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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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    Once upon a time, the Hero was born too late.

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    Link wakes up in the Shrine of Resurrection, guarded by a mysterious Sheikah who keeps more secrets than the number of memories he's lost. Aside from his cryptic nature, Link feels like he's pretty trustworthy... but when those secrets affect his quest to save the kingdom he left in ruin, what is he to do?

    Especially since Sheik had his breath, heart, and soul in the palm of his hand from the start.

     

    Updated on the 15th of every other month
    Next update: Chapter 96 on 15.10.25
    Currently writing: Chapter 96 (6.7.25)
    Beta-read to chapter 21 by user JunkTrash! She's the best
    Edited up to: Chapter 1 (posted 15.4.24)
    Currently editing: Chapter 2 (started 22.4.24)
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    Paya’s heart aches for the gallant hero of Hyrule, who is way out of her league. She seeks to drown her sorrows in an alcoholic drink or two. Little does she know the mysterious vai she meets at the bar is not what she seems.

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    Princess Zelda of Hyrule has two best friends: Link, her personal Knight, and Riju, the Chief of the Gerudo. After a Sheikah research mishap turns Link and Zelda into children and strands them in the Gerudo desert, they encounter a band of disguised Yiga. When they escape, Riju teams up with them to create a plan to deal with these strange Yiga and their undoubtedly sinister intentions. And what is that plan?

    Shameless trolling until they finally break character, of course!

    For their part, the Chain is just confused and concerned. It's not every day you arrive in a new Hyrule to find a very small Hero and Princess blowing up monsters with high-yield explosives, after all.

    Chapter 10: Bonus AU

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    In a new, unfamiliar land, the chain find their newest member, a young feral teen with little knowledge of civilized life. Thinking he was all alone, they took him in immediately...only to discover that everyone else had the same idea.

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    "He took a deep, measured breath.

    The blow never came. The bokoblin grunted in apparent surprise. Dorian peeled his eyes open to see it still standing over him, a dumb expression on its face. His eyes and the bokoblin’s trailed downwards at the same time to see the dull blade sticking out of the creature's chest, dripping blood in rivulets down its torso."

    or; Dorian is travelling when he has a close encounter with some monsters. Link saves him, and Dorian learns a few things about the painfully young hero.

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    The Hero is meant to be courageous, to show no fear in the face of hopelessness.

    The Hero is meant to see things through, regardless of the personal cost.

    The Hero is meant to be a helping hand, one that does not ask for anything in return.

    By all accounts, Link was the Hero to a fault.

    [Or, a story in which Link must deal with a terminal illness and those around him do their best to support him through it.]

    [Chapter 14 and 15 submitted as work to Zelink Week 2025]

    (Completed 7/19/2025)

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    Link's not doing too great after spending a year or so (time doesn't quite exist when you're shield-surfing around Hyrule) rescuing the disembodied voice of Zelda, whom he really does not remember.

    Post-calamity, but we're ignoring the secret end cutscene. They're not going to Zora's Domain first.

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    Never trust someone who asks for you by name.

    That was a lesson Wild learned early.

    He was actually known by a lot of names. He was the Hylian Champion to those on the roads, as well as those in Hateno and Lurelin. He was the Flame Vai to the Gerudo, a mighty clan of desert warriors. He was Little Guy to the Gorons on the aptly named Death Mountain. He was Wild to his closest friends, to those in Kakariko, and to his brother.

    He was Link, his birth name, to the bounty hunters chasing his reward, and to the Yiga Clan that set it.

     

    A classic “gang-meets-Wild” fic in which Wild joins the Chain whilst he and Twilight try to hide the kingdom’s worst-kept secret—Wild is also a hero. Also known as one of the longest "Refusal of the Call" 's of the hero's journey that has ever been put to paper.

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    29/80
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    A Hero's Journey is never easy. Many sacrifices must be made. Sometimes you just need a friend to remind yourself you are not alone in the world and fate is not always the only option. It is okay to just sit back and enjoy the journey and basque in the healing.

    LinkX WitchOC

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    10/?
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    Zelda drags Link along to help her introduce herself to the villagers of Kakariko.

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    Have you ever wondered why the Yiga Clan stole the Thunder Helm? What could they possibly want with it? What have they got up their sleeves? Beyond stealth and disguise, the Yiga Clan have acquired sensitive information that could cause absolute destruction of the kingdom of Hyrule.

    Princess Zelda is now getting used to life after the captivity and defeat of Ganon as her courageous knight, Link, discovers struggles as a PTSD victim. How do they deal with their obstacles and trials ahead of them when a Kingdom is threatened by those who still follow Ganon?

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    Dorian has a ritual for these nights.

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    The night after Link arrives at Kakariko Village.

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    300
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    1/1
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    4
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    10
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    2
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    To become an immortal dragon is to lose oneself.

    The Demon King has been defeated, but not without a terrible cost.

    After they fall from the sky, Link discovers that Zelda is no longer the princess he once knew. Zelda chose to sacrifice her heart and mind just to give him a fighting chance, and now, in the aftermath of the battle, he must come to terms with what that decision truly means.

    For some sacrifices are not so easily taken back.

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    And that’s what they are- children playing house, one hundred years of divinity trying their hand at domesticity. She can’t do it, can’t let him look at her the way he does, with everything in his expression so different from the Link before except that stupid undying loyalty.

    Zelda cannot kill him again. Somewhere in her mind, the child’s blocks collapse, and she leaves in the night.

    or,

    At the end of everything, Zelda learns to move on.

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    This tale in the making is about the beginnings of Link and Zelda falling in love. It aspires to explore how their bonds deepen before and after the events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and what the two would realistically be feeling about each other and themselves through it all.

    It aspires to question how you know when you really do love someone else, and what that means, and what you want for another person when you love them.

    In my mind this starts immediately after the ending of Breath of the Wild where Calamity Ganon is slain, and before its "True Ending" cutscene. It began with two simple questions.

    The first: In a memory shown in Breath of the Wild, we know that Princess Zelda thought to leave a message for Link with the Great Deku Tree. It said to wait. What was she going to say?

    The second: How would "Link's House" become "Zelda's House" after the ending of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?

    This all led to a big question more vital than any canon. If at some point the love of Link and Zelda were tested, what would that look like and how would that be overcome? My theory about loving another is the answer.

    It's a lot. It's completely new for me. Here we go.

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    25/?
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    Something strange is going on in Kakariko Village. Odd occurrences, strange sightings and sounds, even the beat of a drum can be heard faintly at night. Zelda is determined to find out when she is requested to assist.

    Zelda quickly discovers far more about the Sheikah than she ever wanted to know.

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    7/?
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    22
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    3
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    360
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    Link feels most like himself in the wild, with the wind in his hair, grass stains on his knees and a mysterious wolf by his side. He wakes up in the shrine of resurrection with nothing but destiny to his name, and the quest he has laid out before him will be a long and arduous one. How will he reconcile what he has to be with who he really is? With the weight of the world on his shoulders, and not nearly enough sleep in his system, that may be more difficult than he realizes.

    (Not canon compliant-- it's better)

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    31/36
    Comments:
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    194
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    56
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    7,967
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    What happens when you write much better than you speak? When longing is safer than confessing your feelings face-to-face?

    You write a letter to her.

    But...what if she writes back?

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    28/28
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    1
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