Maracate
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it's cheaper and easier to eat your young by Maracate
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
16 Oct 2024
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10,000 years ago, the hero who bore the sword that seals the darkness sacrificed himself in the fight against the Calamity. Now the Calamity's return has been foretold, and a new hero must prepare for his own sacrifice.
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Child of Spring by Maracate
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
19 May 2024
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She’s looking at him like he’s stupid, which is fair. “Link,” Zelda says again, and she’s touching his chest - no, touching his jacket, which has three large bloody holes that will make getting a ride back to camp absolute hell. “You were - are you -”
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“You would choose me?” he asked softly.
“Yes. Not the Hero, but you, Link. Could you choose me, too?”
He started to nod, then put his voice behind it. “Yes.”
She looked at him, and he looked back, and she couldn’t shake the feeling that something momentous was taking place. The girl with the Goddess blood and the boy with the spirit of the Hero, bound together by fate to fight a war they never wanted a part in. To fight a war that began millennia ago, to protect a world that should have been protecting them. Having no choice, but making one anyway.
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A look between the memories, of the life of a princess in the face of Calamity. 100 years ago, this is how it all began.Series
- Part 1 of The Long Way Home
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11 Mar 2026
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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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10 Mar 2026
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Copious Coprolites by Conjecture
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
08 Nov 2023
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Zelda is set to oversee a new archaeology site inside the Great Hyrule Forest, supported by Professor Purah, and at the mercy of Park Rangers who know how to navigate through the fog. When artifact thieves pose a threat for Zelda's once in a lifetime research, she finds herself not alone in the name of archaeological discovery.
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09 Mar 2026
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Ruin the Courtship by badtooth
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
04 Mar 2026
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“Well then?” There’s a wry smile on her face. Link wonders if it doesn’t seem a little forced. “Aren’t you going to ask me if I know any nice girls?”
You're a nice girl, he wants to say.
Except she isn’t.
Because Zelda isn’t nice.
She’s perfect.
Suitors arrive in Hyrule for the chance to claim Zelda’s hand in marriage, much to the chagrin of the Princess and her chosen knight.
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07 Mar 2026
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Subtleties of a Suitor by AshleysWrittenWords for intangibly_yours
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
22 Aug 2020
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Pre-calamity AU where Zelda’s powers awaken in time, but not everything is back to normal after Calamity Ganon is defeated.
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She paused her pen strokes and glared at the page, willing herself to connect thoughts to words and words to paper."We don’t meet anymore, we haven’t since before the monster was sealed away. Even though the night prior haunted my dreams for weeks following my expressed wishes to cease these small moments of privacy. No matter how sweet and innocent they could be. As you know, in my heart of hearts I can’t bind him to me when-"
When Zelda could never be his. When, in times of great enlightenment and prosperity, their fates have crossed and her father now sees him only as a valuable combatant in his army. When destinies have been fulfilled and they were no use to one another.
Bookmarked by Maracate
05 Mar 2026