☾ I do not know that child.
PLAYER:
Name: Eilidh
Personal Journal: loisneach
Contact Info: AIM: loisneachbalgair | Email: eilidh.cunningham@hotmail.com
CHARACTER:
Name: Kafei
Source: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Personality
Kafei is determined. Determined is putting it mildly, in fact. Kafei is pig-headed stubborn, and he knows it. Giving up is not in his vocabulary, nor could he understand it existing in anyone else’s. When something needs doing, you do it. Especially if your heart’s in it - and when Kafei cares about something, he doesn’t just put his heart into it, he throws himself into it entirely, mind, body, and soul, and nothing will pull him back. He pursues such things with an unrelenting, unwavering resolve and an iron fortitude - though admittedly, such things are few and far between. He devotes himself to a few choice things and, in the face of that, little else really matters. When he’s reunited with Anju, his beloved, the falling moon and imminent destruction of the world doesn’t mean a thing. All that matters is that he was reunited with her, and kept his promise.
Indeed, when Kafei gives you his word on something, he will hold true to it to the bitter end. There are few more trustworthy than Kafei - whether or not that’s from his uncaring manner (bordering on apathetic) or on an actual consideration is difficult to say, and Kafei certainly isn’t about to make it known. He keeps himself to himself and the few he considers a friend - in fact, others are often held at arm’s length. He can easily come across as rude - even at his most polite - and he does little to combat this, his general demeanour sullen, his smiles rare.
His time spent cursed hasn’t alleviated this at all, only made it worse, made him more withdrawn and suspicious of other’s motives. He is quite ashamed of his childish form, ashamed of being forced to keep Anju waiting, even ashamed of needing somebody else’s help to get back to her (though it ultimately mattered not). In fact, he’s quite guilty about the entire thing. Hiding is not something he relishes - it’s not entirely beyond him to be sociable - but he imposes it upon himself regardless. He dislikes deception and underhanded dealings, in truth, though this noble streak is something he’s generally content enough to mask, likely due to the fact that he likes being generally unnoticed - especially when in the form of a little boy.
Kafei is a man with a great amount of faith. When waiting for what he needed to happen take place in order to get back to Anju, he was never impatient, never panicking - he simply had faith that things would happen as they had to. He knew he would keep his promise to Anju, and that kept him going, and so it is in everything. If he believes in something, he’ll see it through to the end, and if it doesn’t go as planned it becomes just a hiccup on the way to things becoming as they should.
Overall, Kafei generally comes across as rude, selfish, and single-minded. None of this is strictly untrue, and he knows it, but conversely, his loyalty and devotion even things out. And if you’re one of the few to see him smile, you’re probably one of the ones he’d do anything for, rude as he may be.
Abilities
Kafei has no special powers or abilities. He does, however, have bouts of strength that may seem quite incredible for a child - they are, in fact, those of a man. Aside from that, the only thing worth mentioning is his incredible letter crafting skills
History
Little is known of Kafei’s upbringing. He is the son of Clock Town’s Mayor Dotour and his wife, Madame Aroma, well known in the town (which is the largest in Termina). During his childhood, he was a member of the Bombers Secret Society of Justice, a group of children dedicated to making people in the town happy. As most people in the town know each other, he presumably knew Anju since they were young, and it is Anju that becomes his sweetheart and, later, his fiancée.
Engaged to be married on the day of the Carnival of Time, a huge Terminian festival, the young man was exceptionally happy. Around a month before it, he was meeting with friends in the town’s bar to celebrate, and show off his precious Sun’s Mask - a crucial component of the wedding ceremony he was so eagerly anticipating. However, this night did not go according to plan for Kafei, and at some point, he met a strange, masked imp. Little knowing the mask was a source of great and terrible power, he shunned the imp’s requests to play with him and found himself punished for it.
Kafei was cursed, forced into the form of a child, the child he’d once been. This was quite bad enough luck for the groom to be, but as it happened, his form made him easy pickings for the sly thief Sakon, who stole his priceless wedding mask from him.
Outraged, humiliated, and despairing, Kafei went into hiding. This was not, however, out of pride (though surely that was badly wounded too) but because he had sworn that the next time he returned to Anju he would have the mask with him. Refusing to break this promise, Kafei went to one friend in order to hide in the backroom of his Curiosity Shop (a rather shady business venture often dealing with goods procured by none other than that prancing, grinning thief, Sakon). In this secluded corner of Clock Town, Kafei laid low, with no word to his parents or his beloved betrothed, wearing the Keaton mask he’d cherished when he was a kid.
