#being raised and encouraged to have extreme opinions of your own cosmic importance is like

[rawliverandgoronspice]

and beyond their specific roles in the mythology, at least those they end up taking through either fate or force or resilience (or a mixture of the three), I think it's fascinating how plausible it is that the golden trio (so Link, Zelda and Ganondorf) all grew up being fed myths about themselves. I'm thinking OoT here, but even Link, who had the whole hero spiel thrown upon him fairly late in his childhood, was still being groomed into perceiving himself in relationship to a legend of his own future life. They all grew up reckoning with the exceptional fate adults around them pushed on their identity before they were old enough to construct their own.

No wonder they all have the biggest, most dramatic identity crisis about it at some point (Zelda/Sheik, Link and Majora's Mask, and Ganondorf and uhh *gestures at ganondorf*)