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“Who are you?”
Loid met her gaze. Yor wondered what her face was doing, that he was taking so long to answer. “To you, I am Loid Forger.” Why did that hurt more than if he’d struck her? “And to Anya,” he said, some gentleness finally coming into his voice, “I am Loid Forger. Her father. And you are her mother.” Yor stared at him, now certain her devastation was plain on her face.
When Yor learns of a plot to kidnap Anya, she returns home to find Loid handling a gun with expert skill, and Anya already taken. After that earth shattering day, in rallying around Anya, Yor and Twilight face a time of uncertainty where choices are made, long-kept secrets are shared, and precarious trust becomes unassailable intimacy.
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“Katara, you’re the only one I can trust to help me -”
“Tui and La, fine,” Katara groaned. “I’ll be there in twenty.”
All Katara wanted to do on her Saturday was sleep in. But when Zuko needs help at the Jasmine Dragon, she can't exactly leave him hanging. And who knows? Maybe something - or someone - good will come out of it.
(A self-indulgent Kataang meet-cute with a healthy serving of platonic Zutara. Modern!AU.)
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a bird in your teeth by rushvalleys
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
25 Feb 2021
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A ghost told Link a story once. In this story, everyone died on a burning field.
There were two survivors –– the lovelorn princess and her battered knight, cursed in cruel mercy to a century in purgatory and a memory so shattered and broken that it was impossible to put the shards back where they fit.
He learned atop the Temple of Time, the dilapidated ruins where his ancestors’ ancestors’ ancestors once stood, that Hyrule had sustained itself on nothing more than stories for ten thousand years. Evil collected underneath the marble floors of Hyrule Castle for centuries. Hyrule had almost unlimited time to find a way to stop it, and yet they waited for two characters out of a fable to save them. Why was anyone surprised when the myth couldn’t sustain itself? Salvation is not the job of two children, regardless of the lofty titles placed over their heads.
But this isn’t a story about a knight. It’s not a story about a princess. This is a story about the aftermath of stories.
This is, ostensibly, a story about a dog.
Link, Zelda, and a never-ending story.
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Ever since the day Link found out about the pain bond he and his soulmate shared, he was determined to make sure that he never sent her any unnecessary pain. What kind of person would he be if he didn't?
Or, Zelda's pretty sure she doesn't have a soulmate.
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May the Light Shine Ever by pseudocitrus
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
04 Jul 2023
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He was exceedingly polite. An exemplary guard. He followed her everywhere, as close and as silent as a shadow. Despite his slight stature, the Sword that Seals the Darkness—a breathtakingly storied weapon—glinted perfectly over his shoulder at all times, like it belonged nowhere else. He lived up to the promise of every legend ever recorded in Hyrule’s history.
“What’s there to think?” she said finally. “He’s perfect.”
And she couldn’t stand him.
Pre-BOTW oneshots involving Zelda and Link reckoning with their destinies, together. Includes: one in which Zelda asks Link to teach her his way of signing; one where they get stuck in a cave; and one where there's a big dance at the castle.
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- Part 1 of May the Light Shine Ever