OoT Link and Zelda: Common Ancestor?

[Dragoncat]

I no longer think OoT Link was randomly chosen to be the hero of time, like I did when I posted my first big theory topic here(goddess' blood and hero's spirit). Now, it seems clear that him and OoT Zelda can share a common ancestor without being directly related. That common ancestor being SS Link, and SS Zelda.

The SS versions of Link and Zelda would have to have more than one kid for this to work. Their first born would be the heir to the throne, and the ancestor of OoT Zelda. The ancestor of OoT Link would be another one of their kids. I've always speculated that OoT Link's parents were knights or nobles, this would work well. More likely than not, the SS pair's second child would keep the bloodline close to the royalty by marrying a knight.

A real world reference: Genghis Khan. I remember hearing that this guy had so many kids that there's a lot of people today who are related to him, but these people aren't necessarily related to each other. In this instance, it's a smaller scale(I don't think SS Link and Zelda would have that many kids), but same concept. By the time of OoT, the bloodlines are thinned out enough that they aren't siblings or cousins or whatever.

Oh, and I am officially a nerd.(not that I didn't already know that...) I came up with this when I should be asleep and got up to post it.

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What's this? Fan material in theories? Blasphemy!

The ancestors have names...OoT Zelda's ancestor is named Fletcher, OoT Link's ancestor is named Kestrel. I created those two some time ago. Because making 2nd generation OCs is a blast. In case you don't already know, Fletcher is male, Kestrel is female, and they're 4 years apart in age. I won't ramble any more about them.
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[the_gamer]

I think they were only a couple at the beginning of the game and couldn't be together after Zelda remembered that she is a godess.

 

[Castle]

I guess this explains why Link and Zelda have never had an actual romantic relationship.... unless, Adventure of Link where it was heavily implied.

Regardless, Demise curses their descendants, but is it ever stated or even implied that the curse would follow one bloodline.... or two? That is, their children together or with someone else?
I shudder at that thought because I have no clue who Link might end up with (maybe that cute waitress at the Pumpkin?) and the notion that Zelda end up with Groose just bothers me, even if he does finish a bit nicer guy.

In any case, the events after Skyward Sword are left wide open. Wider than the Door of Time, man. So many questions. How do they go about establishing Hyrule? If Zelda becomes... um, "Princess" (Hey! They called her that in Twilight Princess!) then why? Because she is a divine incarnation? Do she and Link even end up together? There is nothing to imply that their relationship is at an end and nothing to suggest it continues either. Zelda does express an intent to stay on the surface in Hyrule, and from the looks of it (I don't read faces very well) Link seemed to want to go along with that. What happens next is anyone's guess...

Maybe later, Nintendo?

 

[Dragoncat]

I think they were only a couple at the beginning of the game and couldn't be together after Zelda remembered that she is a godess.

She's the goddess reincarnated, he's the hero chosen by the goddess. Equal rank, why not?

I don't see why they shouldnt end up together, Castle. For the above reason.

 

[bspurka]

It says that Link's father was a Hylian Knight in the HH. But I don't really think that means that they share a common ancestor, I think it was also implied in SS that Link and Zelda were together and started the royal bloodline, creating hylians, not all of the hylians but a good population of Hylians have the goddesses blood. So it would make sense that the common ancestor is SS Link and Zelda.

 

[Castle]

I don't see why they shouldnt end up together, Castle. For the above reason.

Well, yeah, although I don't see how Zelda being a goddess or the two being of equal rank would have anything to do with it. Zelda reassures Link that despite who she is and what she's done that her "love" (I don't think the term was actually used) for him was genuine. It is only implied, but I get the feeling that she still sees herself as a normal girl and would rather be that way. The implications that Link and Zelda remain together after SS are too strong, IMO. I ascribe to the notion that they do remain with each other. There is too much evidence to suggest that and not enough, or any aside from some rather strong ambiguity, to suggest otherwise.

Still, how the curse is meant to affect their descendants is also quite vague. Will it affect bearers of their same bloodline, or will Link and Zelda be continually reincarnated throughout the ages? The term "descendants" is specifically used. If it was just reincarnation then there is not any bloodline involved necessarily.

Ambiguity in the Zelda series? Who would've thunk it? Given Nintendo's recent trend of implementing some consistency between games as of late, hopefully later installments will explain some of these unanswered questions.

 

[Cfrock]

To be honest, I don't think the mention of descendants literally means Link and/or Zelda's biological descendants. I think it's more just a dramatic way to say "I'll be back!"

Ganondorf says the same thing at the end of Ocarina of Time and when he came back in The Wind Waker's backstory he was subjugating the entire land of Hyrule, not specifically Zelda's bloodline.

 

[Locke]

What's a shipping thread doing in Zelda Theory?

I don't see any evidence. Zelda (and likely Link) may have started the Royal Family, but all Skyloftians are Hylians (Hylia's people). There's no reason that both OoT-Link and OoT-Zelda descended from both SS-Link and SS-Zelda. Maybe Groose is OoT-Link's ancestor?

 

[Dragoncat]

What's a shipping thread doing in Zelda Theory?

Shipping thread? No...shipping threads usually dont back things up...

Yeah, there's no evidence. But possible.

 

[Castle]

If it is true then Link definitively got the short end of this curse. poor sot.

 

[Dragoncat]

If it is true then Link definitively got the short end of this curse. poor sot.

Lol yes...sucks to be him, don't it? I hope he at least got to hook up with Malon, possibly making TP Link his descendant. Cause dying a lonely virgin would suck horribly.