History TearJerker / TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword

* Fi's farewell. "May we meet again in another life." Turns into a combination of TearJerker and SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments when you consider that Fi fusing with the Master Sword means [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast every]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime time]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames a Link]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker takes up]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the Master Sword]], he reunites with Fi.]] A reference to the Avatar cycle, perhaps?

** Later in the desert Link comes across [[spoiler: the Thunder Dragon's lifeless skeleton. Activating a nearby Timeshift Stone reveals that he's suffering from a fatal illness and the only cure is the fruit of the Tree of Life. Unfortunately, the Thunder Dragon knows that said tree wouldn't be mature enough to bare fruit for centuries, and when you meet him he's already resigned to the fact that he won't live long enough to see that happen.]]
** If you wanna feel better, activate the Timeshift Stone after you get what you need for him. [[spoiler:The skeleton isn't there anymore]], indicating you changed the future for the better. You only get to do this twice in the game, and the second time is rendered useless.

* [[spoiler:Zelda having to go to sleep for thousands of years to seal away Demise. It's also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, as she wants Link to promise her that he will wake her up.]]
** [[spoiler:[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/21c6c65a02c41bab3931b039dccda60e.jpg The look of absolute ANGUISH on Link's face after Zelda is encased...]]]]

** Look at poor Link's face as Zelda explains Hylia's grand plan. He looks like he's blinking back tears.
** [[spoiler:"I'm still your Zelda."]] Oh dear LORD...

** This is seemingly the ''only time'' [[spoiler:Link cries in ''any'' ''Legend of Zelda'' game]].
** Made more emotionally painful when you realize that he and Zelda have been friends for years and he [[spoiler:has been searching for her for the entire game, effectively making her Link's LivingEmotionalCrutch throughout his whole journey. Once she's been imprisoned, Link suffers an absolute HeroicBSOD and just completely breaks into tears, as he very well knows that if he fails, he'll never see Zelda again. The only thing that has kept him going through his adventure, the only thing that's mattered to him, has just been taken away from him. Damn.]]
** Really this whole part is just a kick in the gut for poor Link.
* [[spoiler:Younger Impa being left behind to watch over Demise's spirit and the Master Sword. With [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTz7UwPWko this music]] being played, it can bring grown men to tears. [[note]]It's also the music which plays straight after Demise's defeat, which makes it a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the player, at first.[[/note]]]]
* [[spoiler:Impa being revealed as the Old Lady who's helped Link throughout his journey, moments before she DisappearsIntoLight. Especially since Zelda and Groose had gotten so close to the different versions of her over the course of the game, and their reaction to her fading away is the most sad.]]
* [[spoiler:Fi's farewell. "May we meet again in another life."]]
** [[spoiler:Turns into a combination of TearJerker and SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments when you consider that Fi fusing with the Master Sword means [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast every]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime time]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames a Link]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker takes up]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the Master Sword]], he reunites with Fi.]] A reference to the Avatar cycle, perhaps?

