| Pineapple said:
The entire child continuation of the story is ridiculous, seeing as Link could, at any time after becomming adult, have gone back and warned Zelda. It makes everything you do as adult completely meaningless. That's ridiculous. Of course, this prevents MM from happening at all. Either way, I find the child timeline to be "fake", as its origin couldn't really have ever happened. |
How could he have warned Zelda? She was already stolen before he got entrance to the Master sword. It's not like the Master sword is a time machine, it only retured him to right after Zelda had to flee from Ganon. Link could not have warned Zelda, unless he somehow found out where Impa had ridden with her.
What he did wasn't meaningless, he saved that timeline. When he went back, the events never happened in the first place, but that alternatime Hyrule with adult Zelda still existed... Assuming Link could just go back in time and warn Zelda, an alternate future where he never saved Hyrule still would have existed, and Ganon would still be ruling over Hyrule. He would be raping princess Zelda every night, because link wasn't there to save her. Does that makes you feel good about your suggestion?
What exactly prevents MM from happening? How is the child timeline "fake"? That doesn't make sense. When Zelda sent Link to the past, she and her world still existed, with Ganon sealed away by the sages. When Link got sent back, he gave Zelda the three stones and never opened the the door to the master sword, meaning that future never happened. This creates two timeline, one with him as a child, and Ganon sealed before he gained power. The other with him not there at all, where Ganon is sealed after gaining power.
