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Before and After by Jenseits_der_Sterne
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
01 Mar 2023
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She smells like warm safflina. No, more specifically, like warm safflina tea sweetened with courser bee honey. And maybe you’re drowning in it. Maybe you’ve drowned in it before. It’s heady and confusing and you can feel her voice vibrate through you as she speaks, hear the smile in her words, “No matter, we’ll make more memories together.”
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An exploration into what would happen if Link and Zelda had had some form of a relationship before the Calamity, but Link remembers none of it. Confusing and possibly difficult waters for them both to navigate.
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HIATUS - I had a baby in autumn of 2023! I will come back to this when I can <3
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Before and After by Jenseits_der_Sterne
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Neither Link nor Zelda escaped their journeys unscathed. But whether the scars are physical or otherwise, together they can make it through.
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- English
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- 2,143
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- 1/1
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Sparks Filled With Hope by Sokkas_First_Fangirl
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
16 Jan 2024
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“Zelda?” he repeated. “What is it?” This was something bad, this was something terrible. But why had Impa only addressed the letter to him? Was it something she didn’t want Zelda to know?
“Link, I…” Zelda looked at the letter again. Her eyes flashed with utter fury. “There is- something’s happened. A family has arrived in Kakariko, from Lurelin. They asked Impa for your whereabouts.”
“Oh,” Link said. “Is that all? Do they need help?”
Zelda took a deep breath and put the letter down. She took Link’s hands.
“Link, darling,” she said, much softer now, as if trying not to spook him. “Their matriarch claims to be Aryll.”
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One hundred years ago, unknown to everyone, Aryll survived the Calamity. Unknown to her, Link was brought back from the dead.
Now, with Ganon gone and news of Link and Zelda's survival spreading through Hyrule, Aryll goes in search of her big brother alongside her family. But how to prove herself? How to confirm that she's exactly who she says she is?
Or: Aryll lived. Link lived. After one hundred years, it's time to reunite.
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Ugh so sweet if made me cry
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Good Ol’ Ganondorf by dorulean
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
29 Jul 2022
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It’s a tale as old as time. The Demon King Demise will reincarnate as a male Gerudo. He will plunge Hyrule into chaos and bend reality as he pleases. It will be the end of the world.
But what if the reincarnation was botched?
Demise is nothing but a spirit tied to a mortal being. He only exists in the vicinity of his host with very limited influence over the physical world. And Ganondorf? He’s just a historian trying to get by.
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- Part 1 of The Legend of Ganondorf
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A Wild Linkle Appeared! by PsionSorceress (QuagsirePaladin)
Fandoms: Linked Universe - Fandom
30 Dec 2024
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Linkle was enjoying a mostly-peaceful retirement after defeating the Calamity, traveling around Hyrule and reconnecting with the friends and family she had forgotten from amnesia, until eight ancient heroes came looking for a new Link to join the Chain. Pretending to be a man in order to prank her legendary predecessors wasn't on her bucket list until now, but when her best friend Zelda says they were inviting "Sir Link" to join them on a quest to eradicate black-blooded monsters, she had the perfect opportunity. Will her little practical joke keep all the boys at arms' length, or will the Heroine of the Wild find herself gaining a new set of brothers on this time-space-hopping adventure?
(Yes I know I'm late to the party on this whole "Chain Meets Wild" thing, but I hope I brought a fresh twist!)
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- 12/?
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The Hyrulian royal family passes down power from mother to daughter, a bloodline that has gone unbroken for millennia. In the rare instance a son was born to the family they would not be recognized as a prince. Instead they would be fostered by a royal knight and his family. This was seen as a far more kind outcome than the old practice of infanticide practiced before the era of the Hero of Legend.
When Hyrule falls to the Calamity so to die the old ways, the old laws, the old religion. The people of this new Hyrule see no reason to cling to archaic traditions when the one that helped stop the Calamity and save Hyrule would have been scorned. Instead they embrace him and support him.
