his is just who he is when you strip away all the expectations and knight training and everything else that might have served as an internal set of brakes: an absolute Force of Nature barely contained in a body with the constitution of a wet noodle

Steve Rogers? :O

...lols aside, I would dearly love to read this just because Link having lost his memories and starting from scratch with a Zelda who has nothing else she has to live up to and no-one who will try to force her into a mould will probably work out so very differently for their relationship and likely more in a good way than a bad one. ...also Link getting to be his own self without all the trauma and inhibitions being a Chosen Knight clamping down on him is probably going to be an absolute balm for poor Zelda, aaaand the angst from her side of things since she does remember the everything and likely blames herself for Link not remembering is going to be candy for the author's wife ahem. :D