What D&D Alignment is Link (The Hero of Time/Legend of Zelda)

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  • @Radio4Ever
    @Radio4Ever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Dude my favorite thing about the hero of time is as soon as he sees his descendant stuck in a form not his own and suffering he howls the song of healing to him to try to help. Literally almost cried at that part of TP.

  • @EcthrisDevastatia
    @EcthrisDevastatia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Just to let you know, In the manga(dubious canonicity) Ganon breaks the wooden ocarina and that is why you never see it again :)

    • @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong
      @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I accept it as canon. Ganon's definitely the kind of fucker to break a child's instrument.

    • @dustyfedora
      @dustyfedora 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong also the way Link gets knocked down seems like it would break a simple clay ocarina.

    • @RikThunder33
      @RikThunder33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dustyfedora I thought it was wooden. makes more sense for the forest : o
      Not saying clay doesnt though. just...Kokiri dont strike me as the sort that would make clay using fire. *shrug*

    • @kylepessell1350
      @kylepessell1350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The manga is awesome though and only adds to how great The Hero of Time is as a character because it's much easier to see his genuine heroism and relate to him as a person who has feelings of their own.

    • @MrDrewsopher
      @MrDrewsopher 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RikThunder33 They have clay pots. Where else would they get them, since they can't leave the forest?

  • @lunarshadow5584
    @lunarshadow5584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I love that every almost every "Chaotic Good" is a debatable snicker.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      link's a good boy

    • @MrDrewsopher
      @MrDrewsopher 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheLoadingCrew True good, even. Not caring for, but not against, the laws and strictures of the land, the lad just does what he knows he can and should to beat evil and bring happiness to the people around him. Which is a whole-ass mood that I can relate to hard.

    • @abigailgriffin-wc3fm
      @abigailgriffin-wc3fm ปีที่แล้ว

      Unless we start getting into other length cuz I can think of some links that would be chaotic good at best

  • @toanuva6178
    @toanuva6178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    In Breath of the Wild, there are references honoring The Hero of Time and the Sages. There’s Zelda’s knighting Speech, A few of the carvings of Zora history reference him and Princess Ruto, and Mipha’s Diary also references them when describing her feelings towards BOTW Link. And 3 of the Devine Beasts are named after the Sages in OOT, with the Zora’s history directly referring to Ruto when talking about how they named Vah Ruda. Personally I think that The Hero of Twilight carried on the Memory of The Hero of Time (his Ancestor by Blood) and told of him and his trials to Zelda, who made moves to record it as official Hyrule history. Something the other species of the Kingdom took to as well.

    • @keelanbarron928
      @keelanbarron928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Here's the problem with that: there is a lot of evidence showing that it could be in all three of the timelines. (personally, I think it's none of them and it's a separate timeline.)

    • @joelsasmad
      @joelsasmad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@keelanbarron928 There's evidence suggesting that it builds off of the Hyule warriors timeling that implicitly connects all the others and allowing for relics of all three routes to exist.

    • @j2dragon109
      @j2dragon109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joelsasmad OG HW isn't cannon thou

    • @keelanbarron928
      @keelanbarron928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@j2dragon109 .....so? They could decide to make it Canon later. They're the creators of the legend of Zelda, they can do whatever they want.

    • @keelanbarron928
      @keelanbarron928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joelsasmad the thing is that I do believe that breath of the wild takes place after hyrule warriors....however, I also think that it takes place in its own time line (where the only Canon games are skyward sword, possibly hyrule warriors, and breath of the wild.)

  • @toanuva6178
    @toanuva6178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    6:22, in the Manga, the Fairy Ocarina is destroyed by Ganandorf during their first encounter. Which is another thing Link hates Ganandorf for.

    • @averytubestudios
      @averytubestudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      And the Volvagia thing!

    • @powerprotoman
      @powerprotoman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@averytubestudios yeah the volvagia thing is fucking depressing

    • @Rand0mPeon
      @Rand0mPeon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@powerprotoman I swear after reading the manga I never looked at Volvagia the same way ever again.

    • @averytubestudios
      @averytubestudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@powerprotoman All the more reason OoT Ganon is the best one.

    • @keelanbarron928
      @keelanbarron928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@averytubestudios ....so that means you like the ganon in wind waker and the one in twilight princess and the one in a link to the past right? (since they are all the same ganon.)

  • @Dudeman23rd
    @Dudeman23rd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    11:19
    This is entirely irrelevant to the discussion of alignment, but Link actually _keeps_ the Triforce of Courage when Zelda sends him back to reclaim his lost time. This was something neither of them expected and causes the "Divine Prank" referenced in Twilight Princess. Because Link in the past now has a piece of the Triforce, the Triforce in the past splits anyway and sends the Wisdom and Power pieces off to inhabit Zelda and Ganondorf. This is how Ganondorf survives his execution and has to be sent to the Twilight Realm as a last resort. It's also why Twilight Princess Link already has the Triforce mark on his hand when you start the game; he's one of the few Links in the series to have a canonical blood relation to a past Link, so he already possesses the Triforce of Courage.

