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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!"
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Your Life In My Hands - Podfic by LinkIsCool333
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
08 Sep 2025
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Your Life In My Hands by Deleetrix was so touching that I had to podfic it instantly.
Del's summary: "Shadow stared out in front of him from where he lie on the floor, at the chain connecting his collar to the wall. The light magic that was imbued in the collar wreaked havoc on his body. He was so exhausted. However, he was in too much pain to sleep. The headache, the feeling of the light choking his throat, and all over he felt wave after wave of pain as the light magic pulsed throughout his body. All he could do was lie there and wait, he didn’t even have the energy left to move anymore."
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
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Stories we Share, Secrets we Keep by BittirSweeteer
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
07 Sep 2025
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Light casts a shadow in the dark. Secrets whisper in the back of minds. Worries of judgment and hatred bubble, fueling the flames.
Some of the Chain are less secretive, showing off their tales with scars or stories. Others are bad at keeping the secrets they want buried deep. While trust is plentiful among the group, it may not be long until the Chain reforges or breaks entirely.
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Chapters have custom drawn art, please see notes for details/links :)
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Dice of the Sages by theAlmostPorcupine
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Sep 2025
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A long time ago, the Sheikah hid away ten dice created by the Triforce for the Heroes' use with their dying breaths. The dice reappear as the Links chase the black-blooded monsters throughout Hyrule's history, facing the danger and drama that ensues as the monsters try to erase the identity of "Hero." Did the Sheikah really etch images related to each Link's death on their respective Die of the Sages?
Featuring Time with Bard levels, Twilight as a werewolf, Hyrule as a Fairy, Four's unusual colors, and many other Link shenanigans... including Echoes of Wisdom Link joining the Chain. (Spoiler warning for EoW!)
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Chapter 1 is a a bit about D&D and the Links' builds for those who are curious (and a directory of individual arcs). The main fic begins at Chapter 2.
Now playing: Four fixes his parts and gains a pyramid. Legend isn't a fan of the second development.
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Guiding Lights by shadows_of_stars
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Linked Universe - Fandom
06 Sep 2025
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Two months after the events of Follow The Lights, The Chain return to Wild’s Hyrule for the first time.
When they last were here, the Shrines were behaving weirdly, they left in a hurry, and everyone had a bad time. Now the Chain has to face what they left behind.
Not only do they have new enemies to face and a missing brother to find – there are fears to overcome, mysteries to solve… And where are the black-blooded monsters they’re here to hunt, anyway?...
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Crash And Burn (Like We Were Always Meant To Do) by W4nd3rlust
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
05 Sep 2025
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A collection of ideas I come up with randomly that can be dramatic as fuck.
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Shadowed by Gia_D, notfreyja
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
06 Sep 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.
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The world is covered in a blood red glow (I see your face, I can't let go) by The_bookgremiln
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
29 Aug 2025
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The Blood Moon:
A phenomenon which occurs once every month.
The moon becomes blood red and revives every monster across Hyrule.
Avoid travelling on nights where the moon glows red. It could cost your life.- A Traveller's Guide to Hyrule, Volume One
_______________________________________________________________________aka the Blood Moon rises while the chain is in Wild's Hyrule.
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True Colors by Avunaaa
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
28 Aug 2025
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The smithy had always been strange. They’d been strange from the day the chain meet them, with warnings from guards and fear from townsfolk. They’d been strange when they spoke of traitors and brothers.
But the chain still trusted them. The smithy was a hero just like everyone one of them. Yet the violet in their eyes bore into the soul and the pommel of their blade swirled with a darkness. The way they spoke in that cold manner made a sense of dread curl up in the chain’s stomach.
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Not Truly a Hero, Not Truly a Monster by Avunaaa
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
26 Aug 2025
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Years ago Four had changed. He hadn’t escaped his last adventure the same person.
Quite literally.
