The Moon Children are located inside the [[Moon (Object)|Moon]] on a [[Grassy Playfield]]. There are five children, four of which are running around the [[Tree]] in the center of the field, while the fifth sits at the bottom of the tree. The four running children each wear one of the boss Remains while the fifth wears [[Majora's Mask (Item)|Majora's Mask]]. The children are identical in height, clothing, and hair color, differing only in the mask they wear. Their gender is debatable but their haircut seems to indicate that they are male. They were created by Majora's Mask, made to appear the same age as Link. Despite their resemblance to the [[Happy Mask Salesman]], he had never met them.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= I'm not too sure, but judging by the fact that they live on the moon, surely they cannot be normal children...? I have not met them in person, but I am pretty certain they must be some figment created by Majora's Mask. Perhaps they look like children because Link is himself but a child? Oh, look, they have the same hairstyle as me. So young, and yet so stylish!|author= Happy Mask Salesman|published= March 13, 2015|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171104193311/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/replies/AYMHAAACAAADVHjGFqjc4w|title= Majora's Mask 3D Miiting with the Happy Mask Salesman|site= Miiverse|type= Archive}}</ref>
The Moon Children are among the most mysterious aspects surrounding the surface of the [[Moon (Majora's Mask)|Moon]]. There are five Children, four of which are running around the tree in the center of the field while the fifth sits at the bottom of the tree. The four running children each wear one of the [[Boss Remains|masks that are dropped]] once the [[Bosses in Majora's Mask|boss enemies]] are defeated while the fifth wears [[Majora's Mask (Object)|Majora's Mask]]. The Children are each identical in height, clothing, and hair color, differing only in the mask they wear. Their gender is debatable but their haircut seems to indicate that they are male.
The children's behavior is also odd. The four ask for different amounts of masks from [[Link]].<ref>{{cite|Ahhh... Nice weather...Isn't it? Masks...You have...a lot. You, too...Will you be... a mask salesman? Then I'll play with you. So...The masks...Give me some...|Moon Children|MM}}</ref> In return, they agree to play [[Hide and Seek]] with him and send him into different mini-puzzle dungeons that are thematically similar to the dungeon ruled by the boss who's mask they wear.<ref>{{cite|Thanks... You...You're nice person... Aren't you? Hide-and-seek...Let's play. All right...I'll...hide...|Moon Children|MM}}</ref> Each of these teleportations is accompanied with an enigmatic, slightly disturbing question that concerns Link's, and the player's, beliefs about the world around them, after which the children will ask Link for more masks. The children casually refer to the life-threatening dungeons they send Link into as "games". After Link returns from each dungeon, the child leaves Link alone, their purpose completed. However, if Link did not obtain ''all'' of the masks in the game, he cannot complete all of the puzzle dungeons and, consequently, cannot get the [[Fierce Deity's Mask]].
The four children ask for different amounts of [[Mask]]s from [[Link]].<ref>{{Cite|Ahhh... Nice weather...Isn't it? Masks...You have...a lot. You, too...Will you be... a mask salesman? Then I'll play with you. So...The masks...Give me some...|Moon Child|MM}}</ref> In return, they agree to play [[Hide-and-Seek]] with him, sending Link into a dungeon thematically similar to the one ruled by the boss whose mask they wear.<ref>{{Cite|Thanks... You...You're nice person... Aren't you? Hide-and-seek...Let's play. All right...I'll...hide...|Moon Child|MM}}</ref> After completing each dungeon, the child at the end of it will ask Link a question that concerns his beliefs about the world around them, after which the children will ask for more masks.<ref>{{Cite|Your friends... What kind of... people are they? I wonder... Do these people... think of you... as a friend?|Moon Child|MM}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|What makes you happy? I wonder...what makes you happy...does it make...others happy, too?|Moon Child|MM}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|The right thing...what is it? I wonder...if you do the right thing...does it make...everybody...happy?|Moon Child|MM}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|Your true face... What kind of... face is it? I wonder... The face under the mask... Is that... your true face?|Moon Child|MM}}</ref> After Link returns from each dungeon, the child disappears. However, if Link did not obtain all of the masks in the game, he cannot complete all of the dungeons and thus cannot get the [[Fierce Deity's Mask]].
