I've been circling back to a certain
question over and over again if at the
end of aine of time link going back in
time creates a new timeline why is there
not a new timeline every other time link
travels through time this all starts
when link goes to pull out the master
sword in the Temple of Time when he
pulls out the sword he becomes an adult
this is time travel right well not
exactly when young Link pulls out the
master sword it is determined that he is
too young to be the hero of time because
of this his spirit is sealed in the
sacred realm for 7even years until he is
an adult link does travel through time
but it's the exact same time travel
you're doing right now while watching
this video okay well if link doesn't
travel through time when he pulls out
the master sword surely he travels back
through time when he puts the sword back
yes that's definitely time travel but
there's a catch when link time travels
in any Zelda game there are set rules
for how things operate the Legend of
Zelda franchise operates on the same
rule set that Back to the Future
operates on this means that you can
heavily alter the future by going to the
past and messing with things take
Skyward Sword as an example if I
activate a Time shift Stone I can
interact directly with the past what I
do in the past changes the future if
there are baklin remains on the ground
but I go back in time and kill that
bachlin the remains disappear the key
takeaway from this example is that
nothing changed until I went back in
time to change it if I decided to never
go back in time nothing would have
changed in the first place so why does
this matter this matter is because
ocarine of time doesn't follow the same
set of rules here are two examples of
these conventions being broken first we
have naburu before you travel into the
desert as an adult you were told that
naburu is taking up residence in the
spirit Temple when you get to the spirit
Temple naburu is obviously missing we
know that she is missing because she is
brainwashed by twin robot and forced to
be an iron knuckle the only reason we
know this is because of what we see
happen as a child in other words the
result was present before link traveled
back in time to change it this is a huge
difference from all of the time travel
that happens in The Legend of Zelda
where we can see the results of Link's
manipulation of time but niburu is
missing a as an adult before we see this
as a child in other words the result was
present before link traveled back in
time to change it perhaps this is a
fluke maybe link had no influence on the
situation at all and this would have
happened regardless of Link's actions
that's fair but I have one more example
that is irrefutable The Song of Storms
this song is a textbook example of a
bootstrap Paradox as an adult link talks
to the man in the windmill Hut he regels
us with the story of a kid who came into
the windmill Hut 7 years ago and played
a song that made the windmill go crazy
link learns the song as an adult and
then goes back in time and plays the
song in front of the guy in the windmill
Hut where he learns it the problem with
this is that the man knew the song
before link went back in time the well
was drained before link went back in
time this is a direct contradiction to
how time travel has been established to
work in The Legend of Zelda in any other
game link has to go back in time first
before we can see the results of his
time travel in aquarine of time we see
the results before we see him time
travel it's backwards and it doesn't fit
the reason this is important is because
this type of time travel does not create
a new timeline think of it like this
link is experiencing the same timeline
he just experiences it out of order if
we were to take this timeline and look
at it it would be a solid and intact
timeline link is simply bouncing around
the timeline to do different things in a
certain order this is what allows for
him to retrieve items from the past and
then use them in the future it's a lot
like leaving your house and then
realizing you forgot your phone so you
go back to get it in other words when
link is an adult everything that he has
done or ever will do as a child has
already happened he just hasn't done it
yet here's one more example that
hopefully explains the point I'm trying
to make in Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of asab ban Hermione participates in
some wild Shenanigans using a device
called The Time Turner this allows her
to go back in time but the catch is that
whatever they do in the past has already
happened in the present Harry says say
it himself after defeating a bunch of
Dementors I know I could do it this time
because well I already done it the
summary of this is that no new timelines
are created because link only operates
on one timeline this is very different
from the end of the game where Zelda
sends link back in time permanently we
know that this creates a new timeline
because the future changes as a result
of Link's actions in other words link is
not sent to a previous point on the same
timeline but is instead shunted into a
completely new timeline where he never
drew the master sword and they are able
to stop Ganondorf from ever touching the
Triforce in fact this seems to be the
case anytime the ocarine of time is used
to time travel take Majora's Mask for
example every time link uses the ocarine
of time to start over the 3 days new
things happen based on what link does
this time I guess that would mean that
every time link plays the song of time
he abandons a timeline to the Calamity
of the Moon falling and to think I used
the song of time to win a mini game 3
days ago there's new timelines popping
up all over the place in The Legend of
Zelda but only one time in Ocarina of
Time well there you have it this is why
I believe that a new timeline is not
created every time link time travels in
ocarine of time what do you think am I
completely right or did you find the
giant plot hole in the shape of a magic
bean in my theory let me know in the
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