#The Happy Mask Salesman

[rattonoid]

real cat

[tesseractrave]

I got a cool new notebook, and I'm probably going to fill it with drawings of him and notes on the games 👍🏻✨️

[cheesepuffet]

what if hms was in echoes of wisdom

[howlingday]

RU-JA-GUN-CON Au: A smiling man with a bag covered in masks walks up to Ruby and Jaune.

Man:Hello you both seem like good people would you like to buy a mask I have a speical one for you.

(Legend of Zelda Majora Mask: The Majora Mask)

Jaune: A mask? What for?

Happy Mask Salesman: Masks hold great power, don't you think?

Ruby: Do they? I thought they were just something you wear for festival.

Happy Mask Salesman: Oh, not just for festivals. Though, I hear there is a festival being celebrated in a city in another kingdom. I'll be needed there soon. Perhaps you'd like to ease my travel by making a purchase?

Jaune: Well...

[alicevandrusen]

Inktober Day 5: The Emperor

Upright: stability, structure, protection, authority, control, practicality, focus, discipline

Reversed: tyrant, domineering, rigid, stubborn, lack of discipline, recklessness

Why is he smiling, a common question to ask of the card. There is much power in the hands of The Emperor, often thought to be in the wrong hands. An unusual effect of the card is no matter how often you spin it, it always appears right side up, making it hard to tell when the card is reversed.

I’d say a tyrant is the end goal of all cult leaders, don’t you think?

[butternuts00p]

Happy Mask Salesman art card from 2022! I like it, did it really fast but I think it turned out well enough. :)

[doktor74]

Recently i remembered that the Happy Mask Salesman appeared in Oracle of Ages and this just spawned a bunch of ideas and theories that i'd like to just dump here:

aight so, i'm sure we're all familiar with the Zelda timeline, OOT being of course where it splits into three (let's ignore BOTW and TOTK for a moment)

HMS (i'm calling the mask salesman this for simplicity) appears in two timelines The Downfall timeline where the Oracle games take place and The Child timeline where Majora's Mask take place in

the origin of Majora's Mask is shrouded in mystery, but we know that it was created by an ancient tribe, and at some point the HMS heard about it and found it

what if the ancient tribe that created Majora's Mask was from Labrynna, that's why the Happy Mask Salesman is there, HMS doesn't really have that big of a role, he's just... there, being hangry then gives you a mask if you give him food, and nothing else, what if this Mask Shop is just a temporary thing he set up while he was out looking for the mask

which brings me to my next ramble, Majora's mask is still out there, the mask is an ancient item that existed before the timeline split and obviously still existed after it, we see it in the Child timeline where it was rediscovered by the HMS until it was stolen by the skull kid then *insert events of Majora's mask* where it was defeated by the Hero of Time, but what about the other timelines?

in the adult timeline, wherever it was hidden away, it's now most likely at the bottom of the ocean after the world was flooded, HMS probably never found it, heck, he probably died during the flood, the legend of Majora's Mask was forgotten and the mask itself lost to history

but as for the downfall timeline where HMS makes an appearance, well as mentioned before, we saw him WHILE he was still looking for the mask in Labrynna, setting up shop along the way, at some point during or after the events of oracle of ages, he most likely found the mask, i like to think things went normally after that, either staying in Labrynna or leaving going from town to town again, no skull kid to steal the mask that almost causes the apocalypse

or maybe something similar like that DOES happen and he's forced to get help from the Hero of Legend again, maybe some kind of sequel that takes place after Link's awakening (the last game where we play as the Hero of Legend)

but WAIT there's more! i've still got more to yap about, in OOT during the time skip and when Ganon took over Hyrule, HMS was nowhere to be found UNTIL the end credits where we see him dancing, meaning he survived, but what did he do during that time? my idea is that he fled to Labrynna because 1. he's familiar with it because he heard that's where Majora is and 2. it's in general relatively close to Hyrule (i mean Link managed to get there)

