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When You Fail, Die and Die Again. by Poposusz
Fandom: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
17 May 2025
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Set in an AU where the Downfall Era Heroes have a type of immortality. They can die, but Hylia won't stay down, and they always get back up again. Focusing mainly on Legend, Hyrule, and Wild.
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Legend has a bad time, he, Hyrule, and Wild can all come back to life after death. Legend is revived after he dies with his wounds healed, Hyrule is reset 5 minutes before he dies, and Wild is revived with Miphas magic
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Link stares at the slate in his hand. The map almost empty. Like him. The world around, too large. The mission, overwhelming.
He takes a deep breath, and another. Another. Until his heart steadies again.
The map isn't empty. Neither is he. The slate shows the details of the great plateau. And that same plateau, over those last few days, let him know some of what he is.
His name is Link. He's handy in a fight. He has a knack for cooking. He doesn't like the cold. These are things he knows about himself now. The rest he'll figure out along the way.Series
- Part 1 of Blank Slate
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- English
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- 61,611
- Chapters:
- 19/19
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- 477
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- 1,840
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lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness by slipstream
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
21 Sep 2025
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"Hurry," says Impa, ancient and anxious.
"Hurry," says the ghost of a woman you've mostly forgotten.
The Master Sword burns in your hands as you pull, knees trembling and sweat slick between your shoulder blades.
(People keep telling you who you are, the hero you're destined to be. Eventually, you're going to prove them wrong.)
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After the end of everything, Link isn't the same person who left Ordon village to find his friends.
[Or, Link's journal in the months after the end of Twilight Princess.]
[For Linktober 2025, Shadow Edition.]
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- Part 1 of Living in the After
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I love character studies, and this is a great example. One of my favorite characterizations of Twilight Princess Link post-game so far, using prompts and the journal format to look at more and more implications of the events of the game and their effects on Link's mindset. Sometimes it's really about the small things.
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Wild and Wolf - [LU Complied 2025] by LostAndDowned
Fandom: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Oct 2025
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What it says on the tin. All my LU fics in 2025
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- 88,813
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- 27
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- 14
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rupees and rods by tendertendrils
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
14 Sep 2025
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Rupees and Rods
A Link/Ravio series with cheeky Dom Ravio and grumpy Sub Link.
How two hot messes found each other, fell into bed, and maybe, eventually, also fell in love.
The series starts during ALBW and follows the development of their relationship through the end of the game and beyond.
Major Tags: porn with feelings, frenemies to lovers to lifelong romantic partners, dom/sub dynamics, bondage, depression and ptsd, slow burn.
Link's personality and background were originally inspired by LU, but the series itself is not and will not be LU. This Link's games are A Link to the Past, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, Triforce Heroes, Link's Awakening, and A Link Between Worlds.
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Rupees and rods
Link and Ravio from Lorine
Bdsm, bunnies
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Muddled by Prince_Ash_28
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
11 Feb 2025
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This was not the gentle man who lay in bed with her when the nights threatened to swallow her whole. Not the man who was fond of Koroks, who children were expressly fond of, whose rare smile was biggest when he was eating a meal he adored.
This was the man who knew what it was to be truly alone, with not even memories to keep him company. The man who had conquered Blights, obliterated the Calamity and slain the Demon King.
This was the man Link had kept under lock and key from Zelda, untamed and wild.
Or: Zelda discovers Muddlebuds for the first time, and Link suffers its effects firsthand.
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Hunted by Depths
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Oct 2020
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All the monster camps would revive under a blood moon. Wild had gotten that drilled into him more than enough times to never forget it, to make it into common sense–– and yet the others are so ready to sleep in their pilfered camp for the night of the full moon.
Why weren't they listening to him? Didn't they understand how dangerous that was?
(Or: Wild has never seen a white full moon.)
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- Part 2 of Linked Universe Oneshots
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Honey Nut by liketolaugh
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game)
25 Mar 2022
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It turns out that the death of the Calamity doesn't prevent more things from falling apart.
A year after the fall of Calamity Ganon, eighteen year old Link goes back in time to before the end of the world, before the fall of Hyrule, before he ever even drew his sword, and starts to fix things before they can go wrong. It takes a while before he realizes he might be able to regain pieces of himself, too.
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- English
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- 156,979
- Chapters:
- 48/48
- Collections:
- 13
- Comments:
- 1,542
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- 4,240
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- 1,430
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- 157,269
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Shades of Blue by self_indulgent_authorship
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
03 Nov 2024
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Link's life is haunted by shades of blue.
Specifically, Sheikah blue. The shrines are blue. The towers are blue. The bombs are blue. His old tunic is blue...A Guardian's beam is blue.
Everything he can't remember is blue, and he hates it. He hates these half remembered fears, these vague spaces left behind by a tragedy he doesn't remember. He doesn't remember any of it, except a sense of something (someone) missing.
The voices all tell him he'll remember eventually. Eventually couldn't come soon enough.
