Do You Use Your Name or Link's?

[MsNerrrrd]

I use Link, since I'm a female, it's quite frustrating to have the character given a name of a female, but still referred to as a male -_-. And it's more original anyways.

 

[Castle]

I often prefer to use my name. It has the same number of letters as Link so it's no so different that it's jarring. So long as Link remains a link between me and the game I'll prefer to use my given name instead of his.

 

[HylianGunner]

Definetly Use Link

 

[Hylian_Monolith]

I have a pretty interesting history on this. So let's go back a bit.

I was introduced to Zelda initially when my cousin, John, got TP for his birthday, along witmyh a Wii. He named his character Link1. It's worth noting that I told him that Epona sounded like a girl's name, but he named her John I later played TP myself, and stuck with the original names.

Years later, I played ST, never making a connection between it and TP. I stuck with Link. Halfway through, I gave in and found a walkthrough, using none other than the fabulous ZD written guide. That's how I came here, but I wouldn't join the forums for quite a while. But on subject, I unvreatively named my first file Link, never finished it, and named my second file Baba-Boy. It was the first file I ginished any game on--any game at all. In ST, I have named Link Faronon, L3v1th1n, and most recently Deku. I've found that pretty much anything goes--if you can get used to it, it will become your name.

I got PH used from a friend, naming my first file Bab-Boy in honor of the other big in ST, and from there I stick with Link on PH. However, I did valiantly finish my friend's old file, named xan. No capitals.

It will continue. I intend to play WW and maybe as as Baba-Boy, I will play. I pln my next TP fike as PotSmasher, and I want to play a game as Majora. There are so many others.

But to answer the question bluntly, no. I never, ever go by my own name in a Zelda game. I'm a girl, after all.

 

[Sir Quaffler]

I almost always use Link. I know that's unoriginal, but that's just a really cool name! Plus Sir Quaffler doesn't really fit well into the game...

 

[onebizarrekai]

I'm a girl, but I feel like everybody names him Link, so I name him Alex since that's my favorite boy name. I used to name him Link, though. And, that's Link's name in my comic.

It is kind of convenient, though, since me and my two siblings all have a different name for him. (My sister names him Link and my little brother names Link his own name)

 

[Pennycan1800]

I always use Link. But sometimes ill out a different name in.

 

[EeveeChan]

I almost always use Link's name, but every once in a while I'll name him something different. I'd never name him crude names like "butthead" or "gayboy". I'd just name him a bunch of anime or video games, like Kyon, Shineru, Kaito, Len, Meruko, etc

 

[Sun'sSong]

I always use the name Link, because giving him my own name would be kind of weird since I'm a girl.
I also think that Link is just the most suitable for him, and I'm kind of used to it since I've never used another name.

 

[calvinmsu]

i like to use drklink (dark link) or just go as link

 

[Magatha]

I tried naming him Maggie once, but then I decided tat it was a bit annoying and confusing, as most of the girls in this thread seem to say.

Now I just name him Link.

 

[Reaca]

First playthrough: I name him Link.

Second and beyond: Sometimes my name, which is Tyler, and sometimes Link.

 

[Terminus]

Almost always just Link, although I have themed names before.

In SS, I used: Link, Beowulf, and Perseus

In TP, I used: Link, my name, and Beowulf

In PH, I used: Lizard, Link, and Linebeck (just so he could say it was a stupid name)

In OoT, I used, Link, Knil, Chronus, Ganondorf

 

[SpiritGerudo]

The first time I play through the game I always name him Link. Without fail. The second time for a couple of them I tried naming him Alice since that's my nickname, but it was just WAY to weird having Link named a girl's name, so I gave up on it and have always named him Link ever since, occasionally in all caps (in which case I have to read the dialogue out loud and put the correct emphasis on his name ).

 

[Deathrasher]

For my main files I always use Link, for others made just for fun/replaying I normally use my name.