after Ganon was defeated he went back to Hyrule and did his little dance but if Ganon won (leading into the downfall timeline) he stays in Labrynna where we see him in Oracle of Ages

alright time to talk about BOTW and TOTK, they're their own timeline, apparently the two games are at the very end of the timeline (doesn't matter which three) it takes place so far into the future and that all the events that happened in previous games are considered myths and legends (really puts the "legend" in "legend of zelda")

but somehow after all that time Majora's Mask still exists, which further proves my idea that "Majora's Mask is still out there"

why is it in Hyrule and not Labrynna? simple, a long time has passed and the mask got moved around a lot by different people including HMS

interestingly Majora's Mask also appears in a Link Between Worlds, which takes place in the downfall timeline but after the events that featured the Hero of Legend

anyways that's about it, thank you for listening to me ramble if you got this far, this isn't really meant to be taken seriously as an actual theory but just a bunch of random ideas and headcanons i came up with, the Zelda timeline is just so fascinating, now that the Hero of the Wild's story is finished the next Zelda could be anything honestly not to mention the movie that's coming at some point, i'd be interested to see them experiment with other genres like BOTW and TOTK, like a side scrolling Zelda Metroidvania, that'd be cool

[ringedoubliette]

My official Botw/totk oc :}

Under that blush, her skin looks like a corpse.

I was really interested in the horned statue from Hateno village. I like to assume it’s like a mirror to Hylia, or even a neutral between Ganon and Hylia.

I wanted her to be the Sage of Shadow, but I’m not really sure if there’s a character yet who is the sage.

She has an affiliation with the Happy Mask salesman, I know he’s not in the game but neither is she.

[bespectacled-bookwyrm]

Flufftober 2024 - 31

Summary: He would see to it personally that this Link did not grow up alone.

A piece featuring the Happy Mask Salesman becoming Link's dad/uncle for @flufftober, using the prompt "Make a wish"! :)

[rattonoid]

[tesseractrave]

Trying to overcome burnout 🌼

[cheesepuffet]

tiny hms dump... ignore that theyre both facing left 😭

[thedorfmirrin]

Pinxie showed me a concept art of Pizzahead in a suspiciously familiar looking outfit and im just!! im just so giddy and flabbergasted! Im Yelling!!!

For me this pratically actually confirms the fact that Happy mask salesman is a clear inspo for the pizza man like like likelike !!!!!

HE IS SO CUTE 💛

Also for funsies i drew the HMS in Pizzers outfit in return 👍💕

screenshot of the concept art in case ur curious:

Look. Its, its a happy pizza salesman. Him.

[theskelyart]

Hey guys! 💖✨

I draw my spam majora's mask again! I'm suprised that many poeple like my idea of spamton being the happy mask salesman of Zelda majora's mask! So I draw him from the front this time... I'm kinda testing some things on his design and colors so hope you like it!

Have a fluffy day everyone ! 💖✨

[the-royal-hyrule-library]

Trainer Profile: The Happy Mask Salesman

“You say some young hooligans stole your masks?”

“As luck would have it, I’m looking for a stolen mask as well.”

“Perhaps we should search together.”

A mysterious traveling merchant who, when asked for his name, only insists that he’s “a mask salesman”. People call him the Happy Mask Salesman because he always seems to be grinning, even when he’s screaming in rage.

Some of the masks he sells have magical powers. One mask prevents even the most aggressive pokémon from attacking unprovoked, while another allows its wearer to hear and see that which is normally imperceivable. Rumors claim that he even has a mask that makes shiny pokémon more likely to appear.

Wherever he goes, the Happy Mask Salesman is accompanied by a pokémon called Ogerpon. She always wears a teal mask, leaving her true appearance a mystery.

[blu3m4rz]

i don’t know how to shut up about this so i’m posting about it now but uh. sampo koski is just yassified happy mask salesman they do the same smile + hands clasped + moving them up and down thing and theyre both suspicious little shits. this will haunt me forever