Darhoam

Darhoam is the slash ship between Daruk and King Rhoam from The Legend of Zelda fandom.

Canon
Daruk and King Rhoam have barely interacted with each other face to face in any of the cutscenes together, though Rhoam has only brought him and the Champions up when he gave the tragic tale of Hyrule's fall into ruin. During one of The Champions' Ballad when Daruk tells her she should not leave the castle without any protection, Princess Zelda tells him that he sounds like her father, and he is appointing a knight who will follow her wherever she goes. The closest they have to a proper interaction was during the Champions inauguration in The Champions' Ballad, though Rhoam was giving a speech to all the Champions present, but they still have not have any exchanged proper dialogue.

Daruk and Rhoam are both the leaders of their people, with Rhoam being the king of Hyrule and Daruk being the chief of Goron City. Both Daruk and Rhoam have their similarities as they each have white hair as well as facial hair, complete with beards and mustaches and they each have bulky builds and are capable of wielding heavy two-handed weapons with one hand, with Daruk holding the Boulder Breaker and Rhoam holding the Royal Claymore. They are also known to be single fathers of only children with Rhoam being the father of Zelda and Daruk being the grandfather of Yunobo. They are both dedicated to protecting and fighting for Hyrule in any way they can, and they each have the best intentions for their people and their children as well and will do anything to achieve their goals no matter how difficult they are.

Daruk and Rhoam also have their differences in regard to their personalities; Daruk has a happy go-lucky attitude and is often in a good mood and very optimistic as shown when he smiles a lot and has a strong hope for the future and not even death has ever embittered him. King Rhoam has a strict and stoic attitude and is known for being harsh and rarely cracks a smile for the most part and his patience tends to wear out when the day that Calamity Ganon is returning grew closer and leads him to be much harsher towards Zelda, though he realizes that he is hurting his relationship with her and hopes to turn around when she returns, but he unfortunately never got to in Breath of the Wild, but after surviving in Age of Calamity where he survives, he was able to reconcile with her.

Fanon
Darhoam is an extremely rare ship with only one fan fic featuring this ship in Archive of Our Own, which is very much overshadowed by the more slash popular ships such as Sidlink and Revalink. When they are shipped, they would start off as childhood friends who have spent adequate time with each other before they would eventually enter into a relationship. Darhoam is one of the very few slash ships that are properly possible between Daruk and Rhoam as the rest of the other characters in the cast are significantly much younger than they are, and they each don't have much trouble being shipped with Urbosa either way, due to her being close to their age as well.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION