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    There’s no such thing as a female soldier.

    Link knows this—it’s been ingrained into her for years. Yet, she still practices her swings out in the forest, away from her family’s eyes, in hopes that one day, she’ll get her chance. She can’t live like this forever, after all.

    Hylia answers her in the form of an exchange. Her current life, for her chance at a life worth living. Except that Link has no choice—her heart is ripped out of her chest without a moment of reprieve, and she is tossed by her grief into an entirely unstable unknown. However, it is now all that she has.

    As a soldier, Link is revered. She progresses quickly under the pretense that she is a man, and her disguise is good enough to fool even the king, so long as she dare not speak. Eventually, she is assigned to protect Princess Zelda as her personal knight, who is also fooled (as far as she can tell).

    Link would like to keep it that way, as well, if only she could stop the ache in her heart. The one that asks for more, more, more. The one that screams yes, yes, yes whenever she gets close to the princess. The one that’s going to get her killed. All for love, though she thought she'd never love again.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Zelda Nohansen lived a normal life in Hyrule: her father is the wealthy Governor of the flourishing Windfall Island, she’s engaged to a respectable sailor, and she’s ready to travel across the sea to her new home beside them. But when pirates intercept her ship on the crossing, she finds herself in a new predicament she'd never planned: questioning everything she has been taught about strict Hylian rules, facing the harsh reality that not all pirates are simply the heartless creatures she’d been told stories about her whole life, and realizing Hylians are not as pure of spirit as she'd been led to believe.

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    16 Oct 2025

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    “Lovers’ quarrel?” The motel receptionist asks with a wiggle of his eyebrows. “Or do you snore too much?”

    Link chokes and turns it into a cough, unable to meet Zelda's eyes. “Neither.”

    “We’ve only got a King bed available. Hope you make up soon,” the receptionist says with a wink.

    Link sleeps on the couch.

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    After an assassination attempt, Link and Zelda must live together and navigate the impending Calamity, grad school, strange dreams, and their complete disasters of personal lives. One of those things is more difficult than the others.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    An old promise forces Link into a betrothal with Zelda, the daughter of his father's friend and the center of Castle Town's rumors. At the end of the winter solstice ball, however, he makes his own, rushed promise to her. He soon discovers she might be worth holding it no matter the trouble that seems to follow them like a shadow.

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    28 Sep 2025

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    Bodyguard by day, artist by night—apart from Link's manageable crush on Hyrule's Princess, his life is pretty boring. That is, until one of his artworks attracts the attention of a blogger who anonymously publishes erotica about the Heroes and Princesses of old. Before he knows it, he's in the midst of a flirty online friendship with "Tetra" who happens to know a little too much about castle life.

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    23 Sep 2025