* A likely minor one for Groose. Sure, he was a bit of a jerk to Link at first, but he eventually [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment changed for the better]]]]. He knew [[spoiler:his role wasn't that full of action]], but he was all right with that. He [[spoiler:[[NonActionGuy didn't do much fighting]]]], but he was important [[spoiler:for Link to do what he needed]]. And yet, in all the games in the series, and all the years they span... it seems nobody remembered Groose's actions. Not only that, it seems he didn't have his own bloodline, like Link and Zelda do. To be able to [[spoiler:play a role in shaping history]], and not be remembered for it... it's a bit upsetting.
** This could, however, be turned into a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Groose. He didn't have the blood of the hero like Link, or the spirit of the goddess like Zelda. The part he played in all this was purely his own. In a way, that is far more awesome than being chosen by destiny. It still doesn't really help that his (undeniably important) role in the story has been all but forgotten by history, though.
** We don't know whether he goes on to have children or not. Could be that his descendants will be running around Hyrule for centuries to come. ([[FridgeHorror Although, it edges more into the tragic when you realize which race is most well-known for having bright red hair and a fierce fighting spirit...]])
** Though the Wind Tribe in ''The Minish Cap'' ALSO had red hair and lived in the Cloud Tops, which [[WordOfGod has been stated]] to be what remains of Skyloft. Maybe Groose ended up better off than anyone could have imagined.
** Of course, not being reincarnated like Link and Zelda means Groose escaped the fate of being reincarnated over and over to fight in an endless battle for all eternity.
* This whole game was chock-full of tear jerking moments. The first thing that really hit home was Zelda's kidnapping. They actually spent time building her as a character; a sweet, innocent young girl who clearly has a thing for Link. Right when it seems she's about to tell Link how she feels, she gets [[spoiler:[[TraumaCongaLine swept away by a tornado, has to put herself in a giant crystal for thousands of years, taken by a]] [[MemeticMolester pervert]] [[TraumaCongaLine spirit of a sword, and is then fed to an imprisoned demon in a monstrous form]]]].
* The prequel manga to ''Skyward Sword'', telling the story of the very first Link and how both Skyloft and the legacy of the Hero came to be. [[spoiler:After being wrongly imprisoned for four years by his own country, he still takes up his sword when they free him to save them from the demons. He goes on to fight an unwinnable war in the name of the Goddess Hylia, uses the last of his strength to send Skyloft into the sky with the Master Sword, and bleeds to death all alone on the abandoned surface as he watches his home and all of his friends rise into the skies.]]
-->'''Link:''' [[spoiler:My people, I pray... for your happiness. I wish I could go with you... but my body is heavy...]]

* The next few entries cite a scene where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAVn71rNImI a new version of Zelda's Lullaby]] plays -- and it's consequently heartbreaking to hear.

-->'''Link''': [[spoiler:My people, I pray... for your happiness. I wish I could go with you... but my body is heavy...]]

** Later in the desert Link comes across [[spoiler: the Thunder Dragon's lifeless skeleton. Activating a nearby Timeshift Stone reveals that he's suffering from a fatal illness and the only cure is the fruit of the Tree of Life. Unfortunately the Thunder Dragon knows that said tree wouldn't be mature enough to bare fruit for centuries, and when you meet him he's already resigned to the fact that he won't live long enough to see that happen.]]

** At least with the Mogmas, there's the [[FridgeBrilliance possibility]] that they become the Acro-Bandits (another mole-like creature) in ''The Minish Cap''... Except that means that [[UnfortunateImplications their thirst for treasure has turned them into thieves]]. The root of all evil, indeed...

** We don't know whether he goes on to have children or not. Could be that his descendants will be running around Hyrule for centuries to come. ([[UnfortunateImplications Although it edges more into the tragic when you realize which race is most well-known for having bright red hair and a fierce fighting spirit...]])

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Promise me you'll wake me up."]]

* The non-canon prequel manga to ''Skyward Sword'', telling the story of the very first Link and how both Skyloft and the legacy of the Hero came to be. [[spoiler:After being wrongly imprisoned for four years by his own country, he still takes up his sword when they free him to save them from the demons. He goes on to fight an unwinnable war in the name of the Goddess Hylia, uses the last of his strength to send Skyloft into the sky with the Master Sword, and bleeds to death all alone on the abandoned surface as he watches his home and all of his friends rise into the skies.]]

* The entire prequel manga to ''Skyward Sword'', telling the story of the very first Link and how both Skyloft and the legacy of the Hero came to be. [[spoiler:After being wrongly imprisoned for four years by his own country, he still takes up his sword when they free him to save them from the demons. He goes on to fight an unwinnable war in the name of the Goddess Hylia, uses the last of his strength to send Skyloft into the sky with the Master Sword, and bleeds to death all alone on the abandoned surface as he watches his home and all of his friends rise into the skies.]]
-->'''Link''': [[spoiler:My people, I pray... for your happiness. I wish I could go with you... but my body is heavy...]]

