Will Princess ZELDA ever be QUEEN? 

Monster Maze King daphnes is my favorite king

@@Rhobeni Mine too. He was humble and the most proactive king we've ever seen in the series.

Monster Maze the ending of wind waker makes me tear up still. Wind waker is my favorite Zelda game.

butmyliege-

Just because Rhom was the "last" king of Hyrule doesn't mean he will be the final king of Hyrule just that there hasn't been one since him. This could also be taken as him assuming/believing that Hyrule as it was will never be again since it was shattered by the Calamity but this doesn't prevent the kingdom from being reconstituted or a new kingdom created from its ashes.

you are my soulmate i swear- im dying laughing i cant even type properly omgg

This made me laugh WAY more than it should have.

I mean, this is the same dude who was raised by Gerudos… so…

I read this and as soon as I got to "HEYYAAAAH" it sounded like a combination of the volume and bass of the THX sound with all the unholy noise of every HEYYAAAAH weve ever heard in this goddess-forsaken series.

YAAAASSSS!! 😂

Link: As my first act as king I demand to have all of the pottery in the entire kingdom to be brought to my chambers immediately Servants: But my liege why would you wa- Link: I HAVE SPOKEN!!!

Obviously he means Hyrule, but Link has a very strong pot breaking accent.

Zelink?

Indeed! And command the royal army :)

For all intents and purposes, she has been. Twilight Princess, Spirit Tracks, Breath of the Wild, Link to the Past and some more, she was the only known/surviving member of the Royal Family/ and was the power behind the throne. In Twilight Princess especially, the guards are very deferential and loyal to her, fighting a battle they know they will lose. Perhaps she’s never held the title, but she’s held the power before.

I mean depending on the story being told in which the King dies she technically is the Queen just not officially coronated into the role. But the stories start out with her being princess, so it makes sense refer to her as such at the start of the tale.

Well, she wasn't actually Queen in Twilight Princess, but she was already the Ruler of Hyrule

@Toasters 156 no. Not really.

OoT Zelda caused Ganondorf's reign in OoT, the flood in the Adult Timeline, and Ganondorf's acquisition of the Triforce of Power in the Child Timeline. BotW Zelda bet everything on an army of Daleks.

>we're idiots speak for yourself

well, not all of them, King Daphness Nonhasen Hyrule from Wind Waker was a good and Zelda's 2 mentioned king did a good job until the son screw up.

@@ElliotKeaton an army of what?

I wasn’t! Have you noticed that complaints about the quality of homes in Castle Town stopped during my 7 year reign? Crime, homelessness, and unemployment dropped in Castle Town. I was a great king.

Hey in TP the oficial guide says “Princess Zelda is about 20 years old, and is the queen-in-waiting of Hyrule”

No

Prince*

If they married he'd be Prince Link, Head of the Royal Guard of Hyrule. His father was head of the guard too.

no

Yeah I was indeed made aware that there are apparantly some clashing translations. I wish these localisation teams would stop messing with the lore sometimes. It makes it even more confusing. Just translate it as it is originally written xD.

Monster Maze At 3:08, it mentions that Zelda’s mother possessed the sacred power as well. That’s why the queen was supposed to tutor Zelda (she wouldn’t be able to teach something she doesn’t have). The king also mentions this in his diary. So the power went from her grandmother to her mother to herself. It’s possible the king is a king consort and married into the family or the goddess bloodline is able to weave in and out of royalty (the power goes only to female descendants and will eventually pop back up potentially in a female not in the reigning royal family and she marries back in ie distant distant cousins)

True. I can speak german and she really does mention it

@@MonsterMaze it's also mentioned in the French version that the queen had sacred powers and that she was supposed to teach her daughter how to use it. I also remember that the king only knew that the queen went to pray to the 3 sacred springs for her training so that why he send zelda to do the same in hope it would awaken her power, but we all know it didn't really work as intended 👀

Also wasn't Zeldas mother supposed to teach her how to use her sealing power? That would mean that zeldas mother had it right?

Fishie Fish that’s what I thought too.

