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Whumptober 2026

Prompt No. 24: Post-Victory Collapse

Breath of the Wild

After Ganon is sealed, Zelda turns to Link and asks if he remembers her. For so long, she carried on never knowing if this moment would come. She holds onto his heartbeat as they collapse in exhaustion, and she finds it the sweetest sound.

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Big Jake

More cuuutenesss! Praise be 😩🙏❤️ Imagine if Link had died again right there, does the shrine of resurrection work twice? And if it does, since Link barely has any memories for it to erase will it instead erase things he knows that aren’t necessarily tied to any memories? Like understanding language or how to walk? Imagine old woman Zelda teaching a 217 year old teenager how to walk and read and write it would be just like Benjamin Button 😭 I like how this story and Parataxis do a little exploring of what the 100 year gap was like for Zelda. I haven’t played botw in a while so I can’t really remember if she says anything about it in the end cutscene but I do prefer this depiction over others I’ve read. In a lot of stories she’s basically just like in a dream or a trance and so the 100 years pass by so fast it doesn’t have any real effect on her, so this version where she mentions the first decade being “violently” slow has much more impact and does far better service to Zelda as a character. Depicting the struggle between her and Ganon as a truly Herculean task and sacrifice, I like it wayyyy more 🙌 Metonymy: when a word or phrase is replaced with another word or concept that is closely associated with it instead of its literal name. I’m struggling with this one so I expect it won’t be the intended understanding of the correlation, but it could be how to others people see Link as “the hero” and Zelda as “the princess” instead of their actual selves, and the only people they can really reveal that side of themselves to is each other. So being apart for so long is extra hurtful, making their reunion that much sweeter ❤️ Thanks for the awesome stories! Looking forward to next time!