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   The Legend of Link: Zelda’s Turn by Metatextual

   Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild  

   • General Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M
   • Complete Work

   16 Mar 2020

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
   • Mipha/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
   • Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
   • Link (Legend of Zelda)
   • King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule
   • aka worst dad ever
   • Urbosa (Legend of Zelda)
   • Prince Sidon
   • Mipha (Legend of Zelda)
   • Revali (Legend of Zelda)
   • Teba (Legend of Zelda)
   • Saki (Legend of Zelda)
   • Riju (Legend of Zelda)
   • Daruk (Legend of Zelda)
   • Yunobo (Legend of Zelda)
   • Great Deku Tree (Legend of Zelda)
   • Behold! An au
   • playable Zelda
   • the zelink is more or less implied until later in the story
   • but it is there
   • will add tags as I go along
   • reverse au
   • where Zelda got put in the shrine instead
   • so Hylia was like ‘oh for the love of me- FINE you be the hero now’
   • id tag major character death but the champions are already dead so...
   • I find it hilarious that Zelda is the title character but not the playable one THEREFORE
   • Link is now the title character and Zelda is the playable one
   • Nintendo pay me already
   • Angst
   • oh allll the angst
   • im an evil evil writer
   • Bisexual Zelda
   • why isn’t that a tag?? Cowards
   • Selectively Mute Link (Legend of Zelda)
   • We’re ignoring canon travel times folks
   • because i do not feel like doing math
   • Sign Language
   • the signs in this are based on ASL just so y’all know
   • SHIP TAGS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO BE MORE RELEVANT
   • that’s right folks Zelda has two hands
   • also i took one look at the sappiness of chapter 4 and was like ‘not wasting THAT’
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Slow Burn
   • the slowest burn
   • idk how to write romance speedily
   • Now comes with FREE Gay Angst!
   • or as I like to call it
   • gangst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Alive Champions (Legend of Zelda)
   • i have been WAITING to add that tag
   • I REPEAT THE CHAMPIONS ARE ALIVE
   • Happy Ending
   • i swear!!

   Summary

   Or, “The Great Switcheroo”

   When the Calamity struck, Princess Zelda and her loyal knight fled- but just as her holy power awoke, Zelda was struck down. Link’s next, desperate move was to send her to the Shrine of Resurrection and use the Master Sword as a makeshift lock, placing Calamity Ganon in an endless standoff until the princess could return.

   One hundred years later, a girl emerges from the shrine with no memory and only the guidance of a strange, quiet voice and an old man who seems to consider it his job to be annoyingly cryptic. Will she fight and win, or will she fall, and take the rest of Hyrule with her?

   Series

   • Part 1 of Zelda Time, Baby

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   73,485

   Chapters:

   9/9

   Comments:

   124

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   537

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   07 Aug 2023

   Bookmarker's Tags:

   • Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)

   Bookmarker's Notes

   zelink fic reverse canon character roles, will read when im not so sleeby eeby