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Head of Gold, Heart in the Clouds by onthearrow
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
02 May 2025
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“Link! You’re hurt!”
“I’m fine, Sid—”
“In the mouth of a demon dragon? Absolutely not, you were nearly crunched!” Sidon whirls around. “Quickly! Does somebody have a healing elixir for His Majesty?”
His Majesty.
His Majesty.
And that’s when Zelda realizes—it’s not her Sidon and the Royal Guard are addressing.
It’s Link.
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Six months after the Upheaval, a weakened and dismayed Link appears in Zora's Domain.
With no sign of Zelda, Impa follows the wish of Hyrule's previous sovereign, and names him king.
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- English
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- 24/24
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- 1,178
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02 May 2025
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nearer, my god, to thee by flowerpower
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Dec 2023
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Link finally understands that it isn’t him who has absorbed this kingdom into his bloodstream—it is the kingdom, it is her, and she is surrounding him, swallowing him whole.
A tent in a forest, a summer night full of stars, and two people who have always been part of the wild.
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- English
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- 11,520
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 365
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- 7,720
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20 Jul 2024
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A work exploring the events that took place before the calamity- detailing Link's chaotic ascendance into the royal guard, his first meetings with each of the champions, Zelda, and the people who raised him. [Complete!]
"Link tossed the sword down. It stayed upright, embedded into the dirt and mud. He wanted to tell her just how desperately he’d wanted to reject it and put it back into its pedestal. The way he ran and lied, and was still lying. King Rhoam was the one who insisted the truth be buried, but Link didn’t utter a word of protest. He may have come clean, but he had no intention of coming clean to all of Hyrule.
He felt he didn’t owe Hyrule anything.But the question remained, just how much did he owe Zelda?"
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- English
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- 242,228
- Chapters:
- 28/28
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- 4
- Comments:
- 1,196
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- 4,316
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06 May 2024
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Fin de siècle by luftballons99
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
30 Oct 2023
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The house plunges into silence like a sword into stone. But even if she can't hear it call out to her, she can feel it, that pull through time, an itch to be at Link's side, totally, selfishly. Suddenly she realizes it's not power. It's something worse. And it's been something worse the whole time.
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- Part 1 of Fin de siècle
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16 Apr 2024
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Should’ve Been Me by kermitenjoyer123
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
17 Dec 2023
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“Is there not something between you? Was there ever?”
‘He thought he could handle it. He thought he could deal with being her ‘friend’, he nearly spits the word out; as Zelda loved another.
He realizes he can’t. He realizes this is the worst punishment Hylia could have conjured.’
Zelda, after years of dropping hints - decides to move on. Now potentially being courted by another, Link can’t bear to see the sight of Zelda with somebody else. However, this may turn in his favor as another adventure promises the two a chance to reconnect. Post TOTK. Spoilers ahead!
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16 Apr 2024
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Love Stayed With Me by 1UpGirl1
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
12 Oct 2023
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His heart doesn’t need to be told. It’s known for a while now:
Zelda is gone, and Link cannot follow.
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06 Apr 2024
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Advent by ClaraAeri for OmegaZeta5
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
10 Dec 2023
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A study in escapism, and inevitability.
"Give me a reason to," she snaps, finally grasping her Slate.
"They're my memories."
Zelda looks at him. Takes in his knit forehead and the desperation she's never seen in him until now. She swallows, struggling to keep her voice from trembling as she whispers, "They're mine, too, Link."
His heavy gaze dips, and for a moment, the crackle of her fallen torch is all there is. The seconds tick by. Five. Five more precious seconds he's stealing from her.
That she's letting him steal from her.
Then, his eyes lift, and he says:
"Let's make a deal."
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- English
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- 41,481
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 188
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- 1,005
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18 Dec 2023
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tears through a white lace veil by flowerpower
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
28 Jun 2023
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“I’m real,” she says, regardless of whether she truly believes it or not. “I’m scared I’d disappear, too,” she confesses. “But when you touch me, I feel real.”
Zelda's homecoming in Akkala.
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14 Dec 2023
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The Legend Says I Love You by housewolves
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
30 Jun 2022
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Zelda doesn't believe in soulmates; Zelda barely even believes in herself. That is, until Link turns up with a sword strapped to his back, heralding the end of times. Now, they must work together to prevent the fall of Hyrule and rise of Calamity Ganon. But, the task proves as tricky as expected, especially when Zelda feels like she's falling faster than her Kingdom...and perhaps in a way she never expected to.
Pre-game (and post-game, eventually) fic centred around Link's memories and what might've happened in between them.