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Triforce isn't hereditary except when it's physically passed on from one person to another. Link has the Triforce of Courage in TP because he's ALSO the reincarnation of his grandpa and it was soulbound. The LIGHT FORCE is hereditary. You mixed up your forces.

    • @Dudeman23rd
      @Dudeman23rd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera I'm way out of the loop on the Minish Cap/Four Swords additions to canon like the Light Force, so I apologize for getting that confused.

  • @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong
    @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    7:19 it's not really theft tho, is it? Like you say, Ingo bet Epona in the race and Link won, meaning she is lawfully his. Ingo attempting to renege on the bet after losing fair and square doesn't make Link taking Epona stealing.

    • @vicenteabalosdominguez5257
      @vicenteabalosdominguez5257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Also Ingo recognizes Link as Epona's new owner when he tries to keep him prisoner in the ranch.

    • @bradleybourgeois4710
      @bradleybourgeois4710 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wouldn't that make it neutral or lawful neutral. Ingo betted Epona in the race and if Link won she would be his. Upon winning Ingo tries to renege on his end by locking him in the ranch and planning to turn Link into Ganondorf, the ruling, but evil, authority figure that Link opposes. Since Link escapes a more of a means of self-persevation and to ensure the deal is honored the two alignments that I stated prior make more sense.

  • @JJ-ml7pq
    @JJ-ml7pq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Regarding the Fairy Ocarina (the one Saria gave Link), my memory is very vague but iirc the manga adaptation featured Ganondorf getting his hands on it and then destroying it in a rage when he realized it wasn’t the Ocarina of Time. The manga’s canonicity is very questionable of course, but I enjoy this take far more than the idea that Link just straight-up ditched a keepsake from his best and oldest friend as soon as he got a new instrument.

    • @MrDrewsopher
      @MrDrewsopher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The manga is considered non-canonical, but I def subscribe to the "fairy ocarina was broken" camp. Maybe in the game it was as simple as the clay ocarina being broken when Link was trounced by that spell.

  • @humorlessink2658
    @humorlessink2658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Why has it taken me this long to realize this, but hear me out. Curse of Strahd and Majora’s maks are fairly similar, demiplanes/parallel dimensions, cursed or undead denizens forced to relive their miserable life in an endless cycle, and an outsider helping to save this doomed place.
    So yeah probably why I still love both.

    • @RikThunder33
      @RikThunder33 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      interesting. gotta check it out.

    • @MrDrewsopher
      @MrDrewsopher 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I need to get back into D&D.
      Well, first I need to find a group to play with.

  • @shelbybayer200
    @shelbybayer200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fun fact: In the Manga adaptation of Ocarina of Time
    7 years before the Fire Temple events, Link was friends with Baby Volvagia
    Ganondorf cursed the baby dragon and it grew up to be the Dragon Link slays
    But, in this very scene in the manga.
    Link is seen crying before letting an Arrow loose killing his past friend

  • @reifuTD
    @reifuTD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I would love to see an Alignment of Shantea from the Shantea games, Those games are fun and goofy leading to some fun and interesting choices from the main character, a little like with Austin Powers. Maybe do Risky Boots too.

    • @aionicthunder
      @aionicthunder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shantae, but yeah; I'd like that, too

  • @WitchFisterVeo1911
    @WitchFisterVeo1911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dammit Link, Ruto doesn't need lubrication. And Zora naturally have strong muscles *everywhere*

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      listen...I didn't need this information...but i'm not upset you posted it

    • @WitchFisterVeo1911
      @WitchFisterVeo1911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TheLoadingCrew you were the one who mentioned she was hot. I will not be kink shamed. I get enough of that at church.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      xD

  • @sykune
    @sykune 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Link is returned to the past by Zelda with the triforce of courage that's how he convinces the royal family that he is not a nut job.

    • @dontmisunderstand6041
      @dontmisunderstand6041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Zelda is blessed by the goddess of wisdom. I think she can figure out if someone is being honest.

    • @sykune
      @sykune 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dontmisunderstand6041 true but the king would not listen to his own daughter about ganondorf as she was child at the time. Plus Zelda did not know she had the triforce of wisdom at the time when link came back from the future. The sign on the back his hand is proof that was needed for king to believe that ganondorf was a bad like zelda said he was.

