BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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The Missing Horseshoe by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
26 Jul 2024
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“And stop following me!”
He blinked hard, several times over, as if the sun was in his eyes. His fingers—already curled into fists at his sides—tightened almost imperceptibly under his gloves. Even now, his gaze never left hers, and Zelda couldn’t look away either, because this was the first hint of emotion she’d ever seen him show.
Anger? Contempt? It didn’t matter; she already knew how to fill in the gaps his silence created. She was a spoiled brat who abused her station against someone who was only following the king’s orders. She was a broken vessel using her jagged edges like a weapon. She was supposed to be his partner against the darkness, but when the Calamity came raging down upon Hyrule, he would be facing it alone.
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- Part 1 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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Bit by Bit by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
21 Jan 2024
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Taking a shaking breath, he said, “Um. I—I’m sorry it got that far.”
It wasn’t just her twisted ankle, or the terror she’d never forget, or the dead man burning on a pyre outside. It was the tangled mess of guilt and resentment that had nearly sent them to a point of no return. Link wasn’t sure he could meet her eyes, so he just waited, both of them watching the desert for a long time.
“I think what I was trying to say before,” Zelda began eventually, “is that…you’ve been a kindness to me. And sometimes kindness can hurt.”
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- Part 2 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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If I Falter by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
14 Jul 2023
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“I wanted—” Link starts. Zelda’s golden head snaps up at the sound of his voice, and he almost breaks, but somehow he gets the rest out. “To thank you. For yesterday. And to say sorry.”
“Sorry?” She looks at his wounded shoulder incredulously. “Whatever for?”
For your sleepless nights, he thinks. For the way you look at the Master Sword. For the bruises on your knees when you pray for too long and I don’t know how to make you stop. For letting your father treat you the way he does. For being such a coward.
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- Part 3 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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So Many Eyes by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
23 Jan 2025
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“Come here,” Zelda says, gathering him into her arms. Link struggles half-heartedly, terrified of ruining her lovely nightgown, but she only strengthens her grip and commands, “Stop. Just stop. You’re allowed to be human for a moment.”
Is he? Three dead people on his floor, and the princess of Hyrule is pressing him close to her heart.
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- Part 4 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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The Rise Before the Fall by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
07 Sep 2023
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Link steps forward. His face is hard and focused like he’s already on the battlefield. One hand still clutches the sword. The other slides along her jaw. He shutters the violent blue of his eyes and presses his lips to hers.
It’s nothing like Zelda imagined, nothing like their first kiss should be. He’s burning. She’s freezing. When her hands come up around his body there’s no caution or gentleness, just raw desperation. Link shivers breathlessly in a way that has nothing to do with romance and everything to do with his broken ribs. They’re drowning in the rain, in the screams coming from Fort Hateno, in each other.
All she can think is that she waited too long.
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- Part 5 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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Moonglow by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Jun 2023
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She stands before the Master Sword with the sun warming her back, saying Link’s name like a promise—not a prayer. She’s had her fill of those.
Zelda makes her choice. Major spoilers for the Tears of the Dragon questline.
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- Part 6 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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Sunblind by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
29 May 2023
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He feels smaller with every breath he takes, shrinking down to that single, fatal moment: the dark, the corruption inside him, and Zelda’s fingers slipping through his.
Link processes Zelda's fate. Major spoilers for the Tears of the Dragon questline.
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- Part 7 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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Hollow-Hearted by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
11 Jul 2023
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By the time he opened his eyes, he wanted to burn the world down. He wanted to take her place. He wanted to tear apart everything that had ever hurt her: with this sword or any other, with his own teeth and nails if necessary. Better yet, he wanted to be back in their bed the morning before it had all gone wrong, when he still had a chance to keep her safe.
But some failures could never be undone. Link had learned that while kneeling in the sunlit waters of the Ash Swamp, remembering his own death.
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- Part 8 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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In Time by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
13 Jul 2023
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Zelda slept until the next morning and lay there for a long time after she woke, watching Link’s chest rise and fall. She had been too blinded by tears and joy and love to inspect him closely yesterday. For so long, her last memory had been of him reaching for her desperately, gloom blackening half his body.
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- Part 9 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots
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Beneath the Skin by gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
21 Jul 2024
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“Link? Are you hurt?”
He stared at the corpses as if seeing death for the first time, spellbound by the red tendrils that rose from them like steam. His legs shook; his stomach roiled with sickness; it took him three tries to slide the Master Sword into its scabbard. Zelda drew closer, her brow creased with worry, a faint aura of light still shimmering around her as she reached for his shoulder.
The Gloom recoiled from her touch, and Link flinched back, clutching his arm, digging his nails in again to feel something, anything else. She snatched her hand away as though burned, staring at him through the darkness.
“Link?” she repeated, her voice shrinking down to something small and scared. “Can you answer me?”
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- Part 10 of BOTW/TOTK Zelink Oneshots