User:AuronKaizer/Link is not the Hero's Shade

Well. Since Nintendo are spending an indefinite length of time creating new Zelda games, fans of the franchise are left with little to do except either re-playing the games or using their over-active imaginations to invent backstories for characters and things, since Nintendo don't really like fleshing out anything, really. Not much bad about that, except...

When people have come to believe that Link, the eponymous hero may died and come back to haunt a descendant of himself in the form of a skeletal ghoul known as the Hero's Shade, said people need help from a psychiatrist. A good one. Not Frasier Crane or anything. The mere concept of that thought breaks several holes in the space/time continuum. Let's analyze the situation.

Evidence that Link is the Hero's Shade

 * Well, there isn't really any. Sorry to disappoint you.

Evidence that Link is not the Hero's Shade

 * The Hero's Shade is several sizes bigger than Link ever was, even should he eventually grow three heads taller or gain a 100 pounds.
 * For some reason, being dead also allowed Link to learn how to speak.
 * The Hero's Shade refers to Link as "my child". Rather than prove a connection between these two, it seems more likely that this is meant to indicate that the Hero's Shade is a creepy guy who "likes kids."
 * It's just completely stupid to think otherwise.