Yes it did say that

I don't play Zelda (kinda getting in to it thus is why I'm here) but wouldn't the mother which would be named Zelda be able to seal demise away or you know make sure he can't get out before she dies

So even if zeldas mother didn't carry the blood of the goddess, she could of learned how to awaken it from her mother in law to teach her daughter. Also, the book creating a hero states zelda is the goddess reborn. No simply a girl with the blood of the goddess. Its possible all the females posses this power but only one is truly the goddess reborn. Her power is probably the strongest. This is a curse placed on the original link and zelda by a demon God. How would is be a curse if hylia isn't forced into reincarnation eith link when demise's hatred it reborn?

@Emery Mackey oh I'm sorry

Husband of the eternal queen

@Ben Fetchak They're talking irl royalty. Husband of England's Queen and apparently Knight of Thistle

same hahahahaha

I fully agree😆😍😁

I do question how long 2 would be. And how much time has passed between 1 and 2. So we wouldn’t be sure if there would be enough time to settle the matters of Zelda translating from Princess to Queen. BUT, that doesn’t mean the story can’t continue. Like after the defeating of Ganondorf reborn, there can be a sequel making this a trilogy. And the last game has Hyrule try to regain power, get to see an enemy or army of foreign lands invade Hyrule to rule the lands, and THAN we see the transfer of powers so that Zelda can become Queen. Making Hyrule regain its status of a kingdom. Could also see the height of Zelink shipping there and get that wedding at the end.

I'm from the future and let me tell you, Tears of the Kingdom did nothing interesting with Zelda and Link :')

Oh, yeah! I forgot that also was a thing.

That would be such a horrible thing

That would be super sad

Horrible or not it’s been like that even in real life. lol we can’t remake the past people . We can only carry forward

link: 👁👄👁

King Doofus XXXIV of Hyrule

Only just barely related to your comment, but I've been mulling this over since I played BotW. It's just that, I've always thought Link was the only one who reincarnated in the series. Each Zelda carries the blood of the Goddess, but it doesn't say anything about the spirit/soul of the Goddess. I think the sealing power is more of an inherited thing than a reincarnation thing. I could be completely wrong though. But in Spirit Tracks, Zelda prays to Tetra, who was also a Zelda, so they must be different people. And in Breath of the Wild, Zelda prays to Hylia, and Link can commune with Hylia at the Shrines (while Zelda is trapped in the castle). If the first Zelda was a mortal incarnation of Hylia, then all the other Zelda's would also have to be Hylia if they are reincarnated, but that doesn't seem to be the case. What do you think?

@@jessicabrauman *It's just that, I've always thought Link was the only one who reincarnated in the series.* Demise, Link, and Zelda, all experience reincarnation. They just happen to experience it differently, because their fundamental natures are different. Zelda, unlike Link, is a goddess incarnated into a mortal vessel. Link is not the vessel of any gods. Instead, Link's reincarnation is directly tied to the existence of both Zelda and the Master Sword. Demise's reincarnations occur via the sheer power of his own hatred for Zelda and Link. *Each Zelda carries the blood of the goddess, but it doesn't say anything about the spirit/soul of the goddess.* That is because goddesses, in most fictional portrayals, do not have souls. They are unlike mortals, in this regard. The spirit of the goddess is, well, the goddess herself. The implication you are trying to draw here is that "the spirit of the goddess" is a part of the goddess herself, but not the entirety of what 'makes up' the goddess, but that is not really how it works. The concept instead works similarly to how the Holy Trinity works in Christianity. In Christianity, the idea is that the single God that exists is comprised of three distinct persons, all sharing in the same "godly essence" that defines their godhood. There is only one godly essence, hence only one God, but three persons share in this essence: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, where the Son refers to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is an incarnation of God, the incarnation of God, much like how Zelda is the incarnation of Hylia. Jesus Christ is human, and so he has blood, and the concept of a bloodline is legitimate here, but he is also just fully God, meaning that his very essence is that of God. The same applies with Zelda: despite being human, she fully shares from the essence of Hylia. Since Zelda, as a human, has blood, and a bloodline, her (female) descendants carrying that blood also fully share in the essence of Hylia, making them incarnations of Hylia. This means that each Zelda is indeed a reincarnation of Hylia, but this is reincarnation via rebirth, not reincarnation via bodily-possession. Only the first Zelda was a reincarnation via bodily-possession, the rest are reincarnated via rebirth. I know this is confusing. This is only made more confusing by the fact that Link's reincarnation is actually not via bodily-possession either, contrary to what many people believe. This misunderstanding occurs because people misunderstand the plot of Skyward Sword. People think the Hero of the Skies, Link, was a reincarnation of the ancient hero who fought alongside goddess Hylia against Demise during the Era of the Goddess. But that is not the case. If you pay attention to the game, the original hero and the Hero of the Skies are the same person: the Hero of the Skies traveled back in time, in-game, and actually became that original hero. So, what exactly made him the Hero? Well, the point of the game is that his soul was forged to turn him into a Hero, and the Master Sword was forged alongside him. By forging his soul, he imbued his soul with essential qualities of power, wisdom, courage, and this all required purifying his soul as well. This endowed his "spirit" with those innate qualities. Any subsequent Link is born with those qualities, has a close relationship to Zelda in some form, and is predestined to be a hero in some form or other due to those qualities. These are the qualities a person needs to be able to pull and wield the Master Sword. *But in Spirit Tracks, Zelda prays to Tetra, so they must be different people.* Describing it as 'prayer' is a little inaccurate, it was more like she merely asked for guidance. Also, yes, they were different *people,* but they are both Hylia: via their blood, they share the same essence, just as how in Christianity, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are not the same person, but are still the same "God." Zelda and Tetra are *different incarnations* of the *same being.*

