The Vacant Wedding: Majora's Mask part 24

    Link meets with Kafei behind a rock on the final day in the canyon.  How Kafei managed to climb over the protective wall, the cliff, and avoid all the monsters is entirely beyond me, but here he proves that he can be kinda heroic too.  If I were to make a comparison, I'd say Kafei is sort of like the Rory Williams of this world.  The more you think about what he's doing, the more awesome he comes across.  The fact he got here without a horse or a sword makes him pretty cool.


   So Sakon prances up to the door of his hideout, does some open sesame stuff on the side of a canyon, and Kafei and Link run in before the door closes.  Kafei sees his mask sitting in a nice display case at the front of the hideout and runs straight for it, triggering a pressure plate.  I guess love really is blindness.  The mask starts moving out of the case down a conveyor belt to a shoot in the far side of the hideout.  I believe Tatl sasses Kafei for his mistake (misery loves company. friend).  At this point, the player is given control of Kafei's actions.  Kafei runs into the next room which is full of pressure plates, some which speed up the conveyor belt, others which return it to normal speed, and others still that open door.  As Kafei opens doors, Link runs into the next room and slays all the monsters within.  They continue this pattern as the rooms get more and more complex, but finally Link and Kafei make it to the mask just in time.  Kafei reveals that he promised Anju he would get to the inn so they could have their wedding.  He wants Link to witness it.  Link uses the Ocarina of Time to get there quickly since it can travel through both time and space.

Something Old, Something New
Something Borrowed, Something Blue

     As Link arrives in Clock Town, it is a familiar site from the first time he visited.  The streets are empty, the clock tower is ringing ominously, and the moon stares the city down.  Link enters the vacant inn to find Anju sitting alone in a room with her mask.  After about an hour and a half, Kafei shows up.  Although she doesn't recognize him at first, she quickly picks up on who he is.  They embrace and exchange masks, forming the Couple's Mask.  Giving this mask to Link, they tell him to escape and find shelter.

Kinda bittersweet if you ask me.

    As far as Link's actions go in this game, I feel like this one is the most meaningful.  Link slays monsters and lifts curses, fights aliens and bandits, proves his prowess on a horse and with a bow, and amid all of this reunites a couple.  I feel like this makes all the trouble worth it in the end.  What is done here differs from any action of any previous incarnation of Link.  Rather than helping a princess, Link helped an innkeeper.  Rather than slay a monster, Link delivered letters.  Rather than punish the thief, Link aided the ruined.  I mentioned that Majora's Mask flew in the face of the traditional legend.  If Link can't save the world for everyone, he at least saved the world for a couple  whom many doubted and everyone had forsaken.  This makes him a different sort of hero than any knight in shining armor.


   With only a couple hours left, Link would play the Song of Time, but instead he goes to the Clock Tower. Skull Kid has waited long enough.