Saria Town

Hello there! I am Rin Rito. Rin Rito the Hacker, actually. If you have a site that's been Rin Rito'd, that was me. Of course, I only have my reputation as a hacker because I hack major trolling sites and stuff to make the Internet cleaner, but I will sometimes practice on old abandoned sites.

My timeline theory

My timeline theory is that Zelda actually takes place on Earth and is the root of reality. The timeline has many splits all over the place, and because of the way it works, I can put most Fanon and other works of fiction in it somewhere.

In the timeline, that...THING...mentioned in The Minish Cap (the manga, at least) comes first. this is followed by Skyward sword, and then The Minish Cap. In this timeline theory, the Link of TMC is of a differant reincarnation line, allowing The Minish Cap to take place a little after SS, or even during it, and go as far as the end of the game before the next game in the timeline. However, because of differant reincarnation lines, this part assumes that Link dies shortly after his adventure ends. After TMC comes Ocarina of Time. This has the split that everybody accepts. To explain what happens in each side, I will start with the Adult Timeline because the Child Timeline is far more complex.

In the Adult Timeline, it starts with OOT (not the end, though) and then the untold events leading up to Hyrule's flooding. After Hyrule has been flooded long enough for it to be forgotten, the events of The Wind Waker happen. After WW comes Phantom Hourglass and Tetra's Trackers (in either order), followed by a set of fully-compatible Fanon stories including (chronalogically): The Lost Sea Charts, Trident of Tides, Komali's legend, The Star of Manalin, The Crown of Darkness, The Mask of Fate, Evil Angel, and The Spirit War (which can go either way). After a good amount of time, Spirit Tracks happens, followed by countless untold stories.

The Child Timeline, however, is far more complex, with or without Fanon. It starts with the end of OOT, and then Majora's Mask (I don't want to explain how many splits THAT caused). There WAS another split caused by time traval in a later game, Twilight Princess. This resulted in light and shadow timelines. The light will be told first.....Twilight Princess, Link's Crossbow Training, the end.

Then there is the Shadow Timeline. This may be the saddest timeline in the history of time. It is also the most familiar to people who live in a box naked in an alleyway and have no idea what Zelda is. The shadow timeline is actually an infinant number of identical timeline "trees" caused by the time travel in TP not being successful and therefor causing split after split after split. On the shadow timeline, events simaler but not the same as those leading up to WW happen: Hyrule is thrown into darkness, it has to be flooded. However, due to it happening later than WW's lead-up-to events, WW doesn't happen here. Also, the people don't forget. A New Hyrule is founded, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. However, there isn't a Spirit War--no need. Then A Link to the Past happens. Through careful study, I have found that this is followed by the Four Swords series and the Oracles, and THEN Links Awakening, making the longest list of Zelda games with the same Link. This is followed by The Legend of Zelda and Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. But wait! There was a triple split in Oracle of Ages! Two of them have what I mentioned, though the untold one has Veran never possesing ANYBODY. Then there's the Ultamate Branch.

The Ultamate Branch is disaster. Many deaths. Why? Because Link wasn't there to save the world. It's very hard to explain THAT. Many species were driven to near-extinction. Some compleatly died out and became legends that keep changing (like Kokiris and Zoras, or rather, elves and mermaids). Life as we know it began to form.....

And you know what? The timeline keeps going until time itself stops. It has many branches, of course. Hundreds of them. Thousands. Millions! In one, the universe goes bye-bye because of a little decision change without time travel, but other than that, paradoxes and splits kept happening. They all branch off from one line, though. The line that we sit in as we take pictures, climb towers, explore the woods out back. Yes, this split resulted in reality as we know it. And we know it well.

Reincarnation lines

Another theory of mine is that there are at least two reincarnation lines. This has actually been confirmed in Twilight Princess, as "Rinku" knows "Link".

There are two reincarnation lines: Links and Rinkus. Links, like the Hero of Time and the Hero of Winds, are more commonly given hero titles. Most Links must obtain the Triforce, but there are a few ecceptions. Links are also relatively more goofy and accedent-prone, but they have been shown to be a bit stronger and braver as well. Most Links DO talk (mostly the Hero of Winds), but it is usually just a word or phrase like "c'mon!" or "...hey!". The Hero of Winds sometimes has his own words in a diolog box (like "Hey in there!"), and he may very well be the only Link OR Rinku to have any dialog in a box.

Rinkus, such as the Hero of Twilight and the "Hero of Skies", are generaly better at handling hights than Links and are often in darker stories. Rinkus are also generally bad at keeping themselves away from other people's fights, as was shown in both Twilight Princess (Midna vs. Ganondorf) and Spirit Tracks (Zelda vs. Malludus). Another thing about Rinkus is that they are usually born with the Triforce, and if they aren't, they never get it at all.

Links: TLOZ, Z2TAOL, OOT, MM, WW, TT, MC, PH

Rinkus: ALTTP, LA, FS, FSA, TP, ST