Home Is Never Far
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Last published Sat, Jul 12, 2025
This is a fan of of Link, the Hero of Time, and Malon. It is written in Malon's pov almost exclusively. It centers around friendship, trauma, maturity and eventually true and lasting connection.
Link struggles with having such an older soul in a child's body, keeping the adult experiences in OoT mostly to himself and how his trip to Termina broke his mind a little (didn't we all break from MM a little?)
I love the idea of a relatively normal and incandescently happy life for Link and Malon.
I obviously don't own any of these characters, etc. credit to Nintendo.
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