Link.
Even now in this form of stasis where I exist only as a barrier between Calamity Ganon and his vile intentions for Hyrule, I cannot help but to think of the chosen knight and how much I resented him then, and how that resentment had become a bitter gall in my throat.
His destiny was so clear to him. So pure and full of divine power, he slayed every enemy that arose in his path. I watched as he faithfully felled the most fearsome of beasts Hyrule had to offer, unflinchingly defeating them all. There was never any hesitation, never any doubt for him. One could see it in those pure blue eyes: he feared nothing.
All the while, I struggled every step of our intertwined paths and took so many tumbles along the way. I never felt the call of the divine, not once, not until his destiny became unbound...
And so it is his fault I am trapped here.
He failed, and the only reason the power of the goddesses in me was able to finally awaken is because there was no one else left to stop disaster from befalling us all. When it came down to the last of the last, the only thing standing between total calamity and Hyrule was me.
If he could have just fulfilled his destiny properly, none of this would be necessary. I could finally have given up on pursuing the powers of the goddesses that hitherto had eluded me. I could have studied the sciences that consumed my imagination. I could have lived a life of peace if only Link had actually been capable of defeating the darkness that had beset itself upon us.
Some chosen knight. Chosen by whom? Certainly not by me. Perhaps not chosen at all.
All that talk of destiny, fate, being selected by the goddesses for this most important of tasks, and in the end, despite all of my shortcomings, it is I who remains between the calamity and Hyrule now. And yet all I can do is hold the line. I cannot push past it, cannot fight back, cannot find the strength to put a stop to Ganon and the forces of darkness. I can only offer my resistance, the resistance of the goddesses, and I am left praying that it will be enough.
When will he awaken from his long slumber? When will Link rise again to meet his fate? Will he return at all? Will he save me? Will he be my champion now?
