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== Majora's worshipers were an alternate universe counterpart to [[Shadow Archetype|Dark Link]]'s race ==
If you've played [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|TP]], chances are you remember that creepy cutscene where Lanayru described the history of the Fused Shadows. Now, as everyone and their mother has pointed our on the [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)/WMG|WMG page for that game]], Majora's Mask bears an uncanny resemblance to the Fused Shadows. Thus we can assume that the tribe that worshiped Majora's Mask and used it in dark rituals was the counterpart to the Twili's ancestors, and that the sealing of the proto-Twili in the Twilight Realm happened at the same time as the disappearance of the ancient tribe. But check the cutscene again. Who stands in for the Dark Interlopers? It's Dark Link. This at least implies that Dark Link's race was the proto-Twili, and thus the Majora worshipers.
 
== Skull Kid is Link's Terminian counterpart. ==
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Alternately, the cave is a time-bridge between Hyrule and Termina, and you go forward in time going from Hyrule to Termina, and backward in time going from Termina to Hyrule. This would explain that, and the fact that Termina is considerably more technologically advanced than Hyrule.
 
* He's obviously the Terminian counterpart of [[Doctor Who (TV)|The Doctor]]
 
== The Happy Mask Salesman is Vaati. ==
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== The Happy Mask Salesman isn't evil. ==
I know, it's the most wild of the wild mass guesses on this site, but think about it. There's nothing in any of the games that he's appeared in that suggests that he is evil. (Granted, I've only played Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time, if there's a game he appeared in that did have him as evil, feel free to correct me.) People always assume that he'd evil due to his creepy nature, but not all creepy people are evil. Heck, [[Doctor Who (TV)|The Doctor]] has a folder to himself on that series's [[Nightmare Fuel/Doctor|Who Nightmare Fuel page]], but no one's going to say he's evil. The only thing that he does that even comes close to evil is when he shakes Link around like a rag doll, but a) he was in the middle of a monumental freakout due to the idea that Termina's ultimate evil might return, I think we can forgive him for a brief moment of losing control, and b) [[Phantom Hourglass|Link getting shaken like that]] [[Skyward Sword|is nothing new.]] Aside from that, yeah, he gets that creepy face, but both times it appears, it's justified. In Ocarina of Time, Link has taken his products without giving him his money back. What kind of business would it be if he just let that slide? Compared to what others might do, a little nightmare face seems benign. The second time, in Majora's Mask, is during the aforementioned monumental freakout, when he was afraid that Termina's ultimate evil would bring about the apocalypse, and learned that Link hadn't followed through on his promise to get the mask back. A little anger there wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, and he cools down as soon as Link swears to get the mask back at all costs. And finally, when he says that Link's met with a terrible fate, the first time is when Link's been robbed completely, transformed into a Deku Scrub, and trapped in another dimention due for apocolypse in 3 days, and the only other time is when the moon crashes down, in which case Link is ''experiencing'' the apocolypse. That's not evil, that's stating the obvious. If anything, he seems relatively benign from some of his lines at the ending. No real proof of evil.
 
== The Happy Mask Salesman {{spoiler|doesn't exist.}} ==
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Instead of Hyrule, overlooked by the Royal Castle, there is only Clock Town, governed by a mayor. The Gorons have a chief rather than a king, and there seems to be at least some democracy involved in his selection. The Zora seem to lack a king as well, their society being either a democracy or an oligarchy. The only race retaining royalty are the Deku, who are sort of isolationist anyway.
 
* So Termina suffered [[The Great Politics Mess -Up]] kind of like the Soviet Union. It once was united and whole but it all split up. My guess would be that the Zoras were the only ones who didn't really set up a government, as they don't seem to have a leader or a military of any description. Which of course made the Great Bay a haven for pirates, kind of like Somalia.
 
== Ikana is Hyrule. ==
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Instead of Hyrule, overlooked by the Royal Castle, there is only Clock Town, governed by a mayor. The Gorons have a chief rather than a king, and there seems to be at least some democracy involved in his selection. The Zora seem to lack a king as well, their society being either a democracy or an oligarchy. The only race retaining royalty are the Deku, who are sort of isolationist anyway.
 
* So Termina suffered [[The Great Politics Mess -Up]] kind of like the Soviet Union. It once was united and whole but it all split up. My guess would be that the Zoras were the only ones who didn't really set up a government, as they don't seem to have a leader or a military of any description. Which of course made the Great Bay a haven for pirates, kind of like Somalia.
== At the end, Link chooses to keep traveling between Termina and Hyrule, becoming the Hero of Two Worlds ==
He's had one hell of a bonding session with Termina, so it's unlikely he'd just stay out of there forever. If nothing else, he'll have to keep sneaking back for more Chateu Romani. But the people of Hyrule are equally precious to him. Well, with the biggest threats to both worlds eliminated and only some odds and ends to take care of in each world, surely Link has enough time for both.
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* It was actually a bit of a pixellation issue in the SNES, but could Kafei's hair be a reference to the purple/pinkish hue sported by Link in ''A Link to the Past''?
* This troper supports this theory whole-heartedly. Didn't Tatl say something like "you're just like someone I know" (referring to Link) while talking to Kafei?
* Kafei is [[Fountain of Youth|a man trapped in a child's body]]. For the bulk of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|his last adventure]], Link was [[Overnight Age -Up|a child trapped in a man's body]]. Hmm...
 
== The Butler's Son is Link's Termina counterpart ==
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** [[Memetic Mutation|Cool story bro,]] [[Failed a Spot Check|but it's not hard to]] {{spoiler|look at the hyperlinks before clicking them; they both link to a Poe's soul.}}
 
== The Banker is a [[Doctor Who (TV)|Time Lord.]] ==
And the cow ornament is really his TARDIS. How else can he hold on to Link's ruppies when he travels back in time?
** Doesn't the guy at the Sword School also have one of those?