Navi

Navi is Link's fairy from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. She is summoned by the Great Deku Tree to accompany Link on his quest to save Hyrule. The precise relationship between her and Link is a matter of contention, since it is left ambiguous by Nintendo - the only time she speaks during the game (with the exception of the "Hey" and "Listen" sound effects) is during the introductory sequence and during the Temple of Time sequence. At the end of the game, when Link returns to his original time, she leaves him and flies away for undisclosed reasons. She was last seen flying into the large window behind the Pedestal of Time. In Twilight Princess, gamers learn a large part of the Temple of Time (or possibly the Temple of Light) lies beyond that window, so this would imply that Navi went on into the part of the temple beyond the window at the end of Ocarina of Time. This would answer the question about what happened to her but not why she chose to remain there.

The most prevalent theory as to the "friend with whom he parted ways when he finally fulfilled his heroic destiny", mentioned in the introductory sequence to Majora's Mask, is that it is Navi. This is made all the more probable given the 'fairy flying' sound-effect that is played after the text disappears off the screen, but before the Lost Woods scene begins.

In gaming terms, her primary purpose is to function as a focusing target, indicating by her position which object/enemy will be locked on to if the Z-trigger is depressed. She changes color (to yellow) to indicate when she is functioning in this way.



In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a vertical arrow style targeting system is used in lieu of a fairy. In the Wii version, However, the cursor on screen when no ranged weapon is equipped is Navi. Yet, Navi takes no other role in the adventure. She is merely there as a cursor and never speaks.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl Link will use her as one of his three taunts.

Reception
Navi is the most criticized The Legend of Zelda character. Some if not most gamers become annoyed her "obnoxious" "Hey!" "Listen!" sound-effects. Due to the highly negative feedback from those who feel this way, her equivalent in Majora's Mask, Tatl, makes use of only a musical 'ting' sound effect instead of yelling "Hey! Listen!" at players. In fact Navi's criticism is so well known that clothing showing Navi and her quotes has been made.

Ciela from phantom Hourglass uses two of the Same Voice clips as Navi (Hey! and Look!), and as a result fans have dubbed her "New Navi"