Yetiman15 said:
watercat8 said:
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Oh O.K never mind then. There are a lot of theories about that. A lot of people including myself belive Majora is a female goddess.
A theory i believe, taken from Zeldapedia:
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Spoiler: click to toggle</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">Motive
Majora is the only Zelda antagonist who does not seem to have clear motives. Most villains, such as Ganon or Zant wish to rule their land, but Majora seems happy with destruction. As it amplifies the wearer's dark desires, the motive for each owner may be different. However, Majora itself most likely has differing motives from the wearer, corrupting their mind and bringing about its own ends for destruction. It seems to have a very pronounced sadistic streak, not only causing destruction but causing Skull Kid to use the mask's powers to generally make the lives of Termina's inhabitants miserable. Another theory that is plausible (but doesn't seem very likely) is that Majora is just extremely sadistic: to the point that he decides to commit genocide on a major scale just to get kicks out of it.
There is, however, a plausible theory. Majora was a child who lived in a culture that wore special masks everyday, but the mask had to represent something. Although the 4 boss masks resemble something (fish, bull, jungle warrior, insect), Majora's Mask represented nothing. As a result of Majora's mask representing nothing, the other children refused to play with him. Everyday Majora sat by that tree, lonely, angry, and depressed, because nobody would play with him. Majora, being the eccentric one of his tribe, believed that his mask would represent something. Thus, he imbued the mask with the power to absorb the emotions of the wearer. However, since his emotions were negative for being looked down upon, the mask absorbed these feelings, but Majora could not do anything about it, since it was a tradition in his culture for children to wear their mask until adulthood. Majora's Mask, filled with these negative emotions, became a "mask of devils". Once it left its user, it began to cause chaos, but was defeated by the Fierce Deity. However, he had failed to destroy the Mask, and its negative emotions still survived inside of it. It was weakened, however, and was soon found by an ancient tribe and because of the dark power stemming from Majora's negative emotions, was used in the tribe's hexing rituals.
However, because of the dark magic it was used for, Majora's Mask fed off of this power and began to regain its strength. The tribe, fearing what would happen if it regained all of its power, sealed the Mask away, hoping that it would never again resurface. However, the ancient tribe soon died out afterwards. In time, the Happy Mask Salesman, presumably Majora, somehow discovered the Mask's location, and presumably wanting his mask back, went to find it, which he did. Majora's Mask, being sealed away for so long, had plenty of time to plan for its actions. First, it sensed a being who had much of the same emotions that its old owner did (this being that it sensed was the Skull Kid), and reached out to it. The Skull Kid, drawn by the Mask's power, ambushed the Happy Mask Salesman, and stole Majora's Mask. The Skull Kid then put the Mask on, and since the Mask had so many similar emotions to the Skull Kid, it began to take over him.
Majora's Mask was still quite weak in power, and had very little control over the Skull Kid, but it fed off of the emotions of the Skull Kid's and since these emotions matched the emotions of Majora's Mask, it grew much stronger, until it had total control over the Skull Kid. Now powerful enough, the Mask was able to put its plan into action. It sealed up the Four Giants, and, using the masks of the children who refused to play with Majora, created guardians to keep the Giants locked up. Majora's Mask then proceeded to pull the Moon out of orbit, and then waited for it to crash into Termina, killing everyone. If the Mask had been successful, it would have fed off of the death and suffering caused by the Moon crashing into Termina. It would have gained legendary power. </div>
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