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Now this is gonna be a very thought-provoking and possibly offensive entry of the Majora series… says episode 2. I apologize in advance if this puts you in a dull mood.

Now last time we went over how Termina symbolizes death, the 5 stages of mourning, the word terminal, however there’s another theme in the game that coincides with death. Now we all are afraid of death, we don’t want to die, but why is this? And yes, that’s a stupid question, but hear me out. Now many figure that dying is extremely painful, and that sucks. Also we aren’t exactly sure what happens when you die. So many religions have their inputs on what happens, but how do you know the one you practice is the right answer? Also many religions say if you were good, you go to a good place, and if you were bad, you go to a bad place. Some may not know which side they may end up, seeing we don’t know how tight the requirements are. A big reason is also loss of experience, nothing can happen to you ever again, you’ll never go to an amusement park of play sports or games or anything. But the big ringer in this case is probably the one huge reason that determines whether we are open to death or not. Love.

Think about any time you’ve heard of someone wanting to commit suicide, main reason always involves love. “I have no friends. I look ugly and no one likes me. My boyfriend or girlfriend left me, I have no family, and I’m a loser.” All these reasons show up a lot when you see a suicidal person, and all center around love. Love is actually a very common thing. When you care for a friend, that’s love. When you want to be with your family, that’s love. And being in a relationship, of course, involves lots and lots of love. Love is a great thing and it keeps an individual going. Usually people who never felt alone are torn when they lose a connection with another. If you are an older reader and you can remember when you were a mature teen, have you had a first break-up? Was it drastic or subtle? And how did you feel afterward? Usually upon feeling love we reconsider our lives to include whoever we love. An old college friend moving in with you, a new girlfriend, a child. Once we know how we are living with them, we start to wrap our lives around them. If they get taken away, it’s hard to focus on life without them. And like how there’s always a little mark left over when you erase a miss-spell, you never completely forget someone you knew.

Spoilers incoming, don’t come whining to me k?

So we can now see how when one person dies, the people who loved them are put into the 5 stages of grief and mourning while people who don’t feel love don’t care whether they die or not, so how do we see this in the game? Well I’m not holding you in suspense, anyone who’s familiar with Majora’s Mask’s side-quests is thinking about the longest, most thought out side-quest in LoZ history. Anju and Kafei’s side-quest.

Starting on every first day we see a boy with a Keaton mask put a letter in a mailbox. It is the only letter to be delivered that day. Now if you talk to Madame Aroma in the mayor’s office she’ll mistake you for her hired detective and enlist you in her search for her son Kafei by giving you a mask similar to his face. Now by investigating his room, you find his diary saying he was last going to the milk bar for a bachelor party to celebrate his upcoming wedding with the inn-keeper’s daughter, Anju. Once the mailman delivers his only letter to Anju and you talk to her (with your mask of course) she asks you to talk to her at 11:30 that night in the kitchen. If you can meet up with her, she says the letter was from Kafei to her, and she than gives you a letter to put in a mailbox. The next day after the mailman gets your letter you must follow him to the laundry pool as he gives the letter to that boy with the pikac-KEATON mask. If you go through the door he was in and wait for him to come back he recognizes you from the letter he received and reveals he is Kafei. He was turned into a child by Skull Kid, as the mask sensed Kafei’s happiness. However, Kafei is fine with being a child, he just won’t expose himself because a robber stole his mask. He is the same robber who steals the old bomb lady’s bomb bags at midnight on the first day. He tells you to give Anju a pendant to let her know he’ll come for her. The next day at around 1 or 1:30 you find the curiosity shop owner who tells you he found out about Kafei’s problem and wants you to help out. He gives you a Keaton mask, a letter you can give to Madame Aroma in the milk bar at the final night or the mailman to give it to her, and says Kafei is waiting at Ikana Canyon. You go there and wait till the final night, then hide to keep the robber from noticing you, then save the mask before the robber can escape with it. Kafei will return to Anju as she waits in the inn, and on the last 3 or 2 hours he will come. Yeah, I told you it was the longest, most precise side quest in history.

