18th May 2004, 1:50 PM
lazy, um, your whole puberty thing might work in horror movies, but there's nothing at all in the whole Zelda storyline that says her ability to provide an heir is somehow hinted at as being an important part of the story. I'd HATE for that to be the case anyway, because it's just so shallow. It's not like Ganon kidnaps her for any reason other than her immediate usefulness. I doubt there's any hidden meanings behind the ages at ALL.
Anyway, why would he have to be 18 anyway? He's adult Link, but likely not adult in today's traditional sense. No need to go by today's legal definitions ya know. He is very likely to be about 17 I'd say, considering young Link couldn't be older than 10. I suppose it's possible, but the only age lock needed is that whatever age they both are, there has to be a 7 year difference.
Anyway, 16 is certainly old enough to be considered an adult in that sort of world. That's especially true when you consider that young Link's age in OOT was considered time to be an adult, and he's younger than an adult jew, the youngest human adult there is in the current world!
Anyway, I don't go by the legal definition for these games, since Hyrule doesn't have America's laws, just enough physical maturity to look like an adult, which he does in a couple of games before OOT. LA, that one's odd too. The artwork at the very start of the game clearly shows an adult, but the artwork for the photos is like a detailed version of the in game sprites. That's just different art style I suppose. Anyway, everyone in LA treats him like an adult, and the story in the instruction booklet also makes it clear he's an adult. LA too had him as an adult. LTTP on the other hand, I lean towards him being a kid, or at least an older kid, like 13 or so. Yep, 3 years makes all the difference. You know how fast kids sprout up.
Eh, no matter. The way I've always seen it is like this.
Young Link, innocent and carefree, is thrown into an adventure that is bigger than he could have imagined against a threat he could never have known. He goes through many strange unexpected things and slowly gains a lot more power and wisdom, so long as he keeps the courage to continue in his heart. By the end, overthrowing Ganon himself, he has matured into an adult mentally, in a way that sorta hints at how people actually grow up in the real world, if it was set to the tone of an adventure with monsters.
As an adult, wary of another threat, he leaves on his own to seek out a new adventure and finds it, this time the evil is brought about by his own actions, in a manner of speaking, and he must face off against this new threat unlike Ganon but still evil.
Each Link, by my reconing, has had this same experience. OOT Link had the second adventure as a slightly older version of his young self (likely only a year), but the mind was already set in that state. OOT faced against ganon in his youth, then went on to face against another land's threat, a threat not to himself but to people he didn't know, but wanted to help. From a somewhat "selfish" (in a manner of speaking) saving of the world to a saving of ANOTHER world he doesn't even know.
LTTP Link (if I'm correct in my assumption) after defeating Ganon in younger years (depending on how young he was) and reclaiming the triforce to make his own world right again, set off fearing Ganon's return, and ended up finding another strange world of dreams, where he fought against both his own and the Wind Fish's nightmares. In the end, he finally chose to awaken the wind fish and end the dream, leaving himself stranded at sea to save a stranger.
Hyrule Fantasy Link in his youth defeats Ganon and saves his world which is in terrible ruin. Years later, the world is in relative peace, but creatures still hunt Link for revenge and revival of their master. He finds out about ANOTHER Zelda, unlike the one he saved years ago, in an eternal slumber from long before his time, and despite the danger to himself goes on to save this stranger and reclaim something that he doesn't even need himself.
Anyway, my point is the first adventure for all these Links seems to be saving their OWN world, helping others but also helping themselves, and the SECOND adventure is one to selflessly help another world, or another being, even though they personally could have easily just lived in peace.
Anyway, why would he have to be 18 anyway? He's adult Link, but likely not adult in today's traditional sense. No need to go by today's legal definitions ya know. He is very likely to be about 17 I'd say, considering young Link couldn't be older than 10. I suppose it's possible, but the only age lock needed is that whatever age they both are, there has to be a 7 year difference.
Anyway, 16 is certainly old enough to be considered an adult in that sort of world. That's especially true when you consider that young Link's age in OOT was considered time to be an adult, and he's younger than an adult jew, the youngest human adult there is in the current world!
Anyway, I don't go by the legal definition for these games, since Hyrule doesn't have America's laws, just enough physical maturity to look like an adult, which he does in a couple of games before OOT. LA, that one's odd too. The artwork at the very start of the game clearly shows an adult, but the artwork for the photos is like a detailed version of the in game sprites. That's just different art style I suppose. Anyway, everyone in LA treats him like an adult, and the story in the instruction booklet also makes it clear he's an adult. LA too had him as an adult. LTTP on the other hand, I lean towards him being a kid, or at least an older kid, like 13 or so. Yep, 3 years makes all the difference. You know how fast kids sprout up.
Eh, no matter. The way I've always seen it is like this.
Young Link, innocent and carefree, is thrown into an adventure that is bigger than he could have imagined against a threat he could never have known. He goes through many strange unexpected things and slowly gains a lot more power and wisdom, so long as he keeps the courage to continue in his heart. By the end, overthrowing Ganon himself, he has matured into an adult mentally, in a way that sorta hints at how people actually grow up in the real world, if it was set to the tone of an adventure with monsters.
As an adult, wary of another threat, he leaves on his own to seek out a new adventure and finds it, this time the evil is brought about by his own actions, in a manner of speaking, and he must face off against this new threat unlike Ganon but still evil.
Each Link, by my reconing, has had this same experience. OOT Link had the second adventure as a slightly older version of his young self (likely only a year), but the mind was already set in that state. OOT faced against ganon in his youth, then went on to face against another land's threat, a threat not to himself but to people he didn't know, but wanted to help. From a somewhat "selfish" (in a manner of speaking) saving of the world to a saving of ANOTHER world he doesn't even know.
LTTP Link (if I'm correct in my assumption) after defeating Ganon in younger years (depending on how young he was) and reclaiming the triforce to make his own world right again, set off fearing Ganon's return, and ended up finding another strange world of dreams, where he fought against both his own and the Wind Fish's nightmares. In the end, he finally chose to awaken the wind fish and end the dream, leaving himself stranded at sea to save a stranger.
Hyrule Fantasy Link in his youth defeats Ganon and saves his world which is in terrible ruin. Years later, the world is in relative peace, but creatures still hunt Link for revenge and revival of their master. He finds out about ANOTHER Zelda, unlike the one he saved years ago, in an eternal slumber from long before his time, and despite the danger to himself goes on to save this stranger and reclaim something that he doesn't even need himself.
Anyway, my point is the first adventure for all these Links seems to be saving their OWN world, helping others but also helping themselves, and the SECOND adventure is one to selflessly help another world, or another being, even though they personally could have easily just lived in peace.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)