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Why break the pots when i can use the pots to break YOU

(And the pots)

linktober 03 | zelda

Watch out for Zelda the Menace. Infinite pots to throw y'all, infinite pots.

Here it is, lovelies! Linktober 2022 is upon us! This is my 3rd year doing this challenge and I thought: What could I possibly add as an extra challenge on this one? In 2020, I drew all the prompts in a specific framing. Last year, I did the prompts in a storyboard fashion (2 boards per day, allowing room for a small story). But this year I was like: Yeah, let’s just do a full story with those prompts, see where it goes. It wasn’t easy to create a story based on them, but I think it’ll work out in the end! I hope you guys will enjoy the result! Well, that’s if I get to finish all drawings by the end of the month! ;) A special thank you to @spicychestnut who corrected the texts of the story! <3 Next >>

No one:

Literally No One:

Me, running on three hours of sleep and only spite and coffee keeping my mortal vessel functioning, also trying to get all of the figurines in Minish Cap to scratch the completionist itch: We, as both the Zelda Fandom and Lu Fandom, don't really talk enough about First, The Hero of Men and The Original Attempted Calamity Hero huh?

And by that, I mean these gentlemen:

No one:

Me, running on a full coffee thermos and zero sleep after a long day, after playing Hollow Knight to get a break from collecting figurines so both me and Link/Four won't go insane before rolling up to ruin Vaati's entire day and existence:

The Hollow Knight from Hollow Knight🤝 Breath of The Wild Link/Lu Wild 🤝 Original Attempted Calamity Hero

Thought to be a kingdoms final hope but due to circumstances outside of their control ended up idnavertedly heralding it's doom by either failing to defeat the evil/only sealing the evil for a time until it would inevitably break free to rampage again and either aiding in dealing with it or being unable to do anything about it/sealing it with their fall from grace.

The Hollow Knight from Hollow Knight🤝 Breath of The Wild Link/Lu Wild 🤝 Age of Calamity Link/ Lu Calamity : No Mind to Think No Will to Break No Voice to Cry Suffering, though to be fully emotionless/stoic but oh, they feel a lot actually but they're forced to hide and suppress it due to the expectation set upon them by their respective kingdoms in being their only hope against a great evil and so they're expected to just be a machine that gets the darned job done, probably needs a big hug a blanket and warm soup.

The Radiance 🤝 The Pale King 🤝 Hylia 🤝 Demise : Higher Beings with Thematic Parallels, something something "Maybe in another life I could have had your life and you mine" idk.

(Edited)

Hylia 🤝 The Pale King 🤝 King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule : Idnavertedly condemning the people they love or care for to arguably a fate worse than death in an attempt to do the right thing in an extremely dubious manner to protect their subjects, No Cost Too Great. In true Deity fashion showcasing how being loved by one is dangerous on the case of the first two idk maybe it's just the mythology obsession rearing it's head.

Anyway, have a lot of thoughts about them. Discuss I guess? *Leaves without elaborating to get more coffee*

Thinking about The Original Attempted Calamity Hero and Ganondorf again and the implications of the Calamity even existing in the first place.

(Warning, this post has spoilers for basically all of the Zelda franchise and is pretty long, if there's a game or thing you did not read but would like to like the manga then please turn back, or stick around if you don't care lol)

I know there's a lot of theories about him floating around, that either he was half Gerudo, part of the Zonai tribe or at least half Zonai and Zonai raised or even Ganon himself because for some reason something might have happened to that era's Link, but that's a fairy better released at another day. But can y'all imagine being the guy back then? I don't think we discuss this enough to be honest.

So far, almost all of Ganon's incarnations have been at least somewhat mortal before BOTW, with the exception of obviously Demise who was a deity, and the whole thing with the Four Swords Adventures portion of the timeline that kind of itches at me that it has time travel involved though that's yet another fairy, but almost every single one of them started as a human even if they do get more and more animalistic over time. What with Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker's Ganondorf being by far the most human, but during the second part of Ocarina of Time and later on Twilight Princess they descend into Beast Form, which is a power boost yes but definitely a downgrade as it doesn't leave him as sane or cognitive, given that at the end of Twilight Princess Ganon returns to human form to fight Link rather than remain in that form. It's telling that he much prefers being human to being a feral boar.

