Short Biography: the town of Link's birth remains a mystery, although he knows his family died in a freak accident involving a pile of hay and a pyromaniac. Just before her death, his mother wandered into Kokiri forest while still on fire, and left her baby boy there to rot by the Great Deku Tree. Upon dropping dead at the scene, the freaky tree took the boy in and raised him among the impish Kokiri folk. The child's name was Link...at least, that's what his bib said it was. Anyway, as he grew up, Link never questioned his past. The entire time he thought he was a Kokiri, just like all his friends. Saria, his best friend, would often tell him stories about the Hylian people, who were regarded among Kokiri culture as large, oafish baboons who walked with aid of their knuckles. Oh yeah, she was also completely out of her gourd. Around the time Link was ten years old, he found out the dark truth behind the forest people. They owned a hard-core child pornography ring, and wanted Link to be a part of it. Seeing that this wasn't the way he wanted to spend his teenage years, the boy got the hell out of there, and along with his new pet faerie Navi, wandered off into the sunset. For almost a year he lived on his own, roaming from town to town, trying to find a decent place to stay or food to eat. It wasn't until that fateful day when he met Impa that he discovered his true destiny. He wasn't a Kokiri after all, but a true Hylian! And that wasn't even the best part. According to the prophecy of the hot Princess Zelda, he was the preordained hero of Hyrule! Not buying an ounce of that garbage for a moment, he debated on leaving the castle, but the Princess' pleas caused him to stay. Well, that wasn't the only thing that caused him to stay...he already had a thing for the Princess. Link decided to remain at the castle, and a short time later discovered that he was the true Hero of Time after all by removing the legendary Master Sword from its pedestal. Everyone was all happy...la de da, that is, everyone except Link's future arch-nemesis Ganon. The two met for the first time that day, and as Link grew up, met numerous other times. Princess Zelda developed a bad habit of getting kidnaped, as did the three Triforces of Courage, Wisdom and Power. What fortified the bond that the boy was the predestined hero was the fact that the Triforce of Courage took a great liking to him. Link would put his glowing, green pyramid- shaped thing on a leash and go for endless walks with it around the castle. Link defeated Ganon for the first time when he was thirteen years old, then about a thousand other times after that because the old goon couldn't take a hint. With his trusty Master Sword and shield in hand, and armed with his bow and a quiver of arrows, Link went on journey after journey, riding on his faithful, yet very tired, horse Epona that he stole from Lon Lon Ranch. Finally, Link managed to save Zelda for the umpteenth time and return all three Triforces back to Hyrule Castle. After accomplishing all of this at the mere age of twenty, he now spends his days at the palace, hanging out with his protégé Aaron and following Princess Zelda around everywhere, praying to the gods that she'll break down and marry him one day.
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