#oot theory

[zeldatimelineexplained]

“totk doesn’t make sense, sonia died before she could have kids” rauru mpreg. who cares. now can we focus on the real totk timeline problems like how this steals ganondorf’s OOT origin without being set in OOT’s era and thus soft retcons Ocarina of Time as well as every branch of the timeline following it.

[zeldatimelineexplained]

oot theory time, link cant talk out loud in oot because all kokiri talk via psychic link, and only talk out loud via their fairies. oot link never learned to talk out loud because of this.

substantiated by:

saria is absolutely psychic and we know this because you can talk to her in link's mind at any time by playing saria's song

in other games, the kokiri are koroks, suggesting that being a korok is their true form, and they don't seem to have mouths in their korok form -- if you look under the mask, altho there are holes for eyes and mouths, there's no actual hole for a mouth underneath

navi is who does the talking for link

enriches the existing story by:

explaining more of how/why link was bullied by mido and left out by the other kokiri. if link can't communicate, it's a more specific reason link was left out

explains some of the cultural importance of fairies

makes link canonically mute in OOT, which is a change i really like. it also has a different reason than his silence in pre-calamity botw, which was stress-related

questions that this theory leads to:

where are the fairies in subsequent game? this is still a question that i've had before regardless of the fairies' material usefulness for speech, but if they're how the koroks speak out loud, then it makes it confusing how they can speak out loud in WW and BOTW/TOTK -- however, given the koroks in WW and BOTW/TOTK seem to only be communicated with by some (usually children) it may be that they still communicate telepathically or by some form of magic. or, maybe fairies became a part of koroks, somehow combined with magicked wood.

[zeldatimelineexplained]

ohhhhhh. i see now... the spiritual stones make sense... they're what give the goron, zora, and kokiri sentience... the gerudo and sheikah and hylians dont need one since theyre already humanoid and sentient naturally, but the nonhumanoid species need a spiritual stone to stay sentient... it's even in the name... spiritual...