best timeline ever, guys!!!!!!!!!!!1one
XD This is a crazyass single-timeline attempt made over a year ago, and I've finally accepted today that I will never finish this so I'm pasting it here to clear out the file. It's basically all there, though, if not "formally" then in notes.
Let's create some crazyass single-timeline theories involving TP for fun! Here I goooo~
TWW > TP > ALttP > "4SA" > OoS/OoA > LoZ > AoL > OoT > MM > TMC > LA
I start the timeline with TWW, and before you all get in a tizzy with OH THE BACKSTORY, THE BACKSTORY, allow me to explain. The backstory, presumably OoT in non-crazyass timelines, is told at the beginning of WW, and this is the clearest retelling of it in the game. When it's mentioned in-game, the people of WW think of it as a legend and they're kind of fuzzy on it. They don't even know what the Triforce is, although its symbol is still present. They call it the Triumph Forks which shows just how distorted legends can become, especially when they're passed down orally.
So if TWW is at the BEGINNING of the timeline, what is this legend they speak of, then? Well, dear hearts, we'll get to that later. For now just have it in your little heads that TWW is at the beginning and time is not linear. Now, in TWW, there is the legendary of Hero of Time the King of Red Lions, Great Deku Tree, and Jabun-Jabun speak of, and the connection between TWW and OoT is obvious, with OoT occurring prior to TWW.
"But then how the hell is it that you have OoT AFTER TWW? You even state so yourself that OoT is BEFORE TWW, yet in the timeline it's after. WTF?", you might say. And to answer you, I'll say, "STFU AND SIT YOUR ASS DOWN WE'LL GET TO IT LATER." After sitting your ass down and stfu-ing, you might want to be a smart-ass and tell me something like "you're just typing this paragraph to mentally stall explaining how OoT comes AFTER TWW when you've even said so yourself that it doesn't! you're probably just pulling this all out of your ass as I read and you don't have an answer, DO YOU?" To which I'll reply, "THAT'S IT TIMELINE DISCUSSION'S OVER GTFO"
But when I tell you to GTFO, I don't really mean GTFO. I say that lovingly in the same way that I say that TWW comes before OoT. WHICH I'LL EXPLAIN LATER.
Perhaps it will be easier for us both if I move on to TP and relate it to TWW retrospectively.
TP begins when a crazy blanket of Twilight invades Hyrule and the young rancher Link is literally pulled into it after the King of Fugly Creatures That Ride Boars randomly storms a small, seemingly backwater little village that, really, no one should care about. And yet the King of Fugly Creatures That Ride Boars (heretoafter known as "KoFCTRB") does. Why? Is it because he was taking orders from Zant or Ganondorf. Perhaps. But maybe there's a stronger power in the picture. Perhaps this power is the one that Shad speaks of...the, yes, THE OOCCA, creators of the Hylian.
So the oocca created the Hylians in a new legend created by TP. How do you like that? Let's take that as canon fact here. The oocca were created by the Goddesses who also created the demi-gods of wind, as shown in TWW, the Wind Fish (who created Koholint), and the Great Deku Tree (who created the Kokiri). So the Oocca created the Hylians. How do you like them apples, kids? Your favorite characters were created by weirdass chicken things. Go figure.
The Oocca reside in the high City in the Sky, but when I looked up in the sky, I sure as hell couldn't see a city. Now, maybe the "sky" is a metaphorical place. Maybe this "sky" is actually a different realm. A more, well, divine realm. It happened in TWW, you know. Don't believe that Hyrule (which isn't Hyrule in this timeline of ours, but then again it is) is literally under the sea. It's simply in another realm which is accessed by the ocean since, as legend had it, the goddesses flooded the world.
