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the tragedy of time and the comedy of change by ocean__blue
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
12 Jul 2024
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“Memories. Such powerful things. The Slumber of Resurrection damaged you, when it stripped them away.”
“I’m starting to think it did more harm than good.”
“Don’t be presumptuous. It’s not an easy thing, to raise the dead.”A stylized and non-canon-compliant retelling of Breath of the Wild, exploring the trauma of being brought back from the dead, and Link's struggle to accept his purpose in a world that has taken almost everything from him.
This work is loosely divided into three acts. Chapters one through six comprise ACT ONE, RESURRECTION.
Chapters seven through eleven comprise ACT TWO, THE HOLLOW SKY.
Chapters twelve through nineteen comprise ACT THREE, THE CHILDREN OF HYLIA. -
one night / all night / every night by ocean__blue
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
29 Jun 2024
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The problem, Impa decides, is not that the rumors are true. It isn’t that Sir Link is a better swordsman than she, and it isn’t even that he is so stupidly, unfairly attractive; the problem is that her Princess has taken such a liking to him.
In which the Princess of Hyrule’s two devoted protectors vie for her attention, and make a deal they each hope will let them keep it for themselves.
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The sacrifices are chosen by lot. It has always been this way: Once a year, on the anniversary of Lomei’s founding, a ceremony is held. One name is called. One family slinks away into the shadows and sobs and clutches their child for the last time, but for the others, the revelry that night is all the more exultant for the knowledge that if for only a little longer, they were spared. The people of Lomei are never far from death, and on sacrifice days, when they draw closer than ever to its embrace, they are reminded to cherish the value of life.
The horned god feeds, and the kingdom endures—but after two thousand ceremonies, the unthinkable happens: The chosen name is that of the Princess of Lomei herself.
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If only her hand were bigger; she’d have crushed his skull with it.
Bookmarked by ocean__blue
01 Jan 2025
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"If you cannot succeed there are others we might offer."
As if he is only a man, susceptible to temptations of easy vices. As if he cannot see the tapestry of the future flicker in front of him the moment she lifts the shuttle at the loom.
Loosely structured glimpses at a captivating disaster.
Bookmarked by ocean__blue
31 Dec 2024
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A Bird Has Swallowed the Sun by cleverjade
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
24 Apr 2024
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They lay side-by-side on the floor of the Forgotten Temple for some amount of time, lost in regret and devastation and heartache, before Impa wiped her cheeks with a sniffle and pushed herself up from the ground. “We’ll need to start our work immediately if we’re to get her back, then,” she said. “Go wash your face, and I’ll put the kettle on.”
He blinked. “Impa, the glyphs say it’s not possible.”
“Oh, Link, old friend, I don’t care what the Zonai thought was possible. Perhaps they didn’t know of a way to reverse the draconification process, but that was so, so very long ago. Think of the legends we’ve recorded over the centuries since, all the many ways that Hyrule has been saved from ruin by unimaginable power — do you think the Zonai really knew everything that would ever come to be?
“It will be hard to find, certainly, but I believe wholeheartedly that there is something in this land that can bring her back. So unless you don’t think we owe it to our Princess to try, I suggest you get up off the floor, wipe the tears off your face, and get to work.”
A lore-adjacent explanation for how Zelda might have been restored at the end of Tears of the Kingdom.
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Bookmarked by ocean__blue
19 Nov 2024
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crystal castles by crimson_agate
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
10 Jul 2024
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Princess Zelda is caught between her rapidly approaching marriage to the greedy prince of a kingdom built of gemstones, and her increasingly tense relationship with the Captain of her Royal Guard.
She has yet to return his cloak.
Bookmarked by ocean__blue
12 Jul 2024
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diadem by inlemoon
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
01 Jul 2022
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The sapphires atop the Queen's head--fat and heavy as plums-- sparkle in the light. The marble beneath her was very clean, scrubbed of the old blood--Link really couldn't smell it anymore.
Bookmarked by ocean__blue
31 Jul 2023