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Link and Zelda's Paranormal Investigations by Snowyflakes (Schneeflakes)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
29 Nov 2025
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It's two in the morning at the Stock Pot Inn, and for some reason Mr. Barten has the bar open. “I think I need to be somewhere else,” Link says at last, and he gets the feeling like he’s echoing that. Hasn’t he said that before? Gotten that feeling?
Stupid déjà vu. Didn’t he get rid of that?
Mr. Barten’s sympathetic expression is a hard slap though. “You always find your way back to her one way or another,” Mr. Barten assures him. He smiles a bit devilishly at Link, and Link can’t help but think there’s something sleekit about it. He doesn’t like it. “She can wait. Don’t you like whisky?” Mr. Barten asks. “You look like a whisky man.”
“As long as it’s without the ‘e’,” says Link.
“Oh, I would never serve you whiskey,” Mr. Barten promises. “I know what regions you like.” Whatever bizarre stupor Link’s in shatters at that, and Link numbly rises from his seat and steps back from the bar. He TOLD Zelda that this better not be some super spooky supernatural crap. Link's had enough of that to last a lifetime.
Sequel to Link and Midna's - the one shots in between on the series aren't crucial.
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- Part 6 of Link and Midna's Investigative Services
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A Wild Rainbow by Sleepyyyyboi
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
21 Nov 2025
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With the Master Sword once again rejecting him, Link spends some time in he Korok forest. He came all the way, and the little one’s always seemed to like it when he visited so, what was the harm?
It never occurred to him that maybe it wasn’t the Master Sword he was destined to wield.
Deep in the forest within a forgotten temple, a sword of sleeping power awoke. It’s call heard by a new hero, to wield against evil once more.
May the four sword serve you well.
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- Part 1 of Wild Color
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Closed Sicilian by Snowyflakes (Schneeflakes)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
15 Nov 2025
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Midna Dahl gets the sense that she is on the precipice of something, feet hanging over the drop precariously. She just doesn't know what, but she can smell it.
"How do you even put up with him?” Midna admits, “It’s definitely not like I haven’t thought about dumping his body off in the river.”
Zelda smiles brightly and says, “Ah, I suppose it’s easy when you’ve known them since forever.”
And Midna just thinks Link and Zelda are frickin' weird. She’s not sure if it’s related to the big something though. “You’re being weird,” she accuses Zelda. Zelda doesn’t even blink when Midna storms by and whips the front door open. “I’m out,” she tells Zelda. As Zelda gives her a quiet “Okay, see you,” Midna snaps, dragging the door behind her, “I’ll figure it out!”
Midna does, but that doesn’t happen for about another year after Link starts coming back stupid late from his Monday talk therapy sessions. That annoys Midna to no end, because she’s over here starving.
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- Part 5 of Link and Midna's Investigative Services
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Waiting by Snowyflakes (Schneeflakes)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
15 Nov 2025
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Link spends his days waiting in the late summer of 1917. He’s got not much else going on, honestly. He can hobble his way down to the park and wait, or he could wait in a bread line, or he could wait at the flat for his next disability and maintenance checks to come. So yep, Link decides that he might as well go and wait somewhere scenic like the park.
Link looks over at Ravio, accusingly almost. “You know that I walk here, sit around for a long time, and yet you judge me for not having anything else to do?” He counters, “I could ask the same of you then.”
Ravio tilts his head to one side. “Ehh…” Ravio hesitates. He sucks on the cigarette. “It’s just a job,” he says vaguely. He looks over at Link and asks, “But hey, you do a lot of waiting yourself, don't you?”
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- Part 4 of Link and Midna's Investigative Services
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In the Tower of Memories by KoaBoa36
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
10 Nov 2025
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Link walks with the guilt of everything that has happened, the loss of the champions, and still struggles with his memories, Raurus' arm, and losing the Master Sword and Zelda again.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 811
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 51
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Legal's Trap by Snowyflakes (Schneeflakes)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
03 Nov 2025
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Zelda’s mother hates Link’s guts, but Link had thought he and the old man got along. With the chess board between them, Link is currently reconsidering this.
Link glowers at Nohansen. “Zelda gets that same stupid smirk when she thinks she’s got the upper hand,” Link tells him, which sets the old man off again in new bubbles of laughter.
When his laughter finally subsides enough, Nohansen asks him, “I take it, then, that you’re calling it?”
Link throws his hands up.
Zelda's mother hates Link's guts, but hey, at least the old man likes Link.
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- Part 3 of Link and Midna's Investigative Services
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6 January 1923 by Snowyflakes (Schneeflakes)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
26 Oct 2025
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He just asks Zelda, “You want to play cards Saturday? You should make a deal though under the table with Ashei, or she’ll clean you out.”
“The sixth?”
“Whatever it is.”
“It’s Mikau’s week, right?”
“… You keep track of that?”
And on the sixth, Link forgets how close to fire he is playing. “Gods, you men are so stupid,” says Midna, unwittingly to the rescue. Partially. “Does no one listen to me?” Link would prefer they don't in this specific instance. Can he just get out of here without being interrogated? Midna’s making it very hard.
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- Part 2 of Link and Midna's Investigative Services
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An Eternity Of Pain And Suffering… For What? by cvpid_mxxn
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
16 Oct 2025
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Link and Revali are constantly fighting (in the gay way), Urbosa is still missing her ex, Mipha and Zelda are frustrated, and Daruk is just Daruk.
Basically angst turned crack turned fluff turned angst again turned even more crack and some much needed fluff. (that repeats a lot more, trust me.)
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That feeling when a giant bird harasses you by Linkshusband
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
16 Oct 2025
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“Are you proud of yourself? I leave for six months, you watched me travel from sky to land, by the way, and you still have the audacity to do this to me??” Link asked the bird in complete half-awake bewilderment.
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or: Very eeepy Link gets lovingly harassed by Zelda's loftwing and a shit ton of envelopes -
The Hero Family: Blood Of The Coven by Angelic_Haven
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
10 Oct 2025
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To the public, a group of vigilante's has come to get justice for the people of Greater Hyrule. Mysterious heroes doing the wrong thing for the right reason. They see their children being returned home, their parents being freed from horrible conditions, and friends being saved from what goes bump in the night. To the public, there are angels that fell from Hylia's Court in order to protect them.
To the criminal underground there are rumors that the boogeyman has a family.
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Link is a common enough nickname in Greater Hyrule. Is it really surprising that there's a criminal group almost entirely comprised of men that go by that name?
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- Part 1 of Angelic's Works In Progress
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The Legend of Zelda: Fate's Design by Opal223
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Legend of Zelda
22 Sep 2025
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It's been a few years since Link and Midna saved Hyrule from Ganondorf and Zant. Link is now a highly regarded nobleman thanks to his heroic actions on behalf of the kingdom, and many Hylians can't help but obsess over Link's personal life, which has been riddled with failed relationships. He still has the Shadow Crystal to attain his canine abilities at will, but when the Shadow Crystal shatters and he is stuck in his wolf form, what is he to do?
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"How powerful a love like that must be; to easily transcend the barrier between life and death...How lost and unsure she must feel…of her worth or sense of being, perhaps? Maybe I would feel the same way had I lost Ilia to death or someone else precious to me? The only difference is...I have never been in love..."
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Behind The Mask by Tnut2209
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
21 Sep 2025
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Link had been having panic attacks ever since he drew the Master Sword, but no one knew about them. Why? He was an expert at hiding all traces of them from the outside world.
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The way you breathe; suffocates the air by PerenniallyAMenace (NotoriouslyAMenace) for wolfen_artz
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
01 Aug 2025
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After years of slumber, the hero has awakened.
But the forces that brought him back to life were not something one would expect them to be, not when the world Link is supposed to fight for wants him nothing more than gone. With a sword that doesn't want to acknowledge him as his master he has to face the danger alone, hoping for the best to survive and save his princess.
But the time is slowly running out and beyond that Link's desperate to find an answer to a sole question that's always there with him: Who he even is?
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Or, respectfully: this story is me going "What if..." and acting on it. I don't bear any responsibilities when it comes to tormenting one's mentality /lh /gen
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Zelda Hates Link (But she actually just wants to kiss him) by facelessthing
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
23 Jul 2025
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I really don’t know what I’m doing, it’s late at night, and I need to sleep.
Zelda hates him. She hates his face, the way he stands, the way he doesn’t talk, the way he’s so handsome and good at everything, and she especially hates that sword on his back. She hates how he is a monument to her failure, and yet he never leaves her side. She hates him with every fiber of her being.
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Phantom Love by NothingIWontGive
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
20 Jul 2025
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Link had lost all his memories, yet he remembered lives he had not lived.
Over his quest to save Zelda from Calamity Ganon, between defeating Guardians and Lynels, Link remembered...
Nothing of this life.
At least nothing that would help him. He remembered the barely adult woman he served. Remembered their friendship. He didn't remember all of it, but he could remember that he loved her. Like a feisty younger sister.
Zelda was such an intelligent young woman, and Link was proud to serve her. Yet he did not remember feeling any sort of feeling further than familial.
Not like he did when he remembered the lives he did not live.
The only thing he could even slightly make out on why he had these visions was the strange liquid he was stored in. It had allowed him to stay as himself, as a twenty-something man, for way longer than he would have otherwise. Stored him away from the world until he was ready to defeat the Calamity, trapping Zelda away from her kingdom.
Odd memories of such beautiful lives he was not living.
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die your daughter by wtfmanhahaha (orphan_account)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
14 Jul 2025
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Zelda’s hands were clenched in her lap, fingernails red where they dug into skin.
“I’m trying,” she said. Her voice cracked. “I’m trying so hard.”
Link stood a few feet away, silent as always. He looked at her like he might speak, but he never did. She both hated and loved that about him.
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“Time? I’m sorry, oh Gods, we gotta get you outta the snow. Some uh’ the others are tarpin’ up a little alcove we found. Can you move?”
Time considers it for a moment. He wants to say yes, absolutely, everything is fine. He wants to pretend like the numbness creeping through his extremities isn’t worrying at all. The pain flaring up and down his arm and crossing his rib cage like small little jolts of lightning building up in his bones? Nothing to be concerned about.
It would all be delicious little lies, of course, and as tempting as they would taste, he can’t help but feel they’d turn to ash the moment he tried to prove any of it. And then Twilight would give him that look of his. All wide eyes and fear, laced within an unamused glare.
The chain finds themselves in a new Hyrule, only to be caught off guard when their new Link has a few extra extremities.
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Such Is the Destiny of a Failed Hero by anxiety_infected_almond
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
30 Jun 2025
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Skyward Sword AU set 1000 years in the future where link is eternally cursed to stand guard at the Sealed Temple and perpetually defeat and seal away The Imprisoned over and over again as punishment for what he did. Still a work in progress so please be patient :3
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Link, that isn't normal by TheQueenOfBubbles
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
13 Jun 2025
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Got bored one night, started writing down ideas and thought it be funny to try and find a way to explain why Link/Links can do so much crazy shit that we write off as "Oh, that's just game logic" but to the denizens of Hyrule, they live both in fear and respect of what this creature even is.
For context, Link knows and has both his champion abilities and Rauru abilities at the same time. It will get WILDLY overexaggerated, you'll see what I mean. -
Whispers of love long past, and love still present by 346_rats_in_a_trenchcoat
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
10 Jun 2025
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Link is pushing himself past his limits to help the domain.
Sidon just wants to help his lover.