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23 Aug 2023
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and I'm holy by my own by spacebeyonce
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
11 Jul 2021
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She can feel fingers comb through her dirty hair, a voice trying to soothe her, but Zelda can’t stop crying, no matter how hard she tries.
No, don’t, she tries to say, don’t, you shouldn’t touch me, I’m wrong – something’s broken.
or: a post-calamity exploration into religious trauma
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- Part 1 of goodness and mercy shall follow me
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- English
- Words:
- 55,871
- Chapters:
- 4/4
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- 2
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- 60
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- 685
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12 Aug 2023
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One Knight by DeiliaMedlini
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
25 Oct 2022
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Princess Zelda's life is about to change with the upcoming appointment of her own personal Knight. Taking her final days of freedom into her own hands, she heads off to an inn where she can listen to music, breathe some air, and see the people she's protecting with her sacrifices. But when Zelda hits it off with a handsome young soldier who helps her out of a dispute-- someone who's own life is coincidently about to change in a drastic way-- they decide that the night might be better spent together than alone.
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06 Jul 2023
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In nearly every way (except the most notable), the Princess of Hyrule was the Goddess incarnate. For that reason alone, it was a little ingenious for the King to offer up his daughter’s hand to whoever was able to pull the sword.
Link hadn’t meant to pull the sword. He planned to watch as his comrades pulled with all their might, perhaps even tease a few about how it was all for the better that the sword didn’t budge, because surely no Princess could ever love their ugly mugs, and then get into a good old-fashioned wrestling match with their bruised egos after one too many jokes. But it hadn’t mattered what he had in mind; Link’s plans be damned. The Goddess had already plucked him out of obscurity and set him along Her own path.
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- English
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- 130,687
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- 19/19
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- 1,238
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03 Jul 2023
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“I haven’t…” she starts, watches his blue eyes narrowed in concern and it’s distracting, everything’s distracting. “I haven’t had a body in a hundred years,” Zelda manages, and shrugs one shoulder, as if to say what can you do? “I was Hylia, mostly, and a little bit me, but I wasn’t a person. I was the sun and the wind and the water and the dirt and I was in a prison and I was the prison. I feel like I’m blindfolded, now, without that sense of the world, but also everything is so bright and loud and close and I hardly know how I’m managing to speak to you when my skin is feeling wind for the first time in a century. It’s…” she trails off, her words failing her, which is infuriating because she’s a scholar, she’s good at words. “It’s a lot,” she finishes awkwardly, for lack of anything better to say.
Or: Learning to be a person again, after the end.
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- Part 1 of Something So Magic About You
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- English
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- 130,850
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- 22/22
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- 1,046
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03 Jul 2023
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“Sleep is a daunting task,” he confesses quietly, fingertips tracing the silky scales down her back, “when one fears he’s already dreaming.”
Her breath catches for a moment. This close, he feels it as if it were his own.
“You fear waking up back in the Tower,” she whispers, the sorrow in her voice like a knife through this chest.
Or: the "some days later", and what comes before them.
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- Part 2 of starwoven
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05 Oct 2021
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The Warrior of Light delivers his final piece of precious cargo from the First to it's destination.
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08 Aug 2021
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A reprieve and G'raha Tia finally gets everything he wished for.
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23 Jun 2021
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G'raha Tia gets a letter from Ilsabard. His father is dying.
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- Part 12 of A’chago Tia, Warrior of Light
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23 Jun 2021
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“None of us were prepared for the spectacle that awaited us when we first stepped into the tower [...] and there, at its center, we found him.”
G’raha Tia wakes to a world devastated by the Eighth Umbral Calamity. The engineers of the Ironworks have a plan to right the wrongs committed centuries earlier - but can G’raha work past his own fear, doubt, and sorrow? Can he claim what is his by bloodright and see this plan through to completion?
Can he save his Warrior of Light?
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- English
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- 298,215
- Chapters:
- 84/84
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20 Jun 2021
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“Is a love unrequited not the purest form in the world?” Ares asked, pointedly. “To love unbidden, knowing that you will receive nothing in return. To love purely because there is no other option, unsullied by discontent and ulterior forces. Tell me, Thanatos, is that not good?"
Or, Thanatos is in love, and does not know how to say it. Zagreus is too busy trying to undermine his father to stop and listen.
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- English
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- 66,348
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 192
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17 May 2021
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One would think that a god as old as the very existence of humanity would someday run out of new sensations to experience.
This was not entirely true.
Thanatos deals with feeling sexual desire for the first time in his life and confronts his complete and total lack of knowledge on this front. Zagreus tries to help, but is mostly baffled that Than has never come, like, ever?
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- Part 1 of New Behaviors
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11 May 2021