All right gamrConnect, we're going to play Zelda games together!

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

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.

My utilization of that line was always that Link was never around to stop Ganondorf in the child line (left for Termina), hence Ganondorf's victory while they still recollected that some "hero of time" had been around at some point, since the other side (Twilight Princess) portrays the sealing of Ganondorf

Granted, you have to stretch belief in some way since the sages shown sealing Ganondorf in TP are clearly not the OoT sages, but i chalk that up to artistic license and the fact that you can't really invest too too much in the whole timeline theory (otherwise you have to explain inexplicable things, like how Death Mountain moves around every time...)

Unless Link blew the whistle on Ganondorf in the child line, the sages stop him and seal him, but how does he end up with the Triforce of Power in TP, yet was defeated before he really got anywhere?