Weāre throwing Time and Requiem back into the meat grinder, friends! And Lullaby gets to watch again, helpless to change anything in a timeline not her own~ >:)
As usual, I may retcon any of this in WV if I need to when the game comes out :)
Tentatively hopeful about the OoT Remake! Iām looking forward to it!
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Well-made plushies. Nobody don't know who made it for what, or how...
I really love that Lullaby has her alter timelines!ćEveryone would think about What futures wait for OoT Zelda, but the theory in Wisdomverse is the best in my mindš
...It seems she had lost one plush without realizing it.
Alright I promised an analysis post on the timeline split girls. This one is a long one so Iām putting it under a cut ^_^
Iāll be drawing from The Foundersā Call Part Twelve and from the accompanying side story Timeās Refrain. Please go check both of these out if you havenāt already! Brilliant pieces of art :D
Letās start at the beginning, shall we?
This panel from the recent chapter really drew my eye to it. This is our first glimpse at Elegy and Requiem ā- and we can see how their designs differ from Lullaby herself despite stemming from the same person. They are also pictured with the red/blue/green triad that is a staple in the Zelda series, power/wisdom/courage. Zelda is always going to be associated with Wisdom, so how do these fall into play with these three?
Starting off: Elegy.
In her timeline, Link never grew into an adult and as soon as he drew the Master Sword that was the moment that Ganondorf effectively won. Elegy was a child when Link was killed and assumingly never had the chance to become Sheik.
As an adult, she keeps a close design to her child iteration, with the wimple and the similar dress. Her hair is long because she never had to cut it. This keeping on child theme could also be a form of mourning, remembering Link as one of her closest friends in childhood. Not pictured is the scar and gray hair that Ganondorf left her with in chapter one of TR.
Sheās pictured in pink (red), symbolizing Power. This can be attributed to her effectively being the original, the first, who started the time splits. But sheās also the one who had to fight for decades before Ganon was sealed. She, no matter how broken, set into motion the wheels of the Golden Age of Hyrule. Most notably, her descendants also have great identity in their royal power: Fable the charismatic Diplomat, Echo the powerful Mage, Dawn the blossoming Queen.
Next is transgender legend Requiem, pictured in blue.
Iām not going to spent much time delving into her design, since itās all there in OoT. This Zelda became Sheik during the seven years Link slumbered in the Temple of Time, spying on Ganondorf. She seems to have kept her hair short and the design motifs from Sheik.
Her representation in blue, Wisdom, could be in part attributed to the seven years she spent as Sheik, different than the way Lullaby uses Sheik. She had to use cunning and her wits to survive while by Ganondorfās side as a double spy. She also notably kicks off the trend of having to hide in plain sight; as seen in Wind Waker, neither Tetra or her mother went by Zelda despite that (presumably) being their legacy name in order to hide from Ganondorf. Her wisdom also lent her to know that Linkās duty as Hero was not finished, which is why she sent her Ocarina alongside in him to the new branch.
(This might be getting into conspiracy territory, but the following panel with Tetra thinking of Requiem has a blue background. Coincidence? I. THINK. NOT. >:) )
Finally, Lullaby, my love.
Lullaby design draws from both Sheik and her Princess Zelda incarnations. She can change her hair color and her eyes are red from the magic, but keeps her hair long and auburn most of the time. She also wears the Hyrule crest on her paldrons. Sheās a spy, but she also openly lives as Queen Zelda. She started training earlier than both of lives before her, allowing her to blend the two identities better.
She is bathed in green, Courage. She lives in a long drawn-out civil war, not quite peace but not outright chaos. She must dive into the fray without hesitation. She, arguably, has had the longest time with her Link, so his courage may have rubbed on her! Also, she wields Faroreās Wind, a spell associated with the Goddess of Courage herself.
Hereās a quick look at the WV designs for Elegy and Requiem, the Downfall and Adult timeline versions of Lullaby!
Relevant: Lullabyās full design page
Wisdomverse Masterpost
Iāve been hinting at the existence of Requiem and Elegy for long enoughā especially with their stories in the prologue of Timeās Refrain. With the release of TFC Part 12, I can finally reveal their concept art!
Want the full details of the three OoT Zeldasā various appearances? Check out the Complete Annotated WV Zelda Timeline here :)
Shoutout to the asks that motivated me to clean this up and post it!
@snom-wizard @d3t3ctiv3-p3rcyval
And I can now answer these last two questions:
Requiem and Elegy havenāt yet met the non-OoT Zeldas. Because of one of the baseline rules of Wisdomverse summoning, itās actually a fair bit harder to summon them, even despite the fact that they have the Time element.
Iād like to think, however, that they have met Lullaby.
The first thing Lullaby did after learning about the summoning system from Sun was go back to her own era and summon Requiem and Elegy. Sheās been seeing their lives for so long, they feel like distant older sisters to her. It was very difficult, but she managed it, and both Requiem (age 39) and Elegy (age 46) were surprised at a few things they heard from Lullaby (age 32). But the three of them got to have a quiet, heartfelt chat before Lullaby had to send them back.
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Hey Lin! I absolute love the lore for Lullaby. Since child Link from OoT/MM is called 'Mask' in LU, I was wondering if Lullabyās child form has a specific community nickname too?
Thatās a great question! Havenāt seen a community name, so Iāll come up with one myself.
Iād use āOcarinaā to refer to the young OoT Zeldas!
I think itās fitting for both Mask and Ocarina to be named after their tools when theyāre young, and then technically reference a song theyāve mastered (Song of Time, Zeldaās Lullaby, Sheikās Requiem, Elegy of Emptiness) when theyāve grown up.
Btw, as you can see, the same name would work for all three of the OoT Zeldas, one from each timeline.
Which means thereās technically an L!Ocarina, R!Ocarina, and E!Ocarina, representing each of the Ocarina Triplets š.
(Would have been cool if Elegyās name started with a button you can press on the N64 controller like the other two. But hey, we canāt have everything. At least itās kind of a reference to the fact that Elegy is the only OoT Zelda we never see onscreen in OoT!)
(Previous q&a at #lin responds. More theories and analyses at #lin thinks!)
The third timeline is an encore of the same chorus. It carries the familiar refrain of the elegy and the requiem, a well-worn melody that sings of a reluctant hero and a princess of spies.
Yet the verses of the third timeline are different enough to change the whole song.
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Introducing a new Wisdomverse fic: Time's Refrain!
TR tells the story of Lullaby, Time, and the Third Imprisoning War.
I began writing about this for a flashback scene in The Secrets We Keep, and as it got longer, I realized that I had so many things to say about these two that I couldn't possibly fit it all into one flashback.
Warning that updates to TR may be sporadic, since Wielders and Secrets are still my main priority. But I keep writing more of this, so I'm looking forward to sharing it!