  • @matthewsimmons9277
    @matthewsimmons9277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There’s also a manga that reveals link befriended volvagia as a child before Gannon cursed it. The interaction between the human incarnation from hyrule warriors and link is reference to said manga.

    • @vicenteabalosdominguez5257
      @vicenteabalosdominguez5257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wasn't volvagia an ancient dragon that ate gorons? Even before Ganondorf came and resurrected him?

  • @alexisrodriguez6526
    @alexisrodriguez6526 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Link going from a child, to a Hero, to a forgotten warrior to then turn into a shade full of regrets that only gets to pass on to rest in peace after he's trained the next protector of the kingdom/world from the hands of Ganon makes him a chaotic good in my opinion

  • @BlackKnightsCommander
    @BlackKnightsCommander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If I had a nickel for every time a fish lady got cucked in a Zelda game I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I....huh...that...really...huh...you're right

  • @inductivegrunt94
    @inductivegrunt94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I personally never played and Legend of Zelda game at all but I know enough of the story for atleast The Hero of Time, and seeing his story play out especially his life after Majora's Mask actually made me feel bad for him, his backstory is so tragic. The Hero forgotten by Time all his efforts in vain Hyrule in ruins and his deeds not remembered. Eve I, someone who never played a Zelda game ever, still feel sadness and sympathy for him seeing him as nothing more than a pale shadow of his former self, just a shade, really hurt me. I'm the kinda guy who likes stories of the Hero saving the world, rescuing the princess, and helping the people, and I get attached to characters even in games I never played before so seeing our beloved Hero of Time reduced to nothing more than a bitter sorrowful shade really hurt me. But atleast one of his descendents would find him and our Hero of Time could pass on not only his knowledge but also in peace. And may all future Links strive to be just like him, strong, noble, selfless, caring, compassionate, and so much more. R.I.P oh Great Hero of Time I may not know you or experienced your adventure, but I know your story and that's all that matters.

    • @charsquatch600
      @charsquatch600 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should check out Zelda. It's the best video game series of all time

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just for what it's worth, his summary of what happened after MM is mostly fan speculation and at least one just completely wrong detail. Hyrule hasn't been destroyed once after MM in the Child Timeline. It was endangered in Twilight Princess, but that game had a fairly low body count, and again in Four Swords Adventure, wherein 4 knights are killed. Certainly the Hero of Time does die frustrated that he couldn't pass on his teachings, but Hyrule itself remained safe and all we know about his later life is that he at one point had a child or children and that when he died, he was buried in battle worn regalia fit for an adult, suggesting further adventures and heroic deeds and a funeral with honors. And the Heroic Shade isn't wandering Hyrule unable to move on. It's emanating from the Hero of Twilight. One is the reincarnation of the other. He just popped out to teach his new life the ropes. No Link can move on cause they're trapped in an endless reincarnation cycle to protect Hyrule from regular catastrophes.
      So yeah, not exactly a tragic figure. We also have no idea about how his resumed quest to find Navi worked out. MM only sidetracked it for 3 days.

    • @charsquatch600
      @charsquatch600 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera I notic d that top, but hey, I'm not going to all him put on it

  • @LeAndre_McCoy
    @LeAndre_McCoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    21:45
    So what you're saying is:
    He tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter?

  • @JazzyWaffles
    @JazzyWaffles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    11:21 "With no Triforce or Master Sword" is incorrect. If you look at Link's hand when he meets with Zelda in the ending, the Triforce of Courage is still glowing on his hand. Link already having the Triforce in the past is likely what caused the Divine Prank at Ganondorf's failed execution later.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      oh. interesting. my mistake

    • @JazzyWaffles
      @JazzyWaffles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheLoadingCrew No problem! It's easy to miss, even for fans of the series.

  • @LordHypertronUniversum
    @LordHypertronUniversum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:30 - How could you Link. How could you.
    8:36 - Stuart is a True Man of Culture.

  • @Cwronaga216
    @Cwronaga216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My favorite link is the hero of Twilight the direct descendent possibly great-grandson of the hero of time who actually receives tutelage from the hero of time from Beyond the afterlife

  • @averytubestudios
    @averytubestudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fun fact! In one of the comic adaptations of Ocarina, Link nearly kills Mido because of his incessant teasing. The onky thing that stopped him was other Kokri telling the Great Deku Tree.

    • @fruitloops2058
      @fruitloops2058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      (If this is true....) Link was about to turn from a silent kid to a quiet kid

  • @mrmeteor64
    @mrmeteor64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This link is also in twilight princess as a skeleton and golden wolf spirit.

