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Whumptober 2026

Prompt No. 9: Lab Rat

Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom

When Link starts having fainting spells and random pains in the old wounds that led to his death during the Calamity, Zelda insists they visit Purah for help. She laments that they hadn’t had enough time to properly study the long term effects of the Shrine of Resurrection before they needed it to save Link’s life.

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Big Jake

I must say, as an absolute tier 1 master doctor avoider, I feel Link on a spiritual level just being like “oh that’s weird but I’m probably fine” but fainting, being in serious pain, and bleeding from the nose in front of other people, especially a person who lives with you and can force you to seek medical treatment probably goes a bit farther than even my skills would allow 😂 shoulda kept the fainting spells to the privacy of another room. Unfortunate rookie move 😔 Jokes aside I really like the idea that the resurrection chamber is not like a complete deus ex machina and there are lasting physical consequences from using it. It’s a last resort option not a do-over machine and I like the concept that it comes back to bite later. Also the mentions of the gloom sickness got me thinking, since Link was exposed to the gloom to the point he lost his whole arm and all his hearts and stuff, he would probably be dealing with gloom sickness pretty bad too (maybe that’s represented by the lost hearts that you have to gain back by using the shrines and hylia statues to cure yourself of the gloom sickness? 👀) all that to say, is Link doing all that stuff in totk while sick? Because that would be interesting to explore as well🤔 You write love between characters so beautifully I love reading two characters who love each other and no one does it better than you 😭 Auxesis: rhetorical figure of speech that makes something seem more important than it is. Link has literally died before so maybe that makes him feel like anything less than that only seems big to other people but to him it’s not bleeding to death after fighting an army of mechanical monsters so hey, it could always be worse 😂 Thanks for the stories! 😁❤️