So we've got three separate physical realms that both coexist and are entirely separate. We've got the SKY realm where the Oocca, divine Sky People, and other such "higher powers" exist. Then we've got the LAND realm, the "new" Hyrule which is really just the same Hyrule that it's always been, created as time progressed and the Koroks planted more forest that solidified the ground into one land mass. Then there's a third realm, the UNDERWATER realm which isn't really underwater, but since we've got the "land" and "sky" realms, it's easy to differentiate this one as the "underwater" realm since Hyrule, Ganondorf, and the Master Sword were "sealed" underwater (metaphorically) at the end of TWW.
Let us say that this UNDERWATER realm simply isn't the "old" (which is actually the newer -- but we'll get into that much later) Hyrule sealed away...but the realm in which the Triforce resides. Instead of "underwater", it would be more accurate to say that this is the realm of the TRIFORCE. However, we'll stick with "underwater" for now.
I can't say how much time is needed for a huge landmass to form from tiny islands, so I'll just say that TP occurred a hell of a long time after TWW, which is the very beginning of our timeline, but not the beginning of time.
So if Link visited the SKY realm and had his adventures in the LAND realm (which is devoid of the Triforce's name which probably carries over from the fact that those crazy islanders kept calling it the "Triumph Forks"), what of the UNDERWATER realm? Was it simply MIA? No, no, I think Link visited that one as well...
notes:
TWW (land) > TP (land) > ALttP (LW land DW underwater -- DW underwater still exists but Ganondorf is banished from it) > "4SA" (lw underwater, dw land) > OoS/OoA (underwater, Holodrum and Labrynna separate countries in the same world as Hyrule on LAND) > LoZ (underwater) > AoL (underwater) > OoT (SKY-scene which makes what happened on LAND a MEMORY, sacred realm underwater) > MM (ACID TRIP) > TMC (MERGE) > LA (MERGE, the memory of land sky water are Wind Fish's dream)
the Oocca were created by the goddesses and they inhabited a separate realm (designated as the SKY realm for our clearer understanding) from the people that descend from the Oocca -- meaning the Oocca more or less created the Hylians. in Oot, Zelda and Link ascend to the SKY realm (LOL clouds, get it) and she plays the melody that sends Link back into time. But he doesn't get sent back directly to the point where we traditionally think in OoT. Time more or less "restarts" again in the SKY realm, and because of this the oocca were "created" with this MEMORY of a legend naturally installed in their brains, and they pass it on to the people they create. That's how the HoT legend came about in TWW even though OoT comes after.
so there are various "higher beings" in Hyrule like Ganon (which is an ancient evil and separate from Ganondorf, his human host), Vaati (lesser ancient evil as well), the Wind Fish, and maybe the Great Deku Tree
They were, like the Oocca, created with this MEMORY of what happened in OoT. The Hylians were not created with this memory. Instead, the oocca passed down this MEMORY as "legend" to them. That's why the "legend" of the Hero of Time in TWW is real to them from their ancestors, but heavily distorted (Triumph Forks!) from time.
ganondorf, in the beginning of time, was born with the MEMORY of his "past life" (future life) in OoT AND the Triforce of Power -- specifically created FROM this memory (he retains this memory from the demon Ganon). Also from this memory, Zelda's lineage is created to care for the Triforce of Wisdom and Link's lineage is created to house the latent Triforce of Courage, which only surfaces when there is danger (seeing as it's, you know, COURAGE -- wisdom and power remain even in peace but courage only comes out when there is danger) Carrying out his "past life", Ganondorf becomes a great sorceror and seeks out the remaining Triforce pieces.
in the beginning of time before TWW, the master sword is fashioned by the ccp out of the MEMORY. its power is maintained by the fado and laruto. Ganondorf, knowing of the Master Sword from his MEMORY, seeks to stop it and kills the sages.
