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Chris Allcock
@taskbaarchitect.com

Okay, hear me out here. Link's Awakening, yeah? When you're at the beach together, Marin says she dreams of being a seagull and escaping Koholint. If you get the 000 ending, you see a seagull. Now, it's always been my belief that Marin IS a full, caught in the Wind Fish's dream as link has been...

Chris Allcock
@taskbaarchitect.com

So it's a "butterfly dreaming it's a human" situation for her. But there's more: near the end of the game, Marin ventures up into Tal-Tal Heights. After she leaves, the owl appears and says bemusedly that Marin went to sing to the egg, pondering if she believed she could wake the Wind Fish.

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Chris Allcock
@taskbaarchitect.com

The thing is, Marin's song WORKS. It can wake the Wind Fish! I think that consciously or not, this is Marin having concocted a way to end the dream, so that she can escape it and return to the free-flying seagull form she dreams of.