* The Skipper's Place in the Sandsea. It, like the rest of the desert, is old, worn-out, and rusty. There are a pair of broken robots sitting there (probably his family), never to move again, and Fi points out from the pictures on the walls that the Skipper had many happy, fun-filled days with his crew.
** You're gonna start bawling like a baby upon reading a note on the wall of his home that said "Dear Dad, Good luck at work, vrrm!"
** Lanayru in general has a ton of FridgeHorror that belongs here. It's easy to forget sometimes that nearly everyone there is ''dead'', and by the sound of their stories, didn't AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Even the ones you help are doomed the moment you switch to a different Timeshift Stone. Oh, and the Skipper at least seems to ''know it''.
** Also, what happened to Lanaryu is known as desertification, and [[TruthInTelevision it actually happens in real life]], often due to destructive environmental practices in modern times. And lakes drying up into deserts? Also happens in the real world.
** Later in the desert Link comes across [[spoiler: the Thunder Dragon's lifeless skeleton. Activating a nearby Timeshift Stone reveals that he's suffering from a fatal illness and the only cure is the fruit of the Tree of Life. Unfortunately the Thunder Dragon knows that said tree wouldn't be mature enough to bare fruit for centuries, and when you meet him he's already resigned to the fact that he won't live long enough to see that happen.]]
** If you wanna feel better, activate the Timeshift Stone after you get what you need for him. [[spoiler:The skeleton isn't there anymore]], indicating you changed the future for the better. You only get to do this twice in the game, and the second time is rendered useless.
** If Scrapper is any indication, then all of the robots could probably be repaired with Ancient Flowers, but it still doesn't help with the fact that outside of very small patches under the effect of a Timeshift Stone, the home they knew is long gone.
** More FridgeHorror: When looking for the keys to the Lanayru Mining Facility, you'll come across a few abandoned factories. At the entrance of the factories, you'll see notes from the foremen saying to keep Lanayru green. And, as you can see, they failed to do so...

* Many of the sapient species in general, particularly the wholly-unique-and-not-potentially-ancestral-to-known-species Mogmas, have a general air of tragedy about them for the simple reason that we know they're conspicuously absent by the time of the next chronological game, ''Minish Cap''. At worst, they're doomed to suffer the fate of the Ancient Robots and only we know it, at best they're all going to be forced from their homeland, and whatever horrible thing is going to happen to them, it isn't ''that'' far off, only a few centuries at best. No sign that they ever existed will remain.
** At least with the Mogmas, there's the [[FridgeBrilliance possibility]] that they become the Acro-Bandits (another mole-like creature) in ''Minish Cap''... Except that means that [[UnfortunateImplications their thirst for treasure has turned them into thieves]]. The root of all evil, indeed...

** Though the Wind Tribe in ''Minish Cap'' ALSO had red hair and lived in the Cloud Tops, which [[WordOfGod has been stated]] to be what remains of Skyloft. Maybe Groose ended up better off than anyone could have imagined.

* This whole game was chock-full of tear jerking moments. The first thing that really hit home was Zelda's kidnapping. They actually spent time building her as a character; a sweet, innocent young girl who clearly has a thing for Link. Right when it seems she's about to tell Link how she feels, she gets [[spoiler:[[TraumaCongaLine swept away by a tornado, has to put herself in a giant crystal for thousands of years, taken by a]] [[MemeticMolester pervert]] [[TraumaCongaLine spirit of a sword, and is then fed to an imprisoned demon in a monstrous form]]]].

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* [[spoiler:Zelda having to go to sleep for thousands of years to seal away Demise. It's also a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, as she wants Link to promise her that he will wake her up.]]

* [[spoiler:Younger Impa being left behind to watch over Demise's spirit and the Master Sword. With [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTz7UwPWko this music]] being played, it can bring grown men to tears. [[note]]It's also the music which plays straight after Demise's defeat, which makes it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the player, at first.[[/note]]]]

** [[spoiler:Turns into a combination of TearJerker and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when you consider that Fi fusing with the Master Sword means [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast every]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime time]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames a Link]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker takes up]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the Master Sword]], he reunites with Fi.]] A reference to the Avatar cycle, perhaps?

