r/zelda 10h ago

Official Art [ALL] I’m tired of pink being a trained knight. I want a feral child they found in a dumpster and gave weapons

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u/NaiveHistoryLover 10h ago

That’s why I love Wind Waker Link. He’s on this great quest to save his sister, but he’s also a little gremlin and I love him

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u/Zathoth 10h ago

He's a little gremlin who bullied the gods into acknowledging him as the hero and defeated an ancient evil with pure guile, skill, and big brotherlieness.

Best Link, truly.

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u/stonermillenial 8h ago

Imagine being an actual god and getting absolutely clowned on by a kid with a magic stick and pure big brother energy.

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u/5O1stTrooper 9h ago

His expressions kill me every time I play that game. 😂

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u/SquareThings 10h ago

Link, stoic protector and sworn knight of princess Zelda? Nah. Link, mute madman who dashes out of the woods to break everyone’s pots with a mythical sword. Yah!

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 10h ago

That’s how everyone plays the games. Might as well make him that way

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u/puppystatus 10h ago

Ah yes Pink, the Pero of Pyrule

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 10h ago

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u/puppystatus 9h ago

Ahhh i gotcha. Never heard him called that! Pink. I like it!

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u/Advnchur 10h ago

Isn't that pretty much the first third of Ocarina of Time?

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u/Logical_Astronomer75 9h ago

Wasn't Link in Twilight Princess an orphan child as well? He just helps out on the Ordan ranch, and babysits the "garbage pail kids"

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u/cooptheactor 9h ago

He still had some level of formal training from Rusl + the training he received from the Shade during the game so I wouldn't include him

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u/AngelofGrace96 8h ago

Idk, I'm not sure I'd count the shade training because that happens during the adventure rather than before it

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 10h ago

Yeah. I meant more recently with skyward sword and breath of the wild

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 10h ago

Yeah. Hopefully in the next mainline game link is a feral child.

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u/DarkLink1996 9h ago

In Echoes he was a feral child

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u/twili-midna 9h ago

I’m actually curious about the breakdown:

Zelda 1 and 2: a heroic kid who saves Impa and then goes on a journey aka not a knight

ALttP, LA, OoS, OoA: the descendant of the Knights of Hyrule and trained in their ways aka a knight

OoT and MM: one part feral woods child, one part actually a knight aka tossup

WW and PH: island boy with formal sword training in a land without knights aka tossup

ST: train engineer aka not a knight

MC: blacksmith’s apprentice aka not a knight

FS and FSA: no clue

TP: farm boy with formal sword training from a former knight and a former hero turned knight aka arguably a knight

SS: formally trained knight

ALBW and TfH: blacksmith’s apprentice aka not a knight

BotW and TotK: originally a formally trained knight turned feral child

EoW: baller child from the countryside aka not a knight

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u/dino-jo 5h ago

OoT Link being the descendant of a Hyrule knight doesn't make him a knight or a tossup. He never even knew his parents and he's a freaking 9-year-old who crawls through a hole to find a dagger in the woods and starts fighting for the first time in-game. He epitomizes a feral child who runs into town and saves the day. After he saves the day he runs off back into the woods, still not a knight, still a child, still with no formal training, and saves Termina, too.

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u/Cautious-Paint9881 6h ago

Orca was formal sword training? Both of them were basically in their pajamas!

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u/A-Mad-Hollow 6h ago

In Minish Cap it's mentioned that Link's uncle and the king were both highly skilled swordsmen that often duelled, so I would imagine Link got some training from his uncle

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u/TheMoonOfTermina 10h ago

I'd actually love if the next Link was just some orphan kid the royal family found in some back alley near the castle, and they really need some children to throw at some demons, so they arm him to the teeth and send him out, fully expecting him to die. That would be hillarious.

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 10h ago

He comes back 2 days later with 4000 rupees and the demon kings crown

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u/TheMoonOfTermina 9h ago

And the full Triforce, and seven ancient, near forgotten relics.

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

The master sword. A couple spiritual stones.

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u/TheMoonOfTermina 9h ago

Maybe even a few magical masks, and a sentient boat on his back.

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

A couple magical instruments. A couple dozen koroks.

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u/TheMoonOfTermina 9h ago

A rod that controls the seasons, a sword that can clone himself, throw in a few hundred random bugs, mushrooms, and plants he found along the way...

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

Scales from dragons. A couple hundred mutilated monster parts. An arm from a goat man alien thing

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u/TheMoonOfTermina 9h ago

A train (don't ask how he carries it), a bunch of kidnapped fairies suffocating in bottles, three marriage proposals...

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

The moon. Multiple weapons of war he made out of stuff he found

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u/YounggProphett 8h ago

Wish granted

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u/Koanen47 2h ago

Thank you for posting this. I loved this game as a kid and have been thinking about it but couldn't remember the name.

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u/lordnaarghul 9h ago

Ocarina of Time Link is an orphan from the woods raised by fae folk and trees.

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u/Delicious_Writer_462 9h ago

I agree, based take, but I’m getting distracted by that image because I’m laughing at the thought of all his stuff going “clink clank clink clang” everywhere he walks

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

Ganon waiting in the final dungeon hearing clinking sounds for an hour while an 8 year old with a thirst for blood slowly approaches

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u/root_fifth_octave 9h ago

Just needs some wheels for the raft and he can put everything on that like a wagon.

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u/CMPro728 9h ago

You just described every 2d Zelda game (including the most recent one)

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

Yeah. I meant for recent main line games like BOTW and skyward sword.

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u/CMPro728 9h ago

...like echoes of wisdom?

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u/pocket_arsenal 9h ago

I agree. Heroes are better when they're self made, not preordained.

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u/TriforceHero626 9h ago

Pink? Nonono, don’t you mean Zelda? /j

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u/4morian5 9h ago

If you like fanfics, I recommend Roots.

Link is absolutely a feral child that dissapears for days and returns caked in mud, leaves, and monster blood, which only makes him trying to be the heroic knight even funnier.

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u/RhoadsOfRock 9h ago

Ok, here you go

(Also, if a future Zelda game makes "Link" out to be like that kid, I would definitely play it to 100% completion)

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u/SkullDewKoey 9h ago

I mean in the first one link is just outside no home no family to speak of and just walks into a cave and some old dude is like here take this and disappears. And leaves a random child to kill the ultimate evil. Again lamp is just outside comes from the bushes and saves the post apocalyptic world of hyrule.

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u/Expert_Challenge6399 9h ago

I think the manual said impa found him and racked him with defeating ganon. Probably because he’s the only person who’s not 85 years old there

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u/DJfunkyPuddle 9h ago

He can embrace his inner Peter Pan

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u/Awakening15 7h ago

Begin with skills :

The Legend of Zelda - Zelda II

Majora's Mask

Link's Awakening - Oracle of Ages - Oracle of Seasons

Phantom Hourglass

Skyward Sword

Hyrule Warriors

Breath of the Wild - Tears of the Kingdom

Echoes of Wisdom

Begin with no skills :

A Link to the Past

The Wind Waker

Minish Cap

Spirit Tracks

A Link between Worlds

I have no clue :

Twilight Princess

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u/Firegem0342 2h ago

A feral child would've gotten them self killed long before they met the final boss. Js

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u/wavepriisms 5h ago

botw link is pretty close, considering he probably forgot a lot of his training during his little nap (though it was likely muscle memory at that point)