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    Captured by a Cult searching for their "True" Hero. Shadow and Link have no one to rely on but each other.
    While they make it out alive? Or will the cult get their Hero in the end?
    Find out in this Whumptober 2025 story.

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    English
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    7,973
    Chapters:
    15/?
    Comments:
    9
    Kudos:
    27
    Hits:
    507
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    Bassicalllyyy the hero's companions / friends / lovers go to save them, as they've been kidnapped by all their villains.

    WARNINGS IN TAGS
    Another warning: This moves REALLY fast.

    Guys this is sad.. read at your own death wish

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,564
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    7
    Hits:
    95
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    A collection of whumpy and whump-adjacent drabbles and oneshots all in one place. AU's span the Townhouse AU to omega!Sky and literally everything in-between, 2024 and onward.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    17,938
    Chapters:
    12/?
    Comments:
    68
    Kudos:
    86
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    2,365
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    The truth was, they hadn't intended it to go like this.

    It sounds dumb, stupid, shortsighted, ill-considered, when they put it like that, but it's the truth.

    They'd intended to be around the campfire, maybe, and finally give in to the nagging of their parts, or perhaps the incessant bickering in their head would spill over when they finally got fed up, or perhaps they would be dropped in a dungeon with only one or two of the others and be forced to reveal the truth to get out.
    But they hadn't ever seriously considered that they may have to do so in the middle of a fight.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    665
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    9
    Kudos:
    35
    Bookmarks:
    1
    Hits:
    135
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    Legend is a guide without a bonded Sentinel, and he's quite happy that way, thank you very much. He's a nomad, a stopgap, filling in for injured guides until they're healed or replaced and having adventures of his own when the military doesn't need him.
    And then he goes and gets assigned to the Chain.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    28,741
    Chapters:
    6/?
    Comments:
    86
    Kudos:
    185
    Bookmarks:
    33
    Hits:
    2,220
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    Wind is no stranger to monsters.

    Two adventures taught him more than any boy ought to know about them. About the way they fight, the way they think. About what it takes to make a monster.

    This third adventure wants to test that. All across time there are monsters that are worse than they ought to be. Stronger. Smarter. Faster. Harder and harder to kill.

    Still, Wind is no stranger to monsters. Which is why when a ninth Link joins the Chain, he knows that there is something… wrong.

    Something very, very wrong.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    87,790
    Chapters:
    28/?
    Comments:
    1,479
    Kudos:
    656
    Bookmarks:
    140
    Hits:
    17,057
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    Yet another angsty collection of Linked Universe short stories for the month of October! Using a mix of the whumptober and ai-less whumptober prompts this year :)

    ———

    Currently playing: Day 10: “what were you thinking?!” - Wind, Sky, Wild, Linebeck, & others

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    26,553
    Chapters:
    8/?
    Comments:
    52
    Kudos:
    110
    Bookmarks:
    8
    Hits:
    1,360
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    Legend is on vacation, at least he was supposed to be. He did not think his attempt to avoid another adventure, would result in him getting mistaken for a villain. Unfortunately, Ravio is stuck with him. At least he knows how to act his way through most situations.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,489
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    10
    Kudos:
    78
    Bookmarks:
    15
    Hits:
    319
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    Four is content with his life. He has friends that he loves dearly, a family business that's getting by, and never lacks for company when he lives in shades of self. Four is not lonely, and he certainly does not need a familiar.

    Or: playingforward's LU Halloween Special 2025.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,366
    Chapters:
    1/3
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    7
    Kudos:
    22
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    101
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    Modern Streaming AU

    All our favorite Links in a modern setting, streaming themselves in NSFW content.

    Mix of genderbent and not genderbent characters.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    55,019
    Chapters:
    43/?
    Comments:
    4
    Kudos:
    153
    Bookmarks:
    25
    Hits:
    24,892
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    Twilight pathetically tries, "This ain't what it looks like."

    Time locks eyes with the Rancher and then, pointedly, looks down at the thrashing child in his arms.

    "No, I think it is."

     

    [or: sheepdog twilight rounds up heroes part two: electric boogaloo]

    [or: Or: Shadow is taken to his kidnapper's lair. His boyfriend(?) is there. More at ten]

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,747
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    18
    Kudos:
    120
    Bookmarks:
    16
    Hits:
    532
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    Nayru sends the Hero of the Four Sword to the Chain. Except, as far as the Chain understood, they had already been traveling with said hero.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,152
    Chapters:
    1/?
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    20
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    162
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    Just a few silly doodles I've already posted on Tumblr and which received a good reception, so maybe you will like them too.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    33
    Chapters:
    26/?
    Comments:
    89
    Kudos:
    219
    Bookmarks:
    10
    Hits:
    1,822
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    Warriors's face is deliberately calm. "They're both very high in Iron, is all."

    "Iron," Four repeats uncomprehendingly.

    Warriors asks, "How quickly can we make it to Hateno, Wild?"

    "Uh--" Wild pokes at his slate. "Two days? One, if we hurry."

    "I do not want to hurry," Wind voices.

    Warriors thins his lips. "We might not have a choice."

     

    [or: days after his first blood moon, four goes into heat. these two points are not unrelated.]

    [Or: or: your typical "blood moon revives shadow" except it's whumptober, my a/b/o series needs updating, and i am feeling particularly cruel. enjoy!]

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,792
    Chapters:
    1/5
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    8
    Kudos:
    29
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    299
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    At night, something familiar watches Four from the shadows.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    527
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    9
    Kudos:
    17
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    147
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    The curse doesn't take hold anywhere but his own Hyrule and, upon learning this, things had changed. Slowly, but they did. And, since then? It could, quite possibly, be said that he's been slacking a little bit about it. Just a hair.

    Still, how was he supposed to expect this to happen just from bleeding a bit on some glass?

    Hyrule stares and regrets his choices.

     

    [or: Hyrule blood-curses a very pathetic Shadow back to life. More at nine]

    [or: Or: Day one of Whumptober! and I'm posting for two of Day 3's prompts: Isolation and Candlelight]

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,383
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    87
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    336
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    Exactly what it says on the tin. 30 days of sickfics and hurt/comfort!

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    45,455
    Chapters:
    30/30
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    156
    Kudos:
    164
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
    5,562
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    Kinky tales from after they all get to go home.

    Heed the tags

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    22,353
    Chapters:
    41/?
    Comments:
    6
    Kudos:
    180
    Bookmarks:
    16
    Hits:
    24,906
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    (Title up for change)
    They had been camping out in an in-between era after clearing a dungeon the night before. Near the end of the boss fight, the strange wizzrobe-like monster had hit the group with a spell. Hyrule had checked all of them over and found nothing so they had brushed it off as nothing. Legend wasn’t so sure anymore.

    or

    Linked Universe body swap AU

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,177
    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
    6
    Kudos:
    47
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    388
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    Side Stories to Playing the Wrong Color that may or may not be canon to the fic.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    349
    Chapters:
    1/?
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    13
    Hits:
    70

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