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Naomi
	; Link and Sheik being awesome
Sex	Female
Homeland	Australia
Hometown	Sydney
Race	Sheikah (Subtype: wannabe)
Age	23
Affiliations	LJ, DeviantArt

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Yo. I'm ryttu3k, I'm twenty-three, Australian, been a Zelda fangirl since I was thirteen, top three in order are Ocarina, Twilight Princess, and Majora's Mask (because I'm predictable). First game was Ocarina, and it has my eternal loyalty and love to this day. ~~Considering getting~~ Got a GBA for express purpose of playing Zelda games. Geology major and constantly get distracted by ~~rather improbable~~ rock formations in Hyrule. Does things like wear homemade Sheikah eye symbol pendants and draw Triforces on the back of my hand. (Once, in permanent marker. THAT was a mistake.) Has ~~800MB~~ 1.5GB of Zelda music. ALWAYS play Link in Smash Bros, no matter which game. (I laugh in your face, bottom tier ranking!) Getting a Sheikah eye symbol tattoo.

Music: ...Oh, JEEZ XD In approximately chronological order, Overworld, AoL!Overworld, Dark World, Hyrule Castle, LttP!Lost Woods, Tal Tal Heights, Ballad of the Wind Fish, Kokiri Forest (gives me flashbacks to age thirteen again!), OoT!Lost Woods, OoT!Hyrule Field, Zora's Domain, Sheik's theme, Song of Storms, Nocturne of Shadow, Koume and Kotake's theme, Deku Palace, Stone Tower, Song of Healing, Clock Town, Oath to Order, Dragon Roost Island, the Wind God's Aria, Molgera Battle, Hidden Village, TP's Hyrule Field, Midna's Desperation, Agitha's Castle, Sacred Grove, Don't Want You No More (it's one of the trailer pieces), and the trailer music for Spirit Tracks. The Legend of Zelda has EPIC music.

[edit] Zelda-related beliefs, headcanon, and only occasionally crackish theories

Please note that these are my ~~only occasionally cracky~~ theories ONLY. Even if they don't agree with yours, kindly refrain from bashing or flaming.

[edit] The timeline

Split timeline. Starts with Ocarina. Timeline splits when Zelda sends Link back.

Child timeline (timeline Link is sent back to): Majora's Mask -> Twilight Princess

Adult timeline (timeline post-OoT with no Link): Wind Waker -> Phantom Hourglass -> Spirit Tracks

The next little lot of time is as thus:

Link to the Past -> Link's Awakening -> Legend of Zelda -> Adventure of Link

These WOULD make sense to follow the child timeline, but I personally believe they follow the adult timeline. Explains why the entire geography of Hyrule is rearranged - the Goddesses got bored of playing with their toy boats and re-set up the game board for another game of Hero and Villain.

The handheld games that aren't LA or PH - namely, the Oracle games, the Four Swords games, and Minish Cap - don't fit in anywhere in particular, but they're probably before LttP. Minish Cap needs to be before Four Swords.

[edit] Sheik

As you can tell from my userboxen, I'm a fan of male!Sheik. Now, there's a few different ideas on who Sheik is - the only ideas I'd discount immediately is that Sheik is simply Zelda dressed up with minor changes to the colour of her skin, hair, and eyes, or that Sheik is a separate female character. The reason I would discount this is simply because Sheik, from the official art, appears physically male. Broad shoulders, muscled arms, a far larger hip-to-shoulder ratio than Zelda. Yes, chestbinding can SORT of explain the flat chest, but there's no physical way chestbinding can suddenly make your shoulders wider AND your hips narrower as well as increase the muscles of your arms and legs. The only Sheik that appears to be physically female is the one in Brawl, and that's a different Zelda altogether.

