#link headcanons

The shrine is made to only fix wound, never to regenerate things that are lost so when it was given a body that was missing large portions of flesh it has to improvise. From there it changes Link. His mangled arm is turned repaired, casted over by a black sleeve that is an exact mirror of his other arm. Metals covering the outside act as a thin but powerful layer of protection between the outside and inner circuits of the prosthetic.

Link's eye also needed to be replaced. The burns that took Link had done servre damage to his eye. An artificial eye would do him much better, allowing him to see much more then what a normal hylian could.

Finally was the slate. There was no real reason to add it as a permanent attachment to Link but it would come in handy, allowing Link to use most runes without the need of actively using the slate now being able to use the runes through the use of his new arm. Maybe the slate could be used as a machine to monitor his own well-being or fix internal problems.

Once a proper ancient shield is obtained it could be clipped to the back of his hand and used at his will without having to be summoned. Same could be used with a dagger, sword, or spear if he so chooses.

I think Link isn't mute but definitely dislikes speaking, so he only speaks when he really has to.

He's very good at hiding when he's struggling with something or not feeling well, so people always think he's okay (people also tend to think he's emotionless because of his poker face but he's completely oblivious to it)

He used to know hylian sign language, but after his 100 years of sleepy time he forgot, so he picked up signs and code from different regions of Hyrule. He eventually relearns hylian sign but still uses the other stuff he learnt by reflex.

Boy looooves horses. He likes to sneak up on wild horses just to give them apples and carrots.

So much autism in this man.

you see how he always just has the master sword in the memories? yeah. he's an extremely skilled moron and prefers just having his sword rather than having a shield and bow alongside it, even if it's more practical and safer.

will eat anything. that's basically canon tho.

even after recovering his memories, he isn't sure how he used to think about the champions and Zelda. he knows he has strong feelings for all of them (he deeply wants to protect Zelda for instance) but like he has no idea if he loved Mipha back or if Revali annoyed him like he annoyed Revali. He's clueless.

He has a lot of scars and doesn't know where half of them come from.

After the calamity, he still sometimes has memory problems. He mainly has very bad short term memory and tends to forget what day it is, what week etc (no I'm not projecting)

He gets small flashbacks sometimes, some even look like very intense déjà vu because he'll like get a flashback of flying with his paraglider while actually flying with his paraglider.

He really likes his blue tunic. Its comfy and protects him, and it felt like a gift when he got it (when Impa gave it back to him)

He gets nightmares a lot, night terrors and sleep paralysis too, so he doesn't sleep much. He often just hangs out during the night and waits until he physically can't stay up anymore to sleep. (Zelda is so stressed out by this man he's giving her white hair. She tries to help but doesn't really know how).

he has intense panic attacks surrounding guardian stalkers, (unless they don't have legs). sometimes he's able to push back the panic until he's defeated or escaped the thing but other times he just falls to his knees in front of it, completely unable to function. he wasted a couple of fairies on these instances.

he collects flowers. silent princesses of course, for zelda, but he likes every type of flowers and loves to keep them and offer them to people or leave them on gravestones or near goddess statues.

he really likes his long hair, likes styling it and playing with it. he would hate to cut it

his eyes are really sensible to light from you know. being asleep for 100 years with his eyes closed

I said he loves horses but he honestly loves all animals. always pets doggies and likes to watch crabs dance around. he feeds animals when he can.

when he defeats monsters that were using horses, he brings the horse back to the closest stable or the closest patch of grass that looks safe and soothes them. also feeds them obv.