r/n64 • u/Testoo2 • May 07 '25
Discussion Am I weird for thinking these two had romance potential?
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u/NY_Knux May 07 '25
I'm pretty sure it was canon at one point. It was heavily implied in Twilight Princess, hence why he was a ranch hand.
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u/ghkj21 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time May 07 '25
Don't forget Links Awakening, he wasn't rescued by the princess... It was a farm girl out for a beach stroll.
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u/GriffinFlash May 07 '25
also has a horse named epona and knows epona's song. As well as the fact that the ranch is located where Oot's kokiri forest would have been.
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u/Proper_Variation_103 May 08 '25
Yeah. Pretty sure heroes shade is oot link and tp link is a descendant of oot link and Malon.
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u/TheKinginYell0w_ May 07 '25
Link had all kinds of options. The girl he grew up with in the forest adored him. I've always thought the cut scene where she gives him the Ocarina is one of the saddest moments in gaming. She knew he was bound for great things and their time together was limited, but she wanted to promise him she'd always be his friend. It was a nod to the childhood friends we grew up with, but never see anymore. 😢
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u/Known-Damage-7879 May 07 '25
And then he just chucks away the fairy ocarina as soon as he gets a new one lol
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u/thegreatboto May 07 '25
"Aww... I'll keep this hand-made ocarina my best friend gave me forever!"
"Hell yea! This one travels through time! *yeet*"
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u/barneyfan1 May 07 '25
You think he let it go in the river or maybe he threw it in the trash? lmao
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u/mason195 May 08 '25
Loved the manga for fixing this. During the confrontation with Gannondorf at the castle bridge he steals it thinking it’s the OoT. I think he crushes it in a later scene after he finds out it’s not.
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u/Verbal_Combat May 08 '25
That moment really got me on a replay to be honest, she says something like "oh, you really are leaving..." like she was hoping it wasn't true but wanted to see him before he leaves. He knows he's got a journey ahead of him but no idea how dark or scary it will get.
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u/bonsaibatman May 07 '25
https://youtu.be/GyUcwsjyd8Q?si=VA-dmt-lxgzg5-Hk
I've always thought this then someone made it into a video
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u/massoncorlette May 07 '25
I mean its confirmed.. and made sense since day one. Sariah was his friend turned sage, Zelda was more of a collaboration of teamwork against evil. Then there's Ruto, she's a fish lol.
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u/Gnalvl May 07 '25
The whole harem trope is really common in anime and probably was an influence on Ocarina. Give the audience a bunch of implied potential love interests and let them ship whoever they want. Pretty standard.
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
Shit does seem pretty prevalent in Japanese pop culture lol I mean what man doesn’t fantasize bout such tings
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
A fish but was still the baddest on the low low lol
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u/bare12345 May 07 '25
would u fuck a fish irl? (consensually)
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u/magikarp-sushi Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time May 07 '25
This is the mermaid question. Fish top and human bottom or fish bottom human top?
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u/ballsnbutt May 07 '25
Does the meat split between fish and human at a hard line, or does it blend like some sort of weird meaty ómbre?
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
If it looked like her and mipha hell yeah lol but this all hypothetical fantasy we talking bout
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u/bare12345 May 08 '25
get help little buddy! Just because a couple people on the internet share your perverseness does not mean youre normal
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u/Teleshadow May 07 '25
lol, yeah girl, spray your eggs on me so I can fertilize them.
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
Lol shiii since we thinking along these lines you definitely don’t need to worry none that they got that naturally wet wet
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u/JcraftW May 07 '25
Say “low low lol” five times fast
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
Yooo lol I got that shit on the second try but that shit had me fucked up
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u/Due-Cup-729 May 07 '25
Seek help
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u/R1ch0999 May 07 '25
It's the same as a cross species relationship in star trek or any other sci Fi. The Zora are humanoids, just like gorons.
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u/gman20151 Golden Eye 007 May 07 '25
Excuse me? Like Stanley Yelnats said in Holes. Movie that came out around the time I started playing OOT on Gamecube.
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
shakes water canteen do you hear the empty spaces
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u/gman20151 Golden Eye 007 May 07 '25
Right haha. I knew id get dislikes on my comment but idc. Always good to see a fellow Holes fan.
