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The next time they sit down with me and moto

to talk about Mario Odyssey 2 or whatever he's promoting,

this has got to be your first question.

They will make you leave, but it'll be worth it for all of humanity to know this we don't know where Gannon comes from

We do know where Zelda comes from we even have a quote from meamoto so quotes

Zelda was the name of the wife of the famous novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald

she was a famous and beautiful woman from all accounts and I liked the sound of her name

so I took the liberty of using her name for the very first Zelda title. And of course,

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the Great Gatsby, and Zelda Fitzgerald was a novelist. She wrote one novel. she left one unfinished, she was an artist, she was a

socialite, but I think she's mostly remembered for her brutal struggles with mental illness in the very, very dark way she died.

So maybe that part was unclear to meamoto when he's thinking of a princess character who's

going to have a happy ending.

But regardless, this is where Zelda comes from and because of this we have Zelda Fitzgerald and the second most famous real life Zelda is Zelda Williams named after Legend of Zelda because Robin Williams was obsessed with this game to the point where he named his daughter born in 89 after Princess Zelda.

And she makes a pretty interesting movies now, so for her yeah I think that she direct Lisa

Frankenstein or is that somebody else okay yeah that that could be your first movie but

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