Then we have OG Zelda's Ganon, the general downfall timeline Ganon that is, from A Link to The Past to Oracle of Seasons/Ages to A Link Between Worlds to the very first Legend of Zelda and Link's Adventure, it's clear that Ganon has fully descended into a feral state and that whatever bit of humanity there and cognition as a result was, he very rarely talks in LTTP, in a LBTW he's at his most coherent when Yuga fuses with him, by the OG Zelda he doesn't speak at all and twice in that time frame he had to be revived rather than come back on his own like his more human like iterations can if they wait and chill for a couple hundred years. He's basically no more than a feral animal, he isn't interested in ruling Hyrule, he's very darn interested in destroying the hero and making Hylia herself suffer and definitely doesn't care about burning Hyrule to the ground and killing anyone in his path if that does the trick, whatever sanity there was is too far gone.

Stick with me here, I'll get to the point.

It's an interesting descent and detail to pivot and follow after. It's obviously a result of Demise's corrupting divine fury and curse, you know what's technically a similar case? Zelda.

I think we can all agree that Zelda isn't Hylia, she's Hylia brought to earth or at the very least her vessel if we go by Breath of the Wild, because Zelda praying for herself wouldn't make any logical sense otherwise even if by order of her father, with no memories or rememberance of what she was, just that she is the holder of Hylia's divine power and her will and responsibility to protect the people and specially the Triforce/Light Force the Original Three left behind. No Cost Too Great you could say in the words of the Pale King from Hollow Knight, the only time she remembers in full is in Skyward Sword, it's confirmed that Zelda gets Hylia's knowledge and maybe even her memories after praying in the springs and it doesn't matter if she's just a vessel to her power or a reincarnation or if this is a Cú Chulainn situation where she is Hylia yet isn't (Schrodinger's Deity?), and her behavior shifts a bit then, not by much but it's definitely noticeable if you look at the text.

What if it's a similar case for Ganon? Zelda is what you get when you don't have the memories, when you take something barely comprehensible with a though process you can't even begin to understand with an intense capability for emotion that's practically suffocating and compress it into a mortal form to start again as a blank slate and it mostly remains that way. Ganon is what you get when the memories slowly seep back in as well as the intense, overwhelming, all consuming divine rage and fury and wish for vengeance seeps into a mortal vessel that very obviously can't fully hold it, couple that with Demise's curse and you have a cocktail for disaster, Ganon was doomed from the start just by being Demise's vessel, man never stood a chance. Though there's no way to say wether he fought against the influence or not, that's something we are unlikely to ever know since we only play and read from Link's and Zelda's perspective.

The Calamity and Malice is the result of when that divine fury breaks out, when there's a break in the already spilling over and cracked goblet. But it couldn't have broken on it's own you know? We see that cursed enemies were always a thing in Zelda games and as far back in the timeline as Skyward Sword it already existed, remember that corrupting and harmful 'water' at the Ancient Cistern's basement? The cursed enemies and dark crystals there? Possibly a leftover of Demise's power after the original break through the surface as seen in the First Hero's manga, a prototype of Malice, hence why Ghirahim was sniffing around there for a way to bring him back, it's the only other place in the franchise after BOTW we see a prominent number of cursed enemies, and the Malice is clearly a thing that can learn and evolve, it can possess enemies and technology, it can revive the dead and control it and possess people too and create beings from it (remember the Phantom Ganon in OOT and PH guys), but it's not a discernible pattern, we didn't know much about it at all until recently and that right there? Is some terrifying lovecraftian/ancient mythology thing.

Because we clearly see it puppeteering scattered pieces of Sheikah Tech in the form of the Blights, possessing the Divine Beasts and the Calamity Ganon form in BOTW, Tears of the Kingdom shows us how Ganondorf's corpse is still around and clearly was revived, like a lich being corrupted from it's own energy. It's not Ganondorf doing anything anymore, it's the curse, it's Demise's Will, and as his corpse has not fully perished yet it likely is but a puppet to it.

