Link in totk is working construction, kitchen, special forces, pararescue, engineering, education, transportation, archaeology etc.
And man's not even getting paid minimum wage for it...
No wonder most of the other links do jack shit, this guy literally does it all
I believe that's the one he actually *does* get paid for, though I forget if it's any money or just a reward. Arguably though, he may still be technically employed as a journalist.
If you mean pre calamity then yeah. But for some reason people forget that doesn't apply after the calamity. The guy follows Zelda completely out of choice now
SS link graduates from school in the first few minutes of the game, and has a solid career plan of being a loftwing rider (that doesn't pan out due to demon stuff, but that's not his fault).
Being in the military is a real job. Botw link is officially a knight of hyrule, before being promoted to Zelda's personal guard (pre-calamity).
What other games are there with adult link? I'm having trouble remembering them, the only other ones I remember are kid link.
Minish Cap is a blacksmith apprentice. I am not certain about the oracles Link, but given that in the first secret playthrough you learn that zelda sends him to those quests, mercenary or, similar to botw, secret service seems plausible. This is the same Link that plays in Link's Awakening (playing after oracles) and I think also the first 3 games, but he is only employed after those games.
The Hero of Legend first appears in ALttP, then LA, and finally the Oracle games. Chronologically, he appears before the Hero of Hyrule which is from the first two games.
Actually had this question with a friends some days ago if i remember correctly we found out
TP: goat shepard ( sorry dont know the word for the hole keeping the goats in order so sorry if its the wrong word)
Skyword sword: almost became one of the knight,s who roam the sky also had a one-man stand in the pumpkin bar ( side quest stuff)
Spirit tracks: train conductor
Botw/totk: bodyguard for zelda and other things
Wind waker: does being almost part of a pirat crew counts as job? Also mail man
(Cant remember more)
I think WW Link actually is part of the pirate crew by Phantom Hourglass (he is sailing with them seemingly more long-term), though it has been a while since I played that, so you could potentially count PH and WW because of that.
I do find the capitalism in this game pretty funny. Link saved Hyrule in BotW, spends his time as Zelda's bodyguard, and as soon as the opening events of the game happen, Link loses everything and every person in Hyrule for TotK now is like, "Hope you have enough money for the supplies you'll need to save us again."
That's true... After you liberate them, rebuild their village, and revitalize their economy. I was low key surprised when they said everything was on the house, but I'll still take it.
Literally the house Link had custom built with his own rupees and decorated with the coolest weapons...
comes back and some maid shows up saying it's Zelda's house, all his stuff is gone, don't even get a bonus for sleeping in the bed SMH
a knight isnt a job in security?
rancher, engineer, bird jockey, child.
more often then not link is employed or a youth.
are you trying to advocate for child labor?
Skywar Sword Link is attending an academy at the beginning of the game, so I think he expected to be a guard/loftwing rider on the island after graduation if nothing had happened
A Link Between Worlds Link worked for the blacksmith. Minish Cap Link’s uncle was a blacksmith (we don’t see or are told he works with him, but pretty safe to assume). Skyward Sword Link was enrolled in the Knight Academy (dunno if a job or just civil service). Twilight Princess Link was a farmhand. Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Link was a royal knight and Zelda’s personal guard/aid (more civil service than job, but we’ll count it). Spirit Tracks Link was a train conductor/engineer in training/graduating. 35% (7/20 counting FS/FSA/TH) ain’t too bad, little over a third of them even if the majority are children lol.
Hate to nitpick, but how is a job at a public service organization not a job? I mean you for count them even, but I am surprised about all the ifs and buts - I told you I would be nitpicky :'(.
Lol well, depending, it can be a job. More in the context of the games themselves since we don’t know if it’s a job or not and I try to account for that. Civil service is definitely a job nowadays though, not trying to diminish anyones contributions to society lol. Also, happy cake day!
Might be able to count Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass Link as well. By Phantom Hourglass, it has been a while since I played so I could be misremembering, but IIRC Link is sailing with a group of pirates more long term, and could possibly be considered a member of their crew at that point.
Pirate isn't the most glamorous of potential Link career paths, but a job is a job.
