Problem is, it's always Ganondorf who chooses to go this route. What Link & Zelda do is generally reactive.

I drew this pre-totk as kind of a ‘what if’ where the plot examined the concept of the cycle where they’re fated to act out the plot you described. I think it’d be interesting if they examined ganondorfs character a bit more and made him more nuanced than just ‘evil power hungry guy.’ Iirc windwakers the closest he got to more complex motives and people loved that. Him just being simply evil has gotten a bit dull imo and gives the series kind of uncomfortable racial optics. That’s probably why I didn’t really enjoy totks portrayal of him even though his design was really cool