Every single Zelda game where Link had relatives, they were his uncle. The only exception is WW, in which he had a grandmother and a sister.
Other than those games, he's always an orphan or living on his own. In OoT he was raised amongst the Kokiri. I don't really know if that means the Deku...
One thing I don't think I mentioned before is when Link does have relatives, they're usually his uncle. Only once or twice was it something closer, like his grandmother and sister in The Wind Waker.
The mangas kind of do their own thing. They take aspects of the game's official storyline and then go their own way. A good example is the MM manga:
It the manga, the bosses are the giants themselves, cursed with a mask that transforms them into a monster (the boss.) But in the official...
That's (very) roughly correct. The official data was never that specific.
All we know is that Link's mother came to the forest (presumably to escape the war) with Link and asked the Deku Tree to take care of her son. If I recall, it never said what happened to her after that (it may have said...
Not having any mention of Link's parents is a recurring theme in the Zelda series. It's almost always an uncle. Occasionally it's a grandparent like in WW.
OoT was the only time I can think of that there was any mention of even one of his parents.
Hm. I've never been one to pair Link up with anyone in particular. I used to go with LinkxRuto, mainly because he sorta promised. But then someone pointed it out to me that she didn't really ask him, she just tricked him... all in all I think I'm more for LinkxMalon... I don't know.
There were...
I believe the reason none of the Zelda games give him parents is to make him more of a "random hero." To detach him from the world, a little anyway. That's my theory.
OoT, and the following games have always given Link more of a role as a character connected to the world, at least more than the...