INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Ganondorf Dragmire
FANDOM: The Legend of Zelda; Twilight Princess
CHRONOLOGY: Near endgame; just before Link and Midna confront him for the final series of battles.
CLASS: Villain. He might keep is dogtags for a bit, not knowing any better.
SUPERHERO NAME: Ganondorf, Great King of Evil
ALTER EGO: Ganondorf/Ganon
BACKGROUND:
The Gerudo are a race with a strange gender spread. Once every hundred years, a male is born; this male is the only of his gender for the century, and Gerudo King by birthright. Indeed, these figures are all but gods in their culture - to defy them is unthinkable.
Ganondorf Dragmire is Gerudo. He is, as can be deduced, their King. The twins witches named Koume and Kotake acted as surrogate mothers to him, raising and grooming him to be worthy of his title. They watched him as he tasted the harsh winds of the desert that the Gerudo called home, and as he looked towards the kingdom of Hyrule; here, the winds were more favorable. They brought life, not death, and Ganondorf learned what it was to covet. He swore to himself that he would take those winds, and those lands as well; that he would bring his people to them, and they would be ruler over the soft Hylians who called the fertile lands their home.
When he learned of the Triforce, this desire became as a lust. He knew already that it would take all the power of the Gerudo thieves to accomplish his goal, but the power of the gods as well? It would be more than enough for him to claim what should have been his in the first place. And so he planned, and he built up his own strength, and he learned the secrets of Dark Magic from Koume and Kotake. And when the time was right, he went to Hyrule.
As he was no fool, Ganondorf knew that an outright invasion would not be enough - Hyrule's people were soft, but they held the strength that came from living well. Ganondorf thus planned to obtain the Triforce through trickery and deceit, trying to obtain the three Spiritual Stones that would be required to access the godly relic. The first, he asked for; he was denied, and in anger, he cursed the Great Deku Tree that held it. The second, he tried a more subtle route - he offered to save the Gorons from starvation (even though the reason they faced it was because of his deliberate actions) if only they would surrender the stone. The third, he would try to get through a trap for the Zora princess who held it. As these plans fell in to place, he also swore loyalty to the Hylian king in an attempt to keep any suspicion from falling upon him. It seemed he was poised to get all that he had desired...
...but a boy. Link. A kid was able to stop these plans, and collect the Stones all on his own. As Ganondorf grew tired of waiting and went for more direct means to obtain the Triforce - through Princess Zelda - he encountered that kid, and though he chased after the fleeing Zelda, realized that the boy was...something. Perhaps worth following.
As Link used the Stones to open the Temple of Time, as he used the Ocarina of Time to unlock the Door, the child went for the Master Sword, the one thing possible of stopping all evil...he unlocked the way to the Sacred Realm that held the Triforce as well. Ganondorf was quick to take advantage of this opportunity, reaching for the Triforce and presumably absolute power - but the three forces that made up the Triforce were not in balance within him. And so, he only obtained the piece that represented what meant most to him...Power. Wisdom and Courage scattered off to others chosen by destiny, and only by bringing them together once more could Ganondorf obtain the omnipotence of legend. Either way, he was set to invade Hyrule...
....and here is where things become complicated. But then, when one is dealing with time itself...
...from one point of view, Ganondorf's invasion was a great success. He changed Hyrule in to a land of darkness, fit for a King of Evil such as he. He ruled for seven years, until Link - now the Hero of Time - rewoke the Sages with the power to seal him away. There was a great battle between them, and Ganondorf was defeated, and then imprisoned...
But in another, Link used his knowledge of the future to change it. He and Zelda were able to halt Ganondorf's invasion, and he was to be executed for his betrayal of Hyrule. The Sages took him to the Arbiter's Grounds, and stabbed him with their Sword...but Ganondorf survived through the Triforce of Power, and killed one of them with his bare hands. In desperation, the Sages sealed him within the Twilight Realm, a dimension where a tribe had been banished by the gods for their greed.
Here, Ganondorf recovered from his wound, using the very blade that was used to try and kill him as his own - however disgusted he was by it, he nonetheless recognized the blade as a powerful weapon. He bode his time within the Twilight Realm, with patience, nursing his hatred and rage at Hyrule and all its peoples - the people who had all but destroyed his own, for every able-boded Gerudo he could muster had accompanied him at the invasion, and they had fallen before Hyrule's knights. Ganondorf waited...and waited...and eventually, sized his chance.
This chance was through Zant, a member of the banished Twili race-tribe. He was refused the throne, and Ganondorf posed as a god to him, bestowing upon him some of his own power. Zant eagerly made to size the throne, while Ganondorf could care less about such politics - all he cared about was escaping and having his revenge upon Hyrule. Zant was able to use his new power to not only take the throne, but curse its Queen, and to change the other Twili to Shadow Beasts who would serve him. And as Zant launched a campaign upon Hyrule to cover it in Twilight, Ganondorf made his escape.
And as things turned out...a descendant of the Hero of Time still lived. He shared his name - and he had inherited the Triforce of Courage through his ancestor. Just as the princess of the royal family, Zelda, held Wisdom's. But Ganondorf was not as consumed by his lust for power as he had been - what he wanted more was revenge, and when he heard that this Link was on his way to confront him, well...he decided that revenge upon the Hero of Time's descendant would suit him just fine.
This is where he is pulled from.
PERSONALITY:
Once, he thought of others. He thought he was actually doing the right thing for his people, that he was in the right.
