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Whumptober 2026

Prompt No. 16: Loss of Control

Tears of the Kingdom

To become an immortal dragon is to lose oneself. Though her oneself may be lost, she recognizes the comfort of a man who visits her, and the unflinching faith she placed in him.

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Big Jake

I love the description of the surreal experience Zelda must have being a dragon for all those millennia, just really sells the idea of a perpetual being that’s so disconnected from the reality around her or the experiences of an understandable existence. Super trippy so great work! I love that “losing oneself” is not the complete absence of who she was, but more of a loss of identity but not a loss of purpose. Like when Ganon became a dragon he still intends to kill Link and conquer/destroy hyrule, he just probably wasn’t gonna be doing any more grand speeches along the way, similarly Zelda can’t reconcile who she used to be before the dragon but retains her gentle nature and when the time comes for her to fulfill the purpose she transformed for she’s instantly on it. That’s perfectly portrayed in her thoughts in this story 🙌 I love how she only starts to get somewhat of a handle on herself when Link visits, she wants him to come back and visit more and speak to her, you get the feeling that’s the only thing that’s ever broken the monotony of being an endless soaring dragon beyond human comprehension, I love how you write their relationship every angle is so new and fresh and fun to read 😩❤️ Anthimeria: using a word as a different type of speech than its traditional or conventional form. The act of becoming a dragon takes the conventional understanding of existence, time, memory, etc. and alters it into a different type of “life” instead. It requires a smarter person than me to write a full dissertation on the subject but I think that’s what I pull away from the title is that “Zelda” becomes less of a noun and more of a verb, life becomes less about living and more about fulfilling the purpose she set for herself. Idk I’m not making any sense and I’m too dumb to expound but that’s what I’ve got, sorry for making you read that drivel 😂 Super excited to read more and thank you for the great work! 😁