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i love that theroy its my head canon as well

    • @Seththeprince
      @Seththeprince 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@shardinhand1243 it’s not even a theory it’s been confirmed

    • @daddyofive
      @daddyofive 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shardinhand1243 bro shut the fuck up, you've commented about this comic 4 fucking times already

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@daddyofive yes, becuase i want to share with others, something fan made and free, its not like im advetizing for some fuckin corperation yeah... so ill do as i please and continue to tell other fans of the series about it, you can ignore it i dont care.

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@daddyofive not like im forcing you to do anything.

  • @ForestX77
    @ForestX77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Uh Link retained the triforce of courage after being sent back in time. It’s how he convinced the king of Hyrule that Ganondorf was evil. Like are you really gonna say a kid who literally has a piece of your goddesses in his hand a lier?

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Link spends basically all of Majora's Mask lying. Heck, uno reverse, at that point Ganondorf had a piece of the goddesses in his hand. Also, the Triforce isn't literally the goddesses. It's just a copy of their phenomenal cosmic power with onboard AI. The goddesses are on vacay bodyhopping around the multiverse with reincarnation and occasionally popping back to work miracles to take out ancient evils when Link's unavailable.

  • @levert2457
    @levert2457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We know that Gannon and zella are written in stone every time they reincarnate but link technically be anyone of any race that shows determination and courage it's just that the spirit of the hero prefers blue-eyed blonde hellion boys.

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ganon's only reincarnated once (every other time it was revival or escape from a prison) and has no rules on his reincarnation at all. Nothing says Zelda has to be anything but a female of the royal family line to retain the Light Force. We know several races can interbreed and Hyrule has close ties to multiple non-human royal families they could end up having royal marriages with, to say nothing of constant influx of interdimensional tribes, the other continents on the planet with their own presumably non-Hylian races, and Hyrule's willingness to even engage in political and economic alliances with kingdoms in other dimensions. Frankly it's a wonder that none of the Zeldas have face tentacles let alone that they're all Hylian women.

    • @levert2457
      @levert2457 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera and that's why I think the rule is biased only towards hyrulean

  • @lockwoan01
    @lockwoan01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here's a fun series - Sly Cooper - you control a racoon thief and various allies (Turtle hacker, Hippo Thug, Fox police officer, and other gang members), all while pulling one heist or another, while trying to stop an old family foe, or three, or four. Along the way, saving various places from the control of dangerous criminals.
    Sly Cooper, I think, would be Chaotic Good.
    Carmelita Fox, might be Lawful Good, but I'll accept Chaotic Good.
    Rest of gang is mostly Chaotic Good (Bentley and Murry), although some from the third game onwards might be trickier, especially as 2 of them are former enemies turned allies.
    Then there's the enemies - although two did become allies (Panda King and Dimitri) of the gang (not to mention Carmelita and her issues with Sly) - a number of them are clearly Evil.

  • @Excalibur-Sonic
    @Excalibur-Sonic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oooohhh I hope you cover Midna from Twilight Princess. :D

  • @shardinhand1243
    @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    yo this is an awesome idea m8! welldone, a great fan comic a tale of two rulers has started playing with the idea of links incarnations all kindove merging togather to form its own entity that threatens to take over the latest incarnation of link in the comic, its a really cool idea that makes the character allmost seem eldritch in nature.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I seriously debated doing a tale of two rulers this month. I was so close you have no idea! I met the author on a few occasions and am a massive fan

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheLoadingCrew ^^ love how it explores gannon more and shows the truama of remembering your own death over and over, he's legitamatly terrified of link. thanks for the reply m8, your videos are interestin and entertainin.

    • @darkalicornkingdoom3572
      @darkalicornkingdoom3572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheLoadingCrew please tell that if ever do ganondorf, you are gonna do the ganondorf of tale of two rulers

  • @thefinalstair
    @thefinalstair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really great video! Nice to have a zoomed back look at the Hero of Time and how he was really thinking

  • @sarcasm-aplenty
    @sarcasm-aplenty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At least he got to have a kid with Malon

  • @edscarlet865
    @edscarlet865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Part of the reasons why this is also my favorite Link and Majora's Mask being my favorite Zelda game of all time is because of the little details you only get if you look for them.
    I'm not talking only about the main story or Cremia's hug after doing her sidequest a second time (best reward ever). But because of how real the NPCs feel. Following on Cremia and Romani; if you don't do the Space Invaders sidequest, Romani will get abducted and practically a living corpse, leading Cremia into a depression.
    But even if you do the sidequest and return to the ranch on the final day, Romani will be happy because her sister will finally allow her to taste the "special milk" she sells every night, not knowing her sister wants to inebriate her so she doesn't feel the destruction of Termina. *This game just gets REALLY dark sometimes*

