Link is like Tony Hawk, in that no one recognizes who he is without Zelda there, the same way no one recognizes Tony Hawk without a skateboard and helmet

I want to add that Hudson recognizes link in tarrey town, and thanks him for helping him build the town. This mission in botw is only unlocked after buying link’s house. That means it is definitely link’s house in totk

one more point to add, Link never actually introduces himself to most npcs, the ones that know him, just know who he is, the ones that don't just assume he's a traveler and he just goes with it, some people even hear his name and think "oh he has the same name as the princess's knight, must be hard living up to that name, there's absolutely no way the two of you are one and the same, nuh-uh" so taking all of that into account, and the fact that even in BotW he didn't use the house much, it makes sense that he doesn't leave a big impression on your average joe.

Link and Zelda moved in! That is why Link got his own Bachelor Crib. Link and Zelda living together in Hateno Village is quite wholesome to think about.

I've always just taken it that Link is just another guy to most of the people of Hyrule, the citizens of Hanteo didn't notice him living there. When Princess Zelda started staying in the village however, everyone just presumed it was her house and that Link was her bodyguard. Its still his house as far as I'm concerned, paid for it fair and square.

I would also add. If link wasn’t staying in the house, why would Zelda need to hide the new champions tunic elsewhere and not just use her own house if link wasn’t also living there. She had to hide the tunic at the castle so link wouldn’t find it.

Link and Zelda being married privately and living in a small village just makes perfect sense to me. With her as the princess, they wouldn’t have announced that to the whole world, but also since the kingdom didn’t exist for a century, it’d be much easier to hide. Also the fact that Zelda hasn’t been crowned queen despite being the presumable heir (depending on how their succession works) fits with this too since she’s living a more private life as she works to rebuild the kingdom.

I think people equate Link not having a voice actor to Link not talking. Link talks plenty because in dialogue, people responds to what he says. He explains what he's done on quests to people, for example.

Knowing Zelda's insatiable curiosity about all historical things, the fact that she's staying in Hateno instead of Kakariko has to be because of Link. The little girl that hangs out near the house says that Zelda would always tell her when she was leaving so Zelda was coming and going a lot too. I'm not concerned about sleeping arrangements, he could be sleeping on a pallet on the floor downstairs and stowing it under the staircase during the day. These were my thoughts anyway.

I think it’s funny that zelda elegantly made a well she can work in privately and link, controlled by us, just HYAH’d his way into it and read her shit and took his hair tie and went about his way saving the kingdom. All while wearing some insane armor. An elegant gentleman.

After everything they’ve been through, and how close they grew together 100 years ago. It honestly makes little sense for them not to live together. Also I assume the reason nobody in Hateno seems to remember Link is because he’s canonically a very quite and reserved person that he doesn’t leave much of an impression on people who don’t actively know his accomplishments, those people of course being the people closer to Hyrule Castle. People forget that Hateno is basically in the outskirts as far away from the effects of Calamity Ganon as possible. Even Zelda isn’t really know in Hateno for be the princess, she is more known for her passion of learning and promotion of education.

Honestly I think the developers put in these subtle hints very intentionally because considering those hints it’s hard to imagine coming to any other conclusion. They most certainly must be together.

It would make total sense for their relationship to be largely unknown if that's the case. If Link is known only as Zelda's bodyguard, then it's safer because potential enemies would see a well protected princess. If everyone knew they were in an intimate relationship though, potential enemies might become more radical and bolder and might put both in more unnecessary danger. They would know they can also try to capture link and turn him into a bargaining chip.

