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Worship the Ashes by SummonerLuna
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
11 Dec 2025
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The Calamity is over, and Hyrule is free. But while Link has had months to come to terms with the world he left behind, for Zelda it is only now beginning. As her body heals, she finds it is not just physical recovery she needs. Wracked with guilt that her powers woke too late to stop the calamity and haunted with dreams of Link dying in her arms, she must make peace with all she has lost, before she can find a way to move forward in the world she saved.
[Post-Calamity. Zelink. Healing, grief, and choosing the life you want.]
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But what if I were the one to fall? by II_Black_Sparrow_II
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
08 Dec 2025
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Link didn't like the castle of Hyrule. It reminded him of his past failure during the Calamity 100 years ago- and he couldn't even remember it properly! So, when Zelda wanted to go explore the tunnel system found beneath the castle he wasn't all too thrilled. But, it couldn't be that bad, right?
Right.
It was worse than bad. Of course it was.
- Language:
- English
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- 3,126
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 4
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Link Shows Zelda How to Cook by LuckySOB
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Dec 2025
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While trying to adjust to her new life in Hateno. Zelda is trying to learn to cook for herself, but things add up and Zelda has a terrible time (read: panic attack). Link tries to be a good friend and also comes to understand her perspective in all this.
(Although it's not worded, Zelda doesn't really realize it lol she can't read his mind.)
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- English
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- 2,137
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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WANTED (By You), Dead AND Alive! by EmilytheGreat18
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
26 Nov 2025
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When you decided to leave this world behind, you didn’t expect to be transported to another one…
Now, you have to figure out how you got to this beautiful new world; all while you decipher strange dreams, survive monster attacks, unravel the secrets of Hyrule, work through the trauma of killing yourself, and navigate a love triangle with the Queen and her personal knight.
Are you going to make it out of this… dead AND alive? (SHE SAID THE THING OMG CHAT) -
Remnants of a Friend by kaleboodle
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
26 Nov 2025
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After relieving Hyrule from the darkness of twilight, Link's closest companion left without further explanation. He struggles to find himself in a "new normal", and the burden of the world falls heavier on his shoulders. As his own world begins to shatter, those around him do their best to provide support.
While facing her own demons, Zelda wants to find a way to repay the Hero of Twilight for his service to Hyrule.
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October 2025 Note: Updates will happen around every 1.5-2 months. Any earlier, and that is a gift from me to you when I have more free time than I planned :)
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Are we still us? by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
26 Oct 2025
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What do Link and Zelda do after BOTW is over?
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Through the Thunder and the Rain by JacksFandomRandom
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
18 Oct 2025
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Link doesn't go back to his childhood at the end of Ocarina of time and chooses to stay with Zelda and help rebuild hyrule. However, when Zelda tells him he'd rather live as Sheik, they run away together, living as travelers. However, one night, it starts to rain horribly. Theres one problem to this. Sheik is afraid of storms.
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- English
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- 1,510
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 3
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I’ve Got A New Lease On Life (I’ve Failed You I Fear) by Dapperenby137
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
22 Sep 2025
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She also owed something to the people who suffered so much because of her incompetence, she didn’t know what though. Only her life seemed equal in weight, but she doubted it would do any actual good now that the danger was over.
And the champions who fell that fateful day deserved a proper thanks and apology from the princess who had sent them to their deaths. Her father’s grave also sat upon a mountain in the great plateau, and while her feelings about the man were complex, she still mourned the man who had once loved her so dearly.
So her and Link were to embark on a cross country trip, just them and their horses in the newly freed land she had seen so little of and he had forgotten.
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Or: Zelda and Link have had a few months since the end of the Calamity to gather their wits, and in Zelda’s case, relearn how to have a physical body. Her and Link want to give proper goodbyes to their friends who died in battle. Zelda deals with her own guilt along the way.
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The Shade, the Cloud, and the Sunrise by linksthoughtbrambles for Mailrebel
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
25 Aug 2025
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Months after the end of Twilight Princess, Link and Zelda are still drawn to each other, dreaming of each other in both sleep and wakefulness. Meanwhile, threats loom on Hyrule's borders and trust in the fledgling monarch wears thin.
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Remembrance by meow224
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
05 Aug 2025
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"May I ask... do you really remember me?"
When she's met with no response she worries that all she's fought for was for a man who didn't know who she was. That is, until he finally hugged her of course.
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This is my first fic, and I'm pretty bad a writing, but hopefully this turns out okay!
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Woven Light by KokiriForestSpirit
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
17 Jul 2025
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They had been waking up like this again for longer than a year now, bodies side by side, tangled in the quiet comfort of the space they made together.
