Watched
Here's another one - I'm on a roll today!
Navi the fairy - perhaps not our most favourite character. But, she has her own woes just like anyone else. All she was allowed to do was watch, and her only intervention was the advice she gave the hero from time to time. What about her? The home she left behind when she went with him? The friends she never saw again?
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Who am I?
I'm Navi...and I live in a hat, if you're interested.
Yes, you read that right - I live in a hat. To be precise, I live in *the* hat. The one which belongs to the Hero of Time, that's he's worn from the very beginning of his adventures.
Oh yes - I'm a fairy. You seem surprised - but of course - I stay out of sight most of the time. Even from Link a lot now - he doesn't want to see me. I remind him too much of his past apparently - of the forest and his friends especially.
I remind *him*? That boy has no idea - he hasn't been alive even half as long as I have. That place was my home since I was a larvae, and I knew each and every one of the Kokiri and their fairies by name...many of them are dead now, because Ganondorf got it into his head that Link would be in the forest, since he noticed me and assumed Link to be a Kokiri. But, he isn't (obviously). He's a blasted Hylian, who has it in his head that he doesn't need a fairy anymore.
So what am I to do then? I'm bound to him until one of us dies - that's the promise I made to the Deku-tree (Goddesses rest his soul), and I'm not going to break it because Link's having a tantrum. Seems harsh you say? You haven't known him as long as I have.
I mean, take the first time I met him. The Great Deku-tree was under a curse from the dark lord Ganondorf, and sent me out to find the 'boy without a fairy', and bring the boy to him. And how long does it take this kid to wake up? At least ten minutes - and then he tries to reach the Great Deku-tree, and gets waylaid by Mido, who tells him he needs a sword and shield to get past. What did Link do? Had a temper tantrum, right then and there, wailing that life wasn't fair, and how the hell was he supposed to get a sword if their wasn't one in the village anyway.
You look shocked? Have I uttered some blasphemy by telling you the truth? Yes, Link is undoubtedly brave, and he saved us - but he was a brat sometimes. Luckily, he grew out of it whilst he fought his way through the Temples as an adult, and then faced Ganondorf. But the cycle seems to have come back and turned him into a child again, sulking in his room, wailing that he shouldn't have been made a hero, blah-di-blah.
Maybe he's right... I mean, how many more male children were born to Hylian mothers on the night that he was bough to the forest? Dozens at least, so why this particular one? Any one of them could have been the hero, but Link was just in the right (or wrong depending on your perspective) place at the time.
Listen to me - I go on as though he's still a child. No, he's a man now, though still a child at heart. And he's confused - which he had every right to be, so I should stop berating him, and start looking after him properly. He just infuriates me sometimes - especially when he doesn't check his hat before throwing it across the room - the bruises I have from experiences like that are no joke.
It is just the way that he thinks he is the only one to have lost a home, and to have lost friends that annoys me. I lost just as much as he did. I had to leave the only home I had known, and all the friends I ever had in order to help him in his quest, and to make sure he was looked after properly. It is I who told him how to combat almost every enemy he came across, and what was safe to eat, where it was safe to pitch camp and those kinds of things.
I tutored him through the basic process of shaving for Goddesses' sake! How can he shut me out after that invaluable lesson in life? If it weren't for me, our young hero would have a beard a mile long by now!
However, those are all silly things - I learned to love him like a little brother as we travelled together - I even found him almost as annoying as one as well. And we shared our grief when we returned to the forest to find so many of our friends...
Oh Goddesses...
It just hits me every so often when I think about them. Just how many of them were...
I'm sorry - fairies crying are probably not something you're used to. Me neither - I didn't actually know we could until that day. There was this burning feeling at the corners of my eyes, and I was afraid for a second that something bad was happening, and then suddenly out came all these tears across my cheeks. Link was surprised as well, and after he had slayed the monsters around, he paused, and came out of his sudden rage to comfort me a little.
Whatever anyone may say about Link, he is loyal - he may become angry with you for a little while, but more often than not, he will try to make it up to you. He's told me to leave four times already now, but each time it's only been a few days before he asks me to stay. So I'm not worried, though I do get angry when he says it - almost as though I wasn't there during the whole of his adventures, telling him what to do to keep himself alive.
Sometimes, I wonder what life would have been like had I been a Hylian woman helping him. Would there have been something more than this diabolical teacher/student relationship. Would we have perhaps been proper friends like most fairy and Kokiri partnerships are. Even though I know he isn't a Kokiri - but you know what I mean!
