earthsong9405:

It’s certainly a cool idea but sadly it’d take far more than simply one good act for The Gerudo (specifically, the Elders) to trust Ganondorf.

As for the Yiga, they haven’t been active the past few centuries: it’s assumed the band officially dissolved some time after The Calamity’s death.

Now, I was originally gonna say there was absolutely no attempts on Ganondorf’s life, but I’m considering changing that idea. So let’s take your suggestion and change it up a bit for the sake of brainstorming:

The Yiga do ambush Ganondorf, but it doesn’t happen until much later.

For the most part, his childhood is pretty peaceful, if a bit lonely, but once he reaches the age of 8-10, his “ailments” begin to start. He begins to have nightmares of his past lives, during the time of his possession under Demise, his scar randomly tingles with a faint burning ache, as if singed lightly. His mother fears him to be sick, Urbosa suspects the beginnings of possession, but the Seer always says he is clean. What they do say, though, is something is beginning to go on, and Ganondorf’s ailments may be a symptom of it. For instance: the very beginnings of demon sightings start around this age.

Eventually, Ganondorf begins to feel as if he’s being followed around the forest when he’s out, but nothing ever happens until he’s close to 16. Out from the darkness of the foliage is masked people, and upon their masks is a twisted parody of the Sheikah clan’s symbol. They catch Ganondorf by surprise and while he tries to fight them off, there’s simply too many of them, and he hasn’t had any formal warrior training. Thankfully, Fihr is present and she lays to waste their assailants (not without getting a little banged up herself, but she manages to drive them away). She’s protected Ganondorf from potential dangers in the past, but this is the first time he’s assaulted by… people, and it sends a panic up his mother’s spine.

Urbosa grows suspicious, not necessarily at Ganondorf but at how the recent events seem to be related to one another: first the sightings of demons, Ganondorf’s ailments, now the Yiga? It can’t all be coincidence, something’s going on. But she’s not the only one who notices: Ganondorf is well aware that these weird happenings must mean something, right? So he demands answers, but they are answers Urbosa can’t give, partly because she isn’t permitted to even as chief, and partly because this is all still a hunch (a pretty damn big one, but a hunch still).

This is the point where Ganondorf says, essentially, that if she can’t give the answers he’ll simply have to find them, and Urbosa is secretly approving of it: though she is bound by the vow that she won’t tell Ganondorf of his past, she herself doesn’t fully believe it’s the best thing, at least not after all the goings on. And so she tells him that if he wants answers, he needs to be strong first, because she has a feeling his journey will be a dangerous one.

Thus marks the beginning of a few years of grueling training to prepare Ganondorf of the dangers he will face in the future, and if Urbosa’s hunch and the Seers’ suspicions are correct… it’s gonna be hell.

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This definitely needs some work but I think this is exactly the question/suggestion I needed for some story plot polishing, so thank you anon! <: