Why do people want Link to be a girl?

[Torillian]

illdill1987 said:

Torillian said:

Mk, so it's not the same world with a hero being chosen, it's a different universe with a different prophecy that says a young boy will save things if I understand correctly.  Given that the prophecy does change specifics between iterations (from my understanding again) what would be the issue with a universe where the prophecy wasn't quite as gender specific?

It would just be an entiely different game. If you want a female protagonist create a new game. Link is a boy. Zelda is a girl. Link saves Zelda then they save hyrule usually from gannon. Link and Zelda are established characters. Changing the characters would change the game. It is really as simple as that.

I don't believe Gannon is in every game is he?  and Zelda isn't as she wasn't in the most recent title to my knowledge (Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes).  Seems like the developers are willing to change quite a bit and make it work within the mythos they've created, this would just be another small change.  Just take "young boy" and change it to "hero" and bam.