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Hero of Time Project

What happened to the Hero of Time after Majora’s Mask and before Twilight Princess? This project explores how to build analytically rigorous fan fiction to gain new insight into a renowned series of games.

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Hero of Time: Chapter 2

Read the second chapter of an analytically grounded, fan-written story that bridges the gap between Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess.

By CJ Thomas, 4 years ago February 3, 2019
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Hero of Time: Chapter 1

Read the first chapter of an analytically grounded, fan-written story that bridges the gap between Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess.

By CJ Thomas, 5 years ago July 10, 2018
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PAX East: Can Fan Fiction Teach Us About the Official Zelda Timeline?

How can works of fan fiction empower all fans of a series to see it in a new light? With a Terrible Fate took to PAX East to find out.

By Aaron Suduiko, 5 years ago June 3, 2018
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Hero of Time: What Makes a Zelda Game a Zelda Game?

What does the DNA of a Zelda game look like? How can we extrapolate that and use it to tell our own authentic Zelda story?

By Jaron R. M. Johnson, 5 years ago April 4, 2018
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Hero of Time: Why the Zelda Series Should Mature with its Players

Link fights the bad guy. Link saves the day. But what happens when the player no longer feels connected to this story?

By Jaron R. M. Johnson, 5 years ago November 14, 2017
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Hero of Time: The Missing Link

A close examination of the Zelda series reveals a missing story that needs to be told.

By CJ Thomas, 5 years ago October 23, 2017
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Hero of Time: Reimagining Fan Fiction

The inaugural article in a series exploring how analytical fan fiction can shed new light on The Legend of Zelda.

By Jaron R. M. Johnson, 5 years ago October 8, 2017
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