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L'énamourée by 1UpGirl1 for softlie
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
23 Dec 2023
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She loves him quietly, in the way sacred things are meant to be loved.
And though she loves him in shadow, her love is anything but quiet—it’s a snowstorm howling against her at every waking moment, an ocean reaching up into the endless sky before it crashes against her and drags her into the undertow. The rage of the wind as it parses through the willows and a volcano on the precipice of eruption as the ground trembles beneath it. And in spite of all things, the bloom inside of her is kept secluded, tucked away in the deepest part of her being where she and only she can find it.
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- 19,958
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15 Dec 2023
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05 Aug 2023
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Traces of You, Between my Freezing Fingers by CommanderGoo
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
19 Jul 2023
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She's there. She's right there and yet so infuriatingly far away. Every moment with her is agony, but he keeps coming back, he can't think of anything else to do.
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Traces of Time by Ganonfan_1995 (plasticsummer)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
24 Jun 2023
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* General spoilers for ToTK *
After Ganondorf tricks the Queen of Hyrule and causes her untimely demise, Zelda is once again transported back in time, 40 years prior to Sonia's murder.
This time, she finds herself in a land before Hyrule, enveloped in fear and unrest as monsters plague from below, while neglectful "Gods" reign from above.
As the tremors of the earth worsen day by day, it falls upon Ganondorf to safeguard the well-being of his people and the city of Gerudo. Negotiations between the young hero king and a masked sky deity give rise to a lifelong rivalry between the two, and Zelda uncovers a horrifying truth about her kingdom's origins.
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24 Jun 2023
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Fragmentation by 1UpGirl1 for Kokorokai
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
01 Jan 2023
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“What is it that you want, Link?” It's a searing lick of a flame against his ear, his name painted with darkling strokes in a way that tugs gooseflesh up from beneath his skin.
“I want…” he starts softly, lips hardly even meeting. Even in hesitation, his voice runs smoothly over her, tugs at the last traces of resolve, and she waits for the bloom of detonation in the palm of his hand. “I want… I want….” She catches sight of the faintest trace of a y forming at trembling lips. He’s beautiful, so achingly beautiful; resilience withers and leaves desperation fraying his edges, and Zelda thinks she might fade away when she draws to the realization for the first time—Link loves her.
He’s in love with her.
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07 Jan 2023
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The Ballad of Aryll: Song of Time by Novantinuum
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
27 Oct 2024
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In another world, a young girl awakens right beside the resurrected hero, fearful and disoriented.
Outposts are left to ruins, her brother’s mind is in tatters, and they’ve barely seen a soul traveling these lands since they first emerged from that cavern…
What happened to her family?
What happened to her Hyrule?
__(An AU retelling of Breath of the Wild, focused on the growing bond between an amnesiac young man who must relearn how to be both champion and brother, and a lost little girl who must find new purpose in the remains of the land she once called home.)
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- Part 1 of The Ballad of Aryll
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08 Jan 2023
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kiss and cry by michpat6 for softlie
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
01 Jan 2023
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“It’s just one step,” Link coaxes, holding out his hands, the blades of his skates somehow still on the ice, his body solid and his legs unshakeable, “I have you.”
It’s what he said to her after the Yiga ambush in the desert and she couldn’t breathe through her tears, caught in the idea that she was going to die. He broke every single protocol that was drilled into him by their fathers and curled around her in the sand, holding her in his arms until the knot in her chest loosened and she could tell him to let go.
I have you, he had whispered in her ear, speaking more than a word to her for the first time since the day of his assignment, You’re okay. I have you.
“Just one step,” she echoes, and takes it, stepping out onto the ice and slipping her hands into his.
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Before, Link teaches Zelda how to ice skate. After, Zelda returns the favor.
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- Part 6 of one shots
Bookmarked by softlie
02 Jan 2023
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In the Blood by Zeldas_Eyebrows
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game)
15 Jun 2024
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When it starts, it starts quietly. It starts on an early fall day with a merchant returning from the desert, feverish and coughing blood.
Soon, symptoms start cropping up in Castletown in others who had contact with him. Hylian, Gerudo, Rito, Zora, it doesn’t matter. A cough, weakness, fever. Always blood. The plague starts the same.
And the plague ends the same.
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When a mysterious plague sweeps through Castletown and the dead rise, Link and Zelda must race against fate and time to find a cure that will save both Hyrule and each other.
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23 Nov 2022
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Link visits Ordon with his wife who's totally not the Queen of Hyrule.
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21 Nov 2022
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Sehnsucht by intangibly_yours
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
17 Nov 2020
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“Mipha, have you ever felt like you’re looking for someone?”
“Like when Sidon runs off?”
