earthsong9405:

I’m pretty sure I mentioned it a few times but I don’t think I ever went in more depth about it, so!

Ganondorf was a child when he was possessed by Demise, but it wasn’t a “wam-bam outta nowhere” sort of deal. Nah, it was a planned attack. In his first lifetime, Ganondorf would’ve been a significant individual to the Gerudo because he’d be the closest of being a pure-blooded male in that specific timeline: his mother and father were both Gerudo and they ended up having a son, which is so low of a chance in percentage it’s basically unheard of. He’d have been the first pure-blooded male in a long time, and a cult saw that as the perfect vessel for their Demon King.

Not quite the Yiga but perhaps a source of inspiration for them in later timelines, this cult was led by none other than the twisted witch twins Koume and Kotake (best known as Twinrova), who had pledged their loyalty to the Demon King and had become demons themselves. This cult believed that Demise was a “world cleanser” and his reign would purge the land of “sin and the unworthy”, and so they devoted themselves to his cause. After his first defeat and his claim of being reborn, he could have been referring to what the Cult had cookin’ up:

Bring their lord back in a mortal vessel.

So they stole the boy away when he was at a more suitable age (around 7-10), possibly stole his parents too as bloody sacrifices to help infuse their lord with more power in their ritual. They’d have waited for him to be an adult but they ultimately concluded that he’d be far easier to capture (and subdue) as a child overall.

And thus begins the start of Ganondorf the Demon King.