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Looking Through my Lens, At All your Broken Parts by Nope_Not_today_Satan
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
06 Oct 2025
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Zelda stares down at her broken and fuel line bleeding Hero
And can only grin at the opportunities.Series
- Part 2 of Satan's Whump-Fest! 2025
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Looks like I’m not coming home, but I don’t mind by TwilitPrincess
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
04 Oct 2025
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Whumptober 2025
A collection of unrelated stories inspired by this year’s Whumptober prompts.
First chapter is the table of contents; complete with appropriate warnings for each chapter.
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- Part 2 of Whumptober
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Dragon Breath by beadsoupe
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
30 Sep 2025
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She’s gone. The girl Link had once known has left him. The beast in the sky roams Hyrule aimlessly, reminding him of what was. Peace at a cost.
A short drabble of an AU I love.
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Start At The Beginning (Starting Over) by Tassledown
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
21 Sep 2025
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When Link walked out of the Sacred Grove of the Four Sword after sealing Vaati for the second time, he expected to see Zelda -- his Zelda.
He did not expect her to have been dead for five centuries.
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that's it, it's split, it won't recover [just frame the halves and call them a whole] by UniversesRising
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
14 Sep 2025
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[title from ''call them brothers'' by regina spektor]
what can be done when you start to lose yourself to your own fractured personality? what if those fractures then begin to lose themselves to the very thing that created them?
magic, especially ancient magic, should never be messed with. but sometimes you don't have a choice. sometimes you have to risk it all to save everything you've ever known.
sometimes the consequences are slow to act. too slow. too cruel.
[in other words: i have an au called four elements. i am very mean to link and the colors. this fic will be short, out-of-order snippets from it!]
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As Lovely As The Stars by Willow8736
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
10 Aug 2025
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Link picks up the secret stone under Hyrule Castle, Link falls through time. Zelda is left to wonder where her knight had vanished to while also contending with the Upheaval and a figure that looks oddly like the missing hero who's stirring up trouble. And then there is that strange dragon who flies low over Hyrule now, when in ages past it stayed so high that most thought it was a myth. The dragon known as Tempori.
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Link is the sage, Zelda saves Hyrule. I feel like there aren't enough of these so I wrote one myself. This storyline will be sticking to the totk canon pretty closely.
(Translations for the Latin will be in the end notes)Series
- Part 1 of Oh How Things Change
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Shades of the Sea by MiniJen
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
04 Aug 2025
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After spending five years stuck in the World of the Ocean King, Link returns to the Great Sea, only to find it changed beyond recognition. His friends and family view him as a traitor, accusing him of causing chaos across the ocean. With his allies all turned against him and a curse threatening to take his life, he sets out to reconnect with the one person who may be able to clear his name: Tetra.
Meanwhile, something sinister is rising over the Great Sea--a shadow seeking to spill the hero's blood and revive its fallen master. And this time, Link may not be strong enough to stop it on his own.
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Xenomelia - WILL BE REBOOTED by red__acted
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
04 Aug 2025
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LINK: Have you ever died before?
THE CONSTRUCT: I am a construct, Link. We are not born, and we cannot die.
[The campfire whimpers and sputters. They both turn to stare at the empty husk of another deceased construct rotting nearby.]
THE CONSTRUCT WHO IS NOT BORN AND CANNOT DIE: …we cannot die in the same way our creators did.
LINK: But surely it must be similar.
THE CONSTRUCT: I wouldn’t know. Can a machine die like a heart stops beating?
[Xenomelia (“foreign limb syndrome,” previously known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)): A psychological disorder characterized by the non-acceptance of one or more of one’s own extremities and the resulting desire for elective limb amputation or paralysis]
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Blood Moon by JacksFandomRandom239
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
25 Jul 2025
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For many afab Hylians, the blood moon is a time of pain and suffering for 2-5 days. After a blood moon rises, Link has to go on a mission to find the Yiga Clan with his fellow Champions. Will he have to mask his pain, or finally accept help?
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A Small Favor by LittlePebbles
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
02 Jun 2025
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When Dark Link needs to ask a little favor from the Hero of Time, Dark offers a trade that Link can't refuse. A favor in exchange for the safe return of someone he loves.
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The Legend of Zelda: the Zonai Hourglass by KamiRoxyWrites
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
31 May 2025
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The Kingdom of Hyrule celebrates it's 5 years of peace that has existed between now and the destruction of Calamity Ganon, thanks to the sealing powers of Princess Zelda and the Hero wielding the Sacred Blade, Link. Now, with Princess Zelda exalted as Queen, the races of Hyrule are rebuilding the kingdom, with Zelda slightly worried for the next time Calamity Ganon should rear his ugly head once more. However, when the leader of the Yiga Clan, a group of people hell bent on bringing back Calamity Ganon, then infiltrate the underbelly of Hyrule Castle, they disturb a grave where a 10,000 year old mummy awaited to be freed. Now, stuck in the past, the master sword broken, and unsure of how to get home, Zelda, Link, and Purah must find their way their time to stop the Ganon of the future from destroying the kingdom they worked so hard to save.
