14 Works by AshleysWrittenWords
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Meaning Nothing and Everything by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
01 Sep 2025
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Queen Zelda lived a life that she had always took in strides. She was fluent in six languages, an expert in anthropology and diplomacy, and more media savvy than Hyrule's most infamous celebrities. However time is a cruel mistress and the falling dominos of her reign become closer to crushing weights. Even with the loyalty of her lead bodyguard by her side, not even he can stop a wayward prince from asking for her hand in front of the country's most illustrious politicians.
After all, splitting the crown meant half the weight.
(Can be read alone, but the works prior give insights to their chemistry)Series
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Growing Pains (and Other Oddities of Life) by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Stardew Valley (Video Game)
31 Aug 2025
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There's life after death and it comes from in a yellow manila envelope.
What happens when you don't talk to your dad for ten years and then all of a sudden he's dead? Zelda doubts that there's a right answer. Now she's running around a 5 acre farm that hadn't grown anything in over a decade. The townspeople are odd (that hadn't change), there's a cowboy down the road that doesn't know when to leave her alone, and an itch to do better and be better. The only thing that's stopping her is a shallow watering can and vengeful crows.
One of these days Zelda will figure out if she made the right choice.
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Running through the Woods (Back to You) by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Robin Hood (1973)
04 Sep 2024
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Link Woods was born fighting for survival. His father left nothing but hazy memories when he left to fight for Hyrule long ago. His mother succumbed to illness, leaving a boy to become a man before his time. His little hometown, Hateno, was a shell of itself. Buckled under the weight of mounting taxes to support a foreign war, Link and his brethren fight to keep the townsfolk's spirits bright by looting, thieving, and stealing everything they can get their hands on.
That is, until the crown's royal advisor travels to town on his cross-country tour, and the stakes become higher when Link's childhood lover Lady Zelda returns home.
(In other words, I rip off Disney's Robin Hood and make it an AU Zelink fic because I can.)
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Infirmity by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
19 Jan 2022
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He must have only felt whispers of her because after the conflict she was beyond anything he could have expected.
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How To Be A Queen by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
13 Jan 2022
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[ZeLink] Princess Zelda is at a loss. Her handed royal responsibilities have begun to weigh heavily on her and she is eventually backed into a corner. Live a life she loathes or run away from everything she's ever known? Navigating life is hard, and Link forces her to learn that she doesn't have to do it alone.
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Correlation Doesn’t Imply Causation by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
17 Apr 2021
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Our heroes made a home of their humble house in Hateno and by being the newest addition to the town, the townspeople are going to do what they love: gossip and make their own assumptions.
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A commission for @truffeart on Tumblr from almost a year ago. I just loved it too much to not have on AO3.
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The Queen's Tournament by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
30 Sep 2020
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Princess Zelda is ready for her coronation. Her court, however, is not. In an effort for a King, the ministers pressure the crown princess into agreeing to marry whoever champions in a tournament any man in the kingdom can participate in.
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Old fic that I edited to post on ao3.
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Subtleties of a Suitor by AshleysWrittenWords for intangibly_yours
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
22 Aug 2020
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Pre-calamity AU where Zelda’s powers awaken in time, but not everything is back to normal after Calamity Ganon is defeated.
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She paused her pen strokes and glared at the page, willing herself to connect thoughts to words and words to paper."We don’t meet anymore, we haven’t since before the monster was sealed away. Even though the night prior haunted my dreams for weeks following my expressed wishes to cease these small moments of privacy. No matter how sweet and innocent they could be. As you know, in my heart of hearts I can’t bind him to me when-"
When Zelda could never be his. When, in times of great enlightenment and prosperity, their fates have crossed and her father now sees him only as a valuable combatant in his army. When destinies have been fulfilled and they were no use to one another.
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Telling Lies and Late Night Drives by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
26 Jun 2020
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“We’re talking about the future King of Hyrule,” she was dead serious, but a glint in her eye made him stifle a grin so he could match her demeanor. “The last time a checked your file, it said you were a Hyrulean citizen. Unless that’s changed, that means you are fully entitled to have an opinion and I wish to know it to appease my constituency.”
In which Zelda's bodyguard helps her cope with gossip in strange ways.
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Another installment of "Tales of the Royal Close Protection Service (RCPS)"! Can be read separately.Series
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Top Secret Mission by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
11 Jun 2020
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She was a workaholic, even if she would never outright admit it. And he, a very much self-aware workaholic, could sympathize with her discomfort in how blank her schedule was. Nothing about her changed, even how formally she dressed for work despite not seeing anyone of importance.
So, when the door opened and he saw a tee shirt and jeans instead of a white blouse and black skirt, he was promptly thrown off.
---Another installment of "Tales of the Royal Close Protection Service (RCPS)"! Can be read separately.
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The Bitterness of Almost Making It by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
03 Jun 2020
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Hadn’t this trip to southern Hyrule been nothing but a tour? The Queen’s biannual trek across the country – an activity she would normally be looking forward to. Especially when a dear friend would be meeting with her in days’ time. An arrow cut through the air and passed her shoulder.
No, Zelda decided, she’d die by then.
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Boyfriend Jeans by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
31 May 2020
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“I think I just ripped my pants.”
Her bodyguard mirrored her wide-eyed stare.
It was the bloody Bloody Marys, because of course it had to be. It wasn’t even noon on the pier walkway of south Necluda and the Queen of Hyrule ripped her pants next to a public bathroom.
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The beginning of my "Tales from the Royal Close Protection Service (RCPS)" series! Can be read separately.Series
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Trials and Tribulations by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
16 Mar 2020
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The hero has successfully saved Hyrule from Calamity Ganon, but there’s a lingering problem that he desperately wants to abandon - the princess.
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Friday Nights in Apartment 407 by AshleysWrittenWords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
02 Feb 2020
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Zelda and Link are co-stars on a popular television show. Every Friday night they take time to read through the script for the next week with reality TV and a smidge of alcohol. This time, however, Link is acting strange. (Please comment!)