** This could, however, be turned into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Groose. He didn't have the blood of the hero like Link, or the spirit of the goddess like Zelda. The part he played in all this was purely his own. In a way, that is far more awesome than being chosen by destiny. It still doesn't really help that his (undeniably important) role in the story has been all but forgotten by history, though.

** Later in the desert, you find [[spoiler:the Thunder Dragon's lifeless skeleton. Activating a Timeshift Stone reveals that he was suffering from an illness, and knew the fruit of the tree that could cure him couldn't grow in his region and took centuries to mature, so he wouldn't live long enough for it.]]

*** Made more emotionally painful when you realize that he and Zelda have been friends for years and he [[spoiler:has been searching for her for the entire game, effectively making her Link's LivingEmotionalCrutch throughout his whole journey. Once she's been imprisoned, Link suffers an absolute HeroicBSOD and just completely breaks into tears, as he very well knows that if he fails, he'll never see Zelda again. The only thing that has kept him going through his adventure, the only thing that's mattered to him, has just been taken away from him. Damn.]]

*** Also, what happened to Lanaryu is known as desertification, and [[TruthInTelevision it actually happens in real life]], often due to destructive environmental practices in modern times. And lakes drying up into deserts? Also happens in the real world.

*** If you wanna feel better, activate the Timeshift Stone after you get what you need for him. [[spoiler:The skeleton isn't there anymore]], indicating you changed the future for the better. You only get to do this twice in the game, and the second time is rendered useless.

** [[spoiler:At least Zelda's sleep wasn't permanent. Fi wasn't so lucky.]]

* [[spoiler:Impa being revealed as the Old Lady who's helped Link throughout his journey, moments before she DisappearsIntoLight. Especially since Zelda and Groose had gotten so close to the different versions of her over the course of the game.]]

*** Made more emotionally painful when you realize; He and Zelda have been friends for years and [[spoiler:has been searching for her the entire game, effectively making her Link's LivingEmotionalCrutch throughout his whole journey. Once she's been imprisoned, Link suffers an absolute HeroicBSOD and just completely breaks into tears, as he very well knows that if he fails, he'll never see Zelda again. The only thing that has kept him going through his adventure, the only thing that's mattered to him, has just been taken away from him. Damn.]]

* The entire prequel manga to Skyward Sword, telling the story of the very first Link and how both Skyloft and the legacy of the Hero came to be. [[spoiler: After being wrongly imprisoned for four years by his own country, he still takes up his sword when they free him to save them from the demons. He goes on to fight an unwinnable war in the name of the Goddess Hylia, uses the last of his strength to send Skyloft into the sky with the Master Sword, and bleeds to death all alone on the abandoned surface as he watches his home and all of his friends rise into the skies.]]
-->'''Link''': [[spoiler:My people, I pray...for your happiness. I wish I could go with you... but my body is heavy...]]
* The next few entries cite a scene where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAVn71rNImI a new version of Zelda's Lullaby]] plays - and it's consequently heartbreaking to hear.

** "[[spoiler:I'm still your Zelda]]." Oh dear LORD...

** This is seemingly the ''only time'' [[spoiler:Link cries in ''any'' Legend of Zelda Game.]]
*** Made more emotionally painful when you realize; He and Zelda have been friends for years and [[spoiler: has been searching for her the entire game, effectively making her Link's LivingEmotionalCrutch throughout his whole journey. Once she's been imprisoned, Link suffers an absolute HeroicBSOD and just completely breaks into tears, as he very well knows that if he fails, he'll never see Zelda again. The only thing that has kept him going through his adventure, the only thing that's mattered to him, has just been taken away from him. Damn.]]

* [[spoiler:Younger Impa being left behind to watch over Demise's spirit and the Master Sword. With [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTz7UwPWko this music]] being played, it can bring grown men to tears. [[note]]It's also the music which plays straight after Demise's defeat, which makes it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the player, at first.[[/note]].]]

*** If you wanna feel better, activate the Timeshift Stone after you get what you need for him. [[spoiler:The skeleton isn't there anymore,]] indicating you changed the future for the better. You only get to do this twice in the game, and the second time is rendered useless.

