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Best Zelink Post-Canon Fanfics

The best post-canon Zelink (Link/Zelda) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Endings are where canon stops and fandom refuses to; readers want the wedding after the war, the rebuilding after the finale, and the proof that the characters' lives kept going.

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Top Zelink Post-Canon Fic Recs

1 post-canon Zelink fic matched, followed by other top-rated Zelink stories.

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after tears have dried

Post-Canon

by alkat

Having begun another journey, Frieren meets a kindred spirit in fellow traveller Link. Since neither have a purpose besides researching rare phenomena and killing monsters, they find themselves wandering through Hyrule together. Frieren hasn’t forgotten her vows to understand humans better, and Link

15 kudos 7,591 words 4/11 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Sundelion

by Skyward_Arpeggio

There are two new dragons when Link wakes up after the Upheaval. There’s the Light Dragon, strange and beautiful, but also its baby, clumsy and pretty and barely bigger than Link, and the mystery of the two of them seems to give him more questions than answers. Where did they come from? Have they be

448 kudos 40,560 words 16/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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As the World Unravels

by Trancy_Ackerman

Link is one of the best known monster hunters in all of Hyrule. At least, that's what the rich Lords who hire him think. By day, he works for hire ridding the Kingdom of monster camps and beasts, but by night he is breaking into the wealthiest homes and selling their belongings to benefit the poor.

192 kudos 214,432 words 38/? chapters Mature
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Falling Into Blue

by thesadpuffin (polarbeararts)

At last her kidnapper struggled into a sitting position. Zelda looked up to see he'd thrown off his hood before jumping in the water, and a boyishly handsome face stared down at her with piercing blue eyes, shoulder length hair plastered over his forehead and neck while water ran in rivulets down hi

88 kudos 27,641 words 8/32 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Rise of the Blood Moon

by Squishney

Zelda is an eighteen-year-old girl who’s never been taken seriously by anyone. In all fairness, seeing visions or hearing the voices of spirits are pretty unbelievable claims to be made, but they’re abilities she’s always had. Her own father thinks she’s a liar. Being ignored and picked on all your

74 kudos 26,155 words 7/? chapters Not Rated
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The Skeksis Slayer

by UncommonVillian

Reality and fiction are blended, fantasies become nightmares. In a multiverse of madness, one lone Mandalorian bounty hunter wages a one man war on the Skeksis. Along the way, he makes new allies and finds a family in unexpected places.

54 kudos 89,210 words 33/? chapters General Audiences
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Long Lost

by gerudo__desert

The Hero of Time steps through a mysterious gate, finding himself in a world devastated by war and rife with reminders of what he left behind.

44 kudos 35,696 words 6/8 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Zelda: Princess of the Wild

by InfiniteDragon

A trap was laid before the danger was known, and a minor change to the timeline- a miniscule scar- left a Princess unable to access her divine birthright. As a result, her Champion had to step in at the last moment. Breath of the Wild with Zelda as the main character, her memories completely gone bu

25 kudos 157,055 words 20/? chapters Explicit
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Calamitous and Glorious

by FifthDancer

Zelda grows up under the weight of a prophecy. The coming Calamity.Her mother can't help her. Her father either won't or misunderstood what she needs. Love is supposedly the key. But how can she find that when the whole country seems like it's starting to conspire against her?

23 kudos 34,926 words 11/23 chapters Explicit
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The Maiden of Tears

by Lilliterra

(Working Title)The Kingdom of Hyrule is perfectly civilized, thank you very much. Unlike their barbaric neighbors, they only sacrifice one person each year, and that person is a willing victim.Zelda has always known that on her twenty-first birthday she would become a human sacrifice to renew the ba

21 kudos 14,652 words 10/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Grounded

by somerknights

Years after their adventure, Link and Zelda have a family on the surface.

17 kudos 1,632 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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Entwined in Time

by Pyxie_Dust

Alaren and her family have been living peacefully for a number of years, but she is summoned once again for an investigation into the strange and dangerous gloom that has been emanating out from the castle. When the survey goes wrong and she finds herself far from home, she has to figure out not onl

14 kudos 52,282 words 18/? chapters Mature
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The Legend of Zelda: The Fallen Kingdom

by GoldTNT

It's been almost 18 years since Zelda's execution. It's been 18 years since Sonia's birth. Its been 20 years since Link's last adventure. He was 42 for crying out loud! Yet Hylia decided to give him another adventure.

9 kudos 1,411 words 2/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Sketchys Drabbles for Fic Fight!

by AllwaysWildChild

Each chapter in this fic is a different drabble written for a specific prompt in For The Triforce or Fic Fight 2026!

7 kudos 914 words 7/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Scars and Stars

by Venom_456

For seven long years after the events of Twilight Princess, Link has been wondering the world in a pursuit to find a way back to Midna. Simultaneously after Metroid Dread, Samus traveled across the stars in hopes to settle down and find love. Link saves Samus who crash-landed on his planet from an u

7 kudos 32,186 words 8/? chapters Explicit
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The Scales of Balance

by BiboGear

An original story based in the universe of The Legend of Zelda, with original iterations of canon characters. The Gerudo King Ganondorf kneeled and surrendered to the Hyrulian King Doran Thelmarus Hyrule to end a 100 year war started by the witches Twinrova. Now, 10 years later, the vindictive warlo

6 kudos 9,987 words 2/? chapters Mature
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Lost in Translation

by BigCheeseEater_113

When Link wakes up in the middle of a forest, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a name. He will discover the oddly familiar Kingdom of Hyrule and all of it's mysteries. Will he gain his memories back? Why is everything super easy and super hard all at the same time? Will he continue to so

6 kudos 12,857 words 5/? chapters Mature
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How To Bring A Blush To The Snow

by lonelygo

In truth, Link had not been coping well with the loss of his arm. Zelda had been there when he woke up, not realizing he missed a limb. When she closes her eyes, she remembers the stricken expression on her beloved’s face upon recognising what had happened.  Of course, who would cope well with the l

2 kudos 1,575 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Untitled and Extremely Unfinished T4T Puppyplay Zelink Fic

by ladylengthful

Princess Zelda lives in a world where the Twilight Realm now controls the climate itself, and she finds herself dealing with daily onslaughts of vicious wolves. But can one transforming hybrid convince Zelda to let her stay? Nobody knows, not even I.

2 kudos 642 words 1/? chapters Not Rated
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【林塞】雪

by rainswhisper

他曾试图接住一片雪花。

1 kudos 1,520 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated

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Why Post-Canon Zelink Fanfiction Works So Well

Link/Zelda — The hero and the princess have been reborn together across every Hyrule for nearly forty years, but Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom gave the pairing its richest canon yet — a knight sworn to silence and a princess crushed by failure, rebuilding a kingdom side by side. Skyward Sword even roots their bond in a goddess's ancient promise. It is the franchise's eternal ship in the most literal sense.

Post-Canon — Set after the source material's final page or episode, these stories answer the question every finale leaves behind: and then what? Post-canon fic ranges from epilogue-adjacent vignettes to decades-spanning continuations that become fandom canon themselves.

Reincarnated across ten thousand years and they keep finding each other — destiny as the longest slow burn in gaming. Endings are where canon stops and fandom refuses to; readers want the wedding after the war, the rebuilding after the finale, and the proof that the characters' lives kept going. That's why post-canon Zelink fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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