What if the hero was never reborn but the courage is?
We talk about timelines all the time but what about bloodlines? The first hero wasn’t hero of time but the hero of the sky. The one who rode on the crimison bird. His bloodline exists in every link, but every link doesn’t have the bloodline of the hero of time. After all toon link from wind waker had no relations to the hero of time, yet had the same courage. If the hero is supposed to be reborn why doesn’t he have the same relations?
It seems to me that the hero of time only had a few incarnations before becoming a spirit that can’t move on. A spirit to protect his bloodline from the same fate, and those in his bloodline is twilight, linkle, and wild in that order. He protects twilight by passing down his moves and in some sense prevents ppl knowing he carries the bloodline of the hero. After all time met a grim fate where the people of hyrule betrayed him and hung him. In linkle he probably sent majora after her to distract her and keep her away from villages yelling “i’m the hero” to prevent her from being harmed. And in wild this a longshot hunch, what if time causes wild memory loss so that he isn’t a stand up loyal knight? To question whats truly right or wrong on whats hyrule doing. (Another ramble for later) while twilight guides him on the right path. Since you know memory loss.
Meanwhile heros like wind waker (though twilight and linkle carry the bloodline its not that prominent.) and four sword are a seperate bloodline that took up the role of hero because time refused to reincarnate the reason of betrayal, is a sad story for everyone won’t see them as strong as the hero of time. But at the same time their protected from hyrule thinking they’ll turn out to be evil because they carry a peice of triforce. This continues on of heros being born without the blood of time because time has given up on hyrule but won’t give up on preventing his bloodline from suffering the same terrible fate.
Its suprising that only sky and hyrule warriors link share enough detail to say sky reincarnated that time. Meaning the hero of the sky only is reborn if his zelda is reborn as well, and theirs a higher likely chance that zeldas hardly are reborn due to each one being drastically different in personalities, which is why nintendo writes different characters the hero falls in love with. The hero will always save zelda, but not always fall in love. Its why they gave the hero malon, mipha, midna, lilla, and more. Because the same love story with two different ppl who arent reincarnations is boring and diffucult due to different personalities.
Its also probably why fi only talks to sky and hyrule warriors link, those two are basically the same. All other links are not her master which explains why she stays silent.