  • @caseymcpherson5658
    @caseymcpherson5658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hmm... a lot of those neutral goods probably should have been labeled as lawful good, but the number of chaotic neutral dings for destroying every pot in Hyrule and Termina would balance it out to bring him back to neutral good, so the ending alignment would be the same.
    Also, the hero of legend would be an interesting alignment video, (A Link to the Past, Links Awakening, and the Oracle games) to my knowledge he's the only Link with 4 games (arguably 5 if you assume gramps in a Link between Worlds to be the hero of legend as an old man) notable accomplishments including: picking up a sword and shield off of his dying uncle and continuing to finish his uncle's quest after watching his uncle die in his arms, without missing a beat, resurrecting most of the inhabitants of Hyrule, and erasing two worlds from existence (the Dark Realm, as well as the dream world of Koholint Island)

  • @SerathDarklands
    @SerathDarklands 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite Zelda game was, is, and forever shall be, _Link's Awakening DX,_ the one on the GameBoy Color.

  • @SpawnofOmega
    @SpawnofOmega 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loved the video. I loved the insight into why you liked the Hero of Time and what you took from both OoT and Majora's Mask. Great stuff and I'd love to see a video essay from you as well about any of the other links.

  • @agsilverradio2225
    @agsilverradio2225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I did an allignemtnt personality quiz answering for BotW Link.
    I was surprised to get LG, considering how often he breaks and steals private and public property.

  • @monkeykingw
    @monkeykingw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Just to pull out my massive nerd glasses at the first moment I get, nothing against the video at all: Umm, actually Link didn't get any songs when Saria gave him the Ocarina.
    It's not until you to go to the Lost Woods, then the Sacred Forest Meadow and learn Saria's Song.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      that's fair xD

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      a great fan comic a tale of two rulers has started playing with the idea of links incarnations all kindove merging togather to form its own entity that threatens to take over the latest incarnation of link in the comic, its a really cool idea that makes the character allmost seem eldritch in nature.

  • @Getsugaru
    @Getsugaru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pardon my nerd glasses (great video as always): You make no mention of the dying soldier in the back alley after the encounter with Ganondorf as a child.

  • @walterdenny8143
    @walterdenny8143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd love for you to do an alignment video on Mikazuki Augus, And Orga Itsuka from Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans.
    Their morally questionable actions would be so interesting through your process and would like to hear your thoughts.

  • @joshuabrown6791
    @joshuabrown6791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To sum up briefly, all Link's are heroes appointed by Hylia in order to stand against evil and protect her mortal bloodline decsendants known as "Zelda". I like to think that because all Link's posses the, "spirit of the hero", they are in essence reincarnations of "the first hero"; a Link was only briefly mentioned to have been the first to received the original sail cloth from Hylia herself not the one you use in Skyward Sword. However when Demise lay's his curse upon the Link and Zelda of Skyward Sword he states that an incarceration of his hate will forever follow the spirit of the hero and the bloodline of the goddess. So in essence you could say that all Link's were innately chosen to become the ultimate good of there time.

  • @Hewasnumber1
    @Hewasnumber1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Correction: Zelda isn’t a reincarnation of Hylia, most are just descendants of the original Zelda, the actual reincarnation of Hylia.

  • @nerdletter3773
    @nerdletter3773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love to see a video on the Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass Link! I feel he's up there with this Link as one of the greatest iterations of the character, and would make for an interesting alignment video as he's one of the few Links with character development.

  • @DarkLordArbitur
    @DarkLordArbitur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is actually only one timeline in which OoT Link's efforts prove not to be in vain until so far into the future as to become impossible to say his efforts didn't at least forestall it. In the child timeline, the final entry of the series is the Four Swords Adventures, in which Link draws the Four Sword that Vaati had been sealed in and releases him, Link returns from his quest to find the people celebrating, and he is hailed as a hero. After this, the timelines converge once more after tens of thousands of years to make Breath of the Wild. Obviously there was no way in hell OoT Link could have considered his quest ultimately a failure, if the people he worked so hard to save were so far dead and gone by the time BotW destroys child timeline's Hyrule that Dampe the Gravedigger's gravestone had long worn away to nothing.

  • @franciscojaviermendezrinco1902
    @franciscojaviermendezrinco1902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree that the hero of time is the one that suffers the most. In the end, he's not there to be celebrated as the hero he is, he's not known as the hero he is, and in another timeline he doesn't even survive the final battle.

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And you're wrong. LttP Link suffers the most. He's forced to murder an innocent world to escape the mind of a god. That's like permanent PTSD right there. And the only friend he made in that world that makes it out gets turned into a freaking seagull. Imagine Link coming home to Zelda trying to explain that the overly familiar sea pigeon on his shoulder is his girlfriend from a dimension he was forced to genocide by a fish god.
      There's also Failure Timeline Hero of Time Link who either dies or is critically injured in his final fight with Ganon. I assume critically injured to explain how the heck Saria ends up with Hylian descendants, but I could be wrong.

