Fado (Ocarina of Time)

Fado is the blonde Kokiri girl standing at the end of the bridges leading from Saria's house in Ocarina of Time. In Link's younger years, all she does is stand there, and when talked to, teaches Link how to look around and warns about the Lost Woods. When Link talks with her while wearing a mask, she says different things than the other Kokiri and usually mentions Mido. On a previous version of the official Zelda website, the caption under a screenshot of her stated that the game designers gave her the name "Fado" during development, though it was never mentioned in the game itself.

When Link returns seven years later, Fado can no longer be found in the village and can only be seen during the Biggoron's Sword sidequest. When Link returns to give the medicine to Cojiro's owner, Fado will be there instead of him. She'll demand Link gives the medicine to her, since it's made of forest mushrooms. In return, she'll give Link the saw the other guy apparently left. Fado mentions that all who enter the Lost Woods become Stalfos and wonders if Link will turn into one too.

Development
Fado is a bit of a strange character. She has her own model (which is unusual for any character that's not a Hylian or has an important role), different lines from the other Kokiri, and she mysteriously disappears later on in the game. She doesn't seem to mean anything for the story at all (aside from acquiring Biggoron's Sword).

More importantly, she appears in some of the early Ocarina of Time screenshots and is indicated to be created at about the same time as Saria. On those screenshots, Fado appears to be sitting on the roof of the shop in the Kokiri Forest which in the released version is occupied by the common model Kokiri girl. She also has her own outfit in those screenshots, unlike in the released version, in which she wears the same outfit as the other Kokiri girls.

Zeth's Intervention
Zeth while being on ZSO was one of the few people who were there when the discovery of Fado's model file was found on the debug rom, he began looking into ways to bring her ingame, so upon doing some research and tutoring under cooliscool, he was able to load her up for the first time, just a head at the time, but it looked as if her model had been corrupted and almost, beyond repair. Zeth didn't take that as an answer and began researching and studying the zobj models for over 6 months, determined he would restore her. After working with others on different projects, he finally begin attempting one last try at the model, at last a breakthrough that changed not only the hacking community, but the outcome for these long lost model files, Zeth was able to restore her with some help from his work partner, spinout, who had previously restored Aria, another long lost model. Now Fado, originally meant to be the Sage of Wind in OOT, had been fully restored ingame with blinking eyes and full animations, though Zeth has postponed her release until his mod is near completion.



Quite the Surprise
After Fado's restoration, Zeth went through all model files in Zelda OOT Cartridge Gold Edition 1.0 and to his surprise, he found Fado.His speculation that she was still somewhere in the cart was proven to be true. Even now, Zeth plans on releasing a 1.0 patch to bring Fado back to the cartridge later this year.

Sibling Theory
It is speculated that Fado is Mido's sister. The two arguments for this theory are that they have similar names and that Fado tends to talk about him more than any other Kokiri and in a different way.

Trivia

 * Fado's name was later "re-used" for two other characters. The first one was another Kokiri (though a boy) in The Wind Waker. The second one was an Ordonian farmer in Twilight Princess.