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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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15 Jul 2026
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“Don’t patronize me,” she quietly said. “And do not pity me either. I am simply… offering some semblance of an explanation. Perhaps this will allow us to move forward—but do not presume that to be a proposition for friendship. I will never be your friend, or even a mere acquaintance.”
“Never?” Link asked, mouth agape. “How can you even think like that?”
“Because I can only count on myself,” she whispered into the cool air, the charred logs in the fireplace the only indication the room had once been warm. Goosebumps rose across the exposed skin of her forearms and the Princess went to hug herself. “I am but… all that I have, you see.”
“You had me once, Your Highness.”
“That I did,” Zelda managed to say through shaky exhalation, “but no longer.”
Or in which Link and Zelda were once childhood friends—once.
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13 Jul 2026
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Through Traitorous Eyes by nouvellelune, PepperJam
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 May 2022
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Hylia has an odd sense of humor.
He was born to the shadows, raised to worship the incarnation of hatred and darkness. He was meant to kill the descendant of the Goddess, the one who had yet to wield her sacred magic.
All in the name of Ganon, the master, his mother and father.
He would find and kill her hero, whoever he may be.
Yes, whoever he may be.
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12 Jul 2026
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hearth by 94k, hazeleafyy
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
12 Jul 2026
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"Turns out he’s the chosen hero of the legends," Daruk said with a cough.
Revali sputtered into a stunned silence.
“Bullshit, that’s impossible!” His feathers rustled as he balked. “He was sent by the demon king!”
“We know that, but— he has the mark of the goddess on his hand,” Urbosa snapped. “The rest of us saw it. If you don’t believe it, you can see for yourself.”
The Rito didn’t even deign to give the unconscious swordsman a glance.
“Hero or not, we’re not letting him off the hook just like that,” Revali’s voice climbed an octave. “He’s too dangerous— we saw what he’s capable of. We have to kill him while he’s still weakened!”
“We aren’t killing him,” Zelda asserted again. This time, she lifted her eyes. Her voice held a note of cautiousness, but it was still unshakeable.
“If we’re to even hope to defeat the demon king, we need the hero on our side. We have to take him with us.”
In which Link was raised as Ganon’s right hand man, but Zelda and the Champions snatch him away.
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11 Jul 2026
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He comes at night, on the eve of a storm that will last for seven years. She cannot know it then; only when the veil of perpetual blizzard seals the south from the rest of the world and she is a sea away in the belly of the empire will Katara understand her fate.
“I need your help.”
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OR: Eleven years after the death of the Avatar, the Fire Nation’s prince asks for a favor.
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03 Jul 2026