I believe that it is pretty doable to assume that people in hateno knows zelda but not link because first: she's the princess of hyrule, so even people who she may not have interacted directly would recognize her and be aware of her living in the town, and second: maybe zelda was doing work in the town like establishing the school while link was out training or something else because zelda wouldn't need a bodyguard while wandering the town, or even if he was accompanying her, most people wouldn't pay him any mind, if a celebrity moved near you I doubt you would recognize their bodyguards if they showed randomly We also know their involvement with the people in hateno wasn't that deep because they're not even aware of the events that transpired in the castle during the upheaval, unlike other characters who are surprised to see link because they're close enough to be aware of their disappearance

Just a heads up that there are actually quite a few beds Link can sleep in without paying. Selmie's Place has a bed he can sleep in, there is a bed on the shore of the East Reservoir Lake by the dam facing the Zora Domain, as well as Calip's cabin and Link's house. These were all also free beds Link could use in BOTW as well. Obviously those don't apply to this question, but just in case anyone missed them!

I personally really like the theory that Link and Zelda got married between games. I think it would explain a lot of their motivations. I dont think it can entirely hold up with the rest of the story, but it's still a fun theory. Imagine how powerful it would have been if right before going to fight Ganondorf someone like Purah just casually mentions Link and Zelda's wedding. It would be a total bombshell and an awesome plot twist! Now we really want to beat Ganon! And it would make the already emotional diving catch to save Zelda at the end even more emotional.

For the single bed in Link's house, I like to think he did offer his bed, but she refused. So he offered to buy a bigger bed, but she refused and used him as her bed.

I think it would be very unlikely that Link would go off and leave Zelda undefended. I see it that people in Hatato don't know Link because he was forgettable to them when Zelda was around. He's her silent body guard and she's this amazing, talkative princess. Any time they may have noticed him, they probably either quickly forgot about him because he is so in the background or discounted him as just a lowly body guard. It's only the people who really KNOW who he is that recognise him. Even in the school lessons when the kids learn about the hero from the calamity, they don't tell them that it was Link. He's not a show pony and wouldn't like the attention such knowledge would give him. I think for the most part, he likes going around unnoticed. So, while the house was Link's, when Zelda moved in people came to recognise it as Zelda's house because she was the memorable one.

There's also the point that Hudson was said to have been hired by Zelda herself to rebuild Hyrule. She could have easily hire him to build her a house that suits her needs, but she instead decided to live with Link

Yeah brought up a lot of good points it should be obvious that he lived there with her but people tend to forget that a Zelda is confirmed to be in love with link witch is stated at the end of the champions balid in btow. So she cares for him alot plus his hairband is in her study kinda sus for someone to keep around someone else’s clothes if they don’t live there huh

There's only two possibilities. If romance? Simple. They're in the same house. If platonic? Also simple, they're in the same house if only for Link to protect Zelda from the Yiga threats and to accompany her on her trips. Regardless for both, Link may be coming and going at odd hours too. May be waking up early in the morning and away from the house and coming back late when they're the village probably just because he likes his privacy.

I feel that Link and Zelda are together. There was something about Zeldas smile at the end of BOTW that eluded to them being in love

Some interesting things to note are that the Zora, Rito, Goron, and the Gerudo who knew link was a Voe all recognise link from his actions in BOTW. The people that don’t are typically civilians that have no established connection to link or that link had no significant impact on People are also aware of the swordsman who saved the kingdom, but they don’t recognise Link as that swordsman so his name and appearance were never publicised possibly due to Link’s own request The kingdom’s guards also still exist and interact with the princess, and while they recognise Link civilians may see Link and think he’s simply another guard assigned to the princess. Unless they were caught having a romantic moment no one would think the two were together due to their different statuses. This would also lead to the basic assumption that the house belonged solely to the princess not her guard There’s also the possibility that Link and Zelda don’t want to publicise their relationship and that Link’s stuff like an extra pillow are put away when he’s not there to keep people from finding out

Maybe they both live there, but Link just often has to go elsewhere because of his work and Zelda can stay more in town. It could also be that Link doesn't want to be recognized everywhere considering that in botw it is stated that the reason for his silence is the pressure he faced from being the hero so he keeps a low profile when visiting the village.

