>>718365892
I mean in a lot of Zelda games she barely a damsel in distress. In OoT she tagged along in drag, wind waker zelda was a tomboy pirate for much of it, spirit tracks yeah her body was stolen but you interacted with her ghost for the entire game, hell BoTW debatably let you interact with zelda through flashbacks. Twilight princess zelda is probably the one closest to being a standard damsel in distress she's locked up for most of the game, we barely see her, and when we do link barely has much of a relationship with her.