Mipha/Synopsis

The Synopsis of Mipha from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
==Background==
Mipha is the crown princess of the Zora tribe and the daughter of King Dorephan and the elder sister of Prince Sidon. She is also friends with Link (which dates back to their childhood). When she was born to Dorephan and an unnamed mother, Dento crafted the Lightscale Trident for her to commemorate the occasion. When she grew older, she began to take spear lessons from the royal guard of the Zora, which led to them becoming very fond of her. Seggin has loved Mipha as though she were his own daughter, and he taught her how to use her Lightscale Trident. Her skills with the Trident were described as being in a class of their own. She also received mentorship from Muzu, who she was close with. 
She first met Link when he was an energetic four-year-old boy when he came to Zora's Domain with the other outsiders at King Rhoam's orders and had heard that he even bested full grown adults, evidenced by his bruises he received during his duels and when she used Mipha's Grace on those wounds, Link was amazed and Mipha thought it was adorable. 
At some point in time, the Divine Beasts were being excavated by Sheikah scientists when rumors of Calamity Ganon's imminent comeback were rampant, one of them was Divine Beast Vah Ruta which Mipha greatly adored its roundness and trunk and she wondered who would have the honor of piloting it. 
Years later, Mipha meets Link again, having become an accomplished knight and now holding the Master Sword, necessary for defeating Ganon, however she noticed that Link hardly speaks and seldom emotes and when she asked what was wrong, he only shook his head, and she thinks it's because of his new height, not realizing it's really the huge responsibility of being the chosen hero who has to fight Ganon with so many lives at stake.
===The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild===
Princess Zelda visits Mipha at the Veiled Falls to inquire of her help in driving back Calamity Ganon by asking her if she could pilot Ruta and Mipha quickly agreed to help and asked Zelda about the other Champions. Zelda goes through Revali, Daruk, Urbosa, but she could not bring herself to say Link's name, referring to him as "the knight with the sword that seals the darkness", but Mipha immediately knew who she was talking about and called for her infant brother, who's at the bottom, to come up the waterfall. Princess Zelda reminds her that he might be a bit very young, but Mipha explains that she will one day leave him to face her fate with Divine Beast Vah Ruta before surfing down the Veiled Falls and tells Sidon to join her so that he can get the feeling of it and takes him up the waterfall, amazing Sidon. Upon reaching the top, Mipha charges Sidon that if in the event she doesn't survive the battle, he will take up the role to defend Zora's Domain with his life. She instills in his mind "I believe in you" and asks if he wants to go again and Sidon pulls off his signature grin and they laugh together as Zelda looks on. 
Mipha becomes determined to stop Ganon through any means possible and she could not allow it to harm her people and sees it as a way to assist Link. Sometime later, Link visited Zora's Domain where Mipha tells him of how a Lynel was terrorizing her people and needed help. As they journeyed to Ploymus Rock Mipha insisted that she stay with him when he told her otherwise and were suddenly ambushed by a Lynel from behind. She initially thought it was over but was proven wrong when Link managed to defeat the beast with Mipha noting how graceful his movements were, especially with the Spin Attack and wanted to imitate this move too. It was at this point where Mipha began to fall hopelessly in love with Link. 
Her father gave Mipha his blessing to pilot Divine Beast Vah Ruta, but added a haunting promise that she returns home safely, and Mipha feels bad for putting her father, Muzu, and Seggin through the thought of possibly losing her. Mipha had gathered enough materials for the Zora Armor. Both her father and brother are aware of her feelings with Link, but she avoids telling Muzu about it since she knows well of his prejudiced view of Hylians.
Mipha is required to undergo three trials to prove that she is worthy of taming Divine Beast Vah Ruta, which include swimming to the glowing ring in Lanayru Sea as the sun rises, battle the Guardians at Zorana Uplands, and go through several glowing rings while swimming up the waterfall between Lulu Lake and Mikau Lake.
She was chosen by King Rhoam and Princess Zelda to become the Zora Champion and pilot of the Divine Beast Vah Ruta as a protector of Hyrule and attended the inauguration with the other chosen Champions and were each given a blue cloth to exhibit their new status. Mipha wore hers like a sash and stops wearing her royal garments. During their time-out in the courtyard, Revali is intrigued by the Sheikah Slate and takes it from Zelda's hands, and she explains some details about it before passing it to Mipha to let her have a look. When Urbosa brings up a certain mechanic of taking photos, Mipha is interested in how this works and asks Princess Zelda for her help. Shortly after, Purah instructs everyone to get into position and tells Mipha to take deep breaths upon noticing how nervous she was. When the position was just right, Purah snaps the photo, only for Daruk to pull everyone together at the last second. Mipha would later write about the ceremony that took place and she was grateful to Daruk for bringing her and Link close together. However, Mipha is troubled to learn that Link will become the appointed knight of Princess Zelda and they would spend the most time together. Out of all the four Champions, she had the easiest time controlling her beast - a feat which shocked Zelda, due to Mipha's seemingly fragile form. 