Efforts to rebuild have begun and the Chain show up to add Wild to their group.
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Bloom by takidaka
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
28 Jun 2024
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After the defeat of Calamity Ganon, Link and Zelda begin the reconstruction process of Hyrule. Between their travels across the country, their dependence on each other's strengths, and the natural likeness of their personalities, their relationship starts grow. After more than a century of separation, will their feelings for each other finally bring them closer together, or will their pasts ultimately drive them apart?
(This fic occurs during the gap in time between the end of BotW and the beginning of TotK!)
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Dragons by GlitterIsEverywhere
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
08 Dec 2024
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Link sometimes prefers talking to children than adults... especially about dragons.
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- Part 12 of I try out Linktober 2024
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Worship the Ashes by SummonerLuna
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
06 Sep 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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Link's E-Rated Adventures by Dasbaron35
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Aug 2023
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Sequel to The Nature of Thirst
------------Life is funny and love is weird, but they're going to try their best.
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- Part 3 of The Nature Of
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- English
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- 46,818
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- 7/7
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- 298
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- 1,260
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The Legend of Ganondorf by dorulean
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
31 Aug 2024
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- 3
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The Quiet After by M_Swizzle22
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
13 Jun 2025
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A series of fics detailing Link and Zelda's lives post BOTW
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- 3
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Billet-Doux by Flutefemme
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
27 Feb 2025
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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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- English
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- 30,686
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- 28/28
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- 565
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Au that I adored!
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The Blood Moon is rising once again, and Link hastens to take advantage of the beneficial effect its bloody red light has on his cooking. Why does food cooked during a Blood Moon always taste better than food that isn't? No one seems to know, but Link is happy to spread the word of this grand discovery anyway.
Especially within Kakariko Village, everyone slowly becomes more willing to overlook the strangeness of Link's actions, and the fear of the Blood Moon, in order to share in the delicious results of Link's cooking on such nights.
Link knows that he isn't strong enough to beat Ganon yet. But if he can give people more reasons to celebrate instead of fear in the meantime, that seems like a worthwhile endeavor, too.
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Revival by orphan_account
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
15 Feb 2021
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A two-part series rewrite of Breath of the WIld with a female Lynk.
Part 1: Kismet
[Father the Captain of the Royal Guard, Lynk grew up surrounded by Knights—and with a fierce desire to protect herself, strives to work beside them in any way possible. But then she pulls the Legendary Master Sword from the stone and everything beings spirling.]Part 2: Heart of a Wild Hero
[With total amnesia and the incredible weight of her past, Lynk must save the Hyrule she failed 100 years ago. Accompanied first by a wolf, then a Sheikah and a shade, Lynk learns she doesn’t have to do everything by herself."But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten."]
Part 3: Wild Hero Art
[This book is art related to Heart of a Wild Heart, including references, expression sheets and even scenes from the story.]- Words:
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he looks like the real thing by beebee13
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
22 Mar 2025
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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.
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At the end of everything, Zelda learns to move on.
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"Best Friends": Tale of a Hero and a Witch by NyanNico0w0
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
17 Jun 2025
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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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the blood in my mouth (and the bitterness in goodbye) by Ashthevalkyrie for ilike_color
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
25 Feb 2025
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It’s time for Link to return to favor.
The dragon’s tear rises into the air. It glimmers just above Link’s head, glowing with the remnants of Zelda’s familiar power, and pop!
Water rains down around him. Everywhere it touches, flowers spring up, and as the last droplet settles into the earth, Silent Princesses rise from the ground, budding and blossoming as blue as the sky.
He might not be able to save her. But he can fulfill his promise, and that resolve seals the crack in his heart like hot wax. The roots catch fire. The flowers in his chest burn away. It hurts so, so much.
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Or: hanahaki as an old Zonai disease, and the way Link and the rest of the world carry their heartbreak.- Language:
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- 2,177
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- 7
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what if i cry. huh. how about that.