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The Divine Trio by Quillful (QuillfulWriter)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
27 Jun 2025
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Ganondorf survived the death of Calamity, but now he needs to survive a world that resents him for his possession and all that resulted from it. Link and Zelda are more invested in this than he seems to be.
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A mixture of one-shots and connected chapters following the childhood life and times of a Link and Zelda born in a time of peaceful prosperity and swiftly developing Sheikah technologies. In this story, Link is a blacksmith-in-training and a magical engineering prodigy, while Zelda is a shining jewel of the kingdom with a lot of struggles behind the scenes. Impa is Tired™, but doing her best. Divinely-ordained adventure is still many years away for this particular Link, but that isn't to say his life is uneventful before then! For one thing, making friends is hard if you're a weird kid who talks and dresses funny, and for another, you don't need to be an active Hero for the Yiga Clan to think you're worth kidnapping...
(Reading other works in this series is NOT a pre-requisite. Though this is technically a prequel, this is also a stand-alone!)
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- Part 3 of Adventures in New Hyrule
- Part 1 of Link Bluesmith, Hero of Peace
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A girl has never been a hero before—a girl was never meant to be a hero. Full stop. Linkel knows that, but here she is anyway. She’s saved the world and held the mythical sword while doing it. Now, at sixteen, it’s time for an early retirement. But a girl can never get a break.
_Or the chain has to convince a teenage girl they’re not predators. (Hylia helps).
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- Part 1 of Hero of Luminance
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a tiny, glowing pinprick in a dark, still void by twilightceta (cetaseok) for gerudo__desert
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
10 Oct 2024
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Zelda worries over Link's fate one night while on the run from the Hyrule Guard.
(no spoilers beyond the first dungeon)
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Common Sense and Other Things the Apocalypse Takes by spitecentral
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
07 Oct 2024
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Eons in the past, on the way to the Temple of Hylia, Zelda notices Impa is injured. Impa does not. You'd be surprised what you could get used to.
(Whumptober Day 6: Not Realising They're Injured/Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms)
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- Part 5 of Whumptober 2024
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Heroic Wisdom, Silent Courage by 10nightraven04
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
11 Aug 2024
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It was meant to be a simple shipment for the ranch, the first Zelda had ever been involved with. She'd been so excited (irrationally so, given the utter mundaneness of the situation). She'd never expected to hear the voice of the Sacred Blade calling to her from the depths of Great Hyrule Forest. She'd never expected to bear the burden she now does.
'She would have to wage battles with this unfamiliar blade in her lap. Where it had felt so…right in the Korok Forest, the sword is now heavy and cold. No song, no words. Everything she’d been given in the woods has abandoned her. Is she meant to do all this alone?'
Or; Hylia decides to have some fun this time around and makes Zelda the hero and Link the royal.
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- Part 1 of A Glimpse of Destiny
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Breath of the Sky by Skye_the_Lofty_Nutcase
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
01 Aug 2024
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When Princess Zelda goes to the Spring of Courage to pray, accompanied by her appointed knight, a giant magical cog spitting out a goddess is the last thing she expects, but it is what she gets. Meanwhile, the Spirit Maiden Zelda is trying to figure out what the heck is happening and where her missing chosen hero is.
Skyward Sword meets Breath of the Wild pre-calamity, and it changes everything.
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All the Armor in the World by Writer_of_Fandoms_123
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Encanto (2021)
10 Jun 2024
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Personal guards are a must when it comes to royalty. Zelda knew this, she knew that her father’s guards had long since been retired and replaced like a cycle as age wore on them and that her mothers were executed when they failed to defend her from the Yiga. And many before her got the option for the two they wished to have as their companions, but Zelda did not, she was assigned the silent wielder of the Master Sword and every dutiful daughter of a clan that had banished her. How interesting.
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Seven Tears by GriffinStone
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
05 Jun 2024
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It's been two months since Link, the Sages, and the Light Dragon defeated Ganon. Two months since the dark dragon vanished with its monsters.
Two months since Link, Zelda, and the Sages disappeared.
It's been two months and, searching for answers, Purah goes dragon hunting.
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Wars long forgotten, but never fully gone by Dapperenby137
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
04 Jun 2024
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“Captain,” Flora’s voice was smooth and calm, it sounded ancient and somehow still so young. “Wild said you wished to speak to me?”