Also TP Link interacts with the Hero’s Shade, which is the ghost of OOT Link, meaning previous incarnations can interact

Link bein' a king who was born as a commoner (a citizen who wasn't nobility or royalty). In French, Kass says that Link's gonna rule over Hyrule with Zelda. Maybe he meant that the lowborn commoner who was a knight's son (and a big bro to a lil' sis who's dead) is gonna be the first king of Hyrule in many years. With Zelda as his beloved wifey AND his queen. Paya said somethin' about supportin' their relationship. Urbosa said somethin' about the late queen havin' it easy with Link (the Average Joe who was part of the lowborn society as a commoner, not an aristocrat) havin' Zelda (the monarchs' precious daughter) in his care. In Japanese AND Russian, Link's got HIS perspective in all the entries (with his imput bein' canonical), with the entries havin' his thoughts, his new experiences, his amazement with the giant horse's power (which he said was so cool), becomin' one with the Master Sword after the Trial of the Sword (in a way that he could fin'lly use its full power the way he couldn't be allowed to 100 years earlier), AND his concerns with Zelda's safety. She fell in love with him after he saved her life by killin' the Yiga assassin who was gonna murder her (knockin' that sickle outta his right hand at the same time), an' gettin' the other two ta run away. Call it rescue romance 'cuz she fell in love with her rescuer. She started seein' that he had his struggles with his fate as the champ. They was havin' the shared destiny they never asked fer. Their relationship had the friendship, then the romance blossomed. Now he was determined to be the princess's rescuer again. By beatin' Calamity Ganon both times, he stopped the Calamity, freed Zelda (so she'd seal the beast away), an' then reunited with her face-to-face fer the first time in 100 years. He got his wish when he saw her smile again with his eyes. He's gotta be like, "I gotta get Zelda outta there real quick, 'cuz I wanna see her smile again with my own eyes."

I never saw link and Zelda a couple . I always saw link as a protector of the hylian people. I kinda like that the games don’t force them to be together as a couple

@@shadows6411 in some games.. link is basically with all the princesses.. (OOT.. xD)

Indeed. Without Zelda, Link would be deader than dead. Vaporized by guardians :O

What bothers me is that a lot of people seems to prefer that bitch over Zelda

Monster Maze and she even had a full character arc portrayed by memories.

Wind Waker made her a character long before that

Honestly I hate how Mario is going back to having Peach be a damsel in distress

Not really voice acting, but rather voice over

I think they might have meant the king Rhoam bit

I have spoken!

OI HAV SPOKEN

Where is that's from?

