The Legend Of Zelda: 10 Worst Things Link Has Ever Done
3. Abandoning His Lonely, Confused Grandmother
Featured In: The Wind Waker
Wind Waker's Link has a family - his younger sister Aryll and his Grandmother. All is well, until little Aryll is kidnapped by a giant bird and taken prisoner across the ocean in the Forsaken Fortress.
Although Link has lived a mostly sheltered life up till now, he scrambles after her, enlisting the help of a band of pirates to travel to the Fortress. For this, he'll need a shield, and Grandma just so happens to have one hanging on the wall at home.
However when Link goes to steal the shield, Grandma already has it, and sadly hands it over. Already sad from losing one grandchild, she now has to deal with losing her second, as she sadly faces facts that Link is also leaving.
Returning later to Outset Island, Link finds his poor Grandma sitting bundled up in her chair, her speech distorted and confused, mumbling sadly that she doesn't want to be left alone.
Link left her all alone all this time, literally worrying herself sick.