Anju, of course, accepts her love no matter how he looks, and the two fuse the sun and moon masks into the couple’s mask, which they give to you as thanks. With one hour left until Termina is destroyed, they gladly embrace each other until the end, not knowing you are slowly saving them time travel by time travel, not caring if the world ends as long as they are together. So yeah, that’s touching, but now with the big show-stopper explained for like the 3rd time (I’ve covered this side-quest before ) let’s see more examples of loss of love causing despair in Termina. In the swamp the king of the deku palace is enraged due to the loss of his daughter. In his rage he jumps to conclusions at once, blaming the monkey last seen with her. He had a lot of love, but due to his foolishly rash nature he can’t find a good way to resolve it. Oh, and it may have something to do with the purple water, that doesn’t look healthy to me…

In the mountains Darmani is put into a state of not being able to pass on as he is devastated for disappointing his people. He loves them, and he was the basis of society in which everyone relies on one guy to do any, oh right I already used that joke… point is he’s torn for dying and leaving his friends to bite the snow. Lulu, the very BASIS of depression in our story, lost her babies, HER BABIES. She’s sure their doomed, and now silently stares into the ocean. Once she finds out their ok she finally regains her voice and can move on knowing she is a mother, and as for Mikau, he died trying to save the babies of his girlfriend because he knew how much she cared for them. Ikana canyon? Well there may be an allegory with the captains of the castle not remembering the purpose of the war they fought in or how they died, because war is the opposite of love, instead of living for a friend you live to ruin another’s life. Because the professor guy became a monster, his daughter stopped at nothing to protect him from others. Finally in Romani ranch, we see Cremia’s concerns for her little sister on two separate occasions. If Romani is captured and experimented on by alien ghosts, Cremia regrets not trusting her ridiculous claims and letting her sister end up traumatized. When you save the ranch AND deliver the milk properly, on the third day Romani claims her sister is letting her drink a highly alcoholic beverage, and she’s apparently oblivious to the moon crashing soon. It seems Cremia wants to drug up her sister so she never notices the destruction of the world, and as drastic as those measures seem, it shows Cremia didn’t want Romani to be sad on her last day of life.

So that shows the 2 themes of the game, love and death. But exactly WHY is Majora causing so much pain and strife in the first place? None of this is a coincidence, Majora has plans, and in the next two sections of the series we’ll look at the world through the eyes of Majora. I hope this didn't make you worry too much, I personally hate to dwell on the sad things myself, but at least you guys know I’m not a happy-go-lucky idiot.
Now this is gonna be a very thought-provoking and possibly offensive entry of the Majora series… says episode 2. I apologize in advance if this puts you in a dull mood.

Now last time we went over how Termina symbolizes death, the 5 stages of mourning, the word terminal, however there’s another theme in the game that coincides with death. Now we all are afraid of death, we don’t want to die, but why is this? And yes, that’s a stupid question, but hear me out. Now many figure that dying is extremely painful, and that sucks. Also we aren’t exactly sure what happens when you die. So many religions have their inputs on what happens, but how do you know the one you practice is the right answer? Also many religions say if you were good, you go to a good place, and if you were bad, you go to a bad place. Some may not know which side they may end up, seeing we don’t know how tight the requirements are. A big reason is also loss of experience, nothing can happen to you ever again, you’ll never go to an amusement park of play sports or games or anything. But the big ringer in this case is probably the one huge reason that determines whether we are open to death or not. Love.

Think about any time you’ve heard of someone wanting to commit suicide, main reason always involves love. “I have no friends. I look ugly and no one likes me. My boyfriend or girlfriend left me, I have no family, and I’m a loser.” All these reasons show up a lot when you see a suicidal person, and all center around love. Love is actually a very common thing. When you care for a friend, that’s love. When you want to be with your family, that’s love. And being in a relationship, of course, involves lots and lots of love. Love is a great thing and it keeps an individual going. Usually people who never felt alone are torn when they lose a connection with another. If you are an older reader and you can remember when you were a mature teen, have you had a first break-up? Was it drastic or subtle? And how did you feel afterward? Usually upon feeling love we reconsider our lives to include whoever we love. An old college friend moving in with you, a new girlfriend, a child. Once we know how we are living with them, we start to wrap our lives around them. If they get taken away, it’s hard to focus on life without them. And like how there’s always a little mark left over when you erase a miss-spell, you never completely forget someone you knew.