** At least with the Mogmas, there's the [[FridgeBrilliance possibility]] that they become the Acro-Bandits (another mole-like creature) in ''Minish Cap''... Except that means that [[UnfortunateImplications their thirst for treasure has turned them into thieves.]] The root of all evil, indeed...
* A likely minor one for Groose. Sure, he was a bit of a jerk to Link at first, but he eventually [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment changed for the better.]]]] He knew [[spoiler:his role wasn't that full of action,]] but he was all right with that. He [[spoiler:[[NonActionGuy didn't do much fighting]]]], but he was important [[spoiler:for Link to do what he needed.]] And yet, in all the games in the series, and all the years they span... it seems nobody remembered Groose's actions. Not only that, it seems he didn't have his own bloodline, like Link and Zelda do. To be able to [[spoiler:play a role in shaping history,]] and not be remembered for it... it's a bit upsetting.

* This whole game was chock-full of tear jerking moments. The first thing that really hit home was Zelda's kidnapping. They actually spent time building her as a character; a sweet, innocent young girl who clearly has a thing for Link. Right when it seems she's about to tell Link how she feels, she gets [[spoiler:[[TraumaCongaLine swept away by a tornado, has to put herself in a giant crystal for thousands of years, taken by a pervert spirit of a sword, and is then fed to an imprisoned demon in a monstrous form]]]].

** This is seemingly the ''only time'' [[spoiler: Link cries in ''any'' Legend of Zelda Game.]]
*** Made more emotionally painful when you realize; He and Zelda have been friends for years and [[spoiler: has been searching for her the entire game, effectively making her Link's Main/LivingEmotionalCrutch throughout his whole journey. Everything he does Once she's been imprisoned, Link suffers an absolute Main/HeroicBSOD and just completely breaks into tears, as he very well knows that if he fails, he'll never see Zelda again. The only thing that has kept him going through his adventure, the only thing that's mattered to him, has just been taken away from him. Damn.]]

* [[spoiler:Younger Impa being left behind to watch over Demise's spirit and the Master Sword. With [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTz7UwPWko this music]] being played, it can bring grown men to tears. [[note]] It's also the music which plays straight after Demise's defeat, which makes it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the player, at first. [[/note]].]]

** [[spoiler:Turns into a combination of TearJerker and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when you consider that Fi fusing with the Master Sword means [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast every]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime time]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames a Link]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker takes up]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the Master Sword]], he reunites with Fi.]] A reference to the Avatar cycle perhaps?

** At least with the Mogmas mthere's the [[FridgeBrilliance possibility]] that they become the Acro-Bandits (another mole-like creature) in ''Minish Cap''... Except that means that [[UnfortunateImplications their thirst for treasure has turned them into thieves.]] The root of all evil, indeed...
* A likely minor one for Groose. Sure, he was a bit of a jerk to Link at first, but he eventually [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment changed for the better.]]]] He knew [[spoiler: his role wasn't that full of action,]] but he was all right with that. He [[spoiler:[[NonActionGuy didn't do much fighting]]]], but he was important [[spoiler:for Link to do what he needed.]] And yet, in all the games in the series, and all the years they span... it seems nobody remembered Groose's actions. Not only that, it seems he didn't have his own bloodline, like Link and Zelda do. To be able to [[spoiler:play a role in shaping history,]] and not be remembered for it... it's a bit upsetting.

* This whole game was chock full of tear jerking moments. The first thing that really hit home was Zelda's kidnapping. They actually spent time building her as a character; a sweet, innocent young girl who clearly has a thing for Link. Right when it seems she's about to tell Link how she feels, she gets [[spoiler:[[TraumaCongaLine swept away by a tornado, has to put herself in a giant crystal for thousands of years, taken by a pervert spirit of a sword, and is then fed to an imprisoned demon in a monstrous form]]]].

* The next few entries cite a scene where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAVn71rNImI a new version of Zelda's Lullaby]] plays - and it's consequently heartbreaking to hear,