Friendship = Love ?

True...but it still makes more sense that Link went to Zelda first to explain what he had been through after the OOT adventure. There is still no proof that Link went back to Zelda because he wanted to marry her at that very moment. What your saying makes no sense since Link voluntarily returned to being a child again. Again, where is the proof that Link went back to Zelda at the end of OOT because he wanted to marry Zelda and have lots of babies with her.

I never said he went back to her to marry her and have babies with her, I said he went back to her because he cared for her. After all, Zelda was technically his first non-Kokiri or faerie friend, so he would no doubt be concerned about her.

Care and friendship are both different levels of love, but they are love none the less. Just because they don't lead to babies means they're any less important. And like you said, Link and Zelda are ten, and that with the threat of Ganondorf looming, marriage is probably the last thing on their minds. Which is why I didn't bother mentioning it in my other post.

Well in that case I agree with you 100%

I love that quote, gr33n_sl33ves, and I agree that it fits Zelda and Link's relationship perfectly. Zelda gave Link the chance to walk away and not have anything more to do with her, but he comes straight back to her. <333

And considering that Link and Zelda are children, I highly doubt that making babies is on their minds at all. O.o

I thought that spoke the strongest of everything of his feelings..and potential. Link and Zelda have a deep, trust-filled relationship with serious chemistry: I think that as Sheik nicely said, "Young love becomes deep affection" would apply here when they grow up.
I mean, you change a massive amount from 10 to 17, but I think time will favour Link's perception of Zelda. As he gains maturity and experience, he's going to realize the value of her wisdom, compassion and selflessness, essentially of what high value she truly is. In contrast, other love interests that stand on the basis of looks, flirtaciousness and such will fade.

Its kind of obvious that link and zelda go 2gether because they appear in every single zelda game. without one of them, the whole game would not be successful at all because they are the main characters. We can see malon and saria and ruto in Oot, sure they were important in somepoint of the game, but in TP they all went poof! even midna in TP isn't going to be in zelda 2010, but link AND zelda will still be in it. Thus this shows that since they are in every game together, and link always will be the one saving zelda, they have some kind of relation.

Not to be rude but if link were with any other girl, the game would probably just end there. And since the game moved on u can consider them as one night stands

It truly is kind of hard to picture link to be with another girl after he works his butt off, like the storyline is always:
-link starts his quest
-meets up with zelda
-gets around with his quest
-meets other ppl
-meets up with zelda again
-epic showdown with ganon

Its kind of weird how link would now go and find one of the ppl he met along the way and fall for her, because he kind of did everything for zelda.

So yeah thats just my way of looking at it.

Actually, not entirely. There is the word called fate in this equation. Link is The Hero of Time, and Zelda in one of the holders of the Light Force (quoting Minish Cap which I finished yesterday), so in saving her in saves the world, AKA everyone. So it doesn't have to be love. The game is elaborately made so that as this is an rpg, you can choose who he lives. But LinkxZelda for the win.

I think what people forget and ignore is that Link left Zelda in the scene in the sky out of his own freewill. There is no proof to this day that Link was madly in love with Zelda in the scene in the sky and that Zelda was forcing him to go back to the child timeline against his will at all.

If you notice that after Zelda says that she is going to make up for her past mistakes she tells Link to lay the MS down and that he can never return to being a child again since the roads between times would be closed. It is only then that Zelda makes the suggestion that she can send Link back to his own time.

Then Link gives the ocarina back to Zelda and then we see a close up of her very sad expression on Link's decision to wanting his childhood restored. But can we really blame him?? I mean if I was a little boy in a young mans body and Zelda had presented me with the opportunity to have my childhood restored I would have made the same decision too.

I really believe that Zelda was initially saddened that Link wanted his childhood restored more than he wanted to stay with her in the adult timeline to pursue an adult romantic relationship with her. But I think she eventually had the wisdom that with the circumstances of Link being a little boy in a young mans body that restoring Link's childhood was the right thing to do. And I don't believe Zelda was forcing Link or trying to make him feel guilty about anything as most people believe.

With that said, I think Link had a bond of friendship with Zelda that compelled him to return to her and warn her and the royal family of Ganon's evil plan. And I think if Link is going to ever fall in love with Zelda, it would be as a normally matured adult in the child timeline.

Hmm, well all of you do have a point. However, im pretty sure that none of us could disagree that if either Link OR Zelda suddenly dissipated from the next few zelda games, it would a. not sell b. probably end there. So again, because both of them are very important characters, we should all agree that they do have something in common. Yes they both have the triforce symbol on their hands (just stating). Whatever i'm really just digressing now


But now, lets just say that link (OOT) returns back after the credits, the only other person who will know about his deeds would be the younger version of zelda. If none of the other characters knew about what link did to save all of Hyrule, I would suspect that it is extremely difficult to live or be with anyone aside from the people/person who was by your side the whole time. And so, Link would MORE likely be with Zelda when he grew up, because none of the other characters knew what he had done.

Now! on to TP. Yes i do know that TP doesn't have that many moments. However, yes like Hylian sword master said, this is an RPG game, after midna went bye bye and shatters the mirror, the only choices are probably Ilia and Zelda. Link has done so much work for Hyrule, he has ventured through so many places. The game practically forgets about Ilia in the middle. No offense to anyone but Ilia does kind of act like a saria, in which she starts out as a close friend who grew up with link, but is quickly forgotten in the middle of the game. Now, the goal OF the game is to get to Zelda! After Link finishes his quest, he can either return to the village and be they mayor of Ordon, or he can be the King of Hyrule. It just is kind of hard to imagine after all the work you put in your country that you would just go back and "attempt" to fit in with your old life.

But anyways thats just what i think, i tried to be as respectful as i could, so plz do the same

You make good points. But when it comes to Zelink, WW LinkxZelda seems the most likely to become canon, OOT LinkxZelda a decent possibility, and TP LinkxZelda highly unlikely since IMO there was no romantic chemistry between the two. Come to think of it, TP LinkxZelda practically barely had a relationship that would cause any fanfic speculation of romantic chemistry to begin with anyway.

I still think WW LinkxZelda is inevitable, but OOT LinkxZelda IMO seems more of a relationship based on mutual respect and platonic friendship, while LinkxZelda in TP screams of formal business partners all over it.

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