Spoilers incoming, don’t come whining to me k?

So we can now see how when one person dies, the people who loved them are put into the 5 stages of grief and mourning while people who don’t feel love don’t care whether they die or not, so how do we see this in the game? Well I’m not holding you in suspense, anyone who’s familiar with Majora’s Mask’s side-quests is thinking about the longest, most thought out side-quest in LoZ history. Anju and Kafei’s side-quest.

Starting on every first day we see a boy with a Keaton mask put a letter in a mailbox. It is the only letter to be delivered that day. Now if you talk to Madame Aroma in the mayor’s office she’ll mistake you for her hired detective and enlist you in her search for her son Kafei by giving you a mask similar to his face. Now by investigating his room, you find his diary saying he was last going to the milk bar for a bachelor party to celebrate his upcoming wedding with the inn-keeper’s daughter, Anju. Once the mailman delivers his only letter to Anju and you talk to her (with your mask of course) she asks you to talk to her at 11:30 that night in the kitchen. If you can meet up with her, she says the letter was from Kafei to her, and she than gives you a letter to put in a mailbox. The next day after the mailman gets your letter you must follow him to the laundry pool as he gives the letter to that boy with the pikac-KEATON mask. If you go through the door he was in and wait for him to come back he recognizes you from the letter he received and reveals he is Kafei. He was turned into a child by Skull Kid, as the mask sensed Kafei’s happiness. However, Kafei is fine with being a child, he just won’t expose himself because a robber stole his mask. He is the same robber who steals the old bomb lady’s bomb bags at midnight on the first day. He tells you to give Anju a pendant to let her know he’ll come for her. The next day at around 1 or 1:30 you find the curiosity shop owner who tells you he found out about Kafei’s problem and wants you to help out. He gives you a Keaton mask, a letter you can give to Madame Aroma in the milk bar at the final night or the mailman to give it to her, and says Kafei is waiting at Ikana Canyon. You go there and wait till the final night, then hide to keep the robber from noticing you, then save the mask before the robber can escape with it. Kafei will return to Anju as she waits in the inn, and on the last 3 or 2 hours he will come. Yeah, I told you it was the longest, most precise side quest in history.

Anju, of course, accepts her love no matter how he looks, and the two fuse the sun and moon masks into the couple’s mask, which they give to you as thanks. With one hour left until Termina is destroyed, they gladly embrace each other until the end, not knowing you are slowly saving them time travel by time travel, not caring if the world ends as long as they are together. So yeah, that’s touching, but now with the big show-stopper explained for like the 3rd time (I’ve covered this side-quest before ) let’s see more examples of loss of love causing despair in Termina. In the swamp the king of the deku palace is enraged due to the loss of his daughter. In his rage he jumps to conclusions at once, blaming the monkey last seen with her. He had a lot of love, but due to his foolishly rash nature he can’t find a good way to resolve it. Oh, and it may have something to do with the purple water, that doesn’t look healthy to me…

In the mountains Darmani is put into a state of not being able to pass on as he is devastated for disappointing his people. He loves them, and he was the basis of society in which everyone relies on one guy to do any, oh right I already used that joke… point is he’s torn for dying and leaving his friends to bite the snow. Lulu, the very BASIS of depression in our story, lost her babies, HER BABIES. She’s sure their doomed, and now silently stares into the ocean. Once she finds out their ok she finally regains her voice and can move on knowing she is a mother, and as for Mikau, he died trying to save the babies of his girlfriend because he knew how much she cared for them. Ikana canyon? Well there may be an allegory with the captains of the castle not remembering the purpose of the war they fought in or how they died, because war is the opposite of love, instead of living for a friend you live to ruin another’s life. Because the professor guy became a monster, his daughter stopped at nothing to protect him from others. Finally in Romani ranch, we see Cremia’s concerns for her little sister on two separate occasions. If Romani is captured and experimented on by alien ghosts, Cremia regrets not trusting her ridiculous claims and letting her sister end up traumatized. When you save the ranch AND deliver the milk properly, on the third day Romani claims her sister is letting her drink a highly alcoholic beverage, and she’s apparently oblivious to the moon crashing soon. It seems Cremia wants to drug up her sister so she never notices the destruction of the world, and as drastic as those measures seem, it shows Cremia didn’t want Romani to be sad on her last day of life.

