brightknightie: Midna, in imp form, and Link grin at each other (Zelda)
Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote2025-04-10 08:06 am

My first TLOZ story, or Why Wild Can't Swim Underwater

I've posted my first The Legend of Zelda prose story. (I'd previously posted TLOZ poems.) It's short and cozy. I'd originally intended it to be solely about swimming, as a point of mechanics-meet-lore, but it somehow picked up allusions to the common good and the nature of successful leadership along the way. Can't imagine what brought that to mind; must be exclusively how fair and earnest a servant-leader Zelda canonically is...

Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Title: "The Water in Which We Swim"
Rating: G, gen, no archive warnings apply
Length: 1,785 words
Summary: [Post-canon] On a family visit to Zora’s Domain, Zelda sees Hyrule through Yona’s eyes and realizes why Link never learned to swim underwater.

Many thanks to [personal profile] kirbyfest for beta-reading. Her help made the story clearer and richer.