After that, Mipha and the Champions attend Link's personal ceremony of becoming Zelda's self-appointed knight with the princess giving a poorly toned speech to him and Daruk isn't happy with how it's turning out and Revali berates him that it was his idea for coming up with that (with Mipha staring him down) and notes that he might be on the same page as Zelda in regards to Link before Urbosa tells him to stop and gives her perspective that Zelda sees Link as a reminder of her own failure. 
A couple of days later, Mipha completed the Zora Armor for Link and is certain that it will fit him perfectly and with Link coming over to the domain and has hopes of giving it to him but has second thoughts of proceeding with it and recalls the tale of a certain Zora Princess who fell in love with a Hylian Swordsman of her time proving her some hope. Since Princess Zelda isn't with Link during this time and invites him to ride Ruta at sunset to have their time alone and asks the Princess of the past to lend her courage. Mipha tends to Link's wound that he received from one of his latest battles and recalls the time when he was only a child and notes that Hylians age much faster than her kind and she often promises to heal his wounds no matter how bad they are and when they do make it through, she hopes to spend more time with him. 
 
On Princess Zelda's return from her journey to Mt Lanayru to train at the Spring of Wisdom, the Champions were disheartened by Zelda's depressed look upon return. Urbosa believes there are other ways to unlock her sealing power. Mipha speaks up and starts to give some advice to the princess, but she is interrupted by the rumbling ground. Revali flies up to see what's happening before flying down. Mipha asks if he is sure and Revali, having seen Calamity Ganon from above, confirms so. Daruk orders the Champions to head to their Divine Beasts to launch a counterstrike and Link to head to Hyrule Castle. Urbosa tells the princess to take refuge, but Zelda refuses and says that she will fight whether she has her power or not. 
Unfortunately, Mipha and the other Champions are not seen again after this. Mipha's route to Divine Beast Vah Ruta has her swimming through the Lanayru Wetlands and up Zora's River. By the time she arrived, she saw that Vah Ruta had already been taken over by Windblight Ganon and was sealed inside. She put up a fight as much as she could but was overpowered and killed as the other Champions are. Her death left her own father, Zora King Dorephan, heartbroken by her death. The Zoras, including Muzu, Seggin, and even Prince Sidon, were stricken with grief and they thought of sending her Lightscale Trident down Zora's River to help her find rest, but the trident started to glow and Mipha's voice chimes in, telling them to let go of their grief over her and to know happiness, and they must focus on remembering her. The Zoras then established an event called the Champion Festival on the anniversary of the tragic events and Mipha's Statue was built as a memento for their beloved fallen princess and placed on Zora's Domain's Plaza.
One hundred years pass, Link awakens, and Calamity Ganon's power gains enough strength to remotely take control of the Divine Beasts to wreak havoc on the lives of their respective people. For Divine Beast Vah Ruta, it brought about a constant rainfall that would apply too much pressure to the dam and cause a flood if it isn't stopped, prompting a now adult Prince Sidon to look for help in wielding Shock Arrows, a weapon that his people can't use due to their electrical weakness and with Prince Sidon's help, Link appeases Ruta and managed to board it. Mipha is relieved to see that Link appeared to wrest control of Ruta from Ganon and instructs Link to gain the map of Vah Ruta to help him locate the five terminals that will fire up the Main Control Unit. When Link tries to start it up after activating the terminals, Waterblight Ganon appears and Mipha explains that it is the culprit behind her death and has faith that he will strike it down. After defeating the water-based creature, Link managed to purify the Divine Beast without further disruption. Mipha appears and shares her powers with him and reveals that the day before her freedom, she broke down and almost lost hope of ever gaining her freedom and that she would never be able to fulfil her long overdue role, but with Link coming to take back Ruta, she no longer has to worry about it and this whole time she had long to see Link once more, and after Link leaves, Mipha relocates Ruta to take aim at Ganon and looks forward to completing their purpose. She looks at Zora's Domain from afar and regrets not being able to see her father before her death and longs to see him just one more time before she passes on to the next life. Mipha’s Zora Armor, and later her Lightscale Trident were given to Link. 
