Curate, connect, and discover
Also HOW DID I NOT MENTION THIS, the backstory of Volvagia being a small dragon young Link saves from being sold and becomes friends with? Absolutely canon in this blog because it's amazing how he refuses to kill it when he's older because of that connection but eventually has to (while still trying to make it remember him and avoid it) and it's in that moment where it's dying and Ganon's curse goes away that it remembers and both cry.
Forgot to say this yesterday but I also take inspiration from the mangas and include in my portrayal those things that, in my opinion, contribute to making Link or his story more complex.
An example of this is how, instead of just completely ignoring Saria's ocarina when Zelda gives him the ocarina of time in the games, Link actually loses it because he has to fool Ganondorf somehow when he tries to take it from him and the only option is giving him Saria's one (which is what happens in the manga).