end of TWW, triforce is sealed in the Hyrule underwater - underwater becomes the home of the triforce, or, the golden land/dark world
in tp the sages/king of hyrule( & red lions) seal ganondorf in the twilight realm which is the underwater -- an alternate retelling of TWW's end -- simultaneous happening of MEMORY of OoT's end -- ganondorf ends up on the land because of the twilight spreading to Hyrule & Zant
tp is set in TWW's new world on land
when zant kills ganondorf, the triforce of power bestowed to ganondorf by GANON (his "god" - really a demon created in the beginning of time from the MEMORY of Ganondorf's physical corruption by the Triforce of Power in OoT - which he uses) is no longer present in ganondorf's body and he dies. GANON cannot exist on the LAND realm anymore so he is banished to the UNDERWATER realm which is the Twilight Realm/Golden Land/Dark World. Power, Wisdom, and Courage do not exist together in the LAND realm anymore which means the threat is over.
book of mudora is the original MEMORY passed on to the hylians by the ccp when they created them in written form.
the dark world (underwater) still exists after Link defeats Ganon -- Ganon is banished to the LAND while the Triforce remains in the DW which is "identical" to LW (land), bearing no effects of Ganon's terror while LW still feels effects, especially since Ganon now inhabits that realm. Link and the Triforce are in the DW/underwater which is identical to Hyrule. underwater becomes the new light world with the Triforce as the original lw on land becomes the "new dark world". dark world in 4sa is the "new dark world"
like ganon, vaati was originally an ancient demon who wreaked havoc on the world in the BEGINNING. Insert TMC backstory. The Goddesses sealed Vaati away, making his seal underwater where the Triforce was for safety while the demon itself resided powerless on LAND.
after alttp demon vaati is encountered by demon ganon on DW/LAND where he is sealed but the seal itself is in LW/Underwater. since vaati has a physical connection to the land of the triforce, ganon fashions dark link from his connection with Link in the dark world LAND. the pathway between the worlds opens further and ganon is able to steal the trident of power from the original dark world UNDERWATER which is now the light world. ganon is "defeated" on LAND by Link which really just makes his energy extraordinarily weak and peace returns to both LAND and UNDERWATER. dig?
OoS/OoA -- on LAND, Twinrova works to revive the ancient demon ganondorf, as mentioned in the Book of Mudora. Triforce calls to Link from UNDERWATER to halt the revival. The revival is unsuccessful, Link "defeats" Ganon again
a LONG time later, Ganon is eventually revived again UNDERWATER by an unknown force. The Triforce physically splits. LoZ happens and then AoL happens underwater. Ganon fails to be revived by his followers underwater but when he is revived again by twinrova on LAND with the host of a male Gerudo named Ganondorf, the Triforce makes underwater into the sacred realm with the only link between land and water being the master sword.
when ganon is later resurrected in the form of ganondorf finally by Twinrova, he loses his MEMORY of the legend/"past life" but Twinrova fills him with tales of the Triforce from the Book of Mudora.
in oot, zelda sends Link back in time in the SKY realm which is the original realm of the creepycuccopeople who created the people before TWW. when she sends him back in time, time starts all over again "rewriting" what happened before though it's the same thing that would have happened anyway, only the ccp were born with the memory of what happened in OOT. they create the people and with them they carry on the MEMORY of the OoT/HoT legend.
Majora's Mask was an acid trip on LAND.
In a sort of divine intervention after all the shit that went on, the previously "LAY-ZAY FARE" Goddesses merged land and underwater. Sky (where the essences of the Goddesses resided along with the ccp) remained separate. The pieces of the Triforce were merged into one single "object" called the Lightforce which happened to reside in Zelda without her knowing (Goddesses felt this was safest?). Ganon and Vaati were erased but their CONCEPT of ancient demon remained, as did brave lad Link and wise princess Zelda. Vaati is an old name and the Minish just happened to be named that by fate. The ancient demon saw that the Minish Vaati had an open in his heart for the demon and it took over. TMC happened.
Previous history was remembered by the windfish which was a demi-god of both land, sky, and water. The Windfish chose to sleep in the newly merged land/water, remembering previous history in a dream.
After his adventures, Link decided to set sail for enlightenment. LA happens
END OF TIMELINE (rejoice!)