Once the EX Mipha's Song sidequest is completed, Mipha will happily enhance the charge time frequency for her power while expressing optimism that at this rate, Link can truly defeat Ganon and save Hyrule and Zelda. If Link defeats Waterblight Ganon after Mipha's Grace is enhanced, Mipha share whatever information is on her mind with him. In the first line of dialogue, Mipha will ask Link if he remembered the time the two of them fought the Lynel together because it was causing trouble for her people until he arrived. In the second line of dialogue, Mipha will ask how much Link remembers from a hundred years ago and if he knew why the Zora Armor, she made in life fit him perfectly. She hoped that she remembered other details but believes it couldn't be helped if he couldn't. But she herself will always remember those events. In the third line of dialogue, Mipha will tell Link that if he finds her diary, she suddenly raises her voice as she yells for him not to read it; she will catch herself and hopes that Link will respect her wish. In the fourth line of dialogue, Mipha will make a request to Link to pass the messages to King Dorephan that she is sorry, Sidon to believe in himself, and Princess Zelda that she wished that she could have told her everything she never said. She could not bring herself to pass her message to Link himself, however. In the fifth and final dialogue, Mipha will praise Link and recounts the day Waterblight Ganon ended her life before she had a chance to fight back, and she believes that will the power Link has attained that he can defeat Ganon and assures him that she has him in her prayers as she implores him to save Princess Zelda.
Later, when Calamity Ganon breaks free of Zelda's hold, Mipha notes that this will be their last opportunity and will not fail as she unleashes Vah Ruta's laser as did the other Champions, effectively weakening the beast.
After Princess Zelda is freed, she seals Calamity Ganon away for good. Later on, Mipha, the Champions, and King Rhoam bid farewell to Link and Zelda before they depart for the afterlife as Link and the princess start the rebuilding of the fallen kingdom of Hyrule. During the epilogue, Zelda was about to head to Zora's Domain to investigate Vah Ruta's malfunction, she thinks of King Dorephan and wanted to provide him some closure on Mipha.
===The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom===
While Mipha and the other Champions do not make a physical appearance, she, alongside them, do make a cameo appearance in the form of the Picture of the Champions, if the player has a completed The Champions' Ballad in their save file.
===Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity===
In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, which takes place in a new timeline, separate from the events in Breath of the Wild, just before Calamity Ganon launched his attack, a small Guardian named Terrako traveled into the past to warn the past versions of Zelda, Link, and the Champions of Calamity Ganon's impending attack and give them time to muster their forces for when he arrives. Mipha is speaking with Link alone shortly after Zelda and Impa met with Mipha's father, Zora King Dorephan, to ask about picking a Champion to pilot Divine Beast Vah Ruta. King Dorephan politely refused Zelda's request, not wanting to put Mipha in danger like that, especially if the knight chosen to seal the darkness of Calamity Ganon has not appeared yet to aid Zelda and the Champions with defeating it. Before Zelda could try to convince him to change his mind, a guard arrived with word of an attack by Ganon's monsters from Ploymus Mountain.
With King Dorephan leading the defense personally, Mipha goes to find her younger brother Prince Sidon, saving him from the red-maned Lynel that lived on Ploymus Mountain, which later returns with reinforcements to attack the Zora troops under Mipha and Sidon's father, greatly overpowering and outnumbering them. 
However, after Terrako suggests bringing Divine Beast Vah Ruta into the fight to stop Ganon's forces, Mipha pushes them back using Vah Ruta just as an Electric Moblin was about to attack her father, causing the surviving troops to lose nerve and flee in the face of Vah Ruta's firepower, and after taking out the rest of them, including a large contingent of regular red-maned Lynels firing their electric arrows from their bows, using Vah Ruta's abilities, King Dorephan agrees to have her pilot Vah Ruta against Calamity Ganon, but only under the promise that she comes back safe and alive as his heart would not be able to bear the grief of losing her, especially with Sidon still so young that he would need his big sister for support until he gets older.
With the Champions gathered, Mipha develops a big brother-little sister relationship with Goron Champion Daruk as they are passing through Castle Town as Zelda works to calibrate the Divine Beasts for them but are ambushed by the Yiga Clan under Sooga. Though the Champions hold them off, and push them back along with Ganon's monsters with support from the Hylian Captains while Link took Zelda and withdrew, it was a decoy ruse to allow Sooga a clear shot to assassinate Zelda with them too far away to help after taking down a Hinox slumbering nearby. 
