Brightknightie's friends

i do think minish cap zelda really wants link to grow up to be her personal knight or guard or something because they're best friends and she wants to spend time with him 24/7 but unfortunately for her link just wants to hang out in his house/the forge all day. because i mean you have this line in the minish cap from their cute little figurine:

These two became fast friends because of Smith and the king of Hyrule. Zelda wishes that the sometimes unreliable Link were just a wee bit stronger.

and then at the beginning of the game she gives him a shield and THEN when she gets hit by the business scrub she goes ""Owwwwch! [...] Link, do something about it!" despite the fact that later when vaati attacks, she a) makes a big, powerful magic shield around herself with absolutely zero effort and b) starts walking towards vaati like she's pissed off (understandable) and questioning him about what he's doing and why. so clearly the whole "owieeee!!!! linkkkkkk that deku nut hurttttt!!!! do something about it!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺" was more about her trying to get link to be Tough or whatever than anything else. so running with that idea i do think after he beats vaati she starts being like "oh you've gotten super strong!!! you defeated vaati even after he gained so much power!!! maybe i should talk to my father about making you my personal guard!!! :D" and link immediately turns and runs like hell back to his house (<-he's having flashbacks to when he spoke to one of the guards during his quest and they said "I just can't find that light force... The king is gonna be SO mad at me." and deciding he wants zero part of that stupidity). zelda gets grumpy about this but what can she do