Aaaaaaaaaaah!

This picture officially introduces Rana, a young Hylian who I made up. Because I made her up when I was very young, her backstory is uncomfortably ‘Mary-Sue-ish’ or a character who is too good to be true – or a self-insert. Rana, two years younger than Link, was discovered on the edge of the Kokiri Forest by one of the Kokiri children. She was given a fairy and taken in by them, even more quickly than Link, who, as we know, didn’t get a fairy until the beginning of Ocarina of Time. Then, because she leaves the forest with Link (side-kick character) she grows up during the seven years he sleeps in the Sacred Realm.

During this time, she turned from a chubby little girl into a lithe, wiry acrobat-fighter. She uses a Hylian sword, of course, but it takes her a long, long time to find one. She was captured when she was fifteen, and had to wait two long, mind-cracking years to be rescued by Link when he came back. She had what her fairy Naeri called “over-developed vengeance complex”, and this picture is of her healing.

Link, after he beats the Forest Temple, goes to the Great Deku Tree’s glade and sees a tiny plant… which explodes out of the ground into a small tree, scaring him. He falls over on his back, yelling in fright… and realizes that nothing’s attacking him. So, when he found Rana couldn’t laugh anymore, he eventually took her there and copied what he had done, and she stared – and then laughed. Yes! Score one for the hyper side!