Luckily, Link arrives to protect Zelda, and unable to kill her thanks to Link, Sooga calls a retreat. Mipha joins everyone as they head for the Korok Forest to find the Master Sword shortly after Revali clears out the surrounding enemies with Divine Beast Vah Medoh, helping out the giant Korok Hestu with getting him past the monsters now infesting the forest, but are unable to aid Link and Zelda as they are attacked by Astor using Malice-born clones of Mipha and the other Champions, known as Hollows, with the Mipha Hollow managing to grapple Link's sword in the prongs of her trident before snapping it in two, disarming him of his standard-issued Hyrulean Army weapon. Before they can strike down Zelda on Astor's command, the Master Sword responds to Zelda being in danger and Link's will to protect her and dispels them with its light, before Link pulls the Blade of Evil's Bane from its pedestal and claims it, forcing Astor into retreat after a vicious fight in which the Hollows are summoned several times to defend Astor before he is forced to retreat as the Master Sword is too powerful for him to face at this point. 
After meeting with the Great Deku Tree and learning they have all they need to protect Hyrule from the Great Calamity, the group returns home to Castle Town, but are waylaid on the way back by more of Ganon's monsters. Once back in Castle Town, Mipha is officially given her Champion of Hyrule attire, replacing the sash, chains, and head jewelry she wore as Zora Crown Princess with her Champion's sash, but asks to do some more training with Daruk to better prepare her for the Great Calamity and mentions that she also wanted to be stronger and looks in Link’s direction and verbally slows down when she adds that it was she could fight alongside Link, but the latter overheard this and begins to approach her as though he wanted to know where she’s getting at, and Mipha panicked and tries to deny what she was going to say. After that, she returns to Zora's Domain to prepare for the inevitable as King Rhoam has Castle Town and the surrounding communities evacuated of civilians and troops to prevent them becoming casualties of the Great Calamity after learning that Ganon will return on Zelda's 17th birthday. The evacuated troops are transferred to reinforce the garrisons at Akkala Citadel and Fort Hateno, knowing if they fall, Hyrule is doomed.
Soon, Calamity Ganon arrives as planned, starting with the Yiga Clan infiltrating Robbie and Purah's lab and taking them and their staff hostage as they were analyzing Terrako and the Sheikah Slate, having disguised themselves as Sheikah before springing their ambush. Luckily, Purah gives the slate to Terrako, and he flees to give it to Zelda, Impa, and Link before the Yiga infiltrators have a chance to stop him. As he does, Calamity Ganon's seal finally ruptures and he engulfs Hyrule Castle in a maelstrom of Malice. Mipha sees it from the Sheikah Tower in Zora's Domain and realizes the Great Calamity has come, a little sooner than expected, before the tower is shut down, cutting her off from the other Champions, leaving her to fend for herself. King Rhoam and his Royal Knights are forced to stay behind and be presumably killed by the corrupted Guardian Stalkers as Link grabs Zelda and flee for their lives. 
Meanwhile, Mipha is attacked inside Vah Ruta by Waterblight Ganon. She does her best to defend herself against the more powerful Blight Ganon, but soon finds herself outmatched, and realizes she may not survive, preparing to face her death with dignity as Waterblight Ganon moves in for the kill with its flail and Cryonis constructs, closing her eyes and awaiting her fate. Before she is slain like in the original timeline, Terrako, through Zelda's guilt and grief over her holy power having not yet awoken, is able to summon the older Sidon from 100 years in the future in Breath of the Wild to arrive just in time to save his sister from Waterblight Ganon, swearing that he will not lose his sister to the Shard of Calamity Ganon again. With his arrival, he is able to buy enough time until Link arrives to destroy Waterblight Ganon for good, keeping Vah Ruta under Mipha's control and saving her life in the process. However, with Mipha weakened from her battle with Waterblight Ganon, Sidon takes it upon himself to clear the way to Vah Rudania, taking out the Igneo Talus preventing Mipha from using Vah Ruta to clear the way to rescue Daruk and Yunobo from Fireblight Ganon.
With Mipha and Sidon piloting Vah Ruta together and joined by the other Champions and their future counterparts in the other Divine Beasts, Mipha and Sidon take Vah Ruta to defend Akkala Citadel from the army of corrupted Guardians and monsters laying siege to the fortress. They arrive just as the Hyrulean Army forces garrisoned there, among them including Robbie after he fled from the Yiga that ambushed him at the academy, are struggling to hold the line as Lizalfos climb the battlements and Moblins bang on the gate, trying to breach and get inside. Mipha and Sidon fight their way to the Citadel, and offer fire support with Vah Ruta for Link, Zelda, Impa, and Terrako as they head in to assist the troops and Robbie, with Mipha later joining them to treat the wounded. Before joining the fight, Mipha voices how proud she is of Sidon with how he's grown and trained himself as a Zora fighter, but while Sidon appreciates the remarks, he momentarily looks away and bows his head, remembering that the Mipha from the Breath of the Wild timeline, his Mipha, died during the Great Calamity, so hearing such inspiring words from a Mipha of an alternate timeline only reminded him of not having his sister with him back in his timeline, which pained him greatly before shifting his focus on the mission before them. Daruk and Yunobo soon join in with Vah Rudania to reinforce the defenses and buy time to have the bridge serving as the only access to the Citadel destroyed by cannon fire, stopping Ganon's forces from assaulting the Citadel further and ensuring the Citadel remains standing.
