GUYS GUYS GUYS THIS IS IMPORTANT.
So, in the official translation of the Four Swords Plus manga, Miss Fairy opens a portal and teleports Green, Red, and Blue away while Vio and Shadow are burning Hyrule with Shadow’s dragonmom pet dragon.
In the fan-translation, Miss Fairy says “I’ll transport you to a safer ground,” but in the official version, this line is completely different.
Red: “Yikes! Lava!”
Miss Fairy: “Let’s evacuate to another dimension!”
ANOTHER DIMENSION?
WHAT?
So, y’all have probably heard of Triforce Heroes. Green, Red, and Blue go on adventures in a town kind of like Termina, Hytopia, another dimension to save that kingdom’s princess who’s apparently super vain and not at all like our awesome Zelda but okay I guess.
“Let’s evacuate to another dimension.”
My theory is THIS ONE PANEL is when Triforce Heroes takes place. I think that in Hytopia, time passes differently than in Hyrule. Hytopia is an alternate version of Hyrule- Another dimension, if you will.
Green, Red, and Blue are teleported to Hytopia and do that whole Triforce Heroes thing there, which is all to try and get back to their world. Hyrule. Vio and Shadow are doing the whole “burning the world” thing, so that explains why they’re not in it.
When they get back to Hyrule, though, then even though it took them a REALLY LONG TIME in Hytopia, it’s only been a few hours in Hyrule.
It’s like the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when Peter, Susan, Edward, and Lucy leave the Wardrobe and return to the Spare Room. They’ve obviously grown up into adults in the Wardrobe, but when they return to their world, they turn back into children and are surprised at how little time has passed, and they go finish the day as if nothing has happened and then a few years pass and this whole thing happens again but that’s not important.