History Headscratchers / TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker

** This troper believes that the sages are making an exchange. Medli, child of the sky, goes to the Earth Temple while Makar, child of the earth, goes to the Wind Temple.

** That's all well and good, but it's tangential to the original point. Even if Tetra wanted to become a queen, why would she be willing to become a living MacGuffin? I have a hard time believing someone would be so submissive to a legacy they just learned about that they would be willing to let themselves be so casually brushed aside, especially when they're as strong-willed as Tetra. It feels like CharacterDerailment based on what we saw of her prior.
** "Why would she become willing to become a living MacGuffin?" Because she's still a good person at heart, and doesn't want to see innocent people slaughtered by Ganondorf, people that, as descendants of those who once lived in Hyrule, she may now feel personally responsible for, even if they may not know it. Really, honestly, what are you expecting her to say at this point? I think you're just looking at Tetra's spunky, snarky exterior and assuming that that persona is all there is to her, which it's not, and really only serves to demean her overall character - this isn't CharacterDerailment; it's learning about a new side to the character that we've seen only hints of before.

* One of the Rito, when spoken to on Dragon Roost Island towards the latter part of the game, says he's going to go to the Flight Control island for a break, before doing just that. Maybe the Rito don't treat it as a proper distance competition, as they are able to fly much further with ease, but a place to goof off a bit and have fun? Seeing how far they can get by gliding without flapping their wings, or trying to fly with their eyes closed to see if they can avoid the updrafts, that sort of thing.

** Because Shiek is somebody who is in ''disguise''; we saw what OOT's Zelda looked like as a child, and Shiek is pretty different in many ways, which makes sense because changing things like eye color, skin color, physical build, and so on if possible are a big help when hiding. But Tetra is just assumed to be what she normally looks like, just a girl who is raised as a pirate instead of a princess, and thus having tanned skin and tomboyish clothes rather than pale, powdered skin and a dress. So they give her a dress, okay, we can live with that... but where does the skin come in?

** The similarity is not that 'extreme' at all. Compare Zeldas from SS, OoT and TP, - differences galore! The latter even has a completely different hair color.

** You may also be able to assume that when the gods flooded the kingdom, they ''made'' mountains for the civilians to try and escape to. If we're to assume the Deku Tree in this game is the Deku Sprout from OOT, the land it was planted in had to have been raised into a mountain, unless he was replanted or something.

** OOT Link is generally thought to be around 16 or 17 years old post-timeskip at which point he is referred to as ‘adult’ Link, ''Twilight Princess'' Link is also placed at 16 or 17 and has an actual job and owns property so we can infer that Hyruleans probably come of age at 16 or 17 years old. WW Link’s actual age is never mentioned in-game but at least three other sources, also published by Nintendo, claim that he’s 12 which obviously does not constitute an adult by Hyrulean standards. WW Link, however, is from a culture where boys come of age at 12 so even though he’s young the fact that he’s come of age could technically make him old enough to wield the Master Sword.

** Didn't I read somewhere that WW was set a hundred years after OoT?

** [[AllThereInTheManual Hyrule Historia]] (or at least [[http://www.glitterberri.com/hyrule-historia/page-123/ this translation of it]]) suggests that ''TWW'' takes place hundred'''s''' of years after ''OOT'', so there you go.

* About the time gap between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker: At the end of OoT Ganon was sealed by the Master Sword and the Sages. Somehow he escaped , terrorized Hyrule and then was sealed again when the Goddesses flooded the world. Then he escaped again, and finally Wind Waker's Link drew the Master Sword to defeat Ganon, thereby re-empowering him. But doesn't this mean, Ganon's power was still sealed by the Master Sword, when he was about to take over Hyrule? So the Hyruleans probably had the Sages, two parts of the Triforce, the entire population of Hyrule, and yet they couldn't defeat a weakened Ganon, because no ChosenOne was available?