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[Khuutra]

Mr Khan said:

Helios said:

TWRoO: You're right, and yet Ganondorf says he considers Link to be the "Hero of Time reborn." What matters here is what Ganondorf thinks, after all.

Mr Khan: I'm just following developer canon. But you are correct, either way. So, how would you explain Ganondorf's change of character, if we assume The Wind Waker does indeed follow the child continuity?

Might be defined by a Ganondorf who now saw the consequences of his complete victory as it ran in that line. Complete world destruction was not what he wanted, and he eventually got to the point where he was no longer so spiteful as to wish to see the whole world destroyed if he could not have it, though he still wanted it

Link was never declared the Hero of Time in the child timeline; Wind Waker's  OoT-based backstory demands that it take place in the adult timeline.