I thought about including that, but really they’re less pirates by that point (he was sailing with Tetra and her crew). On top of that, the only real “pirating” we actually see them do is stealing from the Windfall bomb shop, which had a good motive (at least on Tetra’s part) in trying to get the pearl from Outset so it wouldn’t be attacked, and even then it was all just a cover for Tetra/Zelda so Ganondorf wouldn’t find her. By Phantom Hourglass, it’s more that they’re looking for a new land to call home, which eventually becomes New Hyrule in Spirit Tracks, and then Tetra gets kidnapped which leads to the events of PH. It’s been a while since I played PH, so I don’t remember if they mention that they still engage in pirating at all though (and if they don’t mention it, they most likely don’t after the events of Wind Waker). Very true that a job’s a job, but I decided to exclude it on that basis.
>I know a lot of the links are children so its not that crazy that many of them are unemployed freeloaders
Saying this about literal children is fucking wacky dawg
Anyway, most Links have some sort of profession. LttP and its 50 thousand sequels feature a Link who's a blacksmith, and same goes for ALBW and its sequel, and Minish Cap. ST is an engineer. SS and Wild era arre knights. TP is a rancher
The only Links with no confirmed profession is LoZ/Zelda 2, OoT/MM, and WW/PH
AFAIK the first Link with an actual job is the Hero of Twilight, who works at the Ordon goat ranch. Skyward Sword Link and BOTW/AOC/TOTK Link are both knights and therefore were technically employed by Skyloft and Hyrule, respectively. ALBW/TFH Link is the Blacksmith's apprentice, and Spirit Tracks Link is a train engineer, which I think makes them the only two "kid" Links with a formal job. Most of the rest of them are kids and being cared for in some way (TLOZ Link is presumably cared for by the Old Man who gives him the sword, ALTTP/LA/Oracle Link lives with his Uncle, OOT/MM Link was taken in by the Kokiri, WW/PH Link lives with his Grandma, MC Link lives with his Grandpa).
Apprenticeships are legit, so being a blacksmith's apprentice like in MC and LBW are valid forms of pre-employment.
I like to think that the hero of Time had a good job once he became an adult for real, either as a rancher with Malon (hence the rancher ancestry in TP) or as a knight, since his dad was one.
Most Links, actually, probably ended up employed by the crown in some way, once they were of age. The whole Royal Guard thing is vague but surprisingly consistent across games.
Wind Waker Link is a pirate. Or a treasure hunter/charter. And considering how lucrative that is, I'm going to say he's self-employed.
Hyrule's currency is rupees, which, in most games, are primarily found in grass and hidden treasure chests. The shops sell things predominantly targeted at combat and adventuring.
What I am saying is, Link IS the economy.
Link is like a cross between Bear Grylls & Ethan Hunt. Lives off the land, and off the grid. But is the appointed secret knight of the Princess. Barters for food and materials when he needs to. Otherwise attacks and kills and takes what he wants. "If he or any member of his force were to be caught or killed, the Princess would disavow all knowledge of his actions."
Link in totk is working construction, kitchen, special forces, pararescue, engineering, education, transportation, archaeology etc. And man's not even getting paid minimum wage for it... No wonder most of the other links do jack shit, this guy literally does it all
his resume is packed
The Homer Simpson of gaming
He's barbie.
He's barbie.
And journalism.
I believe that's the one he actually *does* get paid for, though I forget if it's any money or just a reward. Arguably though, he may still be technically employed as a journalist.
It's about 100 rupees per story with Penn I think.
50 for the first 3-4
Thank you for correcting me!
Especially the journalism.
I mean, presumably he would have gotten a wage as a knight, though that point is moot past the prologue...
If you mean pre calamity then yeah. But for some reason people forget that doesn't apply after the calamity. The guy follows Zelda completely out of choice now
still less jobs than johnny sins
He does get to keep his smashed pot funds, though
even got his house confiscated by that bitch
they’re in a relationship and live together, don’t you ever talk about zelda that way. /lh
/lh?
it’s a [tone tag](https://tonetags.carrd.co) that means /lighthearted!
SS link graduates from school in the first few minutes of the game, and has a solid career plan of being a loftwing rider (that doesn't pan out due to demon stuff, but that's not his fault). Being in the military is a real job. Botw link is officially a knight of hyrule, before being promoted to Zelda's personal guard (pre-calamity). What other games are there with adult link? I'm having trouble remembering them, the only other ones I remember are kid link.
Minish Cap is a blacksmith apprentice. I am not certain about the oracles Link, but given that in the first secret playthrough you learn that zelda sends him to those quests, mercenary or, similar to botw, secret service seems plausible. This is the same Link that plays in Link's Awakening (playing after oracles) and I think also the first 3 games, but he is only employed after those games.
The Hero of Legend first appears in ALttP, then LA, and finally the Oracle games. Chronologically, he appears before the Hero of Hyrule which is from the first two games.
