YMMV / Bound Destinies Trilogy

• Angst? What Angst?: In both Wisdom and Courage and Blood and Spirit, Link does not show a great deal of outer concern over the fact that he could end up being totally corrupted, thus losing his life. In fact, other characters, specifically Zelda, show much more grief over this. Though this could be in part thanks to the hero's Determinator status.
• Complete Monster:
  • Overall: Majora is a far cry from its game counterpart. Once the Demon King of Termina, Majora warped the hearts of most of its people into worshiping it, and tried to lay claim to the land's Triforce. Upon being defeated, Majora corrupted Terminus's hero into becoming the Fierce Deity and rampaged across Termina, until Link tried to stop it. Majora lets the Deity die and attempts to corrupt Link into becoming the new Deity, torturing Link every way it can think to try to get him to break, up to and including trying to get him to kill Zelda. Much later, Majora attempted to destroy Termina completely by dropping the moon on it and corrupting the incarnation of Link that tried to stop it using the Fierce Deity's Mask. Seven years later, Majora allies with Veran to defeat Link, fully planning on betraying her later. Majora helps Veran continue her path of destruction, and the two torment Link and Zelda once more, with Majora trying once again to turn Link into its pawn.
  • Wisdom and Courage: Veran is the mastermind behind the civil war in Hyrule that wiped out the Sheikah and the Hylian Knights, as well as the one who killed Zelda's mother. In the present day, she captures the Triforce holders, then forces Link to acquire the Fused Shadow or allow Zelda to be tortured. Veran places a curse on Link allowing her to torture him at will, and sets the Deku Tree on fire and tries to kill Saria because Link wasn't moving fast enough. Once she has the Fused Shadow, she tortures the Triforce holders into letting her take the Triforce, and destroys Castle Town. She has her monster minions kill Impa and Malon, then mocks Zelda and Link for being unable to save them. After entering Termina, Veran allies with Majora and the two rampage across Termina, destroying Clock Town and causing mass natural disasters, before doing the same to Hyrule. When Link and Zelda confront Veran at the Temple of Time, she tortures Link once more, and tries to kill Zelda to allow Majora to corrupt Link. Despite her claim of wanting to better her people's lot, Veran clearly cares only about power and satisfying her own bloodlust.
• Fanfic Fuel: The trilogy is chock-full of this:
  • Chapter 25 of Wisdom and Courage explains exactly why Navi left at the end of Ocarina of Time; guardian fairies are unable to indefinitely survive outside of the forest, and Navi was chosen to be Link's partner because she could survive in the outside longer than the others. When she departed, she was so weak she almost didn't make it back, and her heart was "just too heavy for goodbyes." As it turns out, when Link was searching for her before ending up in Termina, Navi was searching for him as well.
  • Blood and Spirit establishes that the Dark Interlopers mentioned in Twilight Princess were in fact a rogue faction of Sheikah.
  • Chapter 3 of Blood and Spirit reveals that Ikana Kingdom was founded by Majora's worshippers, and that Ikana translates to "land of the great demon," and that Majora had designs on the Triforce, causing the goddesses to seal off Termina's entrance to the Sacred Realm.
  • Blood and Spirit also reveals that the Fierce Deity and Majora are Link and Demise's respective Terminian counterparts.
  • The trilogy introduces Terminus, Hylia/Zelda's fraternal twin sister and the guardian deity of Termina. It also states that Link's arrival in Termina during the events of Majora's Mask was no coincidence; the Golden Goddesses guided him to Termina when Terminus begged them for aid in stopping Majora's Moon Drop plan.
  • The civil war that was briefly mentioned in Ocarina of Time is revealed in Wisdom and Courage to have been caused by Veran, which also necessitated Link's mother taking him to the Kokiri Forest and leaving him in the Deku Tree's care.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: There is a group of Sheikah who have betrayed Hylia and are working with the bad guys. Are we talking about Blood and Spirit or Breath of the Wild?
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Wisdom and Courage can easily get this reaction from readers, being the darkest and bleakest amidst the trilogy. In direct contrast to Veress of Blood and Spirit and Verona of Light and Shadow, Veran has no sympathetic qualities and is a completely unlikable Hate Sink who goes above and beyond to Kick the Dog whenever and wherever possible, and keeps getting the upper hand against Link and Zelda every time they face off. She's eventually brought down, but only after she's left the two with permanent physical and mental scars and reduced both Hyrule and Termina to ruin.