aanau:

if the zelda time loop theory is real then the wind waker trilogy exists outside of that loop. that’s the rule. you dont make a game about change and leaving ancient kingdoms and vicious cycles buried so that you can make your own future because life is for the living, not for the dead to enforce their own ways and dig up old conflicts and mistakes, and make two more games as direct sequels to that game that enforce that message by having entirely new threats with heroes who truly could have been anybody, just so you can undermine those three games who worked their butts off to break away from the loop by roping them right back into it. eternally. 

agreed. I think the cycle was broken as soon as the hero of time ceased existing in that branch. The hero of winds WASNT a chosen hero. the entire game is about him forcing the gods to choose him because he wasnt chosen by fate, curses or gods at birth like other links.The hero of winds WAS just a regular person with no predestined life.