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.

Courtship, Curiosity Shop, and the Third Wheel: Majora's Mask part 23

     With no way out, Link is not getting out and the purple haired person's hideout has been revealed.  However, fox face (Hunger Games reference? in my Pixels? it's more likely than you think.) recognizes Link from the description of green clothes in Anju's letter.  Satisfied with Link's silent promise to keep a secret, the person removes the Keaton Mask to reveal he is in fact Kafei.  Tatl (that's the fairy in case you forgot, she's been here the whole time) says that the Kafei they are looking for is an adult.  Kafei mentions that a masked imp (probably Rorschach from Watchmen) transformed him into a child.

oh... close but no cigar I guess.  

  He goes on to say that his sudden transformation is not the reason he is hiding but rather something important was stolen from him.  The mask that he must unite with Anju's was stolen (read part 17 for further details) by a bald smiling man.  This character, who I have not discussed yet, is named Sakon.  He's an all around trouble maker. He robs an old lady on the night of the first day, tries to steal Link's sword in Ikana Canyon, and has a most unpleasant little canter.  Kafei is having a stakeout and cannot leave since he is waiting for Sakon to come to the Curiosity Shop.  It also just so happens that Kafei has the Keaton mask to wear in the absence of his Sun Mask.

btw, this is what he looks like.

  Apparently this is a world where everybody has a ton of masks lying around.  This is like going over to meet your significant other's parents, and upon entering the house everybody is wearing masks.  It would be alright if they were celebrating Mardi Gras, but instead they're doing whatever normal families do when you go over to visit the parent's of your significant other but with masks (I can't exactly put my finger on what one does in these situations, has dinner? talks about aspirations and interests? watches the game that isn't a video game? please leave a comment if you can enlighten me on this matter. I'm rambling from all the coffee I drank, but a comment would still be appreciated.)


  In his effort to comfort Anju in his absence, Kafei tasks Link with bringing her a pendant that only the real Kafei would own.  This effectively promotes Link to the role of intermediary and third wheel.  I sorta think this is ridiculous because Link can kill monsters, climb mountains, follow suspicious characters, avoid detection, and solve intense physics puzzles and yet he gets stuck with making the deliveries.  He's going to be the one to try and avert the apocalypse and yet he's just being the mailman working overtime.  Is it because Kafei is an adult in child form because technically Link could boast the same thing.  Whatever, Link gets the Keaton Mask for doing this because when he comes back Kafei has gone in pursuit of Sakon to Ikana Canyon.


    edited note:  I mentioned this guy is pretty cool in a previous post, and he's not a horrible person.  I just get a little belligerent after one too many cups of coffee.  We'll pick up with him redeeming himself in a treasure cave.