With all the new clothing style, the town is attracting a lot of newer people that wouldn’t be familiar with link.

side quests aren't canon? since when? That's a new one to me. Its clear to me that they are in a relationship together, its how I like to see things and gives TotK more of an impact. I do like its vagueness. If someone hates the idea of them being together in that form, then fine, its open to interpretation.

I think people forget that mass communication isn't a thing in BOTW/TOTK. Sure Link could've saved Hyrule, people know his name and his title of Hero from word of mouth, but there's no way they could have gotten his face out there, so it makes sense that a lot of people don't recognize him. Plus, you're right, Zelda could have easily stayed with her former attendant Impa in Kakariko or even with Purah at the tech lab, but she chose to live in Link's house in Hateno. Plus, Zelda's journal also specifies that Link never leaves her side, so do people honestly believe he'd just leave her unattended for hours and hours to go sleep in a DIFFERENT house? I feel like the reason Zelda stands out more to the kids and Hateno villagers is only because Zelda is supposedly so beautiful and captivating that people probably don't notice he's there when they're socializing with her.

I head cannoned that they were coupling together in Hateno prior to the release of TotK so I was literally delighted to see that their house had been Zelda-fied when I got there. I (admittedly biased) think that they were both staying there and the people of Hateno are just kind of oblivious. Like, that's their whole thing, a kind of general lack of awareness of the outside world, and with Link being so quiet they just kind of missed him. Also, probably the most obvious place for Zelda to stay if she wasn't moved in with her BF, would be the Hateno Research lab, as Purah had moved out at that point. But she didn't, did she?

Link and Zelda have become a couple and have moved in together. That’s why Zelda is living there and why Link is able to sleep in the bed. The only beds Link can actually sleep in in the game are beds he’s allowed to sleep in, either at an inn/stable, the Korok’s making a bed for him in the forest and the bed in the house you make in Tarrey Town. It’s pretty clear Link and Zelda are a couple and living together.

Notice the two places at the dinner table in the house at Hateno. When Link builds the new house in Tarrey Town, it’s got 4 places at the table as well as the house being much bigger. Methinks that it’s time to move up from the starter home to make room for the new additions: little Zink and Lelda.

Something else to keep in mind about people not knowing Link - there are a TON of NPC’s that, while they don’t know what he looks like, they have HEARD of the Hero who defeated the Calamity and saved the Princess. Sometimes all they know about him is that he wields the Master Sword. There’s a trio of Gerudo women near a stable that talk about finding a Voe, and they bring up the Hero. They assume he must be taller then them and built like a brick house. (Oddly enough, Ganondorf fits this criteria lol) My point is that Link is so busy helping Hyrule rebuild that he never stays in one place for too long so people don’t get to know who he is unless they themselves play an active roll in the effort to rebuild - so I believe he offered to let Zelda stay at his house since he wasn’t using it very often. I bet they still stayed there together a few times though.

Considering the photo of the champions that impa took is still up there and was put up by Link himself and is his direct property yeah Link and Zelda are definitely living together, whether they got married is debatable but unmarried couples living together is actually extremely common

Nintendo kinda dropped the ball by not just being explicit about them being together. The story is so much more emotionally impactful to go through if you assume that they are in a romantic relationship. If it's just a guy and how he interacts with his boss, the story loses a lot of personal stake. In a platonic relationship means the story is touching, but that's it. In a romantic relationship, the story is devastating.

My head cannon is that after botw and the first rounds of touring hyrule w zelda, link offered zelda the house he was temporarily using for her research as he roamed hyrule helping people rebuild and kill leftover monsters/ deal with encampments. Zelda is far more diplomatic and Link is more action oriented so it makes sense he didnt ever settle down.

The biggest one you missed is the fact that Zelda hid Link's new tunic in Hyrule Castle so Link wouldn't find it. Even if the secret well room was built because of the kids rather than Link, well... that doesn't explain why she put the tunic in Hyrule Castle.