    • @franciscojaviermendezrinco1902
      @franciscojaviermendezrinco1902 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera the OfT Link in the timeline he's not known as a hero then has to literally see everyone around is drown in sadness and has to stop doomsday in three days.

  • @justagundam
    @justagundam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I hope you get to Wind Waker Link later on.
    Aside from being relatable on a more grounded level (in my opinion). A kid who wasn't even chosen as an incarnation of Link (not my favorite but very close to it).

  • @GeirenKuzunoha
    @GeirenKuzunoha 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Link resists the urge to throw Navi in a river of lava after hearing "Hey Listen" for hours on end...Chaotic Neutral haha

  • @misternibbles7426
    @misternibbles7426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've got it! Do alignment for Samurai Jack. My guess is LG or NG until season 5. Then he'll move to CG.

  • @ArmorInfinity4529
    @ArmorInfinity4529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not one Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil or Chaotic Evil. Goes to show how Pure Link is.

  • @dihzmahl7032
    @dihzmahl7032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Should events that happen to a character that are out of their control really contribute to a score? You shifted a point of neutrality when Link was turned into a Deku, how is that a thing that can shift somebody's moral alignment?

  • @james10o1
    @james10o1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much for posting this on my birthday!

  • @demi-fiendoftime3825
    @demi-fiendoftime3825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The soul of the hero is basicly a vessel for previous Links skills in combat and puzzel solveing passed down from one reincarnation to the next this is why BOTW Link the Hero of the Wild is Super human in strenghth and skill as the man has 10000+ years of past lives skills to draw upon. This is why Wind Waker link is also a stand out in the franchise as Zelda removed the soul of the hero from his timeline when she sent the hero of time back in time. He was just an average boy named after the Hero who proved himself worthy and started a new line of heroes.

  • @shadowthehedgehog3113
    @shadowthehedgehog3113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You do realize Link wasn't freeing those Sages right...They all died and went to the Sacred Realm.

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blatantly not canon fan theory. All the sages have bloodline descendants in LBW and we know the failure timeline was the same as the adult timeline up until the final battle.

    • @shadowthehedgehog3113
      @shadowthehedgehog3113 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@strifera They could have had kids before they died. Plus I'm not exactly sure those ALBW sages are related to the OOT sages. I mean, the sages in ALBW are all Hylians and other human races and the OOT ones are Hylians, other humans, Zoras, Gorons, Kokiri, etc.

    • @strifera
      @strifera 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shadowthehedgehog3113 The sages in LBW are referred to as descendants of the sages in OoT multiple times during LBW. Fictional races being able to crossbreed isn't that weird. And the timeline was explicitly the same up until the final battle, so they didn't have kids before then.

    • @shadowthehedgehog3113
      @shadowthehedgehog3113 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera Are you sure they aren't just spiritual descendants though? I remember making a fan story specifically about this (because I was trying to bridge the timeline between ALBW and the original TLOZ) and I remember being conflicted about whether these ALBW sages were blood descendants or spiritual descendants of the OOT sages-like maybe they reincarnate. In OOT there are some moments that HEAVILY imply that these sages die and even in TP the sages (presumably the same ones from OOT) seem to be in spirit form-at least temporarily.

    • @strifera
      @strifera 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shadowthehedgehog3113 One of them is the queen of the Zora, another looks fairly Gorony for a Hylian, another is Impa. Also if they were actually dead I'd question why the need for new Sages, since they would have had to have launched a rescue of Zelda and possibly a nearly dead Link AND solo Ganon right after he got the completed Triforce...as ghosts. Also, the sage of water, so little Ruto by your figuring, gets murdered in the TP flashback and I don't think Nintendo would have murdered Ruto and not dramatic revealed it was her. Also, we literally see them all alive during the credits of OoT. ALSO, the 7 maidens for LttP weren't sages and were explicitly special for having the blood of the sages from OoT.

  • @dmann1982
    @dmann1982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about this; What alignment are the Scoobies from BTVS?
    There can (and will be) a few extreme magical alignment shifts I think too.

  • @MrDrewsopher
    @MrDrewsopher 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda game, even moreso than Breath of the Wild (at least, when accounting for its age and the time it came out). I plan on getting a 1/4 or 1/2 sleeve tattoo of it when I get the money together for such. It's good to see someone else who loves such a tragically underrated game. It's especially good when considering its SUPER rushed development period.

  • @powerprotoman
    @powerprotoman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a link to the past link is the only other link who can match OoT link is raw accomplishments, and surprisingly is possibly the one who lives the longest if all the hinting about the oldman named Gramps who does street pass in link between worlds isnt just them messing with us- they do play the main zelda theme when he shows up in the credits after all

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel like he loses points for murdering that pocket dimension full of innocents.