The final child, the one wearing Majora's Mask, will send Link into the final boss battle with the Mask itself if asked. His behavior mimics the other Children as he refers to the fight as a game.<ref>{{cite|Let's play good guys against bad guys... Yes. Let's play that. Are you ready? You're the bad guy. And when you're bad, you just run. That's fine, right?|The Final Child|MM}}</ref> He does not ask a disturbing question, but he mentions the absence of the other children if Link has completed the four puzzle dungeons.<ref>{{cite|... Everyone has gone away, haven't they?|The Final Child|MM}}</ref> Furthermore, if Link successfully obtained every mask in the game and gave them to the other children, the final one will comment on this and give Link the Fierce Deity's Mask, the most powerful transformation mask in the game.<ref>{{cite|You don't have any masks left, do you? Well, let's do something else.|The Final Child|MM}}</ref>
The final child wearing Majora's Mask will send Link into the final boss battle with the mask itself. He does not ask a question, but he mentions the absence of the other children if Link has completed the four dungeons.<ref>{{Cite|... Everyone has gone away, haven't they?|Moon Child|MM}}</ref> If Link obtained every mask in the game and gave them to the other children, the final one will comment on this and give Link the Fierce Deity's Mask.<ref>{{Cite|You don't have any masks left, do you? Well, let's do something else.|Moon Child|MM}}</ref> Before the final battle starts, he refers to it as the good guy playing against the bad guy, with Link being the bad guy. The fifth Moon Child's comment may indicate that the fifth Moon Child was temporarily possessed by Majora's Mask. The fact that the fifth Moon Child refers Link as an evil guy also indicates this, as it means that the fifth Moon Child's temporary possession indicates that Majora's Mask plans to destroy Link to prevent him from stopping The Moon from destroying Termina. <ref>{{Cite|Let's play good guys against bad guys... Yes. Let's play that. Are you ready? You're the bad guy. And when you're bad, you just run. That's fine, right?|Moon Child|MM}}</ref>
===Moon Children's Questions ===
==Trivia==
The four children begin their strange sayings in the puzzle dungeons with ''"Heh, heh... Thanks. You're nice. Umm... Can I ask... a question?"'' before continuing.
*Viewing the extracted files from {{MM3D}} reveals that the face texture used for the {{Plural|MM3D|Moon Child}} is that of the {{Term|MM3D|Happy Mask Salesman|link}}.<ref>{{Cite Web|author= NewSuperMoiWii|published= February 18, 2015 |retrieved= March 15 2015|url= https://tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora%27s_Mask_3D#Moon_Children.27s_Faces|title= The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D Unused Models|site= The Cutting Room Floor}}</ref> In the original game, their faces had no texture.<ref>{{Cite Web|quote= |author= Shesez|published= June 30, 2016|retrieved= July 26, 2016|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U07Dpe9_yU&t=4m59s|title= Boundary Break: Majora's Mask|site= YouTube|type=}}</ref>
{{quote|Your friends... What kind of... people are they? I wonder... Do these people... think of you... as a friend?|Child wearing [[Odolwa]]'s mask}}
{{quote|Your true face... What kind of... face is it? I wonder... The face under the mask... Is that... your true face?|Child wearing [[Twinmold]]'s mask}}
{{quote|The right thing...what is it? I wonder...if you do the right thing...does it make...everybody...happy?|Child wearing [[Gyorg (Boss)|Gyorg]]'s mask}}
{{quote|What makes you happy? I wonder...what makes you happy...does it make...others happy, too?|Child wearing [[Goht]]'s mask}}
==Theories==
{{Theory|start}}
The children's only appearance is on the [[Moon (Majora's Mask)|Moon]]. They are not mentioned or seen in any shape or form in the rest of the game or the rest of the series. The only ideas regarding their origins are mentioned in an offhand comment while the [[Happy Mask Salesman]] describes Majora's Mask early in the game.
===Tribe Members===
The Salesman mentions a tribe that once owned Majora's Mask. Some believe the children are the last remnant of that tribe.
===War Victims===
Others believe Majora once waged war on the tribes represented by the boss enemies and the Fierce Deity. The children could be the spiritual remnants of those tribes, which would explain why the other children won't play with the one wearing Majora's Mask.
