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Old Wounds by Have_Kake
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
10 Aug 2023
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After landing in Legends' Hyrule, the chain venture to the Palace of the Four Sword. There, Four finds a familiar shadow waiting for him.
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The chain meets Shadow, except it's all angst.Series
- Part 1 of A New Scar
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,662
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 11
- Kudos:
- 305
- Bookmarks:
- 26
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- 2,192
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Need to read
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(Previously Linked Universe Stories)
A collection of stories about our fave LU boys. The stories are all technically in the same universe but are also standalone works that do not require you to read one to understand another
- Words:
- 426,706
- Works:
- 9
- Bookmarks:
- 275
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Aspects Astray (First Act) by OchaBlue
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
08 Jun 2025
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Having completed the many many many shrines, Link was told to go and claim his reward. What happens if it wouldn't come off. Link quickly decides he actually likes being a half Zonai, that's what. This is an AU for 'Aspects of a Hero' by Tashacee because I can't get these scenes out of my head and now it's become much bigger then I ever imagined. I have changed the name of this work as I think it is big enough to deserve its own. This work was once called 'Au Aspects of a hero'.
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- Part 1 of AU Aspects
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 61,503
- Chapters:
- 38/38
- Comments:
- 193
- Kudos:
- 916
- Bookmarks:
- 202
- Hits:
- 29,887
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Kitchen Nightmares (and accidental summonings) by The_bookgremiln
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
10 Sep 2025
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Hyrule couldn't cook.
This was both a well-known fact and a warning, a lesson that the chain had learned the hard way.
So when Hyrule said he had found a recipe he wanted to try, Legend thought his reaction was reasonable.
"Rulie, politely as possible" the veteran pleaded, attempting to dissuade the traveller from commandeering the kitchen, "Fuck no. You can't cook!"
____________________________________Hyrule manages to get himself cooking duties.
Chaos ensues.-
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Hyrule tries murder
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Rusting the Chain, one Link at a time. by GothicGhost
Fandom: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda (Video Game 1986), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
18 Dec 2025
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A bunch of one-shots, that can all be read independently and gave no relation to each other, where I torment various members of the Chain
- Words:
- 10,304
- Works:
- 10
- Bookmarks:
- 3
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The complete collection of all of the times Legend has had to pretend to be a mother/wife to a brother in order to save their asses. Or just when his little brothers pretend to be his kids, because they're the sort of gremlins who do that sort of thing >:)
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- 88,151
- Works:
- 12
- Bookmarks:
- 269
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Very fun read 😊
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Not Quite a Hero of Light by Shylighthi
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
05 Dec 2025
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Shadow found these people odd. Admittedly, if they all didn't have swords and magic items that were making Shadow's head sore, then he would truthfully think they were harmless, but it seemed pretty obvious that they weren't. Light magic drummed off these people like the sun itself. It reminded him of Link..
LINK! Shadow needs the Four Sword! He darted away from the group again. He needed to learn how to ignore such simple distractions, Zelda was going to wring his neck out when he gets home… but she also wouldn’t appreciate him letting strangers walk to their deaths.
Zelda was NOT going to believe him when he tries to explain that Zelda's Goddess stole him away for a quest instead of Link.
Aka.
Shadow takes Four's place in the chain by complete accident.-
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ch3
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Mirrors of the heroes, created by all that the heroes refuse to acknowledge about themselves. Their darkest, most un-heroic qualities formed together to create an individual born to hate and slay their counterpart as a twisted test of competency.
They were shadows or dark copies of their heroes, and Ravio is fairly certain he's not supposed to be right now.
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- Part 9 of LU Shadow Fics & Ficlets
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Linked Universe Whumptober! Also I'm terrible with tags so if anyone feels I should add any trigger warnings/tags, please let me know
Trigger warnings in chapters
Day2-Cornered
Day4-Can't pass out
Day5-Running out of air
Day6-Screams from across the hall
Day7-Shaking hands
Day8-Back from the Dead
Day9-Caught in a storm
Day10-Waterboarding
Day11-Sloppy bandaged/makeshift splint
Day12-Cave in
Day13-Dislocation/fracture
Day14-Desperate measures
Day15-Lies
Day16-Paralytic/"No one's coming"
Day17-Breaking point/stress positions -continues from day 8
Day18-"Get it over with"/treading water
Day19-Knees buckling/head lolling
Day20-Going into shock/fetal position
Day21-Coughing up blood/"You're safe now"
Day22-Withdrawal
Day23-Forced to kneel
Day24-Catatonic
Day25-Lost voice
Day26-Separated/rope burns
Day27-Muffled screams/magical exhaustion
Day28-Anger born of worry/punching the wall
Day29-Sleep deprived
Day30-Manhandled
Day31-"You can rest now"
Bonus: Days 1&3-"This wasn't supposed to happen"/impaled -
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Their smithy is a little strange, a little mischievous, a little feral, but it’s fine, because he’s their brother.