  • @WolfBoy-om6dw
    @WolfBoy-om6dw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just finished the video it was pretty good great insight into the hero of time I frankly didn't know how you're going to do this considering the fact that link doesn't have too much character that's probably just me being disgruntled with silent protagonists in video games at this point

  • @Superlazerninja12
    @Superlazerninja12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You should do an alignment video on Riku from Kingdom Hearts

  • @mrtaribluejay3832
    @mrtaribluejay3832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here's a great character to add to your list if you can, Rimuru Tempest from "that time I was reincarnated as a slime" I'm sure you'll have fun with this character!

  • @uzer141
    @uzer141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve been anticipating this video let’s goooooooooo

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cought me by suprize, awesome suprize!!!

  • @thetruestinsanegamer10
    @thetruestinsanegamer10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I always preferred Toon Link over the others. He's expressive and you want to see him get his family back. When he's sad, you feel sad, and you want to help him. He does amazing things in spite on not being a hero. He wasn't chosen by the gods, no one believes he can do much of anything. While all Links are brave from the start, Zelda, Impa, and everyone understood the Hero of Time's part to play. Everyone who knew any Link knew he was a brave, dependable, and strong person. Toon Link had to fight for it, fight through fiend after fiend, across an ocean that's hostile to any who travel, and pay an insane amount of money to a lunatic slave-owning cartographer. He had to prove he was just as good as the others. He does it all because it's right, because no one else is willing to stare death in it's face and fight back. He made GODS recognize him as the hero, so that's something special. Also, he killed Ganondorf in his timeline. PERMANATELY.

    • @JoshtheOverlander
      @JoshtheOverlander 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hell yeah dude, Toon Link is an absolute fucking badass, and the superior Link out of all of them. The rest of the Links are descendants of a mighty warrior that answered to the goddess Hylia and tethered to a curse that would reincarnate them indefinitely. This Link is just a kid whose little sister was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Link wanted to right that.

  • @squeethemog213
    @squeethemog213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well this puts stuff into perspective. Damn good video man. 😃

  • @Jasonwolf1495
    @Jasonwolf1495 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well I'm the hero of the wild cause I run around climbing trees, catching frogs, and stuffing my face. We're basically twins.

  • @SuperGamefreak18
    @SuperGamefreak18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ya know i love how your 2 favorite games are the two links with the worse overall lifes. One is a forgotten hero while the other actually failed and lost EVERYTHING, life friends family and even memories. Id say BOTW link had it worse than OOT link since hyrule actually no longer existed in a sense but then i remembered he basically avenged the fall of his friends and gets a decent happy ending.

    • @dontmisunderstand6041
      @dontmisunderstand6041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BotW Link suffered for his failures. OoT Link suffered for his successes.

  • @JosephSmith-lm4ri
    @JosephSmith-lm4ri 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn I forgot about the hero's shade for a fat moment, and Jesus christ that's a sad fate (at least until his final release).

  • @josephsekavec5232
    @josephsekavec5232 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Link is basically a lawful good paladin.

  • @talonisthedragon
    @talonisthedragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    if you're willing to tackle video game characters I want to see you take on any of the Chrono Tigger characters.

  • @thatkn1ghtguy942
    @thatkn1ghtguy942 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dr COX once said never travel the ward alone

  • @rockowlgamer631
    @rockowlgamer631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you thought you liked this Link, then you're gonna like the video series from MajorLink the animator who is making a series of basically the Hero of Time between Majora's Mask ending and before Twilight Princess starts

  • @joshcoombs9655
    @joshcoombs9655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wonder how loading crew would do the alignment of Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, and Suzaku Kururugi. I've never been able to really pin down what DnD alignment they would fit into.

  • @gameinsane4718
    @gameinsane4718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How to explain multiple Links: avatar the last airbender, the spirit of the hero is Raava, and each Link is the avatar from their respective era

  • @Bayleaf6399
    @Bayleaf6399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Im interested in seeing your takes on the other Links

  • @chancemitchell4147
    @chancemitchell4147 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got dog piled on Reddit for calling to attention that OOT Link had a tragic life. Thank you for affirming my claim.

  • @StereoCentaur_42
    @StereoCentaur_42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This kinda makes me want a D&D alignment of a Persona character but Persona is way too long

  • @mobgabriel1767
    @mobgabriel1767 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    how nintendo explained the diference of the hyrules despite having the same characters:insert here zelda timeline
    how it should have explained: to answer that we need to talk about paralel universes

  • @nullvoid7188
    @nullvoid7188 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like botw link would be chaotic good, simply cause he's the only link capable of tree surfing in the sky that may or may not crush a guy to death only for him to spring board off another nearby guy using a shield to fly across the rest of hyrule.

