What type of dad is the Hero of Time?
Link only has one child. I have headcanons about a son and daughter individually but they’re never more than an only child. (Or, if it pleases you, a neuter child because imo Link would treat his child the same but for the sake of this I’m going with genders because until they’re old enough to say otherwise, dad!Link goes with traditional genders but is accepting to genderqueers (which is another headcanon about dad!Link).)
Dad!headcanon is totally that Link takes his son EVERYWHERE with him. He smiles while he watches his son go on imaginary quests through Hyrule Field, slaying dragonflies and swinging his practice wooden sword around so one day he can be just like his papa. He even eggs him on sometimes and tells him to watch out for an octorok and reminds him to look in chests for keys.
Dad!Link is a proud papa who shows off his kid to his close friends and is a little more reserved in the face of strangers but he’s still proud to drag his child along with him everywhere he goes when he can.
Dad!Link teaches his daughter how to adventure just the same as he would if he had a son. He takes the same time and care to make sure she knows how to hold a sword and fight (and win) and that she listens to herself to do what is right, just the same he would his son.
Dad!Link hides things around his home (be it the castle or just a nice cottage in a nice town or the Zora Domain (wink wink)) for his kid to find. He doesn’t want his kid to have to face the dangers he did, so he tries to substitute actual dangerous adventure for safe fun adventure at home. He knows the value of courage and tries to support his kid, even if they lack courage themselves sometimes.
Dad!Link is kind of a pushover for his kid. Five stories tonight? Why not six? Anything for his little warrior.
Dad!Link talks to his child more than he talks to anyone else (because my biggest headcanon for Link is that he almost n e v e r speaks). But he’ll hold whole conversations with his kid and be super animated and invested and Link has always been popular with kids and he just loves them sO MUCH.
When his kid grows up and is a teenager with teen problems, Link absolutely pulls the ‘when I was your age’ card in jest but always does what he can to make sure he actually hears them out, but he always tries to make them smile first. He had more trouble connecting to teenage kids than to children but he does his very best. Things always felt decided for him so having a child with problems that are kind of frivolous is a little lost on him.
Link has spent ages trying to prepare his kid for the world and whatever they want to do in it, so if they decide to leave on some kind of real Quest he might find comfort that they’re ready but he really doesn’t want them to go and risk their lives when they could stay home and be shepherds or something safer. His kid going away is the one thing Link has no courage about, it scares him more than risking his own life ever would.
OVERALL I think very highly of Dad!Link in my headcanons. But I always think highly of Link xD Sorry that this took so long to respond to but my sibling got sick and I had to babysit my niece much longer than I usually do but I tried to think up some satisfactory headcanons in return for the long wait!
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