Ocarina of Time Characters: Difference between revisions

At the beginning of the game, Link is having a dream in which the sky is pitch-black & stormy, a bridge is lowered across a moat, a woman and a young girl on a white horse ride by, and a sinister-looking man with dark skin and red hair (this man is later revealed to be [[Ganondorf]]) on an black, armored horse appears right behind Link when he looks back. When the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the Kokiri, is cursed by Ganondorf for not handing over the Spiritual Stone of the Forest, he sends [[Navi]] the fairy to become Link's fairy companion. After obtaining a sword and shield, Navi takes Link over to see the Great Deku Tree, who explains to Link about the curse and asks Link to break it. Link travels inside the Great Deku Tree and defeats the monster Gohma sent there by Ganondorf, thus breaking the curse. However, the Great Deku Tree was going to die either way, so with his final breath, he tells Link the creation story of Hyrule and the [[Triforce]], the evil man Ganondorf and his origins, and gives Link the Kokiri's Emerald, the Spiritual Stone of the Forest, and sends Link out to Hyrule Field -- considered forbidden to the Kokiri, as they believe they will die if they leave the Forest -- to speak with [[Princess Zelda]]. Before Link leaves the forest, he is given the [[Fairy Ocarina]] by Saria, which allows him to play the various magical songs that are key to gameplay.

Saria is a kind-hearted Kokiri girl who many of the other Kokiri look up to. Her fairy companion is pink in color. She is Link's best friend and their close bond elicits resentment and jealousy from another one of the Kokiri, Mido. Saria is the first to greet and congratulate Link upon his receiving Navi as a fairy partner. When she finds out that Link is leaving the Kokiri Forest, she meets him at the entrance and gives him her Fairy Ocarina as a token to remember her by, sad to see him go. When Link later returns to the forest during the early stages of his quest, he follows the sound of Saria's music through the Lost Woods and finds her at the Sacred Forest Meadow. She teaches him Saria's Song, a catchy tune that allows him to speak telepathically with her whenever he plays it. She often gives Link hints to help him on his quest when contacted in this manner.

Malon is a farm girl who works and lives in Lon Lon Ranch with her father Talon and her uncle Ingo. She has red hair and pointed Hylian ears, dressed in simple farm clothes and brown boots, and as an easter egg from Nintendo, she also wears a Bowser pin. Link first meets Malon when he reaches Hyrule Castle Town for the first time, and she calls him "Fairy Boy" because of Navi. She tells Link she hasn't seen her father in a while and asks Link to look for him, giving Link a weird egg and sends him on his way. The eggs hatches into a Cucco which crows to wake Talon up when Link find him sleeping by the back door to Hyrule Castle. Malon then returns to the ranch with Talon and can be found there throughout the game.  She has a special bond with Epona the horse, and she teaches Link Epona's Song, a song her dead mother composed, which allows Link to bond with and summon Epona to his location when he is an adult. When Epona's Song is played to a cow, it will fill a empty bottle with Lon Lon milk. Malon often sings Epona's Song and can be heard singing at Lon Lon Ranch day and night.

Talon is the owner of Lon Lon Ranch. He slightly resembles Mario from the Mario series as an easter egg (since Ingo slightly resembles Luigi). He is a rather portly fellow, sporting a bald head and mustache, wearing jean overalls, a red undershirt, brown boots and as another easter egg, a bowser pin like Malon's. He seems to be very lazy and sleeps almost all the day and all the night. His daughter is Malon, to whom he entrusts the horse [[Epona]].

During the seven years Link is sealed, Talon is kicked off the ranch by his brother Ingo. He can be found sleeping in a house in Kakariko Village, and can be woken by the Pocket Cucco as part of the Trading Sequence. When Link frees the ranch, Talon no longer sleeps all the time and says he will turn over a new leaf, returning to the ranch to work hard.

Ingo is Talon's Brother and Malon's uncle. He slightly resembles Luigi from the Mario series as an easter egg (since Talon slightly resembles Mario). He is portrayed as being skinny and having a large black mustache, wearing pink overalls with a green shirt underneath. When Link first meets him at Lon Lon Ranch, he is grumpy and complains about doing all the work for Talon, who he believes is lazy.

===Twins in Kakariko Village===

The Twins reside in Hyrule Castle Town. Upon Link's first arrival in Hyrule Castle Town, the two are talking about an attempt one of the Twins made on breaking into Hyrule Castle, effectively revealing the way to get ahead to Link. Shortly before Link's arrival, the twin dressed in blue attempted to sneak into the castle to meet Princess Zelda. He sneaked past the Royal Guard, swam through the moat, and tried to crawl through the drain hole on the side of the castle, but he could not enter it due to his size. As a result of this, the castle guards tightened security in the castle. Link later uses this knowledge to his advantage.

The "Running Man" is constantly running around Lon Lon Ranch in Hyrule Field during Link's childhood. He is part of the Mask Trading sequence and will purchase the Bunny Hood from Link. He says that he wants to be as fast as a rabbit. When shown the Bunny Hood, he becomes ecstatic and fills Link's wallet to buy it, no matter how many more Rupees Link's wallet can hold. (Meaning he will pay up to 500 Rupees for that mask!) When morning breaks, the "running man" takes off so fast that it knocks Link down. He is seen running along Hyrule Field for the rest of the game, so long as Link is a child. As an adult, Link can race him from the Gerudo Valley to the Kokiri Forest, but no matter how fast Link runs the "running man" will always beat Link by one second.

A person who runs the Ghost Shop located just next to the broken moat of the ruins of what was once Hyrule Castle Town. He takes delight in the maliciousness of the Big Poes in Hyrule Field, and will give Link Rupees for each Big Poe he gives the Poe Collector. If all 10 Big Poes are retrieved, the Poe Hunter will give Link a Bottle. There is a theory that he is the Hyrulian soldier who stood in his place 7 years ago. This theory is backed up by a quote from the soldier, '''"Man, I am SO bored... Things would sure be more interesting if there were more... troubles in the world."'''

The Windmill Man spends the entire game inside Kakariko Village's windmill playing his grinder organ. The man seems to have quite the temper problem and is involved in what fans dub the "Song of Storms Paradox". When Link visits him as a child, the Windmill Man is cheerfully trying to write a song inspired by the motion of the windmill. When Link visits him as an adult, the Windmill Man is considerably aggravated and complains that a child with an ocarina "messed up the windmill" seven years prior. When Link shows him his Ocarina, the Windmill Man becomes even more agitated, having been reminded of the song, and plays the Song of Storms angrily, effectively teaching Link the song. Should Link visit the Windmill Man again as a child and play the Song of Storms, the windmill will speed up considerably and drain the Well. The increased speed of the windmill disrupts the Windmill Man's music tempo, causing him to become extremely confused, leading to his anger issues in the future. This character shows up again in the sequel, Majora's Mask.

===Pond Owner===

The owner of the Fishing Pond in Lake Hylia. He is constantly scratching his armpit. He hosts the Fishing Mini-game where Link can win a Piece of Heart or a Golden Scale by breaking fish size records. If Link hooks the Pond Owner's hat and removes it in his adulthood, he will find that the Pond Owner has gone bald unlike when Link first met him in the past, when he had a full head of luscious hair.

A character who is never seen in-game but is mentioned a few times during Link's adventure. He is the father of Princess Zelda and is the sworn brother of the Goron Patriarch, Darunia. In the manga, Zelda's father was going to speak with Ganondorf, even though Zelda told him not to. It hints that Ganondorf actually murdered the King.