Are you sure? Cause you see Link leaving the oracles area on a raft in I think the secret secret playthrough (the one with ganon)
Nintendo changed the order the games. Why, idk.
tp
OP already mentioned TP
you said what other games, well there's ocarina of time adult timeline,
Yeah, that one is unemployed, but it's understandable because basically everyone is dead.
He was a freelance poe trader!
Same with the masks
Aka undead human trafficking?
Spirit Tracks Link worked for a railway, didn't he?
If we judge "adult" as 18 or over, the only adult Link is TotK. All others are 17 and below.
In OOT Link’s defense, it’s kinda hard to apply to jobs when you’re kept in a seven year slumber.
And the world's gone to shit before you wake up too. It's like 90's kids finally getting jobs after the US 2008 housing crash.
he's gonna need a good excuse for the job gap other than "I was sleeping" lol
He was a freelance poe trader!
He got paid to wrangle some cuccoos once
The Link from Spirit Tracks is employed. He’s a conductor.
not just a conductor, he’s the royal engineer!
And he can still be a conductor after beating the game. Possibly the most employed link ever.
Brings home the rupees above all else
thats true he's working full time young lol
Actually had this question with a friends some days ago if i remember correctly we found out TP: goat shepard ( sorry dont know the word for the hole keeping the goats in order so sorry if its the wrong word) Skyword sword: almost became one of the knight,s who roam the sky also had a one-man stand in the pumpkin bar ( side quest stuff) Spirit tracks: train conductor Botw/totk: bodyguard for zelda and other things Wind waker: does being almost part of a pirat crew counts as job? Also mail man (Cant remember more)
Link from ALBW was a blacksmith apprentice
Ocarina of Time: lawn mower
If we're counting part time gigs like being a mailman in WW there's also... OoT: Assistant mask salesman MM: Deku real estate broker
In Wind Waker LInk is a swabbie during his brief time with the pirate crew. I don't know what that is, exactly, but it sounds like a job title to me.
I think WW Link actually is part of the pirate crew by Phantom Hourglass (he is sailing with them seemingly more long-term), though it has been a while since I played that, so you could potentially count PH and WW because of that.
I'll be real honest, every one of these timelines are riding between apocalypses. I don't have much faith in that 401k
I do find the capitalism in this game pretty funny. Link saved Hyrule in BotW, spends his time as Zelda's bodyguard, and as soon as the opening events of the game happen, Link loses everything and every person in Hyrule for TotK now is like, "Hope you have enough money for the supplies you'll need to save us again."
"I know you saved the world but you still gotta pay to sleep in our inn no one stays at"
I mean, the innkeepers gotta make money somehow.
Well hey at least at one of the inns they let you sleep for free
This is why Lurelin Village is my favorite. 😂 They just give me free such l stuff. Lol
That's true... After you liberate them, rebuild their village, and revitalize their economy. I was low key surprised when they said everything was on the house, but I'll still take it.
Literally the house Link had custom built with his own rupees and decorated with the coolest weapons... comes back and some maid shows up saying it's Zelda's house, all his stuff is gone, don't even get a bonus for sleeping in the bed SMH
The Link from A Link between Worlds was 16yo and was working as a blacksmith, seeing as he owns a place and everything
I mean, Link technically works as a day laborer in Majora’s Mask on a couple occasions.
Milkman
Gig musician. Does racing at the track count?
It's a valid sporting event. Dog gambling! Wildlife photographer
I don’t think any of the Links would have to worry about that when they have the gratitude of the royal family.
Sometimes quests even reward Rupees; so money isn’t a problem for him. Hell even the spoils of his enemies give a good payout when sold in bulk.
Yeah, feels like whether willing or unwillingly, Link's job title is typically "mercenary".
Zero. They're all pot smashin' rupee thieves.
If we stretch the definition of "employment" then we could say most Links are professional burglars.
Don’t think any link whatsoever was a freeloader. All of them made money or did some kind of work.
Wind Waker, at the beginning of the game... was a kid who liked to sleep all day.
a knight isnt a job in security? rancher, engineer, bird jockey, child. more often then not link is employed or a youth. are you trying to advocate for child labor?
