Happy Mask Salesman: Villain or Hero? (Legend of Zelda Lore)

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  @Zeltik · 4 years ago · pinned

  Somehow forgot to mention that the children inside Majora's Mask's moon resemble the Happy Mask Salesman. They too talk about the happiness inside Link's masks, and give him the Fierce Deity Mask in return for all of them. Makes the Mask Salesman all the more mysterious- how are they related to him? does he know about them?

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  @davidker8820 · 4 years ago

  “The Happy Mask Salesman smiles even when enraged…”<br><br>So basically, he’s every retail employee ever.

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  @DarkRavenWolf50 · 4 years ago (edited)

  It is also worth mentioning that the HMS seems to know that Link can time travel. When he goes back in time, Link is essentially transported to the exact time when he exits the inside of clock tower. So when the HMS sees Link for the first time and sees him go through the doors, it is LITERAL seconds from his pov when Link comes back and yet he does not question how Link got his ocarina back in those mere seconds and even expects Link to have the mask already.

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  @0perativeX · 4 years ago

  The Happy Mask Salesman&apos;s demeanor is on a par with anyone else who has worked in retail for that long. Customers drive him into insanity, his outbursts are the effect, Karens are the cause.

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  @_pitako · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s super awesome that years later we&apos;re still trying to figure things out about Majora&apos;s Mask&apos;s story behind the scenes. That&apos;s something I consider to be a mark of a good game; that people, years later, still talk about it. If Majora&apos;s Mask wasn&apos;t so infamously dark and mysterious, I wonder if we&apos;d be talking about it to this day

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  @thecycloneappears8931 · 3 years ago

  When completing Majora’s Mask recently, i realised how when talking to the happy mask salesman he makes jittery movements without animations. For example, when he teaches you the song of healing, he goes from standing up to immediately sitting down in front of a piano that had suddenly appeared.i thought this was a slightly creepy detail about him.

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  @FoxxyFighter-HellFrost · 4 years ago

  It seems like the Happy Mask salesman is a time walker. Every game he or his ancestors have been in, time travel occurs. This can&apos;t be a mistake.

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  @anonymousfellow8879 · 4 years ago

  Happy Mask Salesman strikes me as a minor kami—extremely unsettling, chaotic, and destructive…but can be called on for assistance. Nevermind his actions are the catalyst for Termina’s current misfortune, and he quite literally demands Link to fix the mess he indirectly caused…but that’s gods for you. Especially the ones that cannot be called good by any means, but aren’t quite direct enough to easily qualify as evil

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  @queazy03 · 3 years ago

  Miyamoto is the basis for the Happy Mask Salesman in Ocarina Of Time! &nbsp;It&apos;s an in-joke of the developers how he&apos;s usually happy, but when he doesn&apos;t get his way he can get angry. &nbsp;The Boo characters from Mario series is also based on somebody&apos;s wife, who is real shy around everybody but gets angry at her husband when she&apos;s alone with him. &nbsp;J. Jonah Jameson is also based on Stan Lee, in that he&apos;s an exaggerated caricature of how the others in the office viewed him.

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  @mana7047 · 4 years ago

  I like to imagine the Happy Mask Salesman is probably designed to be similar to a DM&apos;s OC kind of thing. Where it&apos;s a NPC that, suspiciously, knows way too much about the session (or game in this case) and wants to not be directly involved with the game, but will help give a little push to guide the player to victory

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  @SiestaYonJyuGo · 1 year ago

  How come everyone doesn&apos;t make the connection that the mask salesman knowing a song that turns living things into masks is a terrifying concept?

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  @MumboJ · 4 years ago

  You suggest an ancestor from Skyward Sword, yet no mention of Batreaux!!<br>The friendly demon merchant with a creepy smile who literally uses the power of gratitude (from making people happy) to transform himself into a human.<br>Forget the ancestor, I&apos;m convinced that Batreaux IS the Happy Mask Salesman!!

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