captain carot on 08 April 2016
Link is an avatar par excellence. Always was. He is or better has become a visual icon. Doesn't make him less of an avatar.
It's a good one though because gamers at some point really started to 'project' their imagination into that avatar.
And yes, Link is the link between player and game. I remember Miyamoto stating exactly that in an interview early Nineties.
It'd actually be fun though if changing to female Link would make Zelda male.
As for Link always being a child, that has changed multiple times. Looking at artworks a link to the past Link might be around 14.
