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i wake up alone, you made me vulnerable (go find yourself or whatever) by cremeaufraises
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
21 May 2023
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"The little differences began to slip through the cracks as they slowly grew more comfortable around each other after so long apart.
Everything he did, every swing of his sword, every step, every breath, seemed to drip with a sense of hesitancy that she would have never expected from him. One hundred years ago, the rush of a fight seemed like it was the only thing that lifted the weight of his burdens from his shoulders. Now, Zelda can see it: there is no joy in his movement.
Two, he does not sleep. It seemed as though he was content to simply sit next to her as she slept. What he did during that time, she did not know. All she knew was that he was awake when she fell asleep, and that he was always waiting for her to wake up."
After spending so long trapped in a state between life and death, Zelda is ready to move on. She longs for normalcy, and is ready to spend the rest of her life reconnecting with Link. She's sure that, aside from the first few hiccups along the way, things between them can go back to how they used to be.
It's never that easy.
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15 Feb 2026
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hearth by 94k, hazeleafyy
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
27 Dec 2025
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"—So…” Daruk coughed. Revali’s sharp gaze snapped over to him. "Turns out he’s the chosen hero of the legends.”
Revali sputtered into a stunned silence.
“Bullshit, that’s impossible!” His feathers rustled as he balked. “He was sent by the Demon King!”
“We know that, but— he has the mark of the goddess on his hand,” Urbosa snapped. “The rest of us saw it. If you don’t believe it, you can see for yourself.”
The Rito didn’t even deign to give the unconscious swordsman a glance.
“Hero or not, we’re not letting him off the hook just like that,” Revali’s voice climbed an octave. “He’s too dangerous— we saw what he’s capable of. We have to kill him while he’s still weakened!”
“We aren’t killing him,” Zelda asserted again. This time, she lifted her eyes. Her voice held a note of cautiousness, but it was still unshakeable.
“If we’re to even hope to defeat the Demon King, we need the hero on our side. We have to take him with us.”
[In which Link was raised as Ganon’s right hand man, but Zelda and the Champions snatch him away.]
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14 Feb 2026
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She watches him land the final blow on whatever monster had gotten too close to town that night. She doesn’t get a good view in the dark, only hearing a horrible ugly wail and a wet thud as it collapsed onto the muddy field, and then the lightning illuminates him for a terrible moment. His torso is all red and blue, bloods mixing into a terrible purply-brown. The sword gleams unblemished in his hand, but his posture is weak, exhausted.
“Are you alright?” She asks him, gut twisting at the sight of him. Black eye, gash sweeping from temple to cheekbone, split lip. Blood mats in his blond hair, but he smiles when he sees her.
“Finally got your attention?” He wheezes, voice crackling with what must be blood in his throat. His blue eyes sparkle.
She throws his arm over her shoulder to help him up, pulling him back to her home across town. She plays dumb. Maybe he won’t know, doesn’t feel the same pull in his stomach that she does, the tingle where his skin brushes against hers.
“There are plenty of prettier girls in town who will fix you up better than I can, if you want me to drop you off,” she says.
He huffs out a strained breath, leaning his head onto her shoulder. “No. You can’t run this time.”Bookmarked by darknightkon
13 Feb 2026
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Truth Be Told by dayhaven
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
01 Sep 2023
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“Have you threatened every person in this castle?” She hissed. “Because I haven’t heard a word of my incompetence in three and a half weeks, and only after tricking some poor unfortunate footman into speaking halfway ill of me does he break down nearly into tears and beg me to please not tell you what he’s said.”
A faint pink blushed onto the tips of his ears. He didn’t say anything, but he didn’t have to. It was an unwilling admission of guilt.
“Would you prefer they gossip about you, Your Highness?” His eyes lifted back to hers only when he finished speaking, and for a single moment, she was frozen under his stare. He had asked in sincerity, without any disingenuousness.
The audacity, to ask such a question. “No,” she said, her voice falling flat. Insulting, that a man who so rarely used his voice could so easily put her in her place with it. He hadn’t even really meant to.
For just a moment, she stared at him, waiting for him to lord his victory over her as he had so well earned. But instead he just kept staring earnestly at her, as if it were her turn to disclose, as if she was the one holding out on him.
Finally, blessedly, he spoke again. “What would you have me do instead?”
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13 Feb 2026
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Ash and Emotion by RageCandyBar
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
20 May 2019
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Zelda closed her eyes on the end of the world, and she woke up a century later with nothing to her name but memories and ash.
For Link, she supposed, there had been only ash.
(Written for the 2019 ZeLink Zine)
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13 Feb 2026