—— azor

Since so many people are playing Ocarina of Time for the first time, I'd like to bring back this little nugget of info. Zelda says everything that happened was her fault. She let Ganondorf into the Sacred Realm by having Link open the Door of Time, which ultimately lead to the terrible future. She believes she robbed Link of his childhood as well, so her final Act in the Adult Timeline is to send Link back in time. Yet this act is probably her most selfish one. She doesn't ask Link. She doesn't make sure it's what he wants. She decides for him, takes the Ocarina and sends him back to before they first met. The moment Link leaves that room, the Door of Time will close and since the Ocarina of Time itself is now in the Future, he has no way to reopen it. His pathway to the Future is forever locked. Without his consent, she sent Link back to a timeline he never saved. All his turmoil, all his hardship, everything he struggled and fought for? That exists in the Adult Timeline. The Timeline he's ended up in? The only canon event to take place in the Child timeline is the death of the Great Deku Tree. Link never beat King Dodongo or saved Ruto in the Child timeline. He has basically been sent to a time where he is just a homeless boy from the forest. No fame, no recognition, nothing. And as we see in Twilight Princess, he never even got to pass down the skills he learned during his life to the next generation. He died in battle. A nameless, faceless knight. He wasn't even recognized for uncovering Ganondorf's plot to betray Hyrule. But worse than that, Zelda split the timeline. Her actions here are what split the timeline into the Adult and Child timelines. The Child timeline sees Link die a nameless warrior with lingering regrets in a world that saw him as nothing more than another expendable. Oh, and Ganondorf? Survived his execution and goes on to torment and control an entirely separate species in another realm. Well Done, Zelda. In trying to undo your fuck up, you fucked up even worse! BUT IT GETS EVEN WORSE! In the Adult timeline, the Sage's power wanes and Ganondorf is able to break free anyway. Except, because Link was sent to another timeline, the Spirit of the Hero doesn't exist in the Adult Timeline. So when Ganondorf DOES break free, THERE IS NO REINCARNATION OF THE HERO! So Ganondorf just goes to town with no one to stop him until the Hylian people pray hard enough so the Gods flood the world, wiping out most life and leaving the survivors to cling to the mountain tops. Well Done, Zelda! In trying to undo your fuck up, YOU CREATED AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE AND DOOMED BOTH TO AN ERA OF DESTRUCTION AND TURMOIL! If Zelda had just done nothing here then only one single 7 year period would have been tained by Ganondorf. There would be no Child timeline, and the Spirit of the Hero would still exist to reincarnate to oppose Ganondorf when he broke free. But no. She just HAD to be all "Oh I ruined your childhood and took away 7 years of your life. I'll send you back without asking", and basically resulted in most sentient life being wiped out in her own timeline while dooming an entire species to 100 years of torment and abuse in the other timeline. Fantastic. 10/10. No notes. #oot #ootremake