  • @a.z.pantera5577
    @a.z.pantera5577 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How ironic, that a courageous Bard would be an unsung hero.

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "♩ Tomorrow will take us away far from home
      No one will ever know our names
      But the bards' songs will remain
      Tomorrow will take it away the fear of today
      It will be gone due to our magic songs ♫"
      - the bard's song

  • @JazzyWaffles
    @JazzyWaffles 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Alternate title: "TLC struggles with Zelda names for 22 minutes"

  • @bluedragonninja
    @bluedragonninja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have to ask any big changes to the Alignment comparing the game version to the Manga Version? also to anyone who has not read the OoT , MM, and TP zelda Mangas, plz give them a chance and read them they are really good!

  • @FatManThor953
    @FatManThor953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Technically speaking link from ocoraina of time is the father or grand father of link from twighlight princess.

  • @abnegazher
    @abnegazher 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Suavemente"
    -Ganondorf

  • @mana7047
    @mana7047 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love to see a LoZ game that shows more of Ocarina of Time Link's life.

  • @casualinquisitor5684
    @casualinquisitor5684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool next poll
    Tanya from Saga of Tanya the evil
    Ainz from Overlord
    Kazuma from Konosuba
    Naofumi from The rising of the shield hero

  • @S3rp3nte
    @S3rp3nte 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope in the future you will eventually make a D&D Alignment to both Dante from Devil May Cry and Kratos from God of War.

  • @corrinflakes9659
    @corrinflakes9659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    His class is bard, fight me.

  • @kolbydavenport4696
    @kolbydavenport4696 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm surprised I cant find the majority of the characters from the alignment wheel in the series yet

  • @UNSCMarine117
    @UNSCMarine117 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "gee smash ultimate, how come sakurai let's you have three links?"

  • @reloadpsi
    @reloadpsi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Expected lawful good.
    Felt like an idiot by the end.

  • @cioplasmmajic8327
    @cioplasmmajic8327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Link is HoT
    Hero
    Of
    Time

  • @dontmisunderstand6041
    @dontmisunderstand6041 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the Link we all love. Unambiguously good, and does not give a shit about your politics, only doing the right thing.

  • @calebgoodman2076
    @calebgoodman2076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I recommend using the updated Zelda Encylopedia rather than the Historia when you decide to tackle A Link to the Past. The Encyclopedia changed things in that section.

  • @OniLink147
    @OniLink147 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just got to the Water Temple part. And agreed. Ruto is hot and awakened some things in me as a kid lmao

  • @vadim8375
    @vadim8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How about D&D alignment of Eddie Moora (Limitless)?

  • @tmanthepseudophilosopher9526
    @tmanthepseudophilosopher9526 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot to count all the pot breaking! Chaotic Neutral

    • @TheLoadingCrew
      @TheLoadingCrew  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      too hard to determine if he was breaking them as a personal vendetta against pots (or the potmaker), if he was looking to steal money, or poops and giggles

  • @AZDfox
    @AZDfox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could you do TP Link and Midna?

  • @Kingpin1880
    @Kingpin1880 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:10 I did 😤
    Sorry; heard that and had to speak up.

  • @samueltrusik3251
    @samueltrusik3251 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I humbly request you to cover "Murder Drones" Pilot! (day15).
    Huh. Never actually played a zelda game.Have no idea where Link will end up. True good?

  • @deathsheir2035
    @deathsheir2035 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    And now all the laws he did break?
    Breaking and Entering
    Robbery (would it be armed robbery since he has a sword?)
    Destruction of Property (seriously, how many clay pots did you destroy?)

  • @brandonkirk6498
    @brandonkirk6498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grant Video I wonder if you wouldn't Mind doing The Hero of the Wild form Breath of the Wild some time after Breath of the Wild 2 He and The Hero of Time are my Favorite Links because of how much they go though

  • @charsquatch600
    @charsquatch600 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Before I watch the video, I'm going neutral good

  • @SirShawn-qb2fk
    @SirShawn-qb2fk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd always start a version of link at true neutral

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eh, ST and SS Link are both lawful to start.

    • @SirShawn-qb2fk
      @SirShawn-qb2fk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera huh?

    • @strifera
      @strifera 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SirShawn-qb2fk Spirit Tracks Link is a Royal Engineer and Skyward Sword Link is a Knight. I would think both being government officers would count toward a lawful alignment, unless I've just misunderstood something.

    • @SirShawn-qb2fk
      @SirShawn-qb2fk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strifera I mean from the beginning start from neutral then go on from there with each game

  • @RikThunder33
    @RikThunder33 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was very enjoyable.
    That said:
    Kafei* not Kafkei xD