| Nautilus said: "gender-bending".We know that Zelda covered up her identity and thats that.Changing gender is pushing too far, since there is no evidence of that ever happening in the series. |
Evidence? Aside from Sheik being called "a man" by Princess Ruto, the official art and in-game appearance being masculine and different from Princess Zelda's body type, plus the eye colors being different?
The official Nintendo's Player Guide also states that Sheik is a male.
Taken from the Zelda wiki:
In the game itself, some of Sheik's grunts seem vaguely masculine. Additionally, Zelda and Sheik do not share physical characteristics, such as Zelda's helplessness when trapped by a ring of fire in Ganon's collapsing castle; this is a jump that she would presumably be able to make as Sheik, implying an actual transformation or magical augmentation as opposed to a mere clothing difference. When Princess Ruto describes Sheik to Link, she refers to him as a "nice young man", and in the original Japanese version, Sheik introduces him/herself using boku, a pronoun mostly used by young males Manga has Sheik as a male [...].
Not to mention the manga stating Sheik is a male, although this is a non-canonical source. But the point is there's enough evidence to suggest gender-bending here.
