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It's always darkest (before the dawn) by unknown_stories
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
29 Mar 2025
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Link isn't completely unfamiliar with burnout. He knows what can cause it, and he knows the effects it can have on the human body. He also knows that he's been running on empty ever since he saw Zelda fall into a chasm. But the war is over, and Zelda and their friends are safe. So why does Link feel like death warmed over? Actually, he'd probably prefer death to whatever this is, as someone who's so used to dying in increasingly horrific ways. But he's sure it's fine. What's the worst that could happen anyway?
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Link suffers the consequences of his actions, and gets a number of traumatizing memories along the way. Good thing he has people looking out for him now though, right?
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A Hero's Spirit by SilvermistAnimeLover
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
11 Aug 2022
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Calamity Ganon was stronger than anyone had anticipated. Link and Zelda gave their lives to seal him away in the ruins of Hyrule Castle. But an unexpected complication with Mipha's Grace has given Link a corporeal ghost form. Now stuck amongst the living, with one foot in the realm of the dead, he must struggle to figure out what Hylia needs him to do. Luckily, the Champions of Old are there to help him as he strives to restore the kingdom.
The Second Book of this series will be Linked Universe. This story can be considered a Breath of the Wild fic.
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- Part 1 of Hero's Spirit Chronicles
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 150,153
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- 23/23
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- 13
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- 1,238
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- 4,817
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- 1,120
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Bookmarked by unknown_stories
26 Dec 2021
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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?"
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 242,228
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 1,197
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- 4,352
- Bookmarks:
- 1,359
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- 199,740
Bookmarked by unknown_stories
26 Dec 2021
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(A work exploring an apology, a lie, and the boy connecting the two. Or, alternatively, how to get far, far more than you bargained for.)
‘I’m sorry. It’s my fault.’The thorns constrict, and Zelda holds her roses tighter.
She resents him. She’s always resented him.
But this time, it’s just because he’d taken the words right out of her mouth.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 104,800
- Chapters:
- 15/?
- Comments:
- 277
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- 767
- Bookmarks:
- 198
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- 28,714
Bookmarked by unknown_stories
26 Dec 2021
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Finding Link by Umbreonix
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
26 Jan 2022
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The calamity has been defeated and the Champions are revived on a pure white full moon. Everything is back to how it was, except not really. One hundred years has taken its toll on Hyrule-
and where has the hero gone?
Revali is sent on a quest to find Link (but not without a lot of angry squawking about it). He travels the lengths of Hyrule with nothing to go on other than a full library of photos the hero had left in Zelda's sheikah plate. As he journeys though, the question of 'where is Link' slowly transforms to 'who is Link?' because this grinning boy in the pictures surely cannot be the same stoic brick wall they all once knew.
As extraordinarily talented as he is, he finds him all too fast and the questions only multiply from there.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 94,696
- Chapters:
- 32/32
- Comments:
- 1,512
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- 5,763
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- 1,178
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- 131,412
Bookmarked by unknown_stories
26 Dec 2021