In the Guardian of Remembrance DLC, Mipha and the older Sidon are with some Zora soldiers that had been defending Goponga Village near Zora's Domain from Calamity Ganon's monsters. During a lull in the fighting, while the older Sidon is giving out orders to the troops still combat-effective, Mipha is in the middle of healing one badly wounded Zora soldier, who thanks her for her medical aid, before seeing the older Sidon and the healthy troops fighting more Moblins that had showed up to attack, before an Electric Moblin appears to attack her. Luckily for Mipha, her Sidon, the younger one from the Age of Calamity timeline, appears and charges the Electric Moblin. Though he trips and falls, he quickly recovers and aims his spear at the Electric Moblin, refusing to let it harm his big sister. As Mipha pleads for her little brother to turn around and flee before he is hurt or killed, the older Sidon quickly rushes in and strikes down the Electric Moblin before it can harm his younger self. Afterwards, as he checks to see if his younger self is alright, Mipha is relieved that both of them are fine. The older Sidon is impressed with his younger self's bravery and courage and tells him that if he trains hard and grows stronger, he'll be able to protect his big sister, though he momentarily trails off as he's reminded of being unable to protect his Mipha in the Breath of the Wild timeline from being slain by Waterblight Ganon in Vah Ruta. Nevertheless, his words encourage his younger self, and as both Sidon flash their trademark toothy grin, Mipha can only laugh in amusement.
After that, they then join with protecting Fort Hateno as well. After that, they come to Urbosa and Riju's aid with helping clear Hyrule Field of enemy forces alongside the other two Divine Beasts to clear the way to Hyrule Castle. With both the Citadel and Fort Hateno safe from further attack thanks to the Divine Beasts, along with Purah having developed a failsafe that destroys most of the corrupted Guardian automatons, thus costing Calamity Ganon a huge chunk of his army as the Guardians were what razed Hyrule to the ground in the Breath of the Wild timeline, and Zelda having awoken her dormant power granted to her by the Triforce and Hylia, Zelda rallies the surviving Hyruelan Soldiers as their Commander-in-Chief, restoring their morale and launching a successful defense of the Great Plateau, supported by a reformed Master Kohga and his Yiga Clan, where Zelda finds that King Rhoam and his Royal Knights are still alive, thanks to the Sheikah device she gave him earlier, which projected an Ancient Guardian Shield, blocking the corrupted Guardians' lasers and stunning them long enough for the King and his men to withdraw to the Great Plateau before the automatons recovered. 
With Purah getting the Sheikah towers back online and supercharging their teleportation ability, she is able to unite the Gerudo, Rito, Zora, Gorons, and Yiga Clan Sheikah as a unified Hyrule allied coalition, and under Zelda's leadership with a still-living King Rhoam and his Hyrulean Soldiers joining their cause, they launch the full-scale assault to take back Hyrule Castle from Calamity Ganon. After defeating his Harbinger in that timeline's Terrako that had been corrupted by Calamity Ganon's Malice when it followed the future Terrako back in time, Calamity Ganon uses Astor as his conduit to assume a physical, and more human-like, form to fight the Champions, Zelda, and Link with. In the end, Terrako sacrifices himself to weaken Calamity Ganon enough for Link to deliver the finishing blow with the Master Sword and allow Zelda to seal Calamity Ganon away once and for all. With Calamity Ganon gone, Sidon and the other future Champions are returned to their time period by the residual energy from the ancient screw left from Terrako's sacrifice, and with herself and the other Champions still alive, Mipha and the others are happy to see their future looking bright, especially after they are able to rebuild Terrako and reunite him with Zelda once more.
During the secret DLC ending, the adult Sidon bonds with his infant counterpart and Mipha came to see them and pets them both and the two flash their toothy grins. Mipha is seen again with the other Champions, who are all back in their original attire, at the Sheikah Tower watching as Zelda and Terrako take off on a paraglider, admiring the beauty of the scenery before them as they go, making all of their efforts in saving the kingdom worth it. 
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