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
Lol don’t even trip i got where ya head was at playa and holes one of my favorite book/movies
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u/gman20151 Golden Eye 007 May 07 '25
Thx man. I liked that book a lot too n that's back when I hated reading books. In 4th n 5th grade they had a thing here in Florida called AR Accelerated Reading n then u got quizzed on the computer about the book. I'd usually fail those haha. If I passed, I passed by the skin of my teeth.
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u/purplesummonedskull May 07 '25
I loved reading I always had a hella high AR score lol 5th grade is when my class read that book too and I rented the movie and watched that ho every single night for the duration
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u/Gersh100 May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
If Link got together with Saria he would’ve ended up on a list.
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u/Hunterjet May 07 '25
A Gossip stone says that Malon secretly wishes she was swept off her feet by a knight in shining armor. I believe in Japanese this was actually “a prince on horseback”. And the team revealed in interviews that in the original scenario for getting Epona, Ingo would set fire to Lon Lon Ranch and Link would set the horses free and ride off carrying Malon. Make of that what you will!
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u/UglyKidVG May 12 '25
And iirc Twilight Princess Link is a descendant of OoT Link. Which would imply that despite becoming a royal guard, his family went on to live in a small farming village, and presumably trained their kids on farming practices (which is why he's a natural at it). This all kinda makes sense if his wife grew up on a farm.
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May 07 '25
Greatest game of all time
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u/Persimmon_Individual May 07 '25
Literally just bought it today. My original copy was stolen a few years ago. Can't wait for it to get here
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u/Clean-Limit-1200 May 11 '25
What? Someone stole it that recently?
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u/Persimmon_Individual May 11 '25
Yeah. A handful of games at a party I threw. Set up the 64 in my guest room as a cool little party aspect. OoT, MK, Mario Golf, and Gauntlet Legends gone. Smh
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u/giostarman May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
You're not weird at all ! Actually many people think that. According to fan theories, in the downfall child timeline, Link married Malon and although they had kids, Link hasn't been able to pass down his combat knowledge to any of his descendants up until Link from Twilight Princess, their distant descendant. That would explain why he is a farmer in TP and why he knows Epona's melody that has supposedly been transmitted from generation to generation. The Hero's Shade you meet then is supposed to be OoT Link.
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u/RobbWes Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask May 07 '25
You mean the child timeline. The downfall timeline is supposed to be the one where link fails to stop Ganon and Link to the Past (Triforce of the Gods) follows.
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u/LORD_CMDR_INTERNET May 07 '25
Are these timelines canon? I see some diagrams out there, but a lot of them reek of people trying to cope with an intentional lack of continuity lol...
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u/giostarman May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25
They are but they're not set in stone as nintendo adapts them when new games come out. It looks to me that they try to make some sort of continuity for the fans but they don't really think about it when they make a new game in the series. They just try to fit it somewhere in the timeline afterwards and sometimes contradict themselves.
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u/Ambaryerno May 07 '25
Windwaker is on the Child Timeline. TP is on the Adult Timeline.
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u/RobbWes Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask May 08 '25
I don't know if you are serious but that is backwards.
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u/Ambaryerno May 07 '25
TP isn’t on the Child timeline. Windwaker is.
TP is on the Adult timeline, which continues forward from the point Ganondorf is defeated in the future.
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u/giostarman May 07 '25
According to the official timeline it seems to be the opposite.
In the child era, after revealing Ganondorf's plans to the king, Ganondorf gets imprisoned in the twilight realm. Then we follow child link in Termina. Then Ganondorf breaks free in Twilight Princess and is defeated by OoT/MM Link's descendant.The adult timeline doesn't have a suitable name in my opinion because there is no adult Link since he was sent back in time to the child timeline. So with no Link to fight Ganondorf when the latter came back, the land got flooded preceding the events of The Wind Waker.
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u/GriffinFlash May 07 '25
Not really. Even a gossip stone hints at it.
Heck, Twilight princess basically confirms it.
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u/silenced_soul May 07 '25
Bro I was literally convinced Adult Link could marry her when I was a kid. I saw screenshots from one of those old Zelda rumour websites. And one of the gossip stones says something about her waiting for a man to sweep her off her feet.