As an introvert who doesn’t talk to people very often. I can relate to being a person in the background. Most often those are the kind of people that no one knows, or knows very well. Especially kids who would naturally gravitate towards zelda and not interact with a quite person. The only people who know link very well are the ones you help save or change their communities, link zora and gerudos. You only ever do side quest in hateno so it makes sense no one would know link. Thats why most evidence points to zelda/link relationship. Plus, you can see how different zelda treats link in totk. Its like they could be married its so intimate

It makes more sense to me that they would both be using the Castle as their main residence while they worked on rebuilding the kingdom, all the NPCs at Lookout Landing seem to be familiar with Link so I would have to imagine he was spending a lot of time in Central Hyrule leading the military in protecting the kingdom, while Zelda was obviously spending time in Hateno nurturing the next generation it makes sense that Link would let her stay at his house and make it her own.

I think it was great that Nintendo took your save data and ported over the most subtle things that adds that spice of accomplishment and makes it a true sequel.

The bed is probably the same reason why there's a guardian on top of the tech lab but literally nowhere else. The developers didn't want to redo it.

There are evidences Zelda loves Link since before and after the events of Breath of the Wild. Thus, there are so many hints and Suggestions that their relationship evolved into lovers in Tears of the Kingdom. One example is when you go Hateno Village to check in Link’s old home. It’s called Zelda’s house. In the Japanese version however, it claims to be Link and Zelda’s house (they lived, eat and sleep together in one single bed). Another example is from Dragon Tear Memory 8, where Zelda speaks highly about Link to Queen Sonia and King Rauru as she blushes. Next is you get to see her second dairy in a her secret study room beneath their home where Zelda wrote about a surprise she was gonna give to Link after their investigating the underground caverns of Hyrule Castle. And lastly, you encounter a NPC after rebuilding Lurelin. He show you a photograph image of a Lover’s Pond where someone in disguise went there, then later implies that Zelda went there with Link. Those examples are heavily implied that this version Zelink is canon

People dont recognize link because he was always just teleporting into the house to get it on with zelda. 😂 Who needs to walk or ride a horse when you got a fancy sheika slate/purah pad.

In Breath of the Wild, the people of Hateno never recognized Link, even after he bought the house.

I’ve liked thinking that while Zelda was managing the school, Link was training people to be warriors. It isn’t like all the monsters across Hyrule vanished, and Link may have been asked to do this by Zelda. After watching this video, I think him training soldiers would be a reasonable explanation for his absence in the village. Also, even when he was in the village, he’d still be wearing the uniform and helmet, preventing anyone from recognizing him without them.

it's confirmed in botw that at the very least zelda had the hots for link, so seeing as zelda has now moved into his house, it seems pretty cut and dry that their relationship ain't just princess and her knight. either that or link sleeps in the shed.

Yeah I think Zelda did move in with Link at the end of botw. I think they live together and share a bed. Even though that bed looks big enough for one person, I think they sleep together lol. 😆❤❤

Another thing to note is that the Yiga clan is still around whether the calamity exists or not, and they still absolutely despise Zelda, but mostly Link as he has directly harmed their master Kogha. So it doesn't really make much since to just leave Zelda on her own outside of trusted groups of people since the Yiga are still after them both yes- but Zelda in particular doesn't have the self defence skills of Link to take on others on her own. But it could make since if he gave her his old house to live in a relatively peaceful place while giving her her own private space, while he goes out and takes care of any Yiga members that may stray towards the village while she's staying in it.

I had a funny thought wherein Zelda had the secret study built because she KNOWS how Link snoops around reading everyone’s diaries.

In Lurelin Village you find out through some dialogue that Zelda frequently visited the Lovers Pond and you can even find a painting of it made by Zelda in a building there. That's all I'm gonna say.

Exactly on everything you said, plus It's plain as day that they were a couple, I don't see why people are so against it. In the Champion's Ballad, Kass says (not sure on exact, but similar) his teacher had a crush on Zelda but she only had eyes for her swordsman. You can see in Zelda's eyes, in flashback memories in BOTW, that she's in love with him. People can argue, why doesn't he just live in the house, well Zelda is missing, maybe he doesn't want to stay there without her. People can deny it all they want, but the signs are there.

