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This article is about fictional characters from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the Game Boy. Despite its name, Princess Zelda is not found in this game.

Link

In Link's Awakening, Link is the same Link from The Adventure of Link. On a voyage at sea following the events of that game, he is in a wreck and washes up on the shore of the mysterious Koholint Island, where he is saved by Marin. Here, he encounters a variety of characters, explores dungeons, battles creatures, and collects instruments which he uses to play a song for the Wind Fish who lives on top of the mountain. He is occasionally assisted by friendly creatures.

Marin

Marin is a girl who saves Link and falls in love with him. She hates it when Link steals things, tends to yell a bit at him, calling him "THIEF". But as the game advances, she starts showing much fondness for Link, and soon develops a bit of a crush on him.

As the game begins, Link awakens in Marin's house after washing ashore on Koholint Island. Link mistakes Marin for Princess Zelda due to the fact that the two are remarkably similar (stated by the Link's Awakening manual).

As the game progresses, Marin teaches Link his first Ocarina song, "The Ballad of the Wind Fish", not to be confused with the song of the same name in Majora's Mask. At one point, she also follows Link about in order to help wake a sleeping walrus. This part of the game is notable for comical moments such as when the two fall down a well and when she grabs the operator of the trendy game using his mechanical crane. Later, she is kidnapped by monsters and stranded on a broken bridge. Link saves her using his hookshot.

In a secret reward ending, if a player completes the game without losing a life or stealing from the hardware store, Marin is granted her wish and becomes a seagull so that she can fly to distant lands and sing to bring joy to others.

Marin's personality has been closely linked to that of Zelda's. Both love to sing, have a strong moral justice, and both look exactly alike (see the Link's Awakening instruction manual)

Other characters who are somewhat simlair to Marin are Malon from Ocarina of Time (in terms of appearance, name and singing abilities, Malon may have been based on Marin) and Aryll from The Wind Waker with her affinity towards seagulls

Marin appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee as a Trophy as a reward for getting all characters and levels, which also unlocks the Sound Test.

Tarin

Tarin is the father of Marin. He has an uncanny resemblance to Mario. At the beginning of the game, Tarin gives Link his shield when he wakes up from his state of temporary unconsciousness. He is often seen getting himself into wacky situations on his expeditions into Koholint Island's forests. Throughout the course of the game, he has a hallucinatory vision of himself as a mischievous raccoon who hides important items from Link and later on gets stung by bees while poking at their honeycomb with a stick. He can sometimes be found in bed at his house in Mabe Village recuperating from these events shortly after they occur. Near the end of the game you see a scene of him holding yet another mushroom/toadstool, indicating he certainly never learns anything from his (mis)adventures!

A Tarin-like character appears in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time under the name Talon, father of Malon.

Mr. Write

Mr. Write is a scholar who lives in a house in the northern part of the Mysterious Forest. His appearance is inspired by the similarly-named Dr. Wright, a green-haired computer assistant who would sometimes appear in the SNES version of SimCity and SimCity 64, who in turn is named after SimCity designer Will Wright.

He also appeared in Oracle of Seasons (although not named) and The Minish Cap featured a parody of him, Dr. Left.

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