For Purah, age is just a number. The Sheikah Investigator is technically well over 100 years old, but she looked like a child during her first appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Now she’s back in Tears of the Kingdom and has grown a bit. Her redesign looks amazing and fans on social media platforms like TikTok are singing her praises and thirsting for the mom researcher.
In Breath of the Wild, Purah looks like a literal child despite being over 100 years old. According to her character profile in Tears of the Kingdom, she looks younger because of experiments she did on herself to reverse aging. For context, she’s probably close to Robbie’s age looking like an old fog.
Well in the meantime Tears of the Kingdom And Breath of the Wild, she has allowed herself to age a few years. Now she looks more like Link and Zelda’s young adult age than a kid, and she looks great. For direct visual comparison, here’s a video showing how much her design has changed.
I think the reactions to the redesign are best from the Purah superfans. A person posted a clip of the video when we first see Purah’s new design. The person captioned the clip saying “THEY DID NOT MAKE MOTHER PURAH SUCH A BADNESS” then said they wanted Purah to do “unspeakable things” to them. In this cutscene, Purah doesn’t do anything particularly sexy – she just talks to Link. But it was enough to inspire several viral videos.
Now TikTok is filled with people thirsting for Purah.
We just all love Purah, okay? And I’m just glad someone other than Sidon and Ganon gets hot this time.