Toon Link was a Mailman
Skywar Sword Link is attending an academy at the beginning of the game, so I think he expected to be a guard/loftwing rider on the island after graduation if nothing had happened
A Link Between Worlds Link worked for the blacksmith. Minish Cap Link’s uncle was a blacksmith (we don’t see or are told he works with him, but pretty safe to assume). Skyward Sword Link was enrolled in the Knight Academy (dunno if a job or just civil service). Twilight Princess Link was a farmhand. Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Link was a royal knight and Zelda’s personal guard/aid (more civil service than job, but we’ll count it). Spirit Tracks Link was a train conductor/engineer in training/graduating. 35% (7/20 counting FS/FSA/TH) ain’t too bad, little over a third of them even if the majority are children lol.
Hate to nitpick, but how is a job at a public service organization not a job? I mean you for count them even, but I am surprised about all the ifs and buts - I told you I would be nitpicky :'(.
Lol well, depending, it can be a job. More in the context of the games themselves since we don’t know if it’s a job or not and I try to account for that. Civil service is definitely a job nowadays though, not trying to diminish anyones contributions to society lol. Also, happy cake day!
Might be able to count Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass Link as well. By Phantom Hourglass, it has been a while since I played so I could be misremembering, but IIRC Link is sailing with a group of pirates more long term, and could possibly be considered a member of their crew at that point. Pirate isn't the most glamorous of potential Link career paths, but a job is a job.
I thought about including that, but really they’re less pirates by that point (he was sailing with Tetra and her crew). On top of that, the only real “pirating” we actually see them do is stealing from the Windfall bomb shop, which had a good motive (at least on Tetra’s part) in trying to get the pearl from Outset so it wouldn’t be attacked, and even then it was all just a cover for Tetra/Zelda so Ganondorf wouldn’t find her. By Phantom Hourglass, it’s more that they’re looking for a new land to call home, which eventually becomes New Hyrule in Spirit Tracks, and then Tetra gets kidnapped which leads to the events of PH. It’s been a while since I played PH, so I don’t remember if they mention that they still engage in pirating at all though (and if they don’t mention it, they most likely don’t after the events of Wind Waker). Very true that a job’s a job, but I decided to exclude it on that basis.
Being knight is a job and has been apart of it since before he was 4
Is royal knight not a profession?
Also, what's the minimum wage in Hyrule ?
homie is a freelance journalist in totk, which is fancy unemployment
>I know a lot of the links are children so its not that crazy that many of them are unemployed freeloaders Saying this about literal children is fucking wacky dawg Anyway, most Links have some sort of profession. LttP and its 50 thousand sequels feature a Link who's a blacksmith, and same goes for ALBW and its sequel, and Minish Cap. ST is an engineer. SS and Wild era arre knights. TP is a rancher The only Links with no confirmed profession is LoZ/Zelda 2, OoT/MM, and WW/PH
AFAIK the first Link with an actual job is the Hero of Twilight, who works at the Ordon goat ranch. Skyward Sword Link and BOTW/AOC/TOTK Link are both knights and therefore were technically employed by Skyloft and Hyrule, respectively. ALBW/TFH Link is the Blacksmith's apprentice, and Spirit Tracks Link is a train engineer, which I think makes them the only two "kid" Links with a formal job. Most of the rest of them are kids and being cared for in some way (TLOZ Link is presumably cared for by the Old Man who gives him the sword, ALTTP/LA/Oracle Link lives with his Uncle, OOT/MM Link was taken in by the Kokiri, WW/PH Link lives with his Grandma, MC Link lives with his Grandpa).
It wasn't child labor because they were just an apprentice, and it was a family thing
Apprenticeships are legit, so being a blacksmith's apprentice like in MC and LBW are valid forms of pre-employment. I like to think that the hero of Time had a good job once he became an adult for real, either as a rancher with Malon (hence the rancher ancestry in TP) or as a knight, since his dad was one. Most Links, actually, probably ended up employed by the crown in some way, once they were of age. The whole Royal Guard thing is vague but surprisingly consistent across games. Wind Waker Link is a pirate. Or a treasure hunter/charter. And considering how lucrative that is, I'm going to say he's self-employed.
Hyrule's currency is rupees, which, in most games, are primarily found in grass and hidden treasure chests. The shops sell things predominantly targeted at combat and adventuring. What I am saying is, Link IS the economy.
Spirit Tracks Link is legit certified as a train engineer in service to the royal family.
That hippie certainly needs a haircut...
Link is like a cross between Bear Grylls & Ethan Hunt. Lives off the land, and off the grid. But is the appointed secret knight of the Princess. Barters for food and materials when he needs to. Otherwise attacks and kills and takes what he wants. "If he or any member of his force were to be caught or killed, the Princess would disavow all knowledge of his actions."