#if you wanna go with hylia reborn for all zeldas go for it my dudes!!

[spiritmaiden23]

Are all Princeses hylia reborn?

short answer: I DON’T KNOW MAN ZELDA LORE CONFUSES ME, PROBABLY!! WHO CARES?! The fandom seems to think so so like, whatever. 

I never go with fandom interpretation tho so Long Answer will be my opinion, I’m not claiming I’m correcting in this tho just... things I’ve gathered and come to my own conclusion on this aaaaaaa. 

Long answer: Phew ok bear with me because the lore of this series is all over the place and like I’m not a timeline expert, while I’ve played all the games keep in mind that before Skyward Sword, there wasn’t really too many connections with the other games and if there were they were kept purposefully vague (Aside from wind waker and maybe twilight princess but like that’s a while can of worms and we don’t have time to unpack all that) because originally each game was supposed to be a different interpretation of The Legend of Zelda, the actual legend that’s getting passed down about the princess, the hero, and the demon king who fight to save the lands of Hyrule. There was no timeline but fans kept making up their own. So, along came SS and Skyward Sword and the official timeline sorta rebooted that lore so certain things changed from what I remember but here’s what I’ve been able to gather from playing the games as I’ve never touched Hyrule Historia aside from quick articles that are on the web! Sky Zelda is the only reincarnation of Hylia as far as I’m concerned, hence why she’s called things like Spirit Maiden, The Reborn Goddess Hylia, Hylia Incarnate, Goddess, etc etc she’s literally a mortal goddess more than likely based off of Arahitogami because SS actually took some eastern Asian elements within the game so I wouldn’t be surprised if she was based on Arahitogami! She’s literally divinity in human form, literally Hylia but Human and her powers aka the sealing powers and light magic, in general, gets passed down to the royal family (Minish Cap eludes to the mysterious powers that members of the royal family has along with other games as well. Even in her speech where she confesses to what Hylia’s plans really were, you see Zelda constantly switching between “and so she... I mean... and so I” because they are one and the same. We don’t know how much of her memories she was able to get back but in my opinion, her memories work the same way as we look at memories where we remember certain key events and others are vague fuzzy recollections that are there but not really but because of magic it’s probably more clear the more she thinks on it. I digress. Point is: she’s the closest to Hylia because she is Hylia but without immortality and more uwu as well as gremlin energy to her. NOW with that out of the way, I mentioned that her magic gets passed down to the royal family. So in a sense, if we look at it that way, Hylia’s technically being reborn in each princess... or well, her powers are at least. Hylia herself though? Nope. We do maybe see her in BOTW in Zelda’s dreams too (reading her diary for this one tho) or maybe Sky Zelda but again same person, so yanno?! To me, that drives home the point that they’re not reincarnating there. And also, what Demise says too with his curse also makes me think “hey maybe no reincarnation here” too. I’m pretty sure no one’s really doing the reincarnation in the cycle aside from maybe Ganondorf because he’s boss like that. I say maybe because the Ganondorf we see in ALTTP, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess is all the same man from Ocarina of Time. He sorta gets semi-reincarnated in the Oracle Series due to a botched resurrection spell that Twinrova tried to bring him back but as Ganon not Ganondorf... erm, what else, what else? LINK CONFUSES ME BUT I DON’T THINK HE’S GETTING REINCARNATED because there’s a whole lot to unpack TP Link and skeleton grandpa aka Hero’s Shade aka OOT Link and if he was reincarnating how on earth did those two meet? I know that each link shares the spirit of the hero according to demise’s curse so

God this is a mess, forget I said anything actually. Just take the short answer and go before I piss off anyone LOL!!!