One set for each! This is, like, entirely headcanon.
For Zelda -
1. Her mother died when she was a baby, from an illness. Zelda has no memory of her, so she doesn't actually MISS her, but she did spend a lot of her childhood wondering what it'd be like to have a mother.
2. She taught herself to read at the age of three.
3. Possibly as a result of this, she always had a vocabulary level at least five years above her actual age.
4. Because of this, even though she spent three and a half years of her adolescence unconscious, she still has a mental age reflective of her chronological age (seventeen), if not a little higher.
5. She despised most of the other little girls she associated with as a child - they were generally pampered shrieky little brats who had no time for either reading and learning, or playing in the garden.
6. She once accidentally dropped a lizard she had found during a huge banquet. It ran up a duchess's leg and made her upend her part of the table (the duchess was a... hefty woman).
7. Impa started teaching her archery when she was six. She's no master archer, but she's pretty good with a bow. She can charge them to use Light Arrows, but won't so long as she and Sheik share a body, because it'll burn his hands.
8. Her prophetic dreams have been occurring for as long as she can remember, but Impa had always urged her to keep silent with them.
9. When she and Impa escaped from the castle, they circled around the ranch then headed for a hidden pass in between Zora River and Kakariko Village. It led to the other entrance of the Shadow Temple, and that's where Impa asked Sheik for his Contract.
10. She had always known that Link would be sent back to his own time - that's why, even though she found him sweet and attractive, she refused to develop feelings for him. Anyway, someone else had caught her eye.
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For Zelda -
1. Her mother died when she was a baby, from an illness. Zelda has no memory of her, so she doesn't actually MISS her, but she did spend a lot of her childhood wondering what it'd be like to have a mother.
2. She taught herself to read at the age of three.
3. Possibly as a result of this, she always had a vocabulary level at least five years above her actual age.
4. Because of this, even though she spent three and a half years of her adolescence unconscious, she still has a mental age reflective of her chronological age (seventeen), if not a little higher.
5. She despised most of the other little girls she associated with as a child - they were generally pampered shrieky little brats who had no time for either reading and learning, or playing in the garden.
6. She once accidentally dropped a lizard she had found during a huge banquet. It ran up a duchess's leg and made her upend her part of the table (the duchess was a... hefty woman).
7. Impa started teaching her archery when she was six. She's no master archer, but she's pretty good with a bow. She can charge them to use Light Arrows, but won't so long as she and Sheik share a body, because it'll burn his hands.
8. Her prophetic dreams have been occurring for as long as she can remember, but Impa had always urged her to keep silent with them.
9. When she and Impa escaped from the castle, they circled around the ranch then headed for a hidden pass in between Zora River and Kakariko Village. It led to the other entrance of the Shadow Temple, and that's where Impa asked Sheik for his Contract.
10. She had always known that Link would be sent back to his own time - that's why, even though she found him sweet and attractive, she refused to develop feelings for him. Anyway, someone else had caught her eye.