As Link approaches Ikana Canyon in the build-up to the penultimate act of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one barely-noticeable NPC ironically sticks out. Shiro is a Clock Town Soldier – far from home, invisible to anyone that passes him, and desperate to carve out the effervescent personality that he so solemnly believes he lacks.
“I'm shocked. You're the first person who's ever spoken to me,” Shiro tells Link when he looks through the Lens of Truth. “I've been here for many years, waving my arms around and asking for help, but everyone ignores me and passes me by. It's 'cause I'm about as impressive as a stone, right? ...I'm used to it, though."
The Zelda series – in spite of its save-the-princess plot and regular forays into colorful wackiness – is no stranger to darkness. After being manipulated into maniacal delusions by Ganondorf, Twilight Princess’s tragic anti-hero Zant appears to commit suicide at the game’s conclusion. Beneath its cartoon facade, The Wind Waker is premised on the divine flooding and subsequent near-total annihilation of Hyrule. Ocarina of Time features one of the series’ few on-screen NPC deaths (an easy-to-miss Hyrulean Soldier with an uncanny resemblance to Majora’s Mask’s Shiro).
source http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/10/majoras-mask-perfectly-captures-an-entire-generations-anxieties
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