It’s totally believable. I can imagine that between him not being a super social dude and looking different, they may not recognize him. I think there are characters in Hateno that probably should recognize him, but I’m fine that they don’t. It makes sense for gameplay. I like the idea that she left things mostly as is, but she put her own spin on the place. I like to think that link moving to Akkala was so that he can build a bigger place with accommodations for both of them

The chest in the well study doesn’t have a lock of his hair (it would be weird if it did), it’s just his old hair tie that can put his hair in a ponytail

Also, on the topic of marriage politics, it was apparently okay for Mipha, who is also a princess, to propose to link. I realize that Zora's Domain is a lot smaller than Hyrule, but the point kinda still stands. He's got enough of a standing to marry into royalty. And all that's before he became a literal figure of legend in the 100 years after the Calamity. I feel like if they did get married, people would not be griping that the legendary swordsman who fought Calamity Gannon and saved Hyrule from destruction was at some point in the distant past born in Hateno.

Link also doesn’t talk much, so he wouldn’t talk to villagers or anyone in the kingdom. Also, link would probably be physically helping the kingdom while Zelda organized the restoration

Maybe part of the reason people dont recognize Link is because the timeline of BoTW is actually very short. Link was just passing through towns and villages for essential plots and never stay or revisit just to dye his armor or help people find their chicken. After the event, they were always on the move, visiting places that need to be rebuilt and researched l, including Hatteno, so it’s quite reasonable that not many people would get to know him or recognize him (who’s just a bodyguard at that point). Only those who are essential to the the BotW plot had actually interacted with him, other NPCs had not.

to clarify: the chest with "a lock of link's hair" actually contains his elastic hair-tie from botw

I'm pretty sure the devs made it zelda's house so that they could have that tarrey town side quest where you build your own house in totk

"The person who owned in this house went to fight in WWI and never returned..." Something about that being the real world equivalent makes the whole scenario feel... heavy.

To start, I like to believe that Link and Zelda live together. (BOTW/TOTK and Skyward Sword are the only games where I actively ship Zelink though.) I just simply feel like their relationship in BOTW/TOTK is really cute and would make so much sense if they shared the same house and were (maybe) in some sort of romantic relationship. And, having read every comment in this comment section, I can agree with the frequently-mentioned idea that Zelda would only have a secret well if she shared the house with someone. But moving on, I think having Zelda and Link in a relationship would add so much depth and emotion to the game (especially the main focus being to find and reunite with Zelda.) Of course, I'm also aware of the ambiguity concept that Nintendo often uses, where players are allowed to play the game based off their own interpretations of it, so I'm open to any ideas both ways. Anyways, I don't know if this is relevant to the argument or not, or if it's entirely false because I don't remember it that clearly, but here's something I somewhat recall from the previous game. At some point in BOTW, I was talking to one of the NPCs in Tarrey Town, and they mentioned something about how the town was considered a place to purchase a vacation home. I don't know if I dreamed this up or not, but for some reason I recall an NPC calling Tarrey Town a place for vacation homes, and I suppose that stuck with me throughout the rest of the game for some reason. I'd like to tie this in with the whole "Dream Home" side quest where you can purchase and personalize a new home for Link, overlooking Tarrey Town. This seems to prove to many people (who are against the idea of Zelink sharing a home) that Link really did just hand the house over to Zelda, especially if teleporting over to Tarrey Town and building his own house there is an option. However, my interpretation of the whole living situation is that Link and Zelda DO live together in Hateno Village, but Link bought a "vacation home" in Tarrey Town to surprise Zelda with when she returned. Again, this is just my interpretation, so if you think differently, I totally respect that! And if anyone can confirm that the whole NPC vacation home thing really IS just a figment of my imagination, please let me know! :)

Very well crafted arguments w/valid points and explanations. I enjoyed your very simple yet realistic explanations that acknowledge all lines of thought. Solid video! Your work definitely earned a subscription.