Would he have respected me more if I had been like the Princess? Powerful and wise, and more importantly, the same seize as him! I mean, I believe if he couldn't keep sweeping me under his hat, I would be able to command some more respect at least. It's an interesting thought - Navi, the fairy turned Hylian...it sounds almost like some ridiculous child's story.
But it would have helped, that I do believe. All we fairies get quite a bad lot, because we have almost no power over our charges, other than what advice we can give them. And even with advice, there is no guarantee that it will be taken.
Alas, it's hard looking after Link. He's such a messed up Hylian, and fate's played around with him an awful lot. It just doesn't seem quite right that he should shut everyone out now, when he needs our help more than ever.
I'll go to him soon - I'll just have to dodge any flying pillows this time, because I don't fancy another night having to bathe in red-potion to get rid of more bruises. He will listen to me, though he may not want to hear what I have to say. Because he knows that I will only give him the advice he needs to hear, and not the advice he wants to hear. It's only what he deserves - someone who was with him from the beginning to help him out.
I hope I can help him out today - I dread to think what his mind gets up to whilst he spends all those hours idling in that stuffy room of his. It just cannot be healthy!
Maybe I should take him back to the forest - Zelda won't want that of course. But maybe if I can just take him back to the home that he misses for a little while. It might calm him down and make him a little happier. I think even the sight of Mido might cheer him up, and that is a definite indication of just how far into depression he has fallen.
Or maybe I should just take him out full stop. Show him all the people who are happy and alive, and who owe it all to him. To show him that they bear no grudge against him for the dead, and instead idolise him a little for it, as it shows that he too is human like them. It allows them to related to him, because he feels pain just as they do.
I have to make him do *something*. Anything. He just has to get out of this castle.
He has to get out of here before it suffocates him with its locks and guards and memories.
The memories here are terrible for me, and I did not see the better part of the last battle - so I hate to think what they are like for him. Even the smallest thing might trigger his memories - a particular way the light falls through the stained glass windows in his room - or the way a crow circles one of the towers.
Yes - both of us must flee this place before we drown in the memories.
I need to go home. Soon...
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Hmm - did Navi seem a little bitter? Maybe it's just me, but I think she did...oh well. R+R my little angst fans, and [huggles] just be thankful your lives won't ever be quite as fucked up as these guys'. (Poor Zelda cast...I'm so mean to them.)
Soda
Here's another one - I'm on a roll today!
Navi the fairy - perhaps not our most favourite character. But, she has her own woes just like anyone else. All she was allowed to do was watch, and her only intervention was the advice she gave the hero from time to time. What about her? The home she left behind when she went with him? The friends she never saw again?
~/*\~/*\~/*\~
Who am I?
I'm Navi...and I live in a hat, if you're interested.
Yes, you read that right - I live in a hat. To be precise, I live in *the* hat. The one which belongs to the Hero of Time, that's he's worn from the very beginning of his adventures.
Oh yes - I'm a fairy. You seem surprised - but of course - I stay out of sight most of the time. Even from Link a lot now - he doesn't want to see me. I remind him too much of his past apparently - of the forest and his friends especially.
I remind *him*? That boy has no idea - he hasn't been alive even half as long as I have. That place was my home since I was a larvae, and I knew each and every one of the Kokiri and their fairies by name...many of them are dead now, because Ganondorf got it into his head that Link would be in the forest, since he noticed me and assumed Link to be a Kokiri. But, he isn't (obviously). He's a blasted Hylian, who has it in his head that he doesn't need a fairy anymore.
So what am I to do then? I'm bound to him until one of us dies - that's the promise I made to the Deku-tree (Goddesses rest his soul), and I'm not going to break it because Link's having a tantrum. Seems harsh you say? You haven't known him as long as I have.
I mean, take the first time I met him. The Great Deku-tree was under a curse from the dark lord Ganondorf, and sent me out to find the 'boy without a fairy', and bring the boy to him. And how long does it take this kid to wake up? At least ten minutes - and then he tries to reach the Great Deku-tree, and gets waylaid by Mido, who tells him he needs a sword and shield to get past. What did Link do? Had a temper tantrum, right then and there, wailing that life wasn't fair, and how the hell was he supposed to get a sword if their wasn't one in the village anyway.
You look shocked? Have I uttered some blasphemy by telling you the truth? Yes, Link is undoubtedly brave, and he saved us - but he was a brat sometimes. Luckily, he grew out of it whilst he fought his way through the Temples as an adult, and then faced Ganondorf. But the cycle seems to have come back and turned him into a child again, sulking in his room, wailing that he shouldn't have been made a hero, blah-di-blah.