It was not a pattern anyone could have predicted much less the hero back then, would he and his Zelda have an inkling about the pattern of Ganondorf always reincarnating and maybe have tried to do something about it early? Absolutely, heck maybe Ganondorf was even sane enough to fight back and try to go off script. Would they have predicted that some kind of freaky kill switch would actívate to keep his reanimated corpse going only powered by the original curse Demise set up, which is basically fueled by pure divine will for vengeance on the one with the spirit of the hero who bested him not once but twice and the goddess that twarthed him at every turn from throwing that little green glad bastard at him with a sacred sword to seal him to basically sabotaging the Triforce so divine beings cannot use it and fury so strong it transcends time and space if we count games like Cadance of Hyrule and Hyrule Warriors (which we are doing here by the way) being a thing and presumably happening in different worlds? Absolutely not.

Honestly I see people compare BOTW and AOC Link to the guy back then and how they should have done better in game and that BOTW Link failed not living up to the standard he set up and how he stopped talking under the pressure and I'm just, y'all ever pause and think he wasn't anymore prepared than you people? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong due to sleep deprivation, I haven't slept well in months and woke up in a cold sweat at 3am to start writing this down but just- He didn't have Shrines to prepare him, he didn't have the Divine Beasts back then to weaken the Calamity before they were built by the Sheikah with presumably Zonai aid (and oh boy to I have thoughts and headcanons on that) and that would have taken time, it was basically just him, Zelda, the other races and Fi as the Master Sword (or heck even without her, we all know it always takes any Link time to get the Master Sword in the games, he likely didn't pull her out straight away like how presumably BOTW and AOC Link did) holding the fort against Malice enhanced monsters and likely revived undead because we know even while sane the previous Ganon's were definitely not above doing that.

So it was most likely a Phyrric Victory, the few times we hear about things that happened to previous heroes, is that we either don't know what happened to them at the end of the story (which is extremely concerning if you ask me because something should have been recorded right? They should have at least recorded how Zelda got her powers to give other Zelda's a better point of reference that just stay in a spring and pray to yourself apparently) Or that they just straight up died (The Hero's Shade being OOT Link, The First Hero being left behind rather than being able to ascend with the other humans to Skyloft, OG Zelda's previous Link most likely being killed in an attempt by Ganon's cult to revive him or to seal him away again), and we don't hear what happened to him or Zelda or the original Champions. History is written by the victors after all, Hylian history has a tendency of erasing details, take from that what you will.

TL;Dr My headcanon is that him and his Zelda were unwittingly cataclysms to the Calamity being unleashed in the first place, and that's why we don't hear much about what happened to them and, since 10000 years have passed there was likely a lot of time for erasure and cover up to happen by the crown. And that the man himself would be very proud of his descendants for being able to deal with at least part of the problem he unintentionally caused and surviving even with worse odds in spite of being better prepared unlike him who most likely died even if BOTW Link and AOC Link should get at least one sucker punch in if they're told that wasn't even the original goods they thought they dealt with as a treat if we go the LU route, in this essay I will-

I’m tired of the interpretation that Wild is inherently less skilled and heroic than his pre calamity self. That compared to AoC Link, he failed and he’s weak and all that bullshit. I’m one of those fics where they meet and AoC Link doesn’t like Wild for some bullshit reason, I want Wild to realize something and snap at him.

Wild didn’t have weeks of forewarning and armies at his back. He was separated from all of his friends and taken by surprise with the armies of corrupted guardians. He had to come out of his own tomb with no memories and no strength to crawl back to the place he was back then. He defeated Ganon alone. The only help he got was just to get onto the divine beasts. He had to kill the fragments of Ganon that had murdered his friends all by himself. They become the only help he has in the final battle.

They don’t even fight the same form of calamity ganon. AoC Ganon is a complete wimp compared to the monstrosity of botw calamity ganon (and I know that’s literally only bc they wanted to make him a playable character) botw also had a second form that was implied to be the most powerful version of him because he was giving up on reincarnation and just wanted to use all of his evil energy to become a fiery pig made of goop.