Also can we just take a second to think about how dope a TotK sequel with King Link and Queen Zelda setting out together to save their kingdom that they worked so hard to rebuild together would be? Running around as Link with Zelda following you, doing all the same things you do, climbing next to you, gliding around with you, and then you could just swap between playing Link and Zelda whenever you want.

Is it really that unusual for celebrities and their bodyguards to share a space? Seems like it'd make the job a heck of a lot easier. I do think these two eventually end up together though. They've been through way too much together. Nobody else in Hyrule could possibly understand either of them.

Pretty simple to assume that Link has been staying there, but he's a silent protagonist and probably quietly working, so he has a limited ibteraction woth other non-story characters. Seems very intentional to indicate they are moved in together, whether a couple or not.

I'm 210 hours in the game and I still haven't made it to Hateno village yet.

The very first thing I did after getting the paraglider was to go to links house. I was pleasantly surprised.

Link can also sleep for free in the lurelin village inn and in his “new” house after he builds it during the dream house quest

I refuse to believe Zelda just kicked link out of the house. I definitely believe more so that they just live there together as a possible couple or romantic relationship. Sure the game doesn't fully come out and say they're in a romantic relationship but there's plenty of hints in both BOTW and TOTK the allow fans to come to these conclusions and even Zelda's English voice actor believes that Zelda and Link are together in a romantic relationship.

the inn keeper in zoras domain also recognizes link, and calls him by a nickname

I SHOULD NOTE* if you have completed champions ballad on BoTW and returned to links house in hateno, you can place the photograph given by kass on the wall. If you play through ToTK on the same account, the photograph will carry over.

I would argue the abandoned house was not Link's in the past pre-Calamity. Yes they said that the person who lived there never came back, but this is a 'correlation is not causation' type scenario. Just cuz it happened to be abandoned is therefore not inherently proof it used to be his. There's TONS of destroyed villages and the like all over Hyrule post-Calamity, in both BotW and TotK. There's just as much chance that Link was from one of those long-lost places.

I think these are signs of time travel similar to the link to the past on super Nintendo. The magic mirror still has a design on the game & I think it could exist. I sure hope I'm right, it would be cool to see everything on the game b4 it was destroyed. The flash back at hyrule castle showing it not destroyed may also be a hint.

I really liked this video, Beautiful Editing and the teories were interesting and good :D

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Andres is on detective mode with timing riding the horse 😂

Link and Zelda been living in sin since BOTW, y’all! 😮 (Stares at TOTK with disapproving Auntie eyes). 🤣😂🤣 While I think their relationship can be interpreted in different ways, I think the devs are pointing us in the direction of romantic relationship. Not every iteration of Link and Zelda are romantic. But this whole cycle started with Hylia taking Zelda away from Link. Since BOTW and TOTK have some loose ties to SS, I’d say Link is always trying to find her. Yes, he cares about Hyrule and it’s people, but it’s always about her. It’s subtle but that’s how I’ve interpreted this particular game. Now…if this was TP Link and Zelda, that was a business transaction 😂🤣🤣🤣

If you watch the dragon tears cutscenes it more than alludes to Zelda being well and truly in love with link and her first concern after waking up is how link is, she didn’t even consider herself until afterwards.

Well done. Examined most aspects and makes perfect sense.

Zelda took the house in the divorce

I like your interpretation. I've always wanted or hoped for a more romantic relationship for Link and Zelda. As far as other NPC's not recognizing Link....well, when it comes to the kids, it might depend on their age. Some older kids may remember Link and Zelda but they don't recognize him because of the lapse in time. I've only just started playing Tears of the Kingdom, so excited to get to Hateno Village for myself. And get Zelda's horse. Not sure how though....yet. Might have to cheat and watch a video.

