The Death of a Phoenix

The first life of a Phoenix is very important. In that life, the way a Phoenix looks is set, along with mostly everything else about it, including it's gender and name. It also includes the year the Phoenix will die. To explain, when a Phoenix dies in it's first life, that is the year, month and day it shall die forever. Now, this story is about a Phoenix that was a hero, that was beloved and very young. The Phoenix's name was Link