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    Whumptober 2025 with the Loggers!

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    How much is one boy’s life worth?

    How much is a broken timeline worth?

    At 14 years old the Hero of Legend is skipping back and forth through Labrynna’s history to save an Oracle.

    At 9 years old the not-yet-Hero-of-Time is set to die and become the Fallen Hero.

    These events overlap in time but not place. The existence of one boy hinging on the death of the other.

    The Chain are split between them.

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    09 Oct 2025

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    Time is a paradox of Hylia’s own making, and this is how she deals with it. Linked Universe fic, Time-centric.

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    13 Sep 2025

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    “What do you think you’d be doin’, if you weren’t a Hero?” Warriors asks him, laying the question out before him and the stars and the fire that crackles.

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    “I don’t know,” he blurts, unhelpfully. It’s a lame answer to a loaded question, but he can’t find it in him to even say the word travel; it leaves something bitter at the back of his tongue, something heavy in his gut. Some part of him worries, immensely, about what that means.

    The question goes unanswered, really, even in his head. And it haunts him for months.

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    Where infinitesimal things take up the space of a universe.

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    11 Jul 2025

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    Look, the Ganon resurrection attempt was awful for all involved, but it's over now. Kinda. Maybe. Probably.

    Sometimes a family is two traumatised codependent teenagers making each other worse and the guy trying to teach them a coping mechanism against their will.

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    26 Jun 2025

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    Once, Hyrule was the only person he knew named Link. He was the only person who had held the triforce, the only person who had to run from the forces of evil, to defeat an enemy too great when he was too young, too small, too alone. Once, he cast a desperate bit of arcane magic and thrust himself and eight strangers on a quest.

    Now, Legend smiles more, and Twilight's shadows are a little lighter. Now Wind laughs as loud as a storm with Sky's smile as soft as the following calm.

    Someday soon, Wild will stand in a land of darkness, fighting an enemy all too easy to laugh off, though the darkness doesn't laugh. The shadows themselves will plot and scheme. Soon Wars' own darkness with reach out for him. It isn't long until Four is haunted by his own shadow. Maybe, if they had enough warning there would be something that could be done.

    The problem with Time is that he knows the cost of meddling. Then, now, and then again, he was, is, and will be unable to warn them all properly. That's the issue with time travel. For those outside of the stream, the course of it can't be seen, can't be planned for. By the time you realize it's happened, it's already too late.

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    25 May 2025