After all, he's a hero, and every hero was strange in their own way. These are all perfectly normal consequences of an adventure or three... right?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,591
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 121
- Kudos:
- 1,587
- Bookmarks:
- 379
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- 11,267
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Aww hehe sillies
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A Wild Space Orc by FeverProject
Fandom: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
30 Jun 2025
- Words:
- 12,038
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 26
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Whumptober 2022! Updated every day. First chapter is a comprehensive table of contents, including word count, characters, relevant tags, and prompt. :)
Important note: all lil stories will have a positive ending. That is, if it doesn't straight-up end with revenge/healing/rescue, you'll be able to see it coming in the near future. No MCD or ambiguous endings at all!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,697
- Chapters:
- 32/32
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 630
- Kudos:
- 876
- Bookmarks:
- 154
- Hits:
- 18,848
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Four and After by serbii
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
15 Dec 2025
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So here’s the dealio.
Once upon a time a group of time travelling weirdos gave 10 year olds Link and Zelda a shadow crystal thingy so that Shadow’s future Heroic Sacrifice™ might be a little less… sacrificial.
And it was great! For like, more than a decade they all got to grow up together all alive and happy! But things fall apart as they do, and Link died, and some time loop scheme Shadow honestly wasn’t paying that much attention to (he tried, okay?) has been enacted.
Now Shadow’s joined the time travelling weirdos, and one of them is a Link who’s years younger than his who never managed to save his Shadow.
Things are messy. Things are stressy.
But they have a time loop to close to save Shadow and maybe to save Link, and whatever.
He’ll wing it.
What could go wrong?
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- Part 3 of Alterity
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AAaaa!!! So good……. The processing of all the emotions,, the puzzle??? How lost..
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Alterity by serbii
Fandom: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Dec 2025
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When you interfere with your own timeline, it's no longer yours.
This did not happen to him, he would remember if it did, the loop is not closed.
Why?
Can a tragedy be prevented without causing another?
Or: The chain start dropping in on their own childhood quests.
Alterity /ɒlˈtɛrɪti/
- A term meaning "otherness" or “being otherwise”, that is, the "other of two." (Latin Alter)
- The entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed, implying the ability to distinguish between self and not-self.- Words:
- 126,980
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 124
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Disability AU. Find art and more on tumblr at @zarvasace :) Updated sporadically, will probably mostly feature short oneshots and drabbles. A longer summary of each disability can be found here on tumblr. Trawl through the tag "#disability au" to find more information about what the boys' conditions are like and how they adapt.
I am slowly working on making podfics for this series. They aren't professional by any means, but hopefully they're fun. :)
- Words:
- 175,122
- Works:
- 73
- Bookmarks:
- 192
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LU disability AU!!!
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Righting the Mistakes of the Past by Ahrva, LittleLlunaLlama
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
10 Aug 2021
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Legend waits until after the Lu to complete the Palace of the Four Sword, and thus is able to help the soul trapped within.
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Shadowed by Gia_D, notfreyja
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
01 Dec 2025
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Wind is no stranger to monsters.
Two adventures taught him more than any boy ought to know about them. About the way they fight, the way they think. About what it takes to make a monster.
This third adventure wants to test that. All across time there are monsters that are worse than they ought to be. Stronger. Smarter. Faster. Harder and harder to kill.
Still, Wind is no stranger to monsters. Which is why when a ninth Link joins the Chain, he knows that there is something… wrong.
Something very, very wrong.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 111,721
- Chapters:
- 34/?
- Comments:
- 1,902
- Kudos:
- 749
- Bookmarks:
- 162
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- 21,158
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It had taken time, but he too had slowly adjusted to his new state, figuring things out through trial and error. He had even learned to value some aspects of his new life, like his ability to ignore the laws of physical world. He had also learned a lot by reading over Link’s shoulder as he dove into research about mirror portals and dark worlds. Yet he had never fully made peace with his inability to interact with the one person who mattered most. The inability to touch or be heard, or even the simple act of having Link look at him rather than through him was a curse of the cruelest kind, perhaps a punishment from the Goddesses for the wickedness he’d wrought upon their land.
It certainly felt like it now, as he watched Link bleeding out beneath him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,954
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 39
- Kudos:
- 461
- Bookmarks:
- 105
- Hits:
- 2,610
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A Study of Darkness (and its Light) by FloatingNebulas
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
03 Jan 2025
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When Shadow shattered the Dark Mirror, he had expected to die. That had certainly happened. It was very painful and he would really like to not do it again.
What he hadn't expected was to wake up on the floor of a very creepy castle, be mistaken for a severed portion of Dark Link's reflection of the Hero's Spirit, and essentially be coerced into working for Ganondorf to attack the group of time-traveling heroes that Link had apparently, somehow, joined.
Shadow was only supposed to survive for long enough to figure out where the mirror that Ganondorf probably had his soul connected to was, and how to get back to Link. He wasn't supposed to get attached to Dark Link. He also wasn't supposed to start seeing a younger version of himself, from before Vio came crashing into his life, in him. He especially wasn't supposed to start trying to teach Dark how to live beyond the confines of the battle he had known for so long.
Or, Shadow adopts a new kid/brother, pulls a Vio (in more ways than just spying on the enemy from inside), and has way too much fun mentally cussing out Ganondorf.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,351
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 29
- Kudos:
- 265
- Bookmarks:
- 82
- Hits:
- 1,839
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Shining a Light on Things by Seven_Sided_Puzzlebox
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
12 Nov 2025
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Nayru sends the Hero of the Four Sword to the Chain. Except, as far as the Chain understood, they had already been traveling with said hero.
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- Part 2 of Shadow with Chain
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ch2