There was more bad luck, however, not just for him, but for all of Termina, more of the masked imp’s work - and really, it was the malevolent mask at work.
The moon was going to fall in three days. Ironically, the day it would hit the land was the day of the Carnival of Time - Kafei’s wedding. Every moment, it would sink lower in the sky, gradually plummeting towards them. That hardly mattered to Kafei. What did matter was Anju, and he sent a letter to her, little knowing that she was speaking to one his mother had requested find him - a boy named Link. Anju sent a letter in reply, which Kafei received, discussing the matter at hand the boy who would help them. Shortly after receiving this letter, Kafei met Link (whom he imaginatively titled ‘green hat boy’) and explained his predicament to, a little desperate. He entrusted the boy with his treasured Pendant of Memories to be delivered to Anju, and now more determined than ever, resolved to find a way to get his Sun’s Mask back.
And, right on time, such an opportunity presented itself. From the backroom of the store he could see the comings and goings in the shop, and the same night - thirty-six hours before the Carnival of Time, before his wedding day, before the possible destruction of the world - the very thief who’d stolen his mask turned up to barter with his friend, the shopkeeper.
To put it in the words of that shopkeeper, “Now Kafei sees him, and Kafei's colour just changes and he goes runnin' after the guy.” Kafei ran in pursuit of the thief all the way from Clock Town to the haunted Ikana Valley in the east, where he uncovered Sakon’s hideout. Unfortunately, he was unable to get in until the next time Sakon entered, and so he hid and waited, trusting that this would happen.
Eleven hours before moonfall, the door was opened, and he found he had help once again from the green hat boy - which was lucky, as he’d just walked into an elaborate trap. In his rush he set off the security snares in the thief’s lair, but with Link’s help was able to retrieve his mask before it fell into a pit. This done, he set off for Clock Town again, determined to see Anju before it all ended - and it seemed it would, the moon looming metres away from the top of the clock tower in the centre of town.
He made it, only a short time before the end, Anju having waited for him whilst her family fled to the borders of the land to try and avoid the destruction. Reunited, they exchanged their wedding masks then, putting them together to form the Couple’s Mask. This they gave to their witnesses, Link and his fairy companion, Tatl, and together they waited for the end.
But the end never came. At least, neither the end that Kafei had been expecting or hoping for did.
Name: Eilidh
Personal Journal: loisneach
Contact Info: AIM: loisneachbalgair | Email: eilidh.cunningham@hotmail.com
CHARACTER:
Name: Kafei
Source: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Personality
Kafei is determined. Determined is putting it mildly, in fact. Kafei is pig-headed stubborn, and he knows it. Giving up is not in his vocabulary, nor could he understand it existing in anyone else’s. When something needs doing, you do it. Especially if your heart’s in it - and when Kafei cares about something, he doesn’t just put his heart into it, he throws himself into it entirely, mind, body, and soul, and nothing will pull him back. He pursues such things with an unrelenting, unwavering resolve and an iron fortitude - though admittedly, such things are few and far between. He devotes himself to a few choice things and, in the face of that, little else really matters. When he’s reunited with Anju, his beloved, the falling moon and imminent destruction of the world doesn’t mean a thing. All that matters is that he was reunited with her, and kept his promise.
Indeed, when Kafei gives you his word on something, he will hold true to it to the bitter end. There are few more trustworthy than Kafei - whether or not that’s from his uncaring manner (bordering on apathetic) or on an actual consideration is difficult to say, and Kafei certainly isn’t about to make it known. He keeps himself to himself and the few he considers a friend - in fact, others are often held at arm’s length. He can easily come across as rude - even at his most polite - and he does little to combat this, his general demeanour sullen, his smiles rare.
His time spent cursed hasn’t alleviated this at all, only made it worse, made him more withdrawn and suspicious of other’s motives. He is quite ashamed of his childish form, ashamed of being forced to keep Anju waiting, even ashamed of needing somebody else’s help to get back to her (though it ultimately mattered not). In fact, he’s quite guilty about the entire thing. Hiding is not something he relishes - it’s not entirely beyond him to be sociable - but he imposes it upon himself regardless. He dislikes deception and underhanded dealings, in truth, though this noble streak is something he’s generally content enough to mask, likely due to the fact that he likes being generally unnoticed - especially when in the form of a little boy.
Kafei is a man with a great amount of faith. When waiting for what he needed to happen take place in order to get back to Anju, he was never impatient, never panicking - he simply had faith that things would happen as they had to. He knew he would keep his promise to Anju, and that kept him going, and so it is in everything. If he believes in something, he’ll see it through to the end, and if it doesn’t go as planned it becomes just a hiccup on the way to things becoming as they should.