“Not quite. Like someone should be here—” with me “—but they’re not. Not hiding. Just not...there.”Within his 100 year slumber, Link dreams of a life without the burden of the sword.
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15 Nov 2022
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“The Princess left me with a handful of words for you, Hero.” Like a bow drawn to tension, his focus snaps back into place. “If you’d like to hear them.” Sheep’s clothing is shed so easily, wool and the soft scent of lanolin left behind when Link steps forward, eyes narrowed. Impa is clearly smart, should already know the answer that builds behind his tongue. “But you need to be willing to risk your life for her before I share them.”
He almost rolls his eyes.
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01 Nov 2022
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The Rito Who Fell From The Nest by SergeantNeko
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
12 Dec 2022
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A small dive into my interpretation of our favourite blue Rito's Past. Chapter length may vary. This will be a short story.
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22 Aug 2022
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It had been entirely innocent. Hadn’t it always, with him? There had been moments, sure, where Zelda had felt… well, something, presumably, something she had no name for, in his presence, but it had always been innocent.
It had been unprompted, the thought. Unwelcome, even. She hadn’t realized in the moment how depraved it was, until the thought passed, and she felt the urge to take a dip in the nearby Regencia River to clear her mind.
She was watching him clean his sword. His hand ran the length of the Master Sword with his handkerchief, and for a moment, Zelda saw a vision of his hand running the length of his—she stopped it, as soon as she realized what it was. She refused to put a name to it, to internally identify what exactly it was she had just thought.
She prayed a little extra that night, for a clear head. Hylia didn’t need to know the details about what her head needed to be clear from. It was irrelevant; a freak accident, some sort of glitch. It wouldn’t happen again.
It didn’t. Until it did.
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18 Aug 2022
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a light in the dark by kotaface (aveyune23)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
20 Jul 2022
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The shadows are still too solid for comfort. Link presses his palms into his eyes and drags them down. “Sorry,” he croaks. “Bad dream.”
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- Part 3 of Zelink Week 2022
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20 Jul 2022
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Doe Wedding by bellecream
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
17 Jul 2022
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There was a stillness in peace. The migrating bird knew not of the sadness of a graveyard, for its own body was held within the landscape of earth – and whatever else remained.
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- Part 4 of One Shots
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- English
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- 4,752
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17 Jul 2022
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There’s nothing between them, she’s sure. But the problem is that if the rumors don’t die down in time, her father will find out, and then he’ll take Link away from her, too, and then she’ll never—
Zelda doesn’t want to think about that. She stares openly at him, as if challenging him to inquire. He meets her eyes frequently, never for too long, but always with the unspoken question: What are you looking at?
You, she wants to say. She wants to say nothing at all. She wants Link to snap her out of this unbidden fantasy, to free her mind of its most recent craze. She needs him to. She needs him to shake her out of her thoughts or the next time he tries speaking to her she’ll jump him.
“What’s wrong?” He asks finally.
“The entire castle thinks we’re having sex,” Zelda blurts.
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07 Jun 2022
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Risk of Burn by Meriandra
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
27 Aug 2018
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Three weeks after the fall of the Calamity, Zelda changes her mind.
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02 Jun 2022
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The sky begins to darken into a cornflower blue that would cost no less than an arm and leg at the Kochi Dye Shop, throwing cream colored snow into stark relief. His Princess turned Priestess steps out of Link’s arms just as the first few hints of lavender begin to bleed up from the horizon, he aches with the distance immediately.
“I suppose,” Zelda’s voice is impossibly soft, thin in a way he’s come to know means she’s close to tears, “it’s time for me to begin.”
The Crown Princess of Hyrule inhales slowly through her nose when her feet first touch sacred water. Bare fingers twitch almost imperceptibly against his palm before pulling away, and Link watches with his heart in his mouth as Zelda smoothly steps down into the spring.
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07 Mar 2022
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that parting need not last forever (it's dangerous to go alone) by michpat6
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
03 Feb 2023
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"Link."
He groans, turning his head away from the sound of the voice. He's tired, his body is so heavy-
"Link." A cold finger jabs into his cheek. "Open your eyes."
His eyes peel open, and his vision is blurry. There's a yellow and green blob in his face, but the more he blinks the more the world clears, and the more he can make out that the blob is the face of a girl.
(A beautiful girl.)
"Took you long enough," she says, her green eyes staring into his soul. Her golden hair is long, spilling over her back and brushing his hands. "I've been trying to wake you up for what feels like forever."
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The Hero wakes up after a hundred year sleep, no memory to his forgotten name, and finds that he's not alone.
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- Part 1 of divergence
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04 Mar 2022
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to be loved by Himmelsmxdchen
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
21 Feb 2022
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,749
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Bookmarked by softlie
21 Feb 2022