#Link has a strong moral compass and the gods pretty much stepped on it//

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Link’s views on the goddesses changes throughout the Wind Waker. It starts to morph into disdain part way through the game, when he learns more about Hyrule. When he finally starts to ask questions and demands answers from Daphnes (Especially after Daphnes sent him in the Forsaken Fortress knowing that the Master Sword was dull). 

Murder is something Link will never tolerate and here’s the thing, when flooding Hyrule, the Goddesses committed genocide. Once he realizes this, he no longer see the goddesses as above them, as perfect, because they are murderers. They killed off the Gorons, the Gerudo, they killed plenty Zoras and Hylians just in an attempt to seal Ganondorf away. A seal that didn’t even last.

And the selected few being Hylian, gee I wonder if they play favorites (Besides, it’s not like you can drown Zoras)

He didn’t forgive Ganondorf for all of the destruction he caused and murders of Laruto and Fado (Link also knows that many more have probably been slain by Ganondorf’s hand) and he isn’t going to forgive the goddesses’ genocide. He doesn’t care if it was an attempt to stop Ganondorf because it didn’t work. Many died simply because the goddesses felt it was for the best. 

Their people prayed and prayed and prayed, and the Great Sea was their solution. 

In his eyes, they’re no better than people. They murder, they’re foolish, and they pick favorites. He holds contempt against them for their actions against they people they had created. The Gorons, Gerudo, Zora, and Hylians are more than just mere playthings that can be thrown away when they’re no longer ‘fun’.

Link also has a lot of questions for them, ones that are burning to be answered. He wants an explanation on why they did this, why they felt it was best, and they there were given power and immortality do nothing good with it. 

All of this doesn’t quite click for Link until his older. Sure, after Wind Waker he’s a bit unhappy about them, but once a few years are added onto that, any respect he had for them is gone. 

When he finally sees the full picture of their crimes and how it led to the world he knows now, the hero won’t look up to murderers. The childhood innocence that kept him from connecting everything together disappeared with time just leaving a glaring stamp of the gods mistakes. 

Questioning the gods as a child turns into disdain as an adult.

Hylia’s chosen hero loathes her. The wielder of the Triforce of Courage disregards Farore. Link no longer sees them as gods.