Here’s the ganons that AoC fights (not including the blights bc although he has to fight them more times, they are a lot weaker in this game)

And here are Wilds ganons

There’s a bit of a difference there huh, it’s almost laughable to compare them.

The difference between AoC Link and Wild is pretty simple. One of them has armies, the other one is the army.

Tired, broke: Fi sees Wild/Botw Link as unworthy after his 100 year power nap and having trauma and possibly Sheikah tech scramble his brain and memories like an omelete and dislikes him because she doesn't think he's good enough of a hero in spite of it all. So she won't even talk to him or allow him to use her full potential.

Wired, Woke: Remembering Fi actually doesn't talk to any Link after Sky/Skyward Sword and that she's an old girl that hasn't gotten proper maintance in probably more than a few millennia, so if anything her power is diminishing and getting more fragile by every game as seen by the fact she most likely broke from corruption in TOTK. Not to mention even if she did try talking apparently no Link would hear her so she wouldn't even try and Wild was probably a surprise even if he didn't understand any words, at best just got a feeling and thus she actually has a surprisingly positive view on him rather than a negatively biased one.

Alright, nap has been had but I have no coffee so I feel only a smidge more human, let's see if we can make this coherent.

You all remember the ending of Skyward Sword, right? When Fi said her farewell and went into the blade itself, it's very clear her ability to communicate dwindled then much like how Ghirahim's humanoid form was after Demise unceremoniously pulled his blade form from inside him and sealed him in it. The main difference is that it's forced rather than willing how Fi's presumably was.

Because she herself said so, she went into eternal sleep. She was basically no better than dead due to that, she couldn't see (presumably, I'll get to that), couldn't hear, couldn't communicate or even try to, that's why she's silent through all of the Zelda games we see before that single chime in BOTW, besides we are unsure wether any Link after presumably First (who I believe and personally headcanon a hand in her creation and original forging as the Goddess Sword, because why would Hylia create something fully with the potential to become human or learn human emotions if Fi's function is that of a guide? Would she even be able to, deity that she is with a different view of reality entirely? I feel like she would have handed her to First after finishing her because what better way for a guide to work effectively than to know the person she's guiding? And that she picked up humanity from him or at least the potential for it, and that Skyward Sword Link was basically the final nail in the coffin by the end of his game), Sky, presumably the Hero of Men if he knew about his predecessor though that's unlikely, since he got the original Picori Blade from the Minish before the events of Minish Cap and it's very clearly not the same blade as Fi, since it's later reforged as the Four Sword and he likely wouldn't need to get Fi if he had it during that transitional period to the Surface (which is yet another fairy I will open in another post) and presumably the Original Attempted Calamity Hero aka BOTW Ancient Link/Fia to me before Wild in BOTW actually could hear her, we played those games from the downfall to the child to the adult timeline and even Hyrule Warriors where Warriors KNOWS Fi and Age of Calamity, we never listen or see her talk, we don't get any indication any of the Links even could hear her and that they even knew there was a spirit within the sword (heck Wild probably wouldn't have know either unless Flora brought it up in that one memory, and even then her view is a bit biased), meaning that the fact The Master Sword has a sentient being trapped and asleep in it probably never occured to anyone and that it's not common knowledge. Maybe we just never see or hear Fi anymore because she isn't meant to be listened or seen after her original purpose is concluded.

And that makes things very complicated for her and the matter of keeping her well maintained so she doesn't get damaged or outright breaks like in TOTK.

