Marin

A young girl living in Mabe Village on Koholint Island. She discoverers Link on the beach, after he is shipwrecked in Link's Awakening. She greatly resembles Princess Zelda. She dreams of singing for people far away, over the ocean. She teaches Link the Ballad of the Wind Fish which he needs to awaken the Wind Fish.

Marin lives with her father Tarin. During one segment of the story Link accompanies Marin to Animal Village. Along the way the two go through a series of amusing misadventures, such as Marin falling on top of Link when they both go down a well, Marin picking up the trendy store owner with a grabbing claw, Marin tells Link off when he hits a Cucco she also tells him off, calling him a 'bad boy', when he throws and breaks a jar.

"No! No! Poor hen! Stop that!"

- Marin

Near the end of the game some monsters kidnapped Marin while she was singing to the Wind Fish egg and placed her on a rotting segment of the bridge crossing between the Tal Tal Mountains. Calling for help she admits to Link that she's afraid of heights. Using the hookshot Link rescues her and for a brief moment she begins to admit something to him, but as she was about to confess her father, Tarin, calls and breaks the moment. When the Wind Fish wakes everyone bar Link disappears, Marin was among them.

"... ... Say... Link... Uhh... I don't know how to say this... but..."

- Marin

If Link manages to complete his quest without dying, Marin is saved when Koholint Island disappears, turning into a seagull in the DX version so that she may travel to far away lands and sing her songs.

Marin and Tarin share a number of similarities with Malon and Talon introduced in Ocarina of Time (the next game in the series), and are therefore believed to form the basis for these characters.



Super Smash Bros. Melee
Marin makes a cameo appearance in Super Smash Bros. Melee as one of the many trophies one can collect. In order to get hers, one has to unlock all secret fighters (eleven in total) and all secret stages (eleven in total). Along with her trophy, the Sound Test menu is unlocked.

Her trophy's description reads:
 * Marin is a young girl who cares for Link after a shipwreck washes him up on the shores of Koholint Island. She's a talented harpist, well liked for her kind and gentle nature. She holds fast to the ideals of truth and honour: if Link happens to steal something during his adventure, she greets him with a shout of "THIEF!"