20 Works in Touch-Starved Link (Legend of Zelda)
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Fingers Intertwined by cryingtulips
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
12 Sep 2025
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It's the night after Link comes home injured, and Ravio is clingy. For some unfathomable reason, Link finds he doesn't mind.
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Tropetember Day 12: Sharing a bed / Touch starvation
Fandom Free Bingo (Dream Edition): Accidental hand holdingSeries
- Part 3 of Come Home (To Me) Little Soldier Boy
- Part 3 of Linked Across Timelines
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just know we’ll be here by riverthebooknerd
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Jan 2025
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Five times the Sages saw something they maybe weren't supposed to, and one time they made Link see something he was supposed to.
OR: LINK WILL LEARN TO RELY ON PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT HIM EVEN IF WE HAVE TO BEAT THE LESSON INTO HIM.
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Fluff and Huff by hisagis123
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
16 Dec 2024
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To say that he was spoiled rotten was an understatement. After all, most people just let him get away with it. Well, except for Revali, who seemed to sour every time he attempted to close the gap between them.
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Link pestering Revali into a hug.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Curse of The Dark King by Star_gxzer33
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
13 Aug 2024
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(ON HIATUS)
!!AN!!: I felt this story wasn't getting anywhere with how it was written, so I'm taking the time to rewrite the story and finish it- the goal is to release it on Christmas, but you know me and my goals- I'll be pushing myself this time around though- thanks so much for the patience <3 [08/21/2025]❖︎
While patrolling the fields of Hyrule, Y/N finds a strange necklace with an even stranger aura about it. Entranced by the swirling gem attached to the rusted chain, she puts it on- not knowing it would be a life altering decision.
After all- it's just a piece of jewelry... right?
Not long after, Zelda sends Y/N and Link on a dire mission to find out as much as possible about a supposed cult dedicated to the revival and following of Ganon. However, on the long journey there,
Y/N falls ill. Knowing Link would immediately head back because of her condition- she keeps it a secret and suffers in silence.
As the journey progresses, things start to get intense, and secrets are revealed. What will become of the two knights?
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The Quiet Moments (Hyrule Schism AU) (On Pause) by OrcusNoir
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
02 May 2024
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After the Upheaval and the demise of the Demon King, Link and Zelda both struggle to adjust back to the life they had before all while doing their best to rebuild the kingdom.
While Hyrule might not have official therapists anymore, Purah is going to do her best to get these two some help even if they seem hesitant at first.
It's the least she and the others can do to help the two Heroes of Hyrule after all they've done...
Yet in the background, something ominous and strange begins to unfold...
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- Part 1 of The Hyrule Schism
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Oathbreaker by heyatlas
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
12 Feb 2024
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Maybe the resurrection chamber which brought him back to life thought it wise to keep him with only the essential to destroy the calamity: survival instinct and fighting skills. Everything else was disposable. But how could a machine predict that the thing which came out of it would be nothing more than an empty vessel, ready to be filled by other people’s demands. Because that was exactly what Link was now, and she couldn’t see anything else in his glazed eyes than that deep emptiness such as a bottomless lake.
Somehow it was a bit frightening that people would put their entire faith in a man who lacked everything but rage to destroy the calamity.
He seemed much closer to destroying himself first.
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Agape, Philia, Eros by onthearrow
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
21 Oct 2023
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Once upon a time, in a half-forgotten life, she pried open his hard outer shell and coaxed him from it until she found the sweetness contained within. She has a million memories of him from Before, of secret smiles and adventures her father was never privy to.
But now, he won’t even talk to her—he’s uttered maybe thirty sentences to her since she woke. And Zelda feels as if she's drowning on land.
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Link needs a good cry, Zelda needs a break, and there's a fish. Or several.
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Rules To Be Broken by Lynel J Hutz (orphan_account)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
05 Oct 2023
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For the first time in a hundred years, you lay eyes upon Zelda in the flesh. The two of you had just defeated Dark Beast Ganon. Much of Hyrule Field is still smoldering after the climactic battle. Despite all of this, you cannot answer a simple question: “May I ask… do you really remember me?”
