Malon

Malon is a character in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and a few other Zelda games. She is a farm girl who teaches Link Epona's Song.

Child
Malon is a young girl with long red hair and blue eyes. She wears an ankle-length short-sleeved white dress with blue accents on the sleeves and hem, and a yellow bandanna tied around her neck and secured with a pin shaped like Bowser. Her shoes are simple brown boots.

Adult
Malon looks similar as an adult, with long red hair and blue eyes. As she is older, she has a more feminine form, and now wears a long dress with a white bodice and a light purple skirt, secured with a red-and-silver belt and with a brown apron over it. She wears the same bandanna and brooch as when she was younger, and still wears simple brown boots. She is often holding a basket.

In-game
Malon is the daughter of Talon, the owner of Lon Lon Ranch, and thus helps him out on the farm. Link first encounters her right past the Market, where she is standing below the vines Link can climb. She is frustrated because her father delivers goods to the Royal Family, but often falls asleep, and asks Link to wake him up. She gives him a Weird Egg, which, after a day has passed, hatches into a Cucco. When Link pulls the Cucco out near Talon, it squawks and wakes him. He runs off, worried that Malon will be mad. Link can go to Lon Lon Ranch and meet Malon again, at which point she recognizes him and teaches him Epona's Song, which her mother wrote for her before passing away.

When he returns seven years later to Lon Lon Ranch, he discovers that Ingo, the ranch hand, has taken over the ranch and kicked Talon, the owner, out, and is treated the animals and ranch cruelly. Malon has stayed and worked for him, scared he would abuse the horses if not. Since Ingo had been struggling to tame Epona, and Malon was the only one who could calm her, Ingo was going to give Epona to Ganondorf, before Link took her. Once he has Epona, Malon comes up with a minigame, letting Link race around the corral and try to beat her highest time. If he can, she sends a cow to his house in Kokiri Forest, which can be used as an unlimited and free source of Milk, as long as he has Empty Bottles. If he beats his time after this, she congratulates his and Epona's teamwork.

Trivia

 * Malon wears a brooch shaped like Bowser, the main antagonist of the Super Mario series.
 * Malon's child sprite is reused in Majora's Mask for the character Romani.
 * Her adult sprite is also used as Romani's older sister, Cremia.
 * There is no official artwork for Malon as an adult, however, there is artwork for Cremia, who has the same sprite as adult Malon, so that could be thought of as adult Malon as well.
 * A gossip stone mentions that Malon wants a "knight to sweep her away" and that she was the original record-holder of the Lon Lon Ranch obstacle course, beating it in 50 seconds.
 * If Link wears the Gerudo or Goron Mask and speaks to Malon's father, he says that it reminds him of Malon's mother, then quickly takes it back.