Ruto and Link

[DW]

don't knock it til' you've tried it. Actually, go ahead, I don't wanna think about it..

[Hi no Seijin]

Tell that to the creatures that give birth to the first platypus.

It's possible if you have an open mind and can explain it well.  Don't even ask me to attempt to explain it well.  It's not something I really want to think about either.

[DW]

I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying I don't want to know the details of any attempts he makes...yeah...I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth...

[IronKnuckle]

Ok even if it were possible for them to have kids, we have to ask: Would Link want to? There are plenty of other girls in OOT who would be more practical (and less barf inducing).

[Bboy94]

Ok even if it were possible for them to have kids, we have to ask: Would Link want to? There are plenty of other girls in OOT who would be more practical (and less barf inducing).

Why is Ruto nasty?

[DW]

Yes, not to mention that is incredibly shallow, and I hope someone like Link would be noble enough to cast looks aside.

[IronKnuckle]

Ok even if it were possible for them to have kids, we have to ask: Would Link want to? There are plenty of other girls in OOT who would be more practical (and less barf inducing).

Why is Ruto nasty?

How would you like to marry an alien? That escensially what it would be if Link married Ruto. Shes another species.

[DW]

She's another RACE. She is still Humanoid with Human characteristics. That's like saying a white marrying a black is wrong.

[Commodore Axilon]

Now you're just strawmanning his position. The different human "races" (which are just social constructs, by the way) can interbreed with each other. Zora and Hylians are obviously different species. Two different things.

[DW]

How can you be sure though? How do you know their DNA isn't close enough to allow interbreeding?

[Commodore Axilon]

A couple reasons:

1. They have gills, or at least some other mechanism which allows them to breath underwater.
2. They have scales.
3. They lay eggs.
4. Physical appearance, i.e. fins, webbed hands, eyes, etc.
5. Offspring are extremely dissimilar.

No way could something that different be of the same species.

[DW]

They don't have to be of the same species. Case in point, Horses and Donkeys, Horses and Zebras, Lions and Tigers...

[Commodore Axilon]

Which, as I've already addressed, are extremely genetically similar, with often only one chromosome's difference.

Something as radical a difference as how they give birth would warrant at least an Order's separation, and that doesn't even take into account the other differences.

[DW]

Maybe they are similar enough, though, there really is no way to tell. Chickens are similar to us....kinda scary....

Plus, Echidnas and Platypi prove that eggs can be layed after....you know....

[Commodore Axilon]

Eh, maybe. In a world like Hyrule filled with all kinds of crazy magical stuff, anything's possible.

...But, you know. Occam's Razor, and all that.