After saving Hyrule for a second time, Link and Zelda navigate the aftermath. Grappling with the invisible scars of trauma, they find solace intertwined in domestic everyday moments.
Zelink Week 2025, Day Four: Intertwined
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- Part 1 of Zelink Week 2025
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Above and Below by cheepers
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
28 Jun 2025
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Neither Link or Zelda had a chance to respond before the mummy held its hands over its chest and gathered the smoke-like gloom that seeped from its chest. With a guttural roar, it raised its arms. The gloom surged upwards and violently collided with the cavern ceiling above.
Zelda could only stare in horror before the ground cracked underneath her feet. She gasped, stumbled back, and fell backward. Link jumped after her, face twisted in panic and pain, and reached out to her with his damaged arm. They just brushed fingertips before Zelda felt herself come to an abrupt stop in the air, and Link fell past her. He twisted in the air, trying to grab onto her outstretched arm, but to no avail.
“Link!” Zelda screamed, watching in horror as Link tumbled into the depths below, swallowed by the darkness.
After that, she felt a tug on her arm, and the world went white.
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Or: a TOTK AU in which neither Link or Zelda are sent back in time. Instead, Link is trapped in the Depths with a corrupted arm, and Zelda is brought to the Great Sky Island by Rauru, tasked with saving Hyrule and finding Link before he's overtaken by gloom. -
Friction Ridges by PennamePersona
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
29 May 2025
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He dreams of her taking his hand.
Holding it, yes, intertwining their fingers with dry skin and affection and calluses she’d shown him with fierce, grinning pride when they first developed on her perfect-soft-princess skin. Grasping his palm between both of hers, firmly but gently, as a reminder of every oath they’ve ever sworn.
And also—
His fingertips barely catching the edges of hers when she falls, and that slight friction ricocheting up his arm until it trembles and shatters and the splinters of his bones form the crest of a kingdom he’s been failing since the moment it actually mattered.
She takes his hand, and he lets her. Every single time, he lets her.
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- Part 3 of with my nerves exposed
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Don't Worry, Zelda's Fine... by The_Psycho_Coffee_Bean
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda
30 Apr 2025
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Zelda learns what PTSD and anxiety are. Purah is an irritating friend who wears Guardian pieces like jewelry. Zelda has flashbacks and needs a vacation.
Or: Zelda Learns what being a mess feels like!
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- Part 3 of The Lost Side Quests
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Che non ci dimentichi la terra by folkloristico (shireith)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
14 Apr 2025
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Link sa com’è fatto un corpo, deve saperlo: un attimo e muori. Le notti nelle Terre Gerudo sono troppo fredde e le giornate troppo calde, l’umidità appena ti avvicini al Monte Morte è insopportabile e il respiro le si blocca in gola in un rifiuto a uscire. Link si porta ogni centimetro di Hyrule addosso, e Zelda si domanda come pesi meno della terra che li regge tutt’e due, loro e la storia che si ripete all’infinito.
Link e Zelda a schegge.
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Come Marching Home by Telefonemast
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
28 Jan 2025
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Each battle won, each shrine completed, each step on his journey is haunted by fractured memories of past failures. Unlocking the truth of his past brings only more pain, but he presses on, driven by unfading duty. Now, the calamity is finally gone, and after a hundred years Hyrule stands on the precipice of something new: a brighter future. In a field cleansed of malice, a quiet moment is shared between long lost companions, the Princess and the soldier, reunited at last.
This is pretty much an expansion of the last line of botw's ending, Link's thoughts in the moment, and how this moment kind of acts as a mental turning point for Link and Zelda. If I did things right, then this should be a quick shot of nostalgic angst ending with a sweet note to make it feel good :)
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This Is My Grave But I Will Not Lie In It by Dapperenby137
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
23 Jan 2025
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The battlefield was blooming with poppies.
The former princess made up her mind to at least try to honor the fallen warrior she’d once held so dear. She needed to do this one last thing before she let herself attempt to live again.
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Zelda buries an old friend, Link accepts an offer of friendship, and Purah is getting really tired of being short
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all the words i cannot speak by froggiecharms
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
30 Nov 2024
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after zelda was captured by yuga he used her as a plaything, torturing and maiming her up until the day she was saved
hilda and link work with her to regain her strength after the extreme toll on her body
oh what zelda would say to hilda after learning she can no longer speak
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Peace, and the Acceptance of it by JayLovesStix
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Oct 2024
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On a walk with Link after the sealing of Calamity Ganon, Zelda learns to accept her newfound freedom.
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- Part 3 of Jay’s Flufftober 2024
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Guidance by Fyreflare
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
02 Oct 2024
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Zelda doesn't really know how to be queen. Who better to ask for advice than the first Queen herself?
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- Part 1 of Linktober 2024 One-Shots