half have been from shit anime.

>>6706141
Cos Dobson needed something to feel holier than thou

>>6708310
pretty much.

>>6708205
As a kid I thought Link's cap had a floppy, pink brim, or that it was some sort of under-cap headwear... thing. I never would've dreamed it was his hair.

>>6706141
Because he's trans just like most Nintendo fans.

>>6706141
To make it look better on CRT screens. If you disagree, you're a pathetic contrarian faggot.

>>6706143

Yeah but why pink? Why not dark brown or light blonde? Pink makes no fucking sense.

Because it looks cool.

>>6707231
post Zelda's dick

>>6708127
blue hair cunnie

because LttP is fucking gay lmao

>>6706143
That's great and all, but in the artwork link is clearly a darker blonde. They could've gotten away with having his hair be blonde and have it be more accurate, though I do like the pink hair just because it makes the sprite more colorful.

>>6706141
Why not?

>>6707139
sega was cofounded by (((David Rosen))) so not really

Pink is cute

>>6706141
I never saw it as his hair. I always thought it was just another colored band in his hat.

I'd be willing to bet it was a case of

>draws sprite
>"shit, blonde doesn't look good. It's hard to read."
>"Let's try some other colors"
>tries a ton, from "normal" hair colors to weird anime colors like blue and pink
>pink is the only one that "pops" and looks decent with the rest of his palette and the game itself
>"FUCK IT"

Thinking about it though, I'm curious if this was ever just asked in an interview. You'd think for one of the biggest video game series ever, where the hero consistently has a single hair color, going with anime girl pink should have at least prompted someone to ask about it at some point.

>>6706141
It was the 90s
It was cool
It was edgy

>>6706143
There are romhacks and it doesn’t look that bad, i think the slopes just wanted to give him pink hair for le quirky meme. Plus pink bunny looked cute

>>6711952
>artistically expressing yourself is edgy

It's not goth.

>>6706141
t. Dobson

>>6713496
I don't get why people think Dobson actually cares about pink haired Link. He only ever brought it up as a "LOOK LOOK LINK HAS HAIR COLORS THAT AREN'T BLONDE" strawman. His boner for Zelda stuff stars with the cartoon first.

>>6706141
Shegiru miyamoto used to explore different salons when he was a kid

>>6711343
Well, that’s because you’re a retard. His hair is clearly differentiated from his cap by the black outline.

>>6709414
Dark brown is on his sleeves, blonde is on his belt, other two brown colors are his skin tones, there is the orange on his hat and the red of his boots and hilt of the sword. On old CRTs it would blend with the other colors and look brown.

>>6706141
To provide extra contrast. Screens back then were garbage.

>>6706141
it’s not hair anon that’s the brim of his hat

>>6714319
The hat's brim is yellow. Always has been.

>>6714358
How often does he shave those legs or is he naturally like that

Yoshi's orange arms were more off-putting to me than Link's pink hair.

>>6714423
He's a blonde twink. What do you think?

>>6706770
But his belt is blonde...

>>6714574
>were more off-putting to
WTF THOSE ARE ARMS

>>6706141
Pink color is not gay, stop the toxic masculinity. Men can have hair of whatever color they want. No color is gay or straight. Link with pink hair actually looks goos.

>>6714574
I never noticed that, fuck

>>6716956

The association change of pink is actually one of the weirdest changes, pink is the color of well blood circulated unbrowned skin, therefore it was once associated with strength and virility and therefore BOYS were the ones wearing pink. Weird how that completely flipped around.

>>6706141

Because the 90's were rad and colours were rad and everything was rad