===Happy Mask Salesmen===
The children look eerily similar to the Happy Mask Salesman (haircut, pale skin), and even ask Link if he will also be a Mask Salesman.<ref name=quote1>{{cite|Masks...You have...a lot. You, too...Will you be...a mask salesman?|Moon Children|MM}}</ref>
===Memory of the Giants===
One theory proposes that the children are the memories of Skull Kid's friends before they became the [[Four Giants]]. After they became gods, Skull Kid used the power of Majora's Mask to imprison them within their own masks and transformed the masks into bosses, and the child wearing Majora's Mask would be his idea of himself now and how the giants wouldn't interact with him.
The Moon Children are located inside the Moon on a Grassy Playfield. There are five children, four of which are running around the Tree in the center of the field, while the fifth sits at the bottom of the tree. The four running children each wear one of the boss Remains while the fifth wears Majora's Mask. The children are identical in height, clothing, and hair color, differing only in the mask they wear. Their gender is debatable but their haircut seems to indicate that they are male. They were created by Majora's Mask, made to appear the same age as Link. Despite their resemblance to the Happy Mask Salesman, he had never met them.[1]
The four children ask for different amounts of Masks from Link.[2] In return, they agree to play Hide-and-Seek with him, sending Link into a dungeon thematically similar to the one ruled by the boss whose mask they wear.[3] After completing each dungeon, the child at the end of it will ask Link a question that concerns his beliefs about the world around them, after which the children will ask for more masks.[4][5][6][7] After Link returns from each dungeon, the child disappears. However, if Link did not obtain all of the masks in the game, he cannot complete all of the dungeons and thus cannot get the Fierce Deity's Mask.
The final child wearing Majora's Mask will send Link into the final boss battle with the mask itself. He does not ask a question, but he mentions the absence of the other children if Link has completed the four dungeons.[8] If Link obtained every mask in the game and gave them to the other children, the final one will comment on this and give Link the Fierce Deity's Mask.[9] Before the final battle starts, he refers to it as the good guy playing against the bad guy, with Link being the bad guy. The fifth Moon Child's comment may indicate that the fifth Moon Child was temporarily possessed by Majora's Mask. The fact that the fifth Moon Child refers Link as an evil guy also indicates this, as it means that the fifth Moon Child's temporary possession indicates that Majora's Mask plans to destroy Link to prevent him from stopping The Moon from destroying Termina. [10]
Trivia
Viewing the extracted files from Majora's Mask 3D reveals that the face texture used for the Moon Children is that of the Happy Mask Salesman.[11] In the original game, their faces had no texture.[12]
Gallery
Moon Child wearing Odolwa's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Odolwa's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Goht's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Goht's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Gyorg's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Gyorg's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Twinmold's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Twinmold's Remains from Majora's Mask
Moon Child wearing Majora's Mask from Majora's Mask
Extracted model of a maskless Moon Child from Majora's Mask
Portrait of the Moon Child wearing Odolwa's Remains from Majora's Mask 3D
Portrait of the Moon Child wearing Goht's Remains from Majora's Mask 3D
Portrait of the Moon Child wearing Gyorg's Remains from Majora's Mask 3D
Portrait of the Moon Child wearing Twinmold's Remains from Majora's Mask 3D
Portrait of the Moon Child wearing Majora's Mask from Majora's Mask 3D
References
↑"I'm not too sure, but judging by the fact that they live on the moon, surely they cannot be normal children...? I have not met them in person, but I am pretty certain they must be some figment created by Majora's Mask. Perhaps they look like children because Link is himself but a child? Oh, look, they have the same hairstyle as me. So young, and yet so stylish!" — Happy Mask Salesman, Majora's Mask 3D Miiting with the Happy Mask Salesman , Miiverse (Archive), published March 13, 2015.
↑"Ahhh... Nice weather...Isn't it? Masks...You have...a lot. You, too...Will you be... a mask salesman? Then I'll play with you. So...The masks...Give me some..." — Moon Child (Majora's Mask)
↑"You don't have any masks left, do you? Well, let's do something else." — Moon Child (Majora's Mask)
↑"Let's play good guys against bad guys... Yes. Let's play that. Are you ready? You're the bad guy. And when you're bad, you just run. That's fine, right?" — Moon Child (Majora's Mask)