THINGS TO INCORPORATE:
how Ganon is a separate being
but sarah, old master sword is in ganondorf's head in the bottom of the sea!
I need to get back into doing these for fun, heh.
Let's create some crazyass single-timeline theories involving TP for fun! Here I goooo~
TWW > TP > ALttP > "4SA" > OoS/OoA > LoZ > AoL > OoT > MM > TMC > LA
I start the timeline with TWW, and before you all get in a tizzy with OH THE BACKSTORY, THE BACKSTORY, allow me to explain. The backstory, presumably OoT in non-crazyass timelines, is told at the beginning of WW, and this is the clearest retelling of it in the game. When it's mentioned in-game, the people of WW think of it as a legend and they're kind of fuzzy on it. They don't even know what the Triforce is, although its symbol is still present. They call it the Triumph Forks which shows just how distorted legends can become, especially when they're passed down orally.
So if TWW is at the BEGINNING of the timeline, what is this legend they speak of, then? Well, dear hearts, we'll get to that later. For now just have it in your little heads that TWW is at the beginning and time is not linear. Now, in TWW, there is the legendary of Hero of Time the King of Red Lions, Great Deku Tree, and Jabun-Jabun speak of, and the connection between TWW and OoT is obvious, with OoT occurring prior to TWW.
"But then how the hell is it that you have OoT AFTER TWW? You even state so yourself that OoT is BEFORE TWW, yet in the timeline it's after. WTF?", you might say. And to answer you, I'll say, "STFU AND SIT YOUR ASS DOWN WE'LL GET TO IT LATER." After sitting your ass down and stfu-ing, you might want to be a smart-ass and tell me something like "you're just typing this paragraph to mentally stall explaining how OoT comes AFTER TWW when you've even said so yourself that it doesn't! you're probably just pulling this all out of your ass as I read and you don't have an answer, DO YOU?" To which I'll reply, "THAT'S IT TIMELINE DISCUSSION'S OVER GTFO"
But when I tell you to GTFO, I don't really mean GTFO. I say that lovingly in the same way that I say that TWW comes before OoT. WHICH I'LL EXPLAIN LATER.
Perhaps it will be easier for us both if I move on to TP and relate it to TWW retrospectively.
TP begins when a crazy blanket of Twilight invades Hyrule and the young rancher Link is literally pulled into it after the King of Fugly Creatures That Ride Boars randomly storms a small, seemingly backwater little village that, really, no one should care about. And yet the King of Fugly Creatures That Ride Boars (heretoafter known as "KoFCTRB") does. Why? Is it because he was taking orders from Zant or Ganondorf. Perhaps. But maybe there's a stronger power in the picture. Perhaps this power is the one that Shad speaks of...the, yes, THE OOCCA, creators of the Hylian.
So the oocca created the Hylians in a new legend created by TP. How do you like that? Let's take that as canon fact here. The oocca were created by the Goddesses who also created the demi-gods of wind, as shown in TWW, the Wind Fish (who created Koholint), and the Great Deku Tree (who created the Kokiri). So the Oocca created the Hylians. How do you like them apples, kids? Your favorite characters were created by weirdass chicken things. Go figure.
The Oocca reside in the high City in the Sky, but when I looked up in the sky, I sure as hell couldn't see a city. Now, maybe the "sky" is a metaphorical place. Maybe this "sky" is actually a different realm. A more, well, divine realm. It happened in TWW, you know. Don't believe that Hyrule (which isn't Hyrule in this timeline of ours, but then again it is) is literally under the sea. It's simply in another realm which is accessed by the ocean since, as legend had it, the goddesses flooded the world.
So we've got three separate physical realms that both coexist and are entirely separate. We've got the SKY realm where the Oocca, divine Sky People, and other such "higher powers" exist. Then we've got the LAND realm, the "new" Hyrule which is really just the same Hyrule that it's always been, created as time progressed and the Koroks planted more forest that solidified the ground into one land mass. Then there's a third realm, the UNDERWATER realm which isn't really underwater, but since we've got the "land" and "sky" realms, it's easy to differentiate this one as the "underwater" realm since Hyrule, Ganondorf, and the Master Sword were "sealed" underwater (metaphorically) at the end of TWW.
