Deku Child...

[darkphantomime]

This is a topic for the strangest of the pervearse. Are there any thoughts as to the identity of the deku scrub that's frozen in the beginning of Majora's mask?

I was always haunted by that twisted face...

Seems that we know the identities of the other mask transformations. But in both of the other cases, they are dead and horribly scarred.

What horrors must have befallen the twisted face of this child?

[Hi no Seijin]

Well, after Woodfall Temple, if you return the Deku Princess to the Deku Palace, you go can to the side and meet the Deku Butler.  Keep up with him and you'll get the Mask of Scents.  He'll say that you remind him of his son.  Then, when you beat the game and if you sit through all of the credits, you'll see the Deku Butler kneeling by the frozen Deku Scrub at the beginning of the game.  So the frozen Deku Scrub is the Deku Butler's son.

[darkphantomime]

Gah, it's been many years since I've last played the game. But you gotta wonder how the Deku Butler's son got out and died in such a gruesome manner.

[Hi no Seijin]

I don't think he did.  I think that Majora, controlling Skull Kid, killed the Deku Scrub and took his essence.  When he came across Link, he just put the Deku's essence into Link, transforming him.

[MagmarFire]

So, you're saying he didn't die, but Majora killed him... Technically, I think you just contradicted yourself, buddy. ;D

[Hi no Seijin]

I think I meant "did." ;)

[MasterKeyX]

maybe hes just a lost soul, who turned to stone at the day of his death. Maybe he like the flute player in AlttP, maybe he was tranported to the dark world.

[MagmarFire]

Wait, there was a Dark World in a parallel world? :o

[dragon lord]

all things are possible i guess

[MasterKeyX]

anyhting is possible.It could be, i dont know, its juts my theory on this strange thing.

[TP Zelda]

Ok, I'll explain as best I can.

When you chase after Skull Kid in the beggining of Majora's Mask, and you come across the tree that looks like a Deku, it is, but Skull Kid probably came across him first, and probably took his soul. Then when he says something about Epona, he makes you a Deku, that is probably the Dekus soul. And that tree/Deku is the Deku Butlers son, so at the end of the game (when u beat Majora's Mask), he's kneeling down in front of the tree/Deku. So you see, it's his son.

[Anju]

How would the Deku Butler get through the steel door beneath the Clocktower?It was sealed shut.Anyway,I think it was his son.he looked like he was crying over the tree-like deku.(The Deku Butler I mean.)If you L-target,and talk to Tatl,she says,look at this tree,it looks so sad.Or something like that.

[MasterKeyX]

she says exactly that, and TP Zelda makes a very good point.

[Anju]

Yeah!i think she's absolutely right! :)

[Vaati]

How would the Deku Butler get through the steel door beneath the Clocktower?It was sealed shut.Anyway,I think it was his son.he looked like he was crying over the tree-like deku.(The Deku Butler I mean.)If you L-target,and talk to Tatl,she says,look at this tree,it looks so sad.Or something like that.

But maybe it was Skull kid who put that door there, and after all the bad things went away, the door disappeared or opened or something.