Gaming Headcanons

[MasterEn]

My personal Pokemon headcanon is that Kanto is specifically known as the most technologically-advanced of all the regions in the series, with Johto being its quirky backwards neighbour country full of hicks and Orre being the gritty criminal underworld that no decent person wants to visit. I hate how all the new games' settings are just "IT'S LIKE A REAL COUNTRY, WITH POKEMON TO MATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

this is true. kanto and jhoto are real world locations that are like this. kanto is more developed while jhoto is more rural. johto is a made up name it seems but i found this snippet on google:

"The Johto region takes after Japan's Kansai region, a highly-populated area famous for its food and historical sites. Various in-game locations, such as Olivine City and Goldenrod City, are seemingly based on the real-world cities of Kobe and Osaka, respectively."

 

[trickybus]

The VAST majority of the game is based on the plot that a great even rose in the distant past, defeated Goddess Hylia's champion, and was sealed by the Goddess herself, becoming The Imprisoned.

Not quite. When Hylia defeated Demise the first time and sealed him away, there wasn't any champion present. Hylia created Skyloft and bodied Demise all by herself. The problem is that she couldn't kill him permanently and the fight weakened her to the point that she would lose if she had to face him again. It was then that she needed a mortal champion to use the Triforce to destroy him.

 

[What's His Face]

Not quite. When Hylia defeated Demise the first time and sealed him away, there wasn't any champion present. Hylia created Skyloft and bodied Demise all by herself. The problem is that she couldn't kill him permanently and the fight weakened her to the point that she would lose if she had to face him again. It was then that she needed a mortal champion to use the Triforce to destroy him.

That doesn't go against what I said, though. Originally, Hylia, with the other 6 races, defeated & sealed Demise. Later, Not-Aganhim unsealed Demise after dragging Zelda into the past once Link squished The Avocado. Demise then gets confronted by Link - the first Hylian to not run in terror from him. Now, that's the important part. The Goddess' champion was a Hylian. Link is the first and only Hylian to confront Demise.

In the game opening, and all up to that moment, the Chosen Champion was said to have fallen to Demise (that's what the ceremony in the game opening is all about, recall), which lead to Hylia (now known as Zelda) to Avocado him, which resulted in her eventually re-incarnating herself as a mortal to guide Link into becoming her Chosen Champion (which she apologized for earlier in the game). From there, Link either dies and Skyward Sword (and my head canon of BotW/TotK then happen), or Link kills Demise, thus the ending of Skyward Sword, the Curse of Demise, and the rest of the series.

Which also means that, no matter the reality, Ganondorf is always a power-mad jackass.

 

[trickybus]

From there, Link either dies and Skyward Sword (and my head canon of BotW/TotK then happen), or Link kills Demise, thus the ending of Skyward Sword, the Curse of Demise, and the rest of the series.

Link dies like a bitch, Zelda turns Demise into a giant avocado, seals him away, leading to Skyward Sword. As Link is dead (and Hylia gets reincarnated eventually as a Hylian herself), no Hyrule can be born after Link and Zelda disappear into the past after The Imprisoned got guacamole'd.

So how far in the past are they traveling? Because this seems to be implying that when Link and Zelda go to the past, they go back all the way to the beginning, e.g. the time before Hylia sealed Demise.

 

[What's His Face]

So how far in the past are they traveling? Because this seems to be implying that when Link and Zelda go to the past, they go back all the way to the beginning, e.g. the time before Hylia sealed Demise.

I'm sorry, what? What part of...

"Originally, Hylia, with the other 6 races, defeated & sealed Demise. Later, Not-Aganhim unsealed Demise after dragging Zelda into the past once Link squished The Avocado. Demise then gets confronted by Link - the first Hylian to not run in terror from him."​

...says Link & Zelda travelled to before Demise was originally sealed? There is a clear Before & After here. "Originally" and "Later." I'm not creating a bloody flow chart for your reading comprehension ability.

 

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Kamek as a father figure was established in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, and Yoshi's Island DS. He runs the Koopa army in Bowser's stead as baby Bowser isn't old enough to do it himself, fusses over him when he's throwing a tantrum or wants something (in Partners in Time, it was cookies and Kamek made sure to give baby Bowser "evil milk" to wash them down), tries to intercept threats during naptime, and tends to Bowser's wounds when he's been beaten.

Not to mention Super Mario RPG, where the brainwashed magikoopa you fight as a boss in Bowser's castle toward the end of the game thinks "That's...my child" if you use Mallow's Psychopath on him.

My Pokemon headcannon is that Fairy type Pokémon like Clefairy didn't just have that typing added to them retroactively. Typing isn't just some game abstraction or a Pokémon classification system, it's an energy that exists in the world that you can even find in certain stones. When AZ fired the ultimate weapon to revive his Floette 3000 years ago, Fairy type energy was disrupted worldwide and has only recently begun to normalize again.

 

[Bakuma1997]

*Enter his thread*
*Prepares coffee while reading the Zelda theories*

¿How the heck you made sense of the retcons and misconnections?

 

[Ikagura]

Nintendo does not care as much about timelines as fans do.

 

[What's His Face]

Nintendo does not care as much about timelines as fans do.

Well, yeah.

 

[trickybus]

I'm sorry, what? What part of...

"Originally, Hylia, with the other 6 races, defeated & sealed Demise. Later, Not-Aganhim unsealed Demise after dragging Zelda into the past once Link squished The Avocado. Demise then gets confronted by Link - the first Hylian to not run in terror from him."​

...says Link & Zelda travelled to before Demise was originally sealed? There is a clear Before & After here. "Originally" and "Later." I'm not creating a bloody flow chart for your reading comprehension ability.

Yeah, sorry dude; I genuinely cannot follow your headcanon. Oh well

 

[Gorse]

Is there a reason that the CDi games can’t be part of the canon timeline? Because I’d really like them to be. They don’t conflict with anything in the Hyrule Historia, right?

 

[MasterEn]

Is there a reason that the CDi games can’t be part of the canon timeline? Because I’d really like them to be. They don’t conflict with anything in the Hyrule Historia, right?

no. we are not allowed to have nice things. that's why.