In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Link dresses up as a woman (the Gerudo outfit) specifically to gain entry into the all-female Gerudo Town, as males ("voe") are forbidden from entering. This disguise is necessary to progress the story and access the Divine Beast Vah Naboris quest line.
As recently as BotW, Aonuma explicitly stated that the developers go out of their way to make Link look feminine or gender neutral. The reason they do that is so that the player can feel like they are playing as a girl (with the intent of female players better connecting with the character).
Although Link is a male character, Aonuma said that he wanted him to be gender neutral in Ocarina of Time: "I wanted the player to think 'Maybe Link is a boy or a girl'. If you saw Link as a guy, he'd have more of a feminine touch.
By design, Link is androgynous, which is just a fancy word for ``a boy that looks like a girl or vice versa''. This is because he's a self-insert for the player, so having an ambiguously-gendered appearance makes it easier for players to put themselves in his shoes.
Although there is no explicit LGBTQ content in the games, some critics have pointed to potential queer characters and themes. For instance, in The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (1998), Princess Zelda dresses up as a supposedly male but rather gender ambiguous character named Sheik.
What Happens if Dress as a GIRL Gerudo the FIRST TIME You Meet PAYA?
Who has a crush on Link?
The Great Fairy is interested in Link in Wind Waker. She says “You are just my type!” when you visit her in the Mother and Child Isles, IIRC, if not there then somewhere else.
As a result the Slumber of Restoration was key in aiding Link in undoing the damages that resulted from Champions and their allies failures during the Great Calamity, leading to Ganon's defeat and the restoration of the Kingdom of Hyrule lead by the now freed Princess Zelda who like Link had not aged as a result of the ...
In the final Kass song , he specifically talks about "the princesses love for her appointed knight" which if you got off the plateau you would know is Link. So yeah, she loves him.
Additionally, Zelda's diary mentions him actually opening up to her about the weight of his responsibility and how it made him close himself off and barely talk (the only person we ever see him do so, which is an interesting contrast to Mipha), and Link canonically is told that Zelda only had eyes for and loved him, ...
The shipping between these two is a very common ship in the Zelda community, it's considered to be a rival ship to Zelink and has often been a debate on who Link loved more, however it generally is expected that Link loved both Mipha and Zelda and there was a love triangle between the 3 of them.
↑ Vilia consistently refers to herself as a woman and responds negatively when accused of being a man, indicating that Vilia is either a transgender woman or that Vilia assumes the persona of a woman in order to access Gerudo Town and denies any accusation which would jeopardize her ability to enter the Town.
Did you know that Mario's last name is also Mario? He's not alone. Apparently, it's an ongoing gag spanning multiple games over at Nintendo HQ, where they jokingly give characters silly full names.
Chronologically they are 117, because it has been 117 years since their birth. Biologically they are 17, because their bodies have not aged since they turned 17.
Though Nintendo insists Link is both straight and cisgender, fans have expanded the Zelda universe with LGBTQIA+ characters and queer readings of Zelda games.
She wears a South Asian-like attire composed of black gagra choli with a trailing black veil. However, after being cursed by Zant, Midna became an imp. In her imp form, Midna is diminutive, and the clothes she wore in her true form seem to have been fused to her. She also wears a fused shadow relic as a mask.
