Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has remarked on the “female Link” rumour currently making its rounds across the web, saying it was all said in jest. Speculation occurred after the producer humorously teased that it may not have been Link we saw in the Zelda Wii U trailer after all. But he’s laid the rumour to rest in a recent interview at E3 with MMGN, saying that it was merely taken out of context and, rather, that he wishes fans would not focus on Link’s appearance as his character is representative of the player.

“Actually that comment I made jokingly. It’s not that I said that it wasn’t Link. It’s that I never said that it was Link. It’s not really the same thing, but I can understand how it could be taken that way. “It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying ‘oh it’s a female character’ and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement. “I don’t want people to get hung up on the way Link looks because ultimately Link represents the player in the game. I don’t want to define him so much that it becomes limiting to the players. I want players to focus on other parts of the trailer and not specifically on the character because the character Link represents, again, the player.”

However, it seems as though Aonuma loves to spice things up amongst Zelda fans as he recently spoke to Game Informer, bringing up Link’s androgynous appearance. In response to those thinking it could have initially been Zelda on the back of a horse in the distance, the producer said: