A Study of Shades of Light
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A Study of Darkness (and its Light) by FloatingNebulas
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
20 Jun 2026
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When Shadow shattered the Dark Mirror, he had expected to die. That had certainly happened. It was very painful and he would really like to not do it again.
What he hadn't expected was to wake up on the floor of a very creepy castle, be mistaken for a severed portion of Dark Link's reflection of the Hero's Spirit, and essentially be coerced into working for Ganondorf to attack the group of time-traveling heroes that Link had apparently, somehow, joined.
Shadow was only supposed to survive for long enough to figure out where the mirror that Ganondorf probably had his soul connected to was, and how to get back to Link. He wasn't supposed to get attached to Dark Link. He also wasn't supposed to start seeing a younger version of himself, from before Vio came crashing into his life, in him. He especially wasn't supposed to start trying to teach Dark how to live beyond the confines of the battle he had known for so long.
Or, Shadow adopts a new kid/brother, pulls a Vio (in more ways than just spying on the enemy from inside), and has way too much fun mentally cussing out Ganondorf.
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- Part 1 of A Study of Shades of Light
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A Study of Light (and its Darkness) by FloatingNebulas
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
20 Jun 2026
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Three years ago, Link held his brother in his arms as he died. He had never really healed from it. Grief is a painful, tricky thing that doesn't ever truly leave you, as Gramps had repeatedly told him since. He's not eager to ever experience something so heartbreaking again.
So when a group of strangers in armor come knocking on Link's door and telling him a tale of time travel and adventure, he's initially hesitant. But... what if the one thing he's been looking for for the last four years, some way to bring Shadow back to him is in a different time period? Link, Four, does the only thing he can: he joins the chain in search of a way to revive Shadow.
Unfortunately for Four, the universe has a funny way of making things happen.
Or, the Four!POV of my "Shadow adopts Dark and pulls a Vio" fic that I wrote a year and a half ago.
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- Part 2 of A Study of Shades of Light