Let us say that this UNDERWATER realm simply isn't the "old" (which is actually the newer -- but we'll get into that much later) Hyrule sealed away...but the realm in which the Triforce resides. Instead of "underwater", it would be more accurate to say that this is the realm of the TRIFORCE. However, we'll stick with "underwater" for now.
I can't say how much time is needed for a huge landmass to form from tiny islands, so I'll just say that TP occurred a hell of a long time after TWW, which is the very beginning of our timeline, but not the beginning of time.
So if Link visited the SKY realm and had his adventures in the LAND realm (which is devoid of the Triforce's name which probably carries over from the fact that those crazy islanders kept calling it the "Triumph Forks"), what of the UNDERWATER realm? Was it simply MIA? No, no, I think Link visited that one as well...
notes:
TWW (land) > TP (land) > ALttP (LW land DW underwater -- DW underwater still exists but Ganondorf is banished from it) > "4SA" (lw underwater, dw land) > OoS/OoA (underwater, Holodrum and Labrynna separate countries in the same world as Hyrule on LAND) > LoZ (underwater) > AoL (underwater) > OoT (SKY-scene which makes what happened on LAND a MEMORY, sacred realm underwater) > MM (ACID TRIP) > TMC (MERGE) > LA (MERGE, the memory of land sky water are Wind Fish's dream)
the Oocca were created by the goddesses and they inhabited a separate realm (designated as the SKY realm for our clearer understanding) from the people that descend from the Oocca -- meaning the Oocca more or less created the Hylians. in Oot, Zelda and Link ascend to the SKY realm (LOL clouds, get it) and she plays the melody that sends Link back into time. But he doesn't get sent back directly to the point where we traditionally think in OoT. Time more or less "restarts" again in the SKY realm, and because of this the oocca were "created" with this MEMORY of a legend naturally installed in their brains, and they pass it on to the people they create. That's how the HoT legend came about in TWW even though OoT comes after.
so there are various "higher beings" in Hyrule like Ganon (which is an ancient evil and separate from Ganondorf, his human host), Vaati (lesser ancient evil as well), the Wind Fish, and maybe the Great Deku Tree
They were, like the Oocca, created with this MEMORY of what happened in OoT. The Hylians were not created with this memory. Instead, the oocca passed down this MEMORY as "legend" to them. That's why the "legend" of the Hero of Time in TWW is real to them from their ancestors, but heavily distorted (Triumph Forks!) from time.
ganondorf, in the beginning of time, was born with the MEMORY of his "past life" (future life) in OoT AND the Triforce of Power -- specifically created FROM this memory (he retains this memory from the demon Ganon). Also from this memory, Zelda's lineage is created to care for the Triforce of Wisdom and Link's lineage is created to house the latent Triforce of Courage, which only surfaces when there is danger (seeing as it's, you know, COURAGE -- wisdom and power remain even in peace but courage only comes out when there is danger) Carrying out his "past life", Ganondorf becomes a great sorceror and seeks out the remaining Triforce pieces.
in the beginning of time before TWW, the master sword is fashioned by the ccp out of the MEMORY. its power is maintained by the fado and laruto. Ganondorf, knowing of the Master Sword from his MEMORY, seeks to stop it and kills the sages.
end of TWW, triforce is sealed in the Hyrule underwater - underwater becomes the home of the triforce, or, the golden land/dark world
in tp the sages/king of hyrule( & red lions) seal ganondorf in the twilight realm which is the underwater -- an alternate retelling of TWW's end -- simultaneous happening of MEMORY of OoT's end -- ganondorf ends up on the land because of the twilight spreading to Hyrule & Zant
tp is set in TWW's new world on land
when zant kills ganondorf, the triforce of power bestowed to ganondorf by GANON (his "god" - really a demon created in the beginning of time from the MEMORY of Ganondorf's physical corruption by the Triforce of Power in OoT - which he uses) is no longer present in ganondorf's body and he dies. GANON cannot exist on the LAND realm anymore so he is banished to the UNDERWATER realm which is the Twilight Realm/Golden Land/Dark World. Power, Wisdom, and Courage do not exist together in the LAND realm anymore which means the threat is over.