So that shows the 2 themes of the game, love and death. But exactly WHY is Majora causing so much pain and strife in the first place? None of this is a coincidence, Majora has plans, and in the next two sections of the series we’ll look at the world through the eyes of Majora. I hope this didn't make you worry too much, I personally hate to dwell on the sad things myself, but at least you guys know I’m not a happy-go-lucky idiot.
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“I have no friends. I look ugly and no one likes me. My boyfriend or girlfriend left me, I have no family, and I’m a loser.”Mecha Leo:

Great job! I'm really happy that you are putting time into this and can talk so in depth about things like this!

Now, it's very interesting that you brought up love, and I totally agree with you about love being a driving force in our lives to as whether are lives are worth living or not.

In fact, Ancient Jewish wisdom covers this subject right out of the Garden of Eden- without bring up Adam and Eve either.

You see,

A river flows out from Eden to water the Garden,
and from there it is divided and becomes four headwaters.
Genesis 2:10


If the purpose of the river is to “water the Garden,” it ought to flow into Eden rather than out from Eden.

So, why did God make it this way then?

Well, it is because each of these four rivers, carry an answer to man's fullfillment to our lives. The things that we need to be full, Here is a list of those things, of which, many are lacking in Majora's Mask.

We possess both physical and spiritual needs and the world can provide us with both physical and spiritual commodities. Combined, that makes four drives.  Here they are with examples of how each drive is fulfilled.


  • 1  What I need physically and the world supplies physically:   food, water, shelter
  • 2  What I need physically and the world supplies spiritually:   friendship, connection, love, and esteem of others
  • 3  What I need spiritually and the world supplies physically:   a sense of security, beauty and culture
  • 4  What I need spiritually and the world supplies spiritually:   a connection with God, gaining of wisdom


  • How much of this is lacking in many people and places thourout MM?

    LOTS!

    First of all, lot's of places are lacking this:

    a sense of security

    The moon is falling, and life is getting worthless, in fact, if everyone knew that the world would end tomorrow, what would happen to the value of your money?

    It would greatly plummet, for no amount of money would save you from destruction, all these years of trade and commerce, useless! In fact, the banker in the game comments on how "the moon won't fall, save you money, come on guys!"

    Oh course, there are those who keep on going and deny, "death" just like you pointed out earlier.

    Love is terribly absent throughout the game, with Kafie, Lulu, her babies and Ikana.

    Darania cannot get his village the heat they need to survive, or the food. They are even getting frozen in the cold whether in giant ice structures. 

     - What I need physically and the world supplies physically:   food, water, shelter

    The  Deku are lacking in sense of security, and love, as their princess has been kidnapped.

    - What I need physically and the world supplies spiritually:   friendship, connection, love, and esteem of others

    The Zora's have lost their new babies, which is kindof important, especially if Lulu is the only girl, which seems to be the case with Zora's, you know, that they don't have many females. (psssst. . . . is Mikau even married to her? O_o)

    - What I need physically and the world supplies spiritually:   friendship, connection, love, and esteem of others

    (please note that after Link leaves, even though people think that Mikau is back from the dead, it is as if he left without a good reason, possibly even for a hotter Zora, same for Darania coming back from death, although I think that the Gorons, having seen Darania's death would have guessed that he was only allowed to come back from the dead for a short time, the Zora's on the other hand never found out what happened to Mikua, unless they finally found that memorial, though I wonder if any zora's saw it while Link was still running around as Mikua? Or maybe they never found it, or passed it off as a trick by the pirates since they know that they saw him alive?)

    and:

    - What I need spiritually and the world supplies physically:   a sense of security, beauty and culture

    And Ikana, wich is only consumed with winning the war, as are the enemy Garos, who also cannot give up on their conquests of the days of old. Losely based on this:

    - What I need spiritually and the world supplies spiritually:   a connection with God, gaining of wisdom

    These are not religious people who care about right and wrong, they are consumed with regret and unforgiveness, only caring that they destroy the enemy.