Now, Ganondorf simply doesn't care.
He holds the title "Great King of Evil" for a reason; Ganondorf has thrown away most of what he once was to fully bury himself in such dark emotions as greed, hatred, and rage. He still holds some of his youthful cockiness, and he is certainly arrogant. But he is also full of scorn and bitterness, for his many years of exile within the Twilight Realm.
To put it bluntly, he is a prime example of power corrupting.
Though...his manipulative side still exists. Ganondorf still feels like a King, should that make sense, and holds that nobility with him. He has a certain charisma, the sort that proclaims, "worship me and i will reward you. stand against me and i will crush you." This was how he manipulated Zant to seeing him as a God, and, indeed, it is a part that Ganondorf has no trouble playing. For as much scorn and anger that he holds, he still feels as though he should lord over all. That he may as well be a god. And gods...well...for the most part, aren't petty.
He has a sense of honor. While he'll laugh at a downed enemy, while in combat, he will wait for them to get back up before pressing the attack - or he will consider them defeated and therefore beneath his notice. When he makes vows and promises, he intends on fulfilling them. Certainly, he may those he promises things to as pawns, but he keeps those promises! His ego wouldn't let him do anything else. It might let him kill a servant for speaking out of term of for being the bearer of bad news - alternatively, he may reward them for bringing such grave things to his attention - but such is besides the point.
There is some humor left within Ganondorf, but it is black and heavily ironic. He finds it in the misfortune of others, of what one would think to be doing good truly helping the opposite - he heartily enjoys such twists, and if he had the opportunity, would not mind orchestrating such. He is smart, and cunning...and patient, able to wait years to perfect a plan. Oh, once he is near the end he can get angry and frustrated when things go wrong, when all was going so well for him-! But he has also realized that the Triforce of Power has done something to him.
And whether or not it takes an eternity, he will have that which he desires.
POWER:
TRIFORCE OF POWER
The Triforce of Power bestows upon Ganondorf immense...well, power. It has completely absorbed in to him as he is brought to the City, and can manifest as the Triforce's emblem on his right hand - gloved or not, it will appear over such - with the top piece prominent.
This amplifies his already capable magical abilities (see; Dark Magic), allows him to sense other Triforce carriers within the immediate area, and also grants him immense physical strength and stamina. He can punch through walls, create shockwaves with his fist that are powerful enough to destroy stone and steel, take great leaps and perform other, similar feats that are simply beyond human...
This has the side effect of making him very, very hard to kill. He has survived wounds and damages that would easily destroy a lesser man, but the Triforce of Power holds his body intact. Indeed, only the Master Sword was truly capable of stopping his evil.
For CnC purposes, this will be slightly restructured; either an artifact-level weapon/item/ect will be required, or Greater Powers - we're talking angels, demons, ect - to kill him. The Hero's Magic/Master Sword can kill him, not only sealing him away. That Really Hard To Do Spell That Almost Kills You can kill him - this will be treated carefully, but it's of note that while he can't die by 'normal' means, he can most certainly be hurt and crippled. The Triforce will simply keep him alive - in agony, perhaps, but alive, in the worst case it will keep his spirit alive while his body is destroyed - through whatever happens to him, less it happen through one of the aforementioned means.
Alternatively, one needs to be under 18 years of age. Yes, 18. This is due in part to the Links of both Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess being younger than such. One can pretty much kill him as much you want if they're younger than that, assuming they can otherwise handle his power. And/or assuming they're willing to perform such a heavy act. It needs to be the youth's direct actions - they can't rig a building to explode on him. They have to willfully, intently, knowingly use their own power (metaphorically speaking) to stop him in person.
DARK MAGIC
Taught by Koume and Kotake, the Gerudo Witches, Ganondorf has had an affinity for Dark Magic since he was young. It primarily allows him to to send out bursts of energy as attacks and to use the dark energy itself as a blast.
He could create monsters, in the games, to release seals and resurrect creatures, to open portals...these are restricted from him, here, though is another point worth noting - namely, the power of healing, both upon himself and others.
Healing himself is easier, and ties in a bit with his Triforce; assuming he survives something? He can recover. A broken bone could take about of day of rest and magic to heal. Scratches, assuming he had the opportunity to focus himself, simply 'wiped' away. More severe injuries will take longer to heal, but the key here is that if he has his body and it hasn't been destroyed, reducing him to Spirit as noted in Triforce...of course, if he doesn't have that body, he'll need outside assistance to either create a new one or to repair his old, dead one.
Healing others takes about twice as long, unless there are other complications - such as a resistance to the Dark element, magic in general, a refusal to cooperate with the magic itself, ect.
To summarize; this power lets him manipulate (dark) energy that he himself generates and to heal.
GANON
Arguably, this power could be considered a complication of the other two. But regardless of why exactly it is there, it is there; when Ganondorf's rage fully overwhelms him, when he is lost beyond an reason, his body takes the form of his inner self. A pig-like beast, pure and simple. But it is a monstrous one, dangerous and deadly.
In this form, his strength and stamina are amplified, but at the cost of his rational mind. He knows nothing but anger as Ganon, and can process little more than the rather straightforward thought of destruction.
The only normal* end to this form is defeat, or the exhausting of his fury. In either case, Ganondorf will return to his Gerudo self, weakened if nothing else.
*Presumably, magic or supernatural abilities could work to restore him. This may or may not exhaust him in the process, and will be handled on a case by case basis.