So, the ideas that COULD work? a) It's still Zelda's mind, but a magical transformation, giving her an entirely male body, or b) It's a magical transformation combined with Zelda's mind being sealed away, which begs the question, whose mind is in control? (This is the interpretation the manga appeared to take), or c) Sheik is a different person altogether and it was only Zelda for that last appearance at the Temple of Time, or else some sort of exchange took place ~~which is good when you ship Zelda/Sheik~~.

Now, a) is still problematic, largely because of the vast differences in behaviour between Sheik and Zelda. Sheik, as evidenced in the cutscene with Bongo Bongo, does not hesitate to protect Link from it - even if it results in him being rather beaten up. Zelda? As soon as we see her in that pink dress, her behaviour changes markedly - just look at the little shrieks and gasps she makes if a rock falls anywhere near Link when the castle is collapsing. Just look at the way she gets trapped in that little circle of fire - if she WAS Sheik, surely she'd be able to get out of it, especially considering that their lives are in danger. I do love Zelda, believe me, but she and Sheik are vastly different characters, both physically and mentally.

By way of disclosure, I think b) is the most likely, but I also write c) and have dabbled with a). For b), I think the most likely scenario is that Sheik's mind is that of a long-dead Sheikah that Impa brought back to protect Zelda. That, or he's essentially a construct - still has his own mind, but he was never born, he was made - the theory that the manga insinuates. Either is pretty interesting.

And for the last time, Brawl is not evidence for Ocarina of Time.

So that's why I will always refer to Sheik with male pronouns.

[edit] Descendants and ancestors

Spiritual descendants, not biological. So no, TP!Link isn't the great-great-great grandson of OoT!Link. Like inheriting a position. Like how the Rito Medli can be the descendant of the Zora Laruto. OR. More to the point, like how the Korok Makar can be the descendant of the Kokiri Fado! I'm pretty sure neither the Kokiri or Koroks engage in sexual reproduction. It'd be more like... say... a position that got passed on. Like, in Ocarina, Saria is the Sage of the Forest, but a few decades later, Fado became the Sage of Forest... et cetera. Now, the Zeldas I'm pretty sure are all literally related given that they're the Royal Family, and Ganondorf's just plain the same person, but with Link, I think the essence of the Hero awakening in unrelated individuals works best. Spiritual descendant, not genetic descendant. And anyway, the adult timeline makes things messy - Link disappears from the entire timeline after he's sent back, so there's no way, for instance, that WW!Link can literally be his descendant unless OoT!Link managed to... set that in motion during the course of the game. And I somewhat doubt that. And yet he's still the Hero, still bears the Triforce of Courage, still the rightful bearer of the Master Sword... same as every other game. Ganondorf even says so - when he sees Link, he tells him, "Yes, surely you are the Hero of Time, reborn...". Makes sense if he's the spiritual descendant, but impossible for him to literally be the descendant.

[edit] Parallels between Wind Waker and Twilight Princess

The Sword of Sages is the equivelent of the Wind Waker. They physically resemble each other, and both are intrinsically involved with the Sages - in TP, it's the sword they used originally to defeat Ganondorf, and in WW, Fado tells you that the King of Hyrule used it to conduct the Sages.

[edit] The Royal Family's Tomb

Why the scattered bones? Why the pools of acid? Why the zombies that grab you and do bad bad bad things to you? Two theories: either the ReDeads ARE the Royal Family, in which case you just got attacked by Zelda's grandpa or something, or they're guards of the REAL tomb of the Royal Family, which you can't get to, and which explains the scattered bones - they're potential graverobbers. And if it's a Sheikah village in a graveyard explicitely described as being guarded BY the Sheikah, isn't it conceivable that the ReDeads who guard certain graves WERE Sheikah? Potential idea - they were Sheikah guardians who were killed when their masters died to provide a ready-made guard in the afterlife, similar to how slaves in Egypt were killed to serve their masters in the afterlife. Possible support: what is directly above the graveyard? The Shadow Temple. Which temple is associated with the Sheikah? Shadow. What is that temple FULL of? ReDeads! Kakariko ReDeads were Sheikah who were executed to serve the Royal Family even in death - aside from Castle Town and that one in Ganondorf's castle, all of the ReDeads in the game are found in Kakariko, a Sheikah village.