    What do you think about that Mecha? How do you like my views on all this? XD


    “I have no friends. I look ugly and no one likes me. My boyfriend or girlfriend left me, I have no family, and I’m a loser.”Mecha Leo:

    Great job! I'm really happy that you are putting time into this and can talk so in depth about things like this!

    Now, it's very interesting that you brought up love, and I totally agree with you about love being a driving force in our lives to as whether are lives are worth living or not.

    In fact, Ancient Jewish wisdom covers this subject right out of the Garden of Eden- without bring up Adam and Eve either.

    You see,

    A river flows out from Eden to water the Garden,
    and from there it is divided and becomes four headwaters.
    Genesis 2:10


    If the purpose of the river is to “water the Garden,” it ought to flow into Eden rather than out from Eden.

    So, why did God make it this way then?

    Well, it is because each of these four rivers, carry an answer to man's fullfillment to our lives. The things that we need to be full, Here is a list of those things, of which, many are lacking in Majora's Mask.

    We possess both physical and spiritual needs and the world can provide us with both physical and spiritual commodities. Combined, that makes four drives.  Here they are with examples of how each drive is fulfilled.


  • 1  What I need physically and the world supplies physically:   food, water, shelter
  • 2  What I need physically and the world supplies spiritually:   friendship, connection, love, and esteem of others
  • 3  What I need spiritually and the world supplies physically:   a sense of security, beauty and culture
  • 4  What I need spiritually and the world supplies spiritually:   a connection with God, gaining of wisdom


  • How much of this is lacking in many people and places thourout MM?

    LOTS!

    First of all, lot's of places are lacking this:

    a sense of security

    The moon is falling, and life is getting worthless, in fact, if everyone knew that the world would end tomorrow, what would happen to the value of your money?

    It would greatly plummet, for no amount of money would save you from destruction, all these years of trade and commerce, useless! In fact, the banker in the game comments on how "the moon won't fall, save you money, come on guys!"

    Oh course, there are those who keep on going and deny, "death" just like you pointed out earlier.

    Love is terribly absent throughout the game, with Kafie, Lulu, her babies and Ikana.

    Darania cannot get his village the heat they need to survive, or the food. They are even getting frozen in the cold whether in giant ice structures. 

     - What I need physically and the world supplies physically:   food, water, shelter

    The  Deku are lacking in sense of security, and love, as their princess has been kidnapped.

    - What I need physically and the world supplies spiritually:   friendship, connection, love, and esteem of others

    The Zora's have lost their new babies, which is kindof important, especially if Lulu is the only girl, which seems to be the case with Zora's, you know, that they don't have many females. (psssst. . . . is Mikau even married to her? O_o)

    - What I need physically and the world supplies spiritually:   friendship, connection, love, and esteem of others

    (please note that after Link leaves, even though people think that Mikau is back from the dead, it is as if he left without a good reason, possibly even for a hotter Zora, same for Darania coming back from death, although I think that the Gorons, having seen Darania's death would have guessed that he was only allowed to come back from the dead for a short time, the Zora's on the other hand never found out what happened to Mikua, unless they finally found that memorial, though I wonder if any zora's saw it while Link was still running around as Mikua? Or maybe they never found it, or passed it off as a trick by the pirates since they know that they saw him alive?)

    and:

    - What I need spiritually and the world supplies physically:   a sense of security, beauty and culture

    And Ikana, wich is only consumed with winning the war, as are the enemy Garos, who also cannot give up on their conquests of the days of old. Losely based on this:

    - What I need spiritually and the world supplies spiritually:   a connection with God, gaining of wisdom

    These are not religious people who care about right and wrong, they are consumed with regret and unforgiveness, only caring that they destroy the enemy.

    What do you think about that Mecha? How do you like my views on all this? XD


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    Well it's nice to see a competing theorist in here. Usually it's good to have opposite opinions to help improve both points of view. But yeah, hopefully tomorrow I can crank out another, I'm getting my Majora fever on with Hyrule Warriors
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