You might already know this, but the Oracles games were actually at one point going to be a trilogy, each one centered around one of the three ideals. That's why Oracle of Seasons (originally "Mystical Seed of Power") was so combat-focused and Oracle of Ages (originally "Mystical Seed of Wisdom") was so…

Uncool both figuratively and literally in Wind Waker, judging by how many people comment on how Link must be sweltering wearing something like that in their tropical climate. :P

Sheik and Impa were basically by themselves keeping the entire realm from collapsing for the entire seven years Link was asleep in OoT, judging by some of what we hear from NPCs in that game. Ruto even mentions Sheik having saved her life during that span at one point. I've wanted to see a game based around that…

Oh, huh, I never thought of it that way. That's a really interesting way of reading those.

A lot of people have pointed out that some of the patterns on Link's outfit match up with patterns we've seen on Gerudo clothing in past games. I'm hoping that's actually meaningful and we might actually end up seeing a Link with some Gerudo lineage; it'd be a neat touch.

Not quite no Ganon; the Hero's Shade from TP was confirmed to be the same Link as the one from OoT and MM, so he beat Ganon way back when. Zelda in the Adult Timeline of OoT sent him back, and when he was a kid he and kid-Zelda told the King about Ganon's plans and got him locked away in the Twilight Realm like we…

Oh, I somehow hadn't thought about the connection to Navi - I only ever thought of it from the perspective of Termina's impending doom itself - but that makes perfect sense too, yeah.

You mean Pete Martell, I assume? Though a Mad Men-inspired Zelda game would be interesting. :P

Oh definitely, that's actually basically how I take MM myself too. So many people are so quick to take the "MM represents the phases of grief" thing too literally.

I've heard that one, but even for MM that's a little dark for me. I always liked the idea that he ended up with Malon and the TP Link was a literal descendant; that that's why he was part of a farming/ranching village and why this was the only time a past incarnation of Link spoke to another.

I know you're making a gameplay joke, but if the wreckage counted as the land he fell off from, that might actually be an even darker fate than without the gameplay elements. Knowing that you're doomed to drown to death, what, 24 times as your strength keeps failing you before you die for good? :P

I don't think it's just an interpretation even, they imply it pretty heavily. The Deku butler says outright how you look exactly like his son, and we see him in the ending sequence crying near the twisted deku body you ran into the start of the game shortly after being transformed by Skull Kid.

Oddly enough, LttP is actually one of the exceptions to the "almost every game is a different Link and Zelda" thing. We actually do see what happens to that Link: he goes on across the world in Holodrum and Labrynna in the Oracles games for a few years, gets on a boat after saving Labrynna, shipwrecks and gets into…

Haha yeah true, I guess. But you're not trying to imply that whole "Link died in the Lost Woods and Majora's Mask was a Jacob's Ladder situation" theory, are you? :P

Fair enough, but it's worth keeping in mind that he probably still did heroic stuff even after Majora's Mask. I mean, he's hardly the kind of person to have just settled down; he still had the Spirit of the Hero and all, and he had to have learned all those techniques he taught to Twilight Princess Link somewhere.

What do you mean "never given the opportunity to be a hero"? He saved Termina. :P

I think it's more just pointing out a neat alternate take.

A ton of Link's Awakening's influence came from Twin Peaks (seriously; it was huge in Japan at the time and the Zelda team were all big fans, it's why Link's Awakening went in the "broad cast of minor NPCs with weird quirks" direction), so it might actually have been picked up from there?

If it helps, the Link from LttP probably ends up dying in the middle of the ocean after a journey across the world anyway. (The Link from LttP was also the one from the Oracles games and Link's Awakening.)

If the events in the book are already different than the events in the movie, why would the tunnel length in the movie have to have anything to do with the tunnel length in the book anyway? :P