“Yes your Highness.” Wait, was she a princess or a queen, it was always hard to tell with Zelda’s. “Your Majesty?”
She scrunched her nose in a very similar way to Wild, he wondered who had rubbed the habit off on the other, he was under the impression that the two were close. “There’s no need for formalities, the monarchy died a hundred years ago, Hyrule has been fine without it so far.”
The last of the royal line inclined her head towards a nearby dock, “Come sit with me.”
“I’ve noticed some things about Wild, he said to ask you.”
Or: Warriors is worried about Wild and speaks to Flora about this. Sometimes problems don’t have cut and dry solutions, and all you can hope is that things will get better with time.
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Again? by kiavwrites
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
17 May 2024
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In all fairness, Link didn't mean to hide his injuries from Zelda this time. It just…sort of happened. And now she's giving him that look that tears his heart into a million pieces everytime he sees it in her emerald eyes.
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Forces Bigger Than Us by Quillful (QuillfulWriter)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
22 Jan 2024
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Ganon and Zelda are trapped together for a century. They have time to talk, if nothing else.
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Sparks Filled With Hope by Sokkas_First_Fangirl
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
16 Jan 2024
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“Zelda?” he repeated. “What is it?” This was something bad, this was something terrible. But why had Impa only addressed the letter to him? Was it something she didn’t want Zelda to know?
“Link, I…” Zelda looked at the letter again. Her eyes flashed with utter fury. “There is- something’s happened. A family has arrived in Kakariko, from Lurelin. They asked Impa for your whereabouts.”
“Oh,” Link said. “Is that all? Do they need help?”
Zelda took a deep breath and put the letter down. She took Link’s hands.
“Link, darling,” she said, much softer now, as if trying not to spook him. “Their matriarch claims to be Aryll.”
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One hundred years ago, unknown to everyone, Aryll survived the Calamity. Unknown to her, Link was brought back from the dead.
Now, with Ganon gone and news of Link and Zelda's survival spreading through Hyrule, Aryll goes in search of her big brother alongside her family. But how to prove herself? How to confirm that she's exactly who she says she is?
Or: Aryll lived. Link lived. After one hundred years, it's time to reunite.
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When Your Princess Turns into a Dragon by COBigBlueBox, DarklightAudio, Mister_Mooncalf
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
11 Jan 2024
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This is just a small collection of interactions we all came up with in Discord based on a prompt.
Original prompt: Link weaving flower crowns into his wife dragon!Zelda’s hair. His presence reawakens her spirit & consciousness, so she remembers who she is and who Link is. And being the snarky twerp Link is, he’s giving her all sorts of grief for being a dragon.
Prompted by COBigBlueBox
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Sicktember 2022 by Voracity
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
09 Jan 2024
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Pas à pas, entre deux écueils dus au quotidien, Lavio et Link sauront-ils s'apprivoiser ?
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- Part 1 of Sicktember
- Part 20 of Défi d'écriture
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“Do you swear to serve your kingdom?”
“Yes.”
“Do you swear to abide by the rules of the sacrifice, to live your life in complete isolation to harness your magic?”
“I do.”
(Link is going to be killed at 17. There is nothing he can do.)
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- Part 1 of the will of the goddesses
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things we won’t say out loud by batcatz
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
03 Oct 2023
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And just when he thinks he can love her, she is gone again.
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While on a ride with Ralph, Zelda runs across her brother and his hero friends on their way to handle some monsters. Link isn't looking too hot, or rather, is running FAR too hot, so she and Ralph drag him back to the castle for some rest until he feels better again.
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- Part 1 of Idiot Attmepts Sicktember 2023
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Twenty-five by MoonLightSolitaire (BlueNightDiamond)
Fandoms: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV 2018)
19 Aug 2023
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Zelda and Lilith have made their choices.
Yet nothing is as easy as it seems but thanks to some little help from outside, they finally find their bearings and get to an agreement.
Is that the end?Series
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The people of the village love their odd little Lost Boy, who dragged himself bloody and broken into town after saving two of their own from getting mauled by Bokoblins. The people of the continent love their darling little Traveller, marked by the gods and covered in stories. He takes care of them, and they take care of him.