[edit] The Temples

The Temples weren't originally dark, monster-strewn pits. They were, quite literally, temples, places of worship for the races of Hyrule. The puzzles and stuff - changing water levels in the Water Temple, invisible stuff in Shadow, the myriad ways to bewilder yourself in Forest - were literally that, just puzzles, occasionally used to protect a treasure but mostly just for a challenge. Games. It wasn't until later that monsters started moving in. But in the case of the Shadow Temple, it was repurposed even earlier than that - during the many wars, in their position as guardians of the Royal Family, the Sheikah used it as an interrogation and execution chamber, using devices like the Mask of Truth as an interrogation device. This happened as recently as the Hyrulean Civil War (ten years before OoT starts, and the war in which Link's parents were killed), which is why people react... badly... when you wear it, but kids don't even flinch. There may have also been some rather bad blood considering that the Dark Interlopers would have had quite a few Sheikah members. After all, Twili magic seems VERY similar to Sheikah shadow magic - the Fused Shadows, for instance, have the Sheikah eye on them. In this case, the monsters are attracted by the spilt blood in the Shadow Temple.

[edit] Farore sort of sucks

Power - offensive magic, burn your enemies away! Wisdom - defensive magic, shield yourself from danger! Courage - run away! NO.

[edit] The Hero's Shade

The Hero's Shade is the Hero of Time. A few things support this - the Hero's Shade says, "I accepted the life of the Hero", he refers to Link as 'my child' (which isn't conclusive on its own, but...), he refers to the skills as being forgotten ways that "do not leave our bloodline", four of the six songs used in the Howling Stones are from Ocarina and Majora's Mask, the sword blade, although not its hilt, STRONGLY looks like the Master Sword, the way the Shade shifts his feet when advancing is the same way OoT!Link moves his when targetting something, and, possibly the most telling, in the Gamecube version, he is the ONLY OTHER CHARACTER other than TP!Link who's left-handed. In the entire series, with the exception of the flipped Wii version of TP (in which case everyone but Link and the Shade is), there are NO other left-handed characters, that's a trait exclusively limited to Link - and the Hero's Shade. ...You know, to say nothing of the name.

[edit] The fate of Link's Awakening!Link

Link's Awakening - the entire game - is a hallucination as Link succumbs to exposure on a bit of driftwood. Telephones, evil Kirbys and Goombas, Chain Chomps, and the entire concept of a game being a dream. Yes, he seems to wake up and see the Wind Fish at the end, but then it flies away on little wings. And Marin turns in to a seagull. Yeah, pretty sure the entire game is a hallucination. And whether he survives after that is, well...

[edit] The Oocca and the cuccos

The Oocca didn't create Hyrule or the Hylians. They created the cuccos.

And the bird on the Hyrulean Royal Family crest isn't an eagle or a hawk or anything like that. It's a cucco, paying tribute to the mightiest beast in Hyrule. Buck-AWWK!

[edit] The entire Zelda series explained!

Link is a Time Lord, the Temple of Time is his TARDIS, the Master Sword is the key. Zelda, too. They're not reincarnations, they're regenerations, which explains the different appearances. It also explains the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, and the many female companions. By way of analogy, Link is the Doctor, Zelda is Romana. This also makes Ganondorf the Master, which makes shipping Master/Doctor REALLY awkward. Also? Dimensionally transcendental pockets. How else can he carry around a massive ball and chain, iron boots (both of which slow you down when you have them on you), that spinner, two swords, a shield or two, the bow, a huge quiver, several bomb bags, a giant rod, several changes of clothing (including armour!), a bunch of bottles, a lantern, TWO clawshots, and a bunch of other stuff? YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE!

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[edit] Sheik userboxen - please take!