The Mask of the Fox: Majora's Mask part 22

    Remember during the finale to the ranch posts how I mentioned there was that groom who didn't show up when his fiancee was waiting with Cremia and Romani at the ranch?  Well, we're gonna talk about him now. This is the story of the only person who could be Link's equal in bravery and cunning.  Some would even suggest he is Link's doppelganger since Link is from Hyrule and this guy is from Termina.  I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but the similarities are quite apparent.  This is the story of Kafei (also it's probably gonna be another three parter like the ranch one was)

   When Link first entered Clock Town, it is very difficult to miss this guy.  He's a fellow with purple hair and a yellowish-golden fox mask (known in the Legend of Zelda as a Keaton mask, which comes from the Japanese word kitsune).  He walks down to a mailbox, puts in a letter, and then runs to a door in the wall by the laundry pool.  Despite sticking out like a sore thumb, no one else sees him.

Keaton Mask
(He's batman)

   After some poking around, Link may notice that the mayor of Clock Town has purple hair like the fellow in the Keaton Mask.  I'm no geneticist, but I think that would be a good starting point.  He says nothing about it,  however his wife mistakes Link for a private investigator (You think that sounds weird? Don't you know that in Japanese fiction all private investigators are children or got their start as children?).  She tells Link that her son, Kafei, went missing about a month ago.  Kafei is apparently a very famous man, but since Link was carried to Termina across the far reaching expanse of the multiverse, he has no clue who he is.  To aid Link in his investigation (since asking questions is difficult when the detective is mute) she gives him a mask in the likeness of Kafei (which is to say long purple hair). Nobody really knows where Kafei is, but the mailman acts all suspicious about it.  Following him after he picks up a letter from the mailbox the Keaton Mask wearing guy visited, he delivers the letter to Anju at the inn.  She's shocked that she received the letter and knows that it could only come from Kafei.  By wearing the mask in front of her, she invites Link to talk in the kitchen late at night about getting this letter.  She asks Link to deliver a letter in reply to the one received.

Actual Keaton Mask (looks like a Pikachu)

   After another round of mail delivery, the post man takes the letter to the laundry pools (Where the only purple haired individual in the entire town lives. This would not be so obvious if this wasn't the billionth time we reset time. If Link could talk, this would be a lot easier too.) After rising out of the laundry pool water like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now and running through the door the purple haired fellow came out of, Link finds himself in the back of the Old Curiosity Shop.  After waiting here a while, the purple haired fellow with the Keaton Mask charges in, cornering Link.
Next Post.

Actual Keaton
(scratch that Pikachu, it's a Ninetails sans six tails)