Overall, Kafei generally comes across as rude, selfish, and single-minded. None of this is strictly untrue, and he knows it, but conversely, his loyalty and devotion even things out. And if you’re one of the few to see him smile, you’re probably one of the ones he’d do anything for, rude as he may be.
Abilities
Kafei has no special powers or abilities. He does, however, have bouts of strength that may seem quite incredible for a child - they are, in fact, those of a man. Aside from that, the only thing worth mentioning is his incredible letter crafting skills
History
Little is known of Kafei’s upbringing. He is the son of Clock Town’s Mayor Dotour and his wife, Madame Aroma, well known in the town (which is the largest in Termina). During his childhood, he was a member of the Bombers Secret Society of Justice, a group of children dedicated to making people in the town happy. As most people in the town know each other, he presumably knew Anju since they were young, and it is Anju that becomes his sweetheart and, later, his fiancée.
Engaged to be married on the day of the Carnival of Time, a huge Terminian festival, the young man was exceptionally happy. Around a month before it, he was meeting with friends in the town’s bar to celebrate, and show off his precious Sun’s Mask - a crucial component of the wedding ceremony he was so eagerly anticipating. However, this night did not go according to plan for Kafei, and at some point, he met a strange, masked imp. Little knowing the mask was a source of great and terrible power, he shunned the imp’s requests to play with him and found himself punished for it.
Kafei was cursed, forced into the form of a child, the child he’d once been. This was quite bad enough luck for the groom to be, but as it happened, his form made him easy pickings for the sly thief Sakon, who stole his priceless wedding mask from him.
Outraged, humiliated, and despairing, Kafei went into hiding. This was not, however, out of pride (though surely that was badly wounded too) but because he had sworn that the next time he returned to Anju he would have the mask with him. Refusing to break this promise, Kafei went to one friend in order to hide in the backroom of his Curiosity Shop (a rather shady business venture often dealing with goods procured by none other than that prancing, grinning thief, Sakon). In this secluded corner of Clock Town, Kafei laid low, with no word to his parents or his beloved betrothed, wearing the Keaton mask he’d cherished when he was a kid.
There was more bad luck, however, not just for him, but for all of Termina, more of the masked imp’s work - and really, it was the malevolent mask at work.
The moon was going to fall in three days. Ironically, the day it would hit the land was the day of the Carnival of Time - Kafei’s wedding. Every moment, it would sink lower in the sky, gradually plummeting towards them. That hardly mattered to Kafei. What did matter was Anju, and he sent a letter to her, little knowing that she was speaking to one his mother had requested find him - a boy named Link. Anju sent a letter in reply, which Kafei received, discussing the matter at hand the boy who would help them. Shortly after receiving this letter, Kafei met Link (whom he imaginatively titled ‘green hat boy’) and explained his predicament to, a little desperate. He entrusted the boy with his treasured Pendant of Memories to be delivered to Anju, and now more determined than ever, resolved to find a way to get his Sun’s Mask back.
And, right on time, such an opportunity presented itself. From the backroom of the store he could see the comings and goings in the shop, and the same night - thirty-six hours before the Carnival of Time, before his wedding day, before the possible destruction of the world - the very thief who’d stolen his mask turned up to barter with his friend, the shopkeeper.
To put it in the words of that shopkeeper, “Now Kafei sees him, and Kafei's colour just changes and he goes runnin' after the guy.” Kafei ran in pursuit of the thief all the way from Clock Town to the haunted Ikana Valley in the east, where he uncovered Sakon’s hideout. Unfortunately, he was unable to get in until the next time Sakon entered, and so he hid and waited, trusting that this would happen.
Eleven hours before moonfall, the door was opened, and he found he had help once again from the green hat boy - which was lucky, as he’d just walked into an elaborate trap. In his rush he set off the security snares in the thief’s lair, but with Link’s help was able to retrieve his mask before it fell into a pit. This done, he set off for Clock Town again, determined to see Anju before it all ended - and it seemed it would, the moon looming metres away from the top of the clock tower in the centre of town.
He made it, only a short time before the end, Anju having waited for him whilst her family fled to the borders of the land to try and avoid the destruction. Reunited, they exchanged their wedding masks then, putting them together to form the Couple’s Mask. This they gave to their witnesses, Link and his fairy companion, Tatl, and together they waited for the end.
But the end never came. At least, neither the end that Kafei had been expecting or hoping for did.