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"Antanaclasis" (Patreon)

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2026-11-04 03:11:42
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Whumptober 2026

Prompt No. 28: Dishonor

Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom

After Link and Zelda stay the night at the Dueling Peaks Stable, Link is pulled to visit the place he died. He sees that night as his failure, but Zelda sees it as his bravest.

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Big Jake

Something about Zelda’s complete shock and bewilderment when Link says he failed is so funny to me for some reason 😂 like the idea was so silly to her that she couldn’t comprehend that even he would think that 😂 I like how she’s still hesitant to ask how much he remembers about things, like when you meet someone with a missing limb or something it’s uncomfortable to ask “how did that happen?” Or something, it makes Zelda feel all the more human and it shows she definitely feels responsible for him losing those memories as well. Really great touch of character work 🙌 I like how fast they change the conversation once what needs to be said has been said (and kissies shared 😂) they’re just like “alright no more sad stuff it’s too early in the damn morning and I’m hungry” I also like how Zelda’s rebuttal of his feelings of failure don’t really change how he feels inside, he just comes to terms with it by giving it a new name, instead of “failure” it’s “postponed” and he can let it go for the time being and move forward, which is all any of us can really do at the end of the day. Antanaclasis: where a single word is repeated in a single sentence or clause but its meaning shifts or changes with each occurrence. I guess in this one it would be the repeated theme of “failure” when its first mentioned it’s the original meaning of the word, Link thinks he failed in his duties to protect her because he fell before she was safe, then at the end Zelda has explained that him falling allowed her to unlock her powers and so his “failure” instead takes on a different meaning that allowed them to fulfill their duties as hero and darkness sealing princess. Idk I’ve struggled pretty hard with these last two my brain has sunk from its previous position in the toilet and dropped straight into the sewer line today lol. Love these sweet stories of Link and Zelda together and look forward to seeing some more as we get closer to wrapping up whumptober! (Moment of silence for those poor ao3 readers who have to wait to read these gems 😔