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This is a custom Link design for a hypothetical game codenamed "Ocean Dreams" that would have been released in a parallel timeline. I’ve been wanting to create my own iteration of Link for the past few years.
This iteration of the hero would've been born in the future of the Adult Timeline, following the events of WW, PH, and ST respectively.
If you're more curious about the model, I talk about it a little more here: https://youtu.be/wG4WupjgGgc That version however features the old one, as I recently altered the eye scaling for the current model as a few people pointed out that they originally looked too big.
Hope you like it!
Everyone's been ranking their favorite Zelda games, but I decided to go a different route....
Disclaimer, this is just fun speculation.
That being said, I think that we can all agree that the use of time travel tends to get kind of broken. So, I thought up a little fan-theory as to how it could work without contradictions. Could also work for other series as well.
Basically, time travel isn't really time travel, it's more so closer to interdimensional travel.
So let's say you travel to the year 2006 (20 years ago), you're not actually going back to 2006, but travelling to a universe where it is currently 2006.
Basically there are infinite universes, where every possible outcome and event is already mapped out. So in this example, you'd be going to a universe set in the past where you happened to pop up at that same time.
When you return to your present (back to 2026), you're just hopping into a universe where those changes already took place, one where you might have also decided to time travel during that time, so you'd be taking the place of that universe's version of you.
If that's the case, then your old universe, that one where you originally came from also still exists. So in the Arrowverse itself, at least before the events of crisis, there are universes where the Flash travelled back in time and didn't come back.
It follows the logic that past, present, and future, all exist at the same time. Sort of like how it's depicted in Spiderverse, where there is a universe set in 2018, the 1940s, the 31st century, and 2099, but they all exist simultaneously.
That's also why when the Flash goes to the future, he can exist at the same time as his future self, which is in reality, just an older, alternate version of himself.
One last thing, when a character hops into a universe set in the past, they're not creating a new universe, they're going into an already existing one, since there are infinite universes set throughout different times.
There might be a few holes, and I'm sorry if you disagree, but I just wanted to share this. It's fun to try and make sense of things, but please don't it too seriously.