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Twin Heroes?? by Ariandre
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
22 Jul 2025
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Hyrule and Legend meet under odd circumstances and both have little trust for new people, so they elect to play an elaborate prank on a group of “heroes” while pretending to be twin. Over time, the twins learn more about each other and their travel companions, as well as the lands they come from. Will they decide to end their ruse for the sake of their companions, or will they be found out before they can tell the truth?
I received amazing fanart for Chapter 5 by seyph on Tumblr
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A series of stories about the friendship between Sky and Four, heavily focused on a chronically ill Sky (Asthma and Crohn's Disease, with a hint of Hypothyroid). Twilight's also been sneaking his way in here an awful lot. Can't say I'm mad.
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- 7
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Linked Universe Doppelgänger AU by Starlight (Fandom_Eclipse)
Fandom: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
14 Feb 2025
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Join Legend (now Legato) as he gets put through LU for a second time! What could go wrong now that he has his brothers by his side once more? (Even if they don't know him yet.)
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A tenth Link joins the Chain. His addition changes everything. (A must-read for Legend fans).
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Shards of friendship by Worried_Mouse
Fandom: Linked Universe - Fandom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Jun 2025
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A Linked Universe AU where Four and Shadow reunite, only Shadow is stuck within the shattered dark mirror. But Four is not one to leave a friend behind and now, via a necklace made of a piece of the mirror, Shadow is able to join their adventure.
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Not Quite a Hero of Light by Shylighthi
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Sep 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. The magic of Hylia herself drummed off these people. 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 the goddess stole him away for a quest instead of Link.
Aka.
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As It Appears by Violoafforprez
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
09 Feb 2025
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“It’s your shadow! It’s got fangs-”
“-And claws-”
“-And piercing red eyes!”
Warriors, Wind, and Hyrule called out.
“It must be from the moon’s reflection.” Four reasoned, “The deep red of the Blood Moon is being bounced around the cave walls.”
But Warriors wasn’t convinced, because he knew real shadows didn’t work like that.--------
Inspired by this lovely piece by entouragelver75 on tumblr!Series
- Part 16 of Legend of Zelda short-shots
- Part 11 of Linked Universe
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Why Can't I? by LunaWolfieFoxy
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - Fandom
17 Nov 2023
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When Four finds himself face to face for the first time with Dark, things take a turn. He doesn't understand why it's such a problem. This is how he's always been, right?
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When Four finds himself face to face for the first time with Dark, things take a turn. He doesn't understand why it's such a problem. This is how he's always been, right?
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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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Okay this has made me cry and laugh and reread in slight confusion but in the absolute best way possible this is a GREAT fic 10/10 would recommend
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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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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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My stone, my shield, my steady hand. Hold your light to the darkness in my head by Acideye
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
22 Oct 2023
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Alt prompt: examination
whumptober day 21
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part two for day 19.
“ Wild you were shot.” Hyrule stated, legend gagged at the sight, he blinked owlishly.“I was?” he attempted to look over his shoulder, there in fact was an arrow sticking out of his shoulder blade. “Oh. I was.”
“You don’t feel that?! ” Legend asked incredulously, “wild that’s like- halfway through your shoulder.” Wild poked at his shoulder curiously, he felt some pressure but that was about it, legend blanched at his movement, reaching a hand out to wild. “Don't touch it your going to make it worse.”
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hyrule, legend, and wild are trapped in a labrynth with no food, water, or supplies.Title from "the garden" by the crane wives
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- Part 21 of Whumptober 2023
- Part 11 of The moon will sing our song
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Cool Wild HCs
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"Do you ever think of me and my two hands" by Acideye
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
22 Oct 2023
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alt prompt: broken
Whumptober day 19
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“You doing ok down there?” wars asked, he threw a rock behind him, nearly hitting green with the flying boulder. Green tossed him a distressed look before returning to grabbing some rocks off sky. Unfortunately, sky had been completely trapped under rocks, using his wings to protect his friends from the cave in hadn't been the best idea per say, but it was all he had.Vio stood off to the side, they had deemed him resident ‘make sure sky’s wings don't get broken’ which unfortunately, was going poorly thus far. Vio gently ran a hand over Skys exposed wings, causing the chosen hero to wince at the painful motion. Retracting his hand, vio looked up at warriors, who was still lifting rocks alongside his brothers.
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He was freezing. The familiar chill of vaati's hold gripped over him just like it had back when he was working with him. The hold that he dreaded, the hold that had held onto him tightly for a month of his life. He didn't like that hold, they didn't enjoy the cold. Or was it hot?
