requesting help from my fellow zelda fans. EVERYONE READ

this is a request concerning the Wind Waker,in hyrule castle there is a statue of Link and I have studied this statue once or twice for a good hour or so...


I came to the conclusion the statue is TP link because he looks like TP link and because the exclusive hylian TP symbol is everywhere in that castle....so I would like to know everyones oppinion


BUT I ONLY CARE ABOUT YOUR OPPINION IF YOU STUDIED THE STATUE, PLEASE DONT POST LIKE YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS WITHOUT INVESTIGATING MY CLAIMS FOR YOURSELF


many people in the theories section tell me the statue has to be OOT link because it dosen't make sense to be any other link...fine all im asking is you guys to actually go study the statue and tell me if it looks like Ocarina of time link or another link......to me it looks like Twlight Princess link cause the clothes match



so yeah...im asking cause so far no ones actually checked the statue like I asked them in the theories section so I figure lots of WW players can help me out here.....so please help me determine whether I was nuts or if you see the same thing I did

I thought that the statue actually looked like the WW Link. Though from the storyline we gather it is the OoT Link (I wouldn't think it refers to the TP Link), it to me doesn't actually look like a Link from another game, just the WW Link. For example if WW had a flashback of the OoT Link, he would probably look almost exactly the same in animation. So to sum up my opinion, OoT Link is what we know the statue is, however as he is in animated Link form, he doesn't look specefic to any other games Link!

Well, it's actually impossible for it to be TP Link, since they are in separate timelines. Since it has been confirmed that WW is in the Adult Timeline (though a few centuries after OoT), we are automatically led to believe that it is indeed OoT Link, since TP is in the Child Timeline.

Like FierceDiety77 said, I think its mainly the animation that makes him look different from OoT. The only legend in the game is the legend of the Hero of Time, so it makes sense that it is OoT Link.

I just want to clarify with you Sparkly Faerie, that the split timeline is but a theory that most people agree upon, yet not everyone. However it has many flaws, for example: It says that at OoT the timeline splits into adult and child. The adult leads onto WW, and the child timeline leads to MM and TP. That cannot be true because WW states it comes after MM, because the Triforce is split from Link leaving Hyrule for Termina. So I'd switch the adult line to TP, and the child to MM and WW. Anyways, more on the actual topic, though our reasoning is different, I agree with you that ithe statue is the OoT Link, and is not the TP Link.

WW never says Link went for Termina. It just says the Hero of Time (meaning Link from OoT) had gone away. It never says where to, it just shows Link leaving on a horse. In the beginning it says that this is a legend, which could as easy as pie mean that the image of Link leaving on the horse is in fact a legendized story of Link travelling back in time after defeating Ganon. Due to the timetravelling, the ToC split up.

Ergo, if you believe this theory WW is NOT placed after MM in the Child Timeline. It is placed in the Adult Timeline after OoT.

Originally Posted by FierceDiety77

I just want to clarify with you Sparkly Faerie, that the split timeline is but a theory that most people agree upon, yet not everyone. However it has many flaws, for example: It says that at OoT the timeline splits into adult and child. The adult leads onto WW, and the child timeline leads to MM and TP. That cannot be true because WW states it comes after MM, because the Triforce is split from Link leaving Hyrule for Termina. So I'd switch the adult line to TP, and the child to MM and WW. Anyways, more on the actual topic, though our reasoning is different, I agree with you that ithe statue is the OoT Link, and is not the TP Link.

I just want to clarify with you, FierceDiety77, that the split timeline has been confirmed by the developers, so it is fact.

In an interview conducted by Nintendo Dream with Eiji Aonuma in December 2006, he mentioned that there exists two different Zelda universes. The split in the timeline occurs during Ocarina of Time, when, at the end of the game, Link is sent back in time by Princess Zelda. Once returned to his original time, Link goes to see her again, and the result of this meeting is an alternate future in which the villain Ganondorf is arrested and tried by the ancient sages, which causes him to be banished to the Twilight Realm; Twilight Princess then occurs over one hundred years after the Ocarina of Time child Link's era. Meanwhile, The Wind Waker occurs in the "adult Link" timeline, hundreds of years after the adventure of the adult-Link in the future of Ocarina of Time and is directly followed by Phantom Hourglass.

- Wikipedia

Developers do not have 'theories'. Their word is canon.

The Triforce of Courage, according to Aonouma's placements, split when Link was permantently sent back in time at the end of OoT. When he returned to the Child Timeline, he automatically recieved the Triforce of Courage that corresponded with that time (he has the mark on his hand when he meets Zelda at the end), while the one that was left behind in the Adult Timeline split into eight shards.

It looks like WW Link, but it's actually Oot Link.

Interesting... But it would have helped if you had added a pic/link.

Iv heard from friends and other sites its the Oot link..to me t looks like it aswell..
*hugs the link statue*
aww..i like that statue

It's suppose to be OoT Link, even though it doesn't look like him. I have looked at it, and it looks like an older TWW Link holding the TWW mirror shield.

Why they would change his hair from pointing down like in OoT to looking like TWW Link's hair, and change the OoT mirror shield to look like TWW mirror shield baffles me.

I do know that the devs weren't thinking of having the timeline be split until somewhere in the middle of making Twilight Princess. So that may be a reason for the OoT Link statue looking more like TP Link.

I don't know why the statue isn't the spitting image of OoT Link.

Originally Posted by Sparkly Faerie

Developers do not have 'theories'. Their word is canon.

This is a bit of a misnomer... it's actually both. Their word is Canon at the time that it is said, until someone, or they, decide to change it. A good example would be the Megaman X series.

Well, first of all, TP was made after WW. So how could the developers place a statue of a Link that didnt exist yet?

Second...TP takes place in the child timeline, while WW is in the adult. Therefore, that statue cant be TP Link, because how would they know what's happening in another timeline?

it is weird how that statue in the underwater hyrule has the statue that looks like Link, i flipped out when i saw it lol. i was like "WHOA!! when did Link be the hero of time in Wind Waker when i haven't even killed ganon-dork yet?!"

Originally Posted by Wolf Link32

it is weird how that statue in the underwater hyrule has the statue that looks like Link, i flipped out when i saw it lol. i was like "WHOA!! when did Link be the hero of time in Wind Waker when i haven't even killed ganon-dork yet?!"

:glare
I hope you're joking, because as stated before, it's the Hero of Time, not the Hero of Winds.

Originally Posted by God of Twilight

Well, first of all, TP was made after WW. So how could the developers place a statue of a Link that didnt exist yet?

Second...TP takes place in the child timeline, while WW is in the adult. Therefore, that statue cant be TP Link, because how would they know what's happening in another timeline?

I know....thats why I wass stronly leaning towards the time lines merging...cause otherwise the connections dont make sense



so 1 person here thinks the statue looks like TP link? have the rest of you actually examined it yet?

Originally Posted by Son_michael

I know....thats why I wass stronly leaning towards the time lines merging...cause otherwise the connections dont make sense



so 1 person here thinks the statue looks like TP link? have the rest of you actually examined it yet?

Have you actually examined your logic?
TP was made AFTER WW...HOW could the makers of WW put a statue of TP Link in there if the idea for TP didnt even exist yet?

Originally Posted by God of Twilight

Have you actually examined your logic?
TP was made AFTER WW...HOW could the makers of WW put a statue of TP Link in there if the idea for TP didnt even exist yet?

look I can answer this{and I do have an answer, as I addressed this same question with Eringard via pm} but wouldn't that put the thread off topic?






have you examined the statue and do you think it looks like TP link?




thats what this thread is about....this is not a theory thread