Twice in the series we need to reforge or refine Fi, in Skyward Sword and in Legend's games, more tellingly in A Link Between Worlds, and both of those circumstances require very specific and likely not heard off materials (in SW it's the flames, in ALBTW it's a very specific ore that you have to gather and bring it to the smith, and it sticks around till Hyrule's games in the downfall timeline if the sword he has there is indeed Fi), those are the only games where we can actually shoot the beams aka the Skyward Strike that Sky does in Skyward Sword outside of maybe Minish Cap, which implies there are two ways it can be done: either Fi needs to be in perfect condition to use it or at least strengthened or, if you're in desperate times like how Wild was you let her leech from your life force to do it if you're fully healthy (something she would not be if she wasn't repaired in OOT as we don't see either Time or Twilight later on ever do it, we arguably see it in what I like to call the Drowned Timeline from Wind Waker to Spirit Tracks) or it's a learned technique that you perfect yourself (as we see in Minish Cap with Four, besides the only time we see Time use anything similar to Skyward Strikes are when he's using the FD Mask in MJM, which implies you can learn how to do them, the Fierce Deity clearly knows how but Time doesn't) which is an interesting factor to take in mind.

Can you imagine how long Fi went without being properly taken care of and repaired? She was stuck in that stone, asleep and she couldn't communicate and even if she tried it's very possible her master wouldn't hear her, swords need regular care and maintenance so it's not really a surprise that her power is diminishing over the years without someone to do that maintance that is usually extremely specific and has requirements the average person probably wouldn't guess was needed. Between that and isolation for over many, many eons it's no wonder she'd eventually stop trying even if she could attempt communication, it's clear she has a measure of awareness to be able to always recognize those with the Hero's Spirit, but she doesn't have the agency to act upon it so honestly would make sense she'd just give up.

She can see ALL that the Links go through, but she can't act upon it to guide them, can't aid her one friend ever since her creation and that right there? Is basically torture for an immortal being, even one who's mostly dreaming eternally now. It's no wonder she'd eventually give up on trying.

Now going slightly off topic and likely into headcanon and even more theorizing territory, stick with me here. We'll get back to mostly canon stuff in a second.

They say that apparently Fia (Original Attempted Calamity Hero) could hear her, but I honestly don't think that's the case. I think he could infer that there was a being inside the sword and that she was sentient, but he likely couldn't hear her talk, remember, 10000 is a lot of time for information to travel and get lost because history is basically like ancient telephone some times and information gets altered or changed just slightly the more time passes and hylian history is know to alter stuff, much like how they basically erased that Hero's character beyond "He appeared when he was needed the most and got the job done before dissapearing and most likely dying off screen- oh lookie is that his severed arm holding Ganon there? Ignore that" it's very possible they exaggerated the fact that he knew Fi was sentient and could talk to her, maybe he was just magically sensitive or if he was at least half Zonai like how everyone (including myself) is theorizing and speculating literally grew up among people who can do magic as they were sorcerers and warriors, maybe he did talk to her but she never could talk back, just listening but he was the first one since Sky to properly try doing that even knowing she couldn't answer and that meant everything. It gave her reason to try again, to try and stay awake a little longer just so she could talk to her master and friend one last time.

And then he died.

Just like how so many before him did.

And then ten thousand millennia pass on by and she's alone again.

Another hero comes, history rhymes again.

And she tries, even when he forgets she tries, even when she's so weakened and not properly maintained and has to take his life force like a leech and probably hates everything second of it or just does it because it's necessary but she doesn't really want to just so she can be strong enough to aid him once again she tries...!

And he listens.

It was only a word, only a smidge of sentiment but he listens.

And that's enough.

Honestly we only really think that she doesn't see Wild as worthy because that's what the Great Deku Tree said, but he can't listen to her, he can't know her though process, the only one who could is Flora and since she reassured Fi he'd come back and he did even without any memories I'd like to think that's more than enough as Flora didn't mention anything similar. The Deku Tree has an outsider's perspective so we can't exactly take what he says at face value when it comes to Fi.

It's not the same Link she knew, not really. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, all things stay eventually. It may not be the same Link she knew, or the ones who came after but whom she cared for all the same but that's okay.

It's still Link, so that's enough.