He has the same beard as all the previous kings He's obviously from the same family xD

Yeah I think that’s most likely as well, especially since in the german dub Zelda says that both her mother and grandmother had the sacred power that was then passed down to her

@@Nokyyyyy what if he just grew a beard in a similar style since it was tradition to have huge beards? A similar beard means nothing

@@jorted_julimak It's a Zelda game Of course it means everything

The question I've been asking since I was little is who does zelda marry once she becomes queen

Preach

Simp

Seems the current comments don’t understand this Game of Thrones reference lmao

@@Joe_Pittard WHY is it, that every time someone shows affection for a girl nowadays, they're always called a simp? Being attracted to a woman IS NOT SIMPING FOR THE FUCKING LOVE OF CHRIST

@@DanTheMan33088 1 she fictional 2 "shes my queen" 3 its the internet

That's actually a really interesting idea.

Thats.. actually correct. According to the manual for Link:legend of Zelda 2... that games Zelda's brother makes it hylian law that all women born Into the royal family are to be named Zelda. So none may forget the tragedy of his sister being put into eternal slumber. While that is technically in the downfall timeline, at least by the manual it had happened long before..

I'm not sure if it's the same either in english or japanese, but in the latin spanish BOTW, in the king's diary he mentions that his daugther was called "Zelda" because it's the tradition to give that name to the females in the royal family.

The grandmother Zelda and her daughter Zelda and her grand daughter *Z* *E* *L* *D* *A*

It wouldn't be unusual. After all, Queen Elizabeth II was named after her mother, Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.

What does he say? "HYAAAHH!" Wait, let me phrase that differently. What does he say? "Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess" And then he goes of take a shit :D

He spoke his wedding vows clearly and beautifully..."HYAAAH HUH HYEEAAGGH!" But somehow... Zelda understood.

No problem, I also duped myself plenty of times with other videos in the past ;)

@@MonsterMaze love ur vids!!! glad I watched that nbc video that you were in!

She even seems like a Queen in TP

So Tetra became Queen? Zelda after coronation? Otherwise there would be 4 between her and Spirit Tracks' Zelda.

HappyBeezerStudios - by Lord_Mogul I don’t know if its said explicitly, but I assume Tetra is Princess Zelda the first of New Hyrule, since she arrived there and settled the land and is technically a princess zelda

Silent Void yeah the princess is link isn’t she?

I know your joking but this is painful to read

No thats tingle. Zelda is the guy that transforms into a pig now and again...

Yeah totally

Zelda is a boy and you play as him

I personally think the adjustments to Zelda's design hint at that being a good possibility. She's being made to look more like Link. (Also, I seem to recall a brief period when Breath of the Wild was first shown where the developers implied that the Link shown in the trailer might not be Link, which led to some speculation about playing Zelda. So it seems like the team was considering it.)

@@theoaremevano3227 Also short hair is easier to animate for a playable character

2 years later but Zelda was playable in Spirit Tracks

@@theoaremevano3227 Looking more like Link is completely irrelevant.

I'd love to see Link and Zelda be married.

Almost lol but that would be amazing to see

Join the club and read a few fanfics while we wait and hope

ah yes. Breath the of wild!

At the end of BOTW Zelda says her powers have 'dwindled', so she's probably at Links level now ;) there's hope!

It’d be like ciri mega epic powerful but only play a bit

Even if Zelda was ‘more powerful’ than Link, it would be impossible for her to beat him because he can slow down time until it eventually stops. His power even stops the momentum of any item in the sky and they just fall down to the ground.

Hero's Shade is probably the closest thing we have to that 😤😤 (and maybe the old man from albw)

I've always seen TP link as a full adult. Or at least a young adult and not a teenager which doesn't seem to be a thing in the Zelda universe. TP link comes off as in his very early 20's to me which if I recall right means he still has some growing to do physically. That is assuming the anatomy of Hylians, an obviously fictional species, is similar to ours.

@@hikaru9624 Zelda is confirmed twenty in Twilight Princess, so Link is probably the same age, if not a smidge older.

two words: twilight princess

@@Graphomite That's so dope.