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OTPtober 2023 by Voracity
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
27 May 2025
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La difficile mise en couple entre l'ami caractériel d'une oracle et l'aventurier venu la sauver.
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- Part 23 of Défi d'écriture
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Miles to Go by 3mhooks
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
23 May 2025
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The small wood with the shrine rising up in the center could barely be called a wood, more a copse or thicket at best. But the shrine provided a haven for Link. A place to rest, recover, and determine his next steps...
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep. -
Flowers for my Beloved (My Beloved is Gone) by LunaWolfieFoxy
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
15 May 2025
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"I feel like she was real, that she is real..." Link mumbled, staring into the sea. "She would have wanted this..."
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Link sees hibiscuses while in town with Ravio and feels the need to mend something.
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Reach Through The Mist by Felki
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
08 May 2025
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“I don’t understand,” he says, and his arms are wrapped around himself now, as if he is cold. They are in Hebra, yes, but he can’t help but feel as if the cold has nothing to do with how he is beginning to shiver.
“What do you mean you don’t understand?” Revali demands, turning back to him, his glare even deeper on his face than before. “I’ve expressed myself clearly to you many times before - it is no fault of mine that you see yourself as better than I simply because of the sword on your back. Surely you cannot blame me for cutting my losses here - I’ve wasted enough time on you as it is.”
“I-I don’t understand,” Link repeats, because for once, he truly doesn’t know how it was that he didn’t please this individual. He thought he understood, before, but Revali has grown more and more upset, and Link simply does not understand what he has done wrong to cause this.
He wants to fix this.
It is the first time in his life he can ever truly remember wanting something.
It is as his vision begins to blur (he doesn't know why) that Revali’s expression shifts.
“Oh,” the Rito says, and suddenly, his face is no longer stuck in a glare, but in horror, and a deep, deep sadness in his eyes. “Oh, no.”Series
- Part 1 of Of Golden Glows and Emerald Eyes
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Marigold and Honeysuckle by bluehighlighter
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
26 Apr 2025
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"I would love to see how far you'll go for your Goddesses."
He still tried to will his mind to push himself up, to get away from the Gerudo man towering over him, but his mind and body refused to cooperate.
Link's body was battered, hand crushed and the Master Sword was hidden in the long grass of Hyrule Field. There were cuts where his chain mail didn't protect the skin, red oozing from them and staining his undershirt. The battle persisted for nearly twelve long hours. Link was slashed, stabbed, and beaten during this time. He's hurt, and he's tired, and he just wants to go home. Can he let this one go? Can he let it be someone else's problem?
But Princess Zelda was long gone, she rode off on Epona a long while ago. He had watched her figure disappear through the yellow walls, headed back to the castle.
Despite all this, he grit his teeth, meeting Ganondorf's piercing gaze once again with defiance in his eyes. He managed a hoarse, defiant reply.
"I'd do... anything."
"... Let us see how far 'anything' goes."
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Unexpected Side Effects of a Furry Transplant by GabrieleKazlauskaite
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
31 Jan 2025
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No one knew the overuse of Rauru's arm was going to do this, not even Rauru or Mineru. Zelda's going to have one big surprise when she sees Link the next time.
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Dragon’s Tears by WitheringEffect
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
21 Jan 2025
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And Lady Impa began reciting: “Where the weeping dragon’s tears fall upon the earth, we marked down images where you shall find pools of recollection.”
Or: The Dragon Tears.
(I've pulled the Memories into a separate story to be read as one. This book will be updated with each Tear watched.)
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- Part 4 of OUROBOROS
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I Told You Once, I Can’t Do This Again (do this again) by AviraEriya
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
14 Jan 2025
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We don’t like to admit it, but waking up like that, on the sky island, alone, had to have been so hard for Link.
A short ficlet describing how that whole scene felt to me, while I’m restarting the game, again.
I’m on discord! Add me at tinybean1431
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Diverging Routes by I_Got_Lost
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
07 Jan 2025
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One moment Link was desperately pushing his train past its limits, trying to get back to Hyrule Castle to warn Zelda about the pirates. The next he was sitting up in a watery grave and Zelda had apparently gotten herself disembodied again. Which, he could deal with, it had happened before after all. But where was his train? In fact, where were the train tracks, and what's this about a Calamity?
Note: I've seen stories where Wild was a brand-new soul, but I haven't seen any where a previous Link came back. Also, this was born from the idea that Spirit is an engineer and all I can imagaine is him running around trying to figure out how the Guardians work.