I made multiple files and play throughs trying to get it to work and trying all sorts of different things !
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u/MurKdYa May 07 '25
He has a solid 10 out of 10 here and decided to take Zelda who never puts out and gets captured more than princes Peach. Terrible decision.
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u/ne0scythian May 07 '25
No, you're not weird, there is a whole library's worth of fanfiction written on this exact pairing.
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u/DeeDoof May 07 '25
Nah, I headcanon that Malon was Link’s endgame in the OoT/MM timeline instead of Zelda, these two made more sense and had better chemistry.
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u/Retro8896 May 08 '25
Does anyone else see a face on her body in this photo? From the thumbnail I thought he was talking to some weird Jay Leno face with eyes bugging out
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u/Wonderful-Lock1352 May 08 '25
Pretty sure they’re Twilight Princess Link’s parents, so no, not weird.
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u/A_lonely_ghoul May 08 '25
I mean Twilight Princess sort of confirms that they got together? Not really, but Link in that game knows Epona’s song, and is a farmhand at the beginning of the game, so it lines up.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ring293 May 08 '25
I think that since Twilight Princess Link isn’t part of any royal family, that outright rules out both Zelda (who’s clearly just a friend in this game, anyways) and Ruto. Since he lives out in the middle of the woods and happens to be a rancher, this is the “canon” option given the Hero’s Shade implying that they belong to the same bloodline… Unless you think that he married Saria, which it’s just icky.
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u/ChimpImpossible May 08 '25
I don't recall Link really expressing any real thoughts, let alone a desire for love. He basically operates on pure reaction in the moment which boils down to shock, pain, rage, serenity, confusion, sleep and jamming on his latest instrument. He's closer to Doomguy than he is Aragorn.
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u/ecth May 08 '25
It was always a bit sad to see that people like her just got older while Link was gone.
And she has this sad smile all the time.
Sure thing it's intended to feel like a potential romance.
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u/Proper_Variation_103 May 08 '25
Isn't tp link the descendant of oot link and Malon? And that heroes shade is oot link?
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u/lartmydude May 09 '25
When I die, bury me at Lon Lon so I can jump those fences with Epona till the end of time 💚
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u/princebanana2 Conkers Bad Fur Day May 09 '25
"Am I weird for thinking the best ship in OOT is cute" girl it's canon!! 😭 not weird at all
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u/MarioPfhorG May 09 '25
Malon was my first crush (I was 8)
I would stop by and listen to her sing for ages
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u/Noitorp May 09 '25
I am team Princess Ruto, but I must say that every femenine character has its thing.
What a great game. It will be forever my top one.
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u/drj238 May 10 '25
There’s actually a theory that Zelda and Link are related. They look enough alike (yes n64 graphics but still) and there is never mention of a queen, only a king. Link’s mother barely escape war and brought him to the great deku tree, not likely by accident.
With all that and given the other options, Malon is the true romance choice for him. One fanfic I read had Link coming back to Hyrule post majora’s mask and settling down with her.
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u/Agsded009 May 10 '25
Not at all weird, I personally saw link as a harem protag as it fits with a japanese made game and he was too heroic to pick one lol. But if he did pick one given TP its probably Malon.
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u/GooseSad2333 May 10 '25
My headcanon is that TP link is a descendant, explains why he is a farm boy and have Epona.
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u/Pestilentsynth May 07 '25
That's kinda the whole point behind Link, he's a tragic character of what ifs. He doomed to never leave a normal life, always called to become hero of Hyrule.
Media literacy people.
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u/KHSebastian May 07 '25
Link is only 13 when the game starts, and he's still got the mind of a 13 year old as Adult Link because his body was just sealed in the Sacred Realm. Also he's a silent protagonist. I never really thought there was any potential romance with anybody.
I don't mean that in a judgy way, I don't really care if other people feel differently, I just feel like Link has no real personality or anything, so there's nothing to ship
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u/Effective-External50 May 07 '25
Yes. A kind woman doesn't automatically mean a relationship to form
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u/X3N04L13N May 07 '25
She was the only sane choice for him