Yeah, Im usually not a big fan of this whole "put half of 2 names together" thing they do. It also annoyed me with the whole "Raylo" stuff in Star Wars. But its become such an integrated term in the fandom now... its hard to bring in a new one haha

Why does this make me think of Mario Party 5, where each team combination had a different name?! 🤣

@@spyroflare Because the point of Mario party was secretly just a game that made ship names.

What about Linda?

Monster Maze yeah, I just use silent princess when I’m talking about linkxZelda and if people get confused i explain it. It makes it seem like I know what I’m talking about and it’s the accepted term even though it’s not.

Aye

Facts

True he's covering pretty interesting topics

Hes cheered me up during quarantine !!

Same!! Great minds think alike, I guess 🙌

As someone said: "All of them sound like Dark Souls bosses"

Deirdre Foreshadowing????????

@@Rhobeni Maybe

Your comment makes me wonder what kind of beer brand Ganondorf would drink... hmmm... Im going with "Desert Stallion". A nice strong beer for a fearsome desert king.

@@MonsterMaze He drinks "Voe wants Triforce".

Yeah it is all a bit hazy sometimes. Especially with this whole "blood of the goddess" thing ^^

Actually it is mentioned that Zelda’s mother passed away before she could begin training Zelda in the use of her goddess powers.

Yeah her mother had the sacred power as well

She was the captain.

Also princess peach

As long as I can push blocks to solve puzzles, I dont care

I gotta agree, honestly, seeing the Republic of Hyrule or whatever would be pretty cool. It also makes me wonder how the people of Hyrule adapted to sudden anarchy. It seems like things worked out in the end, the different tribes all had chiefs and other people they trusted, but it's still a story I'd be very interested in reading...

@Fluffynator i don't think a war would make sense. Maybe a Yiga schism & war, but not between the races. I think they'd all want peace, plus the leaders of each race don't really seem like the war type. The Hylains might try something, but I think their too scattered & tired from trying to survive.

@@GarryDumblowski I think we'll learn a lot more about how the people adapted no matter what happens, bc their will be people trying to pressure Zelda into becoming Queen. I think a republic would work so well- we already see that their trying have the races interact more- the champions, Tarrytown, etc. Plus i think we'll learn more about the fucked up past of Hyrule kingdom & all the bad it's done, so I don't think they'd want to remake it.

@Fluffynator bro, how is link supposed to stop that, it doesn't seem like a problem that can be solved with block puzzle.

HOPEFULLY, LIKE DAMN IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS 💀

Well..... technically she is 117 years old though xD

Monster Maze you’re right lol

All Zelda’s are either 17, 16, 15, 13, or 12.

There have been situations in history where underage Kings and Queens where enthroned, but they had other people take rule until they became old enough to do it themselves. But yeah, the Zelda we see in BotW seems not only old enough (cough over 100) but also mature enough to rule. After all, she went out basically alone, throughout the land, so she isn't ha child that needs massive parenting.

Will do :)

SHADIA wtf, OP is correct.

@@DreadSHADIA im sorry dude. Thats not how it works 😔

probably all females born into royalty and not the ones who married into it

It could also be that they take a different name after becoming Queen. Not uncommon for royalty to have a name change after coronation. Now, is Zelda the name they take as Queen or is it the name given at birth....

If she was married into the royal family then her name most likely was not Zelda.

this comment is truer than true

I could mean there are Kings with the power, but just very rudimentary, not enough to do anything meaningful with it. Us guys also got one X chromosome.

That "gene on a sex chromosome" idea would actually only truly work for something that was male-specific, as men have both an X and a Y, while women don't typically possess Y chromosomes (some do and it's just missing the SRY gene so they never develop into men). Further, if it was X-linked, it would actually be less potent in a woman than a man, given that in every somatic cell one of the two X chromosomes is deactivated and it's largely completely random. You can see this in the fact that almost all calico cats are female, because their differing fur colors are due to x inactivation. Male calico cats are all, to a man, XXY genotype. So essentially if it was an x-linked gene, only on average half of Princess Zelda's cells would have the Goddess Gene copy activated in them, while 100% of Prince Zelda's cells would. The logic you used is very sound, it's just not based on an accurate understanding of genetics.

Good point.

This shit right here lmao

I think its pretty good

Well, Nintendo quite careful in this stuff so we have a hope