That was NOT Link in the Zelda U teaser!

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the_dengle said:
• Wind Waker references abound
• no Master Sword
• player character is not Link

I hate to even suggest it, but... Valley of the Flood?

But Link does not always use the Master Sword.  
And no one said the character is NOT Link, just that no one explicitly said it was either.