This was a good video. Good job.

such facts, i think this is the most concise and in depth case as to why the house was links for a while

zelda's diary almost outright confirms they were living together.

Consider the characters and their interests. Zelda is essentially homeless after BotW, so of course Link would offer up his home to her. Not only because he is duty-bound, but because he is kind. Also, another bed Link can sleep in charge-free is inside the Deku tree, near where Link’s sword has been recharging since the events of the last game. My guess is that, while Zelda has been living in the safety if Hateno, protected by nearby Sheikah, Link has been living mostly in the woods, as all iterations of Link tend to do, guarding his sword, which is also why the forest was hit so hard during the upheaval. Dunno, just my thoughts. I tend to see their relationship as deep but platonic.

He had PTSD from his last battle with Gannon, went off the rails and now lives in a van down by the river.

Sub-ed! Pls share more of such background/history video. I am really interested in how villages have changed, etc

Considering Link doesn't sleep in other people's house in TOTK but can sleep in the house in Hateno is telling.

If the kids do not recognize Link, it's because Link purchase the house 5-6 years prior. The kids were probably babies back then. Link seems like the dude who is out there training or hunting than a person who studies indoors like Zelda. It's more likely Link gave her the house because he does not use it often.

Fun fact: If you completed the champion's ballad dlc in botw, you can go to links house and put a picture on the wall. And if you return to the house in totk you can see the picture is still there!

It could always be the case of Zelda using the bed and Link using a bedroll to sleep somewhere in the house

Despite I believe that Link and Zelda love each I think that they are just roommates (Maybe Link sleeps in the floor lol) besides he is still her royal guard he can't be living far away from her.

Personally I feel like they have a very professional relationship despite the romantic implications. I only say this because Link has always been a character who cares about the people he knows as well as sees in trouble. Twilight Princess Link's entire character arc is his ride or die attitude toward the people around him - Ilia, the kids from his village, Midna, and even Zelda. He's always been a "if something happens to my friends I'll travel the whole world to save them" kind of character. Someone strong enough to face fear for those who need him. Zelda being an incredibly important friend for him, and also his professional relationship with her would probably dictate he be willing to give his house to her because she's the princess and he's her royal guard. This version of link to me really feels like he feels a lot of honor for the job he had with Zelda. She's important to him, had been fighting Ganon for over a hundred years, and she needed a place to rest because the castle was decimated and unlike stereotypical monarchy she didn't place focus on fixing her castle but on her duty to her people. I think in that circumstance of course Link would give her his house.

I don't know for sure, but in the Japanese version in Zelda's diary it says "our house"

You can also sleep freely above a water fall and zora’s domain and the old man’s cabin on the great plateau as well as a cabin in the herba mountain range

Here is a fun theory. ZELDA is considered royalty. As far as i know, royals can't just have relationships. There is a process and a ceromony and marriage. Maybe zelda and link are not ready to wed, and link is not ready to be king, so what do they do? They keep their relationship a secret, and maybe they convinced every body in town to keep it a secret, even from them.. thats why everybody acts like they dont know link because they are acting. All this is to keep order in hyrule and keep zelda in power. If people found out that the princes is having relationships and not following royal codes that would bring hyrule to further chaos.

i like to imagine that there is one bed because link sleeps on it while zelda just falls asleep inside he secret well while studying and researching stuff

I’m just tight that you don’t get a storage facility/display case anymore. I loved putting up my ancient weapons, 1. To have backup, 2. It GLOWS how cool.

i like to think in the future when the kingdom of Hyrule is once against established and recovers from the upheaval this would be their special vacation spot a place to connect to the people and the land, while also relaxing from the stress of politics

There is one thing u missed, at the back of links house there is a wooden place, It looks like there is a small place to sit. Link is not picky so knowing him he might sleep there. But it is very close to the well.

Link just has a Stealth lvl 3 elixir when he's near his/Zelda's house... 😆

he missed the bed in zora"s domain at the place the divine beast was

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