book of mudora is the original MEMORY passed on to the hylians by the ccp when they created them in written form.
the dark world (underwater) still exists after Link defeats Ganon -- Ganon is banished to the LAND while the Triforce remains in the DW which is "identical" to LW (land), bearing no effects of Ganon's terror while LW still feels effects, especially since Ganon now inhabits that realm. Link and the Triforce are in the DW/underwater which is identical to Hyrule. underwater becomes the new light world with the Triforce as the original lw on land becomes the "new dark world". dark world in 4sa is the "new dark world"
like ganon, vaati was originally an ancient demon who wreaked havoc on the world in the BEGINNING. Insert TMC backstory. The Goddesses sealed Vaati away, making his seal underwater where the Triforce was for safety while the demon itself resided powerless on LAND.
after alttp demon vaati is encountered by demon ganon on DW/LAND where he is sealed but the seal itself is in LW/Underwater. since vaati has a physical connection to the land of the triforce, ganon fashions dark link from his connection with Link in the dark world LAND. the pathway between the worlds opens further and ganon is able to steal the trident of power from the original dark world UNDERWATER which is now the light world. ganon is "defeated" on LAND by Link which really just makes his energy extraordinarily weak and peace returns to both LAND and UNDERWATER. dig?
OoS/OoA -- on LAND, Twinrova works to revive the ancient demon ganondorf, as mentioned in the Book of Mudora. Triforce calls to Link from UNDERWATER to halt the revival. The revival is unsuccessful, Link "defeats" Ganon again
a LONG time later, Ganon is eventually revived again UNDERWATER by an unknown force. The Triforce physically splits. LoZ happens and then AoL happens underwater. Ganon fails to be revived by his followers underwater but when he is revived again by twinrova on LAND with the host of a male Gerudo named Ganondorf, the Triforce makes underwater into the sacred realm with the only link between land and water being the master sword.
when ganon is later resurrected in the form of ganondorf finally by Twinrova, he loses his MEMORY of the legend/"past life" but Twinrova fills him with tales of the Triforce from the Book of Mudora.
in oot, zelda sends Link back in time in the SKY realm which is the original realm of the creepycuccopeople who created the people before TWW. when she sends him back in time, time starts all over again "rewriting" what happened before though it's the same thing that would have happened anyway, only the ccp were born with the memory of what happened in OOT. they create the people and with them they carry on the MEMORY of the OoT/HoT legend.
Majora's Mask was an acid trip on LAND.
In a sort of divine intervention after all the shit that went on, the previously "LAY-ZAY FARE" Goddesses merged land and underwater. Sky (where the essences of the Goddesses resided along with the ccp) remained separate. The pieces of the Triforce were merged into one single "object" called the Lightforce which happened to reside in Zelda without her knowing (Goddesses felt this was safest?). Ganon and Vaati were erased but their CONCEPT of ancient demon remained, as did brave lad Link and wise princess Zelda. Vaati is an old name and the Minish just happened to be named that by fate. The ancient demon saw that the Minish Vaati had an open in his heart for the demon and it took over. TMC happened.
Previous history was remembered by the windfish which was a demi-god of both land, sky, and water. The Windfish chose to sleep in the newly merged land/water, remembering previous history in a dream.
After his adventures, Link decided to set sail for enlightenment. LA happens
END OF TIMELINE (rejoice!)
THINGS TO INCORPORATE:
how Ganon is a separate being
but sarah, old master sword is in ganondorf's head in the bottom of the sea!
I need to get back into doing these for fun, heh.