Did you just post those pictures to expedite people viewing them or did you not actually follow the links in the first post?
The first option. I'm not stupid; just strange and impulsive.
Of course Link will need a free appendage in this game. How else would he steer his kart? Or, perhaps this fairy will be the swordish equivalent of what Ezlo was in the Minish Cap, manifesting itself in an object and all...