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Whumptober 2026

Prompt No. 11: Too Weak to Cry

Tears of the Kingdom

After being separated from Zelda beneath Hyrule Castle, Link’s fear of forgetting everything again consumes him. He stumbles into a stable after a fight with a Gleeok, exhausted, in pain, but determined to write down what happened today. He can’t let himself forget again.

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Big Jake

Link “going from a day of fighting for survival to a night of fighting social interaction” is something I identify with at a clinical level after a long day of work 😂😭 I think it makes a lot of sense that without Zelda’s soothing presence by his side he would start to sort of unravel and panic about things like losing his memories again. Link has been through a lot during botw and totk and it’s gotta take a psychological toll. I love how both this story and Chiasmus Link and Zelda both refer to the resurrection chamber as a “tomb” because that’s really what it was. A dead guy went in and was sealed inside, just because he happened to Jesus his way out of there doesn’t change what it was. If it walks like a duck and all that. These stories are all so fantastic at the end of reading them I can’t help but go “okay I need Selphie to write a 50 chapter story in this world expanding on all the ideas and characterizations in this short story now so I can stay in this world a while longer” which I know is selfish but you write so good I just want more 😭 Eutrepismus: ordering the parts of a subject or argument to make ideas clear and easy to follow. Links messages to himself follow a clear structure that he can follow if he loses his memories again, beginning with who he is, what Zelda’s name is, what he did that day, what his ultimate goal is and how he feels he failed her, personal facts he deems important about Zelda, when the blood moon is, and ending on his pleas to himself not to forget. Him structuring it this way sets up a routine to follow and demonstrates what he feels are the most important things he would need to know if he woke up without his memories again. Thank you for writing such awesome stories and I really really can’t wait for more 😁