Heck maybe the reason she's broken in Tears of the Kingdom is because she saw Wild's arm be consumed by Malice and tried taking it into herself instead so he wouldn't die or get corrupted. She has lived for a long time and she has seen the many iterations of her friend live and die and she's tired of it. She's tired of not being able to act, so she refuses to let another one fall like that without at least putting up a fight, not again like how it was with First and presumably Time. She takes the Malice onto herself, but due to her age and lack of proper maintance (remember, we never see a blacksmith that works with swords in BOTW, and Flora lost her powers so she couldn't have tried replicating what Sun did and there are no sages or ore, it was a lost cause from the start) she breaks, Wild's arm gets corrupted and he has to get the previous hero's arm grafted onto his instead and now we have no idea what happened to her, but it would make sense if she went out trying to protect Wild.

In summary, Fi probably cares about Wild just as much as she does the other Links, heck maybe even a smidge higher though not as high as she probably does Sky and First, but she does care and has a positive view on him, rather than actively dislike and reject him.

Is she probably a bit salty? Sure, but he's also the only other Link who could hear her and knew she existed so she likely has a positive view on him rather than a pure negative bias, and we really need to take that into account more when writing them. Let them coexist in peace Lord darn it they've been through a lot already, I know Wild is basically a gold mine for angst (as someone who is writing something with that and him as the premise this exact moment after waking up in a cold sweat of insomniac frenzy after the power nap can attest), let them have this much at least.

Tired, broke: Fi sees Wild/Botw Link as unworthy after his 100 year power nap and having trauma and possibly Sheikah tech scramble his brain and memories like an omelete and dislikes him because she doesn't think he's good enough of a hero in spite of it all. So she won't even talk to him or allow him to use her full potential.

Wired, Woke: Remembering Fi actually doesn't talk to any Link after Sky/Skyward Sword and that she's an old girl that hasn't gotten proper maintance in probably more than a few millennia, so if anything her power is diminishing and getting more fragile by every game as seen by the fact she most likely broke from corruption in TOTK. Not to mention even if she did try talking apparently no Link would hear her so she wouldn't even try and Wild was probably a surprise even if he didn't understand any words, at best just got a feeling and thus she actually has a surprisingly positive view on him rather than a negatively biased one.

Me, On a Good Day: Goodness do I love dragging Hylia. She's on thin ice and the way she ended up dealing with Demise and unwittingly doomed First's Incarnations and her own definitely deserves scrutinizing. As a mythology fan one would think expecting a goddess to love you back would be a fool's errand.

Also Me, A Second Later That Same Day: You know, maybe we are looking at Hylia wrong, maybe we are judging too harshly. Who knows maybe we are just conveniently ignoring the fact deities have different views of reality and that, given she loved First back, she likely hates/hated herself just as much if not more than we do. Maybe she genuinely tried to do her best with what she could at hand even if she went and traded notes with the Pale King in methodology, No Cost Too Great, we theorize she's a goddess of time so who knows what she saw or knows that we don't and maybe the cycle was always fated to happen no matter what she did and we have to consider Demise getting the Triforce would have been just as bad if not worse even if he can't use it to wish on anything. Maybe we are judging her too harshly because of our mortal point of view.

Me Once More, After that Same Line of Thought When Anything Goes Wrong in a Zelda Playthrough and The Boys are on One Heart or Angst Hits after Remembering How Their History Goes: This is all your fault Hylia.

Bonus/Technically a Shiny Variant of that Same Category: Sir Raven from the Oracle Series Manga

No one:

Literally No One:

Me, running on three hours of sleep and only spite and coffee keeping my mortal vessel functioning, also trying to get all of the figurines in Minish Cap to scratch the completionist itch: We, as both the Zelda Fandom and Lu Fandom, don't really talk enough about First, The Hero of Men and The Original Attempted Calamity Hero huh?

And by that, I mean these gentlemen:

Me, doing a double take after watching the trailer, spilling coffee all over self and scaring my poor dog off my lap (they're fine by the way):

Me: *ignores burns, breaks out the Twilight Princess Manga, does a second double take after going frame by frame on Link's/Wild's arm, mentally comparing both spirals*

Also Me: So was anyone going to tell us Link's/Wild's Zonai arm matches and looks like the Interlopers/Twili in design, or were we just supposed to find that out ourselves?

Our best boii, Link.

Tears of the Kingdom soon <3

-please don’t repost without permission!- 

*head in hands* Thinking about likely unintentional LOZ and Hollow Knight parallels between Hylia, the Pale King, First and the Pure Vessel again.

