it appeared to be a renegade basically he took vorteus's explanation and filled the section with weasel words in order to give the illusion of npov however while zelda does not explicitly say that she's sheik in oot we see sheik transform into zelda the only real explanation would be sheik jumping out of the way and never appearing again or something like that and zelda just telling some weird story about disguising herself as a sheikah for no real reason and this seriously violates occam's razor then add in super smash bros it's not zelda canon true but do you really think nintendo would have let hal get away with making sheik and zelda the same character if they weren't meant to be the same character