Now Four acted for all to see, only mourning in private. But one night, after months of constant acting, he’s caught beside their graves. Wind knows Four is not who he claims to be but what is he instead? Four wouldn’t say it but maybe the ghosts that surround him will.
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Fractured Reflections New encounters by Nova_Shizen_Saigai
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
24 Aug 2025
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When a jagged tear splits the sky above Hyrule Field, five strangers tumble from a violet void into the path of the legendary Chain. They claim to be simple travelers—displaced Hylians with nothing more than names and worn clothes. But beneath their careful words and steady gazes lie secrets that pulse like hidden heartbeats.
As the Heroes offer shelter from an approaching storm, they find themselves drawn to these mysterious newcomers who seem both familiar and impossibly foreign. Nova's unshakeable calm, Zantara's guarded fire, Ghira's sharp precision, Darkra's enigmatic joy, and Demitra's quiet distance—each carries shadows that don't quite match their Hylian faces.
The Chain's instincts whisper warnings they can't yet understand. Because sometimes the greatest mysteries aren't the ones that announce themselves with fanfare and magic—they're the ones that sit quietly by your campfire, sharing your bread, and smiling like they belong.
But nothing that falls from a bleeding sky ever truly belongs to the world it lands in.
Some secrets are worth protecting. Others are worth fearing.
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- Part 1 of The Chain meeting my OC's
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My Tumblr stack by Sirnade254
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
24 Aug 2025
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Just a few silly doodles I've already posted on Tumblr and which received a good reception, so maybe you will like them too.
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The Blood of Heroes' History by FlamingIdiot, Nancyheart
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
19 Aug 2025
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Thrown together and traveling across time, the heroes of courage aren't expecting to discover a danger lurking across three different timelines, or the revelations that fighting said danger will expose to them about themselves, each other, and how they are really all connected.
(Updates Mondays)
Now Playing: The deity is out
Coming Soon: (To Be Decided)
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- Part 1 of What Doesn't Kill You
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9 Times The Yiga Clan Tried Their Best by Utopian_angel
Fandoms: Linked Universe - Fandom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
17 Aug 2025
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The heroes are not the only ones able to travel to different Hyrules anymore and a cunning enemy has taken advantage of this fact; using to strike all of the Chain at once.
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The Hero of Souls (Linked Universe Fanfic) by Prairerose
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
14 Aug 2025
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What happens when the chain meets a new Link? One further in the future than Wild? And after travelling with each other for months can they work to make sure their new and secretive member is not left out? Especially when any talk of Ganon seems to be a really bad sore spot?
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Four and After by serbii
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
08 Aug 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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Rain starts to slowly fall on the skylight in Link’s house. It was the first rainfall after a long heatwave, much to the relief of both him and Ravio.
The apples in his orchard would soon ripen, with the summer coming to a close.
So why was this anxiety pulling at his stomach?─────────
A Legend-Centric fic where he is the last to join the Chain!
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Shadow by Whyam_Here
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
05 Aug 2025
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Shadow shows up at the edge of the heroes camp, injured. Four is ecstatic to see Shadow alive again. Warriors is worried.
August of Whump Day 5: Shadow
This was supposed to be whump, but Shadow grabbed the wheel, said "this is my story now", and made it crack.This isn't Four/Shadow, but it very much can be read that way if you want.
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- Part 3 of August of Whump 2025
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No Longer You by BepisBee
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Linked Universe - Fandom
03 Aug 2025
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When does a man become a monster?
Vio is going to find out.While away for years, working on dark magic to resurrect the only creature who ever held his heart and falling himself further into that darkness, several Links were gathering for a new quest. And not just the ones he knew. Burying himself out of the light so harshly corrupted him to the point the goddesses no longer recognize him as a hero.
So then, who is called upon as the fourth part of the hero's spirit?
Shadow is about to find out.
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When I see you again... by orphan_account
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
27 Jul 2025
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One shot of my take on certain things that happen post Lu with the Chain, Hero's Shade related things.