Still, his body is marked by death, and it is his death that permits Link to travel between identities, and between the worlds of those that yet live and those who once lived. Near the end of the underground path rests the twisted form of a young Deku Scrub, who is now forever bound to this grotesque liminal space, though it is unknown what brought him here, and to what end he came. It is in this fathomless cave complex that we first encounter the terrible truth lying behind the masks of this world. What results from this upwelling of emotion is a feverish chase through a vast underground root system. Reflected in the clear water at his feet, the image of an uncomprehending Deku Scrub gazes back, though the gravity of this transformation is overcome by renewed feelings of vengeance and a need for normalcy. Landing in an unknown chamber far below the earth, Link is confronted by the now-angry Skull Kid, who hexes Link, throwing him into a waking dream from which he emerges transformed. Unintelligible faces and shapes rise up from beneath him, set against the crackling sound of dead branches in a flame. As Link falls, he obtains a glimpse of the future, though this is yet unknown to him. It is this banishment that eventually leads him to the nameless wood and the parallel world of Termina. After those historied events in Hyrule, Princess Zelda sent Link into exile to prevent Ganondorf from ultimately entering the Sacred Realm and bringing about the cataclysm of the adult timeline. Majora’s Mask takes place only a few months after the ending of Ocarina of Time in the Era of the Hero of Time. Having nothing more to lose, he continues his pursuit, and is led yet deeper into the forest, through groves of fey lighting and blackened trees against a dark sky. In his frustration, deprived of all that was dearest to him, the boy gives chase through the grey vapor of twilight, only to be left alone before a cavernous void in the bole of a tree. Journeying through the distant forest between worlds, he is set upon, in his solitude, by an imp of the Lost Woods: a creature not animated by malice, but a being of childish mischief hearkening back to more carefree days of pranks, youth, and a pleasant land surrounded by bewilderment and peril. Following nothing but the orders of a princess and the overwhelming sense of grief that attended the sudden loss of his truest friend, he chases a lingering thought: that reunion is still possible, and that in this meeting he will at last find acceptance, peace, and himself. In his quest, though he had triumphed over evil and saved a kingdom, he had lost everything - his land, his youth, and his identity. He searches for a departed friend, the only being that can truly be said to understand him, his past, and his pain. Alone, a young boy on a horse slowly wanders through an uncanny wood of fallow trees and dying light.
The first feelings are those of confusion, anger, and sorrow. Written with advice and editing from Hunter McGee and Matt Louscher
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