Ganzelink

Ganzelink is the poly ship between Ganondorf, Zelda and Link from the Legend of Zelda fandom.

Backstory (Skyward Sword)
Long before Ganondorf could be born, Link and Zelda were fighting his previous incarnation, the Demon King Demise. Before they could kill him, Demise curses them to fight the reincarnation of his hatred over and over. While Link and Zelda reincarnate as themselves, Demise reincarnated as Ganondorf, desert king of the Gerudo and the only known male Gerudo, who are only born once every 100 years.

Ocarina of Time
In the main timeline, when Link and Zelda are children, she shows Ganondorf to Link through a window and tells him that she doesn't trust Ganondorf, even though her father does. Her fears are proven correct when Ganondorf kills the king in an ambush, forcing Zelda and her trusted bodyguard Impa to flee the castle, but Zelda tosses Link her ocarina when she sees him and tells him that's it's all up to him. With Zelda's ocarina, Link is able to open the seal in the Temple of Time, unfortunately allowing Ganondorf to walk in and steal the Triforce while Link is frozen in stasis. The Triforce splits in three, with the Triforce of Power becoming part of Ganondorf, the Triforce of Wisdom becoming part of Zelda and the Triforce of Courage being intended for Link, but he needs to free all the Six Sages first in order to earn it. When Link completes his quest as an adult, Zelda reveals that she was watching his progress and helping him out as Sheik the whole time, but then Ganondorf immediately captures her and takes her to the conquered castle that used to be her home to be his prisoner. Link wastes no time running after her, managing to confront Ganondorf as he uses the Triforce of Power to transform into Ganon, knocking Link's Master Sword out of his hand. Zelda, who is trapped outside of the battlefield and can't directly interfere, tosses Link his sword back to deliver a finishing blow to Ganondorf. With the Triforce of Power still inside him, Link was unable to kill him, instead Ganondorf was banished into another realm, Zelda congratulates Link on his victory and asks for her ocarina back to send Link back to relive his childhood. Adult timeline= {|width="100%"

The Wind Waker
Due to Zelda sending Link back to the past, the timeline continues on without him present, with Ganon returning to conquer Hyrule, with the goddesses telling the inhabitants to flee on the mountains as they intend to flood the country to stop Ganon from obtaining the Triforce again. The mountains turn into islands and the descendants of Link and Zelda grow up as Link, a young boy who lives on Outset Island with his grandmother and younger sister, and Tetra, a young pirate girl completely unaware of her bloodright as a princess.

Ganondorf spends the first part of the story kidnapping young girls with pointy ears, unfortunately, as Link and Tetra's paths get tangled, Link's younger sister Aryll (who shares Tetra's pointy ears) gets caught in the crossfire and gets kidnapped by Ganondorf's bird henchman Helmaroc King. Link is at first eager to save his sister by accompanying Tetra and her crew, but when the Helmaroc King catches him and shows him to Ganondorf, he sees no use for him and tells the bird to toss Link into the sea. Link is saved by the King of the Red Lions, a talking boat, and from that point on the paths of Link and Tetra cross time and time again while both are trying to stop Ganondorf's plans, Link to save his sister, Tetra to collect the reward for saving the kidnapped girls. But when Tetra's crew takes the girls (including Aryll) back to their families, Link goes to try and confront Ganondorf, only to by overwhelmed and needing to be saved by the timely arrival of Tetra. But when Ganondorf corners Tetra and grabs her throat, his Triforce of Power mark reacts to her and recognizes her as Zelda. Link and Zelda are saved by their allies, but Ganondorf has no reason to continue with his kidnapping, he already knows where the Triforce of Wisdom is. When Link and the King of the Red Lions take Tetra to the flooded Hyrule, the boat transforms into a man and reveals that he is in fact, Tetra's father and tells her that she is the rightful ruler of this flooded kingdom by transforming her into Zelda, giving the other piece of her necklace: The Triforce of Wisdom. He then tells her that it is safer for her to stay in Hyrule, where she would be safe from Ganondorf, taking Link with him to try and restore the Triforce of Courage. After doing so and returning to Hyrule, Link realizes that Ganondorf has somehow attacked Hyrule and taken the princess with him. He finds Zelda sleeping in a bed in Ganon's tower, with all of it being a trap by Ganondorf to ensure that both Link and Zelda would be in the same place at the same time and the three of them fight. Zelda assists Link by shooting Ganondorf with Light Arrows, though they quickly realize that Ganondorf is too fast for them, so they work together by having Zelda shoot her arrows at Link's Mirror Shield and deflecting the arrows towards Ganondorf. Though even then, Ganondorf overwhelmes them and takes the pieces of their Triforce, reconstructing it and wanting to wish that Hyrule would be restored, only for the King to stop him and instead wish that Hyrule shall be flooded forever, with Link and Zelda building a new Hyrule where they could have a future. Ganondorf is furious and tries to attack as the walls of water start falling down, though Link stabs him in the head, turning him to stone as Link and Zelda safely float to the surface while Ganondorf and the King are trapped at the bottom of the ocean.

Phantom Hourglass
Link and Tetra's friend Niko briefly retells the events of how they found out that Tetra is a princess, how she was kidnapped by Ganondorf and how Link rescued her. {|width="100%"
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Fanon
For similar reasons as Zelink, the idea of shipping three people who are cursed to reincarnate over and over again has a certain appeal for some fans.

It should be noted that the games where Link and Zelda are fairly explicitly portrayed as children generally don't ship the three of them romantically. Some depict Ganondorf as something of a father figure to them instead.

Fandom
FAN FICTION