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sky saves his friends, Vio has a panic attack, and shadows back
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title from: "never love an anchor" by the crane wivesSeries
- Part 19 of Whumptober 2023
- Part 9 of The moon will sing our song
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2 + 2=5 by Acideye
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
07 Oct 2023
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Prompt: alt prompt: Betrayal
Whumptober day 7
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Here vio stood, Vaati in front of him, shadow gripping his hand tightly as he bowed to the man that Vio so hated. Vios hands burned from the contact made by Shadow, vios body felt cold from the lack of presence of vios brothers. Vaati bowed his head to Vio in respect, before going on about how Vio was the only one with sense. How Vio was the only one he would have accepted, how vio was the smart one, the only one that mattered in Link.
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2+2=5 lyrics as vio goes over how their time with vaati was.Title from: "2+2=5" by Radiohead (ik i said it would be crane wives, but the chapter is ligit a song fic based on 2+2=5)
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- Part 7 of Whumptober 2023
- Part 5 of The moon will sing our song
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When Link goes missing, Reader sets out to go and find them. Things go terribly wrong and they suddenly find themselves with 9 heros, a nd a secret that will impact all of them.
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Shadow III: How to Calmly React to the Revival of a Shadow Link by sasan00
Fandoms: Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
30 Apr 2024
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The forest is quiet. Too quiet. The moon slowly creeps up towards its peak, and a new sound dies out with every passing minute. The clear night sky darkens further, and the malice begins rapidly swirling upward, forming large, thick red clouds.
The Blood Moon rises once again.
And with it, a sleeping copy of Four that seems to have no interest in anything but cuddling with him.
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- Part 5 of LU Shadow Fics & Ficlets
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Various Reactions to Wild's New Abilities by inky_quilled_dragon
Fandom: Linked Universe - Fandom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
21 Jun 2024
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Post-TOTK, with the Chain finally re-linked, some poor fools slowly start to realize that Wild has somehow, impossibly, blasted past peak-gremlin to land on the moon. Something that, disconcertingly, he might actually be able to do now
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Whereas most of the group dread second watch, Four takes every opportunity he can get to be on it. They have both night owls and early risers, but in second watch, everyone is asleep. Which is exactly what he wants.
Until he gets caught kissing Shadow during it, and everything goes downhill from there.
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- Part 8 of LU Shadow Fics & Ficlets
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Whereas most of the group dread second watch, Four takes every opportunity he can get to be on it. They have both night owls and early risers, but in second watch, everyone is asleep. Which is exactly what he wants.
Until he gets caught kissing Shadow during it, and everything goes downhill from there.
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Fours Personal Space is Shadows Personal Space by siiracusa
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
23 Mar 2025
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Twilight seemed to accept Shadows' addition quicker than the rest as well, which had earned the Rancher some of Shadows' miniscule, yet existing respect. The rest were either left confused by Shadows' existence, or deeply suspicious of him, as if he could betray them any minute.
Shadow always snorted at those types of glances thrown his way. “Traitor?” he giggled. “If only they knew.” He nudges Four, amused, which earns him a deep sigh.
What was evident beyond all, was how close Shadow was with Four.
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Or, a short oneshot where Shadow sticks closely to Four.
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Shadow's return is great, but his death left lasting scars that are about to come to light.
Lots of talking happens, several trigger things are discussed, they are listed below I will try and tag the individual chapters
Self-harm
Near death situation (past)
Suicide attempts
Cabalism (Wedigo and similar things)
PTSD
Potion use - given without warning to person who has consented to its use without warning (Sleeping Potion)Updated: 7/19/24
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- Part 19 of Meowmix's Linked-verse Journey
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I marked this for later & forgot I did so, tried to find it to no avail, and accidentally stumbled across it on AO3's home page. *fingerguns*
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Wow I just completely forgot a summary when I posted this.
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“What…what’s going on?”
“I need your help, Shadow,” he admitted. “I’ve heard about you, you know. What you’ve done. I could use your expertise.” Shadow’s blood ran cold, but he wasn't done. “However! Before we get into the nitty–gritty, I have a gift for you. It's right behind you.”
Shadow turned slowly, trying to keep half an eye on Dark. He didn't like the guy one bit. There was just something…off about him.
But when he turned around, all other thoughts left his mind. Because lit by a flickering brazier behind him, just like the others in the circle, was Link.
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Shadow gets resurrected by Dark Link, who figures he's on his side! Yay!
The LU boys are also there. Much less yay!