Maybe he's right... I mean, how many more male children were born to Hylian mothers on the night that he was bough to the forest? Dozens at least, so why this particular one? Any one of them could have been the hero, but Link was just in the right (or wrong depending on your perspective) place at the time.
Listen to me - I go on as though he's still a child. No, he's a man now, though still a child at heart. And he's confused - which he had every right to be, so I should stop berating him, and start looking after him properly. He just infuriates me sometimes - especially when he doesn't check his hat before throwing it across the room - the bruises I have from experiences like that are no joke.
It is just the way that he thinks he is the only one to have lost a home, and to have lost friends that annoys me. I lost just as much as he did. I had to leave the only home I had known, and all the friends I ever had in order to help him in his quest, and to make sure he was looked after properly. It is I who told him how to combat almost every enemy he came across, and what was safe to eat, where it was safe to pitch camp and those kinds of things.
I tutored him through the basic process of shaving for Goddesses' sake! How can he shut me out after that invaluable lesson in life? If it weren't for me, our young hero would have a beard a mile long by now!
However, those are all silly things - I learned to love him like a little brother as we travelled together - I even found him almost as annoying as one as well. And we shared our grief when we returned to the forest to find so many of our friends...
Oh Goddesses...
It just hits me every so often when I think about them. Just how many of them were...
I'm sorry - fairies crying are probably not something you're used to. Me neither - I didn't actually know we could until that day. There was this burning feeling at the corners of my eyes, and I was afraid for a second that something bad was happening, and then suddenly out came all these tears across my cheeks. Link was surprised as well, and after he had slayed the monsters around, he paused, and came out of his sudden rage to comfort me a little.
Whatever anyone may say about Link, he is loyal - he may become angry with you for a little while, but more often than not, he will try to make it up to you. He's told me to leave four times already now, but each time it's only been a few days before he asks me to stay. So I'm not worried, though I do get angry when he says it - almost as though I wasn't there during the whole of his adventures, telling him what to do to keep himself alive.
Sometimes, I wonder what life would have been like had I been a Hylian woman helping him. Would there have been something more than this diabolical teacher/student relationship. Would we have perhaps been proper friends like most fairy and Kokiri partnerships are. Even though I know he isn't a Kokiri - but you know what I mean!
Would he have respected me more if I had been like the Princess? Powerful and wise, and more importantly, the same seize as him! I mean, I believe if he couldn't keep sweeping me under his hat, I would be able to command some more respect at least. It's an interesting thought - Navi, the fairy turned Hylian...it sounds almost like some ridiculous child's story.
But it would have helped, that I do believe. All we fairies get quite a bad lot, because we have almost no power over our charges, other than what advice we can give them. And even with advice, there is no guarantee that it will be taken.
Alas, it's hard looking after Link. He's such a messed up Hylian, and fate's played around with him an awful lot. It just doesn't seem quite right that he should shut everyone out now, when he needs our help more than ever.
I'll go to him soon - I'll just have to dodge any flying pillows this time, because I don't fancy another night having to bathe in red-potion to get rid of more bruises. He will listen to me, though he may not want to hear what I have to say. Because he knows that I will only give him the advice he needs to hear, and not the advice he wants to hear. It's only what he deserves - someone who was with him from the beginning to help him out.
I hope I can help him out today - I dread to think what his mind gets up to whilst he spends all those hours idling in that stuffy room of his. It just cannot be healthy!
Maybe I should take him back to the forest - Zelda won't want that of course. But maybe if I can just take him back to the home that he misses for a little while. It might calm him down and make him a little happier. I think even the sight of Mido might cheer him up, and that is a definite indication of just how far into depression he has fallen.
Or maybe I should just take him out full stop. Show him all the people who are happy and alive, and who owe it all to him. To show him that they bear no grudge against him for the dead, and instead idolise him a little for it, as it shows that he too is human like them. It allows them to related to him, because he feels pain just as they do.
I have to make him do *something*. Anything. He just has to get out of this castle.
He has to get out of here before it suffocates him with its locks and guards and memories.
The memories here are terrible for me, and I did not see the better part of the last battle - so I hate to think what they are like for him. Even the smallest thing might trigger his memories - a particular way the light falls through the stained glass windows in his room - or the way a crow circles one of the towers.
Yes - both of us must flee this place before we drown in the memories.
I need to go home. Soon...
~/*\~/*\~/*\~
Hmm - did Navi seem a little bitter? Maybe it's just me, but I think she did...oh well. R+R my little angst fans, and [huggles] just be thankful your lives won't ever be quite as fucked up as these guys'. (Poor Zelda cast...I'm so mean to them.)
Soda