This, and many other points you bring up, are why I think the Hylian royal bloodline works more like real royal bloodlines.
In that most everyone in Hyrule is a descendant of the royal family, aka have Hylia's blood?
Why is Zelda the only one with Hylia's power if other people have Hylia's blood? Zelda is getting her power from being the
reincarnation of Hylia; her power is coming from her soul, not her inherited blood.
How does a "real royal bloodline" work, according to you? I already debunked the inbreeding explanation because of how it would destroy a person's genes over countless millennium.
The farther back you go, the more ancestors people share. We are all descended from a common ancestor. That's basic science and why the bloodline theory doesn't work in
Legend of Zelda. Hylia's blood will not be exclusive to Zelda. She can only claim Hylia's power by
being her, having her soul.
Sad how so many people on this forum don't understand basic genetics. Doesn't change the truth, though.
All of the Zeldas in future games are ancestors of that first Zelda, part of her bloodline. So they all literally carry the blood of the goddess, they're not continuous reincarnations.
Also just wanted to mention that I am female, and I also dont agree with hero-of-time-777's assessment of Zelda as a royal baby making machine. That isn't Nintendo's intent, and I dont see why every generation has to have a princess. Sons can carry the bloodline too, it's just that when Ganon arises there's a princess zelda there to stop him.
As a fellow female fan, doesn't it bother you that Link is the same man reincarnating throughout time, aka "Soul of the Hero", but the Zeldas are all different people? Because that's what the bloodline explanation means. Link is the same person, but the princesses he saves aren't.
You still don't understand that
only women can have Hylia's powers and teach it to the next generation, according to the bloodline BS. It's useless in a son, and will disappear if said son doesn't have a daughter.
Hylia's linear bloodline power only works if
women continuously have only one to a few daughters to pass on the powers and keep the blood exclusive to the royal family. Anyone who supports the bloodline BS supports Zelda being forced to be an eternal babymaker of herself who cannot choose her own procreation life choices. Any one who cared about Zelda as a character would oppose this. I'm a feminist female fan who does and I'm proud of it. The reason there's always a Princess Zelda born every time Ganon appears is because
Zelda is reincarnating. She is the same person being reborn in the current reigning royal family. Absolutely nothing to do with whether or not she was her own grandmother. I don't get why this is so hard for you to understand.
"Blood of the goddess" only makes sense if Zelda is getting it through reincarnation. It's the only way she alone can have it for the rest of eternity while claiming it makes her Hylia.
Reincarnation doesn't mean those people are literally the person they've been reincarnated as. The people still have their own individuality and make their own decisions. For example, Link in Ocarina of Time isn't literally Link from Skyward Sword, Zelda in OoT isn't literally Hylia, and Ganondorf in OoT isn't literally Demise.
I always thought of reincarnation as inheriting the powers and potential of someone from the past.
Also I'll go ahead and point out that if the bloodline thing was legit I once pointed out that it could be fatal because all someone would need to do is wipe out that particular bloodline, probably tipping the scales in Ganon's favor tremendously. It can't be that easy, which is why reincarnation has to be in play.
noun:
reincarnation
- the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
The definition of reincarnation it to literally be reborn. You can't change the meaning of words just because you don't like them. Link and Zelda are
different versions of the same people. Is this so hard to understand? Of course they're reborn with slightly different backstories and lives; that's the whole point of reincarnation. But they are the
same souls.
Like Kass said in
Breath of the Wild.
And again, almost
everyone in Hyrule will have Link's and Zelda's blood if they have kids in past incarnations. That's how
real bloodlines work. Almost everyone in a kingdom is a descendant of its royal family. This is why the bloodline explanation is so dumb in LOZ. It doesn't work in a series that it supposed to go on forever, with an infinite number of people being born and spreading and inheriting blood.
No, saying that, "A woman having the same name as her mother makes them the same person." is idiotic. My wife and daughter are both named Nicole, plus my father-in-law is named Nicholas. This does not mean my daughter is literally her grandfather. It means that a name was passed down. Trying to attach a term like "misogyny," in attempt to be edgy, is simply insulting; ignoring the fact that you are calling people "callous morons."
Are you the same person as your father? Do you not understand that the "bloodline" theory in LOZ is supposed to mean Zelda is being descended from herself in a narrow line from her first incarnation in Skyward Sword? Link is supposed to be the same man reincarnating but all Princess Zeldas are just descendants of each other with the same name, treated as if they are the same person. That
is misogyny, treating bloodline like reincarnation, as if all women are the same people as their mothers and grandmothers. That's what the bloodline explanation means, a concept only misogynistic idiots support that means Zelda is forced to be her own ancestor and forced to inherit everything from herself. Reincarnation is the
opposite of bloodline, and means Zelda is the same person, ie.
her bloodline doesn't matter.
Again,
Zelda's bloodline doesn't matter. It's her soul, aka
Hylia's soul, reincarnating as her that does.
As a Zelinker, I do not want Link to be ****ing the vessel of a thousand-year-old mother Goddess. I want him to ****ing a person. An actual human person.
No, you want Link to be ****ing all the descendants of a Goddess, whom he got with in Skyward Sword. That's what the bloodline explanation means. Zelda isn't Hylia, the original Zelda that Link loved in SS, but merely a descendant of her. Link is ****ing every single successive "Zelda", as if they are all their preceding mothers. This is disgusting and easily proven wrong, thankfully.
The truth is Zelda
is Hylia, the
goddess reborn who's soul is eternally reincarnating with Link. That's what "goddess reborn" means. Try playing Skyward Sword.
Also, it's okay for Link to be a "thousand year old" spirit (he's
way older than that. You play the games?
) but each Zelda has to be a fresh young girl? Ew.
I don't know how anyone can support this bloodline stuff.
True Zelda and LinkxZelda fans know Princess Zelda and Link are the same two souls eternally reincarnating.