The Legend of Zelda is (almost) always the story of Link and the titular Princess Zelda, but their relationship has never been explicitly spelled out in any of the franchise's many installments. According to Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, the development team wants to leave the relationship between the two iconic characters up to the imaginations of players.

In an interview with IGN, Aonuma was asked if Link and Zelda are, in fact, a couple in the latest game in the series, Tears of the Kingdom. In an interview earlier this year, Zelda's English voice actress Patricia Summersett stated (before walking back her statements, claiming they were taken out of context) that Link and Zelda were in an "active" relationship, one with "a lot of care and a lot of listening." That led to a lot of fans wondering what kind of relationship, exactly, the two characters shared.

According to Aonuma, the goal of the development team was not to tell players, "This is what Zelda is, this is what the story is, this is what the game is," and that he wished to leave it up to the interpretation of players.