(a.k.a., a behemoth fix-it which will eventually work its way through all of canon, with the addition of revalink. because I can)
(glacially slow updates, have mercy on me plz)
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- English
- Words:
- 324,830
- Chapters:
- 33/52
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- 1
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- 1,117
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- 1,942
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- 525
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- 85,322
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Read later
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The Repeating Cycle… Ends by l_OmegaInfinity_l
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), 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
24 Sep 2023
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BotW/AoC - As Zelda struggles to unlock her powers, an errant comment from Impa leads Terrako to attempt something drastic: bring forth another Zelda to ask for help. It fails... but has an unexpected consequence. Link, Zelda, and Impa now remember all of their lives, and how they've fought the same battle over and over. And they're over it. They're ending the cycle. Now.
Will include: Link taking no shit from Revali, Impa greatly relaxing her stance of propriety and tradition, and Zelda remembering how much fun her other lives could have.
Oh, and the characters of Breath of the Wild/Age of Calamity dealing with a Link, Zelda, and Impa who are officially done following the rules.
In other words: Chaos!
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- English
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- 34,642
- Chapters:
- 8/?
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 491
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- 2,605
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- 67,085
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King of the Fishing Hole by Ibijau
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
20 Nov 2019
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Ganondorf owns the Swamp Fishing Hole, a good way to stay near his aging mothers. It's quiet work.
Until the moon starts falling, and an odd child comes visiting.
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When It All Seems Hopeless and the Hero is Gone, I'll Be the Light in the Darkness by LupinandDaffodils
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Linked Universe - Fandom
13 Aug 2023
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The multiple incarnations of the Hero come together to save Hyrule when the intended Hero doesn't show up. But, it's not just the favored chosen of the Goddess who have to step up.
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Dark Link is a kid with a broken heart who struggles to find redemption in a world where his kind isn't welcome. Ravio only sees himself as a coward who will never be good enough. And Wild becomes a father to a bunch of chaos gremlins, which Warriors isn't happy about because he is supposed to be the father figure.
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Ever After by Tricksterburd
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
13 Mar 2023
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No Prince could hold the Power of the Goddess. So what was a kingdom to do when Death looms, and a Prince is born instead?
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The Chain aren't sure what to make of this new Hyrule. For one thing, the sky is red. And there are a lot of ruins.
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Being pulled away from home without a chance to even get to know it sucks. So does having intense flashbacks to a life not yours, and being a pawn in a cosmic game of dick measuring? Wild could do without.
-------Fic later leads to more adult themes, heavy physical and mental angst and anxiety. But eventually a happy ending. Reader discretion is highly advised.
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- Part 1 of Rightful Courage
- Language:
- English
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- 192,713
- Chapters:
- 23/23
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- 2
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- 332
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- 1,354
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2
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Linked universe
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CH 2
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to let our branches continue to reach by sllentprincess
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
06 Aug 2023
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After defeating the Demon King and not needing King Rauru's apparatus of light anymore, Link is left without his arm.
Now, he must find his place in a world in which he can no longer be a hero.
The journey is not easy as he battles his trauma; he prays that Zelda won't give up on him, though he's long given up on himself.
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- Part 2 of Tears of the Kingdom AUs
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んまあ？いいんじゃない？
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Awesome fic
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Friction Ridges by PennamePersona
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
29 May 2025
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He dreams of her taking his hand.
Holding it, yes, intertwining their fingers with dry skin and affection and calluses she’d shown him with fierce, grinning pride when they first developed on her perfect-soft-princess skin. Grasping his palm between both of hers, firmly but gently, as a reminder of every oath they’ve ever sworn.
And also—
His fingertips barely catching the edges of hers when she falls, and that slight friction ricocheting up his arm until it trembles and shatters and the splinters of his bones form the crest of a kingdom he’s been failing since the moment it actually mattered.
She takes his hand, and he lets her. Every single time, he lets her.
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- Part 3 of with my nerves exposed
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Short Fic
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In a mockery of recollection by Depths
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
18 Sep 2022
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Just a bunch of non-linear one-shots about link being feral. Every fic can technically be read as a standalone, though the linked universe ones will make more sense when read in order.
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- 46,574
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- 12
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- 617
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A House of Cards About to Fall by across-violet-skies (Glittercat34)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
18 Aug 2023
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“Wild.” Twilight firmly grabbed Wild’s shoulders, grounding him. “There’s nothing wrong with your cooking.”
“Then- then why-”
“Because you haven’t been eating.”
[title from "Ashtray" by Matt Pless]
["sequel" to When it Rains, it Pours. can be read as a standalone fic]Series
- Part 2 of Bread and Butter (LU)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,443
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 90
- Kudos:
- 1,000
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- 143
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A House of Cards About to Fall
by across-violet-skies (Glittercat34)
[Zelda - Linked Universe]Commented chapters: 6
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Broken Record by Shadow_Fandom_2008
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
22 Jul 2025
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Broken - having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order; having given up all hope, despairing.
Record - a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form.A broken record, someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance
-----Link did it. They won. The Demon King was dead. So why? Why did she send them back?
(Previously known as: Again and Again (Do it again, do it again).)
[Please do not use my work for AI. I do not give anyone permission to use this, or any of my works for AI.] -
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After Midna leaves link and he gets gifted the shadow crystal. He has a hard time settling back down to life in the village. He is hurting and is sad but has no idea how to help himself. Being a hero at such a young age takes a toll on the boy. He eventually finds comfort but it takes awhile.
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Chapter 9