Oh I can absolutely see that, and the part of me that headcanons he's descended from the 10000yrs ago hero who was most likely Zonai (aka Warrior Sorcerers) screeches that this is canon.

Headcanon that Wild uses magic when he does his flurry rush, parry, and mid-air archery but he doesn’t believe it and always denies it. The magic-using Links like Hyrule and Legend are like “bro, that’s magic. You’re using magic.” And Wild just continually denies it like “nah, fam, no magic here.That’s all skill.”

*Replaying Majora's Mask for the 51987th time, still sick as a dog or Twilight after Dink tries obliterating him because I need a small break from Minish Cap*

Songs that fit the Chain quite well are Brother by Kodaline and The Calling by The Amazing Devil (possibly only for Time, Legend and Wild, but the vibes fit), and Welly Boots by The Amazing Devil can definitely fit Time and maybe an older Twilight with Wild.

*Does not elaborate*

*downs coffee like a shot, stares off into the rain, briefly nods to @unexpectedtraveler before staring off into the rain again, downing more coffee* Thinking about parallels between Hylia, The Pale King, The Pure Vessel and the First Link again.

How Hylia and the Pale King are both pale assigned deities (what with Hylia calling herself the white goddess in the manga), and how everything basically stems from them attempting to protect something, Hylia the Triforce and her people and The Pale King his kingdom and people from opposing deities that parallel them, both out of a sense of duty and instinctual design both. How they both doomed their kingdoms by trying to do the right thing with arguably the worst methodology, Hylia with unintentionally spurring on the cycle of reincarnation and The Pale King by having to watch Hallownest fall to the Radiance's Infection.

Thinking about how they both created a plan hinging on sacrificing one to save the many, and how it doomed people they loved or might have come to love had things been different from the very start, because as we all know deities have a different view of reality and thus see things very differently from us and it's difficult to define or even assign morals to it, how both First and The Pure Vessel were deemed perfect for the task even after being 'tainted' by either love, hate, a sense of duty or all of the above (see: First resenting the people of Hylia for being wrongfully imprisoned and not seeing himself as worthy, and the original Crimson Loftwing agreeing until the end stretch, and the Pure Vessel's entire deal of not truly being hollow) and how the two of them were imprisoned in hopes of making that plan succeed for an incredibly long stretch of time, suffering in isolation and being absolutely miserable, but only managed to contain the evil for a time and end up dead (or extremely likely to be dead each time in PV's case) so a sucessor to their position would come and finish the job a long time later, even if it won't save the kingdom. How they both did it in the name of someone they loved, goddess/likely lover and father respectively.

How both Hylia and The Pale King could not have foreseen the outcome of loving/showing affection to their chosen, 'perfect' champion, and thus suffered until the bitter end as well, how they both resided upon spaces far from reality to hide in shame and guilt for their actions and could see into the future (Hylia likely being the Goddess of Time as well as a White Goddess, and the Pale King with his foresight), how they both had someone else carry on their plans and will even from beyond those spaces, vessels namely in Sun/Zelda and The Little Ghost/Knight, but even then that plan didn't fully succeeded and their kingdoms were doomed to suffer, how Hylia created the Sheikah and the Pale King his many Kingsmould, Wingsmould and the Dreamers, how Hornet and Impa both stand in opposition to challenge Sky/Link and The Little Ghost/The Knight as an echo of the pale deities last orders, their words haunting them to the end of the road.

How they both are portrayed as dead, likely from regret after their retreat from the know world.

O' higher beings, what did you see under your pale watch, that would require such sacrifice that would be for naught? What did you witness that would still bring ruin to your descendants and people, no matter your best efforts?

Maybe I'm just overthinking this, but we can likely draw parallels between Sky/Skyward Sword Link and The Knight, or even further down the line between Wild/BOTW Link and either the Pure Vessel or The Knight, in this essay I will-

Feeling tired of existence, might pull a Hero's Shade or Downfall Hero of Time idk. *Sighs and downs coffee like shot*