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Chapter One: Link’s Awakening
I don’t remember the war between the Sheikah and the Gerudo because I was barely six weeks old. According to the Deku Tree, my mother entered the Kokiri’s Forest with me covered in blood, both hers and others’. Begging him to care for her son, my mother died in front of the Deku Tree before he could decide. Legends say that he sensed that I would save Hyrule and decided to take me in; I don’t know if that is true; all I know is that he allowed me to be raised a Kokiri.
The Kokiri were kind and accepting, but there was always that weird feeling of misplacement, like going to a close, tight-knit family reunion when you didn’t grow up with them. Mido, chief of the Kokiri, was the worst about it because he had the biggest crush on Saria who preferred playing with me over him. Every Kokiri received a guardian fairy when they were old enough to join the village, which was at about age 7. If a Kokiri did not receive a fairy by age 13, he/she would become a skull kid. Before they join the village, Kokiri live inside the Deku Tree, where they are instructed by one of the Deku Tree’s two main fairies. When I grew to age seven, I waited for my fairy in the Forest Temple, but she never came. After waiting a year, the Deku Tree gave me a home in the Kokiri Village without a fairy. However, this only made me more of an outcast. Whenever we met, Mido would never call me Link but “Mr. No-Fairy.” Eventually, the name stuck and every single Kokiri would call me that when I tried talking to them. That was probably why I never liked talking.
Only Saria made me feel like a Kokiri, but then again, she always dealt with the non-Kokiri visiting the Forest Temple. When everyone else got their fairies and I had none, I remember Saria took me to the Sacred Forest Meadow and gave me a tour of the Forest Temple, something she never did for anyone else, even Mido. I remember that she wouldn’t let me move into the Lost Woods when I was ten. Refusing to listen, I went and camped out with one of the Skull Kids as my buddy. Eventually, Saria’s closest friend, Nita, came to me and said, “Link, quit being an idiot. Saria is serious when she says that you’ll get your fairy someday. She’s managed to convince her friends never to refer to you as Mr. No-Fairy to your face and everyone else to call you Link whenever she’s around. Now, go visit Saria and apologize for your stupidity.” After that, everyone remained polite around me, except Mido, who continued to be a jerk.
I don’t remember the war between the Sheikah and the Gerudo because I was barely six weeks old. According to the Deku Tree, my mother entered the Kokiri’s Forest with me covered in blood, both hers and others’. Begging him to care for her son, my mother died in front of the Deku Tree before he could decide. Legends say that he sensed that I would save Hyrule and decided to take me in; I don’t know if that is true; all I know is that he allowed me to be raised a Kokiri.
The Kokiri were kind and accepting, but there was always that weird feeling of misplacement, like going to a close, tight-knit family reunion when you didn’t grow up with them. Mido, chief of the Kokiri, was the worst about it because he had the biggest crush on Saria who preferred playing with me over him. Every Kokiri received a guardian fairy when they were old enough to join the village, which was at about age 7. If a Kokiri did not receive a fairy by age 13, he/she would become a skull kid. Before they join the village, Kokiri live inside the Deku Tree, where they are instructed by one of the Deku Tree’s two main fairies. When I grew to age seven, I waited for my fairy in the Forest Temple, but she never came. After waiting a year, the Deku Tree gave me a home in the Kokiri Village without a fairy. However, this only made me more of an outcast. Whenever we met, Mido would never call me Link but “Mr. No-Fairy.” Eventually, the name stuck and every single Kokiri would call me that when I tried talking to them. That was probably why I never liked talking.
Only Saria made me feel like a Kokiri, but then again, she always dealt with the non-Kokiri visiting the Forest Temple. When everyone else got their fairies and I had none, I remember Saria took me to the Sacred Forest Meadow and gave me a tour of the Forest Temple, something she never did for anyone else, even Mido. I remember that she wouldn’t let me move into the Lost Woods when I was ten. Refusing to listen, I went and camped out with one of the Skull Kids as my buddy. Eventually, Saria’s closest friend, Nita, came to me and said, “Link, quit being an idiot. Saria is serious when she says that you’ll get your fairy someday. She’s managed to convince her friends never to refer to you as Mr. No-Fairy to your face and everyone else to call you Link whenever she’s around. Now, go visit Saria and apologize for your stupidity.” After that, everyone remained polite around me, except Mido, who continued to be a jerk.