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Everyone be asking where the Link is, but no one be asking how the Link doin! by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
20 Jul 2023
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Featuring a very confused Yiga clan, the furious 4 (more like 3) (champions), a very confused Zelda, a furious king, and a very done with it Link.
Or Link fakes his kidnapping to get away from it all.
This is my first fanfiction and I don't know how to tag and how to show it's ongoing.
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hold me, and you'll be alright by xielians100swords
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
12 Jul 2023
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In which Link goes into the Library and reads Rhoam's journal pre-calamity.
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The Only Shadow That the Desert Knows by Hypno_Cat
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
10 Jun 2023
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He should ask her.
He should open his mouth and ask her if she’d woven something into the fabric that would make him feel like a ray of sunlight has singled his heart out-
But when he opens his mouth, his words tangle up in the back of his throat, and all he can do is fumblingly bring his hand to his chin, before smacking its back to the palm of his other hand. 'Thank you,' he signs, and Saula gives a warm, big, laugh. The Gerudo weren’t completely familiar with Hylian sign language when he’d first arrived - but it seems his time in the town has led to a few of the more used signs becoming recognizable.
“Of course,” she says. “Every Vai deserves to feel beautiful!”
Or: Link spends time in Gerudo town, and grapples with liking being seen as a Vai a little too much.
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Everything by ScentedBooks
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
30 May 2023
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Link is beautiful and the only thing Tauro ever wants to do is touch him as delicately as he touches priceless artifacts. Every time they’re in the same space, Tauro just wants to touch him to make sure he’s actually there, all in one piece. That he’s safe, even if logically Tauro knows more than anyone that Link can defeat the end of the world, has done it once for them all already.
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Confotring Touch by CrackheadPeach
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
28 May 2023
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Link misses Zelda.
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Instead of fighting Link again when he refuses to tell him about the Gate of Time, Ghirahim discovers a new weakness of the Sky Child's and decides to exploit it. But is the self-proclaimed demon lord any less susceptible to the same tactics?
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fine as we are, but we want more, that's human nature at its best by jay_hawk
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
18 Feb 2023
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Just leave it alone. He ordered, or thought he ordered. Was that a thing, a knight ordering his princess? A knight wasn’t supposed to do that, a knight was supposed to protect his princess. It’s going to be healed up - just leave it alone.
Link flinched under Zelda’s gaze when the realization of what he had just done settled within him. She didn’t look angry though, It didn’t look angry, it looked….he couldn’t read her gaze. He was supposed to be the best at that, being able to read his opponents and emotions. But hers, he couldn’t quite read.
“Shouldn’t that be my line, Link?”
His instinctive reaction was to bow, his shaking becoming thundering. This was the one thing he was not supposed to do. If he was a true knight, a bit stronger one, this wouldn’t have happened.
(Or, Link secretly gets injured - and Zelda finds out.)
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Keeping You Warm by TheClamBeforetheStorm
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Zelda: Hyrule Historia Manga
02 Sep 2022
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Link has just been released from prison. Orville helps him wash it away.
Or: Orvillink ftw!
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Just Here For The Deal (and Everything Else) by FeathersAndFluff
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
19 Mar 2022
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Link visits Hylia, promising himself that he's only there to get his heart container and leave as soon as she allows it. Unfortunately for his plans, he's not good at keeping promises to himself.
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just for a while by Griffin Raynor (TheEbonHawk)
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
06 Mar 2022
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Link just wants to sit with Revali for a little while.
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Now That You're Here by not_the_word_Im_looking_for
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
07 Nov 2021
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Tyra's life in Hateno Village has been an uneventful, restricted one. Her grandmother's protective nature, fortified by the loss of her brother to the Calamity, made an unbreakable bubble around Tyra's childhood. When her grandmother dies and Tyra is left on her own, she wonders if family is something she will ever know again. Then a stranger comes to Hateno.
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Or: a collection of short scenes depicting some moments from my recent BOTW playthrough, from the perspective of Link's great-niece, Tyra. I hope you enjoy this incredibly self-indulgent escapade. -
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A new guy means a chance to start anew. Hoping to start things off right, Link wants everything to be different this time around during his first date with Shad, but he can't help but think he's getting lied to again.
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- Part 2 of Milk and Tea