ww is kinda weird cuz both daphnes and ganon are wrong in some ways and it kind of leaves me thinking that neither of them were completely the good guy so here is my 10 page essay on why theyre both dumb old dudes causing problems
ganon isnt the good guy in ww, hes not a good person. he's more like a villain with depth i guess? as much as i love seeing him as some nice old man i gotta think about canon sometimes and hes kind of an asshole, but not just plain evil like he was in oot. i could agree with the fact that he wanted to revive old hyrule but then he ended up saying "give hyrule to me" which showed that he only wanted to bring it back so he can take it for himself.
that kinda bothers me tbh cuz its kinda boring that ganon just wants hyrule and thats that but thats just how he is i guess. i also wanna mention the time he said he wouldnt kill link, even though at the beginning of the game he told his helmaroc to throw him off to god knows where in the middle of the sea. maybe he didn't kill him but he definitely did it thinking he'd never come back. even though ganons dialogue is much more chill and sounds way less evil than in other games, hes not exactly good for the stuff he does and it kinda disappoints me that even though he did some terrible things, it wouldve been really cool if he did these things to bring hyrule back for not him but the rest of the world and his "give hyrule to me" thing really took away from that.
now its daphnes turn and hes different cuz hes supposed to be your companion. the reason i think daphnes isnt so good a person himself is cuz he took some random kid trying to save his sister and nothing more, then used the fact that he was willing to do anything for aryll to get him to kill ganon.
even after aryll is safe, daphnes still gets link to go through with the triforce hunt and kill ganon anyways. now i guess you could say that if he didnt kill ganon then aryll would still be in danger but he already found out that its not aryll who has what he wants so he'd probably just leave her alone. i guess this leaves tetra to be the one in danger, but even then daphnes put her in more danger than she wouldve been in anyways. i think daphnes biggest mistake here had to be giving the remaining piece of wisdom to tetra turning her into zelda. the whole zelda thing was weird on its own but what i mean by this is that by doing that ganon was able to have the complete triforce of wisdom when he took her. the piece of wisdom that daphnes held for all these years was safe with him and he just made the most stupid decision to give it to tetra only to show her that shes royal. add this to the fact that he left her in the most obvious spot, the basement of hyrule castle. and another thing to point out thats not so great, he left her in there with no food? he left her in there not knowing for sure when him and link were gonna come back and that makes me lose it every time like this poor kid just got turned into a princess basically had her life changed and got locked alone in a castle basement for god knows how long because some guy told her she was 💖✨goddess blood✨💖
daphnes was alright near the end when he used the triforce to wish a future for the kids who got caught up in this mess, and then told them to find a new land. he thinks its time for the old kingdom to be left behind for good and there needs to be a fresh start and new history. as great as it would be for the flood to end he does have a point especially if you think about the things the royal family has done in the past, using the sheikah and stuff like that even though thats definitely not what the game was going for but its still something to think about. hyrule has had a rough history and with both ganon and the old kingdom gone its finally time for something new.
i think both daphnes and ganon have good points but things just went wrong like daphnes pulling in some random kid to do what he wanted and ganon wanting hyrule for himself. neither of them are perfect but its ok cuz i think theyre both cool characters anyways 😭✌️
